Hi!! I am so glad to be back, glad to have you hear with me, and glad to be feeling strong and vibrant! This week we will be discussing Ken Wilber's Spectrum of Consciousness and some of the ideas inside. This was a book published by the Theosophical Publishing House. I found this intriguing, being that this group cocreated by Madame Blavatsky has …

Hello my friends! Welcome back to "The Ginger Bread Man"! This week I would like to discuss the relationship between Attention and Pain. There are other key words that could apply to this subject, such as Obsession and Health Anxiety. For the last year I have had to learn how to live with and accept the uncomfortableness of my vessel. I would like …

Hello my friends! Welcome back to the show! This week we will be discussing some of the principles of Microdosing, the trendy method of taking small indescriminate amounts of our chosen medicine. Why would we do such a thing? I talk about one of my favorite utilizations. I hope you enjoy the rumination! Afterwards I will read a brief section from m…

Hello My Friends! Welcome back to the Show! This week we will be discussing Muscimol, the alkaloid that holds benefits in the Aminita Muscaria, also known as Fly Agaric. With a nasty reputation that doesn't seem to hold water, I find it suspicious that I didn't know more about it, seeing that it grows here in my home state of Colorado. I break down…

Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! This week I will start out by discussing a new plant of Interest, the very Beautiful Blue Lotus. Afterwards we will dive headfirst into some ideas from the ancient world. Natural Philosophy was Science's Grand Pappy, before we new what to call it. People who thought about the Earth, and natural processes, were such p…

Hello My Friends! Welcome Back to the Show! I am so glad that you are here! This Week I will be discussing the legal "Chocolate" Bars being found all throughout the USA. It's the wild wild west and I have been more than intrigued, lets talk about it! Then I will discuss Ideas. I love Ideas, they are probably my favorite thing. I spend all day long …

Hello my Friends! Welcome back to "The Ginger Bread Man", on a Thursday! Woooo! This week I want to do an overview of some of the history and basics of what classic psychedelics are. Including some information on the 4 compounds you most likely have heard of. It will be fun. Towards the end of the podcast I do a reading from Alan Watt's "The Joyous…

Hello my Friends! Welcome back to the Show! We have alot of great stuff to discuss this week. Lets start out by trying to wrap together some ideas that have been looked at over the last few weeks. Afterwards I present to you some of the dominant ideas in Lucretius's Epicurean Atomism, which has alot of parallels to the quantumn mechanics modern sci…

Hello my Friends! Welcome back to the Show! I am very excited to be back after my small Hiatus. Odin and I have been busy with various rituals from a Wedding, to a Concert, to learning how to evaluate and commit to Self-Care! I would like to share some stories with you and then philosophize about the relatable aspects of finding satisfaction in all…

Hello my Friends! Welcome Back to "The Ginger Bread Man!" This week I want to dig into Science a little bit. I spent alot of time being Staunchly anti-science, regrettably, that I have only recently returned to reading more scientific material. I have been reading a book called "The Tao of Physics" by Fritjof Capra, whom I unfortunately called 'Fra…

Hello my Friends! Welcome back to "The Ginger Bread Man!" This week I will be discussing some older concepts from the show including how we have some degree of control over bodily processes, especially when it comes to slowing ourselves down and speeding ourselves up! This also ties into our interconnectedness with the rest of the world. Towards th…

Hello My Friends! Welcome back to my Show, I am really glad you are here! This week I vent a little bit about my frustrations with The Business Mindset, A classical argument between Materialism and the Formless develops as a I describe what it is like to encounter change in our lives. What parts of our being are Resistant to New Things? Afterwards …

Hello my friends! This week I would like to discuss the concept of time through a Buddhist and existential Lense. This is a deep one guys, but I don't think any of you are averse to the deep end. I will also be further elucidating some terms from Sartre's Existentialism such as Being-In-Itself and Being-For-Itself. I'm on shaky ground here because …

Hello my Friends! Welcome Back, I am really glad to have you here with me, Sincerely! This week I want to talk more about how we interact with our Psyche, including some of the different facets (faculties?) that have a part to play such as Personality and Unconscious. I happen to be particularly fascinated with Psychedelic compounds and substances …

Hello Friends! Welcome back to my show! This week I would like to discuss polarity, another aspect of Duality. And what is Duality? The Nature of the Universe, or so it seems. Everything has an Off/On, Up/Down, Hot/Cold, Is/Isn't, and the list goes on Ad infinitum. But when we look really closely at any of these attributes, aren't they all describi…

Hello My Friends! I very much Appreciate your Patience! Challenging times, But I LOVE talking to you. So thankyou for showing up! This week I would like to again discuss the values of Introspection, especially when it comes to looking at and analyzing cycles in our lives. Then I would like present a buddhist Idea called Non-Duality, specifically th…

