Spokes of the Wheel podcasts range among the material presented by Ishi Nobu in his books, including the nature of existence and how and why humanity is wiping itself out.
Mental health is as simple as abiding inner quietude.
Sustaining inner silence is the ultimate skill. Simple practices help habituate quietude.
Mental illness is common because people believe what comes to mind.
Skill is a subconscious process. Intention is everything. Thought accomplishes nothing.
Belief is the bane of sensibility. Beliefs are the weeds in the mind crowding out clarity.
The mind traverses its own spacetime continuum to deal with what appears before it. Management of psychospace determines one's level of grace.
There are nominally 4 levels and 7 states of consciousness. Raising awareness elevates the enjoyment of living.
Our instrument for navigating through life - the mind - is itself treacherous.
The treatment of mental illness through history has been a sordid litany of miscomprehension, neglect, and abuse - sparsely laced with compassion.
Mental illness arises from the predations of inner evil. Mental health is the simple state of being present and unperturbed.
The history of psychology is littered with misconstruals about the mind, and thereby a litany of theories founded on ignorance. A rare few shine through with insight.
6 distinct, amply documented bodies of evidence prove that souls are immortal.
The architecture of existence is crafted as an entertainment platform for the consciousnesses that populate Nature. Existence is a symbolic construct to which we selectively construe meaning.
Evolution aims at sustaining life: creative adaptation reflecting environment circumstance. Evolution exemplifies the marvelous coherence by which Nature manifests.
The vital energy that renders life is Nature's most wondrous miracle - one that cannot be explained by mere molecules, just as intelligence has nothing to do with brains, which are only a liability.
Physics susses the mechanics of how existence emerges. There is a decided consensus by modern physicists on how the world works - and it is more mystical than many would like to admit.
Our worldview and our well-being are intertwined. The path to abiding mental health is only assured by knowing what is really going on.
Transcendence is the state of consciousness that ushers enlightenment. Here's how to attain it.
Mental health and enlightenment are synonyms for the ultimate skill.
A look at reviving the economy after the 2020 pandemic subsides.
The failure to comprehend capitalism as inherently inequitable is the reason people have not revolted against it.
Capitalism is an emotional, irrational economic system.
Price theory underpins the justification for capitalism. The failure of proper pricing is one reason why capitalism is so awry.
The only hope that humanity has to survive to the 22nd is an unprecedented adoption of compassionate cooperation.
What government has failed to do is how humanity has put itself on the precipice of extinction.
Rule of law has often been a ruse for plutocratic tyranny.
Elections can be ill in representing public will, and invariably sire societal divisiveness.
The US constitution was a botched job that Americans have inanely clung to like it was handed down from God.
Intellectually, ideology is a reflection of what role government ought to have in society. More poignantly, ideology is a doctrinal belief system based upon a person's emotional constitution.
Political thought has historically been a contemplation of the human condition and humanity's potential.
Politics defines the weave of a society's fabric. Polity has not proven an adept seamster.
This is the likely scenario for humanity's self-extinction.
Our chosen economic engine drove us to our self-extinction.
The oceans are dying from our abuse. They are rising in revenge.
Industrialized food has destroyed habitats and been the bane of decent diets.
Much environmental destruction owes to chemical concoctions providing modest conveniences.
Fossil-fueled engines have played an outsized role in our way of life, and in our self-destruction.
The world is undergoing an accelerating mass extinction event, thanks to technological carelessness. This show is distilled from Spokes 6: The Fruits of Civilization.
The monism of energyism accounts for all phenomena. Conceptually comprehending reality provides a map of the territory called Nature, and so provides the outlines of a path to making the most of living.
Coherence and Ĉonsciousness are the universal producer and consumer, respectively.
The essentials of existence are the makings of an ideal entertainment platform.
Subduing the mind is a process of will that becomes the ultimate skill.
The mind is a tool that wants to make you its fool.
The ontology (paradigmatic explanation) of existence is not what you've been led to believe.
Perception is the mental digestion of sensed symbols, in an ongoing appraisal for meaning.
A how-to for an easy, effective meditation practice.
Of the 7 states of human consciousness, 3 are familiar: awake, asleep, dreaming. The 4th state, transcendence, is a unique state of rest. Then there are 3 elevated states while awake, beginning with blissful enlightenment.
The Reality & Realization podcast show touches upon the nature of reality, states of consciousness, how the mind works, and how to advance your spiritual evolution. This show is a companion to the book Clarity: The Path Inside.