Brian and Mike discuss various topics from science and technology to the nature of consciousness and laugh a lot while they do it.
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Ineffable Podcasts
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Eye Am Ineffable is about spirituality, god, the nature of reality, our place within it all. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eyeamineffable/support
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This is The Ineffable World. As we live in a crazy, stupid, fun and interesting times, we needed a place to reflect, critique and analyse (not because we know how) but because we can do so in a space where you are invited and welcome.
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A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now, featuring Abby Kluchin & Patrick Blanchfield
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If the movie CATS broke your brain, welcome! Whether you're still processing, ready to celebrate this mesmerizing trainwreck, or just need to know what a jellicle is, Ineffable! is here for you with a cozy exploration of this deranged motion picture. Join host Joel Arnold (and his cat Toast) as they merrily lean ever further into CATS madness while talking with writers, comedians, and anyone with strong feelings about this one-of-a-kind movie.
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Soul Search explores contemporary religion and spirituality from the inside out — what we believe, how we express it, and the difference it makes in our lives
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Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.
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A comedy podcast. Text or call us about anything you want us to talk about or a shout out.
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Sermons from C. Andrew Doyle, IX Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Texas.
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A real and whimsical look at what it means to be fully alive with all the joy and chaos and pressure and vulnerability and beauty. Take the ride along with unexpected guests and be inspired to fall in love with your own unique destiny and meaning.
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Next Level Skiing is a podcast about skiing. Your skiing. Longtime ski journalist Jason Blevins talks to the sport's luminaries and behind-the-scenes bosses about strategies and hacks for stepping your skiing up a notch. Sure, the key to getting better at skiing is to go skiing. A lot. If it was only that easy. This podcast will offer some shortcuts to becoming the skier you want to be, without having to quit your job and move to a ski town. Subscribe where ever you get your podcasts by sear ...
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The Durham Centre for Catholic Studies is the first of its kind in British higher education. It represents a creative partnership between academy and church: a centre within the pluralist, public academy for critically constructive Catholic studies of the highest academic standing. The aims of the Centre for Catholic Studies are: -To provide a distinctive forum for the creative analysis of key issues in Catholic thought, culture, and practice. -To engage, inform and shape public and ecclesia ...
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A candid, funny, unbiased view of real life events and how they affect our communities, through the eyes of Singer/Songwriter/Podcast Host, and music enthusiast G Cole. The Ocho Rios Jamaica born "G Cole", who now resides in Ft Lauderdale Florida talks to Artists, Entrepreneurs, Music legends, Community Leaders, Politicians, Health professionals, and members of the Diaspora etc. There is no room for boredom, as between conversation he will take you on a Reggae ride, with some sweet Reggae music.
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Ab Immemorabili - From Time Beyond Memory Ancient wisdom meets modern minds in this philosophical exploration podcast from The Most Ancient Anamnetic Order of Trikala. Join hosts Drake and Holly as they journey through the hidden patterns connecting consciousness, transformation, and timeless truth. Created for both MAAOoT students and acolytes walking the path of the pillars and curious seekers exploring life's deeper questions, each episode offers layers of insight accessible to all. For t ...
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I invite you to experience the odyssey, by accompanying me as I discuss each canto. My book, Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Guide For The Spiritual Journey, is published by Angelico Press for the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death on 13th September 2021. For more information see - www.markvernon.com
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Charli loves books. And coffee. And her dog Oliver and her cat Valkyrie. Charli loves a lot of things. But the one thing that her world revolves around is books. LITerary is a podcast that is just that. Each week features a new book, a new genre, plot twists, character feelings, and more! If you like discovering new and exciting things to read (or listen to) you’ve come to the right place. LITerary ; an audio bookclub.
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podcast by the ghouls for the ghouls. here you will receive news from the crypt, musings from the clinically dead, anger, hate, love, friendship and hatred. rants about food and discussions about the meaning of life (or lack thereof). Opening music by Anonymous420 via Free Music Archive
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LOVE. PROCLAIM. SERVE. GROW.
