Meditation, Meaning
Myth & Magic
with Daniel M. Ingram
Daniel and I discuss a number of Dharma topics in each episode, including how this integrates or clashes with more Jungian, meaning-based and ensouled ways of being.
This was recorded in 2020 and early 2021. If you like listening at 2x speed, you can use a Soundcloud Downloader to download the episodes.
Part I: the balance of meditating on direct sensate experience and meaning, where meaning comes from, imaginal practice, and portal jumping
Part II: one sense door, religion and ritual, and setting resolutions in practice
Part III: making room for different types of practices including the dark stuff, working towards a science of understanding spirituality, defining your own awakening, and fire kasina and imaginal practice
Part IV: the shape of attention, formations, the Universe unfolding, and balancing transcendence with an intimacy with life
Part V: emptiness, its different meanings, and generally using words better in meditation and awakening
Part VI: creativity, journeying, imagination, and the richness of practice
Part VII: attainments, Buddhahood, issues of karma, causality, immediacy, metaphor, interdependence, and social and performative designations
Part VIII: stories of darkness and suffering on the path, individual and collective trauma, and practicing together for healing