Do we really understand Nietzsche's view on the ascetic ideal? Should practices associated with religions and philosophies be totally discarded? We talk a different vision for an important element in Nietzsche's vision for the future that is often misunderstood or forgotten.

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We discuss the significant shortcomings of orienting oneself towards emotional expression and indulging in sensations in yogic, meditation, and conscious control modalities.

The failure of emotional repression assumptions forming the basis of effective work-practice, we preferring conscious control modalities.

Many people can spend years spinning their wheels in this pleasant muck, but to what avail?

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Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:15 Femininity and Emotions 01:33 Mind-Body Practices 01:49 Masculine vs. Feminine Approaches 06:01 Evolutionary Psychology 08:31 Therapy Culture and Emotional Bias 12:51 Traditions and Modern Practices 17:01 Emotions and Neuroscience 22:01 Cultural Impacts on Emotions 27:51 Practical Implications for Men and Women 34:01 The Need for Discipline and Reasoning 40:31 Modern Ideologies and Emotional Challenges 47:51 Concluding Thoughts on Emotional Systems 55:01 Cognitive Biases and Emotions 01:02:00 Gendered Approaches to Spirituality 01:10:00 The Evolution of Emotional Practices 01:18:00 Balancing Emotional Systems 01:25:00 The Role of Discipline in Emotional Growth 01:32:00 Societal Myths About Emotions 01:40:00 Practical Applications of Emotional Insights 01:48:00 Concluding Reflections Final thoughts on the modern emotional narrative. Advocating for balance between discipline and emotional exploration.

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An informal chat with the boys on some recent experiences during our re-engagement with bio-energetic work.

An informal episode, where we talk on our own challenges, and changes in view.

I think with some useful information in there for people who are also going through these processes. I give a channel update and an update on an original falcon project I've been involved in, as well as my thoughts on seeing an expert use these techniques and what I believe the implications are.

Always remember however - "it's just words...it's just sounds".

Fapters:

0:00 - Introduction 0:13 - Seminar Advertisement 0:30 - Update, Seminar Editing, and Thoughts on the Work 23:05 - Main Podcast Beginning: My Current Experience and Updated Strategy for Approaching Bioenergetics 25:55 - Allowing Things to Happen 35:15 - Accepting the Unknown vs Causing Something to Happen 38:00 - Structure vs. Feelings or "fee fees" 39:20 - Modern Issues with the Throat and the Rudra Knot 49:20 - What Reich Really Meant by “Armour” – Not Just Tension 50:30 - Integrating “Pro-Tension” and “Building Up” Work: “Creative Destruction” 52:25 - Dangers in Becoming Floppy 55:55 - Muh Emoshuns Iz Stored In Dem Body Bro, I Swear Bro vs. What You Really Need to Focus On 1:01:00 - Integrating Vigorous Movement to Balance Breakdown 1:03:00 - Eastern Paths and Western Interpretations 1:11:00 - The Pre-Frontal Cortex and Genetic Influence 1:21:00 - The Mistakes of Freud and Reich: Beyond Repressed Emotions 1:25:30 - Using Techniques as Tools: Rejecting “One Simple Path” 1:29:00 - Mind-Body and Spiritual Work and Emotion Worship - the Feminisation of Hard Work Traditions 1:40:00 - Modern Attitudes Towards Emotions - Modern Westerners Are Like Fat Girls in a Cake Shop Gorging on Emotions 1:45:00 - Dreams in the Work: Dream Examples Bioenergetics Induce 2:43:30 - Eastern Practices Being Reduced to Feel Good Camps for Narcissistic Clowns 2:48:00 - Examples of Catholicism and Kundalini 3:02:30 - The Importance of Dreams 3:05:00 - Aghoris and Radical Approaches to Pre-Frontal Cortical Growth and Conscious Control

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This week we a casual discussion building on "onethingness" and "thinking/thoughting"... 

TALKING VS DOING. We all fall victim to not totally getting this - particularly these days when the world supercharges and sometimes even greatly rewards thinking and talking - in a word - passivity.   Some feel the nastier or edgier their words are, that this "revolutionary act" will magically remove them from being passive.

Some think passivity can be attenuated by simply making positive statements or aphorisms about triumph or victory, or about the state of affairs that is clearly to "their advantage now" - as if reality will conform to their childish emotional needs.

Some feel that passively posting about active things can overcome the need to do anything, and that "hey, as long as someone else does it".

One of the main weaknesses of this species is that we are prone to rich fantasy lives in which we convince ourselves that something is "happening" and that passivity is some form of do-ing, theorising is some form of understanding. And worst of all, that all this has a strong causal relationship with a chance outcome.

In the Bio-individual method, there is only one valid outlook. 

"Ok, who cares? So what are you doing about it?

The question we all need to ask - how willing are we to live a vital but disciplined life of action, do-ing. Putting down the phone, the books, dropping the pointless arguments or the tv controller and do-ing?

This is harder than it looks.....which is why barely anyone does it.

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Physiology, thoughting, thinking....

This week we take a look at thinking vs thoughting from a bio-individual perspective, the eternal battle against reactive thoughting, and re-wiring our thoughting to suit our goals. And how this relates to the physiology.

