Podcast appearances and mentions of Douglas Harding

In this episode, we discuss Douglas Harding's seminal work, “On Having No Head” and its instructional revelations into self awareness, self actualization, and non-duality.

Ken Wilber, a visionary philosopher and mystic, is renowned for his integral "theory of everything" that unites diverse fields of knowledge. Often likened to the "Einstein of consciousness studies," he's a leading scholar of human development's Integral stage. With over 20 translated books, Wilber's work spans across disciplines and is celebrated for its broad applications, from science to spirituality. He founded the Integral Institute and co-founded Integral Life, both platforms for advancing the integral vision. Based in Denver, Colorado, he continues to be an influential philosopher, author, and teacher. Visit Ken Wilber's IG Account! instagram.com/ken.wilber.official Check Out Ken Wilber's Books! https://www.amazon.com/stores/Ken-Wilber/author/B000APH4W2?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true 00:00 - Introduction 01:29 - How Andy Initially Struggled to Understand Ken's Content 03:48 - Ken Wilber on Buddhism, Types of Wholeness, and Awakening 10:00 - William James' Studies on the State of Consciousness 11:38 - James Mark Baldwin's Structures of Consciousness 14:05 - How People Move from Birth to the Integral Stage of Development 15:29 - Stage of Growing Up 17:37 - Two Types of Wholeness by Sigmund Freud's Inner Circle 21:46 - Final Type of Wholeness: Showing Up 24:09 - The Five Types of Wholeness 26:20 - Ken Wilber on Studying Zen 27:36 - How to Practice Meditation, Oneness, Unity 29:31 - Douglas Harding's Book: "On Having No Head" 32:17 - How Does Ken Deal with Fear and Anxiety? 33:47 - Ken on Energy Consumption 35:17 - What Happens If You Wake Up with Less Serotonin, Less Dopamine? 36:22 - Ken Wilber's Day-to-Day Life 37:59 - Lucid Dream and Deep Dream State 40:59 - Ken Wilber's Waking Up State 44:06 - What Are Dreams? 5 States of Consciousness 49:18 - 3 Types of Objects 51:56 - Deep Formless State/Deep Dreamless State 53:25 - How Does Ken Integrate the Feeling of Oneness in His Everyday Life 56:02 - Ken on Eastern Tradition: Sat Chit Ananda 57:26 - Finding and Creating Your Unique True Self 01:00:45 - Erwin Schrödinger: Founder of Modern Quantum Mechanics 01:02:59 - Who or What Is the Ultimate Reality 01:04:44 - Ken Wilber's Motivation to Continue Writing Books 01:08:19 - Ken's State of Self Unity in Working 01:10:45 - Does Ken Feel Exhausted from His Sleep Schedule? 01:12:26 - Stan Grof's Holotropic Breathwork Psychedelic 01:17:41 - Where Does Ken Gain His Energy? 01:19:21 - Ken's Experience with Dalai Lama and Other Gurus 01:21:12 - Ken on Practicing Dzogchen and Zen Meditation 01:22:52 - How Does Ken Tap into the 5th State or State of Pure Unity 01:24:25 - Can Humans Evolve After Tapping into the 5th State and Have the Ability to Talk to Aliens? 01:28:49 - How Do People Focus Their Attention on Certain Things? 01:30:15 - Andy's Experience Praying with His Christian Friends 01:32:31 - Ken on Having Children 01:37:47 - Ken on Finding and Having a Partner 01:38:55 - Ken's Ultimate Real Self and Small Relative Self 01:41:12 - How Does Ken Wilber Gain Knowledge? 01:42:53 - How Does Ken Choose the Books He Reads? 01:44:28 - Why Is Intelligence Universal? 01:45:56 - How Does Ken Spend His Time Every Day? 01:46:50 - How Does Ken Experience His Lucid Dreams? 01:48:27 - Ken's Writing Process 01:50:23 - Does Ken Speak Faster Than He Types? 01:52:21 - How Do You Learn from Past Experiences and Dreams? 01:54:03 - Ken's Latest Book: Finding Radical Wholeness 01:55:55 - Ken on Having Shambhala as His Publisher 01:57:46 - Ken's Reading Process 01:59:03 - How Do the 5 States of Wholeness Impact Ken's Life? 02:00:33 - Connect with Ken Wilber! 02:02:30 - Outro

Richard Lang is Co-ordinator of the Shollond Trust, the UK charity set up in 1996 to help share the Headless Way as widely as possible in the world. He first saw who he really was when he attended a workshop with Douglas Harding in 1970. He is committed to making this Vision as widely available as possible.  He has written two books, Seeing Who You Really Are in 2003 and Open to the Source - Selected Teachings of Douglas Harding in 2005.  He has also produced many videos which are available on the Headless Way YouTube channel.Support the show

About Richard Lang and the Headless Way: https://www.headless.org/Check out the audio version of Douglas Harding's On Having No Head, read by Richard: https://www.amazon.com/On-Having-No-Head-audiobook/dp/B0777SJL2N/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Get full access to Unlicensed Philosophy with Chuong Nguyen at musicallyspeaking.substack.com/subscribe

