PODCAST · religion
JSWonders
by Jon Sorensen, LMFT
A podcasts for intellectuals, philosophers, wonderers and wanderers interested in exploring ideas without taking anything too seriously
Episodes
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The Psychological Anatomy of a Controlling Person
In this, 100th episode, we celebrate the mile marker, then tack on an exploration of the inner anatomy of the extremely controlling personality as well as what created such a state. We finish by advising the controlling person themselves, as well as those who must interact with them, how to…
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One Event Exploded My Entire Medical History
*Caution! lots of cursing in this one* This is a big one. I had a recent experience that entirely exploded my last vestiges of trust in the medical field overall. It comes down to a whole industry of idealistic, well meaning, very intelligent people who are almost entirely constrained by…
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Some Parents DON’T Love a Child
In this episode, I deconstruct the myth that all parents love their children, they’re just emotionally disturbed or they’re just doing the best they can. I also deconstruct the myth that parents love all their children, they often don’t. Some parents have a child that they don’t love in any...
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DNA is a Coded Story Inside a Seed
This statement is a setup to discuss the creative process and how narcissists and those seeking to shore up their egos will leap into the most subtle, vulnerable part of a creative, idea, act, thought in order to condescend to instruct the creative on how to shape the expressing idea. The message...
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Millions Made by Addicting Your Child
On a micro level I talk through the addictions being shoved in your kids’s faces with sugar milk, sodium and dopamine hits. On a macro level, regardless of intent I point out that people making millions or billions off of mass producing addictive processes or products to your children are so...
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From Micromanagement to Micro-monitoring - how controlling abusive parents escape responsibility
I talk through how parents who micro-control and abuse, micromanage will then, over time simply micro-monitor in ways that often only the victim can perceive. Then the victim’s “exaggerated” responses to the monitoring are further evidence to support abusers who lied about their victim to the...
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There is an Avalanche of Consequences in Your Body
For those who have been gaslit, abused, scapegoated. You have been taught that no matter the situation, no matter how unjust, now matter how innocent, you are the recipient of the consequences of others’ behaviors, you are the recipient of the the consequences of your own responses to those...
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The Logical Path to Conscious Freedom
I do a very broad sweep across my life briefly describing various observations, realizations and experiences that led me to the conviction that consciousness is the underpinning of any significant reality, morality, experience or meaning.
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Trauma Bonds - Understanding Beyond the Pain
The end all modeling of how elegant, exacting and seamless a true trauma bond is between two deeply connected people who feel bewildered by how they could deeply love and know another and yet find each other’s behavior seemingly cruel, disconnected and without care. I do not go into the ways to...
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The Pharmaceutical Industry uses Doctors and Psychiatrists to Prescribe Speed to Children
I am NOT a medical doctor, researcher, PhD, PsyD or Psychiatrist. I am not giving out medical advice. I am expressing my opinion as an individual who isn’t captured by the pharmaceutical model, health insurance model, or mechanical model of human health. The prescription of amphetamine to anyone...
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Marketing Insists on Marriage & Children After the First Date
Ok, this is a rant with lots of language and irritation, but is important in the overall context of how business, marketing practices as well as the fed government have completely entitled themselves to access to your time, your attention, your money, your email inbox, your cell phone number with...
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The Secret Behind Every Toxic Relationship (TYTWTTYBC)
Things your therapist wants to tell you but can’t. In this episode I outline how so much trauma and abuse is hidden and denied by society and how this results in the belief that someone can accidentally or by bad luck find themselves in a long term toxic relationship. I outline the various…
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The Secret Purpose to Life
It’s really not that complicated. It’s really not. Most, if not all, of the ethics-socially driven purpose was constructed by society because it needs and wants you to be something or function in some way that satisfies society and other individuals’ needs. You have already served the most…
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Erroneous Identity Beliefs Underpin All Human Conflict
Ok, so I just did this one. Seems weird to do it again, but I didn’t remember and completely ran another 40 minutes. When we’re traumatized, it’s not the pain and fear of the historical event that creates PTSD, it’s the belief about our value or lack thereof as a conscious being that retains the...
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Argue Whether You are Grey and You Will Experience Greyness
A followup to Episode 85, “the source of all human misery . . .” where I further explore and explain how engaging a lie about your true nature forces you to experience the lie as if it were true. This delves into dealing with narcissistic accusations and the people who believe them, but…
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The Battle for Identity is the Source of All Human Misery
Rational, level headed, intelligent people will often agonize over decisions over long periods of time. This is because they’re attempting to use the choice to alleviate them of unconscious anxiety and since situations cannot do this, no matter what choice they settle on, it begins to feel like…
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Emotional Expressiveness is not Emotional Intelligence
I make the specious argument that men being generally faster, more explosive, & stronger makes them more intelligent about physical or biological being. Any level headed person knows this is a silly argument. Women experience and interact with biology often in more profound ways due to pregnancy,...