Chapters 00:01 Start 00:16 Alex’s Brief Intro to the Material 01:40 Kevin on where it came from 06:25 What Alex think 12:20 Kevin goes deeper on what thinking seems to be: solving problems, how it relates to physiological work  26:00 Straightforward hyper sigil-breeding…hyper sigil breeding breathing…fitting the nervous system in and impacts on thoughting  48:00 Are you doing something? The first place to do something is your body 52:00 Thinking and thought as a low resolution watermark, recognition of this limitation   01:00:00 True metacognition: the reality of the NPC meme  01:09:00 Kevin’s work of ascribing words to physiological action: a new word required? Following commands  01:18:00 more on words as tools, some examples 01:43:00 finish, contacts and credits 

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This week we discuss the disturbing trends towards obsessions with so-called “onethingness”. We’ve all heard it. “This one simple trick”, “all you need to know is this”, “miracle supplement”, “this supplement changes muh life” “the right diet” “a new religion” “politics to fix it all” - we hear this line of thinking constantly, as if it’s almost a default state for the humanity of the day etc. But is this simply a symptom of what ails society at large? 

And how does vitality fit into this?

Chapters or segments are below, basically we riff on the topics:

Chapters: 00:01 Introduction Clip 00:12 a SpOoKy InTrOdUcTiOn CliP 01:50 Start podcast - 15 point super sleep pre-bed checklist chat 07:10 sorta of subject matter - introduction  16:30 Kevin’s thoughts on one thingness  14:58 The evolutionary drivers of oneitis - novelty and information seeking 26:00 MY ONE THING IS BIGGER THAN YOUR ONE THING - Kindergarten syndrome online 29:20 Is focus one thing? 30:00 The left brain connection to seeking one thing 44:20 Break 1 - Biosphere  49:10 Part 2 - One thingness is obvious at a cultural and individual level 52:00 Alex heading on down to the Ray Peat forum to find data on severe onethingness syndrome 53:25 Rice cracker p%nis girth experimentation  01:00:00 Ray Peat as a systems thinkers vs everyone else - the art of referring little things back to the whole system 01:05:50 One thing as an excuse for not wanting to be conscious  01:19:00 Part 2 - Break 2 - Astrosat 01:24:00 Part 2 - One thing and it’s relation to vitality - one thingness as rigidified and in-vital. Alex’s theory on the connection  01:30:30 Kevin on onethingness and vitality - his thoughts  01:34:10 Alex’s thoughts and his set of essays looking at this on substack  01:37:00 Alex on finding vitality as an obvious gestalt in certain activities 01:39:00 Alex’s theory on the physiological roots on vitality - in detail  1:40:00 Kevin on trying to force dead systems on vital life, splitting reality into components  1:47:00 A Reichian model for explaining vitality - core and pulsation  1:52:00 Conjecture on physiology, onethingness, vitality, left brained cognition and rigidity 2:15:00 According to English, vitality is akshually obvious to us  2:15:00 Combining cognition and physicality in a vital way, not a dead way  02:34:50 End song, contact details and credits 

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Chapters: 00:01 intro  00:13 Beginning Kevin Rant - online for psycho-physical student recruitment no good? 13:50 Late 19th century methods? Newsletters 19:00 Alex's experience with an old school correspondence course  29:30 Beginning podcast - Kevin's idea on intelligent movement  38:00 Not just being embodied - making decisions and thinking while you're doing physical activity. Not just a flow state. 42:00 What does the ScIeNcE say? 50:30 Kevin and Intelligent movement - what it isn't  59:00 We're not born with it, we can't reject learning for sensations  01:07:00 Alex's experience with simply explaining intellectually and showing people to fast track results 01:14:00 Flow states. Not the best, no enlightenment. Feels good, but not consciously directed behaviour  01:20:00 Sensations and feelings and not guideposts necessarily  01:30:00 Somatic guys "if it feelz better it good" - no? 01:38:00 Power of words, just calling something trauma  01:49:00 That's what makes it intelligent movement  01:52:00 Most people just want easy answers  01:58:00 Kevin looking for Guinea pigs 

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Notes go here Extending on last week, riffing on Reich, Trauma Industrial Complex, the disdain for big thinkers like Freud in the modern age, and much more.

basically we riff on the topics

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DESCRIPTION: Bit more of a cassshhhuwal one this week. We give our thoughts on self-transcendence, maybe how this differs from traditional spiritual paths....don't get triggered please, everything is ok. Take a breath. Everything is alright. ok?

basically we riff on the topics, for casual enjoyments...get you thinking.

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This week, continuing the meditation theme, we take a look at Alex’s new substack meditation course. Designed for an ‘all you need’ kind of thing for bio-individuals.

https://substack.com/@islandsoftranscendence?utm_source=profile-page

We go into mindfulness from the perspective of people who aren’t…necessarily…into all the sugar t!t go live in a cave stuff you always hear about. Or effective altruism or any other religious outburst. 

Chapters or segments are below, basically we riff on the topics:

Chapters: 00:01 Introduction Clip 50:00 Intro to Podcast 01:50 Kevin’s Question to Alex: What is it? 5:40 No need to chest pseudo-science  10:40 Alex’s thinking on the Buddha as a straight shooter  14:58 Pros and cons of being a latrine cleaner  18:00 Changing the words so we can get it better  23:00 What is the experience? Thoughts on the Christian foundation mythology  27:00 Meditation without meaning - different goals  28:00 Why should you focus on the suffering part?  36:59 Break no 1  38:25 Part 2 - Seriously…do you really need to turn your back on the world? 41:00 Live in a cave or do something different    47:00 Te left hand path - Robot Svoboda  51:54 Break 2 55:43 Part 2 - Muh words isn’t connected to anything tangible 01:09:20 This work and outcomes - Is Kevin blaqpilled on ultimate outcomes? 01:01:20 A bridge to other forms to come? 01:05:30 Is ordinary necessary and just built into the matrix MANG  01:09:00 Alex theory on why humans would do any of this work at all and was It means for the future? 1:21:08 Finish, twitter handles outro etc 

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Part 2 on our chat re. the Zen sesshin. We answer Munro questions of Jana and what we think emptiness means. Seem incoherent now to be honest.

