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"Let the Mystery Stay the Mystery"
🕑 Added 2021-04-29 12:05:00 +0000 UTCPatreon Exclusive. Joshua and Ryan discuss our constant striving for optimization with author Jamie Wheal, and they answer the following questions:
How has our modern search for truth become so convoluted? (00:00)
What are twice-born humans? (02:23)
What is the “state of no mind”? (03:56)
What are death practices? (06:15)
What is the “God-shaped hole”? (13:33)
Are hierarchies necessary? (14:25)
What is hedonic engineering? (27:34)
Why are top-down solutions so problematic? (31:45)
Has civilization caused more problems than it’s solved? (34:17)
What’s the point—does any of this even matter? (44:02)
How can the sacred burn us? (46:15)
How do we step back from nihilism? (48:50)
How do we find meaning in relationships, and how do we rediscover meaning in a formerly meaningful relationship that’s lost its meaning? (51:56)
Can we put the genie back in the bottle? (53:31)
What is sexual fitness? (55:52)
What are the three stages of sex? (58:16)
LINKS
Book: Civilized to Death
Book: Ishmael
Book: Recapture the Rapture
Book: Sand Talk
Book: Sapiens
Book: The Immortality Key
Explore: Eroto-comatose Lucidity
Explore: Mystical Experience Questionnaire
Facebook: Jamie Wheal
Instagram: Jordan Moore
Instagram: Podcast Shawn
Instagram: Jamie Wheal
Instagram: Jess Williams
Podcast: Finding Meaning
Podcast: Christopher Kelly
Resources: The Minimalists
Subscribe: The Minimalists
Text: 937-202-4654
Tour: The Minimalists
Twitter: Jamie Wheal
Watch: Altered States
Watch: Wade Davis
Website: Jamie Wheal
Website: Flow Genome Project
Website: Recapture the Rapture
Website: Jamie Wheal
YouTube: Flow Genome Project
MAXIMS
“Suffering is not the way, but it illuminates the path toward a more meaningful life.” —Joshua Fields Millburn
“Compassion is the antidote to suffering.” —Ryan Nicodemus
This Maximal episode corresponds with Minimal episode 285.
Comments
veronica lerner
After listening to this I read “recapture the rupture” . While I can understand his description of “the world is ending” and hedonistic engineering as a response to this on an individual level I can not follow his “ethical culture building” part of the book. I don’t see much practical substance there. What do others think?
Gideon Maxwell
What’s the term for “make or break me” that Jamie uses at 49:16? I can’t seem to spell it correctly.
