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Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next
A podcast based inquiry into the next phase of the human experiment.
Society & Culture
Anti-Fragile Heart Retreat: What's It All About?
What are we going to do at this retreat, even?
Sof...
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Jun 26 2024 1h
Chapter 1 18 mins
Exploring UnfoldingChapter 2 12 mins
Deepening Relational Practice and Self-ExplorationChapter 3 7 mins
Following the Thread of AlivenessChapter 4 8 mins
Nurturing Self-Embodiment and ConnectionChapter 5 12 mins
Exploring Creative Practices and Connection
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Sofia-Jeanne and Daniel reflect on why they love the...
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May 24 2024 11m
Chapter 1 9 mins
Anti-Fragile Heart Retreat DiscussionChapter 2 2 mins
Shaping Lives Together
The Anti-Fragile Heart Retreat: Weeklong Unfolding Intensive
Join me for an intimate and transformative journey i...
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May 20 2024 2m
Jane Weintraub - Discovering Your Holy Work
Daniel shares his feelings and disorientation in the...
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Apr 27 2024 1h 23m
Chapter 1 6 mins
Daniel's experience of a profound opening through intimacy with painChapter 2 6 mins
Jane's experience facing a life threatening conditionChapter 3 5 mins
Pain, beauty, and "holy work"Chapter 4 8 mins
The value of being local, especially as an antidote to abstractionChapter 5 5 mins
Relationship, love, and the power of bodies in spaceChapter 6 5 mins
Describing "holy work" and the philosophy of Jane's Imaginisma projectChapter 7 5 mins
Searching for life purpose and "being in the house of aliveness"Chapter 8 4 mins
How Jane's work straddles the material and the imaginal/ethericChapter 9 7 mins
Rediscovering life's latent magic and fundamental qualities of being human in the digital ageChapter 10 4 mins
The orientation of Jane and Daniel's work toward inspiration and action (over philosophical abstraction)Chapter 11 7 mins
Misconceptions about personal development and issues with pain and trauma fixationChapter 12 1 min
Casual encounters with strangersChapter 13 4 mins
The abnormality of our times, the meaning of "normal," and "sewing seeds of ecstasy for the future"Chapter 14 4 mins
A beautiful future beckoning in spite of a tragic worldChapter 15 3 mins
Conclusion
John Churchill - Attunement as World Medicine
John Churchill joins Daniel to discuss the relations...
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Mar 9 2024 1h 29m
Chapter 1 2 mins
Introduction and background for the talkChapter 2 2 mins
Western and Eastern Psychology and Attachment TheoryChapter 3 5 mins
The attachment and attention systems and the sense of selfChapter 4 5 mins
Addressing the split between the heart and the mindChapter 5 5 mins
Buddhist perspectives on the healing of the attachment systemChapter 6 5 mins
Right relationship, attunement, and the dimensions of the heartChapter 7 1 min
Developmental psychology and attunementChapter 8 8 mins
Levels of attunement and the significance of intuitionChapter 9 4 mins
Collective psychological and structural components of attunementChapter 10 7 mins
Awakening with and without the heart as a central point of focusChapter 11 4 mins
Discernment on the Buddhist path and a developmental model of the BodhisattvaChapter 12 3 mins
The significance of time in spiritual developmentChapter 13 8 mins
Finding trustworthy teachers and avenues of practiceChapter 14 3 mins
Putting the difficulty of finding a reliable spiritual path in perspectiveChapter 15 12 mins
Theoretical perspectives and practical advice for developing healthier attachmentChapter 16 3 mins
Summarizing the development of healthy attachment and the Bodhisattva path from the perspective of attachment theoryChapter 17 5 mins
Closing thoughts: Coming together and taking care of each other
Jordan Hall Converts to Christianity
Daniel and Jordan Hall discuss Jordan’s recent conve...