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Alex gets back from Zen Sesshin, so the boys have a casual chat about reactivity, how conscious humans really are, free will...enlightenment... And Alex finally properly discovering Hara - or the so-called abdominal heart.

Like propa discovering it. Chat went for too long so part 2 hour this weekend.

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Join us on a “breathing what it is” episode. As some may know I run a business and plan an releasing a course soon, we go into this a little high level. How it relates to body work, some differences with mainstream work, resonant breathing and many other complex topics. 

It’s not as straightforward as what they’re telling you.

All looks at in terms of controlling physiology, and the work itself. 

What conscious action means, what conscious control is. 

Chapters or segments are below, basically we riff on the topics:

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Join us in part 4 of our series on Dr. Chris Hyatt. The final one. Last 2 sections of the interview we’ve been analysing.

This was a little bit of a rant sesh where we spoke about the disconnect between doing and speaking or thinking through the frame of political activism, and all sorts of completely insane topics.

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We extend our apologies to Eckhart Tolle…it’s all in good fun.

Chapters or segments are below, basically we riff on the topics:

Chapters: 00:01 Introduction Clip 00:15 Start Hyatt Clip 1  01:20 Alex’s recent experiences and effects on restarting the work  10:40 Kevin’s other way round experience   16:00 Rumination and the origin of the word rumination   24:00 Angry bio-energetic work and Lowen 26:00 It’s just being reactive tbh   30:00 Mostly imaginary wars  40:00 Break 1 - Allogenes Song    40:23 Pageantry vs effective action in time and space  40:40 Elon musk is not your guy - Elon amoralism  50:30 The self-interest of the powerful and the compliance of the plebeians   56:00 Either side just part of the machine for the amoral powerful   01:02:00 High ideals - no plan whatsoever = no success   01:03:00 Relating it all back to Dr. Hyatt - is politics hopeless anyway?  01:09:20 Dr. Hyatt clip no 2 - Mutations and what’s next for the animal  01:12:00 References to guest Wolfe and old system Magic in Europe   01:27:00 Break 2 - Allogenes song  01:30:00 If the opposition got all they wanted would we still need to run away? 01:32:00 Make some money, have some fun, and do a little good along the way  01:32:50 Dr. Hyatt clip no 3 - what will the work do for you? Move to Cancun or Brazil & Polanski  01:35:00 Something for everybody and a little nuclear holocaust along the way  01:36:50 Kevin on what we get from the work - the armed madhouse  01:39:00 Technology optimists are wrong: Hyatt on tech reinforcing our low natures  01:41:40 Nuclear holocaust to force evolution  01:47:00 Genetic surgery necessary for humankind? 01:49:00 What Alex thinks you get from the work overall  01:55:50 How do you know you’re not kidding yourself? 01:58:00 Debilitating self-control and letting go in the work 02:05:00 Paradox: Learning to let go in your body makes you better at directing behaviour  02:19:00 Hypocrites Hypocrites Hypocrites  02:20:00 End of podcast, credits and song 

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Join us in part 3 of our series on Chris Hyatt. We had a couple of listeners chime in questions. Good questions.

We thank those chaps for their questions that got us thinking. So keep them coming, it’s an excellent way to go through these issues.

We’ll make this is permanent feature so send in your stuff and we’ll get to it. There were two questions and we covered a metric tonne of practical and philosophical stuff in here. Chapters or segments are below, basically we riff on the topics:

Chapters: 00:01 Introduction Clip 00:15 introduction clip 01:00 Question 1 - Energised mediation experiments and how to do 03:00 Alex’s experience with them 08:45 Kevin experience 11:00 Release and Pleasure energy 17:50 Things not to neglect 33:49 Question 2 - Was Dr. Hyatt as very very naughty man? 36:45 Break 1 - alka widthchild + Suckerberg edit 40:23 Cont Kevin on Question 2 40:40 If we’re all one and I know it, how are we seperate? 46:00 Alex’s views on where Dr. Hyatt was coming from and where he wasn’t coming from 55:00 Preferences entail separation 01:20:35 Break 2 - Baby don’t hurt me Mike O’Tren mix 01:23:30 Section 3 cont 01:25:00 Things may seem negative but are probably instructive for protection 01:32:00 The danger of morality - wearing it to cover up your pettiness 01:58:00 End rant, end credits.

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Join us in part 2 of our series on Chris Hyatt. This week we focus more on the herd vs the marginal. How the herd can impact the marginal. How the marginal can benefit and extract himself, and live a well-rounded life on terms that he has defined as important.

We take a look at some themes like the glorification of so-called normality, how we hold ourselves back, and how Hyatt’s work and outlook relates to all of this. How this connects to the bio-individual and “undoing”.

There is of course, for anyone who is undone and has a brain, clearly no normal people on this rather bizarre ‘monkey-infested mudball floating through space’. We will do several episodes on this interview, in a more informal way, listening to segments of this interview and discussing how these insights are relevant to our own work and experiences over the last couple of decades. We take an interview as the basis for our discussions.

