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Anxiety Mastery

by Kurt Robinson on October 3, 2019 in Podcast • 0 Comments

The Story: Address, Overcome, and Transmute your Anxiety

In the last few months, many people around have been feeling an increase in their anxiety, and may not even know the cause. If you’re nervous, your mind can run away trying to find justifications, and that can lead to a downward spiral – nerves leading to fear, combining into anxiety, imagining awkward situations, and so on.

You don’t always need to know the causes to feel anxiety, and as it turns out, many times you don’t need to know the causes to solve it either. In this episode, Kurt goes through some perspectives and techniques to help you address, overcome and start to transmute your anxiety and other emotional problems into something beneficial.

Topics discussed include:

Pranayama or breathing exercises
The importance of being open-minded
Dropping anxiety like a weight
Coping mechanisms and thriving strategies
Tech detox
Meditation – mindfulness, seated, walking
The way you think
The power of language over your state of mind
Black and white thinking
How to stick with a habit
How resistance to anxiety causes you to become more anxious; and
Having a little faith

The Eps:

Meta-Health and EFT Tapping with Sam Neffendorf

5 Anxiety Tips to be calm and powerful

The Links:

Hatha Yoga Pradipika

Does the Earth’s Magnetic Field Cause Suicides? New Scientist

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

Everything We Know About Facebook’s Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment

Practicing the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins

Title image credit – Activedia

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Modern Surrealism: Karla Urbina – Episode 218

by Kurt Robinson on August 10, 2019 in Podcast • 0 Comments

The Story: Creative process of a visual artist

Karla Urbina is a painter living in Guadalajara, creating wonderful and unusual artworks that often portray personal and societal struggles, questions about well-being and progress in society. Karla is also an entrepreneur and co-founder of a streetwear company, Existing Is Hard.

In this episode, Kurt interviews Karla about her creative process, how she comes up with the ideas for her artworks, her methods of interpreting the world to influence creativity, how looking at clouds or stains on a ceiling can provide inspiration, what it’s like to provide the artwork for a graphic novel, and what it’s like to start a company in Mexico.

The Links:

Karla The Monster on Instagram

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Know The Wisdom Of Your Ancestors – Episode 217

by Kurt Robinson on August 7, 2019 in Podcast • 0 Comments

The Story: Get in touch with your inner wisdom and power

In a sense, our genetic code holds the wisdom of every generation that has come before us – the keys to millions of years of survival, and even some of prosperity. Is it possible that we can tap into that knowledge? Perhaps even tap into knowledge that is hidden on a spiritual level?

According to Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson, every human being and brain has the ability to access that ancient wisdom, using their own “morphogenetic circuit”.

In this episode, Kurt discusses some techniques that people might use to achieve this wisdom, including some from R.A. Wilson’s book “Prometheus Rising”, Carlos Castaneda, The Secret, and the Dimensional Jumping subreddit.

Find the wisdom and power within in this exciting episode of… The Paradise Paradox!

The Eps:

A life without precedent – Gela Amini

The electricity of your intentions – Gela Amini

The Links:

Owner’s manual to the human brain – Multiversity Project

Transcendental circuits of consciousness – Multiversity Project

Dimensional Jumping subreddit

Dimensional Shifting subreddit

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Nation States End – Episode 216

by Kurt Robinson on August 2, 2019 in Podcast • 0 Comments

The Story: The transition to the information age will end nations

According to the case made in the book “The Sovereign Individual”, the nation state rose to power as a natural consequence of the conditions of the industrial age.

Gunpowder made obsolete the old technology such as armed cavalry, and castles. That set the stage for the efficient smelting of iron, which lead to factories.

Factories are very centralised – making them vulnerable to vandalism and also to taxation. The factory owners needed the protective watch of governments to maintain their properties.

Now we are moving into the information age, and it is much more common to have digital property, in the form of websites and cryptocurrency. In many ways, the nation state is powerless to protect these new forms of property, and in many cases it is powerless to tax them.

Still the belief in the authority of the nation state remains. How long will it hold up? Kurt explores that question and more in this episode of The Paradise Paradox!

The Links:

Urban/Rural divide – Multiversity Project

Post Anarchism, the Sovereign Individual – Multiversity Project

Welfare State Collapse – Multiversity Project

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Rejected from the USA – Episode 214

by Kurt Robinson on July 19, 2019 in Podcast • 0 Comments

The Story: Too free for the land of liberty

I didn’t think I’d be welcomed into the USA by being interrogated and stuck in a small room for 48 hours, but that’s life.

Arriving to O’Hare airport, I was told to wait so they could ask me a few more questions. I was detained for hours and finally told I would not be allowed to enter the USA on the ESTA visa waiver program, due to my deportation from Mexico two years prior, and as a perpetual traveller, it wasn’t clear where my home was.

I sat and meditated quite a lot during those couple of days, looking for reasons to be grateful. It’s funny, because in good times I don’t always think too much about how to be happy. But in tough times, I always put in the extra effort, so paradoxically I can be happier in the face of adversity. And so, despite external factors, I must proclaim my visit to the USA as a success.

A one-time home to liberty, then people could arrive in the US by Ellis Island as ship crew, passenger or even stowaway and receive an immigration visa. Now, that is certainly not the case. At least I know there are plenty of places in the world that will treat me more kindly.

The Eps:

I was deported from Mexico – Episode 200

The Links:

Anarchast – The Stupidity of Borders with Kurt Robinson

Deported from Mexico – Elissa Hawke interviews Kurt Robinson

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The Dialectic of History: Arielle Friedman – Episode 213

by Kurt Robinson on July 8, 2019 in Podcast • 0 Comments

The Story: Young people learn philosophy

Arielle Friedman is the former co-host of the Crypto Hippies Podcast, and now a co-host of The Multiversity Project, a podcast for exploring higher-dimensional education.