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How do we navigate our lives in the midst of uncertainty? How do we bring our deepest intentions together with our actions? What is the purpose of spirituality? How can we accommodate both the beauty and the pain of life? These questions may never find a definitive answer, but they are questions to live by. At OQ we feel that if you have a genuine question you should explore it, continue to ask it, and then pay attention. I am Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, a Buddhist student and teacher. Please ...
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Stories and interviews addressing the intersection of the creative process, community, and place. Welcome to In Site, a podcast from the Zion Canyon Mesa, a nascent arts and humanities residency center in Springdale, Utah, surrounded by Zion National Park. One of the primary drivers for these podcasts is concern for our times. To paraphrase Yeats, the center feels besieged. So we’ll consider the many crux issues we face, with an eye towards how creative thinking can play a role. We will enga ...
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F'ing Up the Ineffable - Episode 10 - Sleep
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Happy New Year! It’s the 10th episode, so we ramble on a bit about that and risk putting people to sleep before we talk about today's subject: Sleep. Brian and Mike share some information and tell lots of hilarious and somewhat frightening stories about surgery, narcolepsy, sleepwalking, dreams and locking yourself out of the house in your underwea…
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191: The Dao That Can Be Spoken - Language and the Ineffable
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If the true Dao cannot be spoken, why did Lao-tzu write 5,000 words about it? Drake and Holly dive deep into philosophy's greatest paradox - how mystics across all traditions use language to point beyond language itself. From Lao-tzu's opening declaration through Wittgenstein's limits, from Zen koans to Sufi poetry, they explore the sophisticated s…
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Simon Hewitt - The Paradox of Ineffability
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For the final CTRS seminar of 2025, Dr Simon Hewitt, the Associate Professor in Theology at the University of Leeds, gave a talk on 'The Paradox of Ineffability'.This seminar forms part of the Catholic Theology Research Seminar Series (CTRS). The CTRS is a regular forum for scholarly discussion of pertinent issues in the Catholic traditions of theo…
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Tom boi hosts some games for the boys while they screw everything up.By Text or call us 440-363-0121
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128: Projective Identification Part II feat. Brian Ngo-Smith Teaser
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Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Brian Ngo-Smith returns for the second half of our miniseries on projective identification! In this episode, Abby, Patrick, and Brian pivot from the difficult terrain of theorizing projective identification in terms o…
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192: Sacred Geometry - Why Certain Shapes Appear in Every Tradition
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Why do identical geometric patterns appear in cultures that never had contact with each other? Drake and Holly explore the mysterious universality of sacred geometry, from Egyptian pyramids to Tibetan mandalas, revealing how certain shapes and ratios appear across all human civilizations. They examine scientific evidence that these patterns exist a…
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Have you made any resolutions to read more books this year? Many of us turn to fiction to ask and explore big questions. This week we look at Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and how the Russian literary tradition can help clarify our questions about truth, love for one another, and ethics.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Welcome back to the Next Level Skiing podcast, brought to you by Wagner Skis. Maggie Voisin soared from her Whitefish, Montana, roots into three Olympics and 11 X Games, where she's collected 7 slopestyle medals. Now 26, she's bounced back from several injuries and surgeries to build a soaring career in front of the cameras, filming with Teton Grav…
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The boys continue on handing out unethical life hacks for you. Do what you will with them!By Text or call us 440-363-0121
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127: Projective Identification Part I feat. Brian Ngo-Smith
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Abby and Patrick welcome psychoanalyst and clinical social worker Brian Ngo-Smith for a conversation about one of the most difficult but powerful concepts in psychoanalytic theory: projective identification. A notion that demands simultaneously thinking about infantile development and adult behaviors, normal defenses and pathological patterns, the …
