We're back!!! And it feels good, too. On this new installment of 'In Between The Stories' we'll talk a little bit about the "quick fix." And, it's great exchange that promises to give us something for NOTHING!!
In his book The Art of Being, Erich Fromm outlines two modes of existence - having and being. The first, having, primarily possession-centered i.e. objects, status, desires; destructive or not. Is a life focused on consumption-we acquire, use up, discard, then repeat.
And its complete opposite, being, is a mode which is more activity-centered (experience, feeling). As with love, reason or productive activity. It cannot be bought, collected or hoarded.
One of the barriers when learning the art of being, writes Fromm, is the "no-effort, no pain" doctrine. From methods of education, with courses made to be as easy and pleasant as possible. Thus, studying too, should be felt as pleasant, and not forced. Where comes this idea of "effortless learning?" Fromm claims it's rooted in the advancements of Technology.
Let's break bread!! Share some of your own thoughts on any of the platforms you can find us on. I'd love to hear from you.
Til next time
and very soon,
PEACE!!
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00:06:07 --> 00:06:09 Like I said, yeah, this is something that I like
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00:07:52 --> 00:07:55 some of my some of my own beliefs. This is the
00:07:55 --> 00:07:57 book that I read once. I'm going through it again.
00:07:57 --> 00:08:01 It's not a long read. I have it downloaded on
00:08:01 --> 00:08:05 my Kobo, my ebook reader, The Art of Being by
00:08:05 --> 00:08:11 Eric Fromm. And he was a German -American psychoanalyst,
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00:10:08 --> 00:10:11 you agree with it maybe you see where there's
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00:10:18 --> 00:10:22 I couldn't help but think of that quick fix how
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00:11:04 --> 00:11:08 in 10 easy steps you can find out how to master
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00:11:13 --> 00:11:17 you sleep what about these injections there's
00:11:17 --> 00:11:19 a lot of different injections but I'm talking
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00:11:32 --> 00:11:37 the spinach synthetic oil or petroleum jelly
00:11:38 --> 00:11:40 whatever they're pumping into the arms so they
00:11:40 --> 00:11:45 could grow into the size of Popeye this is the
00:11:45 --> 00:11:51 price of beauty or so people think the aesthetics
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00:12:09 --> 00:12:16 price of 25 installments of $3 . Make it
00:12:16 --> 00:12:20 easy and take it easy, even if it means losing
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00:12:26 --> 00:12:29 until those arms have to come off. So in his
00:12:29 --> 00:12:32 book, The Art of Being, Eric Fromm outlines the
00:12:32 --> 00:12:36 two modes of existence, having and being. The
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00:13:00 --> 00:13:03 complete opposite. This is more activity centered.
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00:13:07 --> 00:13:11 love reason or productive activity this is something
00:13:11 --> 00:13:14 that cannot be bought it can't be collected it
00:13:14 --> 00:13:18 can't be hoarded this is what has to be felt
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00:13:27 --> 00:13:32 the art of being eric from talks about a few
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00:13:39 --> 00:13:42 no pain doctrine. And that goes back to in the
00:13:42 --> 00:13:44 beginning, like I said, we just want that quick
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00:13:48 --> 00:13:53 it slow. There's no reason to over do it. And
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00:14:00 --> 00:14:04 about how it's still relevant today. Maybe more
00:14:04 --> 00:14:08 so than it was in the past. And Eric Fromm lists
00:14:08 --> 00:14:13 off a few of the ways that this doctrine is being
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00:14:23 --> 00:14:26 and studying the same thing. It should be felt
00:14:26 --> 00:14:29 as pleasant. It shouldn't feel forced. And he
00:14:29 --> 00:14:31 sheds a little bit of light and talks about this
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00:14:58 --> 00:15:02 have bestowed upon man the reduction of physical
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00:15:05 --> 00:15:09 from extra thinking memorizing and calculating
00:15:09 --> 00:15:12 in one's life you know it i know it we don't
00:15:12 --> 00:15:14 even know how to do the long addition anymore
00:15:14 --> 00:15:16 don't have time to do the the multiplication
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00:15:19 --> 00:15:22 time how many of you remembering have to do your
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00:15:26 --> 00:15:29 in the back of how you came to that answer the
00:15:29 --> 00:15:33 formula that you had to follow. You had a scratch
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00:15:41 --> 00:15:44 but you had that scrap piece of paper that referenced
00:15:44 --> 00:15:47 how you came to that answer. Now we could just
00:15:47 --> 00:15:51 pull out the cell phone and punch in a few numbers,
00:15:52 --> 00:15:59 hit that symbol. The answer is 3 . So it's
00:15:59 --> 00:16:04 true. It's a no -brainer. The industrial advancements
00:16:04 --> 00:16:07 have truly been one of the greatest gifts of
00:16:07 --> 00:16:12 modernity. But, and here is the big but. In his
00:16:12 --> 00:16:15 book, Eric Fromm raises the question with all
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00:16:46 --> 00:16:52 we done with this new found freedom? Has this
00:16:52 --> 00:16:55 surplus of human energy gone towards good or
00:16:55 --> 00:17:00 ill? Are we better off or lazier because of it?
