Friday 30 December 2016

Living With Meaning



Stephen Jenkinson: Living With Meaning



On this site we discuss the large predicaments the world faces. A question that often arises, especially at our annual seminars is: Given these challenges, how should I be? What outlook and behaviors will better help me meet what's coming?


This week's podcast gets quite existential. Chris sits down with Stephen Jenkinson, an author and thinker who a number of Peak Prosperity readers have requested come on the show. Jenkinson's specialization is grief and dying -- through his decades of work in these fields, he has developed a series of observations on what it means to live, and thereby die, with meaning.


A heads up: the path of this conversation is somewhat metaphysical and may not be everyone's cup of tea. But the topics addressed are important; ones our society needs to start having some honest discussion about. Things like how to face our mistakes, errors and shortcomings openly -- as with addiction, only with acknowledgement and acceptance of our condition can we then move on to self-betterment.



Jenkinson observes how, culturally, we are so averse to unpleasantness that we suppress the very conditions that are necessary for positive transformation.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Robin. Kim in Sydney here. Just commenting to connect with you, and let you know I think if you, your wife, your horse, your dog, and send whatever blessings my consciousness can throw in your direction. I need to watch this video, because I think I will be glad for the information and perspective and harmony. But I am still recovering from Gail Z's blog post about David T Lange.

    May 2017 be not more than you can handle. For all of us.

    With great warmth, Kim/Phorus/Hecate

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  2. Thank you for your kind thoughts. What was the Gail Z blog about?

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