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Ghosts: Essays in Conversation
by Ghosts Movement: Pedro Malha
Ghosts: Essays in Conversation is a conversational podcast reflecting on essays from the Ghosts Movement, created by Pedro Malha, philosopher and founder. Each episode explores the themes and questions of a specific essay through dialogue rather than reading. The focus is not on explanation or resolution, but on staying with the ideas as they are spoken and shared, offering a companion way to engage through listening and reflection.
Episodes
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The School Run Podcast
The School Run Podcast: This is a podcast conversation based on my essay called “The School Run.” The discussion explores the quiet life of a familiar morning scene outside a primary school. What seems like an ordinary routine reveals a living moment filled with children, parents, grandparents…
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Still Here Podcast
Still Here Podcast: This is a podcast conversation based on my essays “Still Here” and “Box.” In this discussion we explore the quiet structure of everyday life, the rooms we wake in, the streets we walk, and the repeating patterns that slowly shape our days without asking for attention. The...
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The Pattern Does Not End With You Podcast
The Pattern Does Not End With You Podcast: This is a podcast conversation based on my essay called “The Pattern Does Not End With You.” In this discussion, we explore why patterns in families and relationships often continue even when we recognise them and try to change. The conversation looks at...
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The Arranger Podcast
The Arranger Podcast: This is a podcast conversation based on my essay called “The Arranger.” It explores the quiet role of the person who keeps relationships moving, the one who sends the messages, suggests the plans, and holds the thread of connection. The discussion looks at what happens when...
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Why Some Things Do Not Resolve Podcast
Why Some Things Do Not Resolve Podcast: This is a podcast conversation based on my essay called “Why Some Things Do Not Resolve.” In it, we explore the limits of the common belief that everything in life can be understood and eventually resolved through insight. The discussion moves between lived...
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The Exhaustion of Constant Availability Podcast
The Exhaustion of Constant Availability Podcast: Here is a podcast conversation based on my essay called “The Exhaustion of Constant Availability.” It explores the quiet condition of living in a state of constant readiness, where rest no longer restores and stopping rarely feels complete. Through…
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Escape Podcast
Escape Podcast: This is a podcast conversation based on my essay called "Escape." It explores the moment we realise there is no empty space left in our days, the temptation to sell up and start again somewhere warmer or slower, and why the real question is not where to live, but how to live…
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I Could Eat You Podcast
I Could Eat You Podcast: This is a podcast conversation based on my essay called “I Could Eat You.” It explores the strange and deeply familiar impulse many parents feel to squeeze, bite, or “gobble up” the children they love most. Through stories, language, and lived experience, the discussion...
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Wallpaper Podcast
Wallpaper Podcast: This is a podcast conversation based on my essay called "Wallpaper". The discussion explores how memory and trauma can shape the surface of a life, and what happens when that surface begins to lift, revealing other moments that were always there but could not be seen while...
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Machine Podcast
Machine Podcast: Here is a podcast conversation based on my essay called “Machine.” In this discussion, we explore the experience people describe when they say they feel like a machine, or when others describe them that way. The conversation looks at the quiet realities behind that language,...
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Darkness is Darkness Podcast
Darkness is Darkness Podcast: This is a podcast conversation based on my essay called "Darkness Is Darkness". The discussion explores the experience of living through long periods of hardship, loneliness, and misalignment with the world, and how some lives unfold through endurance rather than…
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Spin Worms Podcast
Spin Worms Podcast: This is a podcast conversation based on my essay called “Spin Worms.” It explores a survival mechanism I built in my mind during difficult years, an imagined team of “Spin Worms” that worked quietly to spin harsh or absolute thoughts into something softer and survivable. The...
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Miscarriage Podcast
Miscarriage Podcast: This is a podcast conversation based on my essay called "Miscarriage". It reflects on the experience of something profound being given and then suddenly taken away, and the quiet sorrow that can follow when a future that had already begun disappears. The conversation explores...
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Luck Podcast
Luck Podcast: This is a podcast conversation based on my essay “Luck.” The discussion explores how luck appears in everyday life, from hospital waiting rooms to late-night parenting and the small rituals people use to face uncertainty. Through the lens of chance, timing, and uneven starting…
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Trauma Is Unfinished Survival Podcast
Trauma Is Unfinished Survival Podcast: Here is a podcast conversation based on my essay called “Trauma Is Unfinished Survival.” This deep-dive discussion explores trauma as something the body carries, not just something the mind remembers, and looks at how repair happens slowly through the...
