Highlighting the intersection between love and awareness, Rhonda V. Magee joins David to discuss real change in a culture of separation.

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This time on the CSM podcast, David and Rhonda converse about:

• Rhonda’s background and personal definition of love
• Real change through love, inspiration and a sense of connection
• The inter-being of mindfulness and metta
• The principle of loving everyone and telling the truth
• What happens when truth is met with resistance or denial
• Living in a time where we have constant reminders of fear and anger
• How our culture has reduced us and objectified us
• Intergenerational phenomena and walking through many phases of life
• What we leave behind for the next generation and what we can learn from youth
• Real and perceived differences
• Deepening our own well-being so that we can be there for others

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About Rhonda V. Magee:

Rhonda V. Magee is a Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco and a leading mindfulness teacher and practice innovator with a focus on applying mindfulness to the hardest challenges of our times. She is an internationally-recognized teacher, guide and mentor, focused on integrating mindfulness into higher education, law and social change work. A prolific author, she draws on law and legal history to weave storytelling, poetry, analysis and practices into inspiration for changing how we think, act and live better together in a rapidly changing world. Keep up with Rhonda on her website or on social media.

“I fully believe, for most of us, especially in the West, grounding in a quality of love and care as how we experience awareness is pretty important because we have so much healing to do. We’ve been so alienated from ourselves, each other, from the planet.” – Rhonda V. Magee

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Ramin Nazer and David Nichtern explore the individual’s place in an ever-changing and technologically-advancing world.

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This time on CSM, we hear about:

• Technological advancement and the collective mind
• Sci-Fi and fear vs. hope for the future
• The unsustainability of bliss
• Eternalism and the hellscape of pointlessness
• The dystopia of A.I and ChatGPT
• Safe zones versus growth zones
• Creativity and trying to guess what the world wants to see
• Creating a balance in a chaotic world
• The fundamental experiences that ground us
• Psychedelics as a liberating disruption
• Simulations, robots, and ‘I am-ness’
• The dynamics of polarity

About Ramin Nazer:

Ramin Nazer is a multi-talented artist, podcaster, comedian, game creator and musician based out of LA. He is best known for his consistent stream of unique, psychedelic-spiritual, bite-sized art for the social media age, as well as his podcast, with comedian Shane Mauss, Mind Under Matter, where they take a hilarious and scientific approach to human behavior. You can tap into Ramin’s steady flow of art on his Instagram, tap into his solo podcast Rainbow Brainskull, and peer into his myriad offerings at RaminNazer.com.

“According to Buddhism, the solution is you maintain your status as a human being who has ups and downs, who has lungs, and disappointments, yet there’s a seed of real depth of wisdom and understanding and compassion in it. You bypass the God realms.” – David Nichtern

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Discussing his experience with panic attacks, Dan Harris describes the tools that have helped him move from resistance to acceptance.

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In this episode, David and Dan dive into:

How Dan went from experiencing panic attacks to finding meditation

Dan’s definition of happiness

Stabilizing our well-being

The compounding effect of meditation practice

Navigating difficult external experiences

Working on a loving-kindness practice

Pith instructions from spiritual teachers

Allowing feelings instead of resisting

The fear of death and all pervasive suffering

Temporal experiences and observing the pause of time

Impermanence and not taking everything so seriously

Equanimity and looking at our emotions as passing weather

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About Dan Harris:

Dan Harris is an author, podcaster, and a retired American journalist for ABC News. He was an anchor for Nightline and co-anchor of the weekend edition of Good Morning America. After an on-air panic attack, Dan dedicated himself to meditation and spreading the word about its benefits. His “10% Happier” podcasts feature interviews with other meditators. Dan’s book, 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Really Works – a True Story, was published in March 2014.

“Panic is just a set of physical sensations, which as a panic sufferer, I have experienced countless times and always survived. So, it’s okay, just let it go. Let the sensations be there, it’s okay to feel it. What is making it worse is my resistance to it.” – Dan Harris

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