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The Return from the Peak
A mystical experience can blow the doors off your mind. The harder question is whether you become any less of a grump when you come back.
Jul 28
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David Johnson
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38:23
Ken Wilber and the Trouble with Everything
There are two pages I want to keep open beside each other.
Jul 21
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David Johnson
4
1
40:17
Bernardo Kastrup: Is Consciousness Fundamental?
Kastrup argues that consciousness may not be something matter produces, but the reality within which matter appears.
Jul 14
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David Johnson
2
1
44:13
Donald Hoffman's Desktop of Reality
The deception of the physical world is the only bridge that allows us to actually reach each other.
Jul 7
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David Johnson
1
42:01
June 2026
Christof Koch and the Problem of Other Minds
To accept that consciousness is fundamental is to acknowledge a world suddenly, violently full of feeling.
Jun 30
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David Johnson
2
40:58
What the scanner cannot see: David Chalmers and the hard problem of Consciousness
There is a difference between describing how a machine works and explaining why it feels like something to be that machine.
Jun 23
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David Johnson
5
1
41:54
No Exit, No Problem: Pema Chödrön’s Inner Frontier
When things fall apart, the first temptation is to rebuild the story. Pema asks what happens if we stay with the wreckage for one breath longer.
Jun 9
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David Johnson
7
1
40:35
The Unconscious Has Bad Manners: Stanislav Grof and the Psychedelic Psyche
What happens when the mind speaks before the ordinary self has worked out how to translate it?
Jun 2
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David Johnson
8
43:11
May 2026
When the Music Stops: Laura Huxley and Relational Consciousness
The self is not a thing you hold. It is a thing you participate in.
May 26
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David Johnson
10
1
35:49
The Observing I: Deconstructing My Own Philosophy
A reflection on the psychological cost of inherited narratives, the collapse of external validation, and how to find the baseline of the observing self.
May 19
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David Johnson
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2
1
48:32
Carlos Castaneda: Wisdom, Fiction, and the Desire to Believe
An exploration of Psychedelic spirituality, and the uncomfortable line between wisdom and fiction
May 12
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David Johnson
4
49:08
The Tyranny of Pleasure: Aldous Huxley and his Brave New World
Why we might be learning to love our own containment.
May 5
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David Johnson
8
45:10
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