“Profound truths are recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.” — Niels Bohr

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In This Episode

We explore contradiction as something born from language, not reality.

Contra-dicere — “to speak against” — reveals that opposites arise when words divide what experience holds as one. This episode invites you to notice how truth often requires both sides, and how silence dissolves every apparent conflict.

Highlights

• Contradiction as a linguistic act

• Why profound truths arrive with their opposites

• Paradox vs. conflict

• What becomes clear before language enters

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This Conversation Is for You If…

• You feel torn between two truths

• You’re curious about how language shapes perception

• You crave the clarity found before words

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Playful Invitation

Notice one place today where you’re “speaking against” what is.

What shifts when both sides are allowed to be true?

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Closing Reflection

We work with being,

but non-being is what we use.

— Dao Te Ching

Contradiction is simply truth echoing through language.

Wholeness was here all along.

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🌿 The Wonder Land — Episode 134: This Little Thing

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✨ In This Episode

What does it mean to “close the book” on the little encapsulated self-idea?

In this episode, Alex and Amanda explore what lies beyond the identity we habitually defend—the “little thing” we mistake for who we are. Together, they unpack the subtle tension between liberation and the mind’s resistance, the Yes, but… that keeps us circling back into old frameworks.

This isn’t about denying the self. It’s about seeing through its edges into something vaster—an awareness unconfined by story or definition.

They explore:

🌿 What it means to close the book on the self-story without rejecting it

🔥 The familiar “Yes, but…” defenses that arise when freedom feels too spacious

🌊 How identity contracts around safety and control

💫 The felt sense of dissolving beyond This Little Thing into wholeness

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🌕 This Conversation Is for You If

You feel ready to stop rehearsing the same self-narratives.

You sense there’s more of you than the roles, fears, and names you’ve worn.

You’re curious about what remains when the little self grows quiet.

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🌀 Playful Invitation

When you notice the mind narrating your experience—“I’m this,” “I always,” “I never”—pause.

Close the book for a moment.

What’s here when the story stops mid-sentence?

Can you sense the vastness that holds even this little thing with tenderness?

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🌙 Closing Reflection

Liberation is not the destruction of the self—it’s the freedom to no longer confuse it for all that you are.

The book of you can rest, its pages complete, even as new chapters arise and fade.

Because the vastness you are has never been contained within its cover.

Close the book gently.

You are already written in everything.

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🌿 The Wonder Land — Episode 133: The Opposite of Peace

“The ego is a kind of flip, a knowing of knowing, a fearing of fearing. It’s a curlicue, an extra jazz to experience, a sort of double-take or reverberation, a dithering of consciousness which is the same as anxiety.”

— The Joyous Cosmology

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✨ In This Episode

Alex and Amanda explore the subtle texture of doubt—not as conflict, but as the quiet opposite of peace.

It isn’t war or resistance that fractures our inner stillness, but the mind’s habit of doubling—of layering story upon story until presence becomes noise.

This conversation unfolds through:

🌿 The etymology of doubt—from the Latin dubitāre, “to be in two.”

🌊 The difference between uncertainty and doubt, and why one is creative while the other is restless.

🪄 The Magus archetype in tarot as a symbol of weaving multiplicity into coherence.

💫 How peace emerges when we stop multiplying stories and allow uncertainty to simply be.

Doubt, they suggest, is not a failure of faith but an invitation—to return to the stillness that holds all possibilities at once.

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🌕 This Conversation Is for You If

You find yourself caught in mental loops of what-ifs and maybes.

You long for peace that doesn’t depend on answers.

You’re ready to see uncertainty as creative energy instead of threat.

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🌀 Playful Invitation

When you notice doubt arising, pause and name the stories that are multiplying.

Can you feel the moment when uncertainty turns into agitation?

Then try standing in that space—as The Magus does—

not to choose, but to weave.

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🌙 Closing Reflection

Uncertainty is not the opposite of peace; it’s the ground of it.

Peace is not the absence of movement—it’s the stillness wide enough to hold every possible direction.

Doubt is only the echo of our resistance to that stillness.

When we stop trying to choose one story to be final, we find ourselves resting again in the creative hum of the unknown.

Doubt, even here, is not an ending.

It’s an invitation back to peace.

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