00:17:00 --> 00:17:05 The good life is the effortless life. Or so they
00:17:05 --> 00:17:08 say. There isn't really a need to make any real
00:17:08 --> 00:17:11 efforts in life anymore. That's an old shoe.
00:17:12 --> 00:17:17 The unbeaten, undisputed mantra of today is work
00:17:17 --> 00:17:21 smarter and not harder. I've heard it. I've said
00:17:21 --> 00:17:24 it too. I mean it does have its place. I'm not
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00:17:30 --> 00:17:33 makes sense to work smarter and not harder. But
00:17:33 --> 00:17:36 the idea that one makes strong efforts in his
00:17:36 --> 00:17:40 or her life without being forced to do so is
00:17:40 --> 00:17:42 a rarity. We'll drive around the parking lot
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00:17:50 --> 00:17:52 the parking spot to finally be available to us
00:17:52 --> 00:17:56 we could have saved some of that time and just
00:17:56 --> 00:17:58 parked the car around the corner and walked into
00:17:58 --> 00:18:04 the store and this also translates into us trying
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00:18:14 --> 00:18:17 something that we need to be hip to whatever
00:18:17 --> 00:18:19 we think is important in our lives instead of
00:18:19 --> 00:18:24 doing our own research we'll find the most juiciest
00:18:24 --> 00:18:28 and attractive article piece or news outlet and
00:18:28 --> 00:18:32 get all the goods from them that saves us the
00:18:32 --> 00:18:34 time we don't have to do our own research who
00:18:34 --> 00:18:40 has the time in a day between all that we have
00:18:40 --> 00:18:43 to do to sort through all the weeds and find
00:18:43 --> 00:18:47 the information that we need you can just Chat
00:18:47 --> 00:18:50 GPT, but then we don't even think critically
00:18:50 --> 00:18:53 about the information that is being given to
00:18:53 --> 00:18:55 us. Where is it coming from? What are the sources
00:18:55 --> 00:18:59 that this information comes from? What are their
00:18:59 --> 00:19:02 biases? What's the narrative they're trying to
00:19:02 --> 00:19:05 promote? how are they trying to persuade me or
00:19:05 --> 00:19:08 nudge me where do i stand on it how do i feel
00:19:08 --> 00:19:11 about it we just take it as gospel it came from
00:19:11 --> 00:19:16 here i was told by this and so it has to be true
00:19:16 --> 00:19:19 thus i don't even have to think for myself anymore
00:19:19 --> 00:19:22 or think critically about anything who cares
00:19:22 --> 00:19:26 what i think or i or how i feel about it this
00:19:26 --> 00:19:33 came from god or it came from ai the new gods.
