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Created Naked
by R. M. Olson
Created naked but humanity has moved away from The Father’s original design and covered ourselves with shame. Naturism/Nudism is the middle way.
Episodes
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Amazingly Similar
“What nudity does seem to unleash is a levelling up. Without the social markers clothes provide, everyone, whether a high flyer or one afflicted by low self-esteem, appears freed from the shackles of their everyday life and therefore better able to make friends.” ~ Antonia Hoyle, ANTONIA HOYLE…
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Image Re-Set
“Bombarded by images of social-media perfection, I’ve often felt inadequate, but a nudist festival like nowhere else offers an antidote to that pressure to look good, a reminder of the power of the human body in all its forms.” —Antonia Hoyle, ANTONIA HOYLE: How Nudefest made me feel comfortable…
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Stigma or State of Being
“This stigma is precisely why many naturists feel the need to keep their lifestyle private, sharing it only with a select group of like-minded individuals. But I believe that staying quiet only reinforces the idea that naturism is something to hide. The more we cloak our lifestyle in secrecy, the...
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Imago Dei
“Naturism paves the way for seeing yourself and others as God sees, and elevates the concept of Imago Dei to new and greater heights.” -Phillip Oak, Surprised into Freedom “The Imago Dei is a profound truth that shapes our understanding of who we are and how we are to live. It elevates our view…
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A Circular Effect
“Communal nudity—when it occurs in a safe space—has the potential to significantly improve body image. It makes people feel less anxious about how others view their bodies which, in turn, makes them appreciate their own appearance even more.” ~Justin L. Lehmiller, Ph.D. “My nude hiking experience...
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A Superpower
“Being naked somehow felt like a superpower. I was deeply connected to the nature around me, the hot air wrapping its arms around my bare body. My naked skin, not divided by the barrier of a swimsuit, was cleansed and cooled down by the rush of the water. My feet felt the groove of the rocks and...
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They Hide Us
“Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet hide not the unbeautiful. Though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find them a harness and chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.” —Khalil Gibran, The Prophet “We have...
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Value
“All prejudices and expectations about the body just disappear in the sauna, there we can meet as people regardless of where we came from. As a person who is racialized in Sweden, there is a care for me in this place by people who might not have given it to me in other contexts.” —Cristian...
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Shame is Worse
“Nudity is allowed for entertainment and voyeurism but not for comfort. People can handle nude art but why not normal naked bodies?” —Why are we taught shame about nudity and our bodies? — https://rfgjga1992.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/why-are-we-taught-shame-about-nudity-and-our-bodies/ “We had a...
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Nude Socially, Why?
“Group nudity can be personally beneficial. Nudist camps are places where people can emerge from hiding behind their clothes and become more self-accepting, revealing and honest.” ~Abraham Maslow “I slowly grew numb to all the naked bodies around me - the “judgement” chatter in my brain drifted...
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A Clean Mind
“Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed—naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get…
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FEEL
“It is no small thing to feel the warmth of the sun on your skin.” —Marty Rubin “The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one’s flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow...
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Weird About Nudity
“I just think that people are so weird about nudity and the human body. Sex is not bad, naked bodies are not bad, and naked bodies don't always have to be connected to sex.” —Emily Browning “Social nudism/naturism is a transformational and healthy way to live. It involves accepting one’s own and...
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Conditioned
“When people actually try naturism who have poor body image, their body confidence increases hugely and their mental health also improves. We are so conditioned to seeing perfect Photoshopped models in magazine adverts which no one can measure up to. When people see real naked bodies of all…
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Genuinely Human
“Shame is really easily understood as the fear of disconnection. Is there something about me, that if other people know it or see it, that I won’t be worthy of connection?” —Brené Brown “We believe that everyone is born a nudist. They are taught to be textiles using methods like shame and...
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Liberating Wonder & Joy
“Through nakedness we express our wonder and joy at being living, physical, organic beings ... Many gain greater self confidence and self esteem, improve their physical and mental health, and have deeper and more meaningful social interactions.” —Roger Coupe "Have you seen a toddler running…
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Modesty a Diseased Caprice
“The convention mis-called “modesty” has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim—anyone's diseased caprice.” —Mark Twain The whims of this “diseased caprice” are played out across cultures…
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Indictment, A Moral Crime
“The human body is the crown of God‘s creation, consummated by his declaration that it was good. That God’s people are unable to view the body without sinning is not an indictment of the body itself, but of the immaturity of the postmodern evangelical mind.” —Chad W. Thompson, That Famous Fig…
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Truth, Trust, Lies about Nudity
“There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth” – F H Bradley, Philosopher, 1846-1924 “What would our marriages, our friendships, our churches, and our communities look like if men and women were not afraid of connecting with each other in deep ways?...
