“If irony is the ethos of our age — and it is — then the hipster is our archetype of ironic living…the ironic life is certainly a provisional answer to the problems of too much comfort, too much history and too many choices, but it is my firm conviction that this mode of living is not viable and conceals within it many social and political risks.” – Christy Wampole Christy Wampole is an assistant professor in the department of French and Italian at Princeton, and the author of “Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor” and “The Other Serious: Essays for …
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019: Voicemail – Seeing the World Through a Lens of Awe: Brie Stoner on Pablo Neruda
“I have a crazy, crazy love of things.” – Pablo Neruda Brie Stoner is a student, musician, and writer at becomingultrahuman.com. Besides contributing to the Center for Spiritual Resources and Contemplative Wisdom blogs, she contributed to the book Personal Transformation and a New Creation: The Spiritual Revolution of Beatrice Bruteau (edited by Ilia Delio). Brie is also my go-to for all things concerning Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In this episode, Brie shares a reflection on a poet that has made a deep impact on her contemplative journey, and offers a little insight on how Pablo Neruda might improve my own. Subscribe to Contemplify …
018: The Past Has Arms: Risking Relationship with Ourselves So We Can Grow Up with James Hollis, PhD
“We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.” – W.H. Auden James Hollis, Ph. D., is a trained Jungian analyst at the Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland and currently serves as the Executive Director of the Washington Jung Society and author of numerous books including Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up, The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other, and most recently, Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives. In this episode, James shares about his …
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