00:19:34 --> 00:19:38 How dare you question the algorithm or try to
00:19:38 --> 00:19:41 go against it. And then we have the sister to
00:19:41 --> 00:19:46 the no pain doctrine, which is no effort with
00:19:46 --> 00:19:51 all the remarkable advancements again, accredited
00:19:51 --> 00:19:55 to leading our transition from the first to the
00:19:55 --> 00:19:59 second industrial revolution. Pain has become
00:20:00 --> 00:20:06 a kind of phobic quality writes from. Something
00:20:06 --> 00:20:10 we try to avoid at all costs, and the pain that
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00:20:13 --> 00:20:16 only the physical or mental, like the pain in
00:20:16 --> 00:20:18 learning a new instrument, or out of respect
00:20:18 --> 00:20:21 for what my wife does and... all the courses
00:20:21 --> 00:20:25 that she has put together these hula hoop courses
00:20:25 --> 00:20:28 something that has helped her tremendously with
00:20:28 --> 00:20:32 her own healing physically even emotionally all
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00:20:41 --> 00:20:44 that she is able to move the way she can move
00:20:44 --> 00:20:48 still and not just for herself but how she has
00:20:48 --> 00:20:53 brought this joy this joy in movement and dance
00:20:53 --> 00:20:57 with music with the motor skills being challenged
00:20:57 --> 00:21:02 hand -eye coordination balance all of this with
00:21:02 --> 00:21:06 the hula hoop so Say with respect to that even
00:21:06 --> 00:21:09 learning you hula hoop tricks or how to hula
00:21:09 --> 00:21:12 hoop Some people they see it and it looks so
00:21:12 --> 00:21:14 easy I remember when I was young all the girls
00:21:14 --> 00:21:18 did it the little girls did it. It was like instinctive
00:21:18 --> 00:21:20 it was a Second nature to them. They just picked
00:21:20 --> 00:21:23 up that circle They moved inside of it and they
00:21:23 --> 00:21:25 were able to keep it up for minutes and hours
00:21:25 --> 00:21:28 at a time if they wanted to But as we get a little
00:21:28 --> 00:21:30 bit older, we start getting in our head and we
00:21:30 --> 00:21:34 think ourselves out of a lot of situations a
00:21:34 --> 00:21:38 lot of actions and ideas and so sometimes we
00:21:38 --> 00:21:42 could be our own worst enemy in our biggest critique
00:21:42 --> 00:21:45 keeping us from trying new things from experiencing
00:21:45 --> 00:21:48 new things so you can see someone doing a hula
00:21:48 --> 00:21:50 hoop swinging a hula hoop and it might look so
00:21:50 --> 00:21:53 easy and it looks so elegant and my goodness
00:21:53 --> 00:21:56 i want to do that You not taking into consideration
00:21:56 --> 00:21:59 how long this person has been practicing and
00:21:59 --> 00:22:02 perfecting those movements and how many hours
00:22:02 --> 00:22:05 and time they've put into it, how they've banged
00:22:05 --> 00:22:09 themselves up. I've seen it bruises on the knees
00:22:09 --> 00:22:14 and the ankles, the arms, because it could be
00:22:14 --> 00:22:19 a full contact sport. So you try it, you pick
00:22:19 --> 00:22:22 it up and you want to try it and then. After
00:22:22 --> 00:22:25 a couple of days, you realize it's not so easy.
00:22:25 --> 00:22:27 It takes a little bit of effort and then that
00:22:27 --> 00:22:31 hula hoop just hangs and becomes another decoration
00:22:31 --> 00:22:34 in the house. We give something, anything, a
00:22:34 --> 00:22:37 new instrument, a new hobby, a new craft, something
00:22:37 --> 00:22:39 that we see other people do and we want to pick
00:22:39 --> 00:22:41 it up and try it and realize, okay, it's not
00:22:41 --> 00:22:44 as easy as I thought I was. It's going to take
00:22:44 --> 00:22:46 a little bit of work. I'm guilty of it. Wood
00:22:46 --> 00:22:50 whittling. I watch these YouTube tutorials and
00:22:50 --> 00:22:54 I see these videos in under eight minutes and
00:22:54 --> 00:22:57 they carve out this cool looking piece this gnome
00:22:57 --> 00:23:02 or this old ancient mystical wizard with a little
