27/07/2020
EPISODE 1 - THOUGHT, ITSELF
Here it is! It only took about a month to prepare, but I'm proud and thankful to have done it. Referencing the work of physicist and consciousness thinker, David Bohm, on the nature of reality and human existence, into a 30 minute, sound designed, podcast episode - no problem!
New topic next month. Weekly interviews and stories and music, in between.
We'll be moving to iTunes and Spotify once we hit 4 episodes, so for now, please enjoy and stream on Bandcamp, and here on my personal favorite software program of all time-- facebook.
Headphones recommended, it's about 30 minutes, bit of ride and groove. Hope ya enjoy and thank you for support and taking a listen!
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INTRO -
What if there was a thing, that if we saw, we would have insight into our conscious evolution?
What if that thing, also could not be seen, because it has no "proprioception" -- no ability to recognize itself?
What if this thing, has brought us to where we are today, with all our divisions and conflicts, and this escalating sense problems in the world today?
Outwardly, our advancements are obvious, technologically impressive.
Inwardly, however, we experience the same problems that have existed throughout our history of human kind, a cycle of problem/reform/problem/reform, and consider this, our evolution.
Where is our inward advancement as a human kind?
Is there not an absence of attention to the process of thought, and an over emphasis on the substance of thought?
Is there a distinction between ourselves, and what we think, or Thought?
Bohm asks us to look at things that thought has created, like drawing changing lines on Earth, and calling them countries, and asks us to consider, is nationalism a fact of life, like the sun, or an idea we cannot seem to be able to let go of, even if it does not serve us collectively?
Or, are our identities as a function of thought: I am Dutch, I am Persian, I am Catholic, I am Atheist, I am black, I am brown, I am white.
This episode asks, why? Where do these ideas of ourselves come from? And how are these ideas of ourselves preventing us from addressing the source of the problems were experiencing, if not causing them at the same time?
That is what this episode is about: that slippery, illusive, seemingly all encompassing thing, called, Thought, Itself — what it has done, what it does, how it acts, how it fragments and distorts our reality— and our simultaneous human desire for an inward revolution in human consciousness.
Perhaps the answers we seek are not about the substance of our thoughts, but about a look at -- Thought, Itself.
This episode looks at the work of physicist and consciousness thinker, David Bohm, on Thought, Itself, as an operational system, acting without our conscious awareness, and contrary to a unified whole reality.
track by Sammy Elmi