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00:01 Introduction Clip 00:16 Original Falcon Website Details - Please visit to purchase material 00:25 Talking nonsense anbout social media 12:13 Actual start of podcast - Hyatt clip 1 01:02:39 Hyatt clip 2 01:30:15 Hyatt clip 3 02:01:10 Finish, end credits, end song

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Join us in part 1 of our series on Chris Hyatt (aka Alan Miller). Perhaps the progenitor of the term "Bio-Individual", Kevin and Alex talk through about the ideas of a true individual who shaped their views and practices in very significant ways.

We will do several episodes on this source interview, in a more informal way, listening to segments of this interview and discussing how these insights are relevant to our own work and experiences over the last couple of decades.

We take an interview as the basis for our discussions.

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Chapters or segments are below, basically we riff on the topics: Chapters: 00:01 Introduction Clip 00:16 Original Falcon Website Details - Please visit to purchase material 00:25 Kevin gives series overview 02:02 Hyatt clip 1 46:17 Hyatt clip 2 01:12:16 Hyatt clip 3 1:35:14 Hyatt clip 4 02:07:50 Finish, end credits, end song

01:56:50 Finish, end credits, end song

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In this newest episode of “Bio-Individual” podcast, we take a look at our experiences with non rational language, koans and modern types of koan practice to measure subjective reactions - as a method to analyse personal character. Are they similar? We take a look at all the questions and more, and how it ties in with conscious self-directed brain change.

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In this newest episode of “Bio-Individual” podcast, we take a look at the split between the practice and the tradition. Is there even such a split? When should you consider a tradition and when can you pick and choose? If mindfulness an inherent part of Eastern practice or can it be separated out for someone not of that orientation?

We take a look at all the questions and more, and state our own case for what’s to come.

Chapters are below for this rather long episode:

Chapters: 00:01 Introduction Clip 00:18 Introduction Osho on Master & Student  05:30 Start of podcast subject - tradition overview   20:00 Difference between exoteric and esoteric in terms of practices  28:44 Intermission 1 31:50 Part 2 - Catholic Esotericism and Eastern Orthobro esotericism  36:00 Is tradition really ever tradition anyway? 46:00 Differences in end goals and worldviews: why you need to consider the end goal when choosing a practice  51:00 Why we pick the things we like, we never pick the things we need  53:10 When choosing spiritualities, the danger of spiritual materialism  57:40 Intermission 2  01:01:00 Part 3 - Social dynamics and groups  01:03:30 Do you even need religion or spirituality or do you need a shrink? ‘Enlightened beings and naught, naught behaviour’ a shortcoming in religion? 01:13:40 Does religion or tradition work to change character? Id it effective? 01:16:00 Alex’s new unified theory of determination of outcome in practice for Westerners 01:18:00 Not all practices are equal - getting rid of all hangups of once 01:22:10 Which religious technology will you choose for which task  01:33:20 The master being replaced by tech in the West - a new paradigm for Western men…and women 01:30:00 A new grand aim for westerners? 01:32:35 An ultimate vision and an ultimate aim for the work…what’s the point? 01:46:00 Problems with this outlook:optimisation culture  01:56:50 Finish, end credits, end song 

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In this newest episode of “Bio-Individual” podcast, we take a look at the implications on the so-called split brain hypothesis”, particularly that of Iain MacGilchrist in his famous book "Master and his Emissary". Split brain knowledge and its impacts on consciousness, physiological work, and how this plays into what we’re seeking to achieve as practitioners of “the work”. We discuss how wordless I the end, can’t help to be missing a vast energetic reservoir that they ignore with the characteristic arrogance of left hemisphere dominant consciousness.

We argue for less theories, more work, more experience, and less talking for self-transcendence. A new prism in which to understand the philosophers of the right brain and cognitive balance - Heidegger, Nietzsche, Heraclitus the Buddha and many others. We suggest this is the the best and least confusing frame in which to understand these men.

Drastic implications of something that no one whatsoever talks about.

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Chapters: 00:01 Introduction Clip 00:17 Introduction footage of local storm for listener enjoyment   01:30 Kevin and Alex talk about the “brain orgasm”  18:00 How mystical experiences induced by Reichian work seem like they’re “out there” & speculation on Donald Hoffmans work  23:30 How permanent are the effects of this reset? 25:25 Intermission 1 - “Void” Echo Grid (please support) 29:10 Part 2 - Brain Orgasms, Character work 40:00 Glimpses, non-duality, and the nature of the work 01:22:00 Intermission 2 “Selva” Olan Mill 01:00:10 Part 3 - Character change: Is removing tension enough? 01:10:50 Did Reich “steal” his system from the East? Similarities  01:25:00 Some more investigation on just what character is 01:30:00 Character Archetypes? character and the body shape 01:59:00 Completion, Outro Song + Socials 

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pod 4 part 2 of the new “Bio-Individual” podcast, we’re taking a look at Wilhelm Reich and Reichian therapy from a perspective of individuals who have used it for many years. We talk about some weirder experiences, such as the fabled “brain orgasm”, who these experiences create permanent “brain change”. How character fits into Reich’s theories, and we speculate on the meaning of it all. How it all fits in.

We're going to explore the basics of tension and release, character in a Reichian sense, and if this form of therapy can be of use to individuals.

We all have different strengths and weaknesses, which is why it's so important to find a practitioner that is tailored to your individual needs. In this video, I'll discuss the Bio-Individual: The Badly Wired Human Brain & Psycho-Physiological Practice, and how it can help you Better Understand Yourself & Improve Your Practice.

