The Implications of Perception and Ways of Looking

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Sally Kohn: I want to explore the people and ideas that are creating the next paradigm from my perspective of the human experiment. What is it going to take to get us through what I see as this threshold of potential extinction, especially regarding the ecological crisis and the mental health crisis? And so I wonder if you can just unpack a little bit. It's like, it's a really powerful question. So why can't I perceive things as sacred? Or why don't I? What's happened in our culture? We can trace it historically.

In this conversation with meditation teacher and author Rob Burbea we discuss the role of fantasy in meditation, the purpose of what Rob calls the 'Soulmaking Dharma' and some common traps that can obstruct our connection with beauty on the contemplative path. This was the first conversation I had with Rob (there are two more you can listen to in the Emerge podcast stream). For various reasons I decided not to release it immediately after we recorded it, feeling that the subsequent conversations did a better job of communicating what I wanted to communicate. There were also some nasty recording problems that made it difficult at times for the conversation to be fluid and flowing. In any case this is a lovely coversation and I hope you enjoy! 🙏