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It’s round 2 of this season finale of Purpose Highway, let us journey together into our dreams and bask in its meaning with our finale guest, Katherine Bell! Scott Mason welcomes Katherine in this 2-part season finale special to discuss what is a dream, its symbolism, and many more!
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Katherine's views on alienationDreams help to feel to belongThe experiential part of the dreamDreams, anxiety, and terrorKatherine's tipsQUOTES
Katherine: “We're not ever taught to trust ourselves. And the dreams kind of erodes away at that. And so that's why even the unpleasant dreams can be really, really helpful.”
Katherine: “If we deepen the dream and like going into the dream and trusting the dream, saying that there's something valuable here for me, and that bringing into my whole body, that that is the way I can take the part of the dream and deepen its work on me.”
Katherine: “A lot of people have a lot of fear. Running. I know I did running every day and not acknowledge it.”
Katherine: “Write your dreams down. Dreams are ephemeral, they disappear, you know, five minutes after you're awake, it's gone. So if you wake up in the morning, get yourself a journal and write it down. That act of writing the dream down is honoring the dream.”
Get in touch with Katherine with the link below:
Email: [email protected]: https://experientialdreamwork.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/experientialdreamworkTo hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose HighwayⓇ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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In this season finale of Purpose Highway, let us journey together into our dreams and bask in its meaning with our finale guest, Katherine Bell! Scott Mason welcomes Katherine in this 2-part season finale special to discuss what is a dream, its symbolism, and many more!
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Katherine symbolized by PersephoneDream Basking instead of Dream InterpretationWhat is a dreamThe spiritual component of dreamsGuides in dreamsThe theory of the brain as a filterQUOTES
Katherine: “Dreams are personal myths, and myths are cultural dreams. So there's a way if I get that right, you got to check me on that. But basically, the myth is like the dream of the culture. And so we use the myths to define our culture, the way we use our dreams, to define our personal experience of life.”
Katherine: “I don't even like the word interpretation, dream interpretation. Although people kind of use that word because they don't know What else to say, I think of it as dream basking.”
Katherine: “Everybody dreams, you say people say, Oh, I don't dream. It's like, no, no, no, you don't remember your dreams, that's very different. You actually, dreaming is something very vital to the structure of our brain.”
Katherine: “Self-awareness is a huge part of the path of spirituality as I see it, self-awareness and becoming aware of our, of what's important to us the meaning and the purpose of our lives, and that the dreams are very powerful in helping us reframe our stories about ourselves.”
Katherine: “Dreams are so beautiful because they're, they powerfully encapsulate these feelings in an image context, which we can really soak in.”
Katherine: “If we get to one track in any direction, then we won't, we won't, we will all have the same blind spot. And then we're all uniquely blind to that one thing.
Get in touch with Katherine with the link below:
Email: [email protected]: https://experientialdreamwork.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/experientialdreamworkTo hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose HighwayⓇ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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Scott Mason and US Air Force Master Sergeant Joshua Stewart are revving up for another stellar episode of Purpose Highway. Also known as Stu, Josh works as a teacher of teachers, providing communications courses from the ground up, and helping others realize their impact on the world around them. Join Scott and Josh for round 2 here on Purpose Highway!
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Developing a discipline of silenceGoing out of the dark to face the truthShared meaning with yourselfQUOTES
Josh: “Get that creative stuff out of you, whether you think it's in you or not, and you'll start to see just some mental health upticks.”
Josh: “The purpose of communication is to get a shared meaning. So when it comes to what you're talking about, though communication is to get a shared meaning, inter interpersonal communication, shared meaning with others, but what about a shared meaning with yourself? Do you talk to yourself?”
Josh: “Shared meaning with yourself is your life journey, and it's something that when it stops, then maybe you've lost what your purpose is, or maybe your purpose has changed.”
Josh: “If you live in the cave, and all you know, are the shadows, then you don't, you don't really know reality.”
Get in touch with Joshua with the link below:
Email: [email protected]To hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose HighwayⓇ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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Scott Mason is revving up the Purpose Highway to the skyway as he welcomes Joshua Stewart from the United States Air Force. Also known as Stu, Josh works as a teacher of teachers, providing communications courses from the ground up, and helping others realize their impact on the world around them. Join Scott and Josh here on Purpose Highway!
