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A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified then - diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox that as human powers increase through technological and humanistic inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions - continue to confront us today.

Hosts Van Le and Alyssa Fyfe break down the complex historical and psychological origins of the modern world’s norms and behaviors. New episodes every time we make ’em! For the socials, submissions, and more, visit our official Linktree: https://linktr.ee/unpackingthepod

Subjective Conditions looks at a wide variety of perspectives on how capitalism shapes our own experiences of our lives and senses of self in the world today. We emphasize how to bring in all sorts of different theories and practices on how to engage in collective and individual trauma healing work and community building to help listeners work through the emotional devastation under capitalism today to find a new way to be with themselves and others. With friends and guests joining us along the way, we take conversational approach to dialogues on how things like attachment theory, psychedelic ...

This is the optimistic story of our fraught relationship to universal consciousness, the domain that transcends every local mind. It is also the story of how reality is relative and changeable to the way each of us makes meaning. Truth, on the other hand, represents the permanent and timeless state of being beyond history and culture that is called nonlocal universal consciousness. This is the state of nonpersonal awareness within insight and eyesight.

Humans have long turned to gardens—both real and imaginary—for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh’s garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation, gardens stand as restorative, nourishing, necessary havens.