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Chapters: 00:01 Introduction Clip 00:17 Introduction footage of local storm for listener enjoyment   01:30 Kevin and Alex talk about the “brain orgasm”  18:00 How mystical experiences induced by Reichian work seem like they’re “out there” & speculation on Donald Hoffmans work  23:30 How permanent are the effects of this reset? 25:25 Intermission 1 - “Void” Echo Grid (please support) 29:10 Part 2 - Brain Orgasms, Character work 40:00 Glimpses, non-duality, and the nature of the work 56:22 Intermission 2 “Selva” Olan Mill 01:00:10 Part 3 - Character change: Is removing tension enough? 01:10:50 Did Reich “steal” his system from the East? Similarities  01:25:00 Some more investigation on just what character is 01:30:00 Character Archetypes? character and the body shape 01:59:00 Completion, Outro Song + Socials 

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Notes go hereIn episode 4, part 1 of the new “Bio-Individual” podcast, we’re taking a look at Wilhelm Reich and Reichian therapy from a perspective of individuals who have used it for many years. Throwing around some ideas on Reich, where he was wrong and where he right.

We're going to explore the basics of tension and release, character in a Reichian sense, and if this form of therapy can be of use to individuals.

We all have different strengths and weaknesses, which is why it's so important to find a practitioner that is tailored to your individual needs. In this video, I'll discuss the Bio-Individual: The Badly Wired Human Brain & Psycho-Physiological Practice, and how it can help you Better Understand Yourself & Improve Your Practice.

Timestamps: 00:01 Introduction Clip 00:18 Video documentary Introduction  05:20 Podcast begins, zoomers and access to info 08:00 Talk about Reich begins, Reich’s brief biography   27:30 Kevin’s Ideas on The Development of Reich’s Views  40:00 Intermission 1  41:15 Part 2 - Is What We Have Now What Reich Taught? 42:50 Kevin on Maybe What Reich Really Thought  50:00 The Noble Savage Myth Colouring Early Psycho-Analysts  59:00 Kevin on the so-called “Brain Orgasm”, Does this Change “Character?” 01:10:00 Intermission 2  01:16:10 Part 3 - Character Change & Reichian Therapy 01:20:00 Spiritual Experiences & Fireworks - Is It Necessary? 01:26:00 Is this work rebelling against nature? 01:45:00 How Kevin classifies armour, do you even need to remove it? Emphasis in work 01:48:00 Completion, Outro Song + Socials 

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In episode 2 of the new “Bio-Individual” podcast, we're going to explore the concept of the so-called language centres in the brain and how they do or don’t fit into the picture of self-change. We explore and give our thoughts on what this means in terms of how our brains are wired and the psycho-physiological effects that hard work can have on our bodies and experience. We're going to explore the basics of the bio-individual, and how language, proper understanding of language related to the total goal of self-transcendence. We all have different strengths and weaknesses, which is why it's so important to find a practitioner that is tailored to your individual needs. In this video, I'll discuss the Bio-Individual: The Badly Wired Human Brain & Psycho-Physiological Practice, and how it can help you Better Understand Yourself & Improve Your Practice.

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Timestamps: 00:27 Faust and Mephistopheles 03:36 Introduction words 04:30 How does language fit into self-change? 05:40 Kevin's ideas on self-work and reading 13:40 Alex's idea on language, abstraction, Korzybski 20:10 2 sides of the brain, "Confabulation" 23:45 Intermission 1 26:50 The illusion of 'just taking a book' and being transformed by it 29:30 Patients without language can't think 32:23 Intermission 1 35:30 Part 2 - Language is a tool to be used, don't get used by it 41:50 Retreat and methods to power down the self 48:50 Categorisation and Defining Terms 56:20 Raw Sensation is Not Enough 01:07:39 Part 3 - Meditation, Observing Sensation Dualistically 01:14:30 Ascetic Religion as an Enormous Trick? 01:21:15 Chakras - SpOoKy Mystical Energies or Lost Bio-mechnical Segment Knowledge? 01:34:00 - External Metrics - HRV and Bodily Habits 01:37:00 - Kevin Final words - Importance of Map & Structure 01:42::00 - No self, Language as Self-Reference 01:48:00 It's for living, Stupid 01:51:00 End Credits, Song, Video Edit

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Dr. Christopher Beckwith Joins us to discuss his book “Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism” which examines links between very early Buddhism and the philosophy of Pyrrho, an ancient Greek philosopher who accompanied Alexander the Great on his Indian campaign. We also discuss the role of Scythians and Prince Gautama’s lineage, Zoroastrianism and it’s involvement in a rethink of the Buddha’s rebellion against Brahmanism - and much much more that will leave you questioning everything you thought about this time period, and Buddhism itself as a philosophical movement.

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Christopher I. Beckwith is an American philologist and distinguished professor in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University

Dr. Beckwith has taught at IU for 45 years, in which time he has developed 48 distinct courses. He is one of the most prolific and versatile researchers in the field of Central Eurasian studies. Beckwith is renowned for revolutionary scholarship that reshapes understanding of how, why and when the Central Eurasian steppe peoples from Eastern Europe to East Asia influenced the development of knowledge, religious beliefs and societies, not only within their homeland but in the neighboring peripheral cultures of Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia as well. His research focuses on the history of ancient and medieval Central Eurasia and the cultures of the peripheral peoples, as well as the linguistics of Aramaic, Chinese, Japanese, Koguryo, Old Tibetan, Scythian, Turkic, and other languages. He has been named a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright-Hays Fellow, and a Japan Foundation fellow and has had numerous visiting appointments around the United States and the world. He has authored 12 books and over 60 articles.

