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Negotiating Reality PodcastEpisode 4. Beings AdaptIntroductionHello, and welcome back to the Negotiating Reality Podcast. I'm your host, Eric Hekler.We've been on a three-part journey exploring the fundamental assumptions we make about the nature of reality—what philosophers call metaphysics. Today, we reach one that may initially feel disorienting, but as you grow into it, I hope you'll find it truly liberating and inspiring for navigating our current moment (and the need for it was perfectly set up in my discussion with colleagues, Mai Nguyen and Keith Pezzoli, check it out here). In Episode 1, we explored the ch...
2025-09-051h 14
Negotiating Reality PodcastEpisode 1a. Negotiating with Dr. Donna Spruijt-Metz What happens when spiritual wisdom, poetic insight, and systems thinking walk into a podcast studio?This first negotiation episode features a rich, unscripted conversation me, Eric Hekler, and my long-time mentor and friend Dr. Donna Spruijt-Metz—a retired USC Professor/Psychologist, accomplished poet, behavioral scientist, rabbinical school dropout, and fellow traveler through the breakdowns and breakthroughs of our time.Together, we wrestle with the big stuff:– Is our spiritual, civic, and natural infrastructure collapsing—or just in need of a long-overdue software update?– Why is the scorched-earth path so seductive… and what might we do inst...
2025-04-301h 07