Hello my Friends! Welcome Back! Happy New Year! Apologies ahead of time for Poppy-Audio, I am using a cheap cord right now that I don't usually have, and whilst doing the very small amount of Lazily done editing I immediately noticed it! Will be working on improving that.. Anyways! This week I want to discuss Boundaries! What do we need to consider…

Hello Everyone! I hope you are doing well, it's great to be getting back to feeling well myself! This week I want to return to one of my favorite topics: Sleep, Dreaming, and Altered States of Consciousness! How are these all connected? I do see some obvious ones.. How do you experience your dreams? What does it feel like when your on the edge of f…

Hello my Dear Friends! How are you this fine Day? This week I want to talk about to pet ideas of mine. These are old ideas, but I don't mind recircling around valuable methods of self discovery. Especially in my own work. What is a Figment of our Imagination? Can we Trust the Movies we make in our heads about the future? Then I want to discuss Joy.…

Hello My friends! Welcome Back! I am bedridden this week, so sound quality may be a little funky. I want to discuss pain. What is discomfort? How do we allocate our pain, do we judge it? How do we apply our pain to others? I also want to discuss a new friendship in the psychadelic landscape. Let's Ruminate! Near the end I have a short reading from …

Hi Everyone! Welcome Back! I Hope you all had a wonderful holiday, and even if you didn't At Least you are past it! What I would like to speak about today concerns this very topic, often during the holidays we have an influx of planning and socializing. We have our families in town, some of whom we do not get along with. And inevidebly we found our…

Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! I apologize for my Absence, My Son and I left for Vacation and we are just getting back into the swing of things. I have some interesting stories to share with you about my adventures and ruminations. Towards the end of the episode I will paraphrase a short story by Voltaire :"MicroMegas". Afterwhich I have a very in…

Hello My Friends! This week I am going to discuss the conundrum of Change. If our goal is finding Prescence in the here and now, what is the nature of that Here and Now? If we are used to finding comfort in stability, maybe we will be rudely awakened when we find no firm ground to stand on. I will also be discussing the end of Plato's Republic whic…

Hello All! Welcome back to my little corner of the Universe.. Or is it all of It? Or Both? Hard to say as a human, stumbling around trying to make meaning out off all of these interesting knowledge-bits. What a lovely quest to be on though! Would You like to Join Me? This week I want to return to the topic of "What is Natural?" What is "Nature"? Ar…

Hello My Friends! This week I would like to discuss some of Plato's ideas. Plato being a philosopher of Greek's Hellenistic Period. Why do we do what we do? What makes something Right and Good? Behind the subjectivity of opinion, is there away to benefit the most? How would you redesign a country to perpetuate the most "Good'? This and much, much m…

Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! This week I would like to go through a Favorite Allegory of Friedrich Nietzche: The Metamorphoses. Appearing in the book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", the main characters include a dragon, a camel, a lion, a child, and You! Afterwards I will discuss some ideas of Alan Watts concluding with a quote of his from the book "C…

Hello Everyone! Thankyou for Coming! Today's Episode is a special episode, a marker of Temporal Pressure and Commitment! Episode 100!! I am so grateful that you have been here with me, It would not have been possible without You! Lets get on into it. What does Dependence mean? How about connection? Why do we work Together? Is there an Organizationa…

Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! This Week we are going to talk about alchemy! External World processes tend to be reflected in our own inner Microcosms. How do we take difficulty and turn it into a labor of Love? How does control affect our own perception of a situation? How does the unconscious and past memories carve out our responses? How do we …

Hello My Friends! Welcome back to the show! This week I want to return to the Idea of Karma: Action. The inherent law of Cause and Effect. Things seem to be attached to other things, at least tangentially in the world of Time. However, when we insert ourself arbitrarily into a timeless system, such as Compassion, can we lose our Purpose? Giving ano…

Hello my friends! Welcome Back! This week I want to return to the ideas of Habits, or as I like to sometimes call them "Habittudes". We all know how hard it can be to structurally change a well established Habit, but we often forget how easy it is to make one! But, its never the end of the road, and nothing is forever a Positive or Negative thing. …

Hello my friends! Welcome Back! We are going to adventure into some dark places today, but that shouldn't be a bad thing. Are you avoiding parts of you? Parts that make you feel uncomfortable? How do you respond to your own Fear? Do you have tactics you use to feel "Better"? I want to investigate today these facets of our being. There are 4 main "b…

Hi! Welcome Back! I am very glad that you are here, this week I have an important mission for you! You can email me at thegingerbreadmansdialogues@gmail.com I will always appreciate your attention and ears! I hope you have a great week! Photo Credit: Timo Müller on UnsplashAf The Ginger Bread Man

Hello My Friends! I am heading off to the woods in a few and that got me thinkin... I know, I know people it doesn't take much with the Ginger Bread Man to get the old noggin swinging.. But how often do you consider your connection to the World? What is Nature? Is it really so separate from who we think we Are? This and Much, Much more on Today's S…

Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! This week I want to focus on Self-Focused Inner Work. Last week I left you all with the considerations of how it feels when you are working with a team where some members may not be as "involved" as you might wish.. How does that make you feel? Does it reek of Fairness, or Unfairness? How would you feel, in your mome…

Hello my Friends! Welcome Back! Take a seat over there by the fire and make yourself comfortable. It's story time! This week I want to dally into some dark topics.. What is the purpose of our discomfort? Why do we have so many feelings, with so much nuance? Do you prefer some to others? How do we learn from difficult circumstances? This and much, m…

Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! Weather has been getting strange in my neck of the woods, with my dry desert-steppe climate of Colorful Colorado beginning to feel more like Florida! So much rain has been quenching the dry scorched earth of my beloved state. And this has had me thinking about the connection of our own Inner Weather Patterns. How do …

Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! This week I want to discuss another "Spectrum" of Being. This time on one side we have Novelty: all the deliciously new experiences that bring the Spice of Life. On the other we have the numerous Tedious acts that inundate adult life, and we only seem to collect more of them as we continue on burning through the newn…

Hello My Friends! It's great to have you back! This week I want to speak about my experiences with humility through the context of some chemical adventures and some sappy stories. I can't wait to share with you! As always, I will be forevor grateful for your attention and ears! Have a Wonderful Week! You can email me at thegingerbreadmansdialogues@…

Hello My Friends! How are You? What do your roles in your life Look Like? You do know that it is You living your life, not the Position? Your Being is so impressive and has decided to wear so many hats! That's not a bad thing, its just life. But I would like to poke and see how steadfast you are holding on to the Ideal You in contrast to the Actual…

Hello My Friends! Do you know what Pareidolia is? It is the knack for the human brain to find patterns, such as faces or figures, in areas where they may not be. This is how we can enjoy abstract animations, and many other strange phenomena such as seeing Jesus in Toast. We are piggy-backing an idea from last week concerning perception. Its hard en…

Hello Everyone! Happy Sunday! This week I want to approach a difficult philophical concept from both a western and eastern point of view: Specifically through the Lense of Ramana Maharshi's "I Amness" and Sartre's Existential debauchery of the concept of Becoming? What could two ideologies from such differenct cultural backgrounds have in common? L…

Hello My Friends! This week I want to further dig into how we normalize laws and make decisions as a community and by our self. What does it mean to be Right or Wrong? Is a Wrong only what it is because it is susceptible to punishment? When does equality bend to the whims of the greater Status Quo? This and much, much more on "The Ginger Bread Man"…

Hello My Friends! Watch Out! There's.. A... Step.. there.. OOps. Man, that sucks when we trip, but mayhaps its a pretty common thing for us pesky human beans. Brush yourself off, here's a Band-Aid and a cookie. I know it hurts when we find our self mistaken, especially when that mistake may hurt another. How can we take this harsh feeling and learn…

Hellllllo There! Welcome back! Step inside, have a seat, and get comfortable... Let's Talk about Parenting! Probably one of the most important biological factors in being an animal on this planet is Procreation: First Came Love, then Came Baby in a Baby Carriage aha Most humans will take part in this intense parenting ritual at some time in their l…

Well Hello There! Welcome back to my gingerbread Home, full of mystical conversations and abstract tirades to bamboozle minds everywhere and everywhen! Head out back to my magical backyard. A new path appeared last night, along with a towering peak. I have seen some daring climbers, attempting to hold on to the heights. Yet, what are Peak Experienc…

Hello my Friends! Welcome Back! With this nice weather how about we head outside? I know this really nice path just right behind the house. No, not that one; the one next to the Tire Swing right there. Next to all the pretty yellow daisies. Thank You for joining me, I always find it more pleasant to walk with company, beauty within beauty. This wee…

Hello my Friends! I am so glad to see you! Please come take a seat, I have some Iced Tea prepared for you and plenty of other treats. Spring is in the Air! Even if your ground hog is being stubborn. I always feel like a phoenix being reborn during this time of year, and my mind immediately goes to spring cleaning. Can we not judge ourselves for our…

Hi there, welcome back. Take a seat. My home has morphed into a long hallway with a line of elevators on each side. A paisley wall pattern morphs before your eyes, reverberating in a wave of undulating movement starting at the far end of the colossal hallway, which you cannot see. Anticipation nips at the edge of your Consciousness. Right behind yo…

Hello My Friends! Welcome Back! This week we will be discussing alot of fun stuff including spirituality through the lense of reaction, and the ways we have to step outside of our own personality in order to relate and hear others. I will also discuss a novel Tryptamine that has recently became accessible to the world that I find very intriguing. T…

Hello my Friends! Welcome back! I am really glad that you have decided to be here with me. This week we will be discussing Set and Setting, and Not from a chemical lense. What are our influences? Where do we find ourselves, physically and emotionally? How can we analyze the patterns of places and responsibility that we find repeating? Can we make d…