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Insights from The Seer's Explanation
by Larry Gottlieb
There is great power available in shifting the way we look at our life experience. I want to share a different way of thinking about things that otherwise bring us fear and uncertainty. With that change in thinking, the world can show up in a very different way. In view of the way the world appears today, I hope this podcast makes a difference in your life.
Episodes
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Learning to Listen
Recorded live at A Spiritual Center in Carbondale, Colorado on July 19, 2026
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A Field Theory of the Ego
This talk was recorded at White River Books in Carbondale, Colorado on October 12, 2023. Larry speaks about his education in physics and how certain ideas from that discipline can be brought to bear on why we don't behave in our own best interests.
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Moving Beyond Self-Limiting Beliefs
We know for sure that our rational analysis and problem solving skills are the best tools we have for getting more of what we want. We know this because everybody says it’s true. But what if that certainty turns out to be a superstition? What if we have more powerful tools at our disposal and our...
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Grieving a Cherished Illusion
I knew at a relatively early age that what Ronald Reagan called the “shining city on a hill,” the America of our ideals, was an invention, a romantic notion that made us all feel good. The overturning of Roe v. Wade shattered that illusion for me. But it turns out that disillusionment is a good...
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What is reality? It's about time!
None of what we remember is real, because it’s not taking place in this moment. And, nothing in the future is real, because it’s only a picture in the mind. So reality isn’t about solidity, or about a particular configuration of atoms and molecules, or even about what everybody knows. Reality is...
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Illustrating the Global Ego
In a previous post, I suggested that one of the most fundamental misunderstandings we humans labor under is that an ego is a part of ourselves. In psychoanalysis, for example, the ego is the part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality...
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Cleaning Up the Ocean of Belief
Last time, I made the following argument: that it’s helpful to consider that we human beings live in an ocean of Ego. Like the fish, we’re not aware of being immersed in that ocean, because we’ve spent our entire lives in it and so we have nothing to compare it to. That viewpoint seems to me more...
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What in the World?
As I write this, the lead story is that Russia is invading Ukraine. It feels to many people like yet another setback for those of us whose desire for peace and harmony seems to be consistently thwarted. The story this morning is all about bad behavior and punishment, or at least about…
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The Ego and Control Over Life's Conditions
The control the Ego promises us over the circumstances of our lives seems so promising, so enticing. But what if the Universe, the Oneness that is obscured by the Ego’s commitment to separation, intends to show us the emptiness of the Ego’s promise?
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The Law of Attraction - Revisited
The validity of the Law of Attraction is easier to accept if we shift our understanding of the world. We are taught that we exist in a context called "the world." And yet, all we know about the world is interpretation of sensory input, and that interpretation exists within our awareness. In that...
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Extra-Ordinary Experience
Larry gave this talk on December 8, 2020 in Carbondale, Colorado at A Spiritual Center. He points out that we live in a world made up of our own interpretations, and that we mistake that set of interpretations for the durable world we assume exists. He tells the story of his extra-ordinary...
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Is ego a problem?
We ordinarily think of our ego, our egotistical selves, as being some kind of character defect. So we pretend to apologize for it, and sometimes we try to hide it. But what if there's a completely different way of looking at ego that helps to explain why people behave the way they do? What if you...
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Here's "The Thing"!
Do you find yourself trying to understand why people are acting the way they are? This could be your relatives and friends, and it might extend to politicians and complete strangers. What if we looked at our collective psychology as a Thing that is used to being in control and wants to stay that...
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A Place to Stand
How can we find a stable place to stand amid the uncertainty and confusion of the current era? I have been recommending taking a step back for a broader view. How can we do that?
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Acceptance and Moving Forward
When we can't change a situation, we're told to accept it. Passive acceptance feels like resignation. But active acceptance feels like a new beginning. What's the difference?
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The next stage of human evolution
There’s a lot of fear going around these days about the coronavirus. In response, there are actions being taken, and some frantic, knee-jerk reactions taking place. And… there’s a fair bit of acting-out going on as well. As a society, this thing is making us crazy. Should we wear masks? Should we...
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Our Most Misunderstood Word
"I" may well be the most misunderstood word in the English language. That’s because when we use that word, we are most commonly using it to point to something that’s not real, that’s not actually who we are! It is possible (and desirable) to separate the Ego from the one who identifies that Ego…
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The Ego and Evolution - Part Two
The evolution of homo sapiens to a new kind of human being doesn't require a different body or a larger brain. Nor does it require a catastrophe and millions of years. Instead, it happens within a living human being when the Ego is seen to be what it is: distinct from who we really are, and not...
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The Ego and Evolution... Part One
A lot of people feel like the world is a mess right now, and that things seem to be getting worse. Is there a way of thinking about the state of the world that affords us the possibility of recovering some leverage, some power? This is part one of a two-part approach that may change the way we...
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Stepping back for a broader perspective
I have found that the way to ease my mind and my heart is to take a step back and seek a broader perspective.
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What Is, and What Is Not, Real?
Pretty much all of us are thoroughly conditioned to think that the physical world is what’s real. Less tangible things, like thoughts and feelings and flashes of inspiration and intuition, are relegated to some other category. They’re certainly real to us, but we tend to call them fleeting,...
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The Power of Resonance
Imagine yourself as a singing bowl. The Universe strikes you with its velvet mallet and you "sing" your mix of notes, your chord. Maybe that's a way of visualizing how you create your own experience!
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The Road Taken - A Personal Story
Forty-plus years ago I had an experience that changed the direction of my life forever. I couldn't explain what happened using how I then understood the world, and I was set on a path of discovery that continues to this day. In this episode, I tell the story of that experience and of how I now...
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It's Only a View...
What we think of as the world is only a view of the world, and the two things are different. Making that distinction opens the door to true freedom.
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The World is My Mirror
Never mind what the world really is... it seems to behave as if it's a mirror of my thoughts and beliefs.
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Living in the Bubble of Perception
Using a new explanation of our being in the world to make living with other people a whole lot easier... Metaphors to make it easier to visualize how we each create our own reality.
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What Other Story Could We Entertain?
The third in a series of podcasts describing a transformational approach to living in the world as a human being. It offers one a radically different sense of freedom and possibility, even though it's completely at odds with common sense.
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What's the Matter with Common Sense?
This episode is an inquiry into "what we all know". We don't think about what we all know. And we almost never question it. But what if "what we all know" is THE limiting factor in realizing our dreams?
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Just what is a human being, really?
We all know what a human being is, right? If you look at a tree representing the animal kingdom, there we are at the end of one of the branches! We are essentially objects against the background of the world. Right? What if that's not what a human being really is? Find much more at:...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
There is great power available in shifting the way we look at our life experience. I want to share a different way of thinking about things that otherwise bring us fear and uncertainty. With that change in thinking, the world can show up in a very different way. In view of the way the world appears today, I hope this podcast makes a difference in your life.
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Larry Gottlieb
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