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What if you could sit with Plato's Republic, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, or the Bhagavad Gita line by line, with a brilliant guide walking you through every argument? In this special bonus episode, Drake and Holly introduce their sister podcast, The Primary Texts. Hosted by Adam, this companion show does something rare in the philosophy podcast …
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The Dalai Lama is one of the world's most recognisable people and he turned 90 in July, 2025. Tributes flowed from Tibetans around the world, including from Grammy-nominated musician Tenzin Choegyal.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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David and Tamler dive into Plato's Euthyphro, part of our intermittent Back 2 Basics series. A young cocksure priest, confident in his holiness, bumps into Socrates on his way to court to prosecute his father for a wrongful death. After a few rounds with Socrates on the nature of piety, he becomes a little less sure of himself. We talk about Plato'…
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Welcome back to the Next Level Skiing podcast, brought to you by Wagner Skis. Salt Lake City skier Mali Noyes, in the spring of 2025, channeled her Nordic skiing roots and more than a decade of ski touring in Utah's Wasatch to set a new bar for swift steep skiing in the West. The 36-year-old skied all 93 lines detailed in Andrew McClean's seminal s…
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#133 Dialing Up Old Internet Videos w/ Mayor Wertz
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The boys bring Mayor Wertz on and discuss internet videos and websites when the internet first startedBy Text or call us 440-363-0121
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126: Mailbag Part 2: Searching for the Self Teaser
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Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness It’s part two of our mailbag episode – which means Abby, Patrick, and Dan get to field yet more amazing listener questions! Topics include the many relationships, and problems of translation, between psychoanalysis an…
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190: Gilgamesh's Failure - The Teaching Hidden in Defeat
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Why does humanity's oldest story end with the hero losing everything—and what wisdom lies hidden in that defeat? Drake and Holly explore the Epic of Gilgamesh, the 4,000-year-old tale where the mighty hero fails at every major quest. Unable to prevent his friend's death or achieve immortality, Gilgamesh's cascade of failures reveals profound teachi…
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Talking in Your Sleep (A Unihemispheric Tête-à-Tête) with Kim Krans
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In this episode Zach and Kim do donuts in the Hearse and there's powdered sugar everywhere. From rolling triple ones (third eye snake eyes?) to unveiling the revolutionary art diet that will whip you into shape in thirteen seconds flat, Zim and Kach put their Pacifica powers to the test and although they don't appear to have found any answers, they…
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Holocaust survivor Joe Szwarcberg on liberation and telling the truth
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Eighty years ago on 11 April 1945, American soldiers marched into Buchenwald concentration camp and liberated the people they found there, including 14-year-old Joe Szwarcberg.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" held at Jubilee Church Plant, Austin, TX More at www.texasbishop.comBy C. Andrew Doyle
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Welcome back to the Next Level Skiing podcast, brought to you by Wagner Skis. 26-year-old Parkin Costain grew up in Whitefish as a skiing prodigy. For the last decade, he has been pushing big-mountain skiing with a high-speed, swift-footed style in the heaviest, most technical terrain around. With bust-out performances (like stomping a ridiculous d…
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The boys talk about remedies growing up, current and old times.By Text or call us 440-363-0121
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125: Demons, Community, and Conversion Therapy feat. Grace Byron
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Abby and Patrick are joined by writer Grace Byron, author of the fantastic new novel Herculine. Alternately hilarious and terrifying, Herculine is the story of a young trans woman who leaves a frustrating life in New York City to join an erstwhile high school lover in a trans separatist commune in rural Indiana. But the community proves far from pe…
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189: The Vedic Fire Altar - Consciousness as Sacred Architecture
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What if consciousness could be rebuilt brick by brick through sacred geometry? Drake and Holly explore the Agnicayana ritual - humanity's oldest continuously performed ceremony where ancient India discovered that constructing precise geometric structures in the physical world reconstructs awareness itself. Through 1,009 carefully placed bricks, spe…
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F'ing Up the Ineffable - Episode 9 - Economics, Wealth Inequality and Billionaires