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Some Skinny Dip History
“we humans are 60% water and come into existence floating in amniotic fluid; so the urge to return can feel overwhelming and the requirement to wear a swimming costume nonsensical.” —Rowan Pelling, Inside the nudist renaissance - UnHerd “Despite its puritan roots, the U.S. has a long history of...
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Shedding the Urge to…
Due to the recent “updates” and partnership with Spotify for Podcasters and Riverside, and lack of features for mobile producers some previous elements to the podcast are missing. I will try to improve these as I can. In the meantime ponder these thoughts: “I had to shrug off the urge to snigger...
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Disconnection
“The whole of nature is nude except man. And by your clothes you have become disconnected from nature”, —Bhagwan Shrew Rajneesh “We’ve become so desensitized to everything, but the one thing that makes us human. We’ve come to accept almost every negative aspect of human nature, yet refuse to...
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Orthodox Body Acceptance
“Our archaic religious teachings have pitted man’s body and spirit against one another, whereas common sense would suggest that God intended the body, mind, and spirit of man to be in harmony. What strange sort of religion have we evolved, that places the godly part of a man in opposition to the...
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Great Diversity and Judge Less Harshly
“The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.” —Martha Graham “Apparently it cannot be repeated to often the ideal of the nudist is not a “return to nature,” in the sense of the...
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Essential Wholesomeness
A note from history: The American Sunbathing Association “We believe in the essential wholesomeness of the human body and regard it neither as an object of shame nor a subject for degrading exploitation. We believe that sunlight and air are vital to human life and well-being, and that exposure of...
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Swimming Free
“we humans are 60% water and come into existence floating in amniotic fluid; so the urge to return can feel overwhelming and the requirement to wear a swimming costume nonsensical.” —Rowan Pelling, Inside the nudist renaissance - UnHerd [Being] naked out of doors and in the water [restores] my...
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Healthy, Wholesome, & Gody
“Generally speaking nudists feel that nudism represents an ideal type of non verbal sex education with resultant wholesome heterosexual attitudes and nonvoyeuristic and nonexhibitionistic tendencies “ —Hartman, Fithian, & Johnson 1970, 1991 “Because naturists don’t think of sex when they undress,...
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Relax in the Essential
“In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension” —Horatio Greenough “We find that relaxing with clothes off at Elysium Fields [Naturist Resort] is a great tension reliever, for ourselves and our kids, too.”- Actress Lynn Redgrave “The concept of a body...
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Missing Out
“In a moment when trust is in short supply — not just between individuals in intimate relationships, but on a societal scale — perhaps the desire to curtail nudity stands in for a fear of intimacy, and from the sense that we just can’t tolerate being so vulnerable around people we don’t know…
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Avoidance
“What we try to de-emphasize by pretending to ignore, we actually focus on by avoidance. If our intention is to focus attention away from the genitals and our sexuality, then we are achieving exactly the opposite by demanding they be covered up and denounced.” —Dennis Craig Smith, Naked Fear...
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Nothing Is Immodest?
“It is a psychological fact that an interest out of all proportion becomes attached to any part of the body that is perpetually concealed, and we react to this with prurient curiosity. Concealing the body invariably stimulates such curiosity and gives it life. Attitudes on nudity in America range...
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The Human Body Is Not Obscene
“The human body is not obscene, despite wha t the witch doctors would have you believe, and nothing written or pictured about the human body is obscene except as we elect to think it so.” —Lyle Stewart “When people teach that the human body is dirty or obscene, it creates fertile ground for...
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Problem & Solution
“One of the observations I like to make is the fact that pornography and the church have the same view of the unclad human body... They both believe that the visible body's impact on the human libido is its most important and significant meaning. If the church and pornography agree, there is a...