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Selene, the Greek moon goddessMasculinity, then and nowFinding meaning in lifeImpact of communication on cultureQUOTES
Josh: “When it comes to masculine and feminine, and I've said this to folks before any kind of generalization or stereotype is just an average. If you know anything about math, the average doesn't get you anywhere near the top or the bottom.”
Josh: “I think we need to start writing our individual stories because when we start putting so much into the social media section of it, we start to lose the basic thing that we're after, the purpose.”
Josh: “I think that if you aren't true to yourself, whether you succeed or not, you're going to end up in that bad mental state. Because at the end of the day, that's what it's really all about is what is your purpose.”
Josh: “You can find meaning in the little things in life, and these stories from these ancient times. These are the things people were coming up with before social media. It's how they were crafting their purpose.”
Josh: “I think that we have to look at facts differently. I think the objective reality isn't something that we can craft with words, obviously. But it is something that is up for interpretation.”
Get in touch with Joshua with the link below:
Email: [email protected]To hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose HighwayⓇ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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This week is another exciting trip down The Purpose Highway as the one and only Climate Optimist, Anne Therese Gennari, joins Scott Mason in the front seat. Anne is the co-founder and Head of Marketing of Rolemodels, an agency that puts ethics, sustainability, environmental, and social justice at the core of its business. She also founded The Climate Optimist and is the host of her very own show, Hey Change.
Scott and Anne Therese will be dealing with topics about climate change, hope, and what journey it takes to be truly optimistic.
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Anne Therese Gennari as FreyaArising as The Climate OptimistHope and Optimism, interlinkedOptimism starts with youQUOTES
Anne: “I don't cry gold, but I will say that I have learned to understand that tears are gold in so many ways, and and allowing ourselves to cry can be one of the most empowering empowering things that we do”
Anne: “We are the system, and the fastest way to change the system is by empowering ourselves and becoming that change.”
Anne: “It's not about being the awesome person who saved the polar bears. It's actually taking it back home like, do you want to be breathing polluted air?”
Anne: “If we don't have hope, what do we have? And I think the same applies to optimism, where you can't just choose optimism.”
Anne: “We need to stop acting from fear and start embracing curiosity, excitement, joy and optimism. We are here to do something fantastic.”
Anne: “Awareness hurts, and that's okay.”
To find out more about Anne Therese, please see the links below.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/anne-therese-gennariWebsites: theclimateoptimist.comTwitter: annetherese_gTo hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose HighwayⓇ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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Toxic myths of gender rolesDislodging toxic myths and embracing self changeBreaking barriers and dismantling one’s self to have true changePre-Bible existence of transgender peopleQUOTES
Scott: “People sometimes have a lot of anxiety about dislodging toxic myths that are far less deeply rooted to their identity in the world.”
Sophie: “It's weird to talk about identity because it was me, but it wasn't me, if that makes sense. Whereas now I look at myself in the mirror and I'm like, ‘ ‘oh my God, I can't believe that's me.’ ’, but not in a disbelief sort of way, but more a holy sh**, I actually did it sort of way.”
Scott: “One of the biggest challenges that I believe anyone who truly dislodges these toxic myths is letting go, or at least learning to mentally adjust to who and what they were.”
Sophie: “You go through these times of intense change in your life, and there's often a ‘ ‘fake it until you make it’ ’ sort of phase, and so I was trying to pull together different elements I had fundamentally dismantled myself.”
Sophie: “Change is not a clean, easy process. You might turn into a puddle of goo for a while, but eventually you'll come out the other side.”
To find out more about Sophie, please see the links below.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sbedwardsWebsites: cloudsurfingmedia.comTo hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose HighwayⓇ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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Sophie as Cybele, mother of godsUnpleasant Reality vs. Pleasurable Life of LiesThe sad reality about nostalgiaThe importance of changeQUOTES
Scott: “In order to get to freedom, you have to be open to change if you are at all trapped.”
Sophie: “They're seeing that change is coming. They don't want change to come, and they would rather devour the next generation and destroy what is coming, then embrace that change.”