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00:01 SOFCast introduction  02:35 Start of podcast 03:48 Chris Talks about how he came to study Central Asia in General 12:00 What inspired Chris to write Greek Buddha  14:00 Sextus Empiricus and Classical Skepticism - the Pyrrhonic connection  15:15 New Book “Scythian Empire” 21:00 Who was Pyrrho of Elis? 22:18 Was it only early Buddhism Pyrrho interacted with? 24:35 Similarities between Skepticism and Pyrrhonism? 30:45 Pragmata 31:55 Impermanence  42:50 The Significance of the Buddha - Pyrrho - Sextus Empiricus connection & problem of Criterion 48:50 A French connection? 54:00 Types of downstream Western Thought? 57:00 Which was first? Brahmanism before Buddhism ? Zoroastrianism before buddhism? 01:07:10 The Rig Veda was NOT Brahmanism 01:12:00 Flipping the Traditional Narrative 01:16:00 Talk about Chronology of the Buddhist Texts  01:20:00 Did Scythians have a class structure? 01:24:00 Persians and Scythians as Zoroastrian 01:32:00 Q&A Section: What are some of the still extant influences of Indo-Greek Buddhism on Buddhism Today? 01:43:00 Similarities between Daoism and Buddhism? Was Lao Tzu actually the Historical Buddha? 01:48:00 Book Coming Up: “The Scythian Empire”

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Alfred Korzybski, General Semantics, Breaking Down The Aristotelian Laws of Thought.

In part 2 of the General Semantics Series, we talk through the basis for how we abstract and think. The Aristotelian Laws of Thought and how they shape our everyday life and the way we see things.

What are they? How is our interaction with the world and worldview functionally shaped by them?

Is there a way to hack this and reduce negative impacts, internally and internally, through exercising scepticism of these laws?

This and much more in this episode.

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This week we are privileged to speak with Dr. Rolph Sattler, author of "Science and Beyond: Toward Greater Sanity Through Science, Philosophy, Art and Spirituality". Please support Rolf and purchase this wonderful book, it's definitely worth your time if you wish to understand the true underpinnings of how we understand the word and ourselves. Link here:

https://www.amazon.com/Science-Beyond-Greater-Philosophy-Spirituality/dp/1039102972

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Rolf's premise is as follows - Science, coupled with technology, has become the dominant force in most parts of the world. Thus, it affects our lives and society in many ways. Yet, misconceptions about science are widespread in governments, the general public, and even among many scientists. Science and Beyond explores these misconceptions that may have grave and even disastrous consequences for individuals and society as was evident during the COVID-19 pandemic, where they led to much unnecessary suffering, sickness, and death.

The misconceptions also obscure the limitations of science. Not seeing these limitations prevents us from seeing and going beyond them, which leads to a crippled life and an impoverished society. But reaching beyond the limitations of science, as outlined in this book, can open the doors to a more fulfilled, saner, healthier, happier, and more peaceful life and society.

This is something I can get behind, as you all know I steer towards skepticism of mind-body duality, an obsession with abstraction and word use. Korzybski and Rolf offer excellent ways of viewing the problem, and ways that you can try to gain a little sanity in your own life, while the world around you seems to become ever more "unsane".

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Well, what a show. We spoke with Wolfe, a student of the occult and the late great Joseph Lisiewski.

Wolfe got in contact with me after hearing my episode with Mark Stavish. Wolfe wanted to set the record straight regarding a few things, and offer his own insights on Joe and on the magical path, as Joe set it out.

While it is reccomended maybe to listen to the episode Mark Stavish did on Joe Lisiewski, it is not necessary.

We talk Joe, Evocation of Spirits to Physical Manifestation and the use of Grimoires in theurgy, or otherwise, Laboratory Alchemy, and much more.

Wolfe was a spirited chap with a great laugh and a passion for his path, and some of the stories presented here are equal parts terrifying and enlightening.

Shedding some light on a path that almost no one in the world can, or has the will to practice anymore.

Links to some books on these subjects by Joe himself:

http://www.originalfalcon.com/howlings-from-the-pit-a-practical-handbook-of-medieval-magic-goetia-and-theurgy.php

http://www.originalfalcon.com/israel-regardie-and-the-philosophers-stone.php

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Quick 6 minute discussion on the no-head episode, I go through some challenges someone approached me with and offered some context.

Might be useful for anyone that had trouble finding what was looking!

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Alfred Korzybski, the Verb "To Be" & English Prime - Use Case for General Semantics & ePrime: Part 1 of a 4 part series

Part 1 of a series on the problems with the verb 'to be' within the context of the English language, our own take on how a simple linguistic feature contributes to personal and civilisational "insanity".

This being only one element of Korzybski's entire work, and not intended as a detailed overview of general semantics and Alfred Korzybski. Instead, in part 1, we focus on the "verb to be" or the so-called "is-ness of identity and what a simple adjustment in verbal style could achieve, in thinking of ourselves and others. further parts coming 2 days a part over the coming weeks.

