MARCH 20th, 2016 8pm ET – Watch LIVE or view the REPLAY
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Tag: spark my muse
EPS 53: Magical Thinking (The Voo Doo You Do): Guest Matthew Hutson
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SHOW NOTES
Matt Hutson has a B.S. in cognitive neuroscience from Brown University and an M.S. in science writing from MIT. He has written for Wired, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Discover, Scientific American Mind, Popular Mechanics, Technology Review, Slate, NewYorker.com, NYMag.com, ScienceMag.org, Aeon, Nautilus, Al Jazeera America, The Boston Globe,The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Psychology Today, where he was the News Editor for four years.
Find Matt on Twitter
Matt’s book The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking
MIN 1:30
Matt’s religious and spiritual background and context for writing about magic and how we think.
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
MIN 2:30
Cognitive Neuroscience studies
Meaning is filtered through the mind.
MIN 3:30
What is magical thinking and how does it happen all the time in our lives?
MIN 9:00
Humans are very social creatures and we apply our perspective (like thoughts and desires) onto other things that are not human.
MIN 11:30
Some atheists claim they don’t commit mistakes of magical thinking, but Matthew says, “Not so fast, we all do and it’s not so bad!”
Involuntary Cognitive bias
The experiments the tease out the behavioral repercussion of these basis.
MIN 14:30
Instinct and staying safe
MIN 16:30
How does Matt deal with his own magical thinking?
Realizing the difference between correlation and causation.
MIN 18
Learning Critical Thinking
Is there another explanation?
MIN 20
Transcendent experiences and loss of awareness of ego or a sense of awe.
Astronauts often return from space with a new belief in God or spirituality or ecologically-minded or with a renewed sense of awe.
MIN 23
Matt’s transcendent moment in Alaska.
MIN 25
Matt talks about the “The Soul Lives On” and “Everything Happens for a Reason” chapters of his book.
MIN 29
Up loading our brains to live on after us and artificial intelligence.
MIN 31
symbols: such as, people feel less lonely when they watch tv.
MIN 34
Consciousness as discreet states
MIN 35
Verbs most activate our motor system
MIN 38
The movie HER and brain simulation
MIN 40
The psychology of social status. power, prestige, and class how we achieve it. Why we care about getting it and what’s good about it and how it shows our values.
MIN 42
How upbringing can program us for life.
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Soul School – Lesson 21: A Test of Your Faith
Is this a time of testing in your life? That’s what the topic is about in this lesson today.
Welcome to Soul School, a weekly Wednesday installment for you. AND this time spread the word! The VIDEO class and worksheet, normally for Varsity Club members ONLY (people who sponsor the show on a monthly basis), is free and available to anyone, this week! Whooot.
SO-after you listen to the podcast, check it out: the video lesson that follows is here. Enjoy and share it if you know someone who’s going through a tough time of testing.
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EPS 51: The women of Sacred Ordinary Days
Thanks for listening to the Spark My Muse podcast today. Each Friday is a conversational guest episode. Today’s episode is a Spark My Muse first–not one, but two guests–the women from the podcast Sacred Ordinary Days. Jean and Lacy have quickly grown a strong tribe as they help listeners understand the seasons and rhythms of the liturgical year. They have both launched some fascinating resources too you will want to hear more about.
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SHOW NOTES
MIN 1
Lacy (from Washington State) and Jenn (from Texas) intro
and how did you find each other and start a podcast?
MIN 6 What is the liturgical calendar exactly why do you find it meaningful?
• Playfulness, curiosity, exploration, tools for meaningful living.
MIN
8:30
Ritual can bring play instead of rigidity which is not what we think of with religion.
MIN 9 crafting a Rule of Life
“A rule of life offers creative boundaries in which God’s loving presence can be recognized and celebrated…” -Henry Nouwen
MIN 10:30
Ritual during Lent – Suggestions
Major theme:
Ash Wednesday the first day of LENT- remember who you are. Returning to dust and remembering your own mortality and your interior journey.
Not just about fasting.
MIN 12:00
Lent means “Spring” or springtime. Awake the true self and cast off the false self.
Fasting, prayer, alms giving bring us towards life. Death of the false self.
Preparation for Easter and it starts in the dark like a seed starts underground.
MIN 14:30 Lent is 40 days. Sundays aren’t counted because they are feast days.
40 days is a time of testing that leads us towards life.
Holy Saturday – the tomb day a day of despair.
MIN 16:30 The seasons covered in the Sacred Ordinary Days podcast
The church year, the Christian year, the liturgical year and learning alongside others.
Facebook.com/groups/sacredordinarydaystribe
MIN 18:30
Journeying in real time with everyone from all walks of life and in all age groups.
MIN 20
Lori Neff – Midday Connection – Lacy’s perpetual Calendar
Jenn’s Day Planner and KickStarter project
MIN 22
Liturgy means “the work of the people”
Reordering the days, minutes, and hours, and something to make it simple.
MIN 26
Lacy’s perpetual calendar and thematic seasonal prompts.
MIN 29
How the dates shift each year based on the vernal equinox and full moons.
The book of common prayer
LENT 2016 February 10 – March 26 (but not Sundays)
MIN 32
Season of disruption where you make space and grieving the sad things about life. It prepares you for other sorrowful times in life. And prepares us to truly celebrate the wonderful times as well. We can hold both together. There are paradoxes. Both/And
MIN 35 Being fully human.
MIN 36 “It’s all grace.”
MIN 37
The underlying season remains and we can return to it whenever we need it.
MIN 38
Where you can find them.
EPS 50: The Amazing Story of Bruce Van Horn
I’m excited to have Bruce Van Horn on the Spark My Muse podcast.
His story is inspiring and his coaching, his presence on the internet at his WEBSITE and social media where he is one of the most Retweet encouragers on Twitter, in books, and on his podcast heard in 194 countries (Life is a Marathon) he has been an encouragement to millions.
His book “Worry No More: 4 Steps to Stop Worrying and Start Living” is an Amazing International Best Seller.
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SHOW NOTES
MIN 5 Early in life Bruce got into Computers/IMB and tried to make his fortune and contentment externally.
Bruce losses it all at 27. At 42 loses it all again and feels like giving up.
MIN 10
How Bruce started to turn his life around and had his major epiphany.
How Bruce learned that the hardest part of running a marathon is the decision to run one (each day).
MIN 13
How Bruce applied his big success to all the aspects of his life.
MIN 15
How Bruce started to take responsibility for his whole life and take his thoughts captive and end negative self talk.
MIN 18
Peter Sage
“Complaints are the glue that keep you stuck to your problems.”
“Think and Grow Rich” Napoleon Hill
Express gratitude for what you have because it makes it easier to get what you want.
Making a list of things to be grateful for—which, at first, was insincere.
MIN 20 What would you miss if it was gone?
MIN 22
Making changes in life and relationships. Changing language like eliminating sarcasm.
MIN 24 Starting a life coaching relationship that led to jobs all over the world.
MIN 28
The stage four cancer that changed everything.
The surgery that went wrong and no pain medication to recover with.
MIN 34
“In this moment, if I can breathe, I have everything I need.”
Pain is not a curse. Somehow this experience is a gift. The story was a detour not an end.
MIN 36
“Worry No More” the book
Worry is like Mediation done wrong.
MIN 39
Experience is thought in this moment. We are telling ourselves a story. We can see another story. Worry is a story about what you don’t want to happen. and you can tell a different story.
MIN 40
Life is a Marathon podcast
Heard in 194 countries around the world.