Things I Don't Always Know How To Talk About
by A M Davis
As a child I was told,” You always have something to say. How do you come up with this stuff?”Things I think about a lot: Metaphysics, Artificial Intelligence, culture, how race and class in this country hit me from birth, biology and physics."The way you do one thing is the way you do everything." That’s something Reverend Eloise Oliver said at times to her congregation of would-be mystics. The first time I heard her, I looked around and said,” These people are all crazy.” Now I’m quoting her.https://annmariedavis.com/
Episodes
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Self Empathy and Forgiveness
I’m constantly hearing about how important it is to forgive. One of the main tenants of spirituality is in order to grow one mustn't have that negative unforgiveness energy in their surroundings so that one doesn’t swim in it and bring negativity back to one's life in the form of aggravating…
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Suffering
When I was a child I decided that I didn't like nature because something was always eating something, and that as awful. Last week I ran around asking people, including myself, why there is suffering. The more I demanded an answer, the more I suffered.
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Coming Back
I found that when I was without a place, like you walk into a house or an apartment or a room, you say, "This is my place," I compartmentalized everything into a pause button. The pause button is becoming unclicked.
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Who am I Mad At?
Several years ago, I had a brief email correspondence with the woman who sued the Wachowski brothers for copywrite for The Matrix. I briefly reflect on my impression of her situation. I don't know how everything ended. In this episode, I reflect on why I'm always getting mad at people, places and...
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Life Lifeing Us
The Buddha, the awakened one, said that there is suffering that there is the end of suffering and that there is a path toward the end of suffering. I am not a practicing Buddhist nor I am not a practicing anything that is part of a community where you take vows and follow instructions. I've been...
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Hit The Ground Walking
I'm trying to embrace the idea that I don't have to always run like crazy, that there is a part of me that is more powerful than running, and that aspect has amazing abilities that come out of nowhere, effortlessly. https://annmariedavis.com/ourselves-walking/ And there were those of us who then...
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Donars Christians and Buddhists
I spent a few years watching people with power from monetary donations given to charities. I did so from the vantage point of someone deemed needy. I want you to know that if you want to save the world and your impulse to save comes from a wounded place, you are wasting your time.
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Culture of Science in Popular Culture
I am impacted by the scientific culture because everything about the dominant culture is impacted by the scientific culture. We're not just impacted by the applications of science. The scientific culture impacts our mindsets. That scientific culture is different than the scientific method. The...
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Agreements
After 2 years, 10 months and 15 days I'm home again. At this point people want to know why I was living in different places but never had a home. Had I incarnated white bodied, born in Berkeley as I was, I don't think our culture would have nurtured me to be stout-hearted enough to listen through...
About this show
As a child I was told,” You always have something to say. How do you come up with this stuff?”Things I think about a lot: Metaphysics, Artificial Intelligence, culture, how race and class in this country hit me from birth, biology and physics."The way you do one thing is the way you do everything." That’s something Reverend Eloise Oliver said at times to her congregation of would-be mystics. The first time I heard her, I looked around and said,” These people are all crazy.” Now I’m quoting her.https://annmariedavis.com/
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A M Davis