Welcome to Unstuck, a podcast series where we talk about how we can get unstuck from our polarization, learning from spiritual, scientific and somatic wisdom. And to get unstuck, we need to acknowledge that we have a problem, to become conscience of our incompetence in the area of division.

UNSTUCK SERIES

Podcast 1: Sea Change

Podcast 2: Discerning Yasha

Podcast 3: Otherness and Cogrity

Podcast 4: Narcissism

Podcast 5: Truth and Curiosity

ADJUNCT PODCASTS

Adjunct Cogrity Talk

Adjunct Axis Mundi and Curiosity

Podcast 1: Sea Change

In this episode, we’ll be talking about becoming aware of our conscious incompetence at navigating trauma, and healing division. We’ll be mentioning three shifts we need to make: from victim mentality to empowerment, from a simple definition of unity to the more complex one of “cogrity”, and from othering each other to approaching our differences with reverence.

CITATIONS

• Hübl Trauma Summit

• Wisdom of Trauma Film

• The Book of Hope by Jane Goodhall and Douglas Abrams

• Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal

  • Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal

  • Cambridge Analytica and Facebook: The Scandal and the Fallout So Far

  • Facebook Sued over Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal

• Hübl/Wiesel

  • Betty here cites the words of Hübl, who is citing Wiesel after a trauma conference as saying "I never believed there was a greater trauma than being in the holocaust until I met with the family/progeny/survivors who came from Nazism."

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van der Kolk M.D.

• Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

In this second episode of the series we’ll be talking about a necessary shift from focusing on the futility of individual effort towards the hope and spiritual relief of collective healing. To illustrate that, we begin by defining “Deininger moments” that occur when we step out from our immediate sensory perception into a collective consciousness, and how we might use this experience to explore possibilities for healing and growth.

CITATIONS

• Einstein’s Space-Time Theory

  • What is the Theory of General Relativity?

  • Four Lectures on the Theory of Relativity, Held at Princeton University in May 1921

• Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual: Trauma-Informed Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, PTSD & Substance Abuse by Frank Anderson, Richard Schwartz, and Marth Sweezy

• The Four Stages Of Competence by Zainab Zaki

• The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality by Dalai Lama

• Thomas Deininger Art

  • tdeininger

  • Found Art

In this third episode of the series “Unstuck”, we want to explore the idea of healthy opposition that is not reducing the other person’s outlook, but instead prizes each other’s differences as forces that can increase our shared power as we learn to coordinate with each other.

Skillful handling of otherness is not giving way to fear-based actions, not punishing them with powerful words, actions, or disconnection. Instead, skillful handling means holding space, being reverent towards the other person, in the same way, that we would be reverent toward a tiger, or other powerful or wild being that we need to interact with.

CITATIONS

• Freud’s Narcissism of Small Differences

• Podcast 3 22:59, Joseph Campbell

  • The Cave You Fear to Enter Holds the Treasure You Seek

• Podcast 3 23:53, Haman

  • Haman Plots Against the Jews

• Podcast 3 44:45, Rilke

  • Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties : translations and considerations of Rainer Maria Rilke

In this fourth episode of the series Unstuck, we’ll be exploring three forms of Narcissism - dogmatism, narcissism of the will, and narcissism of the emotion - and how each of these forms can warp our interpersonal relationships and hinder our ability to encounter the other. We hope you can join us in our journeys of self-examination, and come away today with a few more tools for shifting our relational mindset into one of curiosity, and for validating each other’s perspectives without needing to condone them. This open-minded approach to otherness is the thing that allows us to dismantle our own destructive responses to the fear of otherness, and access the relational building blocks of cogrity.

In this fifth and final episode of the series unstuck, we'll be talking about the beautiful and complex nature of truth. We'll be looking to the body and to how synchronous antagonism of muscle pairs illustrates that where oppositional forces are at play. Neither side really owns the truth. Rather, it is in the healthy interplay of opposing forces, that we begin to approach what is most true.