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Government Deals in Perception, Money & Violence
Using a curiosity about Private Equity Firms, I do a dive into levels of money and power that are multiple levels beyond our day-to-day experience. I connect that to the currents surfed by the federal, state and local governments. I finish by reminding people that governments and many of the most...
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Abundance is Upon Us
I talk through the 3 distinct paradigms around war/hunger that have evolved in my lifetime. 1. War, violence and conflict is just a normal part of the human condition 2. War and violence are unnecessary but because there are primitive and violent people we must develop our ability to be violent…
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The End of a Disconnected Relationship is Surprising Only to the Disconnected
In another, “things your therapist wants to tell you but often cannot” episode, I do a recap of the true anatomy of a trauma bond before transitioning into a description of how and why people are shocked or surprised by their relationship ending. I place it in the context of a social message that...
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Unhealth is Illusion at the Level of Conscious Awareness
Exploring a specific equation of consciousness - That which is unhealthy for your, is actually untrue and thus dissolves in the presence of consciousness; that which is healthy for you is true and expands in the presence of consciousness.
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The Human Condition is Nobody’s Fault, but Everybody’s Responsibility
Some thoughts that came out of “Current Chaos . . . “ that refine how to assess your own or any individual’s style or dynamic by which they relate to others that may result in chaos, something predictable though narcissistic and rigid, something neurotic, or something truly beautiful. Full...
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Current Chaos Reflects One Simple Truth
If you’re feeling agitated, concerned, worried, fragmented, surrealistic, confused, etc. due to the chaos, cruelty & ridiculousness in the world, I have an equation for you, a way to relate to all of it that breaks down your somatic experience to a simple equation. This simple equation allows you...
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Fear & Shame Based Parenting Sets up Your Children for Predators and Parasites
I outline why, fear, shame, irritation, anger, manipulation and lying or horrible ways to alter children’s behavior and how narcissistic parents use these toxic parenting tools and then point their fingers in judgment when their adult children have horrible boundaries with toxic people.
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Conversations with Donald J. Trump
Exactly what it says. No raging, no name calling, no moral posturing, just identifying, as much as possible, all human truths or interactions as they are. "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto" “Nothing human is foreign to me" Terence: Heauton Timoroumenos
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The Biggest Hurdle to Recovery from CPTSD
An episode giving a rough overview of survivors’ experiences when recovering from CPTSD and a deeper dive into one of the final and more difficult hurdles to healing that can result in people holding onto old ways of responding for years, sometimes decades. To summarize, the 3 parts are…
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We Have Forgotten Our True Being (and the earth is dying of our forgetting)
We have forgotten our true being and the earth is dying of our forgetting
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Boundaries Come Before Empathy or Understanding
I talk through why the current social emphasis on empathy actually has confused and distracted my folks, especially young people, allowing them to actually leverage ideas of empathy or understanding to violate boundaries under the guise of asking for understanding, asking for closure, or just...
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The High Density Nervous System
I peel off from earlier episodes on introversion versus extroversion and do a deeper dive into the actual functional and biological reality of “introversion” that resulted in coining the term “high density nervous system”. I talk about the strengths and weaknesses of both types of nervous system,...
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How the Empathetic, the Intelligent & the Peaceful Negate Themselves
How the empathetic, the intelligent & the peaceful negate themselves In the presence of the morally obtuse, the willfully ignorant and the violent. (and what to do instead)
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Dump the Term Trauma Dumping
I share a deep conflict I experience from my own view of the need to manage how/when or if trauma is visited or shared, versus my frustration and anger with how perpetrators, sycophants and the disconnected population in general refuse to allow people the space to discuss or even share intense…
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The Unhoused are an Indictment of our Society
In a shorter episode I address the specific criticism of Los Angeles and other cities that have a serious homelessness challenge, pointing out that this is directly related to the pleasant year-round weather as well as the kindness and attempt to provide beds, mental health and food. I then go on...
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Healing from Chaos, Hatred and War While it Continues Around Us
A mildly ranting journey through the overwhelming number of ways that modern life has intentionally or unintentionally separated you from natural human emotional/psychological/nutritional needs and then sold you the solution. This is followed by the assertion that configuring or managing your…
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What is the Difference Between the US Government and a Domestic Violence Perpetrator?
I take 10 minutes to describe a relationship of domestic violence between an unhinged man who is paranoid, narcissistic, extremely controlling and violent toward his girlfriend. I intend to elicit the proper horror and moral rejection of such a relationship. I then go on to describe and document...
