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Notebooklm AI podcast. The human mind functions as a network-like system where regularities, saliencies, and concepts form a complex whole. Our brains continuously search for recurring patterns in our environment through statistical learning, prioritize information via a salience network, and construct concepts as tools for thinking. This process begins in early childhood and is shaped by both biological tendencies and cultural influences. Cultures can significantly affect what we pay attention to and how we perceive the world, explaining both universal and culturally specific cognitive features. This network view offers a synthesis between empiricism and nativism while explaining consciousness as an emergent property, enabling applications in education, psychotherapy, and artificial intelligence development.

Mind as a Network of Regularities, Saliences, and Concepts

In this recording, Christopher Murphy addresses the common tendency to use spirituality as a means to dissociate from painful emotions and difficult life experiences—a process often termed spiritual bypassing. He contrasts this with a genuine approach to spirituality, which involves associating with and fully processing all aspects of life to achieve inner well-being, eudaimonia, and sophrosyne. Christopher emphasizes that true spiritual maturity comes from engaging with, rather than avoiding, the full spectrum of emotional experiences. (Part of a Q&A session given on January 12, 2025)

www.3awakenings.com

Disassociating or Associating with Life Experiences

“The Interlude” is a stripped-down ballad that moves like a memory — tender, haunting, and quietly defiant. Built on sparse piano, layered vocal textures, and ambient echoes, it captures the emotional weight of transition: the space after betrayal, before becoming.

Lyrically, the song unfolds like a journal left open. It explores fractured friendships, broken trust, and the quiet rebuild that follows a public fall. The hook doesn’t shout — it hums. With falsetto breaks, whispered refrains, and slow-burning verses, the track leans into vulnerability without needing to resolve it.

This isn’t a revenge song — it’s what happens after. “The Interlude” holds space for grief, growth, and the soft power of moving on without needing permission.

The Interlude

Cleo Antaeus is an independent songwriter, singer, and producer based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, whose music drifts between cinematic pop, soulful indie, bossa nova flips, and raw, sync-ready confessions that feel like secrets whispered at 2 a.m.

In just seven months, Cleo has written over 160 original songs, each one shaped by their poetic storytelling and fearless experimentation. Since April alone, their self-released tracks have pulled in 25,000+ organic streams worldwide, with multiple songs crossing 1K–2K+ plays on SoundCloud — proof that Cleo’s garden is alive and echoing.

At the heart of this work are Cleo’s alter artists, Nova Rue and Sunni — soulful, cinematic branches of their voice that bring each story to life in new shades and textures.

Cleo’s songs are 100% original, self-owned, fully cleared, and crafted for TV, film, and brand syncs — perfect for supervisors, artists, and listeners seeking music with real depth and a timeless global soul.

Good songs rise — and so do I.

Genres: Cinematic Pop, Indie Folk, Neo-Soul, R&B, Bossa Nova, Alt-Pop
Based: Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Sync/Publishing/Collabs: cleonytus@gmail.com

Philosophy is the pathless path; our inborn search for Truth. It is the hope of Christopher Murphy that through his teaching endeavors he can remind others of this innate search for Truth and empower them to see the Eternal with their own eyes.

thethreeawakenings@gmail.com

I began my music journey as a DJ in 1996 and have built a love and passion for dance music through the years. Playing everything from Deep House to Melodic Techno to Trance. Many hours are spent improving my skill and mixes. I pride this craft on the smooth transitions you will hear. It's not about the genre for me, it is about the journey...

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