Med utgangspunkt i den hodeløse veien, først beskrevet av Douglas Harding, snakker Viggo og jeg om hva vi alle egentlig er, på 0 meters avstand, innerst inne, det i deg som er uforandret gjennom livets mange merkelapper. En spennende og stimulerende samtale, men definitivt ikke for alle og enhver. Dette er nok enda for spesielt interesserte, men håpet med denne episoden er at det skal være tilgjengelig for dem som vil og ikke minst bidra til å åpne for mer dialog rundt disse tingene og denne typen tematikk. God lytting :)

Read the full transcript here. What is The Headless Way? What are we like before we accept the names, roles, and narratives given to us by other people? What does it mean for consciousness to be "boundless" or "infinite"? What are the benefits of adopting a "headless" perspective? How can we visit (and feel relatively confident that we've visited) this perspective? Where is this perspective situated relative to the larger constellation of meditation and mindfulness concepts from other traditions?Richard Lang has been teaching The Headless Way for over fifty years having met Douglas Harding, the author of On Having No Head, in 1970. Richard also worked for many years as a psychotherapist as well as teaching tai chi and dance. The Headless Way is a method of waking up to your True Self which is spacious, still, and free. Being conscious of your True Self enables you as an individual to be more creative, loving and effective in the world. Contact Richard at headexchange@gn.apc.org or learn more at his website, headless.org. [Read more]

"The Headless Way opens up a radically new way of living." Ever asked yourself: Who am I? Get ready and investigate this question with me in this episode. I still can't fully wrap my head around the fact that I spoke with Richard Lang from The Headless Way (spot the wordplay lol). I discovered Richard's work and the theory of The Headless Way on the infamous Waking Up App. In short, The Headless Way offers you a practical, user-friendly way to see Who you really are. The method was developed by philosopher Douglas Harding, and since his passing in 2007, Richard has dedicated his life to sharing the power and message of The Headless Way. I'm surely not exaggerating when I say that this technique has transformed my life and the lives of countless others from the moment we heard about it and started experimenting with it. It's simple yet incredibly profound. The theory includes a variety of "experiments" that you can try in your everyday life to reconnect with your true nature. No believing. No mysticism. Just looking. It might sound crazy, but as Richard always says, "Try it out for yourself!"

20 min Maureen and Pierre talk about how much they love Sam Harris' Waking Up app! What is meditation? What is it not? Sam Harris demystifies a mystical subject and practice.  Less soothing sounds, rustling wind, harmonic bowls, this app is more of a philosophy course that will liberate you from the control your thinking mind most likely has over you. Waking Up introduces practical steps in establishing a meditation practice, while explaining its deep mystery.  Check it out. About half way into the podcast, Pierre describes an experience of dropping into a meditation state which shuts off his brain from processing visual inputs.  Kind of freaky, kind of cool.   One of the more powerful points that Sam Harris makes is deep meditation states are not something achieved at the end of a road of work or practice.  They can be achieved almost instantly by recognizing a new reality, a reality wherein you are object not subject.  A reality where ego disappears.  Brain function is observed (one might say) instead of being put in control of interacting and interpreting what is experienced.  When the brain / opinion / processing drug of perception is removed from interactions, we have an opportunity to grasp the possibility of an experiential reality, a reality where we are not the center.  A book called, Having No Head by Douglas Harding helped Sam Harris glimpse this shifted reality of deep meditation.  Learning Conversation podcasts are about bringing resources to a broader audience's attention.  While Sam Harris doesn't need our help on that score, we want to make sure you know we think this app is a gem!  Check it out. 

We will learn: The history of The Headless Way and how to experience it yourself. How to shift, contract and expand your perception of who you are. Exercises to allow you to experience headlessness for yourself. This episode is going to blow your mind. Or, at the very least, it'll blow open your perception of who you are. Your mind is always using cues from your perception, beliefs, and past experiences to create your worldview, which is why so many of us experience the world so differently. But when you strip away everything but the raw data of your senses, it's amazing how little you actually experience. Most of what we think of as our experience is actually interpretation and story-telling. But, with enough mindfulness, it's possible to experience just the raw data. And that's what allows us to be fully in the present moment, which is where we need to be to experience the oneness that all spiritual seekers are aiming for. So today we're going to learn about The Headless Way to experience awakening. Our guest is Richard Lang. I know I've talked a lot about Douglas Harding but, he's dead, so Richard is the next best guy. He's dedicated his life to sharing The Headless Way as widely as possible in the world. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/276 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: The history of The Headless Way and how to experience it yourself. How to shift, contract and expand your perception of who you are. Exercises to allow you to experience headlessness for yourself. This episode is going to blow your mind. Or, at the very least, it'll blow open your perception of who you are. Your mind is always using cues from your perception, beliefs, and past experiences to create your worldview, which is why so many of us experience the world so differently. But when you strip away everything but the raw data of your senses, it's amazing how little you actually experience. Most of what we think of as our experience is actually interpretation and story-telling. But, with enough mindfulness, it's possible to experience just the raw data. And that's what allows us to be fully in the present moment, which is where we need to be to experience the oneness that all spiritual seekers are aiming for. So today we're going to learn about The Headless Way to experience awakening. Our guest is Richard Lang. I know I've talked a lot about Douglas Harding but, he's dead, so Richard is the next best guy. He's dedicated his life to sharing The Headless Way as widely as possible in the world. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/276 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors