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How the Body Mirrors Podcast
How the Body Mirrors Podcast: This podcast conversation is a deep-dive discussion based on my essay “How the Body Mirrors.” It explores how our bodies quietly absorb the emotional atmosphere around us, from relationships and work to everyday moments like walking through a supermarket. The...
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Drugs Podcast
Drugs Podcast: This conversation explores what actually changes inside us when substances shift the inner environment, not the experience itself, but the awareness that remains while thought, emotion, and identity reorganise. Through medication, stimulants, and everyday moments, it looks at how…
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Quality Timeless Podcast
Quality Timeless Podcast: This conversation explores why “quality time” often feels thin, even when we carve out the hours for it. It looks at how modern life fills our inner world with constant demands, leaving little room for time to be fully lived. From The Ghosts Movement, a non-profit...
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I Will Die Podcast
I Will Die Podcast: A conversation from The Ghosts Movement exploring the moment when time becomes personal, not as an idea, but as something felt in the body. This episode follows the shift from knowing you will die to living with that awareness, and how it changes how you see yourself, the…
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Religion Podcast
Religion Podcast: A conversation from The Ghosts Movement exploring religion as a shared human encounter, where people across time have touched something beyond themselves and tried to bring it back into language, ritual, and community. It introduces the Realm as lived experience and the Pull as...
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Back Through the Door Podcast
Back Through the Door Podcast: A conversation from The Ghosts Movement exploring how memory returns through the body rather than the mind. It looks at how presence can appear through movement, familiar spaces, and the quiet re-entry into places we once knew. The episode stays with why some…
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Finding the Dot Podcast
Finding the Dot Podcast: We often think our experience begins with how we feel, anger, stress, calm, or overwhelm. In this conversation, we explore what comes before that, the moment something is first noticed. In The Ghosts Movement, this is called the dot. It shows up in everyday moments, in...
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What Sex Left Unanswered Podcast
What Sex Left Unanswered Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay What Sex Left Unanswered from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the emotional territory that remains after sex has ended, the questions that linger without resolution, and the quiet uncertainty...
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When Sex Could Not Carry What Was Placed on It Podcast
When Sex Could Not Carry What Was Placed on It Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay When Sex Could Not Carry What Was Placed on It from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the quiet expectations that are placed onto sex, the emotional weight it is sometimes...
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The Quiet Shame of Wanting Again Podcast
The Quiet Shame of Wanting Again Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay The Quiet Shame of Wanting Again from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the return of desire after experience, the private awareness of repeating emotional patterns, the tension between...
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When Sex Felt Like a Return Podcast
When Sex Felt Like a Return Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay When Sex Felt Like a Return from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the emotional pull of familiarity in intimacy, how recognition can feel like homecoming, the confusion between comfort and...
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Sex as a Way of Staying in Someone’s Life Podcast
Sex as a Way of Staying in Someone’s Life Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Sex as a Way of Staying in Someone’s Life from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss how sex can become a way of maintaining presence when other forms of connection begin to thin…
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The Hope That Would Not Let Go Podcast
The Hope That Would Not Let Go Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay The Hope That Would Not Let Go from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the experience of hope continuing long after clarity has arrived, how feeling can persist despite repeated...
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Being Desired for the Wrong Reasons Podcast
Being Desired for the Wrong Reasons Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Being Desired for the Wrong Reasons from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the experience of recognising when desire is directed at a version of you that is convenient, projected, or...
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Sex That Confirmed an Absence Podcast
Sex That Confirmed an Absence Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Sex That Confirmed an Absence from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss how intimacy can reveal limits rather than dissolve them, the quiet moment when closeness confirms something essential is...
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The Moment You Knew It Would Not Continue Podcast
The Moment You Knew It Would Not Continue Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay The Moment You Knew It Would Not Continue from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the quiet instant when recognition arrives before acceptance, the emotional gap between knowing…
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When Nothing Was Wrong but Nothing Was Right Podcast
When Nothing Was Wrong but Nothing Was Right Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay When Nothing Was Wrong but Nothing Was Right from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the quiet discomfort of intimacy that contains no clear harm yet never fully settles into...
