“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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Today’s episode explores a quiet but destabilizing realization: the “I” cannot be found. It has never been directly experienced, yet it is assumed to stand behind all experience.

We examine how this inherited linguistic structure and emotional habit comes to feel essential to seeing, hearing, and feeling—and what becomes obvious when that belief is cut at the root. This conversation points to what is already the case, and the clarity that remains without reference to a central “self.”

This Conversation Is for You If

• You’re curious about the felt sense of “I”

• Self-inquiry keeps circling but not landing

• Language feels like it’s doing more than describing

• You’re open to clarity without a reference point

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In This Episode

We explore the difference between possibility and positivity—and why confusing the two quietly keeps us trapped.

Possibility is not optimism. It is not hope, reframing, or emotional correction. It is neutral, dimensionless, and unbound by history or expectation. This episode invites a shift out of linear narratives and into the vast field where no trajectory is required.

This Conversation Is for You If

• Positivity feels forced or vaguely dishonest

• You sense that hope still carries pressure

• You’re curious about living without a timeline or track

• You want relief without needing a better story

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is — infinite.”

— William Blake

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What is fear, and what gets built around it?

This episode explores fear as an architecture shaped by the search for safety. We trace the trembling scaffold beneath our thoughts and identities and ask a simple, destabilizing question: what are we actually trying to stay safe from? A quiet dose of Wonder Land medicine for living inside a matrix of fear without rushing to escape it.

This Conversation Is for You If

• Fear feels subtle but ever-present

• Safety quietly organizes your choices

• You’re willing to stay with the tremble instead of fixing it

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What existed before we learned how to manage ourselves

In This Episode

We explore the idea of First Nature—the original, untrained intelligence of the body and nervous system—before optimization, self-improvement, or survival strategies took over.

In this conversation, we touch on:

• The difference between First Nature (innate regulation) and Second Nature (learned adaptation)

• How productivity, politeness, and “coping skills” often override embodied knowing

• Why so much healing work is actually about remembering, not fixing

• What becomes available when the body is trusted before the mind intervenes

This Conversation Is for You If

• You’re tired of managing yourself

• You sense your body knows things your thoughts don’t

• You’ve done “the work” but feel further from ease

• You’re curious what remains when strategies fall away

Playful Invitation

For one ordinary moment today, pause before adjusting yourself.

Notice what your body is already doing right—without instruction.

Closing Reflection

First Nature doesn’t need motivation, permission, or language.

It isn’t optimized, moralized, or curated.

It moves toward balance because that is what living systems do—

when they are no longer interrupted.

Featured Closing Line

Before we learned how to survive ourselves, we already knew how to live.

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What if free will is just a story thought tells? This episode explores the subtle “glue” that turns events into a personal narrative—and how blame, guilt, and shame fall away when that glue dissolves.

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