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Jan 31 2024 1h 18m
Chapter 1
Jordan’s recent conversion to ChristianityChapter 2 5 mins
The evolution of Jordan’s worldview and his relationship to religion since childhoodChapter 3 7 mins
The 2008 financial crisis and the birth of “Game B”Chapter 4 6 mins
Searching for “Civium” (seeking out a philosophically aligned community)Chapter 5 8 mins
Going to Black Mountain, North CarolinaChapter 6 10 mins
Reflections on attending church and turning towards religionChapter 7 5 mins
Getting to humilityChapter 8 1 min
The importance of griefChapter 9 3 mins
“Religion that is not a religion” and the “Two Worlds Mythology”Chapter 10 9 mins
Addressing the condemnation of Christianity in modern cultureChapter 11 3 mins
Jordan’s thoughts on shifts in modern ChristianityChapter 12 6 mins
The value of religious community and tradition in a neophilic cultureChapter 13 1 min
Committing to TruthChapter 14 4 mins
Wrap-up
Bob Falconer - Internal Family Systems and Spirit Possession
After a long career using many therapeutic modalitie...
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Jan 6 2024 1h 13m
Chapter 1 1 min
IntroChapter 2 5 mins
Bob’s Abusive Upbringing and Early Spiritual ExperiencesChapter 3 2 mins
How Internal Family Systems Has Helped Bob Become a “Man of Joy”Chapter 4 7 mins
The History and Evolution of Modern Cultural Conceptions of Abuse, Trauma and MindChapter 5 2 mins
Competition, Capitalism and Colonialism in PsychotherapyChapter 6 5 mins
Internal Family Systems and Multiplicity of MindChapter 7 3 mins
Bob’s Book and His Perspectives on The Porous Nature of MindChapter 8 7 mins
“Something Foreign In My Mind”: The Client Who Changed Bob’s PerspectiveChapter 9 6 mins
“The Others Within Us”: The Core Claim of Bob’s BookChapter 10 3 mins
Generational Trauma and Different Cultural Approaches to “The Others Within Us”Chapter 11 3 mins
How Forces Not Clearly Linked To Our Personal History Might Get Into UsChapter 12 4 mins
Limitations of the Western Conception of Mind and Differing Cultural Interpretations of “Psychosis”Chapter 13 2 mins
Possible Portals To A More Widespread Recognition of The Porosity of MindChapter 14 3 mins
Navigating The Imaginal RealmChapter 15 5 mins
How Coaches and Practitioners Can Make Space for Porosity of Mind and The Others Within UsChapter 16 4 mins
Closing
Tasshin - Fullstack Harmony for Maximum Deep Benefit
Tasshin – which means “to reach or achieve truth” – ...
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Oct 5 2023 1h 12m
Chapter 1 8 mins
Daniel and Tasshin’s Personal Connection and Mutual InspirationChapter 2 6 mins
Overview of Tasshin’s Recent Article and Reading of His “Bottleneck” StatementChapter 3 7 mins
“Finding Your Vow Is The Bottleneck On Productivity”Chapter 4 4 mins
Living One’s Vow/Purpose As An Iterative ProcessChapter 5 3 mins
Addressing Doubts Regarding The Concept of “Vow”or “Unique Purpose”Chapter 6 12 mins
“Productivity Is The Bottleneck On Strategy”Chapter 7 3 mins
“Strategy Is The Bottleneck On Effective Coordination”Chapter 8 6 mins
Different Levels of HarmonizationChapter 9 4 mins
Trusting Yourself, Trusting Experience, Trusting LifeChapter 10 8 mins
From Solving The World’s Problems to Focusing On Goodness, Truth, Beauty, and Playing One’s PartChapter 11 4 mins
Closing
John Churchill - The Three Strands of Awakening [From the Coach's Rising Podcast]
This episode is a 're-Cast' from the Coach's Rising ...
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Aug 21 2023 1h 32m
Chapter 1 5 mins
Contemplative Awakening and the Emerge CanonChapter 2 8 mins
Revolutionizing Consciousness and Rediscovering Sacred RootsChapter 3 14 mins
Blend of Eastern and Western PsychologyChapter 4 17 mins
Co-Creating an Integrated Learning JourneyChapter 5 7 mins
Understanding Ethics and Practice PhasesChapter 6 6 mins
Emotion, Insight, and Development IntersectionChapter 7 7 mins
Attachment and Awareness System IntegrationChapter 8 16 mins
Building a Comprehensive Curriculum and OrganizationChapter 9 6 mins
Bodhisattva Path and the HeartChapter 10 41 sec
Building Educational Processes for Our Future
Vince Horn - Meditate with AI
Vince Horn and Daniel discuss the evolution, benefit...
