Episodes
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139: Interview with Bradley
Hello my Friends! Welcome back to The Ginger Bread Man! I am so excited to have you here! This week we will be sitting down to a great friend of mine Bradley. We consider the future and modernity, as well as some of the historical instances that have lead us here. What will robots do to Work?…
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138: The Cat Episode
Hello my Friends! Welcome back to the Show! This one is gonna be fun.. This week I would like to present to you one of man's best friends(we have many), Felis Catus! What is a cat? What is the history, how did we get here? This and much, much more on this deep dive into Cat Fancy from Victorian...
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137: The Objectification of Pines
Hello Everybody! Welcome back to The Ginger Bread Man This week I discuss my fantastic stroll through a beautiful pine forest where my son and I even found a mushroom patch! I give an update on my new Kitten and use this as an introductory note to discuss objectification of the things we love,...
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136: A New Discussion: The Present Condition of 7oh-Mitragynine in the USA
Hello my friends! This week I would like to discuss addiction in the context of Opiate Addiction. I am choosing to be vulnerable and share some of my personal experiences with dangerous opiates like Heroin and how the use of botanicals like Kratom Leaf changed my life in terms of the…
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135: Interview with Jay: Volume 2
Hello my Friends! Todays episode is rather special. I haven't done this in a while, having a friend on that is. We had Jay on the show a few years back, he was wearing a turqoise jumpsuit and an animal on his head. Wild Guy, I am very grateful to know him. And this is a First, because I have…
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134: Is our Technology Real?
Hello My Friends! I hope you are doing well, I am so grateful for you showing up this week! On this episode I will be discussing what is Real. This time(old topic) through the lense of our Technology. Of course there are some glaringly obvious Modern Technologies that can be of concern. Yet I…
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133: Important Lessons found in Losing Kitties
Hello My Friends! Welcome to my Home! This week has been a rollercoaster, I swear I have felt literally every emotion. As always, these are Important Lesson in disguise. What are the connections between Loss and Death, does all Grief have a common backbone. This week I lost one of my best…
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132: Attention: Attending to the World
Hi There Friendo! Lets talk about attention and technology, what does technology do to our brains? If you have children do you monitor their usage? Big changes have come into all of our lives, and I feel I can't be the only one just a little bit concerned.. I have been on Hiatus trying to find my...
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131: The Fascinating Story of Black Pepper
Hello my Friends! Welcome back to the Show! This week I would like to discuss something I found very fascinating: Black Pepper and its primary compound Piperine, and the smaller component found inside: Piperidine. What is the connection between Pain and Pleasure, or Pain relief? Isn't the removal...
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130: Animal Intelligence and Emotional Neanderthals
Hello my friends! Welcome back to The Ginger Bread Man! I am returning from a pretty hellish illness from these past two weeks, but I feel buoyed up by the loveliness of the holiday season! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year! This week I would like to discuss Neanderthals and the...
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129: Practicing Lucidity and An Examination of 7OH-Mytragynine
Hello my friends! Welcome back to "The Ginger Bread Man"! This week we will be discussing some fun stuff. First, I would like to give you 6 Practical things you can do to help improve your Dream Recall and potentiate Lucid Dreaming. I have never been Lucid in a Dream, Yet.. But I have been able…
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128: Can we Wake Up in a Dream?
Hello My Friends! Welcome back to "The Ginger Bread Man!" I am so grateful that you are here! This week we continue on with my obsession with dreams. Lucid dreams in particular. What even is a Lucid Dream? For starts there is a world of difference between 'recalling' a dream and being Aware in…
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127: Considering Division's Sting
Hello Everyone! Welcome back to The Ginger Bread Man! This week we will consider some real world effects of duality, as well as considering more ideas about existentialism. Towards the end I discuss some western philosophy from P.D. Ouspensky, specifically is Tertium Organum. What even is the...
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126: Is there a 'Spectrum of Consciousness?'
Hi!! I am so glad to be back, glad to have you hear with me, and glad to be feeling strong and vibrant! This week we will be discussing Ken Wilber's Spectrum of Consciousness and some of the ideas inside. This was a book published by the Theosophical Publishing House. I found this intriguing…
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125: Attending to Pain
Hello my friends! Welcome back to "The Ginger Bread Man"! This week I would like to discuss the relationship between Attention and Pain. There are other key words that could apply to this subject, such as Obsession and Health Anxiety. For the last year I have had to learn how to live with and...
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124: A Mindful Microdose
Hello my friends! Welcome back to the show! This week we will be discussing some of the principles of Microdosing, the trendy method of taking small indescriminate amounts of our chosen medicine. Why would we do such a thing? I talk about one of my favorite utilizations. I hope you enjoy the...