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Brian and Mike discuss economics, wealth inequality, why it's getting worse, what it means for the average person, why you are so uncomfortable on airplanes, and why we wish the old Netflix was back. In this episode we mention the following: Freakonomics https://amzn.to/4q5rcgd Conan the Barbarian https://amzn.to/4rRGqXY Veritasium - The lightbulb …
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Food is a basic need, but also more than just a way of nourishing the body. The food on our plates and the drinks in our cups tell us all kinds of things about who we are and what we believe.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Episode 322: A Theater of Simultaneous Possibilities (William James' "The Stream of Thought")
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David and Tamler return to William James' monumental "Principles of Psychology", this time wading through his famous chapter "The Stream of Thought." We talk about his rejection of empiricist theories of consciousness in favor of a view that consciousness is a continuous stream of thoughts, sensations, and emotions without any elements (atoms) that…
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Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Advent 2a - Freedom in Christ" held at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Hurst, TX. More at www.texasbishop.comBy C. Andrew Doyle
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The boys talk about weird strange addictions like chewing on diapers and coffee enemas.By Text or call us 440-363-0121
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124: Mailbag: Uses of Theory and AI Grinchiness Teaser
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Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness It’s another mailbag episode (part one of two)! Abby, Patrick, and Dan respond to listener questions about everything from the utility of psychoanalytic concepts in everyday life to the complexities of Melanie Klein t…
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188: Eleusinian Mysteries - What Happened in Ancient Greece's Secret Rites
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How did ancient Greeks keep the ultimate secret for 2,000 years—and why did breaking it mean death? Drake and Holly explore the Eleusinian Mysteries, antiquity's most profound spiritual tradition that transformed everyone from slaves to emperors. For two millennia, initiates emerged claiming they no longer feared death, yet not one revealed what ac…
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Where do you feel like you belong? A sense of belonging can change or be refined throughout our lives, and through experiences like travel or creating art. On Soul Search, we examine the complexities of belonging, and what it is that makes us feel at home — or far from it.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Permission to Let Go with Jana Roemer
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Are you cheating on yourself? Are you closer than you thought to being banned in Florida? Listen to this heavy mental episode and see how you could tease your longing playfully and become intimate with that part of you that snaps at witty jokes and quotes. Unlatch with host Zachary Murdock and our guest, Jana Roemer, as we collect our unconscious a…
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The boys talk about all the ideas they have if they were to open a bar!By Text or call us 440-363-0121
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123: Polymorphous Perversity and Gender Pleasure feat. Lucie Fielding
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Abby and Patrick are joined by therapist and sexuality educator Lucie Fielding. First, the three talk about Lucie’s path to clinical work and the significance of her book, Trans Sex, just out in a revised Second Edition. They then turn to Freud’s classic, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905), putting that text, and the broader legacy of F…
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The boys invite Amy on to discuss different conditions of having synesthesia and how she manages on a daily basis.By Text or call us 440-363-0121
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187: The Olmec Enigma - The Mother Culture's Forgotten Wisdom
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What if the most influential civilisation in the Americas is also the most mysterious? Drake and Holly explore the Olmec civilisation - the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica whose colossal stone heads and were-jaguar imagery reveal a sophisticated understanding of consciousness transformation that predates Greek philosophy by a millennium. Through ja…
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Disability and incarnation with Lorna Hallahan
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Disability is an all-of-us thing. Almost everyone will experience disability — in our communities, and, with time, directly in our own bodies.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Episode 321: The Journey Begins (Plus Blind Ranking Philosophers)
