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#66: Hope, Will, and Purpose
Erik Erikson, renowned psychoanalyst and student of Sigmund Freud, says we have these innate drives around which ego and consciousness are formed. Th…
10 months, 1 week ago
#65: Madness
In the Fools and Sages One Year Anniversary Episode, these fools discuss various aspects of the nature of “madness” and the role it plays in society,…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
#64: Glenna Gerard: Dialogue and the Ineffable
Glenna Gerard has been involved in education, business, and consulting for over 30 years, much of that as a practitioner, facilitator, and teacher of…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
#63: Master and Emissary
It seems we see the world through a somewhat warped perspective. Where everything is interconnected, we see individual elements. As a result, human b…
11 months, 1 week ago
#62: Justice and the Nature of Evil
The sentencing of Brian Kohberger in the infamous University of Idaho murders triggers a discussion of justice. What is justice, even? How have our c…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
#61: The Ladder Goes Both Ways
Does consciousness arise from matter, or does matter arise from consciousness? Or, wait: what about both??? These Fools discuss the often-revisited p…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
#60: The Search for Truth
These Fools examine humanity’s relationship to Truth - our desire for objective truth despite its subjective nature, and our love and reverence for i…
1 year ago
#59: The Second Coming (WB Yeats)
Brian reads the short poem, The Second Coming, by WB Yeats, written after WWI, and these Fools discuss its imagery, historical context, and philosoph…
1 year ago
#58: What is Anger?
These Fools examine anger through psychological and philosophical frameworks. Is it a “secondary emotion?” A signal of other internal material? What …
1 year ago
#57: Brian's Teachers
These Fools go into Brian’s history and discuss key teachers he had in his formative chapters learning fighting and later, internal martial arts. Bri…
1 year ago