We keep chasing more or endless future desires yet never feel enough. This is the paradox of desire: the more we seek outside of ourselves, the farther we get from what we truly want. From our neurobiology to the hedonic treadmill to the myth of Sisyphus, it's really our unconscious cravings or an overwhelming feeling we're seeking to avoid that trap us in endless cycles. Our compulsions and cravings become a way we unconscious regulate ourselves, when we don't do it consciously. Addiction erodes willpower and will is the soul’s ability to self-organize into conscious aligned choice. The antidote is presence: shifting from craving to awareness and from wanting to being.
Fate or Free Will? In this episode, I explore what “fate” really means, what we think we’re trying to be free from, and who it is that would even potentially be “free.” I’ll walk you some basic classifications of thought on the questions and ultimately how the questions themselves are not entirely applicable. I also include ideas on layers to our reality and more. By shifting how we frame the question, we discover that true free will isn’t about control nor getting fixed outcomes, as that would make you a slave, but instead about aligning with our nature. And paradoxically, naturally, it’s those qualities that allow us to participate and change. What is your will to be?
Wisdom is not systematic. Real wisdom requires paradoxical thinking, presence, a shift from linear logic to spherical understanding, and for the highest most abstract-systems, self-realization.
In this episode of Philosophy of Everything, I explore why I always reference “wisdom is a paradox” and what makes wisdom different from knowledge, why it’s inherently paradoxical, and how wholeness offers coherence. We look at the paradox at the heart of reality itself: that the observer is always part of the whole they’re trying to understand.
We live in a complex, interconnected system, be it that of our psyche in our own minds or within our collective society. These complex, living systems require us to think bigger, know higher, unlearn often, and see differently. Wisdom is a paradox.
Fear is profitable, and it’s the weapon of choice. When we’re stuck in fear, we’re stuck in the part of the brain incapable of moral reasoning, clarity, curiosity, or real problem solving. Instead, we default to survival: black-and-white thinking, tribalism, and threat response.That’s exactly where the system wants us, be it corporations, political parties, media machines, or even foreign actors.The only way out? A personal philosophy rooted in timeless values. So not rage bait, not curated and selective outrage, not trends, and not hypocritical righteousness. You need a compass that doesn’t shift with the feed. And that begins inside. You must value something more than you hate and only then can you transform what you believe in. Otherwise, you will always become what you hate, because you hate.If you choose an identity over personal morality, you will always be a pawn and you will always be a hypocrite just defending your team.We used to outsource to religious identities. Now we outsource to ideological identities. What if you didn't outsource at all?
For the moments when you’re angry at God, doubting God, or wondering if God exists at all. When the world feels empty and you're asking, Where is God in all this?God is not a person out there to be found. God is the will to be, the loving presence, the quiet wisdom, the compassion that holds everything and nothing, always and forever.So are you looking in the wrong direction? You don’t find God. You become the place through which God enters. Each of us is a vessel through which love comes into the world."You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." -Jeremiah 29:13
Is there just one single self… or many? Well, wisdom is a paradox, so, yes, and no. There is a single Self, but it contains multitudes. We each have parts: sub-personalities, inner parts, inner archetypes, selves that show up in different roles and times. Our many parts come together to round us out into wholeness. It's the paradox of all the parts together that create coherence. Our parts aren't the problem, our rejection, fear, or overidentification with them is. Like facets of a crystal, these inner parts bend the same light in different ways. And that light? That’s you. Not the parts themselves, but the awareness that holds them all. True healing isn’t about choosing a single self to identify with. It’s about becoming the center that all your parts can return to. A wholeness that embraces the complexity of being human.
Paradoxes cannot be understood within the bounds of empiricism. Paradoxes require a higher form of knowing: wisdom. You're a paradox.
The origins of the world’s religions and myths are deeply rooted in the cosmos, in the language of astrology and in a language deeply buried. The birth of Christ reflects the rising of the Sun after its stillness at the Winter Solstice. From there, we begin the 12 Days of Christmas, mirroring the 12-spoked wheel of the zodiac (the wheel of life), the 12 archetypes through which reality unfolds in time.Understanding the deeper meaning behind Christian holidays like Christmas and the Epiphany, as well as the archetypal nature of winter and the solstice, offers us a deeper way to reconnect with the wisdom beneath the dogma.At the root of it all is eternal truth. A seed of wisdom waiting to rise again.
What’s the difference between soul, psyche, ego, spirit, mind, and heart? These words get thrown around, but they point to distinct (and sometimes overlapping) layers of being. In this episode, I offer an intro to how we might begin to make sense of them. Soul is the bridge between spirit and matter, between the infinite and the embodied. It resonates through psyche, experienced as emotion, image, sensation. Ego is our organizing principle of selfhood. Not inherently bad, just structured for survival. Heart is the space beyond defense, our inner compass, our connecting center. And spirit is pure consciousness: that which animates, observes, and transcends. This is a starting point: a symbolic map, not a dogma. More to come!
What do numbers have to do with consciousness? In this episode, I walk through the first five numbers (0 through 4), not as quantities, but as archetypal dimensions of conscious awareness itself.
Zero is the void, the cosmic womb, pure potential.
One is the "I am," the spark of self-aware being.
Two gives rise to duality; it's the subject and object, self and other.
Three opens up depth and relation: space, synthesis, movement.
Four is the grounding structure: the four directions, the cross, the Earth.
From nothing, to something, to the unfolding of everything. Consciousness is folded within itself. :)
Intro Episode - For there to be a coherence to the whole, to engage with everything, requires all modes of knowing, a synthesis beyond materialism or idealism. You cannot understand the universe, the world, or yourself from only one perspective, but need all parts. Our society has overvalued an outer knowing, which relies on public consensus to fill the void of the inner unknowing and ridiculed what should be the highest form of knowledge: inner revelation. And if we really want to engage with everything, we’ll need to understand our human experience. Fortunately, there is a philosophy for that and it’s the source of the world's religions and the human mind's myths: the zodiac wheel. We’ve just forgotten.
Welcome! Philosophy of Everything is podcast about the coherence of the whole: a synthesis of the parts within and without. The zodiac, the universe's clock and source of the mind's myths and world's religions, is the seed pattern of temporal subjective awareness, helping us explore the complex, living systems of the universe, from psyche to culture to consciousness to the nature of reality. This is about the wonder, will, and wisdom to navigate the human experience and endlessly transform, as infinity intends.
This is a coherence of all the time in the world, as told through the love of wisdom, the nurturing and healing kind of wisdom (the Sophia kind). Wisdom/philosophy is meant to be the faculty of the heart, because wisdom is a paradox. We've just forgotten.
The world is becoming increasingly more complex. We can no longer be led by materialism, binary thinking, nor can we be told what the universe is by those who don't even know who they are. I hope you follow along!