00:23:02 --> 00:23:06 piece of wood and I'm like man that looks like
00:23:06 --> 00:23:08 fun I want to start doing that and then I buy
00:23:08 --> 00:23:12 the knives I buy the the sharpening stone for
00:23:12 --> 00:23:16 the knives and I give it a few good cracks and
00:23:16 --> 00:23:19 then I realized that it's not as easy as it looked
00:23:19 --> 00:23:24 on the tutorial and then that enthusiasm turns
00:23:24 --> 00:23:28 into some headaches and some disappointments
00:23:28 --> 00:23:31 and then you just set it off to the side and
00:23:31 --> 00:23:34 forget all about it those tools turn into dust
00:23:34 --> 00:23:40 collectors and at best some type of cool decoration
00:23:40 --> 00:23:45 for the house so I've pretty much just piggybacked
00:23:45 --> 00:23:47 off of a few things that I've written down about
00:23:47 --> 00:23:50 this topic and in recalling some of what I've
00:23:50 --> 00:23:53 read. Like I said, I'm going through it again
00:23:53 --> 00:23:56 and there's a lot of good points, a lot of good
00:23:56 --> 00:23:59 arguments, a lot of good ideas from Eric Fromm
00:23:59 --> 00:24:01 that was written back then and that are still
00:24:01 --> 00:24:05 relevant today. And I want to pick this back
00:24:05 --> 00:24:07 up and talk more about it. But I just wanted
00:24:07 --> 00:24:11 to brush over the two modes of existence and
00:24:11 --> 00:24:15 we can go further with it. What it means in the
00:24:15 --> 00:24:18 having mode what it means to be in the being
00:24:18 --> 00:24:21 mode once you start becoming aware of these things
00:24:21 --> 00:24:24 once you start noticing these things and that
00:24:24 --> 00:24:28 takes some solitude that takes some silence that
00:24:28 --> 00:24:33 takes Something that cost you nothing Just to
00:24:33 --> 00:24:37 disconnect and be get back in touch with your
00:24:37 --> 00:24:42 senses with yourself that wonderful somatic sacred
00:24:43 --> 00:24:46 inner knowledge that we all have this inner technology
00:24:46 --> 00:24:51 that we all have and it's available as long as
00:24:51 --> 00:24:54 we don't outsource it as long as we don't deprive
00:24:54 --> 00:24:57 ourselves of it as long as we don't turn it off
00:24:57 --> 00:25:00 and turn on something else to take its place
00:25:00 --> 00:25:03 this is about the human experience and this is
00:25:03 --> 00:25:07 what i would like to continue to share with other
00:25:07 --> 00:25:10 people who feel the same way and even if you
00:25:10 --> 00:25:12 don't feel the same way if you're not ready for
00:25:12 --> 00:25:16 something like this to make change because sometimes
00:25:16 --> 00:25:19 you're just not ready or you don't think that
00:25:19 --> 00:25:22 it's necessary you don't feel that you need to
00:25:22 --> 00:25:25 that's perfectly fine I'm not here to change
00:25:25 --> 00:25:28 the world and I've said this before even some
00:25:28 --> 00:25:31 of my guests have said this and you'll hear this
00:25:31 --> 00:25:33 being said by a lot of other people the only
00:25:33 --> 00:25:36 way to change the world is to change your world
00:25:36 --> 00:25:39 and that in itself creates a rippling effect
00:25:39 --> 00:25:42 to start Creating changes in the environment
00:25:42 --> 00:25:46 around our lives. So these two modes of existence
00:25:46 --> 00:25:50 are pretty much just touched on And in one of
00:25:50 --> 00:25:53 the hindrances this hindrance in a stumbling
00:25:53 --> 00:25:57 block in order to learn Understand and to live
00:25:57 --> 00:26:02 and practice this art of being experiencing feeling
00:26:02 --> 00:26:06 through love through reason through knowledge
00:26:06 --> 00:26:09 through understanding through through knowing
00:26:10 --> 00:26:14 yourself what does it even mean to know thyself
00:26:14 --> 00:26:18 and when you hear something that's talked about
00:26:18 --> 00:26:22 in many ways by many different people it's a
00:26:22 --> 00:26:26 very high probability that there is some truth
00:26:26 --> 00:26:30 to that and you hear this in Eastern philosophy