Sophie: “There has always been conflict and strife. Whether it's a class based issue, or race based, or sexuality, or gender, or whatever it is, there's always been this conflict. But when we look at it through the lens of nostalgia, we don't see what is real. We see what we want to see.”
Scott: “Nostalgia is itself a toxic myth that we tell ourselves, because like I said, it never is the whole story. It isn't something that exists now. And nostalgia can be easy and fun to feel. But it is something that separates us from the truth.”
Sophie: “Judging somebody by the quality of their actual character, as opposed to just what they're telling you they're about is important.”
Sophie: “The past can't hurt us, because it's already happened. The future can hurt us, because it hasn't happened yet, and so some people just think, let's just keep doing what we've always been doing, because it's working. Even though the longer we do that, the more we realize it's not working.”
To find out more about Sophie, please see the links below.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sbedwardsWebsites: cloudsurfingmedia.comTo hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose HighwayⓇ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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Stephen as Prometheus, bringer of early technology to humansForesight of kids and the futureImportance of teaching kids the use of technologyStephen’s background and the birth of MakerStateSTEAM: STEM with an Art elementQUOTES
Stephen: “STEM or STEAM is not only to teach kids how to use technology, but to use it so that it creates a future for all that is more sustainable, and more inclusive.”
Stephen: “I'm not going to be one, who's going to be the warning of the social media issues and things like that. I'm going to be the guy who says, ``We have to teach these kids how to take a hold of this technology and do with it the things that they deserve, as humans and this planet requires.”
Stephen: “Kids are going to build this world, but they have to understand the technology and the media that they're working with and learn to create with it.”
Stephen: “I would much rather be working with 6, 7, 8, 9 year olds than have to try to, you know, help some 30 year old figure this out in church or a young person entering the workforce try to figure this out for the first time. I think K12 is where we need to take a serious look at, at how to challenge our kids with the questions that they're going to have for the rest of their lives.”
Stephen: “Whatever mistakes our generation is making, we can turn that by working with our youngest members of our society to make better choices that include more justice, more sustainability, that's what probably gives me the most hope.”
To find out more about Stephen, please see the links below.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-gilman-25a2235/Websites: https://maker-state.com/about-us/To hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose HighwayⓇ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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Thinking about purpose and alienationJessica as Mnemosyne, the goddess of memoryFinding purpose and moments of loss and breakthroughLearnings from The Breakthrough ShowWhat is an Intuitive MentorJessica on perception of adventure in lifeQUOTES
Scott: “So much of who and what our essence is relates to the existence of memory. If we have Alzheimer's but lose our memory, what are we but just a shell? And that's the horror of it.”
Jessica: “They wouldn't know who they were, they wouldn't know who their family were when they came in. They wouldn't remember what they ate for lunch. It was just one of the most devastating things I've ever witnessed. But when you would play a song, and they would start to sing it as if no time had passed.”
Jessica: “I would make friends with these people that were older generation and their time would come and they would pass on. And so I would experience a lot of this loss. And I think, now that I'm thinking about it, maybe it added to this sort of need that I've had to be alive and to push forward and to try because I had experienced so much loss.”
Jessica: “I've been on this planet all this time, and what am I actually doing? And then I started working on myself and all of that. And then, years later was when I had the opportunity to write in the book and after that was the birth of my show, which was completely on accident.”
Jessica: “We've all been through something and I think that the, I've asked I said, You know what makes you different though, how have you survived this? How have you continued to thrive? And not given up or not succumb to shoe addiction or any of these other things, suicide, any of these other things that we've dealt with. And it's never the same answer.”
Jessica: “I operate a lot from a place of just almost an innate knowing, an intuitive place. And that's something that, like I have shared before, that I came into touch with when my brother passed away, I didn't realize how powerful my own intuition was until I started using it. Go figure.”
Jessica: “I think, for me, I had to just just start connecting with myself in some kind of way. So I would contend through connecting with other people is how I ended up coming back and connecting with myself. So I opened myself up to going, Okay, I've got to meet other people, I've got to expand my horizons here.
Jessica: “I think adventure is perspective. I think anybody could either have an adventurous spirit or you don't. And it doesn't mean we have to kind of get out of our head that adventure means a certain thing, that it means you have to travel, you have to try new foods… we just have to get out of our heads that adventure is supposed to look a certain way.”
