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The naval-gazing slippage continues as as I start to delve into my own Enneagram Type Four personhood; also asking a few question about whether we can perhaps hear in the tonality of another's voice the energies of their type. I try this out by playing for you some snippets of a few different singers (a four, a seven, and a nine) and letting you decide as you listen.
I also share a therapy project I've been involved in in the last few months, which is that of offering free/low-cost therapy to young people (Gen Z and younger) struggling with Eco-Anxiety of some sort or another.
I thought it might be interesting to do six sessions with three millenials, record our sessions and then maybe write a paper at some point based on this piece of qualitative research?
I realise now that this paper will never be written, but I did find the experience of doing these sessions (with Emily and then subsequently Sai and Jakub) to be very nourishing and interesting.
Jeff, if you're listening, could you perhaps start expiditing your Blue Origin plans, pretty please? Things ain't looking good on the planet at the moment, Jeff. Time to do that Three thing you do so well with regard to our climate catastrophe. If you're listening, Jeff. Thank you.
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In which I take a deep dive into Jeff Bezos's inimitable laugh.
Is Jeff’s laugh a direct route perhaps into the secrets of his soul, which is to say, the essence of his type, his personality? Or just an auditory MacGuffin, a distractor, a smoke screen in order to shield what Carl Jung called the shadow of our personality, those qualities and impulses we often deny in ourselves but have no problem seeing in others: egotism, narcissism, laziness, insensitivity, carelessness and cowardice. Or perhaps an inordinate love of money, possessions and personal freedom? What does Jeff Bezos’s laugh really say about Jeff Bezos the human animal clothed in his archetype of language and identity? Can the noise we make called laughter perhaps tell us more about a person's "essence" than the words that come before and after that sound?
Who better to ask than someone who went to school with Jeff and was sitting in the assembly hall when he delivered his far-sighted valedictorian speech to the graduating class of Palmetto Senior High School in 1982.
Also: my allotment neighbour Tom's Tomato Palace; the magical-mystical allure of Enneagram Type Fives; thoughts on Jung's chapter “On The Concept of the Archetype” in his book Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious; playing Getting To Know You Musical Chairs in my Longform Improv class at The Free Association in London; pi-guy; PLUS Revenge of The Nerds (the 1984 film, as well as the silicon valley/business culture that bloomed in its wake).
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In which I begin my investigation into the plans to launch a new "SOS" Voyager 3 mission in 2027.
Why would one of the most beloved human animals on our planet (David Attenborough) join forces with the oft-reviled Jeff Bezos to make this happen?
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Links
Hands: The Art of Life
Big Things Start Small: Going to Space to Benefit Earth (Full Event Replay)
The best Voyager documentary out there, hands down, is Emer Reynold's The Farthest. The couple of clips you hear in this episode (from those who were involved in the original Voyager missions) come from Emer's beautiful documentary.
Send More Chuck Berry: 1977 SNL clip
70s Dating Profiles
Faces of Greed YouTube video
Happy Talk - Don Shirley Trio - Karim Kamar - Piano
Blue Moon (piano cover by Maucoli)
Independence Day: Aliens arrive scene
Miracles (Benny Sings)
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I'm very, very grateful to the following people who have supported me and this project with their Love (time, energy, creativity).