00:26:30 --> 00:26:33 you hear this preached in different ways through
00:26:33 --> 00:26:35 Western religions you hear this talked about
00:26:35 --> 00:26:39 from philosophers and different thinkers great
00:26:39 --> 00:26:42 thinkers of the past and even present and that
00:26:42 --> 00:26:46 is the importance of knowing self so many of
00:26:46 --> 00:26:50 us are lost we're confused and we're swimming
00:26:50 --> 00:26:54 in a sea of illusions not knowing up from down
00:26:54 --> 00:26:58 we're being told up is down and down is up and
00:26:58 --> 00:27:02 we take that as gospel the sky could be blue
00:27:02 --> 00:27:06 outside but our favorite news channel is telling
00:27:06 --> 00:27:10 us that it's red and so we say to ourselves it
00:27:10 --> 00:27:13 has to be red even though I'm seeing it to be
00:27:13 --> 00:27:17 blue it could be scary it can cause a lot of
00:27:17 --> 00:27:20 angst to start seeing the illusions for what
00:27:20 --> 00:27:25 they are and rather than justify them rationalize
00:27:25 --> 00:27:31 them we start to really allow ourselves to feel
00:27:31 --> 00:27:36 them out To sense them and to get to know them
00:27:36 --> 00:27:40 for what they are are they constructs of society
00:27:40 --> 00:27:46 a generation of bias dogmas and Doctrines have
00:27:46 --> 00:27:49 we been conditioned to believe this because of
00:27:49 --> 00:27:52 tradition and that's just the way that it is
00:27:52 --> 00:27:57 because when we get quiet with that and we Sit
00:27:57 --> 00:28:01 with that in that sacred silence that is when
00:28:01 --> 00:28:06 we're able to see slips of truth in reality beyond
00:28:06 --> 00:28:10 the smoke screen of illusions and falsehoods.
00:28:10 --> 00:28:13 And that is why we're being bombarded on every
00:28:13 --> 00:28:17 corner, with every swipe of our phone screen,
00:28:17 --> 00:28:21 with different advertisements, different pitches,
00:28:22 --> 00:28:25 different promises to take us away from that
00:28:25 --> 00:28:28 concentration and that focus that brings us back
00:28:28 --> 00:28:32 to self. But we're being distracted. Our attention
00:28:32 --> 00:28:37 is like gold and they're mining that gold around
00:28:37 --> 00:28:41 the clock, 24 hours a day. They take no breaks.
00:28:41 --> 00:28:44 So in this digital age, this age of technology,
00:28:45 --> 00:28:48 this great time that we are in, Like now, I'm
00:28:48 --> 00:28:52 able to sit here talking to a microphone and
00:28:52 --> 00:28:56 then broadcast this around the world to whoever
00:28:56 --> 00:29:01 is tuned into the same frequency or plugged into
00:29:01 --> 00:29:03 the same platform. They are able to hear this
00:29:03 --> 00:29:07 right now. So in this great age, this new age,
00:29:08 --> 00:29:14 my sign off is don't lose what it means to be
00:29:14 --> 00:29:18 human. Don't lose your humanness. in the process.
00:29:19 --> 00:29:22 It was great to have this this heart -to -heart
00:29:22 --> 00:29:25 with those of you with ears to hear whether you
00:29:25 --> 00:29:29 find truth in it or not and you'd like to share
00:29:29 --> 00:29:33 your thoughts you can find us on any one of the
00:29:33 --> 00:29:36 links in the show notes we're gonna catch up
00:29:36 --> 00:29:42 and do this again real soon I do have a story
00:29:42 --> 00:29:45 in the pipeline and a guest that I'm looking
00:29:45 --> 00:29:49 forward to introduce to you all and before I
00:29:49 --> 00:29:52 wrap this up and call it a day I would like to
00:29:52 --> 00:29:58 remind anybody listening that if you would like
00:29:58 --> 00:30:02 to be a part of the show and share your story
00:30:02 --> 00:30:05 or even a story of someone in your life that
00:30:05 --> 00:30:08 has impacted you in a positive way you could
00:30:08 --> 00:30:12 always reach out to us via email we'd be happy
00:30:12 --> 00:30:17 to connect you be safe out there be sane be the
00:30:17 --> 00:30:22 change that you wish to see until next time and
00:30:22 --> 00:30:41 very soon peace A sign to know I'm on the right
00:30:41 --> 00:30:48 road Ain't seen no signs since Jericho