Walking and Talking (Benjamin Bennett)

Four hours of reflexive, relational, observational, enquiring verbalizing towards realizing Big Mind for you and for me.

Originally recorded in 2017, with an introduction that was recorded in 2021.

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The second-ever episode, originally recorded in August of 2017, with a 3-minute intro recorded in August of 2021.

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I can't

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In my assessment this episode is "funnier" and "easier to listen to" than most.

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📈 "All emotional topography is sum-zero?" 📉

If so, should I be concerned that I've been feeling pretty good lately?

This is an extended verbal reality-investigation.

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"Non-separation is an unbelievable, unapproachable, uncompromising freedom which is already. These are not descriptions of a condition, but “what is” already, when the personal condition unravels. As the illusory person can only find value in what can be owned or known." - Jim Newman

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Existence is impossible, yet here we are.

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"When you are inside of an evolution of live, you are on top of a puddle of negentropy that is being sucked dry by life." -Josha Bach

Verbally sucking dry the negentropy of of life for four hours.

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Originally recorded in 2019, with intro recorded in 2021.

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Core

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Originally recorded in August of 2017, with an introduction recorded in August 2021.

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"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages." ~ Virginia Woolf

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The madness of love

Is a blessed fate;

And if we understood this

We would seek no other:

It brings into unity

What was divided,

And this is the truth:

Bitterness it makes sweet,

It makes the stranger a neighbor,

And what was lowly it raises on high.

-Hadewijch of Antwerp

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I was so far inside,

so dazed and far away

my senses were released

from feelings of my own.

My mind had found a surer way:

a knowledge of unknowing,

rising beyond all science.

-St. John of the Cross

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More ranting about incompleteness, syndiffeonesis, subject/object isomorphism, etc., through a Southern California valley in which I encountered many wild gourds and tree tobacco plants swarming with hummingbirds.

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“We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being.” ― Carlo Rovelli

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A durational, verbal self-enquiry originally recorded in 2017, with an intro recorded in 2021.

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🚶Sameness and difference are implicated within each other.🚶

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"The more fanatically you affiliate with reality, the more flagrantly you lie."

-Henry Flynt

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"...losing myself entirely by becoming public property..." -Thomas Merton

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"The most beautiful parts of humans have to do with something that transcends 'what's in it for me?', and death forces you to that."

-Daniel Schmachtenberger

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Let's just skip the Intro, hey?

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“Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”

-James Baldwin

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Defying linear time for 4 hours. Originally recorded in 2017, with an intro recorded in 2021.

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meat expansion

where the hot wall dreams

is off the slower flame is

mud squirming in the d

rain your hand reached

for is cloud amino acid

framed against a wall a

truck swaying in the

freeway wind a nostril

clawed behind a mirror

your blood was numbered

useless leaking like a book

-John M. Bennett

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"The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened."

-Franz Kafka

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“Each of you is perfect the way you are ...

and you can use a little improvement.”

-Shunryu Suzuki

Originally recorded in 2017, with intro recorded in 2021.

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"Meaning" is always relative to a context. When you apply it to an all-encompassing term like life, existence or reality, there is no larger context. Meaning is meaningless in any ultimate sense.

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In this episode I try to crystalize the idea of "Perspectival Space" as a model of reality.

This episode is audio-only - there is no video version. I like this format and will likely use it more in the future.

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“The marvelous logic of the mad which seems to mock that of the logicians because it resembles it so exactly, or rather because it is exactly the same, and because at the secret heart of madness, at the core of so many errors, so many absurdities, so many words and gestures without consequence, we discover, finally, the hidden perfection of a language.”

― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

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“When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.”

― Plotinus, The Enneads

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More of the same, which means different.

Yo.

Internet friend.

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"The world is not divided into stand-alone entities. It is we who divide it into objects for our convenience. A mountain chain is not divided into individual mountains: it is we who divide it up into parts that strike us as in some way separate. A countless number of out definitions, perhaps all of them, are relational: a mother is a mother because she has a child; a planet is a planet because it orbits a star; a predator is such because it hunts prey; a position in space is there only in relation to something else. Even time exists only as a set of relations."

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland

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Take a sharp step

your nose is off

I'm here to tell you

I turned into a picture of a crystal on the wall

get cold

get out

cold-call a warm worm

a warm head

it'll be shoes

driving on a piece of paper

some warm worlds

kicked somebody in half

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“Grace transforms our failings full of dread into abundant, endless comfort … our failings full of shame into a noble, glorious rising … our dying full of sorrow into holy, blissful life. …. Just as our contrariness here on earth brings us pain, shame and sorrow, so grace brings us surpassing comfort, glory, and bliss in heaven … And that shall be a property of blessed love, that we shall know in God, which we might never have known without first experiencing woe.”

― Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love

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"You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair." ~ Taisen Deshimaru

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Sparing you the intro this time.

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Walking and Talking with Sam.

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A self-reflexive, long-duration, patience-testing enquiry into the nature of self and reality, intended bring you the listener along for the ride.

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TEMPORARILY EXCLUSIVELY HERE

therefore u know it must be good.

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This is the very first episode of Walking and Talking, originally recorded in August of 2017.

I've added a 3-minute introduction, recorded in August of 2021.

The original audio quality is somewhat poor due to mic-handling and wind noise, though it gets slightly better mid-episode when it dawns on me to attach the wind-screen.

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I'm in a beautiful shopping mall.

I can't seem to commit to pay-walling things.

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4 hours of relatively non-manipulative, non-brainwashing, reality-enquiring jibber-jabber from your internet friend Ben Bennett. Originally recorded in 2017, with an intro recorded in 2021.

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No intro this time:

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Not in the mood to pretend.

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Nothing is so not a thing that there seems to be something.

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"When one exhausts the personal, there is left the transpersonal. There is, right now, nowhere else to go." -Ken Wilber, from One Taste.

This is four hours of exhausting the personal and seeing what is left.

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"The sum of all boundaries is zero." -Chris Langan

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