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Human memory is a sensory experience, says psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk. Through his longtime research and innovation in trauma treatment, he shares what he's learning about how bodywork like yoga or eye movement therapy can restore a sense of goodness and safety. What he’s learning speaks to a resilience we can all cultivate in the face of the overwhelming events — which, after all, make up the drama of culture, of news, and of life.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/restoring-the-body-bessel-van-der-kolk-on-yoga-emdr-and-treating-trauma/5801

Bessel van der Kolk — Restoring the Body: Yoga, EMDR, and Treating Trauma

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David Whyte:  The Poetry of Self-Compassion

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She has called Brain Pickings, her invention and labor of love, a “human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.” What Maria Popova really delivers, to hundreds of thousands of people each day, is wisdom of the old-fashioned sort, presented in new-fashioned digital ways. She cross-pollinates — between philosophy and design, physics and poetry, the intellectual and the experiential. We meet Maria Popova at 30, and explore her gleanings, thus far, on what it means to lead a good life — intellectually, creatively, and spiritually.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/maria-popova-cartographer-of-meaning-in-a-digital-age/7580

[Unedited] Maria Popova with Krista Tippett

She has called Brain Pickings, her invention and labor of love, a “human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.” What Maria Popova really delivers, to hundreds of thousands of people each day, is wisdom of the old-fashioned sort, presented in new-fashioned digital ways. She cross-pollinates — between philosophy and design, physics and poetry, the intellectual and the experiential. We meet Maria Popova at 30, and explore her gleanings, thus far, on what it means to lead a good life — intellectually, creatively, and spiritually.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/maria-popova-cartographer-of-meaning-in-a-digital-age/7580

Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital World

The philosopher and Catholic social innovator Jean Vanier is a teacher of the wisdom of tenderness. The L’Arche movement, which he founded, centers around people with mental disabilities and is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. We experience how Jean Vanier brings the most paradoxical religious teachings to life: that there’s power in humility, strength in weakness, and light in the darkness of human existence.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/wisdom-tenderness/234

[Unedited] Jean Vanier with Krista Tippett

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An unrehearsed, dramatic read-through of the text we'll be discussing on ep. 117, a Greek tragedy written around 441 BCE, telling the myth of the cursed line of Oedipus, mother-f*#king king of Thebes. Featuring Mark, Seth, Wes, and Dylan, plus special guest stars Lucy Lawless as Antigone, Paul Provenza as Creon, Alice Sinclair as Ismene, and John Castro as Haimon.

After the performance, the cast discusses the conventions of Greek tragedy, our selected translation, and a little about why philosophers should be interested in this.

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End song: "Antigone (Choragos Speaks)" by Mark Lint.

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Antigone Reading with Lucy Lawless and Paul Provenza

The wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from parenting, to the arts, to Darwin. He touches on all these things in a conversation inspired by his foreword to "The Good Book," in which novelists, essayists, and activists who are not known as religious thinkers write about their favorite biblical passages. Our ancestors acknowledged doubt while practicing faith, he says; we moderns are drawn to faith while practicing doubt.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/adam-gopnik-practicing-doubt-redrawing-faith/8087

Adam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith

“Our world is rich,” Lisa Randall has written, “so rich that two of the most important questions particle physicists ask are: Why this richness? How is all the matter that I see related?” As one of the most influential theoretical physicists working today, she's increasingly interested in the interconnectedness between fields that have previously operated more autonomously: astronomy, biology, and paleontology. She’s pursuing a theory that “dark matter” might have created the cosmic event that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs — and hence humanity’s rise as a species. We explore what she’s discovering, as well as the human questions and takeaways her work throws into relief.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/lisa-randall-dark-matter-and-the-astounding-interconnectedness-of-everything/8100

Lisa Randall — Dark Matter and the Astounding Interconnectedness of Everything

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Stay. That’s the message that philosopher, poet, and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht puts at the center of her unusual writing about suicide. She’s traced how the history of Western civilization has, at times, demonized those who commit suicide, and, at times, celebrated it as a moral freedom. She has struggled with suicidal places in her life and lost friends to it. As a scholar, she’s now proposing a new cultural reckoning with suicide, based not on morality or on rights but on our essential need for each other.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/jennifer-michael-hecht-suicide-and-hope-for-our-future-selves/6187

Jennifer Michael Hecht — Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves

Background and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/01/15/j-r-r-tolkien-reads-from-lotr/

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J.R.R. Tolkien reads from The Lord of the Rings

B.J. Miller is executive director of the Zen Hospice Project, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and an attending specialist for the Symptom Management Service of the Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "B.J. Miller — Reframing Our Relationship to That We Don't Control." Find more at onbeing.org 

[Unedited] B.J. Miller with Krista Tippett

"Critical thinking without hope is cynicism. But hope without critical thinking is naïveté. I try to live in this space between the two." The creator and editor of Brain Pickings on the pratfalls and promise of knowledge-sharing in the digital age.

Find more at onbeing.org/becoming-wise

Mapping Meaning in a Digital Age | Maria Popova [Becoming Wise]

Discussion and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/22/billy-collins-reads-aristotle/

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Billy Collins reads "Aristotle"

"Your body, for as long as it possibly can, will be faithful to living. That's what it does." Matthew Sanford, an innovator of adaptive yoga, on taking a new orientation to our physical change and pain, and the outward healing that can result.

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Compassion for Our Bodies | Matthew Sanford [Becoming Wise]

David Whyte reads his poem "Everything Is Waiting for You." 

Find more at www.onbeing.org/program/david-whyte-the-conversational-nature-of-reality/8560

"Everything Is Waiting for You" by David Whyte

David Whyte reads his poem "Finisterre." 

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"Finisterre" by David Whyte

David Whyte reads his poem "Stone" (Thobar Phadraig). 

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"Stone" (Thobar Phadraig) by David Whyte

David Whyte reads his poem "Sweet Darkness."

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"Sweet Darkness" by David Whyte

David Whyte reads "Vulnerability," an excerpt from his book "Consolations." 

"Vulnerability" by David Whyte

“Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet / confinement of your aloneness / to learn / anything or anyone / that does not bring you alive / is too small for you.”

David Whyte is a poet and philosopher who believes in the power of a “beautiful question” amidst the drama of work as well as the drama of life — amidst the ways the two overlap, whether we want them to or not. He shared a deep friendship with the late Irish philosopher John O’Donohue. They were, David Whyte says, like “two bookends.” More recently, he’s written about the consolation, nourishment, and underlying meaning of everyday words.

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David Whyte — The Conversational Nature of Reality

From a BBC radio segment broadcast on April 29th, 1937. Background and transcript:http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/04/29/craftsmanship-virginia-woolf-speaks-1937/ 

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Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

"Vulnerability" by David Whyte

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