Timestamps

Introduction 2:20 what iOS the verb "to be" 4:15: Operationalism 5:00 Bill Nye, obnoxious dolt and exhibit a 7:58 Abstraction does not mean nothing 8:40 Examples of statements with spooks 9:10 Don is a real Lemon "it is" according to Don Lemon 10:00 I've always been Korean 11:00 If you label me, you negate me 12:00 Language and abstraction as a function of biological organism 13:20 Whatever we say something is, it isn't 13:43 ePrime as linguistic hygiene

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This week I'm reflecting on something momentous and yet so simple, in my own journey. Something everyone can also benefit from looking into. And that is the fact we have no head. I also share an exercise devised by Harding, you can try yourself to see that you also do not have a head. Subscribe for more videos like this, and many more to come.

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I share my experiences and thoughts on Hara.

Hara is the Japanese word referencing "the belly," specifically the lower abdomen - literally referred to as the "abdominal heart."

This presentation is about the restoration of Hara. An inarguable pre-cursor to a balanced, fearless, and centred individual consitution.

Look out for the YouTube version of this, to be released this week. Appreciate all subscription to YouTube, fast becoming the main hub for content for SOFCast.

Look out for the link to the list of exercises coming next week.

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This week we catch up with sail cargo expert Captain Jorne Langelaan whom is developing and launching a line of emission-free, square-rigged fleet of sail ships. We talk the philosophy and structure of his venture, and talk lessons learnt from cargo by sail’s rich history, aiming to scale up the successes of the newly emerged sailing cargo ships.

Cargo has been transported under sail for thousands of years. Through this time the working ships developed, culminating in the fast square-rigged clippers in the mid-19th Century. Since the motorisation of sea freight, sailing boats have seen huge technological advances both in their rig and hull, optimised for sport and pleasure. Although this has led to modern materials and faster, lighter designs, moving cargo requires different technology. After 25 years onboard both sail and motor cargo ships, Jorne Langelaan’s experience affirmed that square-rigged clippers are still the best craft for carrying cargo across oceans emission free.   The EcoClipper 500 prototype is based on the successful Dutch clipper Noah. Square-sail rigs have many sails rigged on yards which gives the ship a huge sail area whilst ensuring they are easier to manipulate and subject to minimal wear. It will have a steel hull, a material familiar for today’s boatyards which is critical to getting them built quickly. The EcoClipper 500 prototype design is a combination of old and new methods of construction, which in turn will make fast and efficient sail cargo ships.

For more information on ECOCLIPPER see website here:

https://ecoclipper.org

You can also find information of volunteering or investment opportunities there also.

https://ecoclipper.org/invest/

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I was privileged to have prolific scientist and author Stephanie Seneff, PhD on with me to discuss the politically charged and thus rather confusing issue of mRNA vaccines for covid-19/

Much of the material you will hear spoken about references a research paper Stephanie published with co-author Greg Nigh in the “International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research”, to which I have linked. It is a highly technical entry if you’re a pleb like me, however still worth reading for understanding the true extent of exactly how little we understand about what might happen as a result of implementing these new and mostly untested technologies.

Dr. Seneff has an intimidating academic record as a senior research scientist at MIT, where she has had continuous affiliation for more than five decades. After receiving four degrees from MIT in Biophysics,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, she conducted research in packet-switched networks, computational modelling of the human auditory system, natural language processing and spoken dialogue systems,.

Stephanie is Currently a Senior Research Scientist, being MIT’s highest research rank at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. For over a decade, since 2008, she has directed her attention towards the role of nutrition and environmental toxicants on human disease, with a special emphasis on the herbicide glyphosate. And here we continue very much in the same vein, links to books as follows:

Article, Journal of Vaccines: ttps://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/2021/SeneffNigh_mRNA_vaccines_IJVTPR.pdf

Toxic Legacy: How the Weed Killer Glyphosate is Destroying Our Health and the Environment: https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Legacy-Weedkiller-Glyphosate-Environment/dp/1603589295

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This week we have scholar Rodney Blackhirst on to discuss his excellent short essay, "Concerning the Mysteries of Wine & Spiritual transformation", where he synthesises themes of use and symbolism of wine in Islamic and Christian society.

Rodney Blackhirst lectured in Philosophy and Religious Studies at La Trobe University for the past decade, until recently. He has diverse interests in philosophy, cosmology and religion. He specializes in the Greek tradition and the monotheistic faiths. His doctorate re-examined the mystical foundations of Plato's dialogue, Timaeus. Dr. Blackhirst is a regular contributor to journals such as Sacred Web.

Rodney's blog is here:

https://harpermcalpineblack.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR2wL6FCqD1IT7fhbxsAdUcVJ81o_BJZJvaYZz4hR24FdxpkqO2vENWZ3WQ

Some of Rodney's work can be found at the following link:

https://alchimieprimordial.wixsite.com/main?fbclid=IwAR2clri2sDj6MFCrQQSpl63dLLwNxJwTsMWW19_Ls260PQyaa51rWXpsSxI

And his book here:

http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/products/0-941532-55-0_Betrayal_of_Tradition.aspx?ID=114

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We welcome back Paññobhāsa, now also Mr. David Reynolds, to talk through the challenges and concept of non-duality, what Buddhism has to say on such matters and his re-entry into the Matrix after 30 years as a monk. From Mahathera status to re-entering the everyday world. With us is Mirror of Emptiness ( @969Mirror ) to keep my chaos at bay.

