The Mystical Strands Are Much Deeper and Richer.

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i think all mystical sects, from islam, judaism and christianity, tend to share some belief about the one and the oneness. And i know that there there were at least some gnostic views that there was a spark of divinity in all humans that was essentially part ofe, like the divine. The relaxing point is really interesting, and i have noticed vicerally, is when you start thinking like this, your body automatically really relaxes. But if you don't like, i think he makes it sound like this really is all cognitive, and i wonder to what extent a big part of this is also bodily. It's just like this magical, like

David and Tamler dive into David Foster Wallace’s celebrated and surprisingly earnest Kenyon College commencement speech “This is Water”. How can we escape the prison and prism of our (literally) self-centered perspective? Can we choose to adjust our natural default settings, take a break from our running inner monologue, and pay attention to what’s in front of us right now? Is DFW appealing to Buddhist ideas or something more general that you can be found across all spiritual traditions?

Plus we ask the AI ethics program “Ask Delphi” some tough moral questions (spoiler alert: "just the tip" is "rude"), and almost get into a big fight about the potential of AI ethical robots (but we’re saving that argument for a future episode).