The Bio-Individual podcast (Ep. 2)

Reading, Language, Self-Transcendence & The Badly Wired Human Brain

New episode of the Bio-Individual podcast out on Youtube & Spotify.

Alex and I talk and/or rant about Reading, Language, Self-Transcendence & The Badly Wired Human Brain

Here are the links. Enjoy!

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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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