David has two book volumes out at the following links, recommend to everyone to pick up a copy:

https://www.amazon.com/Philosophical-Dharma-Writings-Incendiary-Buddhist/dp/B097XGM71P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+dharma&qid=1625804961&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Essays-Theravada-Buddhism-Writings-Incendiary/dp/B096ZHKY9D/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&qid=1625805048&refinements=p_27%3AJohn+David+Reynolds&s=books&sr=1-2&text=John+David+Reynolds

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This week we have scholar Rodney Blackhirst on to discuss his excellent short essay, "The Man-Plant: Central Themes in the Alchemy of Farming", where he synthesizes themes of traditional agriculture & alchemy through the frame of Ancient Greece. We also discuss how this relates to our world and what can be learned.

Rodney Blackhirst lectured in Philosophy and Religious Studies at La Trobe University for the past decade, until recently. He has diverse interests in philosophy, cosmology and religion. He specializes in the Greek tradition and the monotheistic faiths. His doctorate re-examined the mystical foundations of Plato's dialogue, Timaeus. Dr. Blackhirst is a regular contributor to journals such as Sacred Web.

Some of Rodney's work can be found at the following link:

https://alchimieprimordial.wixsite.com/main?fbclid=IwAR2clri2sDj6MFCrQQSpl63dLLwNxJwTsMWW19_Ls260PQyaa51rWXpsSxI

And his book here:

http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/products/0-941532-55-0_Betrayal_of_Tradition.aspx?ID=114

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SOF makes his first guest appearance on the Aureus Press Podcast. @Trad_West_Art

Was invited on to talk through some of my thoughts on how agriculture and human flourishing are connected, through the prism of regenerative agriculture, bio-dynamics and theories biomes in the environment.

Was a short chat, and obviously so much more to talk through, perhaps on a future cast.

Aureus Press is an author and all round good bloke, details of his stuff is here: aureus-press.com New book: https://tinyurl.com/5v6nrka Old book: http://tinyurl.com/ya89zq9r

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We have an in depth discussion on his experiences, views on meditation, Buddhism and life in general

You can follow Wayward Cloud @Waywardcloud2

He also has a Substack @ https://waywardcloud.substack.com

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He and Ted Kaczynski published the book Technological Slavery, which elaborates on the Unabomber manifesto and contains about 100 pages of correspondence between the two, which took place over almost a decade. Skrbina talks about Kaczynski’s views on technological society's serious problems, but we go deeper into David’s ideas on potential remedies. We steer clear of the weak sauce technocratic subjects concerning the moralism of such actions and instead go straight for the jugular of technological society. We ask, what practical and spiritual solutions exist within the context of what we know now as a species.

Part of this was an in-depth discussion on the notion of eco-theology, how it differs from traditional religions, and an analysis of panpsychism views in general and how it could impact future humanity less in the grip of technology.

More information on David can be found here, with links to his many fine publications:

https://www.davidskrbina.com

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After two months as a white-robed attendant and almost two years as a monk, deteriorating conditions at the monastery (typical California craziness) inspired some of the senior monks to advise him to go to Burma for a little while till things got better. He planned on maybe two and a half years, but things didn’t get better at TKAM and he wound up living in Burma for altogether over twenty years.

Living in various forest caves (largely to better endure the blazing heat of upper Burma), and mostly avoiding other monks, Paññobhāsa Bhikkhu became pretty much a recluse, spending lots of time meditating. He acquired a reputation for being very strict, and also controversial in his interpretations of Buddhist philosophy. After burning out on Burma and wanting to come back to the USA, his first attempt at living as a free-range monk in America was in 2011.

He has found that living as a monk in America is very different from living as one in a Buddhist country like Burma. After some years of back and forth between America and Asia he wound up where he is now, at a Burmese monastery in French Camp, California.

Paññobhāsa Bhikkhu is a prolific blogger and YouTuber, with a tonne of useful material, elaborating on subjects as diverse as St John of the Cross, Pali textual interpretation, Julius Evola and even the various social ills that assail the West as Present.

Co-hosted this week with “Gods Own Fool”, @Godsfool3

URL Links for Paññobhāsa Bhikkhu current blog (mostly philosophy and caustic critiques of Marxism): https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/ old website: nippapanca.org Minds page: https://www.minds.com/Pannobhasa_Bhikkhu/ YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQJMvdH3Is-fw7rVhYd4uA/videos SubscribeStar support page: https://www.subscribestar.com/philosophical-dharma my old, more Buddhist blog: https://thebahiyablog.blogspot.com/ (Bitchute is in the works, as it is the video platform of the thought-liberated future)

(also lots of my videos, too politically incorrect for YT, are on Brian Ruhe’s Bitchute channel under the rubric of Buddhist Monk Truthers: but it is malfunctioning at present and Herr Brian is currently scratching his head over it)

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His book deals with the famous Lakota Tribe wičháša wakȟáŋ (“medicine man, holy man) Heȟáka Sápa, famously known as Black Elk.

Harry wrote this book from the perspective of the Perennialist school and much of the analysis derives from this perspective. He drew many of his insights from Fritjof Schuon’s association with Black Elk, adding and interesting dimension.

We talk Harry’s own experience with plains tribes, the great ecstatic Sun Dance, the Great Vision of Black Elk and the ridiculous and snide arrogances of the purveyors of shabby and unmaly wordplay and concept daze “kulture” against the savage and wise Noble Red Man. The Plains Tribes encapsulating much of the spirit respected and desired by many listeners.

Link to Harry’s book:

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Elk-Lakota-Visionary-Tradition/dp/1936597608/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=black+elk+Lakota+visionary&qid=1601378419&sr=8-1

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