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Wishing Freedom
“It is as if your clothes take on the weight of your worries and concerns. They come to embody your defences against the world, and if you can feel confident enough and safe enough, then taking them off evokes a powerful sense of liberation, of joy and freedom.” —Philip Carr-Gomm “For those of…
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Naked Humans God’s Splendor
And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. (Genesis 2:25 ESVi) https://accordance.bible/link/read/ESVi#Gen._2:25
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Can We Change the Norms
“It's hard not to have body dysmorphia. We establish norms on a baseline of many. In this day and age the only body proportion baseline we have easily available is porn. Porn is a terrible baseline of "normal". Most all men will fall short of that baseline even though they may be average or above...
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Incarceration to Normality
“Simple nudity was incarcerated by allowing a suspicion of skin to become an assumption of sin.” —David L. Hatton “By baring it all, it makes it easier to see not just a body, but the individual. -Sylva Sternkopf “ It was nudism that taught me to accept the normality of the human body in any…
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Less Self-Judgement
“When people see lots of naked bodies, they quickly appreciate the great diversity of the human form and judge themselves less harshly.” —Michael Castleman “Self Being: Being naked is being yourself. The way to switch off the fake outside world, with its assumptions of who you are, being judged…
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Return to What Was Lost
“I found being naked to be a humbling experience . . . There were no clothes that could make me feel like I was anything other than who I am: A being created by God, whose purpose is to find, and do, whatever He created me to do. . . Being naked isn’t a means of attaining inner peace. But: Being...
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Celebrate with Us
This week we celebrated the one year anniversary of the Created Naked Podcast. This is our 121st transmission to the wide world. Our hope is to continue to educate a population that needs to hear that their bodies are not inherently sinful, ugly and or less than. You, sweet listener were created…
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It Is Good
“The human body is the crown of God‘s creation, consummated by his declaration that it was good. That God’s people are unable to view the body without sinning is not an indictment of the body itself, but of the immaturity of the postmodern evangelical mind.” —Chad W. Thompson, That Famous Fig…
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See Yourself
“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own” -Marcus Aurelius “Naked you are unencumbered with human decorations and coverings that cover God’s human masterpiece. Naked with others, you will be more aware of being as…
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We Are What We Are
“Nakedness can ... provoke or intensify the falling away of more than physical barriers, evoking an holistic vulnerability, a tangible soul honesty, not only in terms of how we relate to those around us ... but also with ourselves.” —Emma Restall Orr “There are six positive spiritual aspects of...
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Avoid Mystery
“I didn’t grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.” – Charlize Theron “It is good for children to see each other and their parents naked whenever it so happens naturally. There will be a short period, probably at about three years old, when the child is…
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Appreciation
“… but in order for that healthier attitude towards oneself, there has to first be some healing. Self-loathing has to be shut down, and an appreciation for out bodies must occur.” —RB Mears, https://x.com/rbmears1/status/1787545035208282431?s=46&t=fpiEy5CqbBOXR1N66BxSTw “Our bodies, apart from...
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Affects Mood
“No costume that has ever been invented is equal in comfort to perfect nakedness.” —C. Crawford “He fervently desired equilibrium, if for no other reason, than to control his emotions, to moderate between the sunny elation he felt while nude, and the opaque depression that clouded around him when...
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Losses and Gains
“It’s well known that criticising and judging your body has significant detrimental impacts on mental health and wellbeing.” —Sofie Louise, The benefits of embracing a 'clothing optional' house,...
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Joyous
“Nudists really exist! Those crazy bastards are really for real. You see what it meant? It was the other world discovered. It was like coming home. It was the bright permanent antidote to the grey world-view of Smalltown Appalachia. It was freedom. My spirit soared, because I knew, in a flash of...
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Learn, Transform, Understand
“Body shame, like prejudice, is not natural. It is learned from others and benefits no one.” —Author Unknown “By challenging societal norms, embracing authenticity, and fostering a culture of body positivity, individuals can unlock the transformative benefits of naturism, transcending the…
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Slander and Offense
“But treating the body as “decent” only when dressed, and “obscene “ when naked , slanders the moral purity of the Maker’s handiwork.”— David L. Hatton, Who Said You were Naked? Reflections ofon Body Acceptance “ “Sure, some people might believe they are offended by nude bathers, but, if you…
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Created naked but humanity has moved away from The Father’s original design and covered ourselves with shame. Naturism/Nudism is the middle way.
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R. M. Olson
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