All Episodes
Shores Of Ignorance — 273 episodes
Ep 294: The Darkness of God
Ep 293: Bankrupt on Both Sides
Ep 292: Purpose, Insanity, and Atom Bombs (Oh My)
Ep 291: We Are There Yet
Ep 290: Does the Devil Exist?
Ep 289: Fix Your Eyes (Or the Algorithm Will)
Ep 288: Philosophical Seinfeld
Ep 287: The Cartesian Crisis
Ep 286: Pass the Salt (I Love You)
Ep 285: Are You Feeling Semiquincentennial?
Ep 284: The Proper Posture When Nothing's Working
Ep 283: The Madness of a World Without Reason
Ep 282: Why Do We Call Successful People Dumb?
Ep 281: Over My Dead Body
Ep 280: Turtles All the Way Down 🐢
Ep 279: Who Unhooked the Earth From the Sun?
Ep 278: Two Deserts
Ep 277: Sex Dolls, Vinyl Records, and AI — The Search for What's Real
Ep 276: What Does Matt Sound Like?
Ep 275: Correcting Toward Love
Ep 274: When The Grain of Sand Falls
Ep 273: Get embodied
Ep 272: The Lost Art of Waiting
Ep 271: Faith as the End of Anxiety
Ep 270: Don't Let the Old Man In
Ep 269: I Made a New Friend (and It's Not Michael)
Ep 268: Upside down in a right side up world
Ep 267: Did I bum you out?
Ep 266: Value Stacks
Ep 265: Are we more united than we think?
Ep 264: Is the U.S. a Christian Country?
Ep 263: Let Go For Dear Life
Ep 262: 2026 is a Blank Canvas
Ep 261: Shores of 2025
Ep 260: The Fake Internet vs. The Real World
Ep 259: What shall we do (with Alison Vaclav)?
Ep 258: Specifying What is Holy
Ep 257: Beauty and Mockery
Ep 256: On brokenness and falling short
Ep 255: The Conundrum of Cain
Ep 254: Love is not transactional
Ep 253: Hollowing Morality
Ep 252: Who likes to suffer?!
Ep 251: Reality isn’t a team sport
Ep 250: When people stop talking, really bad stuff starts
Ep 249: The functional need for the Divine
Ep 248: How do I know my good is not evil?
Ep 247: Where Does the Mass of a Tree Come From?
Ep 246: The cost of life is death
Ep 245: Vanilla Sky
Ep 244: We Are the Poiema, with Jeanenne McCloskey
Ep 243: Be Unreasonable
Ep 242: The death of God and the news
Ep 241: The spirit of Love, the spirit of Death
Ep 240: AI - tools vs gods
Ep 239: Unclench your fists
Ep 238: You look consternated
Ep 237: Sanity in the Information Age
EP 236: An invitation to relationship
Ep 235: Toe Pick!
Ep 234: Where does your knowledge need to expand?
Ep 233: Fantasies and Filets
Ep 232: Romance, Sex, Orthodoxy
Ep 231: The jacket is inside out
Ep 230: Clean your windows, discover the world!
Ep 229: Who is my neighbor?
Ep 228: Act As If
Ep 227: Cut the baby in half!
Ep 226: Goodbye Bear / It’s always been Eastasia!
Ep 225: The boy who cried Elon!
Ep 224: Give what is best to what is highest (w/ Alison Vaclav)
Ep 223: Out with the in!
Ep 222: Do Nothing Perfectly
Ep 221: New Years Love Languages
Ep 220: My Father's Table (The Ship of Theseus)
Ep 219: Above all, don't lie to yourself
Ep 218: People don’t have ideas, ideas have people
Ep 217: Reality & Rhetoric
Ep 216: The Rebuke of the Big Lie
Ep 215: The 2024 Election - A new paradigm?
