Unlearn Life

Episodes

1. 7

   Greek Love

   The Greeks broke down love into an array of categories and subcategories: philia, ludus, storge, agape, philautia, pragma, and eros. They also conceptualized time as chronological (kronos) and seasonal (kairos).

   Feb 11, 2025

   20m
2. 6

   Less is More

   40% of the perfectly edible food we produce goes straight into the landfill uneaten. With all the waste that abounds, are we willing to make cuts to our lifestyles? With just a few adjustments, we could very well save the planet.

   Sep 11, 2024

   7m
3. 5

   What's All the More Really For?!

   20% of the world's population uses a whopping HALF of the world's electricity. Meanwhile, the total population living with no access at all to electricity has grown to one billion people. Is this stark disparity the result of Earth's inability to provide? Or does the disproportion arise from our...

   Sep 11, 2024

   5m
4. 4

   Find the Slipper

   Remember the "Find the Slipper" game we played as children? One kid would hide an object and then direct the other kids by encouraging them with, "freezing, cold, warm, warmer, hot, on fire" until the object was discovered. This is similar to the way our guides speak to us through the veil. In…

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   Sep 9, 2024

   44m
5. 3

   A Pickpocket Meets A Sage

   Hari Dass Baba was mauna (silent) and put questions to his students using a chalkboard, hence the brevity. One of his brainteasers was the following question: "what happens when a pickpocket sees a sage on the street?" A pickpocket could encounter Buddha himself and reduce the Buddha to a mere...

   Sep 8, 2024

   38m
6. 2

   The Puzzle of Morality

   Morality is a puzzle, and you'll find a piece of it in the Bhagavad Gita, a piece in the Dhammapada, a piece in the Tao Te Ching, a piece in your family life, a piece from your workplace, a piece from nature, from meditation, etc. Christians treat morality like it's something you find all in one...

   Sep 7, 2024

   34m
7. 1

   Patriarchy 2

   The Patriarchy is so much more than "men." It's tied into capitalism, militarism, colonialism, and almost all other toxic "isms." It's a force that has taken on such momentum that it will now require radical countermeasures if we have any hope of true equality for all, and future balance between...

   Sep 24, 2023

   4m
8. Patriarchy 1

   The Patriarchy is so much more than "men." It's tied into capitalism, militarism, colonialism, and almost all other toxic "isms." It's a force that has taken on such momentum that it will now require radical countermeasures if we have any hope of true equality for all, and future balance between...

   Sep 24, 2023

   4m
9. Back to Nature

   Family farms are the future. That, or else, we may not have a future. According to Swedish scientist Johan Rockstrom, Mother Nature has several "boundaries" within which She must operate or else extinction threatens Her and Her children (ummm...that's us, by the way). Thanks to Big Ag and current...

   Sep 23, 2023

   20m
10. Days of the Week

    This is a short dialogue about the celestial bodies we honor with our days of the week: the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.

    Sep 23, 2023

    15m
11. Zen Koans

    Emerson famously said, "it's not about the destination but the journey." The power of a koan is its susceptibility to a number of interpretations. Meditation and mindfulness are about the moment and not the outcome. In a time when we need nuance more than ever, koans open our minds to explore...

    Sep 23, 2023

    14m