Escape From Yourself

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The idea that we need to escape ourselves is a really important piece of being human. There are a huge number of traps we can escape from ourselves and then not deal with our problems. To get to the other side of this chasm requires us to do something in preparation before we cross the chasm, and that is to identify the sacred. I found an anchor of the sacred that i needed to serve i was part of myself. So when i go through nihilism and have a crisis of self, part of myself is anchored to the sacred. In the last two years, i crossed this chasm myself. The thing that's sacred is i'm responsible for my child's future while she

Our guest in this episode is Joe Brewer, Executive Director at the Center for Applied Cultural Evolution. Joe is a complexity researcher, cognitive scientist, and evangelist for regenerative culture design. We invited him onto the show because we felt that our ideas about adult development, rites of passage, and overcoming the chasm of nihilism strongly resonated with his thinking and work on cultural evolution. This interview turned out to be very dense and we talked about complex subjects, so we divided the episode in two parts.

In Part 1 we talk about what kind of education we need in order to prepare for an evolutionary transition, why even intellectuals can’t wrap their heads around climate change, and the importance of the grieving process for psychological and spiritual growth.

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