Thanks for reading Let's Exist—A Blog by Carson! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. I smiled to see the ever controversial Joe Rogan feature Sadhguru—lifetime yogi, founder of the Isha Foundation, and inspirational figure in the world of wellness and spiritual evolution. Their couple hours together covered the decline of modern soil (I learned the word ‘fallow’), the four paths of yoga, some of Sadhguru’s biographical history, as well as a discussion of extraterrestrials (this is the JRE after all).
Great review of the podcast and your reaction to it.
I noticed that episode in the library of Rogan's recent episodes but wasn't really drawn to it. After reading your review, I think I'll listen to it. And maybe focus on it rather than just playing it like audio wallpaper while doing other things.
One question...
You said, "People would talk in clever and context-filled intellectual sentences (...)."
Why "context-filled"? Did you mean "content-filled"? When people say "context", I usually interpret that to mean what I think you refer to in the above review as "process". For example, the context of individual details that we focus on includes the fact that these details show up as one moment in a process. This is the process whose history led to the occurrence of these details and whose future will continue past the point where these details cease to exist.
So it seemed like you were talking about people delivering "clever and content-filled intellectual sentences".
It's been a while since I watched that episode but I remember the impression it left. It is perfectly possible that I am trapped by western thinking more than I realise, but for the most part Sadhuru's words seemed like generic platitudes to me that meant little and allowed anyone to ascribe the meaning they want.
If he wanted to say, as you suggest, that 'peace is found within' why say that 'heaven has collapsed'?
One answer is both are the same and my limited thinking can't see it. Another is that, like a politician, he prefers not to expose himself by speaking unambiguously.
Words are meaningless and forgettable, the energy discrepancies between SG and JR were palpable, you observed those in the least abstract form, thank you for going there
Great review of the podcast and your reaction to it.
I noticed that episode in the library of Rogan's recent episodes but wasn't really drawn to it. After reading your review, I think I'll listen to it. And maybe focus on it rather than just playing it like audio wallpaper while doing other things.
One question...
You said, "People would talk in clever and context-filled intellectual sentences (...)."
Why "context-filled"? Did you mean "content-filled"? When people say "context", I usually interpret that to mean what I think you refer to in the above review as "process". For example, the context of individual details that we focus on includes the fact that these details show up as one moment in a process. This is the process whose history led to the occurrence of these details and whose future will continue past the point where these details cease to exist.
So it seemed like you were talking about people delivering "clever and content-filled intellectual sentences".
It's been a while since I watched that episode but I remember the impression it left. It is perfectly possible that I am trapped by western thinking more than I realise, but for the most part Sadhuru's words seemed like generic platitudes to me that meant little and allowed anyone to ascribe the meaning they want.
If he wanted to say, as you suggest, that 'peace is found within' why say that 'heaven has collapsed'?
One answer is both are the same and my limited thinking can't see it. Another is that, like a politician, he prefers not to expose himself by speaking unambiguously.
Words are meaningless and forgettable, the energy discrepancies between SG and JR were palpable, you observed those in the least abstract form, thank you for going there