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Sex as Emotional Negotiation
Sex as Emotional Negotiation Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Sex as Emotional Negotiation from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss how sex can become a space where unspoken needs, hopes, limits, and fears are quietly exchanged, how emotional concessions...
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Wanting Closeness Without Exposure Podcast
Wanting Closeness Without Exposure Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Wanting Closeness Without Exposure from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the quiet desire for intimacy that avoids being fully seen, the tension between warmth and withholding, how...
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Sex That Never Found Its Ending Podcast
Sex That Never Found Its Ending Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Sex That Never Found Its Ending from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the experience of sexual encounters that stopped happening but never fully concluded emotionally, the quiet…
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Realising How Replaceable You Were Podcast
Realising How Replaceable You Were Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Realising How Replaceable You Were from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the quiet moment when a connection is revealed to be less singular than it felt, the emotional recalibration…
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Liking Who You Were During Sex Podcast
Liking Who You Were During Sex Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Liking Who You Were During Sex from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss becoming attached not only to another person but to a version of oneself that appears during sex, the quiet longing to...
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Sex as a Way of Being Chosen Again Podcast
Sex as a Way of Being Chosen Again Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Sex as a Way of Being Chosen Again from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the emotional pull of returning to sex in order to feel selected and recognised, the quiet longing to be chosen...
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Hoping It Would Change Afterwards Podcast
Hoping It Would Change Afterwards Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Hoping It Would Change Afterwards from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the quiet relocation of hope into the future after disappointment has already been felt, the fantasy that…
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Sex That Did Not Make Things Better Podcast
Sex That Did Not Make Things Better Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Sex That Did Not Make Things Better from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the quiet hope that sex might ease emotional weight, the subtle expectations carried into intimacy, and the...
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Being Seen Only Where It Suited Them Podcast
Being Seen Only Where It Suited Them Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Being Seen Only Where It Suited Them from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the experience of being recognised in selective ways, how partial attention can feel both affirming and...
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Feeling Used and Missing Them Anyway Podcast
Feeling Used and Missing Them Anyway Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Feeling Used and Missing Them Anyway from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the emotional contradiction of recognising that an encounter was uneven or instrumental while still missing...
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When Pleasure Makes Things Harder Podcast
When Pleasure Makes Things Harder Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay When Pleasure Makes Things Harder from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the emotional contradiction of enjoying sex while recognising misalignment, how pleasure complicates clarity, the...
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Sex as a Promise No One Made Podcast
Sex as a Promise No One Made Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Sex as a Promise No One Made from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss how expectation quietly forms in the absence of spoken agreement, how sex can take on the weight of implication and...
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Mistaking Intensity for Truth Podcast
Mistaking Intensity for Truth Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Mistaking Intensity for Truth from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss how strong feeling can quietly become a stand in for certainty, how urgency and emotional charge accelerate belief, and…
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Wanting to Be Wanted More Than Wanting Them Podcast
Wanting to Be Wanted More Than Wanting Them Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Wanting to Be Wanted More Than Wanting Them from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the emotional shift where desire centres on being wanted rather than truly wanting the other...
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The Lie That Made It Bearable Podcast
The Lie That Made It Bearable Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay The Lie That Made It Bearable from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the quiet stories people tell themselves in intimate moments in order to remain present, how small internal reframings...
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Staying When You Already Knew Podcast
Staying When You Already Knew Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Staying When You Already Knew from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the experience of remaining in a sexual or emotional situation after recognition has already arrived, the quiet...
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Feeling Chosen and Losing Ground Podcast
Feeling Chosen and Losing Ground Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Feeling Chosen and Losing Ground from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the emotional experience of being chosen and how that moment of validation can quietly reshape a person’s sense of...
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Attachment Without Permission Podcast
Attachment Without Permission Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Attachment Without Permission from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the experience of becoming emotionally attached despite clear boundaries and stated intentions, the quiet shock of...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Ghosts: Essays in Conversation is a conversational podcast reflecting on essays from the Ghosts Movement, created by Pedro Malha, philosopher and founder. Each episode explores the themes and questions of a specific essay through dialogue rather than reading. The focus is not on explanation or resolution, but on staying with the ideas as they are spoken and shared, offering a companion way to engage through listening and reflection.
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Ghosts Movement: Pedro Malha
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