Ep 214: I Hope You Choose to Grow Up
Ep 213: Freedom and Creativity vs. Safety and Assurance
Ep 212: Virtues Gone Wild
Ep 211: In the spirit of life
Ep 210: The Big Lie Has to Unravel
Ep 209: Discipline & Revelation
Ep 208: The Whisper of Death
Ep 207: Freedom & Fear
Ep 206: History’s most qualified candidate
Ep 205: Plato’s Postmodern Cave Shadows
Ep 204: Dreams are like a Rothko
Ep 203: Objective Fiction
Ep 202: The Paradox of Easy
Ep 201: You have to live before you understand
Ep 200: The hope that can be seen through the cracks
Ep 199: A dark wood
Ep 198: Prodigies of Our Circumstances
Ep 197: Very Fine People
Ep 196: The scent of a flower we have not found
Ep 195: All roads lead to death
Ep 194: The Old Man and The Sea
Ep 193: Knock knock knockin’ on Kafka’s door
Ep 192: Declare and be judged
Ep 191: How do you know which story is true?
Ep 190: We're coming to the end of something
Ep 189: Bitcoin Is Hope
Ep 188: In Good Faith
Ep 187: Verity, Truth, Footloose & Free
Ep 186: Be open to the tension
Ep 185: Open the churches and close the bars
Ep 184: Old men should be explorers
Ep 183: Everything the light touches
Ep 182: A g’damn white unicorn with wings!
Ep 181: Attitude… what is it good for?
Ep 180: The line between good and evil
Ep 179: Learning to Die, Learning to Live
Ep 166: Assigned Human at Birth
Ep 165: Just Show Up
Ep 164: Everything is downstream of what you want
Ep 163: The best is being kept from us
Ep 162: Need, Desire, and Growth
Ep 161: If there is no God, man should be permitted anything
Ep 160: Death, Parenting, and Legacy
Ep 159: Masculinity, Femininity, and Art with Alison Vaclav
Ep 158: Living Relationally - Navigating Death, Prayer, and Metaphor
Ep 157: The Death of a Father
Ep 156: How do you measure who you could be?
Ep 155: Easter - we killed God, but God rose again
Ep 154: Life in Austin, with James Jackson Leach
Ep 153: Art and AI with Andy Davis
Ep 152: Who are the experts?
Ep 151: The demoralization of gaslighting
Ep 150: Accumulation and Exploration with Charlie Parkin
Ep 149: Hello darkness my old friend
Ep 148: You can't text T.S. Eliot
Ep 147: Paradox Marks the Spot
Ep 146: Plateaus and pull backs
Ep 145: Redefining categories, violence and utopia
Ep 144: Divergence and Convergence
Ep 143: The revelatory nature of discourse
Ep 142: Practice
Ep 141: Artificial intelligence, and incentivized ignorance
Ep 140: Thanksgiving, gratitude, and the ideal state of all things
Ep 139: Freedom is the ability to choose your own sacrifices
Ep 138: First-hand Truth
Ep 137: The cost of comfort
Ep 136: Say what you have to say
Ep 135: As if saying the words will help me know how
Ep 134: Everything is pretend, until it’s not
Ep 133: The Fourth Turning
Ep 132: Branding, Ideas, and Story
Ep 131: Religion and Storytelling
Ep 130: Dying to Ourselves
Ep 129: Decisions & Suffering
Ep 128: Respect, earned, given, but not demanded
Ep 127: Leaky Faucets
Ep 126: Speech to Truth, Lies, and Action
Ep 125: Ten taco margin
Ep 124: Twenty is a third
Ep 123: My 72 yr old self
Ep 122: Freedom is the ability to choose what to sacrifice
Ep 121: Adversity is the default state of being
Ep 120: Relationships in the modern age
Ep 119: Learning is not child’s play
Ep 118: Communism, rituals, responsibility and thankfulness
Ep 117: What is work?
Ep 116: Who is your master?
Ep 115: A man alone on an island is not free
Ep 114: Money, morality, and the pursuit of truth, with Dave Keisel
Ep 113: The predictable failure of responsibility
Ep 112: Metaphor is truer than objective
Ep 111: Love, and the empirical case for God
Ep 110: The mechanics of Hope
Ep 109: Confusion
Ep 108: The tension between safety and freedom
Ep 107: Mis Dis and Mal
Ep 106: Into the out there
Ep 105: Truth does not need your protection
Ep 104: Why do we share?