To find out more about Jessica, please see the links below.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jessica-dugas-847b6a152vWebsites:jessicadugas.com (Personal Website)thebreakthroughshow.com (Company Website)projectjoypodcast.com (Company Website)To hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose HighwayⓇ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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Kim and her courage to face lifeKim’s background as a business coachFrom working to starting a business, to coaching businessesWhy Kim chose her current pathDealing with the mindset of hesitationDealing with clients who look down on themselvesDealing with your ego and moving forwardQUOTES
Kim: “And I think being a woman and being a lesbian, and coming out and living my life out loud, as I like to say, and I want my clients to live their life out loud, that you have to have the courage to face the shit that most people don't want to face. And that's whatever it is in your life. It's whatever it is in my life.”
Kim: “So again, this is the courage piece that comes up of the willingness to change, the willingness to pivot, the willingness to say, this is no longer suiting me, and changing gears.”
Scott: “Over the past however many years, there has been a secret plague, making Western society sick and it isn’t the Coronavirus. Actually, many people say there's a lot of plagues, but the one I'm talking about that is a secret one is a plague of alienation, and disconnect, people feeling disconnected from each other people feeling disconnected from themselves, particularly with regards to a lot of issues like purpose and spirituality, which are which historically, there were institutions that help them find that those institutions are still there. But a lot of people are in those circumstances and life changes occurred, people might need something a little bit may still find themselves lost.”
Scott: “Because achievement orientation, particularly in arenas, like sports, academics, titled degrees, can take us exactly where you're going. At the expense of purpose.”
Kim: “At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how well I work in that environment for someone else's success, the success of each person is up to them with the tools that they have. So forgetting the process. Life is about living. It's not about the destination. And we do this thing called life with connection with others.”
Kim: “The mindset that you have is in your control, if you consistently and it's not, you know, funky positive psychology, whatever “do do” stuff. If you don't believe that you're going to do something you won't.”
Kim: “You know, life is a marathon. And so you don't have to find your purpose tomorrow. You don't have to find what that is. I think it's bullshit to search for just a purpose. I think my purpose is just to exist and be the best I know how to be.”
Kim: “God gave you a brain in two feet, gave you hands if you know, that kind of thing. So it really is doing the work. But it starts with how you talk with yourself and how you say things to yourself. No one's gonna dangle a million dollars in front of you just because you're cute. You have to do the work.”
Scott: “I needed to adapt to the circumstances to what I was given and then succeed on the terms that I had.”
Kim: “It really is tapping into the strengths of a person and paying attention to who they are as people.”
Kim: “If you want to stay miserable, you will stay miserable. I was choosing to stay miserable in certain periods of my life because I thought I needed to settle for that shit. You know whether I stayed in an abusive relationship, whether I stayed with an abusive boss and a company that I worked in for too long, you know things like that, like we have a choice.”
Kim: “We are collective and need to be connected.”
Kim: “Once you stop learning, you're dead. So being willing to say, hmm, I have some skill sets. I don't know how to do this, I can learn how to do this. And that will get me out of where I am. That's this shift. That's the mindset shift that I talk about a lot.”
To find out more about Kim, please see the links below.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimbrady/Website: http://www.kimbradybusinesscoaching.com/To hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose HighwayⓇ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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The concept of sin as a legitimate driver of human behaviorJon’s view on cultural sinJesus making the biggest deal on sinHow postmodernism benefits and falls apartJon’s personal journey of uncertaintyJon’s personal journey of sufferingManaging suffering and griefThe concept of abundanceQUOTES
Jon: “So again, I come from this, this Christian worldview, and, and sin has become, I think, almost a central topic in this world view that I come from. And I think it's really an old story. I think we're fixated on the brokenness and depravity of man.”
Scott: “There has been I think people would argue this and extreme obsession. With the sinfulness of people like me, meanwhile, being perfectly fine with trashing the entire planet, or eating animals that have been tortured, you know.”
Jon: “I think we make sin, I have to speak from within my worldview, at least initially, I think we make sin far too big of a deal. And so it's it, he's made the biggest deal of it, he can, so we don't need to anymore.”
