Daniel Schmachtenberger – Developing a Deeper Understanding of Life

Daniel Schmachtenberger – Developing a Deeper Understanding of Life: Opening to the Complexity, Wholeness, and Beauty of Reality -- Listen to the FULL audio only episodes! Part 1: Part 2: Visit the episode page for a summary, timestamps, and links to resources mentioned. -- Listen to the Deep Transformation Podcast on: • Apple Podcasts: • Spotify: • Google Podcasts: • Amazon Music: -- 00:00:21 Introducing brilliant integrative thinker Daniel Schmachtenberger 00:02:54 Finding meaning in the sacred dimensions of our world and the integrated wholeness of reality 00:04:46 Part of love is the desire to know everything about your partner—when loving reality, everything becomes interesting 00:06:37 The fractal nature of reality, looking at it through different lenses and receiving different insights, and how the more perspectives you take, the more depth and richness you perceive 00:08:18 Is there something about the nature of the effort to solve world problems that is at fault in their getting worse? 00:10:30 Daniel’s homeschooling parents set him on the path to following what is good, meaningful, and beautiful right from the start 00:12:38 If you facilitate children’s interest, they end up deep learning in many subjects 00:15:00 Daniel’s early education included systems theory and how to make a better world 00:16:57 How did Daniel come to be such an integrative thinker? Compartmentalized education vs integrated education 00:20:54 The decline of quality aristocratic tutoring has led to the decline of super geniuses 00:28:41 Are we all the result of our education? Tutors and mentors 00:30:48 Integrating across ontology and epistemology, and asking what is the generator function of novel insight? 00:35:36 Man’s greatest purpose is to serve the family of man: women, nature, children 00:37:40 The gruesome deficit of fathering in the world and what Daniel learned about being a man from his dad 00:46:29 On forgiveness, therapy, healing, catalyzing gifts 00:54:15 How do spiritual depths inform our contemporary crises? Needing to ask why we should protect nature shows a real pathological deficit 00:58:00 Orientation to the sacred and the meaningfulness of life forms through a deep bandwidth of connection and sensing 01:01:31 Learning more about the field of conceptuality can both interfere with one’s connection to the Tao and enhance it 01:04:40 Does Daniel believe in God? 01:11:44 In Daniel’s “The Dance of the Tao and the 10,000 Things,” he asks, “Do atoms exist?“ Kind of! 01:14:39 The traps of reductionism in facing the metacrisis and how Daniel transcends them 01:17:24 The relation of physical crises to crises of consciousness: co-informing and co-arising facets of an integrative reality 01:21:18 Omni determinism, omni influence 01:22:20 Marvin Harris’ framework for understanding civilization: infrastructure, social structure, and superstructure 01:24:06 What in the interiority of human psyches, experiences & cultures are key drivers of the problems of the world? And how does our changed human genome, microbiome, and neurochemistry fit in? 01:27:11 We evolved to have attachments to 150 people—our tribe—so everything about bonding, attachment theory, the ideas of co-dependence & interdependence evolved in a tribal setting, in fact, we did not evolve to deal with what is going on now 01:29:20 The psychological generator function of the metacrisis results from perceiving the world as fragmented or made up of parts: conflict theory & mistake theory 01:31:40 The Realpolitik assessment of humans: we are dumb and nasty 01:33:21 It’s all based on a trade-off—we’re either trying to benefit ourselves now at the expense of our future selves, individually or collectively, or we just don’t realize the harm that is caused by what we do 01:36:15 Can we survive the current unprecedented metacrisis? No chance can we make it through without the catastrophes intensifying 01:41:44 The human family is not a real thing right now: there is no “we” 01:44:53 How to live a meaningful life? Deeply appreciate and honor the beauty of life, be in service to the beauty of reality, and deepen the capacity for both 01:49:20 Dharma inquiry and the vow of the bodhisattva 01:51:37 Where is the vow of the bodhisattva missing something? 01:54:40 It’s not just what is my unique calling but also what needs doing that no one else wants to do? 01:58:07 One beautiful peak experience is worth all the pain -- #DanielSchmachtenberger #TheConsilienceProject #CivilizationEmerging #Metacrisis #Philosophy #Sensemaking #IntegralTheory #Podcast #Podcasts