The Flynn Skidmore Podcast

When Is This Version of You Ready to Die

Flynn Skidmore

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The central question: is violent self-murder ever necessary, or is it actually the part of us refusing to consent to a death that's already trying to happen?

I share what came up for me sitting with that question, starting with a week of post-dental agony that led me to something I want you to feel more than understand: all you are is space, and what we are looking for in every choice we make is the non-refusal of space.

That space is filled with what I call the three-blade ceiling fan: creation, maintenance, and destruction, spinning so fast you cannot distinguish them. When creation slows and maintenance takes over, destruction comes in. The question is whether we consent to it or fight it.

My hope is that you walk away with a felt sense of the intelligence that's already at work in you, and the understanding that you probably don't have to learn how to destroy the versions of yourself that need to go. You just have to learn how to stop refusing the destruction that's already underway.

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