This is somethingtht. I think part of why i wanted to start my podcasting and release more episodes is to kind of, like really look at this point around whall we call trama, or emotional healing and ethics. So there's, in one sense, a pretty precise biological definition of what trama is in the brain and how that works. But then there's this word trama that we use, which is used very broadly to describe terrible things that happen to peopleor things that people experience are terrible. And as we already said, like if you maintain your moral sensitivity, like the kind of moral sensitivity had when you were like seven or eight years old, you would
In this first conversation after a year sabbatical from the Emerge project I'm speaking with Zak Stein. This is a far ranging conversation about ethics, education, trauma, the erotics of moral understanding, and more.
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Show Notes
- 0:00 Opening
- 0:03 How to create the kinds of humans who can respond to the meta-crisis?
- 0:08 “We’re not sure what it means to be good anymore” / what’s worth loving
- 0:09 Eros and Ethics / Ensoulment
- 0:17 Moral development
- 0:23 “How do you get someone interested in what is truly good?”
- 0:25 Linking / meta-psychology
- 0:29 Community ethics feedback loops
- 0:33 Objective ethics
- 0:37 Embodied ethical sensing
- 0:38 Intersection between Trauma & Ethics, desensitization, somatic de-armoring
- 0:43 Trust, return of the Sacred
- 0:47 The Moral Exemplar
- 0:52 Exposure to the full ethical range
- 0:54 “Trauma” in culture
- 0:62 Evil
- 0:68 Practices for Wellbeing
- 0:72 “Enlightenment is your greatest disappointment”
- 0:74 Eros & Ethics
- 0:77 Human as ethical actor, intimacy and obligation
- 0:81 Circling, following “aliveness”, co-discovering moral landscape
- 0:85 Path = compromising moral integrity increasingly intolerable
- 0:88 Ethics in Community, MAPLE’s advantage
- 0:90 Closing