#07: Amir Ebrahimi - I Am Your Son

Episode SummaryIn Episode #07, Jeffrey welcomes Amir Ebrahimi to the podcast. We begin by learning about why Amir’s passions for the cutting edges of computer science has become a spiritual quest that provides a sense of home in and a connection to the greater nature of the universe. The show turns toward Amir’s sense of self and how it was influenced by his father Noujan. Growing-up mainly in Alabama as the son of a Haitian mother and Persian father, the podcast get’s into some of the roots of his father’s life and how Noujan’s fathering style didn’t fully meet with Amir’s introverted nature, seeding questions for Amir about their relationship. We then come to know a few of the many other men in Amir’s life who offered a quality of attention the begat trust and more confident self. In particular we hear about Steve, Brad’s father and especially Ed Morrison, a onetime business partner of his parents who fostered Amir’s interest in computers and reassured Amir’s growing personhood. In this episode we find again the utter importance of present and attentive fathers who attune the energy inside of, in this case, a boy on his way to becoming a man. In Amir’s brave portrait of his felt world, we can hear glimpses of the too common tale about a father who isn’t quite tooled, for whatever reason, to bless and welcome the soul of his children. We also hear, again, how community and the instincts find surrogate sources of fathering energy that aid in the project of becoming a full and adult human. Later in the show Amir turns the interview back on Jef and asks him about his Hungarian name and lineage. After reflecting on the temperament of his father’s line and sharing a vision of long ago Central Asian ancestors whilst taking part in a medicine ceremony inside an ancient stone temple in Ireland, Jef opens up about the harder aspects of finding the father within himself and why the Odyssey was a seminal book for him on the way to becoming a father. In this episode we can not only find the inspiring connection between the quantum dimensions of the universe and the quest of human technology, but we find the delicate understory in the ecology of when a son misses a father.