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Culture Wars and Moral Panic
āMoral panic is always the mask that fear wears when it doesnāt want to heal.ā- Observation from modern psychology
Fear is persuasive. It rarely calls itself fear. It cloaks itself in the language of morality,...
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The Quiet Tyranny of Shame
"Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. Itās the fear that we are not good enough."Ā - BrenĆ© Brown
Shame doesnāt announce itself; it seeps in quietly, rewriting how we see ourselves and what we believe we deserve....
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The Prison of Comparison
āWhy compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.āComparison is a prison without locks, a cage built of glances, numbers, and unspoken rankings. It shrinks the...
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The Architecture of Beingness
āAccept the seasons of your heart just as you accept the seasons that pass over your fields.ā- Khalil Gibran
We live within shifting inner climates... winters of fear, summers of pride, long autumns of shame. These...
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The Cost of Avoidance
āWhen we are no longer able to change the situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. To suffer bravely, to find meaning in suffering, is to transform tragedy into triumph.ā- Viktor Frankl
Avoidance often feels...
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Calcination: Fire that Frees
āOne does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.ā- C. G. Jung
Spectacle often masquerades as strength, but beneath the noise sits something older and more brittleā¦...
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Mercy with a Spine
āI have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.ā - Abraham Lincoln
Mercy without accountability becomes enabling. Accountability without mercy becomes cruelty. This episode names the false...
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Two Pathways Out of Savagery
āNothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.ā ā Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A simple parable frames this teaching: a valley with two gates. James (Reason) keeps order....
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The Weight We Refuse
āThe psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite,...
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Attention is Your Altar
āMy experience is what I agree to attend to.ā - William James
Attention shapes reality. Think of the mind as a dark museum, and think of awareness as the guideās flashlight. Wherever the light points, that gallery...
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The War on Thought
āWherever attention goes, energy flows.ā
This episode is about taking back attention in a loud world. A simple story (a town that replaces library windows with mirrors) and a home experiment (a 30-day attention audit)...
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America Has Affluenza
āWealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.ā ā Epictetus
In this part of The Inner Rebellion: Calcination Series, the truth comes into focus about a sickness hiding in plain sight,...
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