How to be cool - who does not want that?!
I start with a story about my job; our jobs are such a frequent source of anxiety and upset - good! How else are we supposed to learn?

This one is a little shorter and the next is only 10 minutes. I will try to post shorter, more focused talks.

It seems so complex and mysterious that we may give up on "getting to the bottom" of our existence; our own lives. Here are some - hopefully - encouraging words about realizing that what you most need to know is already in you.

last 10 minutes of the talk

video response to a commenter who asks questions that I am not smart enough to reduce to comment sized responses. I think this is a good use of the platform. "Social" media could be a lot more social.

We seem to have a lot more of that in recent generations. If we want to know what is going wrong with others or ourselves, it always comes down to personality and the malfunctions of personality which started with our earliest development. Just identifying the specific times and places our "dials" got set to sub optimal positions, gives us a fighting chance to change anything and everything.

Sorry for the road noise, but this one seemed interesting enough that maybe others could put up with it.

Here, I say more about what you could earn with a Class A Commercial License and a little experience.
I say something about the knee-jerk negativity infecting society and crippling the progress of individual lives. I share these vids because I want others, who are not earning enough or don't know what to do, to be encouraged. I am here to answer questions and be helpful

Those truths are most compelling which are arrived at by very different people in vastly different times and places. If you know anything of the Stoics or Christians or Hindus, Buddhists, Platonists or even Jordan Peterson or your own most basic sense, you will recognize this.

Here, I describe how to get past the problems and complaints common among truckers working for what I call "entry level" employers - who will take drivers with a year or less of experience or even provide training.

I stuck with a food hauling job because it was "safe". Now I do something more sensitive to the economy but much better pay and company culture.

If you are working for $1000 per week or less, this is a way to double or triple your income doing honorable work that is mostly easy and pleasant. Interested?

More of the same, do we cross the finish line? You be the judge.

I got some incisive questions and challenges to clarify from "F@ck Guilt". I told him it was too much for a comment and I would record a talk.
The subjects included intrinsic/instinctive knowledge; what is meditation and the point of meditation?; what's up with religion/mythology, does it have real meaning?

Boy howdy - those are complex questions. I tried to boil down what I think I understand and why these things matter. I split this talk in two parts for easier upload and recorded in low res for size. The whole thing is about 1 1/2 hr.

I do my best to summarize ideas that are traditional wisdom, no fringe theories here. Humans have been thinking these things through many thousands of years and have figured out a few things about the nature of existence and the mystery of being a living thinking being in a material world. Anyone who believes they are figuring it out on their own or that only 21 st century science can tell us the meaning of existence has just not taken the questions (or themselves, maybe) very seriously.

The traditional wisdom is understandable and not only for intellectuals. The truth is, there is far more wisdom in us than we know, but few can articulate it - until we can, we act it out. We act out the "Divine" intelligence, whether we know it or not and the challenge is to become conscious enough of what we are doing that we may exercise our free will rather than continue on as ignorant animals. It's tough to be human, but very fortunate.

I just start out asking, "what is the purpose of our lives?" There is a seemingly inexhaustible question; yet some claim to be sure of it, maybe a few really are - I am not one of them, but I got a few Ideas.

I talk about a DMT vision, some Buddhist mythology and my growing conviction that "here and now" is what matters most, because what ever may come after, "then and there" will still be here-and-now when/if we get to it.

I believe much of our religion and spirituality is a kind of avoidance of the real mystery; a kind of escapism and ego-building exercise. I try to explain something about what I think the religious experiences are - some ways that we seek them and why they are so powerful and mysterious and yet familiar.

Those are all big subjects and I only talk for 43 minutes, so do not expect any grand narratives or conclusions.

Here I take apart an exchange with one of the "crazies" on Bitchute.
I have noticed a very high correlation between people who claim to believe the Earth is flat and claims that Jews are the Master Race (what else, for those claiming "Jews control everything and rule the world"?) And why is it, two such distinctly different ideas so reliably co-habitate in the same brains? Still working on that one.

The individual on my examining table is, this time, one who is willing to have (something like) a conversation without immediately devolving to: "ca-ca poo-poo head". So, a rare find and a chance for me to say something about memes and ideologies. And maybe, I am getting better at talking with people who have very far out and frequently malevolent ideas.

This is a long one, but if understanding these disorders is of interest to you, I believe your patience will be rewarded.

Just a quickie showing my actual BP numbers from the machine over the last 2 - 3 weeks. I hope it is encouraging.

I had to do this in low-res to fit on Bitchute - sorry about that, but it likely wont matter for a "talking head" video.

I start out summarizing and reacting to the first part of Dr Peterson's latest video with another mental health expert. They have very helpful and practical things to say about figuring out what we most want and need in life and why so many are not getting it. As always, the observations are common-sense but taken a bit deeper than we usually go with such questions; the advice parts are so practical and positive, who could deny it is all very good?

Well! The commenters deny it; they (most) deny anything that speaks of "Peace, Love and Understanding" and they especially deny and attack anything about reflecting one one's own life and improving it. Why so much resistance and even hatred? It can not be for the reasons they say: "Because he's a Jew" - they know he is not; "Because he is trying to shut down and disempower men" - his message is always the opposite of that. So, what are the real reasons for the infantile behavior and even tantrums in the comments? And what are some of the deeper meanings behind such traditional, simple and manly advice? I give my best shot at explaining some of that and I do my best to not get too abstract or analytical about any of it.