In this interview we talk about what got her on the path of questioning what governments told her, noticing that their stated intentions weren’t aligned with their real intentions. We talk about how that lead her to take an interest in philosophy, particularly in the works of Hegel. And we talk about the future of governments with things like private security and seasteading.

The Eps:

Voluntaryism and beyond – Katy Kelly

Being Open-Minded – Chris Guida

The Links:

The Multiversity Project

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Voluntaryism And Beyond: Katy Kelly – Episode 212

by Kurt Robinson on June 19, 2019 in Podcast • 0 Comments

The Story: Political evolution of a post-anarchist

Katy Kelly is one of four hosts of The Multiversity Project, a podcast for “higher-dimensional education”, and is known for forming a voluntaryist meet-up in Austin, Texas, as well as in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. Years ago, she decided to leave her comfortable life in the US and head to Mexico to explore greater depths of self-knowledge and understanding a foreign culture, and to find a less stressful life.

In this episode Katy and Kurt discuss Katy’s past, how she came to be an advocate in world peace who was set to join the military, discovered libertarianism and voluntaryism, exploring non-violent communication, founding meet-ups, why she decided to move to Mexico and the strangeness of being in a very different culture, how she found work online, why she now has doubts about voluntaryism and the NAP, the philosophical basis of property rights, and how culture can be more important than government in deciding the fate of a nation.

Note: in this episode we mention the structure of Luxembourg, but we were actually thinking of the principality of Liechtenstein.

The Eps:

Being open-minded with Chris Guida

The Links:

The Multiversity Project podcast

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The Future of Decentralised Organisations – Chris Guida

by Kurt Robinson on June 4, 2019 in Cryptonomics • 0 Comments

Kurt is joined again by Chris Guida, long-time Bitcoin enthusiast and co-host of The Multiversity Project. In this episode Kurt and Chris discuss the prevailing zeitgeist of capitalism and anti-capitalism, how personal development and responsibility fit into that picture, how the structure of organisations is likely to change in the future, about how companies like Google already give their employees 20% of their hours to work on whatever project they like, and how cryptocurrency enables similar experimentation with business models.

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Modern Capitalism

In many developed nations, it seems that relatively free markets have allowed entrepreneurs and companies to create all kinds of wonderful things for us – to the point where we can hold computers with processing power unknown to humankind just 30 years ago, in the palms of our hands, connecting with friends and strangers all over the world almost instantly. It’s never been cheaper to fly to different countries and experience different cultures.

Modern Anti-Capitalism

However, some people in the developed world aren’t satisfied with what the market has to offer them. They feel anger and frustration, as from their perspective it seems they’ve been taken advantage of – by their bosses, by rich politicians who don’t represent them, and outdated educational institutions which don’t serve them.

You might say these young people are entitled, or even spoiled brats. Even so, there is validity to their feelings. Surely there is a better way to offer opportunities to the disenfranchised.

Future Systems

Perhaps the answer can be found in a kind of conscious capitalism. Individuals taking responsibility for those around them, creating systems that benefit their community. Clever bosses will learn that their role is not to dominate their employees, but to serve them. Companies will give greater freedom to their workers, allowing them to express themselves and also to find creative solutions.

People can move away from the dollars of central banking systems to use decentralised cryptocurrencies. They can also start decentralised autonomous organisations by creating a blockchain, or using a token on another blockchain.

To many, Bitcoin remains an oddity. They ask “But who owns it, who controls it?” And the answer is, “well, nobody really.” At least according to Bitcoin idealists, anybody can start working on it, anybody can add value, and anybody can reap the rewards. So, in a way Bitcoin is some kind of horizontal, worker-owned co-op.

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Cryptonomics – Future of Decentralised Organisations

Roxii Love: Anarchist Activist – Episode 211

by Kurt Robinson on June 2, 2019 in Podcast • 0 Comments

The Story: Roxii Love’s Radio Rebellion

Roxii Love is an anarchist activist who loves to explore questions about how truth is being hidden, and how our health and well-being might be affected by things like poor-quality vaccines and chemtrails. You can check out her show, Roxii Love’s Radio Rebellion, on Facebook.

In this episode we discuss weird laws, such as penalties for carrying a fish suspiciously or voting in a cactus for mayor, how nice Mexico is and why you shouldn’t trust the government when they warn you about a country, how “Monsters Inc” relates to “Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas”, what billionaires are like as people, the tarot, synchronicity, how the Tasmanian government seeded clouds and possibly lead to flooding, what people would gain if they found out the earth was flat, whether Australia really exists, and how fake NASA footage is.

The Eps:

Flat Earthers and Globeheads – Episode 165

Flat Earth Mind Mapping – A World Deceived? Episode 103

The Links:

Roxii Love’s Radio Rebellion on Facebook

Cloud seeding before Tasmanian floods

The Multiversity Project podcast

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The Story: Address, Overcome, and Transmute your Anxiety

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The Story: Creative process of a visual artist

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The Story: Get in touch with your inner wisdom and power

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The Story: The transition to the information age will end nations

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The Story: How to deal with anxiety

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The Story: Too free for the land of liberty

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The Story: Young people learn philosophy

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The Story: Political evolution of a post-anarchist

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Modern Capitalism

Modern Anti-Capitalism

Future Systems

Thank You

The Story: Roxii Love’s Radio Rebellion

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