Jon: “Tolerance is a beautiful concept, but I think it went too far as to mean, tolerance means acceptance of every single worldview is equally valid. And pretty quickly, you and I could come up with some worldviews that we'd say no, that's morally evil, and should be opposed.”
Jon: “Again, I think some of my current worldviews to some of my goal is to live as humanly as possible. Part of that humanity, humanity means I will suffer, it is a given I will die someday I will get sick someday. So suffering is a given.”
Jon: “Grief is one of those moments where we just need someone to sit with us. There will come a time to give answers or to talk or to give perspective. But usually, the power we have is in the power of our presence, not in our words.”
Jon: “I don't want to miss a moment of it. I want to fully experience the sadness, the loss, the suffering, the saying goodbye because death is a part of life.”
Jon: “The concept of abundance starts to push my thinking back into that kind of negativity versus positivity mindset. Because we don't believe there's a an abundance, we're out there taking everything we can as quickly as I can, and to hell with the people who are going to drown and die.”
To find out more about Jon, please see the links below.
Website: http://www.jondillowcounseling.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-dillow-a3618b161/To hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose HighwayⓇ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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Sisyphus, Pandora's Box, and hopeHope is a double-edged swordFalse hope can trivialize pain and sufferingOur big brains allow us to ask "What if?"At the root of most anxiety is uncertaintyOur relationship with uncertainty and truth has changed drasticallyReligions are rigid in their modernist truths and cannot adaptSuffering is a fact of lifePeople waste their gifts because they avoid riskQUOTES
Jon: "It is hard for us creatures to function without some sense of hope, some sense that tomorrow could be better. And yet at the same time, hope is a really dangerous commodity because it raises our expectations and sets us up for disappointment."
Jon: "If we think evolutionarily, we've been given a negativity bias. We have this bias towards the negative that is we encounter uncertainty, we don't see it as a wonderful surprise that is waiting to occur. We instead look at it and say something bad is going to occur because that kept us alive. It was a survival adaptation to think towards the negative."
Jon: "Much of our struggles as humans can be traced back to an attempt to resolve uncertainty. Of course we can think of lots of negative ways to resolve uncertainty. We try to minimize it, we try to avoid it, we medicate it. And these are ways that don't free us to live in a fully and robust human way. Instead, our world kind of shrinks in, as we deal with uncertainty in that way."
Jon: "Science did away with much of our mystery and then I think religion started to adopt that and became smaller and started to be more rigid. You mentioned that the institutions of religion may have set themselves up for a fall. I think one of the challenges in our religious rigidity is we're not able to grow and adapt."
Jon: "I think our Christianity as it existed when I grew up will be dead 10 years from now. They won't exist anymore because we had a rigidity around the way we've practiced our faith that has not allowed it to adapt to changing culture."
Jon: "There is really suffering in America. But as a culture, I think the message is a little bit along the lines of 'we can overcome suffering'. We can make disease, illness, sadness, whatever it is, we can make it go away. So the goal is to make suffering stop. I don't think that's congruent with reality. Suffering is a given reality. And if we don't accept that, embrace that, then we're living in a somewhat delusional way."
To find out more about Jon, please see the links below.
Website: http://www.jondillowcounseling.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-dillow-a3618b161/To hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose HighwayⓇ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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Deep dive into BuddhismGrowing communities around stoicism Most things in life happen by chanceHow the stoics viewed IndifferentsThe Discipline of PassionRein in your passions and focus on rationalityStoics want be better, not just feel betterThe Discipline of ActionOnly the true sage is a good friend The Disciple of AscentDecline of Stoicism in favor of Christianity in the ancient world The value of Stoicism in the modern world Stoicism should not be used to exploit peopleQUOTES
Gregory: "An indifferent is something that is in your life that will not necessarily make it better and could make it worse. That's all it is. A lot of things consider good, such as health and wealth, are indiffirents to the stoics. And that seems shocking to a lot of people. Of course, I need to be healthy to be happy. Of course I need some amount of money to be happy and things like that. But if you understand the argument I think it makes a little more sense."
Gregory: "The stoic argument of these things being indifferent means that anything that comes into your life through luck can only be put to good use if you have a good enough character. If you are brave enough, if you think about what's really good in the world, if you care enough about others and you care enough about yourself in certain ways, then you can put things into good use."
