Meaningness Podcast
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Meaning: lost, or muddled by metaphysics?
John Vervaeke’s Meaning Crisis and my Meaningness address similar issues in similar frameworks. Yet there seem significant differences!Andrew Conner pinpointed some in his insightful essay “Is the…
You can just bless things
TranscriptYou can bless things. It’s easy! You can do this!You just go around blessing things.You don’t need a clerical collar, you don’t need a fancy hat (although the hat might help).This is a…
You can’t sell enlightenment
Transcript (ish)Dzogchen is the branch of Buddhism that I’m most influenced by; that I love most. It’s extraordinarily compelling and exciting and beautiful. It’s in some sense the basis of pretty…
The unaltered state
Many people in the West pursue meditation in order to experience altered states. Meditation is sometimes considered a safer alternative to taking psychoactive drugs, with roughly similar effects. The…
Personal experiences of sacredness & community
A facilitated discussion of how the participants find sacredness in the actual world—and in community.This Vajrayana Q&A session is an Evolving Ground online discussion I co-hosted with Jared…
Dzogchen Street Preacher #0: Kadag
“Dzogchen Street Preacher” is the overall title for a series of performance pieces I planned in 2009. This extremely brief one, “Kadag,” was meant to introduce the whole thing.I was on the verge of…
Maps of Meaningness
Before controversy and fame, Jordan Peterson was a psychologist theorizing myth and meaning.Jake Orthwein points out striking similarities in Peterson’s work and David’s. Along with them, fundamental…
What's the connection between gender and meta-rationality?
Rationality is stereotypically masculine. What about meta-rationality?Transcript:Charlie: What’s the connection between gender and meta-rationality?David: I had never thought to ask that!The…
Priests and Kings
The common civilizational pattern of a separate priesthood and aristocracy casts light on current political dysfunction.This video follows “Nobility and virtue are distinct sorts of goodness.” You…
Nobility and virtue are distinct sorts of goodness
Nobility is the wise and just use of power.Nobility is not moral virtue. They are not in conflict; they may correlate, but they don't always coincide.Nobility is the proper matter of…
What is stage five (like)?
A visual, kinesthetic, embodied experience 𐡸 A fish-eye lens and a magnifying glass 𐡸 The little clicker wheel 𐡸 Nurturing a plot of woodland 𐡸 Becoming the space, unstuck in time 𐡸 Freed up to…
Stage five is nothing special
A nine-minute radio sermonette.I think I may be doing a bunch of these. Subscribe to get all of them!Possibly I’ll create one every day or two! And maybe you don’t want that many emails? So I could…
Fivefold confidence
Emptiness, form, and the Big Bang 𐡸 How understanding creates students 𐡸 Buddhism outside institutionsThis short video explains two stanzas from the Evolving Ground invocation liturgy. The first is…
This is it!
A seven-minute radio sermonette.I think I may be doing a bunch of these. Subscribe to get all of them!Possibly I’ll create one every day or two! And maybe you don’t want that many emails? So I could…
Rigpa and ethical nihilism
Rigpa is Dzogchen’s word roughly equivalent to “enlightenment.” But what is rigpa, actually? And what does it imply for ethics? A conversation with Varun Godbole.This is a clip from the monthly…
The incomparable value of being wrong
What is learning math good for? — Robert Kegan and “meaning-making” — Existentialism’s error — Narcissism and tyranny — How can we avoid radical relativism? — My experience of teachingThis is the…
When the proof comes as white light and angels
The felt experience of mathematics — witchcraft and black magic — “Shut up, kid!” — what is a real number? — shocked and embarrassed — clouds all the way down — a choir of angels singing — painting…
Myth, adult developmental stages, and entrepreneurship
How thoughts work — goddesses at the origin of philosophy — inspiration in adult development — how myths transform society and culture — Spock and Jimi Hendrix — entrepreneurship, purpose, and…
Vajrayana, Ultraspeaking, and adult stage transitions
Following our earlier conversation about Ultraspeaking and Vajrayana, we add adult developmental stage theory to the mix: three transformational frameworks in synergy.We recorded this when Charlie…
Ask Me Anything! October 2024 edition
“What do you think you’re doing? And, um, why?”This is a recording of a Substack live video AMA (“ask me anything”) session I hosted two days ago.Around fifty people attended! I enjoyed it, and hope…
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