You can call off the search.(T)here is no other Voice but this One. There is no other Silence.There is no other God.  There is no other awakening experience.When your mind is telling you that you're not 'there' yet,you're hearing it from 'there'.This is It.You're hearing THE Voice. You are the Voice. This Silence is what you are. This silence is what I Am (is). Affirm that, 'This Silence is what I Am."The first few times with words, and then drop the words.Your whole being is singing, SHREEMing, 'I Am' without words...being the silence I Am,being the Love I Am,being That, I Am. (Exodus 3:14)     Meditation excerpt from the 'Little Book of Life and Death' by Douglas Harding"There is no instrument other than deep meditation that can detect the presence of that almighty Grace within. Still the body, withdraw the energy from the senses into the brain, calm the heart: Christ will be there; you will feel the divine joy of the Infinite Christ."-Yogananda Reading from, 'Voice of the Masters' by Eva Bell WerberSupport the show

This podcast episode is guest hosted by Richard Lang, introducing us to the Headless Way. The Headless way was first developed by Douglas Harding many years ago, Richard and Douglas were good friends. And so Douglas has spent the last 50 years sharing the Headless Way with people like ourselves. The Headless Way is method of becoming aware of your most private self, which the suggestion is, is a spacious still and the most spiritual part of you. But Richard invites us not to just take this in trust. So in this podcast episode, He guides us through some awareness exercises to reveal this deep spiritual centre within you. Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our website Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter

In this episode, Brian Curtis, Ph.D. speaks with Richard Lang. Richard was a student of Douglas Harding, the philosophical writer, teacher, and author of many books, including The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth, and On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious. Richard has written several books about his experiences over 40 years helping others see who they really are and about how to live from this truth. Brian and Richard discuss a wide range of topics, including how Richard became interested in questions about his true nature, his meeting Douglas Harding, the importance of being honest, and relying on our own experience and testing things out for ourselves when investigating this fundamental question of who we really are. Richard will lead listeners through a few experiments to direct your attention at yourself to see who you are from your own point of view, the implications of this insight for deepening your relationships, the role of development in losing and rediscovering your true nature, Richard's recent efforts to help people communicate about their own experiences with others, properly locating where your thoughts are, theory of mind, the resulting implications for your suffering and wellbeing, and how these discoveries lead to awe, wonder, and unlocking many new mysteries to explore. Website: https://headless.org/  Email: headexchange@gn.apc.org  Experimental Honesty: https://www.experimentalhonesty.com/ Email: brian@experimentalhonesty.com  Twitter: @BrianCurtisPhD

Saison 1 - Episode 13L'éveil, mythe ou réalité ?avec José Le Roy Considéré par de nombreuses traditions philosophiques et spirituelles orientales comme le grand retour à Soi, l'éveil reste une notion peu connue, mal documentée et souvent fantasmée en Occident. Nous recevrons dans ce long épisode José Le Roy, philosophe et auteur de nombreux ouvrages sur le sujet et, plus largement, sur les liens entre philosophie et spiritualité, pour un temps de partage sur l'éveil, une expérience qu'il cherche à faire connaître, à démythifier, en s'appuyant notamment sur les exercices de Douglas Harding, son enseignant, comme sur sa propre expérience. Que signifie vraiment l'éveil ? Qu'est-ce qu'il est ou qu'est-ce qu'il n'est pas ? Que change-t-il dans le rapport à soi et au monde ?  Pourquoi cette place centrale dans les philosphies d'Orient ? Pourquoi, au contraire, cette discrétion dans les philosophies occidentales, même si Shopenhauer, Bergson ou Romain Rolland l'évoquent avec leurs mots ?  Comment en parler simplement avec des images symboliques ? Quelle différence entre éveil spontané et progressif ? Quels liens avec l'approche yoguique ?  Voici quelques questions qui seront abordés lors de treizième épisode.  Invité : José Le Roy, professeur agrégé de philosophie, responsable des éditions Almora et spécialiste de la non-dualité Retrouvez-nous sur www.casayana.fr  !  Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/casayana_yoga  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/casayanayogagrenoble   Pour nous contacter : casayogagrenoble@gmail.com Si vous avez apprécié l'épisode, n'hésitez pas à nous laisser un commentaire sur votre plateforme d'écoute

