Basia's Thoughts
Basia's Thoughts is a podcast about what lies underneath things.
I follow patterns and unexpected connections through psychology, Bioenergetics, relationships, systems, consciousness, spirituality and non-duality (Advaita Vedanta) — from how our personalities are formed to what remains when we look beyond the person altogether.
Why do we react the way we do? What structures quietly shape our lives? What do meaning, beauty, love and awareness point toward? And can ideas from very different fields illuminate one another?
There are no tidy five-step answers here. Instead, I think out loud, question what seems obvious, and see whether looking one layer deeper leads us somewhere interesting.
Take this journey with me and with your questions and comments we will tread forth together, attempting to make sense of it all, or at least some of it. :)
Basia's Thoughts
EP5 Moving Towards Reality We Move Away from Suffering
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In this episode we continue talking about what is real. But now we also take into consideration something that is of great importance to us, namely suffering.
Through intuitive thinking we joyfully tie together:
- Computer simulations of evolutionary perception (see Donald Hoffman),
- The biology of perception,
- The Amygdala as the Judge of Good and Bad,
- The origin of suffering,
- How judgements move us away from reality,
- How judgements inflict violence on language (enter Marshall Rosenberg and nonviolent communication),
- How to move toward our natural, real language and connect with Reality
The view presented is that Reality is our essence, and that which is of value to us. When we move toward it, we become more alive and tend to move away from suffering.