“Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.”

In this episode, we step outside the mind’s demand for practicality and question what that word is really protecting.

Practicality often masquerades as neutrality, but it’s deeply personal, contextual, and identity-shaping. What seems sensible in one frame can quietly limit vitality, creativity, and presence in another.

We explore:

• How practicality becomes an identity rather than a tool

• Why “being busy” often passes for being practical

• The difference between practical vision, effort, and activity

• How rushing is a prediction the body carries

• Why impracticality can restore creative flow and nervous-system regulation

Impracticality isn’t rebellion or chaos.

It’s a way of interrupting automatic continuity—long enough to notice what’s alive.

Sometimes the most practical thing we can do

is stop being legible to the past.

Now go play.

The world is waiting for you to remember the wonder that is your real inheritance.

(You can blame us when you’re late.)

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Join us as we take a jaunt out of the mind’s need for practical answers. What happens when we stretch the edges of what seems useful and necessary? Where in your life has practicality become limiting and fear-based? Listen in for an invitation to live a little more impractically—and discover what becomes possible when usefulness loosens its grip.

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“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.” — Alan Watts

When a bone breaks, we don’t heal it—we cast it.

Not to fix it, but to stop ourselves from interfering while something deeper does the work.

In this episode, we explore how emotional and mental wounds behave the same way. Thought keeps “touching” the injury—replaying, analyzing, defending—and that interference becomes the pain.

Healing doesn’t require more effort.

It requires less agitation.

Sometimes distance, delay, or not getting what we want is life creating space for repair. Step back from the details and let something new form on its own.

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