Podcast | (Knowing) Reality: In Conversation With “Beta Ray Bill” aka “Egg Drop”

Wholeness! This chat with “Beta Ray Bill” or “Egg Drop” in a noisy, but still listenable St Louis, MO area park gets into:

• story behind “Beta Ray Bill” [with a few errors on the Thor story as Beta Ray Bill informed post recording]
• expanding perceptions by temporarily suspending world views
• red pill (programs)
• Recent Cahokia Mounds articles blog post
• developing discernment
• discerning emotions
• fear
  • fear as illusion
  • fight or flight
  • feeling safe enough to feel and learn from fear
  • turning fear into opportunity
  • unscrupulous use of fear for control and war
• paranoia
• leveraging extremes to address polarity
• loving-kindness
• non-harm
• gift of fearlessness
• feedback, self-containment and discernment as tools to further the practice of non-harming
• non-aggression principle
• Second Amendment
• Gangster/Crony capitalism and competition as (subtle) harming
• cooperation
• disappointment with socially responsible investment funds and alternatives
• corporate favoritism and pushing aside Mom and Pop businesses
• change
• constants in equations
• three marks/characteristics of existence: inconstancy/impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, non-self
• how expecting to achieve lasting happiness by arranging and maintaining external conditions to our liking is a set up for stress and unsatisfactoriness in the long run
• logic and math as two tools among many for proving facts
• epistemology and empiricism
• approaching metaphysics with speculation, faith, and seeing and knowing for oneself
• curiosity
• knowing via the sense bases and if there’s anything beyond
• investigation
• the four roads to (spiritual) power
• IntegratingPresence.com open call for podcast submissions recordings answering “What is light? How do you know?”
• call for any corrections to/for this conversation

[NOTE: After spending hours editing I realized I likely did so with a version not recorded with a good mic, but with the built-in laptop mic by error. There’s a much higher quality backup version though. If interested in a better quality version to listen to, reach out and I’ll send the link to this unedited, unlisted YouTube version.]