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What a Fucking Ride - Consciousness Simplified.
A very short episode where I read through my thoughts on the simple purpose of consciousness and how that translates into all the complexity, beauty and madness of the human condition.
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Things Your Therapist Wants to Say but Can’t - Blaming Parents
I talk through the different levels of trauma and why psychological or emotional trauma or neglect leaves the victim feeling guilty for “blaming” their parents and why understanding your parents’ childhood and trauma is usually just a distraction from your own work.
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Obsession, the Most Important Thing About You
I talk through a previous episode noting that most people who feel locked up on goals or vision, are not aligned with their true nature, as opposed to being traumatized or self sabotaging. Then I explore the flip side, where people who have a very distinct set of skills, a personality and a...
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Shame - I Know to Whom it Belongs
First I spend some time defining shame and exploring it a little as a social force. Then I begin to speak directly to folks who have suffered through serious childhood or other abuse and discuss how shame is displaced onto the victim. I discuss how and why victims are free of it and how to see…
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Palisades Wildfires II_How my struggles resulted in excavating an old stubborn belief about myself.
First, I spend about 20 minutes explaining how painful, how difficulty, how depressing it has been to lose my children’s home and all our belongings and try to navigate the world to build it back again. After this, I make the first important point, that humans are in their infancy of…
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The Palisades Wildfire_What Losing my Home Taught me About Love and Connection
I share a few stories from January 7, 2025 when our home as well as a whole city burned. I then connect these experiences to a deeper spiritual evolution that has revealed the true state of love and connection.
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Boundaries, a Deep Expression of Psychological, Emotional, Spiritual & Existential Truth
I talk through one of my favorite topics, boundaries. I explore the anatomy of how even assertive appearing boundaries can be based in fear, self-judgment and judgment of others. This results in defensive responses and further pain and confusion. When boundaries are based in a true perception of...
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Suffering is Suffering - Stop Playing Political Games with Living Beings
I tease out a message to all the reasonable, scientific people who know that inflicting suffering on living beings is wrong, who know that not having the answer to a problem does not mean you pretend the problem does not exist and who know that we do have the intelligence, creativity, resources,...
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The Purpose of Consciousness on Earth, Part 3
In this 3rd installment, I get more granular about why I think people sometimes have a very stubborn life theme, that it may be more than just childhood trauma. I get specific about my theme, how stubbornly unconscious it has been or even how stubbornly I have stayed stuck even though I was often...
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The Purpose of Consciousness on Earth, Part 2
A followup, clarifying how the state of judgment (as noted through anecdotes about myself and my father), is actually a denial of the beauty, individuality and brilliance of self. Essentially laying the groundwork for the anatomy of judgment, how it traps us and how it also gives us an…
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The Purpose of Consciousness on Earth, Part 1
Through my own experiences watching my father’s struggles, mistakes and successes, I document how I worked so hard to avoid the same mistakes and yet created them only with a different flavor or style. These anecdotes are used to begin exploring how deep bias and judgment is, and how it is really...
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The Anatomy of Consciousness, Part 1
Given the number of times I refer to consciousness in episodes, or use the concept of consciousness to shift clients’ attempts to build “self esteem”, I decided to actually break down the logic, the actual anatomy of consciousness, what inheres int it, of what it is constructed, how it functions....
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The inestimable Value of Small Acts of Kindness
A followup to episode “Kindness, it’s not Rocket Science” I talk through the regression in American culture to pettiness, self interest and general childishness when it comes to conflict or making space for others. I end by sharing a small but significant act of kindness that I received this...
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Using Children to Solve Adult Problems (And then Gaslighting them if they are Distressed)
Weaving in, the message from “The Simplest Cause is Rarely the Primary Cause”, I talk through the adult and social propensity to create problems for ourselves, then create institutions and professionals to solve those problems who will convince us that it really is in the best interest of our...
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Parallel Play Vs True Collaboration - The Psychological Structure of the Narcissistic System
As a follow up to episodes (15, 33 & 50) about narcissism as well as the emotional immature, I do a much more granular exploration of the internal psychological structure of those with a severe narcissistic wound. Importantly, this explains why these types of personality disorders can be quite...
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Layers - Those who Control us do so by Trapping us in Arguments Over Content Rather than Context
I talk through how many conflicts and many difficult experiences arise because we have been predisposed to evaluate outcomes or to engage debates at the surface level of content - something is right or wrong, it works or doesn't work - while those who control us are the ones who establish the...
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A podcasts for intellectuals, philosophers, wonderers and wanderers interested in exploring ideas without taking anything too seriously
HOSTED BY
Jon Sorensen, LMFT
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