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Welcome to my podcast A Deeper Perspective. In this podcast I attempt to go much deeper into topics than almost everyone around. The many things I talk about are: philosophy, psychology, the mind, spirituality, metacognition, how to deal with emotions, the mind, life, and more.

David


    • May 21, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    What can we actually know: an experiential look

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 18:26


    What we knowledge, and what we have experienced are two entirely different things. For instance, I may think I know that Alaska exists, but if I've never been there, all I have is second-hand knowledge. But if I've been there, learned the culture of Alaska, experienced the cold weather, then that is first-hand knowledge. One is not better or superior to another, it's just knowledge. This is not about knowing more, but about reaching an intellectual humility about life.

    What if emotions don't mean what you think they do?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 13:08


    understanding the contradiction of freedom

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2025 10:42


    Ultimate freedom leads to ultimate chaos. To have more freedom means to have at least some structure, rules, and laws. In this episode, I will explain why

    Does the ego actually exist? An experiential guide

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2025 10:25


    The truth is that the idea of ego is nothing but a map to understand the mind. The sooner you understand this, the better off you will be.

    The miracle that is awareness: a meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2025 13:38


    So many things are taken for granted in our fast-paced lifestyle. But in this episode, I will show the miracles that are all around us, starting with the greatest miracle of all: awareness

    The survival mindset is inevitable and impossible to get rid of: this is why

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 26:26


    Even our spiritual seeking is part of the survival mindset

    Understanding the impermanent self: an experiential view

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 15:16


    What we consider to be ourselves are just impermanent thoughts, eomotions, and sensations. In this episode, I will show how this is so.

    In a moment of absence of arrogance: why I'm really leaving this podcast behind

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2025 25:06


    I felt that it was time to leave. I no longer find this interesting, and I must learn not to be arrogant.

    Goodbye... This is the end of the road for this podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2025 16:43


    This is the last episode for this podcast. I hope you all have a nice rest of your life.

    The thinking podcast: people don't know how to think, because they haven't been taught how to think

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2024 141:27


    Many people haven't been taught how to think. In this episode, I will teach you why, and some reasons why this will probably continue into the future.

    Understanding why most people cannot be self-aware

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2024 104:11


    Being self-aware requires discipline, an ability to make distinctions, and going anti self, which most people will not do.

    Warning!!!! This podcast is like a burning flame burning all of your illusions away

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2024 56:27


    These illlusions make you full of shit

    The sillyness of needing to deal with your emotions

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2024 98:29


    The craziest thing is that people think they need to placate their emotions: but the pvoblem is that this makes you weaker.

    Everyone's full of shit. Why? Because no one has been taught how to think.

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2024 79:55


    Logic is the only answer. It is the only thing that can teach us how to think.

    the stupidity of politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2024 49:49


    Politics be stupid. People be triggered by this. What else is new?

    Why taking things seriously is not worth the trouble

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2024 40:02


    When you take shit seriously, you believe your own bullshit.

    Why I'm changing this podcast into something different, and why I'm becoming less serious

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2024 33:42


    Bullshit is common.

    The consequences of morality: how morality creates problems for you and the world

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2024 49:26


    What is morality really how does it work. These are questions. We ask ourselves in this episode and we're going to go into what reality is how it works how it creates problems and how to go beyond morals, and in some possible way of witness.

    why morality and dogmas can make us inferior

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2024 21:49


    Unlearn life and everything

    Nonreactivity vs peace: What is the difference?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2024 12:48


    Nonreactivity and peace are two very different things. In this episode, I will explain how this is, and why nonreactivity is more about awareness than anything else.

    Nonreactivity vs avoidance, understanding the difference

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 53:54


    Nonreactivity, or what would more accurately be called noninterference is where you are aware of things as they are happening, without interfering with them. In this episode I will explain the difference between that and avoidance of what is.Here's the episode I mentioned in this episode:The cost of peace: why peace can lead to too much comfort and conplacency; https://open.spotify.com/episode/2CWyBuo27k1VLh4QWtQaVB?si=658SFOOTRmWjp3pezmT3hw

    Understanding the purpose of nonreactivity, and how to do this practice

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2024 29:18


    Nonreactivity is where you sit with thoughts and emotions without interfering into what they are doing. In this episode, I am going to show you how to do this, as well as the purposse for doing this practice, especially every day.

    Why doing what feels natural doesn't work

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2024 33:16


    Doing what feels natural is what is called reacting to life. While reacting to life might seem normal enough, it creates a lot of problems for you that you are not aware of. In this episode, I will explain why this is, and how to go beyond this over a period of time.

    Understanding why you cannot control anything: a guide to destroying your ideas of superiority and better

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2024 55:06


    The truth is that you cannot control anything. In this episode, I will explain why this is true, and how you can become aware of this.

    This is why you cannot serve two masters

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2024 14:15


    To serve two masters is like chasing two rabbits at the same time that are going into opposite directions.

    Understanding the two kinds of emptiness and what they mean

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2024 14:41


    There are two kinds of emptiness, subjective and objective emptiness. In this episode, I will show you why subjective emptiness is an illusion, and how objective emptiness is all there is.

    Debunking, and going beyond the true self

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2024 23:07


    In this episode, I will show you why there is no true self, as well as how the self was created in the first place

    Why opinions trick you, and how to tell the difference between an opinion and an observation

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2024 31:37


    be Opinions are tricky. Your mind is very good at tricking you into leaving that this one idea is true or false and I wanna talk to you about this and I want to help you to go on opinions and show you the differences between opinions and observations so that you can Get a sense of these two and how they work differently

    why seeking novelty doesn't work and why sticking to tried and true methods will work instead

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2024 15:31


    Many people seek novelty in their experiences, the latest fads, and the grandest spiritual experiences. But the more I attempt to become nonreactive, the more I realize that just won't fly if you want stability and something that works for you long term. You may just find that the tried and true methods work the best because they have been tried the most and so have the most experienced people working on them to show you how it's all done.