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Jul 23 2023 1h 7m
Chapter 1 1 min
IntroChapter 2 5 mins
Intro to Social MeditationChapter 3 5 mins
Evolution of Social MeditationChapter 4 5 mins
The Role of Language in MeditationChapter 5 3 mins
Significance of Meditation Moving into the Inter-Relational ContextChapter 6 1 min
Social Meditation’s Effects on RelationshipsChapter 7 4 mins
The Meditatewith.ai App & The Issues It AddressesChapter 8 4 mins
Intra-Connection, Interconnection & How Social Meditation Can Impact GroupsChapter 9 4 mins
Vince’s Inspiration For This WorkChapter 10 10 mins
How AI Is Used in the AppChapter 11 4 mins
Social Meditation and the Unfolding of the Spiritual PathChapter 12 3 mins
Creating and Refining a Protocol for Social MeditationChapter 13 3 mins
Value of Social Meditation for the Meta-CrisisChapter 14 1 min
Next Steps for the AppChapter 15 4 mins
Wrap-up
Bonnitta Roy, John Vervaeke, Thomas Steininger - Wisdom & Complexity [RSPND Network]
In this conversation, John, Bonnie, and Thomas discu...
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Jun 8 2023 1h 29m
Chapter 1 5 mins
IntroChapter 2 2 mins
Virtue ReactivationChapter 3 4 mins
Wisdom vs. Development & Complexity vs. RootednessChapter 4 5 mins
Wisdom as a function of Domains of ComplexityChapter 5 2 mins
Wisdom as a function of RelationshipChapter 6 5 mins
Wisdom as the Interplay between Sophia & PhronesisChapter 7 5 mins
Moving between Scales of Sophia & PhronesisChapter 8 5 mins
Vertical and Horizontal Axes of Wisdom & ComplexityChapter 9 2 mins
Letting Go of Complexity into New EmergenceChapter 10 1 min
Receptivity to SpontaneityChapter 11 2 mins
Reorientation Towards RootednessChapter 12 7 mins
Accessing What is Fundamental Through RootednessChapter 13 1 min
John Explicating Bonita's Demonstration of the TopicChapter 14 5 mins
Mindfulness MirroringChapter 15 6 mins
Recognizing the Exemplification of the Sacred as a Function of WisdomChapter 16 2 mins
The World as a grounding agent for WisdomChapter 17 6 mins
When and How did 'It' show up?Chapter 18 12 mins
The 'It' is Beyond RelationshipChapter 19 1 min
In Story'ingChapter 20 3 mins
Mindfulness Mirroring II
Jill Nephew - Using ChatGPT is Like Eating Plastic for Your Cognition
In this conversation I speak with Jill Nephew. Jill,...
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May 20 2023 1h 29m
Chapter 1 5 mins
The critical difference between cognition and thinkingChapter 2 6 mins
Why is using LLMs like eating plastic for our cognition?Chapter 3 8 mins
What LLMs represent in the context of the meta-crisisChapter 4 11 mins
How LLMs signal trustworthiness and use randomness to confuse us and unground our cognitionChapter 5 2 mins
What we can expect to see as LLMs introduce more plastic into our cognitionChapter 6 9 mins
What ways of interacting with LLMs might be safe?Chapter 7 5 mins
What are cults and how do they function in relationship to our cognition?Chapter 8 1 min
The possibility of an AI 'supercult'Chapter 9 4 mins
The most dangerous thing we do to each otherChapter 10 7 mins
The deep meaningfulness and richness of grounded cognition, going beyond trauma healing, beyond the monkey mindChapter 11 5 mins
Technology to reclaim natural intelligence, the practice of inquiry, the difference between 'good' inquiry and 'bad' inquiryChapter 12 57 sec
The rigorous engineering behind good inquiry formsChapter 13 4 mins
The power of inquiry, the feeling of insight, how to achieve a quiet mindChapter 14 11 mins
Jill's advice for how to respond to the acceleration of planetary destruction
John Vervaeke, Zak Stein, Nora Bateson - What is Transformation?
John Vervaeke, Zak Stein, and Nora Bateson discuss t...