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123: The Magic of Muscimol
Hello My Friends! Welcome back to the Show! This week we will be discussing Muscimol, the alkaloid that holds benefits in the Aminita Muscaria, also known as Fly Agaric. With a nasty reputation that doesn't seem to hold water, I find it suspicious that I didn't know more about it, seeing that it...
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122: Lucretian Natural Philosophy 101
Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! This week I will start out by discussing a new plant of Interest, the very Beautiful Blue Lotus. Afterwards we will dive headfirst into some ideas from the ancient world. Natural Philosophy was Science's Grand Pappy, before we new what to call it. People who…
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121: Chocolate Bars and Idea Balloons
Hello My Friends! Welcome Back to the Show! I am so glad that you are here! This Week I will be discussing the legal "Chocolate" Bars being found all throughout the USA. It's the wild wild west and I have been more than intrigued, lets talk about it! Then I will discuss Ideas. I love Ideas, they...
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120: An Overview of Psychadelia
Hello my Friends! Welcome back to "The Ginger Bread Man", on a Thursday! Woooo! This week I want to do an overview of some of the history and basics of what classic psychedelics are. Including some information on the 4 compounds you most likely have heard of. It will be fun. Towards the end of…
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119: Understanding the Past with Atoms
Hello my Friends! Welcome back to the Show! We have alot of great stuff to discuss this week. Lets start out by trying to wrap together some ideas that have been looked at over the last few weeks. Afterwards I present to you some of the dominant ideas in Lucretius's Epicurean Atomism, which has...
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118: The Kingdom of Selfdom's Hidden Satisfaction
Hello my Friends! Welcome back to the Show! I am very excited to be back after my small Hiatus. Odin and I have been busy with various rituals from a Wedding, to a Concert, to learning how to evaluate and commit to Self-Care! I would like to share some stories with you and then philosophize about...
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117: Science's Contributions to Mysticism
Hello my Friends! Welcome Back to "The Ginger Bread Man!" This week I want to dig into Science a little bit. I spent alot of time being Staunchly anti-science, regrettably, that I have only recently returned to reading more scientific material. I have been reading a book called "The Tao of…
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116: Accelerating and Decelerating the Vehicle
Hello my Friends! Welcome back to "The Ginger Bread Man!" This week I will be discussing some older concepts from the show including how we have some degree of control over bodily processes, especially when it comes to slowing ourselves down and speeding ourselves up! This also ties into our...
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114: Animosity in a Changing World
Hello My Friends! Welcome back to my Show, I am really glad you are here! This week I vent a little bit about my frustrations with The Business Mindset, A classical argument between Materialism and the Formless develops as a I describe what it is like to encounter change in our lives. What parts…
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Existential Excursions into the Confusion of Time!
Hello my friends! This week I would like to discuss the concept of time through a Buddhist and existential Lense. This is a deep one guys, but I don't think any of you are averse to the deep end. I will also be further elucidating some terms from Sartre's Existentialism such as Being-In-Itself…
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113: Why I like Bad Trips
Hello my Friends! Welcome Back, I am really glad to have you here with me, Sincerely! This week I want to talk more about how we interact with our Psyche, including some of the different facets (faculties?) that have a part to play such as Personality and Unconscious. I happen to be particularly...
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112: What do Poles have to do with It?
Hello Friends! Welcome back to my show! This week I would like to discuss polarity, another aspect of Duality. And what is Duality? The Nature of the Universe, or so it seems. Everything has an Off/On, Up/Down, Hot/Cold, Is/Isn't, and the list goes on Ad infinitum. But when we look really closely...
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111: Minimizing Non-Duality
Hello My Friends! I very much Appreciate your Patience! Challenging times, But I LOVE talking to you. So thankyou for showing up! This week I would like to again discuss the values of Introspection, especially when it comes to looking at and analyzing cycles in our lives. Then I would like…
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110: Connecting Love, Sacrifice, and Boundaries
Hello my Friends! Welcome Back! Happy New Year! Apologies ahead of time for Poppy-Audio, I am using a cheap cord right now that I don't usually have, and whilst doing the very small amount of Lazily done editing I immediately noticed it! Will be working on improving that.. Anyways! This week I…
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109: Sleep Soliloquy
Hello Everyone! I hope you are doing well, it's great to be getting back to feeling well myself! This week I want to return to one of my favorite topics: Sleep, Dreaming, and Altered States of Consciousness! How are these all connected? I do see some obvious ones.. How do you experience your...