Rev. Saina Fernandez interviewed Shawn Nevins who is an author, advocate, and filmmaker, for Awakening Together's June Satsang, held Sunday, June 19. Shawn began his spiritual path in college with the Self Knowledge Symposium, which led to Richard Rose, an enlightened teacher in rural West Virginia. He spent four years on Rose's farm, meditating, reading, experimenting with celibacy, hypnosis, fasting, dream work, and many other practices, until hitting a dead end. He spent another three years delving into intuition—particularly through writing poetry. Along the way, Douglas Harding‘s suggestion to look at the space he was looking out from challenged everything he thought he knew. Finally, in a moment of complete honesty, he experienced something beyond experience—a place which is no place, where there is no flip side to the coin. His books include Subtraction: The Simple Math of Enlightenment, The Celibate Seeker: An Exploration of Celibacy as a Modern Spiritual Practice, The Resurrection of John Davis: A Screenplay, and Adventures in Caving: Kentucky and Indiana. He is co-author of the poetry collections Images of Essence (with Bob Fergeson) and Hydroglyphics: Reflections on the Sacred (with Phaedra Greenwood), as well as the forthcoming Passages: An Introduction and Commentary on Richard Rose's Albigen System (2022). Shawn's documentary film work under Poetry in Motion Films includes Closer Than Close, which caught the attention of Bruce Joel Rubin (academy award-winning screenwriter of Ghost and Jacob's Ladder), Meetings with Remarkable Women, Traveling Lighter with Paul Hedderman, and Mountain High: Touching the Void with Bob Fergeson. A frequent speaker and workshop leader at TAT Foundation events, Shawn has also spoken at San Diego State University's “Consciousness Hacking” course (2017), the Perfectly Okay online group (2021), Pittsburg Self-Inquiry Group (2022), and been featured on Conscious.tv (2018). His other endeavors include creating and curating an extensive collection of interviews and reviews of spiritual teachers and other resources at SpiritualTeachers.org. For a link to a video of this sastang, visit https://awakening-together.org/awakening-together-satsang-with-shawn-nevins. You can donate to Awakening Together at: https://awakening-together.org/donate/donate-online/ (Please note that no satsang was held in May 2022 in this series.) #ShawnNevins #RichardRose #TATFoundation

In this interview, Richard Lang talks about his journey prior to encountering the headless way, how his desire for awakening evolved over time, What The Headless Way is and how it works, and how we can incorporate frequent moments of seeing our true nature in the middle of daily life, the relationship between love, compassion and the headless way,  and more. He also conducts an experiment for the audience, in which he attempts to make us realize what our First-person experience is actually like. Message from Richard: My name is Richard Lang and I have been involved with the Headless Way for over fifty years. When I was a teenager I was interested in finding out who I really was and by chance one day found myself in a workshop with Douglas Harding, author of On Having No Head. Douglas took me and the other participants through some of his experiments and we all saw our True Nature. Douglas extended a hand of friendship to anyone interested in the Headless Way, so I began visiting him and over the years made many friends who value this direct method of Awakening. One of the things I have learned is that it is very helpful to have friends with whom I can share this Awareness, or Seeing as we call it. I recommend connecting up with other Seers. The Seeing is infectious. As well as practicing this Way, I was personally drawn to sharing it. So over the years, I have given many workshops. I also set up a charitable trust to help make available this modern method of seeing Who we really are. We offer many things on our website, on our YouTube channel, and publish practically all of Douglas Harding's books. We also offer zoom meetings where people can get to know other Seers. Our ambition is to make Seeing as widely available as possible. This is why we are happy to be part of Innercraft.

Prologue to this book of didactic fiction by Douglas Harding

Introduction to this collection of short stories by Douglas Harding.

Preface to this early book by Douglas Harding.

In this episode of Sacred Tension, I speak with Richard Lang about the Headless Way, a meditation method pioneered by Douglas Harding. We discuss the fundamental nature of consciousness, how the Headless Way expands empathy, how Headlessness might connect with Satanic practice, and much more.  Find the Headless Way here: https://headless.org/ Become a patron so I can continue my crippling content creation addiction: https://www.patreon.com/StephenBradfordLong Join my Discord server: https://discord.gg/PrDU4zx My work is sponsored by The Satanic Temple TV: a streaming platform featuring documentaries, live streams, conversations, rituals, and more. Use my code SACREDTENSION at checkout to get one month free. https://thesatanictemple.tv/

Richard Lang is the coordinator of the Shollond Trust, a charity that promotes an approach to self discovery known as the Headless Way.  This approach was developed by British Architect Douglas Harding and, after studying with Douglas since 1970, Richard committed himself to sharing this work as widely as possible.  He is the author of two books on the headless way, Seeing Who You Really Are, and Open to the Source - Selected Teachings of Douglas Harding.  You can also find teachings on this subject on Richard's Youtube channel. Today we discuss this unique approach to gaining insight into the nondual nature of our experience.

This is the preface by CS Lewis to the abridged version of The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth by Douglas Harding

An extract from the audiobook of The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth by Douglas Harding. A short extract on the Whole and beauty.

