The Observing I Podcast

A podcast about philosophy, psychology, and the human experience. Pirate radio for the mind. New episode every Tuesday.

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Time for another episode. Carlos Castenada. Go. #philosophy #psychedelics #podcast

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If a bird flew into your living room and screamed "Attention," would you listen, or just try to find the nearest slingshot? We're looking at Huxley’s final novel, Island, and the possibility of a culture built on waking up rather than staying asleep. #Mindfulness #TheObservingI

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I need to stop playing Frostpunk and start writing the Carlos Castenada script for next week...

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Tyranny doesn't always need a boot on a face. Sometimes it just needs a very comfortable chair and a high definition screen. Today, I'm exploring Aldous Huxley and his vision of the cage of our own making. New episode out now.

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Tomorrow, I've got an episode on Aldous Huxley. We're gonna crack open those doors of perception, explore the Brave New World, and it's counterpoint (his final book), Island.

You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get yours. Just search "The Observing I".

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Transformation isn't about leaving yourself behind. It's about staying in the room with yourself until you finally find the love that was there all along. New episode on the long road home is live.

#PersonalGrowth #RamDass #Wisdom

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Richard Alpert went to India looking for God through chemistry, only to find an old man in a blanket who swallowed a massive dose of LSD and stayed exactly where he was. It was the death of the expert and the beginning of the servant.

#Philosophy #Spirituality #BeHereNow

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We often imagine spiritual awakening as a moment of escape. A veil lifts, a door opens, and the false self finally falls away. But the life of Ram Dass suggests the path does not lead away from our humanity. It leads right back into it.

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Terence McKenna remains one of the most fascinating voices in modern psychedelic thought. Visionary, excessive, brilliant, and deeply human.

In this episode, I explore his life, his ideas, and the deeper question beneath them all: how do we stay open to mystery without losing ourselves in it?

#TerenceMcKenna #Consciousness #Philosophy

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A new season begins.

Welcome to The Realm of the Psychonauts. A series exploring altered states, expanded consciousness, spiritual longing, psychological risk, and the strange places people go when they try to move beyond the ordinary limits of the mind.

We’re beginning with Timothy Leary. Not just the icon. Not just the slogan. But the man beneath the mythology, and the deeper question his life still leaves behind.

What are we really looking for when we say we want freedom? And what happens when the search for awakening starts to become a form of escape?

This first episode explores consciousness, ego, transcendence, spectacle, and the uneasy line between revelation and performance.

The new episode is out now.

#timothyleary #philosophy #psychedlics

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Emil Cioran wrote thirty books arguing that existence was fundamentally not worth the inconvenience. He lived to eighty-four, outlived Sartre, outlived Camus, and spent his afternoons feeding stray cats in a Paris park.

Pessimism wasn't his conclusion. It was his method. And it kept him sharper, cleaner, and more alive than every optimist who ever tried to sell him a reason to get out of bed.

What if the most honest thing you could do isn't find a better story, but stop needing one altogether?

The season finale of Fire and Ice is live. #TheObservingI #Existentialism #Philosophy

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A German Marxist mystic spent 92 years saying three words. Not yet. The Nazis exiled him for it. The East Germans fired him for it. The students of 1968 made him a saint for it.

Ernst Bloch built a philosophy out of the gap between what your life is and what you can feel it should be. That gap isn't your weakness. It's the most accurate thing about you. Episode 143 is live.

#Philosophy #ErnstBloch #TheObservingI

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He was one of the most brilliant Marxist philosophers in Poland. Then he looked too closely.

Expelled from the Party. Expelled from his university. Exiled from his country. And from a study in Oxford he wrote the most devastating intellectual autopsy of the twentieth century, proving that Stalinism wasn't a betrayal of Marx's ideas. It was their logical conclusion.

But this episode isn't about Marxism. It's about what you find on the other side of destroying the thing you built your life around. And the question it leaves you with is personal.

What are you refusing to examine because you already know what you'll find?

#Philosophy #Existentialism #TheObservingI

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Jan Patočka was interrogated for 11 hours at age 69 for signing Charter 77, a document asking the government to honour commitments it had already made on paper.

He suffered a brain haemorrhage and died 10 days later.

This is what living in truth actually costs.

New episode of The Observing I.

#philosophy #theobservingi

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You are not one person. You never were.

Mikhail Bakhtin believed that the self is not a monologue but a dialogue, that you are not finished and never will be, that every coherent identity you perform is a lie told to an audience that isn't even watching.

This is the episode where we take apart the myth of the singular self. Where we explore why consciousness is a conversation with no ending. Where we stand on the threshold between who you think you are and who you're still becoming. Where we discover that the voices arguing in your head aren't a bug. They're the only proof you're still alive.

Stop trying to finish yourself. Stop curating coherence. Stop performing the completed self for an algorithm that doesn't care and an audience that doesn't exist.

You are unfinished. That's not a failure. That's the only thing keeping you real.

#DialogicConsciousness #UnfinishedSelf #ExistentialPhilosophy

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Dostoevsky wrote novels where people argue about God for three hundred pages because he understood that your philosophy isn't abstract. It's the blueprint for how you'll live, love, suffer, and die.

#Philosophy #Dostoevsky #ExistentialPhilosophy #Existentialism #PhilosophyPodcast

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Count how many times you said "it is what it is" this week. Now count how many of those times you actually meant it. The rest? That's surrender disguised as wisdom. We're talking about it this week. Go to https://t.co/azHFv1hDkG, or search "The Observing I" on Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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September 1922: Lenin put a philosopher on a boat and told him never to come back. Why? Because Nikolai Berdyaev knew something dangerous. That freedom doesn't come from God, it comes BEFORE God. That you're not trapped by systems, you're addicted to them. That the cage is unlocked and you keep walking back inside because being free is fucking terrifying.

He survived exile, occupation, and 26 years of loneliness to warn you about one thing: You're volunteering for your own slavery. Every day. Every optimized routine. Every algorithm you follow.

He saw it coming in 1922. The question he died asking is still waiting for your answer.

#Berdyaev #NikolaiBerdyaev #Philosophy #Existentialism #RussianPhilosophy #ChristianExistentialism #Freedom #PersonalFreedom #PhilosophyPodcast #TheObservingI

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Lev Shestov spent his entire life at war with the most dangerous idea in human history. Not God. Not death. Not the void. Reason itself. The belief that things must be as they are. That necessity is real. That if something can be explained, it's been understood.

He was wrong about a lot of things. But he was right about this: every system that makes your suffering make sense is also making your suffering permanent.

This week we go deep into the war between Athens and Jerusalem. Between reason and faith. Between the world as it must be and the world as it could be if you're brave enough to refuse the first one.

The algorithm already knows what you're going to do next. The question is whether you're going to let it.

#Shestov #Philosophy #Existentialism #AthensVsJerusalem #TheObservingI #FaithVsReason #Necessity #Freedom #AlgorithmicControl #RussianPhilosophy #ExistentialCrisis #PhilosophyPodcast #TechAndPhilosophy #Authenticity #MentalHealth #Rebellion #Spinoza