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David and Tamler begin their long journey home to Homer's Odyssey, the tale of king Odysseus' 10 year journey home after the Trojan war (maybe the greatest story ever told). We dive into the first two books, which focus on Odysseus' 20-year-old son Telemachus, the swarm of suitors who have descended on Odysseus' house during his long absence in the…
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UNLOCKED: 32: Thanksgiving Special, Part 2: Murder, Myth, and Memory
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Last year we unlocked part 1 of our Thanksgiving Special so that everyone could hear the good/bad news about the "Holiday Syndrome." This year we're unlocking part 2, on settler colonialism, history, fantasy, ritual, and more. Whether you're celebrating, traveling, or staying home, we promise there's a lot to chew on here! Unlocked Patreon episode.…
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Homegrown with G Cole. Episode 171: After Hurricane Melissa, G Cole Connects With Real Boots On The Ground Relief In Jamaica
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In This Episode G Cole Speaks with Sailor Jane aka Nurse Rachel, and GiGi from Streets Of Jamaica about the situation in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa, their relief efforts and how we can help. Bouncing Back From Melissa. Connecting With Real Boots On The Ground In Jamaica Check out the links below for more information on supporting relief effort…
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122: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 8: Studies on Hysteria, Part VIII: The Blow That Falls: Fräulein Elisabeth von R Continued Teaser
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Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Abby and Patrick resume Freud’s case history of Elisabeth von R. They walk through Freud’s developing technique before unpacking what will prove to be one of his lifelong favorite and most evocative metaphors for psyc…
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186: Lost Libraries - What Burned in Alexandria and Why It Matters
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What if humanity's greatest tragedy wasn't a single fire, but a slow forgetting that continues today? Drake and Holly explore the burning of the Library of Alexandria - not as one catastrophic event, but as a pattern of knowledge loss that haunts human civilisation. From the Tigris running black with ink to NASA's unreadable tapes, they uncover how…
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Purchase our dice oracle book, "God Help Me, I'm Awake! Vol. 1 (Wisdom Quotes for Daily Reawakening)" - https://godhelpmeimawake.com/ In this episode, Zach and our guest Xenia Viray keep themselves honest and harmonious, concluding that conclusions may need to remain unmet in order to cool off in the weeds and figure out how much money really costs…
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F'ing Up the Ineffable - Episode 8 - Revisiting AI and its Implications
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Brian and Mike revisit the topic of Artificial Intelligence, touching on AI replacing jobs, what AI can't do, when the AI bubble will burst and billionaire tech bros' super-secret plans. It’s either our best episode ever, or our worst. You decide. Then let us know! In this episode we mention the following: Videos / Channels The State of the AI Indu…
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Today, we're taking a break from all the noise and distraction – to pay attention to the quality of silence. Why is it so precious in many of the world's spiritual traditions? And how do we find it? An artist shares her encounter with a transforming silence in Antarctica, and a Quaker shares her habits around seeking silence.…
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Homegrown with G Cole. Episode 170: G Cole speaks with Poet, Author, and Global Diaspora Council Rep about his latest book
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G Cole speaks with Poet, Author and Global Diaspora Council Rep, Mr Peter Gracey, about his latest book "The Jamaican Diaspora Resource Handbook". It is an amazing book that all Jamaicans at home or abroad should have in their homes, not just for education, but as a well needed resource. With Hurrican Mellissa just behind us, they talk about the st…
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Homegrown with G Cole. Episode 169: G Cole Talks With Revered Reggae Journalist and Author, John Masouri.
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In this episode G Cole sits with revered Reggae Journalist and Author; John Masouri, who is in town for the Miami Book Fair. They dive into John's history with many Reggae Legends and his latest book, "Pressure Drop, Reggae In The Seventies". Catch John Masouri in conversation with Randall Grass at the Miami Book Fair Sunday, 23 November at 1.00pm …
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Escuche el sermón del obispo Doyle, "Los Muros Caerán", pronunciado en la iglesia episcopal de St. James, Austin, Texas. www.texasbishop.comBy C. Andrew Doyle
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Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "The Walls Come A Tumblin' Down" held at St. James' Episcopal Church, Austin, TX More at www.texasbishop.comBy C. Andrew Doyle
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