In this episode, Geoff and Richard discuss the Headless Way, which is a set of reflections and guided meditations that centre around seeing *who you really are*. Richard even guides the listener through a few ‘experiments' from the Headless Way. The Headless Way seeks to highlight what experience is like from a first-person point of view – as a subject. When you look at the world as a subject, you have no head. That's ‘headlessness'. Of course, you still have a head, but it's only visible from the third-person point of view – as an object, as a person. As adults, we go through life seeing ourselves as others see us. For others, we are an object, a person (with a head), a thing. So, we learn to see ourselves as an object for others. Richard encourages us to re-learn what it is like to see ourselves from the first-person point of view – as headless subjects, as empty space for the world. Geoff and Richard discuss the many, deep implications of the Headless Way: identity (who is at the centre of experience?); third-person science versus the science of the first person; links with psychology and mainstream science; theory of mind; stages of development; learning to wear your face; creativity; learning to live with dualisms; otherness and separateness; projection and reflection; sociology, politics and foreign policy; perception; our experience of time; the distance of observation in physics; other animals; other sense modalities; language and culture; and other topics. *** Richard Lang discovered the Headless Way in 1970 when he met Douglas Harding, author of On Having No Head. Though he was only 17, Richard recognised that the Headless Way experiments are astonishingly effective at delivering the experience of *who you really are*. Since then, Richard has been involved in sharing the experience of *who we really are* with others and now has many friends around the world. In 1996, he set up the Shollond Trust, a UK charity dedicated to sharing the Headless Way. Richard is the author of the books Seeing Who You Really Are (2003), Open to the Source: Selected Teachings of Douglas Harding (2005), Celebrating Who We Are (2017), The Man With No Head: The Life and Ideas of Douglas Harding (2017) – and the editor of a recent volume of Douglas Harding's work, As I See It: Articles, selected by Richard Lang (2018). He is also the narrator for audiobook versions of Harding's books, The Science of the First Person and On Having No Head. You can find more material on the Headless Way in several places: on Richard's website (headless.org); on YouTube (youtube.com/RichardLangHeadexchange); through The Headless Way app (on iTunes App Store or Google Play); through Waking Up, a meditation app by Sam Harris; and on Richard's own podcast channel (search for ‘Richard Lang – Headless Way'). If you wish to attend a free Zoom meeting with others who are interested in the Headless Way, please contact Richard through his website (headless.org). *** Follow Extrapolator on social media for all the latest news: instagram.com/extrapolatorpod facebook.com/extrapolatorpod linkedin.com/company/extrapolator

While The Headless Way is described as a means of finding one's “true nature” with childlike simplicity. Richard Lang says, “What I don't like about the term ‘true' nature is that is assumes our ‘human' nature is false; I quite like my ‘human' nature.” Richard continues, “I prefer looking at this process as finding both our ‘peripheral' and our ‘central' nature. Why disparages our human nature?” The Headless Way is as established as the 12-Step movement. Richard directs us to The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth, the greatest book on philosophy penned in 1943 by Douglas Harding, and the origins of the Headless Way. CE Lewis in reviewing the manuscript and said, “I have never been so drunk on a book in all my life. This is the highest genius, and it must be published.” CE Lewis would write the Foreword to the condensed version in 1952. On a somber note, David G's memorializes Paul Muff, his co-founder of Here's Tom With the Weather podcast, who died suddenly and unexpectedly last week. Show Notes: Get to know Richard better: https://headless.org Reach guest-host Joe C of Rebellion Dogs Radio @ https://rebelliondogspublishing.com/ Visit our show for a live taping of Here's Tom With The Weather any Friday at Noon Pacific, 3 PM East, 8 PM Ireland/UK, 7 AM (Saturday) AEDT on Zoom:Meeting ID: 882 1549 8348, passcode TomHere's Tom With the Weather Podcast Page: https://www.buzzsprout.com/901954/9621451 Or visit, https://htwtw.org  

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The Spectre in the Lake by Douglas Harding is now available as an audiobook

The Face Game by Douglas Harding is now an audiobook.

Visible Gods by Douglas Harding is now available as an audiobook

"On Having No Head" by Douglas Harding is a short, concise book that shows a simple method to finding states of open awareness and flow. This state of lowered self-awareness is perfect for creativity and musical performance. In this episode, John discusses singing with "no head" and how to glimpse this place of openness and flow.

Welcome to another episode of the **Bowie Book Club**, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie's favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read On Having No Head by Douglas Harding, a slender guidebook to quick and painless enlightenment.

Oliver Burkeman joins me to talk about the problem with the narrow concept of time management and how we mere mortals ought to think about managing our time instead.Show Notes Time management for 4-year-olds The narrow vs broad meaning of time management The importance trap and the temptation to “clear the decks” Anti-skills, negative capability, and the superpower that is emotional tolerance The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic The relationship between expectations and control David Kane's Raptitude Weirdly modern conceptions of time Meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein Are all expectations unhealthy? Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance The case for wasting time and atelic activities Oliver's to-do list recommendations Cal Newport's Deep Work James Hollis' Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life Susan Jeffers' Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway and Embracing Uncertainty What's wrong with the self-help genre? The wounded healer Jesse Singal and cranky self-help David Brook's The Second Mountain Marilynne Robinson “Will this choice enlarge me or diminish me?” Douglas Harding's On Having No Head Seneca's On the Shortness of Life Mary Oliver: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Learn more about Oliver and his work here: Oliver's book: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals Oliver's website and (excellent) weekly newsletter: OliverBurkeman.com Get New Episodes FirstLearn more about the Minds & Mics podcast here, including how to subscribe and get all my newest episodes as soon as they're released.