Gregory: "We are beyond any animal that's out there, being able to think abstractly and use language. And these passions push reason to the side. We cannot reason when we are in a passion, and so it makes us literally less human when we're doing these kinds of things."
Gregory: "The goal of the discipline of desire is to temper these passions so that we can become better humans more generally. Not to feel better but to become better."
Gregory: "You're not ready at this first stage to desire what is desirable. If you don't have a hold to your passions to some degree, you're not ready to be ethical. Because these strong emotions will push reason to the side and turn us against each other."
Gregory: "Maybe Stoicism won't be picked up by a lot of people and it may die out again. And I think in terms of compromising some basic principles like between Stoicism dying out again and Stoicism being turned into a life hack that makes factory workers a little bit more happy in the eerie smiley sense but still living lives that are painful in a lot of other ways, then I'd rather Stoicism die out."
To find out more about Gregory, please see the links below.
Website: https://greglopez.me/philosophy/Book: https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-New-Stoics-Week-Week/dp/1615195335To hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose HighwayⓇ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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Is philosophy replacing religion?What is stoicism?The stoic way of looking at Medea Always look at both the positive and negative aspects of lifeStoicism can help introduce control and avoid snap judgmentsNot everyone wants to just 'feel better' Looking at the global pandemic through a Stoic lensQUOTES
Gregory: "People are looking for ways to guide their life and ways to form community in order to counteract the silent plague that you mentioned. I think philosophy can play a large part in helping some people out with that."
Gregory: "The goal of stoicism is to make the world a better space for your immediate sphere and the world in general."
Gregory: "A lot of stoic practice involves you thinking about what bad things supposedly can happen in order to anticipate them and not be as harmed by them if they do arise. So the stoicism mindset and stoic daily practice isn't really about being optimistic, but actually trying to be pessimistic about things that are outside of your control and the world at large, and in saying that even when things go wrong, I'm going to try to do the best I can."
To find out more about Gregory, please see the links below.
Website: https://greglopez.me/philosophy/Book: https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-New-Stoics-Week-Week/dp/1615195335To hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose Highway™ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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You need to be open to receive wisdomSo much of life today is about unlearning Have we lost our sense of our inner child? Growing up in a conservative Irish Catholic familyTribes exist to perpetuate themselves Everybody needs to be humbled sometimesNonverbal communication speaks volumes How an Irishman got interested in Chinese culture and methodologies Everybody wears a maskBuilding exceptional relationships takes mutual respectOur whole body is an antennaThe state of the body is the state of the mind and the heartBody language speaks volumes about a personQUOTES
Joseph: "So much of the learning in life is actually from unlearning the conditioning we've grown up and the conditioning that was passed on to us through many generations. We're seeing in the world today just how dysfunctional so many societies have become. To me, so much of what's required now is an unlearning."
Scott: "The only thing that COVID-19 has done, in my opinion, has been to exacerbate everything or maybe to speed it up, or make it undeniable. The alienation and separation that people have been feeling have been documented in studies of the workplace, trust in business, trust in institutions like government, involvement in a whole other host of civic organizations, even political involvement. That alienation leads to cynicism, it leads to division, it leads to separation from each other's heart and it goes to what you do fundamentally for a living."
Joseph: “The church needs to become smaller. It needs to become more localized and it needs to allow, and I don't know that it will, but it needs to allow local priests and local nuns deal with the realities on the ground and properly be of service to the real needs of the people in their communities. Not what the church says the needs are, the great edifice of the church but the real needs of the people, and actually and genuinely and completely, and fully, serve.”
Joseph: "Don't judge me by my words. Are my words and actions congruent and consistent? If they're not, call me out on it."
Joseph: "Everybody wears a mask. No matter who you are, no matter where you're from, no matter what level of success you've attained in your life has some level of insecurity about something earlier in their life. Everybody, no exceptions."
To find out more about Joseph, please see the links below.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clearsightcommunications/Website: https://clearsightcommunications.com/To hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose Highway™ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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Becoming a widow and losing a sense of communityYour story helps others in their journey of healingThe trauma connection leads to self-discoveryGuilt: An emotion that strikes each a different wayKashaun loses her husband in a tragic car accidentSpirituality and community begins with non judgmentQUOTES
Kashaun: "I just really did not want to feel like I was in this space alone when everything in me was alone. I didn't want to feel alone. So it was, how can I help me? Well, I can reach out. I can start to advocate for myself and try to, while I'm doing that, see who I could help too."