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May 18 2023 1h 11m
Chapter 1 3 mins
Introduction, the Respond Network, PatreonChapter 2 5 mins
Transformation DimensionalityChapter 3 4 mins
Consequences of TransformationChapter 4 5 mins
Transformation is not ChosenChapter 5 5 mins
Virtue in Response to FateChapter 6 5 mins
Transformation is EcologicalChapter 7 2 mins
Re-Humanization of Transformational SpacesChapter 8 9 mins
Necessary Tension within the Mythology of HeroChapter 9 2 mins
Shifts in Intergenerational TransmissionChapter 10 6 mins
Ecology of CommunicationChapter 11 2 mins
Necessity of Cultural Cognitive GrammarChapter 12 15 mins
The Contextuality & Transferability of TransformationChapter 13 2 mins
How Skills are Interwoven & Transferable
Zak Stein - AI Tutor Apocalypse
Zak Stein and Daniel Thorson discuss the myriad risk...
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Apr 24 2023 1h 36m
Chapter 1 5 mins
IntroChapter 2 4 mins
Shift in Awareness of AIChapter 3 5 mins
GAI RiskChapter 4 1 min
AI Alignment & Human AlignmentChapter 5 1 min
Risks of Generalized Nature of AIChapter 6 1 min
Accelerating Misaligned InstitutionsChapter 7 5 mins
AI Assistance & AnthropomorphismChapter 8 4 mins
Instantaneous Media InterfacingChapter 9 8 mins
AI Tutoring RiskChapter 10 3 mins
Obsoleting Human RelationshipChapter 11 1 min
AI Perfecting PropagandaChapter 12 2 mins
Humanity's Educational RelationshipChapter 13 3 mins
Breaking the Human Nervous SystemChapter 14 5 mins
AI Tutoring Risk ContinuedChapter 15 4 mins
Building Aligned AI Tutoring TechnologyChapter 16 2 mins
Importance of Non-Anthropomorphizable AIChapter 17 2 mins
Irreducibility of Human GoodnessChapter 18 2 mins
The Limits of ComputationalismChapter 19 4 mins
AI Tutoring GuardrailsChapter 20 5 mins
Implementation of AI Tutoring TechnologyChapter 21 4 mins
AI Planetary Tutoring SystemChapter 22 3 mins
Solving the Meta-Crisis with AI Planetary TutoringChapter 23 4 mins
The Emergence of the New HumanChapter 24 5 mins
Right Relationship with Emerging AI TechnologyChapter 25 1 min
Conclusion
David Sauvage - The Future of Collective Decision-Making
A conversation about how emergence can be the founda...
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Aug 6 2022 1h 20m
Chapter 1 5 mins
Introducing DavidChapter 2 5 mins
David’s Vision from the Emerge gatheringChapter 3 18 mins
Occupy WallstreetChapter 4 15 mins
The future of politicsChapter 5 35 mins
The Third Attractor
Gary Sheng - To Actualize Game B, Empower Gen Z
Gary Sheng co-founder of Civics Unplugged and Dream ...
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Jun 15 2022 1h 29m
Chapter 1 16 mins
Introducing GaryChapter 2 4 mins
Civics UnpluggedChapter 3 18 mins
Dream DAOChapter 4 50 mins
Gary’s view of the emerging network from the outside in
Steve March - An Integrated Ecology of Practice for the Meta-Crisis
Steve March is the creator of an integrated ecology ...
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Jun 13 2022 1h 46m
Chapter 1 6 mins
Introducing SteveChapter 2 4 mins
First, Second, Third Generation CoachingChapter 3 4 mins
Aletheia and the Fourth Generation of CoachingChapter 4 36 sec
What if we are already whole?Chapter 5 1 min
Reservations about the term “coaching”Chapter 6 4 mins
Exploring UnfoldmentChapter 7 19 mins
Technological Attunement and Poetic AttunementChapter 8 8 mins
Invoking Poetic AttunementChapter 9 43 mins
Deeping eclecticism into integrationChapter 10 9 mins
Scaling Psychotechnologies
Sean Wilkinson - Circling, Meditation & Trauma
Circling Europe co-founder Sean Wilkinson and I expl...
