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The Hierarchy You Actually Need

What if some hierarchies help us grow and actualize, rather than oppress and dominate? 🤯 #shorts ➡️ Enter the growth hierarchy, a core idea in Integral Theory that flips our assumptions about power and development. 🔍 What are holons? The building blocks of the universe. Watch here → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHuV9sbGML0&t=417s ##IntegralTheor #growth #selfactualization #consciousness #philosophy

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Overcoming Nihilism in the Between / Brittney Hartley

Brittany Hartley is a coach who works with really bright people struggling with Nihilism. I was very moved by her and our dialogue. Brittany’s channel: No Nonsense Spirituality | Britt Hartley Britt Hartley is a certified atheist spiritual director with a Master’s in Theology focusing on the future of American religion. She wrote the bestselling

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The Paradox of Enlightenment: Why Seeking Prevents Finding

Watch the full presentation here: What if the very act of seeking spiritual fulfillment is what prevents us from finding it? In this mind-expanding (and mind-transcending) exploration, renowned psychiatrist and contemplative scholar Roger Walsh reveals a profound paradox at the heart of advanced spiritual practice: the deepest satisfaction can only be discovered by not wanting

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The Crisis of Being

Previous episode: https://youtu.be/wx6C3neSD78 James Filler is a philosopher, theologian, and leading voice in metaphysics and post-Cartesian thought, specializing in substance ontology, the meaning crisis, and relational models of reason. With a PhD in philosophy and expertise in ancient and contemporary ontology, Filler is the author of Heidegger, Neoplatonism, and the History of Being Relation as

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Keynes WARNED us in 1947 – The Dollar System Is a Suicide Pact

In 1947, John Maynard Keynes warned the U.S. about the fatal flaw of making the dollar the world’s reserve currency. The U.S. didn’t listen. By choosing power, America locked itself into Triffin’s Dilemma — a system that ultimately leads to impoverish its middle class, inflate global debt, and end in collapse. Watch how the very

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Secure Attachment 101: interview with a community organiser’s mom

Richard D. Bartlett talked with Jeannine Roberts to learn more about her approach to parenting. It’s a quest to understand more about her son Andrew Rose, co-founder of Fractal NYC: what is the magic ingredient that can make someone into such a generous and effective community organiser? Interview with Andrew here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoyJmUNWBMI

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Lynn Rothschild | The Ultimate in Extreme Ecology: Life Off-Planet for Science and Settlement

Lynn J. Rothschild is a research scientist at NASA Ames and Adjunct Professor at Brown University and Stanford University working in astrobiology, evolutionary biology and synthetic biology. Rothschild’s work focuses on the origin and evolution of life on Earth and in space, and in pioneering the use of synthetic biology to enable space exploration. From

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Blaise AgĂĽera y Arcas | What is Intelligence?

In What is Intelligence?, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, VP, Fellow and CTO of Technology & Society at Google, explores what intelligence really is, and how AI’s emergence is a natural consequence of evolution. Encompassing decades of theory, existing literature, and recent artificial life experiments, Agüera y Arcas’ research argues that certain modern AI systems do

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Time Spent With Friends Changes Your Brain

Functional neurochemistry reveals a powerful truth: texting a friend lights up your brain somewhat—but in-person connection activates a far richer neurochemical cascade. 🧬 Face-to-face time engages multiple bonding and reward systems, including: Oxytocin (social bonding) Serotonin (mood regulation) Endogenous opioids (comfort, connection) Cannabinoids (pleasure modulation) Meanwhile, texting shows only limited activation—primarily dopamine and cannabinoids, with

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