Kashaun: "What I've learned is it does vary by age, (grief) does vary by length of relationship, but it also varies by the health of the relationship."
Kashaun: "How do I please me, which is really who it's about, whether you're 80 or 20 in this space. How do I maintain the level of peace for me that allows me to move forward in a way that I can live with? And, whatever that is, by all means do it."
Kashaun: "I'm not here to tell you what to believe. I'm here to hear your story and if us talking and sharing our stories lends way to what my beliefs are and you want to know more, then I'll share. But even in the sharing space, it is really from a sense of just that. I'm not to persuade you, I am not to convince you. You will make that choice for yourself."
To find out more about Kashaun, please see the links below.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kashaunparkernextstepforwardcoaching/Email: [email protected]: https://www.facebook.com/NextStepForwardLLCTo hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose Highway™ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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The dominance of males are at an end for the old institutions A new form of spirituality may be on the rise The transition from polytheism to monotheism diminished womenIf God is everywhere, there should have been no space for sin Most people just want to be happyEverything is alive with energyI am God, and that is my spiritualityGetting kicked out of religion and developing own spiritualityWillingness is the keyword Invest in your mindsetQUOTES
Rich: "You are here for a reason. That's not revolutionary. But it's now time to unmute yourself. This is the time to own the gift and the experiences and the expertise that you have and get off the couch of complacency and open your mouth, stick your face in front of a camera and say what you have to say so the people who are meant for you can hear you.
Rich: "There's wounding. For some of us, far more than others. And I believe that the innate human spirit is to thrive, not just to survive, but is to, want to, enjoy life to be prosperous, to be happy. Most people just want to be happy.
Rich: “That's why I have hope. As long as humans have this desire to be happy, whether they know what it means for them or not, then there's this opportunity to figure that out for themselves and that is part of the work that I do.”
Rich: “There's an energetic force alive, whether you believe in calling it God or not, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you call it what you call it. There's an energetic creative force that is always evolving and unfolding and humans are a part of it, whether we want to believe it or not. Everything is energy. Even the rock outside your front door that you think is dead, is alive and vibrating with energy, it's just in a different frequency.”
Rich: “I don't believe in a God that sits in heaven or someplace. I believe that all this energy that I choose to call the universe, this universal spirit, the one mind, the thing that therefore, it flows through me, therefore I am it, too. That's a far better place for me to operate from than being subservient to something that I'm told controls or doesn't like me, or 'm not good enough, that I don't deserve."
Rich: “If I can get a person to believe that they're message is more important than their fears, doubt, and worries, then we can get them to the place that they need to be.”
Rich: “If you're willing to be bigger than your fears, doubts, worries, and preconceived notions about you and what other people think about you, just willing, not know how to figure out all this stuff out, just willing, then you can do everything.”
To find out more about Rich, please see the links below.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richoceguera/Website: https://www.richawakenings.com/
To hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose Highway™ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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Leaning on spirituality for police work Can spirituality fill the gap between police officers and the community?Quitting the police force and ruminations on use of force Surfing as a way to decompress for service personnelBridging the gap between community and police through surfingMaking waves and reaching more communitiesQUOTES
Robert: "Spirituality is just a thread you're constantly trying to reel, in to keep yourself grounded and whatever that might be, so that you can remain good, and you can remain of service and not look at the world through this kind of, jaded lens."
Robert: "You really need to lean in to your values and spirituality in order to hold on to that humanity. Far too often, people in that profession, and you often see that in veterans as well, just put up this wall where they just can't take anymore and they just become a robot. And, they have no emotion. They can't be empathetic to people. And that's when you get the bad outcome."
Scott: "Spirituality at least, arguably, connects us to something larger. But, I would be utterly remiss, particularly in this day and age, if I didn't point out that in many communities, there is a profound disconnect between the officers that are serving the communities, and the members of the communities themselves."
