This is a companion series to the Architecture of Contemplation podcast.
Welcome to Contemplations with me, Hardeep Kaur. Today we are contemplating the quiet, discreet, intimate gestures by which we navigate our complex mind, and land, scapes.
The brain, or mind, keeps us alert to the signals that are perceptible to our five senses. The rest of our body is a site map that holds more discreet keys to what brings us moments of joy, sadness, rebellion, resentment, fear, love, strife, peace.
Body language is a phrase we know well, but how actively are we seeking to become literate in it with our own being? Without a dialogue with the gestures that speak so openly, without self-censoring or self-editing, is to walk around with a manual written in a foreign language. We become alien to ourselves, a black box of reactions, actions, and unexpressed, suppressed, unspoken, needs and desires.
To observe with curious delight how our body responds to questions or stimuli offered up as we go about our day, is one way into this ancient language of the body.
Take a breath, and let's begin.
H
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This is a companion series to the Architecture of Contemplation podcast.
Today we are contemplating what it is to reclaim the night's sky. There is a term - sky grief - that gives voice to a feeling that we inherently intuit in spaces and places, city escapes and urban sprawls, a loss of the great, awesome, frightening grandeur, that is the night's sky.
Thousands of years of looking up into the secrets of the sky, reading the messages of light, from sun, moon, stars, planets alike - this is our lineage. Before, all were asked to honour the rhythm of the day folding into night. Now, we sit, hunched over charms the size of our palms, isolated and alone; artificial lights for an artificial life. It is this night blindness that we each suffer from. This contemplation is an invitation to reclaim the night's sky.
Take a breath, and let's begin.
H
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This is a companion to the episode of the Architecture of Contemplation podcast that I recorded with Jungian analyst Lisa Marchiano. This is a continuation not in words, but in practice.
The conversation with Lisa is shaped by myth, depth psychology, and the quiet insistence of the inner life, an invitation really to step out of the noise and re-enter the subtle, symbolic world within.
Lisa speaks not just to her ideas, but of interior movements, of wrestling with life's thresholds, of claiming our creative fire, and of encountering the unconscious as a vital force. This short contemplation is not a summary, nor an answer. It is a doorway. It's a way to meet what stirred in you during the conversation. But worry not, even if you have not listened to the initial dialogue. This contemplation is still for you.
If you did listen, perhaps there was an image that lingered, a phrase that struck, something unspoken. Perhaps there was discomfort, recognition, a slow yes rising in the body. We don't always need more information. Sometimes we need space.
We need stillness enough to feel what the conversation awakened. This is that space.
Take a breath, and let's begin.
H
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John Pawson: architect, author.
We talk: the non-linear nature of one's life path; early influences; the Yorkshire Moors; crafting less with more feeling; how to bring architecture to life; the power of communicating through words; maintaining professional consistency; Le Corbusier and so much more.
Thank you for spending time in this Isle of Contemplation.
H
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"What do I owe the world? What do I owe the cosmos?" - LM
This is a Contemplation Capsule: a distilled moment, to step inside Lisa's thoughts on the Age of the Steward.
Definition: the present Age, of the Steward, where each individual channels their unique skills, passions and gifts, to take care of the earth and all life, thereby collectively stewarding in an even better tomorrow.
Question: what would you like to steward in, or to be a steward of?
Happy listening.
H
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Lisa Marchiano is an author, co-host of the podcast 'This Jungian Life', and a certified Jungian analyst.
We talk: the essential need to look at one's inner life, the vital spark within us all, meaning and purpose, the power of myth and literature, and so much more.
Thank you for spending time in this Isle of Contemplation.
H
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"I like that approach because it's sincere, it's authentic, it's honest, and it's also humble. And to me, the biggest message we get from the universe is stay modest."
This is a Contemplation Capsule.
A distilled moment, to step inside Avi's places of rest, respite, and contemplation.
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H
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Avi Loeb is the Baird Professor of Science and Institute director at Harvard University and author.