Ep 103: Your conscious creative spirit
Ep 102: Critical cheer and the destruction of everything
Ep 101: A new century
Ep 100: One Hundred
Ep 99: Infinite Infinities
Ep 98: Time, the future, and kindness
Ep 97: Creative Attention
Ep 96: Thanks given
Ep 95: Evolution and Energy
Ep 94: We’re in the Wild West
Ep 93: Is the spell breaking?
Ep 92: Mass formation and categorization
Ep 91: Breaking points and breakthroughs
Ep 90: Simulations
Ep 89: Covid Brain
Ep 88: Mandates and morality
Ep 87: Risk and Rebels
Ep 86: Language is the barrier to all knowledge
Ep 85: Inversion
Ep 84: Questions are awesome
Ep 83: It’s all a game
Ep 82: Mystery, Beauty, and Tragedy
Ep 81: Billionaires in space
Ep 80: Man sharpens Man
Ep 79: What is Meaning?
Ep 78: Signal and Noise
Ep 77: Symbols of Unity
Ep 76: To know and be known
Ep 75: Invite new adversities
Ep 74: Love does not try
Ep 73: Orient yourself in the story
Ep 72: Live a story worth telling
Ep 71: Transition
Ep 70: Love, the ideal
Ep 69: Home, and Wholeness
Ep 68: Love, the hero, the fool
Ep 67: Zeitgeist, Elon, Bitcoin
Ep 66: Reasoning and Emotions
Ep 64: Saint Patrick’s Day
Ep 63: Confusion, Attention, and Satire
Ep 62: Guns & God
Ep 61: What is money?
Ep 60: The Blame Game
Ep 59: Wrong Think, Right Think, Group Think
Ep 58: Creativity, Restrictions, and Mindsets
Ep 57: Things aren't what they seem
Ep 56: We have a new President
Ep 55: Think Differently
Ep 54: How good could good be?
Ep 53: Goodbye 2020
Ep 52: Breathing through the end of this year
Ep 48: Living in Truth
Ep 47: Is not lying the same as telling the truth?
Ep 46: On Lying
Ep 45: What gives?
Ep 44: Critical Race Theory
Ep 43: The new normal?! Also, WTF Oscars?
Ep 42: Statistically yes, and no, and also maybe
Ep 41: How have you changed since COVID
Ep 40: I'm so glad you get to vote
Ep 39: How do you stay informed without going crazy?
Ep 38: Over watered plants
Ep 37: Sparkling consequences with Alison Vaclav
Ep 36: Naming, sacrifice, and transcendence
Ep 35: Confusion, comedy, and clarity
Ep 34: The shores of ignorance came, and we retreated
Ep 31: The mechanics of communication
Ep 30: The relationship between narrative and reality
Ep 29: Seek and you shall find
Ep 28: Marked and Engraved
Ep 27: Exploring Character
Ep 26: Freedom, Structure, & Character
Ep 25: Hope in the time of Corona
Ep 24: Questions and Uncertainty in the time of Corona
Ep 23: On Presence
Ep 22: Ritual, anxiety, and safety amidst uncertainty
Ep 21: Offspring, the Youngers
Ep 20: Oh shit, we talked about politics
Ep 19: Offspring, The Middles
Ep 16: Offspring, the elders
Ep 15: Free Will and Meaning / Brett Weinstein, Sam Harris discussion (Part 2)
Ep 14: Free Will and Meaning / Brett Weinstein, Sam Harris discussion (Part 1)
Ep 13: It's 2020 (Part 2) Feel what you feel so that you know what you feel
Ep 12: It's 2020 (Part 1) Should you make your bed?
Ep 11: Accessing the Ancient with Alison Vaclav (Part 2)
Ep 10: Accessing the Ancient with Alison Vaclav (Part 1)
Ep 9: Come sit with us
Ep 8: Mark Stoney
Ep 7: Persistance and Meaning through the creative process, with David Ramirez
Ep. 6: Birth, Life changes, & Somatic Experiencing with Nicole Mccharen
Ep. 5: A Breakup
Ep. 4: Discipline, Creativity, & Fear, with Philip Edsel
Ep. 2: Therapy, Suffering, Wisdom, and Joy, with Mike McCloskey
Ep. 1: Shores of Ignorance - The beginning