Elan Martin and Harrison Koehli
Sott.netSat, 20 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
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Today's Western cultural landscape seems to give us all the wrong messages of what happiness is, and how one should go about attaining it; we're programmed for unhappiness and seemingly trapped in ways of thinking and being that only make for more unhappiness! On this week's MindMatters we discuss John F. Schumaker's book
In Search of Happiness - Understanding An Endangered State of Mind and delve into what happiness actually is, what it isn't - and some of the perennial values which nurture the meaning in our lives that deep happiness is quite often an outgrowth of.
On this week's show we'll also be looking at what some great minds had to say on bringing happiness about. Everyone wants to 'be happy,' but how does this feeling really come about and what, if anything, is the process to be engaged that could make it available to us? Can happiness even be experienced without knowing its opposite - and how willing are we to sacrifice short term gratification for the deeper more fulfilling life that nurtures true happiness. Join us this week as we put away the happy pills, the happy meals, the happy faces, and choose to suffer through a more objective understanding of a mostly elusive state of mind.
Running Time: 01:10:42
Download: MP3 - 64.7 MB
Harrison Koehli co-hosts SOTT Radio Network's
MindMatters, and is an editor for
Red Pill Press. He has been interviewed on several North American radio shows about his writings on the study of ponerology, which are available on his
Ponerology Substack.
Born and raised in New York City, Elan has been an editor for SOTT.net since 2014 and is a co-host for
MindMatters. He enjoys seeing and sharing what's true about our profoundly and rapidly changing world.
Reader Comments
He said, "You want me to tell you how to feel better - but the only way to feel better is to FEEL better.
Being WITH what is as a feeling awareness is the opposite to a contraction of the feeling dimension in emotional reactivity.
The innate qualities of being are uncovered right where we are - and so the attempt to find them in some other moment is a way of avoiding relationship. Noticing this is a basis to live from a different foundation than a self-evasion presented as a sense of becoming more... or less.
The recognition of truth in the 'student' IS the same vibrational quality as the 'Teacher' - but the consistency and therefore reliability comes from the everyday or ordinary practice of living from or as an expression of transparency to being - amidst or with whatever arises in relation.
Being at peace, is bliss.
When a person has energy, he can spend it for pleasure or creation or self-building.
Creating can be a blend of these two, because a person can enjoy creating and to suffer a little.
Examples of people who are deliberately suffering are fakirs and shamans.
"My benefactor used to say that the warrior who stumbles on a petty tyrant is a lucky one. He meant that you’re fortunate if you come upon one in your path, because if you don’t, you have to go out and look for one. ... We know that nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power."
Author: Carlos Castaneda /Title: The Fire from Within/ Chapter 2. Petty Tyrants
How very true! Not that you have to go looking for impossible people with power. You'll meet several in your lifetime - and you might even occasionally play the role yourself.
Happiness is spending money on credit cards
Happiness is drinking alcohol is state approved locations
Just some of the forms of happiness that the modern world promotes ...
True happiness is gratitude for the grace of consciousness
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R.C.