    Notice the sillyness: some signs that your practice of nonreactivity is working.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2024 10:53


    When you practice non-reactivity for a while certain things may start to happen to you. You may start to see the silliness in all of your thoughts and emotions. You may start to notice how uncontrollable they really are things like this. This is one thing we will be talking about in this episode.

    practice signs sillyness
    Why reacting to life causes suffering

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2024 18:33


    In buddhism one of the three poisons is ignorance. In this episode, I will explain why this is, and how reacting to life to life creates this ignorance over time.

    Deconstructing and going beyond need

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2024 39:11


    In this episode, I will explain to you how need is an illusion, and creates all kinds of implicit assumptions that are harmful to you and others, and how you can go beyond need itself. Enjoy.

    You don't have to get everything right the first time: deconstructing failure

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2024 29:40


    There are all kinds of implicit assumptions about failure which create the need to get all of life right the first time. This creates a lot of pressure and stress that is unnecessary and causes you many problem's. In this episode, I will talk about this and more, to hopefully get you to a place of knowledge and awareness of how this all works, and leads to the need to get all of it right the first time. I will also give you a new metric for dealing with failure that will create less stress and inadequacy within.,, ,.

    Acceptance is not something that you do

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2024 14:04


    Many spiritual texts seem to suggest that acceptance is something that you do, but I find that this is not true. Acceptance is when all judgments are let go of. This is the key of acceptance.

    Deconstructing, and going beyond need: a practice-based episode

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2024 39:11


    This episode will show you why need is an illusion.

    Meditation: how seeing emotions as just sensations in the body makes them less powerful

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2024 21:51


    The only reason why emotions seem powerful is because you give them meaning and interpret life based on what you think they are saying.

    Why I don't make episodes with opinions anymore.

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2024 13:27


    Opinions and journal-based recordings are often inaccurate, and so if I record them, I will not share them here, and will look through them with a skeptical mindset to find the flaws, and if it merits recording it again, I will, but from more of a observational mindset, rather than an opinion-based one.

    Understanding how noninterferance works when meditating

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2024 28:57


    We are controlling beings and this ends up creating a situation where we interfere with everything that happens in our minds. We label things that's good bad or neutral and the good or bad things we have to resist or attached to in our minds. in this episode. I'm going to explain to you how to become non-interfering using a meditation that I have developed.

    Understanding the emptiness and why it can never be fulfilled

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2024 22:07


    There is an emptyness where where there are things you want vs reality. This episode will show you how to get used to, rather than trying to get rid of this emptiness.

    How I use my three principles of awareness, clarity, and and nuance in every day life

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2024 23:21


    This is the link to the episode about using awareness practicallyhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/3fhWLxasiVcNDVNTD1Ttj4?si=vGsFfKKfTP233tkyJSb4TA&t=65

    We are all standing on the shoulders of giants

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2024 19:55


    Eything that we have now and know is all because of millions of people from the past, that leads to what we are now.

    How your response to nihilism creates dualities within you

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2024 34:55


    nihilism only creates depression and pessimism within you because you need something that nihilism cannot deliver

    How nihilism is the ultimate responsibility

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2024 39:34


    With most world views, meanings, ideas, etc. you can just go along without needing to do anything different from those ideas, but with nihilism there is no such thing from these places. There's only one response. What can I do? I can't do anything for a specific meaning place This meaning place is place that is beyond meaning is nihilism as it is this can create ultimate freedom or ultimate confusion it's all up to you.

    The human animal duality: how we have created the illusion of the superiority of humans over animals

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2024 20:01


    We are all animals. This is what many want to ignore. In this episode, I will explain how this creates a wall between you and reality and how to notice this wall once again.

    Why local rights may be more advantageous than state's rights.

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2024 16:47


    Many conservatives champion state's rights, but in this episode, I will explain why this may be less advantageous than local rights.

    Understanding the nuances of relativism and objective thinking

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2024 25:10


    Relativism and objective thinking have been demonized by different, groups, so in this episode, I will explain these terms, their caveats, and show you when they can be used, and when they just bring confusion.

    The dualism of new age spirituality explained

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2024 32:30


    Much of new age spirituality is very dualistic in its thinking. Love vs fear. Fear is false evidence appearing rear. Love is the spirit, ego just bad and false. In this episode, I will tell you why this type of thinking may hurt more than it helps.

    How Skepticism can go wrong. The two things that look like skepticism but aren't.

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2024 13:26


    The two forms of skepticism are dogmatism and confusion. In this episode, I will explain how each works, and what to look out for.

    The illusion of reality dispelled: understanding what reality really is through meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2024 27:13


    What is reality really how does your mind construct reality or does it construct reality at all in this episode? I'm going to explain exactly what's happening here and I'm going to teach you a meditation technique to help you deconstruct your narratives from reality to experience reality ultimately is.

    how being nonreactive is the ultimate form of mindfulness

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2024 20:18


    Many people may think meditation requires you to observe yourself, but that itself is part of the control mindset. The control mindset puts everything in boxes, but that's not what mindfulness truly is, and in this episode, I explain this, and what the control mindset looks like.

    How to simplify your life: the nuanced version

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2024 24:13


    Often times when people tell you to simplify your life, they don't give you a whole lot of nuances. They don't really give you a whole lot of caveat and this is what this really means and what not and so I decided to do this episode to give you some of that to explain to you what this really means and what this really could look like for you.

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