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Speakings
by Sondra Charbadze
Welcome to the Speakings Podcast, where I explore philosophical and spiritual topics in an unscripted manner, hoping to revive language as living presence and philosophy as contemplative, embodied practice. You’ll find blog posts associated with each podcast on my website, including practices for many of the “speakings.” If you’d like to join me in crafting more whole and authentic lives, please share your insights, experiences with the practices, or suggestions for future episodes on my website at https://www.sondrawriter.com/speakings-podcast or by email at [email protected].
Episodes
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Productivity Without Effort
* The purpose of this podcast is not to convey information: it is to....? * The paradox of productivity: you are most productive when you are not concerned with the end product. * Work as letting go, work as rest. "My prayer for all of you that you will feel like a bird feeding from the hand of a...
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What is Love?
What is love? * On the delusions & liberations of romantic love * How I left Mormonism (and how nothing real was lost) * Loving my husband meant sacrificing what I thought was my identity * A reading about how love collapses time. You can find the full excerpt from my book and comment...
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On Creativity and Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese"
Intimate musings on creativity, the self-enjoying nature of time, and the richness of reality beyond a plot-line. Then, a poetry reading of Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese." "And when we allow ourselves to be consumed by time, by light, by darkness, by the persistent force of our own aching lives, we...
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Resisting Unreality While a Nation Implodes
How do we live in a world that's becoming ever more painful, dangerous, and absurd? You can find the synopsis of this episode, further notes, and a convenient place to comment here. Key points in this "speaking": In the aftermath of Trump's inauguration, many of us are feeling...
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Should I Give Up On Self-Discipline?
You can find the synopsis of this episode, further notes, and a convenient place to comment here. The key points in this "speaking": This podcast episode is a follow-up to the episode "Can pleasure be trusted?" A bit more colloquial than the average episode, I offer more details...
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The Trauma of the Image & The Aloneness of Authenticity
You can find the synopsis of this episode, further notes, and a convenient place to comment here. The key points in this "speaking": On the sensation of time passing, the threat of invisibility as we age, and the trauma of constant visual exposure. We can no longer feel what it is…
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Why Women are Anxious Overachievers & Men are Confidently Incompetent
You can find the synopsis of this episode, further notes, and a convenient place to comment here. The key points in this "speaking": Of course, all categories (male, female, white, black, cis, trans, etc.) are imaginaries. No individual can be captured fully by a category, and many...
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Desire as Refusal of Time
You can find the synopsis of this episode, further notes, and a convenient place to comment here. The key points in this "speaking": Desire keeps us stretched into the future, looking for an otherwise or a not-yet. Because it feeds on the future, desire is inherently insatiable. We…
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Jesus, Santa Clause, & Religious Belief
You can find the synopsis of this episode, further notes, and a convenient place to comment here. The key points in this "speaking": Do religious beliefs inhabit the same epistemological sphere as scientific or historical facts? God as “Santa Claus" vs. the God beyond atheism, theism…
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The Price of Peace
"Live a life without closure, and your compassion will broaden you, stretch you, widen the walls of your flesh until you're able to receive the unthinkable joy and the unthinkable pain." You can find the synopsis of this episode, further notes, and a convenient place to comment here. The...
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In Praise of Stupidity
You can find the synopsis of this episode, further notes, and a convenient place to comment here. I will also periodically update my thoughts on this episode's content at that same link. The key points in this "speaking": Everyone has a defining insecurity. Our lives circle around these...
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Can Pleasure Be Trusted?
You can find the synopsis of this episode, further notes, and a convenient place to comment here. I will also periodically update my thoughts on this episode's content at that same link. The key points in this "speaking" Why are we so suspicious of pleasure? The darkness of the other's body—...
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Staying Human While the World is Ending
You can find the synopsis of this episode, further notes, and a convenient place to comment here. I will also periodically update my thoughts on this episode's content at that same link. The key points in this "speaking": How can we live in such urgent times of climate change and not take...
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The Sound of the Body: An Essay Excerpt
This episode is a recording of one section of an essay I originally wrote for subscribers. Read the full essay here. The key points in this "speaking": The world arrives as one: body and soul together, one uncaused arising. "Foods prepared with presence can open the pores towards particular...
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A Living Landscape, an Animate World
You can find the synopsis of this episode, further notes, and a convenient place to comment here. I will also periodically update my thoughts on this episode's content at that same link. The key points in this "speaking": Why I still sometimes call myself a poet even though I don’t write…
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The Miraculous is a Mode of Thought
You can find the synopsis of this episode, further notes, and a convenient place to comment here. I will also periodically update my thoughts on this episode's content at that same link. The key points in this "speaking": Is the miraculous simply a supernatural happening? Like God is a...
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Why Your Partner Can't Complete You
You can find the synopsis of this episode, further notes, and a convenient place to comment here. I will also periodically update my thoughts on this episode's content at that same link. The key points in this "speaking": Romantic love is the religion of the secular west. We used to seek the…
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On "Barbie" & the Allure of Ideology
You can find the synopsis of this episode, further notes, and a convenient place to comment here. I will also periodically update my thoughts on this episode's content at that same link. Key points of this "speaking": I saw "Barbie" and was disappointed. I’m a feminist who did not disagree with...
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The End is Always Joy
You can find the synopsis of this episode, further notes, and a convenient place to comment here. I will also periodically update my thoughts on this episode's content at that same link. Key points of this "speaking": Every conceptual schema is a mythology if you go down far enough. Hold these...
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Analogizing Ourselves Into Being
Welcome to the Speakings podcast! My name is Sondra: I'm a writer, philosopher, and lover of (among other things) trees, artisan chocolate, old bookstores, and other human and non-human beings. Both my philosophical and creative projects explore ways of being-in-the-world that are more rational…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to the Speakings Podcast, where I explore philosophical and spiritual topics in an unscripted manner, hoping to revive language as living presence and philosophy as contemplative, embodied practice. You’ll find blog posts associated with each podcast on my website, including practices for many of the “speakings.” If you’d like to join me in crafting more whole and authentic lives, please share your insights, experiences with the practices, or suggestions for future episodes on my website at https://www.sondrawriter.com/speakings-podcast or by email at [email protected].
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Sondra Charbadze
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What is Speakings about?
Welcome to the Speakings Podcast, where I explore philosophical and spiritual topics in an unscripted manner, hoping to revive language as living presence and philosophy as contemplative, embodied practice. You’ll find blog posts associated with each podcast on my website, including practices for...
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Speakings is created and hosted by Sondra Charbadze.
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