The Two Tongues Podcast

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Finally wrangled Kyle for another Two Tongues show! This one has a little something for everyone. -A story about Chris' encounter with one of Jeffrey Dahmer's childhood friends -Some mystical, Jungian ideas on how to mine the Unconscious -And a deep dive into the connection between the Virgin Mary and the Great Mother Goddess of the Stone Age youtu.be/Yphi9AyDZzE

You know how in a dream, every character is you, imagine that in this dream of life, every character is God

@isjuustadream 💯

The true minority

Are we not Beaker People? Is there an indigenous rights movement for the Beaker People?

You cannot stand outside yourself to point at the source of your awareness. Why? Because the moment you try to point at it, you're already viewing from a new position...however, this apparent limitation reveals something profound: -> You can trace a trajectory of awareness moving "backward" toward its source -> This trajectory isn't moving through physical space but through the structure of consciousness itself -> What you discover isn't a "thing" you can point to...because anything pointable-to would already be an object of awareness, not awareness itself -> You arrive at a sense of a "no-thingness" from which our awareness emerges...what you might call the ground of consciousness

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Today's Opinion Scholarship is on 2 visions from Carl Jung's Red Book, which brilliantly depict his personal inner struggle between scientific truth and spiritual enlightenment. Come and get it... youtu.be/-sqrPz-xJwY?si…

@Gnosisinformant Not sure constitutes “cold as hell” in Florida, but I’m waking up to a nearly 60 degree high in Cleveland, in March, so I couldn’t be happier. BTW yesterday it was 20

It’s cold as hell in Florida right now and it’s literally the Spring Equinox. You try to leave Buffalo NY and the terrestrial Daemons just want to follow you.

El cuerpo puede cambiar pero el alma nunca cambia.

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Carl Jung would induce a waking, lucid dream state so that he could investigate the contents of the Unconscious. He called this 'active imagination.' I dont have this particular skill, but... I think I found my own process for investigating the Unconscious! Join me for my first attempt, which I've called "FLASHES OF INSIGHT" youtu.be/_JMzQDMfrmA?si…

The story of Nora Vincent, the feminist writer who lived as a man for 18 months to expose male privilege. She said she was treated so horribly by women. An experience that ultimately broke her. She later took her own life. 💔

I still can’t believe the two greatest Carls from Hungary & Switzerland collaborated. First published in 1941 in German then translated to English in 1949 by Princeton. Philology meets psychology to examine mythology. We need more crossovers today like they did back then.

@Gnosisinformant I don’t know this existed until this moment. Very cool.

I get that. “The Tao that can be spoken of, is not the eternal Tao.” I agree that words attempt to confine the unconfinable, limit the infinite, which gives us a false sense of understanding. I cycle through names/metaphors as well. One of my favorites is the “Ouroboros” from Egyptian myth. The serpent swallowing its own tail. That which is born from itself. The paradoxical union of opposites! You can play with that symbolism til kingdom come.

@TwoTonguesPod @RationalPanthe1 Agreed, but for me no fixed name defines it completely, and "God" carries heavy historical baggage. That's why I cycle through Tao, Absolute, Great Spirit, and others.

Why is it that so many people bizarrely believe that pantheism is not monotheism or not even a form of theism? monotheism = one God, pantheism = God is All (one God) theism = believes in God, pan*theists* = believers in God

Gotcha! So is it the impersonal nature of Tao that keeps you from attaching the word “God” to it? I can see how an impersonal monad might fail the criteria for a traditional “God”…even the monotheistic variety, but here’s my take. If we are indistinct from Tao (all is One), and we have personhood, then we are the aspect of Tao that is personal. Therefore Tao is, in some way, personal. Curious what you make of that. But you can see why I have less resistance to the term “God” in the context of the monad.

@TwoTonguesPod @RationalPanthe1 We're all contingent parts of it. I go by Tao Tuner because seeing myself as a tuner within the flow creates inner alignment with our spontaneous generative nature.

@Taotuner @RationalPanthe1 And what about your relationship to Tao? Are you a part of it? Is your existence contingent on it?

@TwoTonguesPod @RationalPanthe1 Yes, the 'One' is the Tao, not a proper name, but an impersonal dynamic informational flux far from equilibrium, generative yet without intent or personhood by its very nature.

@Taotuner @RationalPanthe1 So “the One” or monad in your view is “the Tao”? What relationship, if any, do you allow between Tao and the concept of “divine”? I ask this question because “divine” and “divinity” aren’t far apart as ideas. If Tao is divine, how far away are we from associating Tao and God.

@TwoTonguesPod @RationalPanthe1 I don’t necessarily think so. Monism doesn’t imply any particular view about gods. Personally, my metaphysics is closer to Taoism.