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- 1 weeks ago1h 54m
#56 - Steve March | Why Self-Improvement Fails
Steve is a coach and the founder of Aletheia Unfolding. His work integrates things like developmental psychology, contemplative practice and neo-Reichian somatic work into a psychospiritual approach to transformation.We discuss how self-improvement presupposes self-deficiency, which leads to mixed results (e.g. have you kept your new year’s resolutions?).What happens if instead, you start with the assumption that you are innately whole? What if Life itself transforms us when we let it? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themetagame.substack.com
- 3 weeks ago1h 15m
#55 - Aaron Nesmith-Beck | The Metagame of Inner Work
Aaron is an entrepreneur, writer, and coach. He famously founded one of the first legal psilocybin retreats and has spent over a decade navigating inner and outer frontiers. He works with founders and leaders, writes about inner work, psychedelics, and contemplative practice, and curates referrals to trusted practitioners and resources.In this episode we discuss the process of “going upstream” to the root of your patterns and speculate on why different inner work modalities are effective.Here’s Aaron’s excellent article on the same topic. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themetagame.substack.com
- Jun 25, 20261h 28m
#54 - Jessica Vellela | A Gentle Introduction to Ayurveda
Jessica is the first American-born woman to graduate as an Ayurvedic Physician and practice independently. She studied for 8 years in India completing Bachelor of Āyurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS). She’s also the founder of myayu.com and has been healing many of my friends.In this overview, we discuss what western medicine misses, archetypal ways of knowing, personal empiricism, the doshas and some counter-intuitive Ayurvedic practices. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themetagame.substack.com
- Jun 3, 20262h 39m
#53 - Guy (@nosilverv) | Facedoxing, Stream Entry and How to Avoid Psyops
Guy is an independent researcher, author, Emergent Ventures Fellow, and hands-down the most prolific/insightful shit-poster I know on twitter. If you’ve been around long enough, you’ll know him as “Rival Voices”.Among many things, he’s an expert on Adversarial Epistemology: finding truth in an environment designed to deceive you. You can learn more from his book Alignment Gone Strange. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themetagame.substack.com
- May 20, 20261h 7m
#52 Kathryn Devaney | The Neuroscience of Awakening
Kati Devaney is a neuroscientist and meditation teacher with over 25 years of practice. She earned her PhD in 2018 using fMRI to study attention and prediction updating in experienced Vipassana meditators and completed a postdoc at Harvard Medical School. She’s now the Chief Scientific Officer at the Consciousness Foundation, co-founded the Berkeley Alembic and the SF Dharma Collective, advises Jhourney on the neuroscience of jhana, and has been quoted on the brain and meditation in The Atlantic, National Geographic, and TIME.In this episode we talk about weird stuff like cessation, jhanas, and non-duality. We also explore how the brain quietly constructs your sense of reality moment-to-moment, and how to (re)start a meditation practice. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themetagame.substack.com
- May 12, 20261h 17m
#51 - Elena Lake | Nondual Bodywork and Regenerative Touch
Elena Lake is a bodyworker and former mathematician. After studying math, CS, and physics at MIT and two years doing ML at Meta, she left tech to study touch. When her early massage sessions started producing results she couldn't explain, she trained across Esalen, craniosacral, fascia, ScarWork, BoneWork, and visceral manipulation. In 2024 she developed her own modality: Regenerative Touch. Elena now sees billionaire clients, teaches tactile anatomy classes, and writes on Substack.In this episode we talk about her path from MIT to massage school, how to take care of yourself, what it’s like to see fascia with your hands, and some of the weirder aspects at the frontier of bodywork. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themetagame.substack.com
- May 5, 20261h 28m
#50 - Alex Olshonsky | You're Probably Addicted to Thinking
Alex Olshonsky is a coach, somatic therapist, and writer. After a polysubstance addiction nearly killed him during his Silicon Valley years at Twitter, Salesforce, and Slack, he found freedom in somatic psychology and contemplative practice. He now coaches founders and people in recovery, co-founded the psychedelic-assisted addiction nonprofit Natura Care, and writes the Substack Deep Fix.In this highly practical episode, we talk about his life a “professional drug addict” and his beautiful article You’re probably addicted to thinking. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themetagame.substack.com
- Apr 28, 20261h 57m
#49 - Richard Ngo | The Case For Virtue Ethics In The Age of AGI
Richard Ngo is one of a handful of people who've worked on AGI safety at both DeepMind and OpenAI. After three years as a futurist on OpenAI's Governance team, he left to pursue independent research on coalitions, virtue ethics, and the foundations of cooperation. He’s also a science fiction author (The Gentle Romance: Stories of AI and Humanity) and writes at Mind the Future.We talk about virtue ethics, egregores, academic fraud, memeplexes, cooperation, parts-work, and what it was like to work with Sam Altman. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themetagame.substack.com
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