Further exploration of the ideas in The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth by Douglas Harding

An introduction by Richard Lang to some of the ideas in The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth by Douglas Harding.

Richard Lang is the Co-ordinator of the Shollond Trust, a UK charity focussed on sharing the Headless Way. If you see a person from 6 feet away, they're a person. From 100,000 miles away they're a planet. From a few microns away they're cells. So what are they at their very centre? Who are we? This is the central question of The Headless Way and today Richard takes us through Douglas Harding's work to answer it along with some meditations and experiments you can do to illuminate these insights for yourself. Sponsors: Get 20% discount on the highest quality CBD Products from Pure Sport at https://puresportcbd.com/modernwisdom (use code: MW20) Get perfect teeth 70% cheaper than other invisible aligners from DW Aligners at http://dwaligners.co.uk/modernwisdom Extra Stuff: Check out Richard's Website - https://headless.org/ Watch "Who Are You?" - https://youtu.be/X_Vx2NcGWgo  Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

How Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not reducible to “what is.” Human life is an open expanse of “what was” and “what will be,” “what might be” and “what should be.” It is a world of desires, dreams, fictions, historical figures, planned events, spatial and temporal distances, in a word, absent presences and present absences. In his new book How Non-Being Haunts Being: On Possibilities, Morality, and Death Acceptance (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2020), Dr. Corey Anton draws upon and integrates thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Henri Bergson, Kenneth Burke, Terrence Deacon, Lynn Margulis, R. D. Laing, Gregory Bateson, Douglas Harding, and E. M. Cioran. He discloses the moral possibilities liberated through death acceptance by showing how living beings, who are of space not merely in it, are fundamentally on loan to themselves. Dr. Corey Anton (he/him) is Professor of Communication Studies at Grand Valley State University and host of the YouTube channel Corey Anton. Dr. Lee Pierce (they & she) is Assistant Professor of Rhetorical Communication at State University of New York at Geneseo and host of the podcast RhetoricLee Speaking. You may also enjoy the New Books Network interview with Luke Winslow about the book American Catastrophe. Lee M. Pierce (she/they) is an Assistant Professor at SUNY Geneseo specializing in rhetoric, race, and U.S. political culture. They also host the Media & Communications and Language channels for New Books Network and their own podcast titled RhetoricLee Speaking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/secularism

How Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not reducible to “what is.” Human life is an open expanse of “what was” and “what will be,” “what might be” and “what should be.” It is a world of desires, dreams, fictions, historical figures, planned events, spatial and temporal distances, in a word, absent presences and present absences. In his new book How Non-Being Haunts Being: On Possibilities, Morality, and Death Acceptance (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2020), Dr. Corey Anton draws upon and integrates thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Henri Bergson, Kenneth Burke, Terrence Deacon, Lynn Margulis, R. D. Laing, Gregory Bateson, Douglas Harding, and E. M. Cioran. He discloses the moral possibilities liberated through death acceptance by showing how living beings, who are of space not merely in it, are fundamentally on loan to themselves. Dr. Corey Anton (he/him) is Professor of Communication Studies at Grand Valley State University and host of the YouTube channel Corey Anton. Dr. Lee Pierce (they & she) is Assistant Professor of Rhetorical Communication at State University of New York at Geneseo and host of the podcast RhetoricLee Speaking. You may also enjoy the New Books Network interview with Luke Winslow about the book American Catastrophe. Lee M. Pierce (she/they) is an Assistant Professor at SUNY Geneseo specializing in rhetoric, race, and U.S. political culture. They also host the Media & Communications and Language channels for New Books Network and their own podcast titled RhetoricLee Speaking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

How Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not reducible to “what is.” Human life is an open expanse of “what was” and “what will be,” “what might be” and “what should be.” It is a world of desires, dreams, fictions, historical figures, planned events, spatial and temporal distances, in a word, absent presences and present absences. In his new book How Non-Being Haunts Being: On Possibilities, Morality, and Death Acceptance (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2020), Dr. Corey Anton draws upon and integrates thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Henri Bergson, Kenneth Burke, Terrence Deacon, Lynn Margulis, R. D. Laing, Gregory Bateson, Douglas Harding, and E. M. Cioran. He discloses the moral possibilities liberated through death acceptance by showing how living beings, who are of space not merely in it, are fundamentally on loan to themselves. Dr. Corey Anton (he/him) is Professor of Communication Studies at Grand Valley State University and host of the YouTube channel Corey Anton. Dr. Lee Pierce (they & she) is Assistant Professor of Rhetorical Communication at State University of New York at Geneseo and host of the podcast RhetoricLee Speaking. You may also enjoy the New Books Network interview with Luke Winslow about the book American Catastrophe. Lee M. Pierce (she/they) is an Assistant Professor at SUNY Geneseo specializing in rhetoric, race, and U.S. political culture. They also host the Media & Communications and Language channels for New Books Network and their own podcast titled RhetoricLee Speaking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Luke Thompson comes on my channel for his fourth appearance. We talk about how we agree and disagree on the trinity. We talk about Beau Branson, John Piper, Owen Barfield, Nathan Ormand, Neoplatonism, John Vervaeke, Paul Vanderklay, Jonathan Pageau, Richard Rohr, Jordan Peterson, Nathan Jacobs, Douglas Harding, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkein, Ross Douthat, Charles Taylor, Alisa Childers, Jacob Faturechi, John Behr, Stephen Freeman, Byrne Powers, Bishop Barron, and Preston Sprinkle.

Extract from a workshop with Douglas Harding in 1996. Recorded at La Domaine du Taille. The French translation has been removed for English speakers. The full audio with translation is available https://soundcloud.com/user-710083743

You exist at your own centre; so you are the only one who is in the right place to look and understand your individual being. Richard Lang has devoted his life to exploring and teaching “the headless way”: a unique system to answer the question of what life means and who you really are.  Richard met Douglas Harding, author of On Having No Head, as a teenager, and knew immediately that the headless way was what he had been looking for. He now runs workshops on the headless way, produces videos, and has set up the Shollond Trust, which publishes Douglas Harding's and other books on the subject.  Along the way, Richard has also spent thirty years practising as a psychotherapist, and teaching Tai Chi and dance.  Follow Up Join our Supporters Club to access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just £4.50. https://www.patreon.com/andrewgmarshall  Learn more about the headless way, including free resources and meetings: www.headless.org Find books on the headless way: Seeing Who You Really Are https://www.headless.org/harding-books/seeing-who-you-really-are Open to the Source https://www.headless.org/harding-books/open-to-the-source Celebrating who you are  https://www.headless.org/harding-books/celebrating-who-we-are  The Man With No Head https://www.headless.org/harding-books/the-man-with-no-head Everyday Seeing  https://www.headless.org/harding-books/everyday-seeing Listen to the Headless Way podcast: https://www.headless.org/headless-way-podcasts Find videos on the headless way on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/profile?user=headexchange Listen to Andrew's interview with Martina Schneider on spiritual therapy: https://themeaningfullife.podbean.com/e/ep11-martina-schneider-spiritual-therapy/  Get Andrew's advice on creating real change in your life and relationships in his book Wake Up and Change Your Life: How to Survive a Crisis and Be Stronger, Wiser and Happier https://andrewgmarshall.com/book/wake-up-and-change-your-life-how-to-survive-a-crisis-and-be-stronger-wiser-and-happier/  Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on: Twitter https://twitter.com/andrewgmarshall  Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AndrewGMarshallTherapy  YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF5gT7ru5sblpFaU2-iWTTw 

This is an extract from a workshop in France in 1996. It was translated at the time by Catherine Harding, but I have removed the French for the sake of English speakers. You can find the audio with the French translation our our Vivre sans tête podcast - https://www.headless.org/headless-way-podcasts

Our guest, Richard Lang, is an author and prominent teacher of the “Headless Way,” an experimental method invented by the English visionary Douglas Harding. Richard offers us a window into our true self that can radically shift our perspective of who we are and deepen our connection with other people.====================IMPORTANT REFERENCES:headless.org “The Man With No Head: The life and ideas of Douglas Harding” by Richard Lang====================PODCAST INFO:We are grateful to our supporters and appreciate this opportunity with you!If you believe our podcast has ever shifted your perspective, please share it with someone you know, rate/review us, and be sure to subscribe.Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rising-laterally/id1524717120Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3hbMEHVOZJVMdCZBhthTIh YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaIDpt943-sihvPBxX7oXawTwitter https://twitter.com/RisingLaterallyRising Laterally Instagram https://www.instagram.com/risinglaterally/Arjun Sachdev Instagram https://www.instagram.com/therealarjunsachdev/Jay Beaulieu Instagram https://www.instagram.com/yourfriendjayb/

Introductory talk, recorded in Le Domaine du Taille, France, 1996.