We talk: the pursuit of knowledge, developing one's inner compass, being resilient in the face of detraction, running, existentialism, and so much more.
Thank you for spending time in this Isle of Contemplation.
H
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"What white space does for us, the empty space, the liminal space that we often find in between breaths, is it forces us to walk away from tasks and come back to the compass."
This is a Contemplation Capsule.
A distilled moment, to step inside Seth's places of rest, respite, and contemplation.
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Seth Godin is an author, entrepreneur and a teacher.
We talk: finding interesting problems to solve, a map vs a compass, poetry, taking personal responsibility, navigating optimism, building systems of change, and so much more.
Seth's places of rest, respite, and contemplation, await, too.
Thank you for spending time in this isle of peace.
H
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"Everything that I desire just tumbles into the now."
This is a Contemplation Capsule.
A distilled moment, to step inside Shini's places of rest, respite, and contemplation.
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Shini Park is a photographer, art director and Story-Teller-in-Chief at Cubicle. We talk: navigating her identity as a third culture child, creativity, being a chameleon, reclaiming desire, the power of now, and much, much more.
Shini's places of rest, respite, and contemplation, await, too.
Thank you for spending time in this isle of peace.
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"Expansion is about discovering something that was previously unknown to me."
This is a Contemplation Capsule.
A distilled moment, to step inside Alex's places of rest, respite, and contemplation.
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Alex Mustonen is co-founder of Snarkitecture. We talk: the founding story, and philosophy, of Snarkitecture, architecture as invitation, the possibility of 'what if', the power of physical environments, dreamscaping, flow states in splitting wood, and much more.
Alex's places of rest, respite, and contemplation, await, too.
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"I do love the act of getting off the plane and finding yourself in a place that's unknown and watching what happens as you move through that new environment."
This is a Contemplation Capsule.
A distilled moment, to step inside Spencer Bailey's places of rest, respite, and contemplation.
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An original production by per se London.
Spencer Bailey is host of Time Sensitive Podcast and founder of The Slowdown. Portals, temporal entanglement, graciousness, media, drumming for healing, Isamu Noguchi, the body keeping score - this and so much more, awaits.
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Season One is now complete!
It's been an incredible journey to date, and I cannot wait to begin Season Two.
However, it seems only fitting, as I talk about contemplation, I too should take time to contemplate the podcast to date. I'd love to make sure this gets better and better for you all, which requires taking a moment to take stock, to evaluate, and to improve.
Expect massive upgrades to the soundscapes, even deeper conversations, incredible guests and many more gems to follow.
Keep up to date with the latest on the podcast, over at @thearchitectureofcontemplation.
Thank you so much for supporting this podcast. Here's to Season Two!
H
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"I find walking and contemplation go together like peanut butter and jelly."
This is a Contemplation Capsule.
A distilled moment, to step inside Kevin Kelly's places of rest, respite, and contemplation.
Happy listening.
H
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"Don't aim to be the best, aim to be the only."
Today I am speaking with Kevin Kelly. If one were to enter Kevin's name into the Google-o-meter, much material would surface. He is known as founding executive editor of Wired Magazine, a technologist, a photographer, a writer, and, an optimist. The list runs on. But Kevin self-identifies as a 'packager of ideas'.
This conversation is a little different in that Kevin shares many gems from his upcoming book, Excellent Advice for Living, Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier (launches May 2nd). Kevin provides some direct readings, which contain sonorous truths, interlaced with humour and a whisper of irreverence.
Each episode I find a word emerges from the conversation. Here, for Kevin, it is elegance. There is a certain poise, and coherence, in both Kevin's outlook, and self-expression. With elegance, the content of Kevin's words ease with grace into one's mind's eye, allowing a certain effortless interaction with ideas that are profound yes, but utterly actionable, too.
Without further ado I bring you Kevin Kelly.
H
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"These environments, the ones that speak to me deepest, usually have trees."
This is a Contemplation Capsule.
A distilled moment, to step inside Adam Gazzaley's places of rest, respite, and contemplation.
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