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108: Uncovering the Joy
Hello my Dear Friends! How are you this fine Day? This week I want to talk about to pet ideas of mine. These are old ideas, but I don't mind recircling around valuable methods of self discovery. Especially in my own work. What is a Figment of our Imagination? Can we Trust the Movies we make in…
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107: We are Not Locked in Pain
Hello My friends! Welcome Back! I am bedridden this week, so sound quality may be a little funky. I want to discuss pain. What is discomfort? How do we allocate our pain, do we judge it? How do we apply our pain to others? I also want to discuss a new friendship in the psychadelic landscape.…
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106: Everyone Needs some Peace and Quiet
Hi Everyone! Welcome Back! I Hope you all had a wonderful holiday, and even if you didn't At Least you are past it! What I would like to speak about today concerns this very topic, often during the holidays we have an influx of planning and socializing. We have our families in town, some of whom…
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105: Desert Adventures, Escape from Real Life
Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! I apologize for my Absence, My Son and I left for Vacation and we are just getting back into the swing of things. I have some interesting stories to share with you about my adventures and ruminations. Towards the end of the episode I will paraphrase a short story…
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104: The Void of Prescense
Hello My Friends! This week I am going to discuss the conundrum of Change. If our goal is finding Prescence in the here and now, what is the nature of that Here and Now? If we are used to finding comfort in stability, maybe we will be rudely awakened when we find no firm ground to stand on. I…
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103: Inseparable from Nature
Hello All! Welcome back to my little corner of the Universe.. Or is it all of It? Or Both? Hard to say as a human, stumbling around trying to make meaning out off all of these interesting knowledge-bits. What a lovely quest to be on though! Would You like to Join Me? This week I want to return to...
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102: A Fish in Search of Water
Hello My Friends! This week I would like to discuss some of Plato's ideas. Plato being a philosopher of Greek's Hellenistic Period. Why do we do what we do? What makes something Right and Good? Behind the subjectivity of opinion, is there away to benefit the most? How would you redesign a country...
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101: Return to Metamorphoses and Wandering with Watts
Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! This week I would like to go through a Favorite Allegory of Friedrich Nietzche: The Metamorphoses. Appearing in the book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", the main characters include a dragon, a camel, a lion, a child, and You! Afterwards I will discuss some ideas of Alan...
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100: Reasonable Nature in the Inner-Outer
Hello Everyone! Thankyou for Coming! Today's Episode is a special episode, a marker of Temporal Pressure and Commitment! Episode 100!! I am so grateful that you have been here with me, It would not have been possible without You! Lets get on into it. What does Dependence mean? How about…
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99: Lessons boiled out of Alchemical Love
Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! This Week we are going to talk about alchemy! External World processes tend to be reflected in our own inner Microcosms. How do we take difficulty and turn it into a labor of Love? How does control affect our own perception of a situation? How does the unconscious...
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98: Refusing Karmic Fruit/Love for It's Own Sake
Hello My Friends! Welcome back to the show! This week I want to return to the Idea of Karma: Action. The inherent law of Cause and Effect. Things seem to be attached to other things, at least tangentially in the world of Time. However, when we insert ourself arbitrarily into a timeless system…
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97: Haplessly Healing in Habittudes
Hello my friends! Welcome Back! This week I want to return to the ideas of Habits, or as I like to sometimes call them "Habittudes". We all know how hard it can be to structurally change a well established Habit, but we often forget how easy it is to make one! But, its never the end of the road,...
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96: Flinching Away from Fear
Hello my friends! Welcome Back! We are going to adventure into some dark places today, but that shouldn't be a bad thing. Are you avoiding parts of you? Parts that make you feel uncomfortable? How do you respond to your own Fear? Do you have tactics you use to feel "Better"? I want to investigate...
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95: 10 Little Things
Hi! Welcome Back! I am very glad that you are here, this week I have an important mission for you! You can email me at [email protected] I will always appreciate your attention and ears! I hope you have a great week! Photo Credit: Timo Müller on Unsplash
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94: A Healthy Amount of Natural Selfishness
Hello My Friends! I am heading off to the woods in a few and that got me thinkin... I know, I know people it doesn't take much with the Ginger Bread Man to get the old noggin swinging.. But how often do you consider your connection to the World? What is Nature? Is it really so separate from who…
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93: The Inner-Outer Paradox
Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! This week I want to focus on Self-Focused Inner Work. Last week I left you all with the considerations of how it feels when you are working with a team where some members may not be as "involved" as you might wish.. How does that make you feel? Does it reek of...
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92: Allowance for Anothers' Otherness
Hello my Friends! Welcome Back! Take a seat over there by the fire and make yourself comfortable. It's story time! This week I want to dally into some dark topics.. What is the purpose of our discomfort? Why do we have so many feelings, with so much nuance? Do you prefer some to others? How do we...
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91: Wandering within Weathered Wormholes
Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! Weather has been getting strange in my neck of the woods, with my dry desert-steppe climate of Colorful Colorado beginning to feel more like Florida! So much rain has been quenching the dry scorched earth of my beloved state. And this has had me thinking about the...
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90: The Fearsome Continuum of Tedium
Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! This week I want to discuss another "Spectrum" of Being. This time on one side we have Novelty: all the deliciously new experiences that bring the Spice of Life. On the other we have the numerous Tedious acts that inundate adult life, and we only seem to collect…
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