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May 23 2022 1h 57m
Chapter 1 3 mins
Introducing SeanChapter 2 3 mins
What is at the edge of meditation, circling, and trauma work?Chapter 3 6 mins
Discovering the limits of circlingChapter 4 16 mins
Exhausting an Orientation to PracticeChapter 5 5 mins
Scale InvarianceChapter 6 9 mins
Eclecticism to IntegrationChapter 7 15 mins
The Orientation of TrustChapter 8 20 mins
The Feeling ProcessChapter 9 15 mins
A short guided meditationChapter 10 1 min
Metamodernism and the Meta-Crisis (mesa crisis?)Chapter 11 15 mins
The Paradigm of Leadership
Circling & Soulmaking with Ellen McSweeney & Daniel Thorson
In this episode fellow Monastic Academy resident Ell...
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Apr 14 2022 1h 14m
Mark Feenstra - Renormaling: Fractal Harmony in Action
In this episode Mark Feenstra guides me through his ...
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Dec 4 2021 1h 50m
Harmonizing to Emerge with John Vervaeke
John Vervaeke speaks with Seishin and myself about t...
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Oct 12 2021 1h 28m
Chapter 1 5 mins
p.m. ET: Jade Method Meditation CourseChapter 2 1 hr 17 mins
a.m. ET: Intro to Harmonization: A New Ecology of Practices
Layman Pascal - Spiritual Practice as Harmonization
Layman Pascal is an author, speaker, and body-mind-s...
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Oct 12 2021 1h 16m
Chapter 1 5 mins
p.m. ET: Jade Method Meditation CourseChapter 2 1 hr 4 mins
a.m. ET: Intro to Harmonization: A New Ecology of Practices
Soryu Forall - Responding to Collapse: Virtue and Possibility at the World's End
Is it still possible to create a more beautiful futu...
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Aug 12 2021 26m
Rob McNamara - Adult Development & Ensoulment
Rob McNamara is an author, leadership coach, advisor...
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Jul 24 2021 1h 39m
Chapter 1 2 sec
Who do we need to become to navigate this planetary meta-crisis?Chapter 2 4 sec
“Revolutionary enfoldment” / new vectors of developmentChapter 3 7 sec
Limitations of just adding more complexityChapter 4 7 sec
Takes 10 years. Do we even have that? XR: “sacrifice for future generation” Hero frameChapter 5 6 sec
Exploring other distinctions / sovereignty and surrenderChapter 6 2 sec
“If we’re not willing to die, we don’t get to touch the ineffable grace of life”Chapter 7 6 sec
The diversification of identityChapter 8 7 sec
The illumined reality / world as image structureChapter 9 3 sec
What needs to happen in public? / educationChapter 10 8 sec
How do we cultivate the capacity to attune to image? / image is prior to languageChapter 11 3 sec
Circling / need for communityChapter 12 2 sec
“giving someone an image that is not their own”Chapter 13 2 sec
Omniwin / “image structure is not an exhaustible resource”Chapter 14 1 sec
Finite and infinite games / “switching arena of pathos to soul-making” / “game on, forever”Chapter 15 2 sec
How to increase access to this?Chapter 16 2 sec
Organizational development / “If this is our last thing, what do we do?”Chapter 17 2 sec
How do we ground this in community? / problem-solving / playChapter 18 2 sec
Robert = “bright counselor”Chapter 19 1 hr 38 mins
Wrap-up
Zak Stein - The Eros of Ethics
In this first conversation after a year sabbatical f...
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Jun 28 2021 1h 34m
Chapter 1 2 sec
OpeningChapter 2 2 sec
How to create the kinds of humans who can respond to the meta-crisis?Chapter 3
Practices for WellbeingChapter 4
Human as ethical actor, intimacy and obligationChapter 5
Ethics in Community, MAPLE’s advantageChapter 6 7 sec
ClosingChapter 7 5 sec
Moral developmentChapter 8 1 sec
“How do you get someone interested in what is truly good?”Chapter 9 3 sec
Linking / meta-psychologyChapter 10 3 sec
Community ethics feedback loopsChapter 11 3 sec
Objective ethicsChapter 12
Embodied ethical sensingChapter 13 4 sec
Intersection between Trauma & Ethics, desensitization, somatic de-armoringChapter 14 3 sec
Trust, return of the SacredChapter 15 4 sec
The Moral ExemplarChapter 16 1 sec
Exposure to the full ethical rangeChapter 17 1 hr 34 mins
“Trauma” in culture