Description
An episode in which we throw the entire format out the window because Siobhan casually (and totally out of the blue) drops the fact that she had a religious experience whilst walking in the park, and in doing so, I think we manage to stumble across the exact reason why we're doing this podcast. We also manage to fit in a bit of talk about small dogs dancing after they poo, urban play, Robert Anton Wilson, mindfulness, the joys of doing things in secret and how wonderful it is to realise that you're pointless.
NB. It's Elizabeth Oldfield NOT Elizabeth Olsen (who may or may not be one of those rubbish twins) and the full quote is actually "All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense."
The Sohbet Punx Podcast (formerly Breakfast Punx) is a fortnightly discussion of meaning, transcendence, awe and spirituality with a small "S" brought to you by Dave (Haest/Sham City Roasters) and Siobhan (Comeback C**t). These discussions are not academic - we use personal experience and our own journey to try to understand complicated issues and hope to make discoveries through open, nuanced discussion whilst showing our workings in the process. Also, we laugh a lot.
On this episode we're talking about our very tentative first steps into the world of meditation, mindfulness and Buddhism and the respective personal journeys that brought us to this point. But of course that's not all, we also body shame a pap-metal band, we go for a walk with our friends, we...
Published 11/13/24
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