This may be one of my better efforts so I hope some find some value in it and I hope even more that we can share some encouraging and motivating comments!

i have had high BP issues the last year, I got on medication, which helped, but it was creeping up again and for me, it all seems to be about diet and exercise. High BP leads to strokes, heart disease and kidney disease. It kills do many people and it is really manageable if only we will follow the tried and true advice.

It is difficult for most of us to start excercising or change our diet, in part, because we think it is a slow, painfulm incremental process. I discovered that cutting down salt, drinking more water and getting some (mostly cardio) exercise every morning had immediate results. Just 30 minutes of cardio in the morning, dramatically lowers my BP for the rest of the day. So be encouraged to do something NOW!

Follow up to a video a few weeks ago. I have been unemployed for almost a year. So, I recently accepted a job offer in trucking. I will work Mon - Fri and get payed $1900/ week with very good benefits. Also, they are paying me an extra $5,000 "sign on bonus".

I talk about how to get these jobs; how to get payed training and start right away. I believe this would be helpful to a lot of people who just did not know.

We got to have a method, a simple go-to strategy. I offer a method and an attitude that can work for anyone. I acknowledge that every enduring tradition has it's insights and methods. If you are a Christian, go ever deeper into that; if you are an atheist and know of a philosophical approach or psychology that you find true and helpful, go for it - go further with it.

Whatever your beliefs about the right way to peace and wisdom, I invite you to consider and be open to something new to you as well. I promise, nothing I recommend is harmful or ideological. Thanks for listening.

We all got anxiety. Some is due to things going on right now in our own lives or chaotic, worrying trends in the outside world which we are internalizing.

These are easy enough to identify yet much of our anxiety is from past experience we have not fully dealt with. Quite often, these are the remembered or repressed (yet still subconsciously remembered hurts and betrayals of others, particularly family. I go into this one a bit, because I know about it.

I have been listening to Dr Rick Strassman's famous book. "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" for the second time. I am picking up on new stuff I did not notice before.

I talk about the idea of DMT mediating consciousness' exit from the body but also (why not) our entrance into the body. I relate this idea to the practice of "C-Section" birth vs normal birth and the problems Caesarian Born people have which suggest an inadequate "connection" with this world.

I also riff on other of Dr Strassmans' speculations about Dark Matter and the possibilities Dark Matter and Energy (strongly) suggest of other worlds and entities existing right along side us but not normally or typically interacting with us. Our "reality" only composes about 5% of the physical universe after all - what might be going on in the other 95%? What are these other worlds and entities people experience with DMT - a possible connection is an at least coherent idea.

Whether we are rich or poor, nearly all of us have way too much stuff! I do not believe that is the meaning or fulfillment of "materialism".

Twice in my life, I gave away all my worldly possessions (including a nice car - GMC Yukon. I felt pretty good about it but did not fully understand at the times, why exactly I did that. I do not think I ever fully processed why I did that. So I tell my story with the perspective of time. I ask us to think about thinning out the physical clutter in our lives and thereby thin out our mental and spiritual mess at the same time.

It is a good practice to give away what we do not need - even things we think we need. But, like any practice or virtue, we can not really even begin to know what it means until we actually do it!

Can you relate?

What is making the West crazy? There is less crazy elsewhere. More "primitive" Societies - from the American Amish to South American Jungle tribes have very little "crazy".
What do we do? What many do is focus all their worry and anger on Big Issues outside and beyond themselves - this is convenient because then, all they need do is complain.

Everything grows from the center, out (except you?) I talk about what I know from personal experience and suggest the old fashioned virtues of making your bed in the morning, going to church and volunteering for something are really good ways to go. What are we really upset about? I tell ya folks it really is not what the Democrats are doing so much, it is our own suffering we are upset about - anger, fear and anxiety ARE suffering. We reduce those dramatically when we act to reduce their causes in others.

Why try to provoke what we hate in others or worse, imitate what we hate in others? I sure see a lot of that in the comments. Why not provoke what we like in others? Sure, some will hate that but it is no excuse not to try.

Lot's of folks are unemployed for ...reasons. I tell a little of my story, give some info on a great paying job opportunity and (I hope) some encouraging words. Don't listen to anyone telling you this or that kind of work is "stupid" - lot's of ignorant, negative people on this site just want to discourage you because they feel so discouraged themselves.

Too much complaining, let's give each other encouragement. Our lives do not actually revolve around the BIG ISSUES, our lives are all about what we do every day - a big part of that is our work. I know a lot of folks are not making enough money - well, here is a way to make very good money and very quickly - be positive!

A lot of anger and worry going on in the world. What do we do about it? Life not going the way it should; why not?
I believe most of us already know what we ought to do, we just need some reminder and encouragement.
What do the smartest and wisest people - our culture heroes - have to say about all this? Maybe we should listen to them; surely, this is a good time to return to the sources we already know of.

Often we do not consciously notice the anger inside us, but other people sure do - that is worth thinking about.
Is all this anger necessary; what good does it do us.
I talk about ways we can transfer the energy of that anger to something useful; I talk about why we must.

I start out talking about those who mature and those who do not, within the context of what we might call, "large hearted" and small or "hard hearted". This hard-heartedness expresses itself in the hopelessness, ideological possession and impotent rage infecting and sickening our society - so I know this is a significant topic.

I relate all that to the anti-social and negative behavior we see in Bitchute comments. Then I give a diagnostic example of an exchange with one of the many who, for this reason, can not get out of an angry and defensive rut. Part of my diagnosis is: a lack of self respect. The diagnosis suggests the cure, which is regaining self respect through pro-social behavior, which too many did not have properly modeled for them as they developed.