Robert: "Police, fire, veterans, military, they are constantly in a state of hypervigilance, right? Always looking over their shoulder, whether it's for physical violence, or safety, or to help somebody. They always wanna radio. Some of them carry a weapon. We're constantly scanning, and worrying and then guess what, your family is there and they're pinging you."
Robert: "I want to continue for SWEL to be, and it says in our strategic plan that we're stewards of the community. We're providing inclusive opportunities for other communities to experience this and maybe experience this with a service man or woman as well. Really, my vision is to scale and to continue to make trips and perhaps even have dedicated spot at the beach to where we have everything lined up."
To find out more about Robert, please see the links below.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-sanderson-44419b1a9/Website: https://www.theswel.org/Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/TheSWELmission/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theswelmission/To hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose Highway™ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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Navigating the horrors of the COVID-19 pandemicFinding purpose amidst the horrors of life From six-figure salary to homeless before 30Emotional suppression can lead to a physical manifestationDealing with imposter syndromeReflections on Michael A. Singer's The Untethered SoulBouncing back through speaking about one's truthQUOTES
Lois: "I started questioning everything. I questioned everything about business, I questioned everything about religion. I questioned and started searching for the first time, at age 30. And it opened me up to a whole world of spirituality."
Lois: "I wanted to bring transformation to people's businesses, mental, physical, spiritual, but I was so scared of judgment. And being seen as an imposter."
Lois: "To see for me wasn't about religion. It's about love, acceptance, collective consciousness, and just truly, getting rid of any kind of doctrine or dogma or rules that really came from, in my opinion, a place of power, control, and different agendas than what, say, the Buddhists taught."
Lois: "I was so afraid to speak my truth, I manifested an autoimmune disease in my throat."
Lois: "I lied to myself for 13 years, because I thought success was work hard, play hard, never let them see you sweat, wear the mask, all of the things. So I was essentially lying to myself."
Lois: "I had more time to just unpack it and connect with myself. Not listening to the media, not listening to family, not listening to past mentors and other people who, you know, love them, but might have been manipulating me a little bit for their own personal gain."
Lois: "The duality of the world is why I've had eight friends commit suicide. They didn't get to speak their truth. They were afraid because they were different. They were weird or they were lost because they didn't understand their truth."
To find out more about Lois, please see the links below.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loiskoffi/Website: https://loiskoffi.com/Manifest and Monetize Summit: https://manifestandmonetize.com/Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lois-koffis-healthy-n-wealthy-n-wise-podcast/id1523194158To hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose Highway™ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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Morality is in the talking, Ethics are in the walkingOld moral institutions need to adapt to modern-day challenges People need a solid ground to make ethical choicesEthics of leadership in the United States The issue with seeing the world in black and evil Being aware of our higher and lower naturesAre revolutions as a reaction to systematic problems still unethical?The myths and stories we tell ourselves Building trust with others can only improve quality of lifeA conversation about moral progressivismScouts, Pioneers, and SettlersWe all want to advance civilizationQUOTES
Christopher: "The best way to think about morality is that it is the guidelines, the guideposts that tell us in our cultures, in our groups, in our families what's right and what's wrong. Ethics are the actions that we take after we evaluate that set of standards that we're using."
Christopher: "As our capacities as individuals and societies grow, we find that the old paradigms no longer answer the new questions."
Scott: "I was thinking we should never be relying on institutions at all to provide ethical guidance. After all, as you seem to point towards in the book, ethical decision making is an individual choice where we have to struggle with and take upon ourselves the challenge of wrestling with these situations that we face and coming up with decisions for our own."
Christopher: "It's all the little choices we make that build up to the largest offenses."
Christopher: "If we put ethics in the perspective of good and evil, I think we miss out on the idea that all of us are in this continuum and sometimes I make higher nature choices, and sometimes I make lower nature choices."
Christopher: The idea of building trust with others goes to the most fundamental roots of the way that we work with one another even in a world where people don't believe in four-way stop signs.
To find out more about Christopher, please see the links below.
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Noble-Edge-Reclaiming-Ethical-Choice/dp/1631954059Website: https://www.nobleedgeconsulting.com/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ckgilbert9/To hear more of Scott Mason and the Purpose Highway™ podcast, join our community at https://purposehighway.com/ and subscribe to get notified when new episodes go live.
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