Enregistré au Le Domaine de Taillé, France, 1996, avec tradition (Catherine Harding)

Richard first saw who he really was in 1970, in a workshop with Douglas Harding, author of On Having No Head. Since then he has continued exploring and sharing this direct way of awakening, leading hundreds of workshops around the world. Richard is co-ordinator of the Shollond Trust, a UK charity founded to share the philosophy and practical awareness exercises or the experiments that Douglas Harding created. Richard’s aim is to share the experience and meaning of who we really are as widely as possible.  My husband, Billy, joins me on this interview as he is the one who has turned me on to this self exploration process.  We had such a wonderful chat with Richard on how he found the Headless Way.  He walks us through a few experiments on helping us see who we really are and what Billy and I have discovered is this truth: once you see what you are at center, then getting into the habit of living consciously from this boundless, timeless space can be effortless.  Learn more about The Headless Way: https://www.headless.org/ Learn more about Richard: https://headless.org/Contact/richard-lang.htm Join a Zoom meeting and experience the Headless Way: https://headless.org/english-new/hangout We hope you enjoy this episode. If you like what you are hearing, please consider leaving me a 5 star rating and review on the podcast platform of your choice. Thank you! I have some exciting news! While I was on the break from The Therapy show, I received my NBCC approved continuing provider education number! That means that certain episodes of my podcast are approved for home study credit. In the very near future you will be able to obtain NBCC credit hours from a handful of podcourses.  Here's how it works. You can listen to The Therapy Show podcourses while you commute, in between sessions, on your lunch hour, while you work out and if you like what you hear and you want to get one CE contact hour, just head over to my site, lisamustard.com, click on podcourses and then click purchase. The podcourses that are NBCC approved will be labeled. We think it's pretty simple and easy yet, if you have any issues at all, just send us an email to support@lisamustard.com  And don't forget to sign up for my email newsletter. When you do, you're going to get an email with code for one free contact hour, so head to my site, Lisamustard.com and be sure to sign up to get one free contact hour.  

In your head. Repetitive negative thinking. 55,000 times a day. "Space" visualization. The tendency to think you can think your way out of thinking. Negativity bias. 5,000 chances a day for productive, positive, and creative thoughts. "Stealing Fire." The $4 trillion / year distraction economy. "On Having No Head." "Toe, Hip, Elbow, Chin" question process. A habit sandwich. Treadmill vs. uneven ground. Passing the mic. To be lists. Character strengths. One word intentions. Quarantine mantra. Embodied cognition. "Powers of Ten." Damon: https://www.sidestreetcoaching.com Jeremy: http://jeremynsmith.com Matt Mullins/Black Rooster Productions: https://vimeo.com/mattmullins "Stealing Fire" by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal: https://bookshop.org/books/stealing-fire-how-silicon-valley-the-navy-seals-and-maverick-scientists-are-revolutionizing-the-way-we-live-and-work/9780062429667 "On Having No Head" by Douglas Harding: https://bookshop.org/books/on-having-no-head/9781908774064 VIA Character Strengths Survey: https://www.viacharacter.org Quarantine mantra: "I have kindness in my heart—for others and for myself." Embodied cognition: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/a-brief-guide-to-embodied-cognition-why-you-are-not-your-brain/ & https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/embodied-cognition/ Quote attributed to Yeats is actually a variant of a quote by English author and playwright Eden Phillpotts. Oops! Here's the original: "The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. "Powers of Ten" video: https://youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Richard Lang about how to experience the world beyond the illusion of the self. Richard Lang is a meditation teacher and writer. He was a longtime student of Douglas Harding, the author of On Having No Head, among other books. Richard has written several books, including Seeing Who You Really Are, The Man with No Head, and Open to the Source: Selected Teachings of Douglas Harding. In 1996, Richard co-founded Shollond Trust, a charity created to help share Harding’s vision as widely as possible. Website: www.headless.org Twitter: @headexchange

Anxiety is a monster that is crippling and paralyzed and keeps you in a loop of debiliating negative emotions even when one desperately wants out. What are the causes? What can one do to help themselves? What steps big or small do you suggest?What are your thoughts on immortality or at least living a very very long time as pursued by researchers like Aubrey de Grey? Do you think it's possible? Do you think it's desirable?I remember you mentioning getting flack from Maajid about not liking hip hop. I'm curious. What sort of music you do listen to? Stravinsky, Radiohead, Enya?Why aren't your books translated into Arabic?Can you please do a podcast with Richard Lang, disciple and close friend of the late Douglas Harding about The Headless Way, the westernized version of dzogchen?What are your preferred news sources?I heard you say once before that the left has one advantage over the right in that it has a self correcting mechanism. Well, now that the left seems to be going off the deep end, we need those mechanisms.Did you find that the initial onset of your fame altered your sense of self/ego at all even temporarily? If so, how? Do you credit your background in meditation for helping you keep level headed?On stoicism, you said you were disappointed in how you handled some recent battles. What are your strategies moving forward to evolve and prepare when you suit up for the next one?Sam address request for his views on abortion.We're always hearing about how Iran was a relatively more liberal nation before the Islamic regimes took over. We hear about how the problem of radical Islam is relatively new in the world and that historically Islam was not as violent. If we grab that this is true, does this make religion more or less scary considering that apparently these violent interpretations can arise suddenly and possibly without historical context?Can you tell us anything about your upcoming book on artificial intelligence?What are your thoughts on the transgender debate?What is your position on male circumcision?What would you be working on if 9/11 hadn't happened and you hadn't written The End of Faith? How would your work be different?