Negotiating Reality Podcast

Podcast exploring how to nurture scientific, spiritual, and natural "operating systems" that help us better tether to reality and live through this crisis moment. negotiatingreality.substack.com

Negotiating Reality Podcast is a society podcast hosted by Hosted by Eric Hekler, with 13 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #4

  Episode 4C. Interview with Said Dawlabani

  Feb 6, 20262h 19mS1

  <p>We need a level of consciousness we don't yet have to solve problems our current consciousness created. So where do we start?</p><p>We’ll be exploring that today in this episode. </p><p>Key Books from Said Dawlabani</p><p>MEMEnomics (2013)</p><p>Second Sapiens: The Rise of the Planetary Mind and the Future of Humanity.</p><p>Key References from Said:</p><p>Valuematch.net. </p><p>Said’s MEMEnomics website.</p><p>Ken Wilber’s A Theory of Everything, </p><p>Spiral Dynamics in Action</p><p>Ones Eric Brought up at the end:</p><p>You...

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  Episode #3

  Episode 3b. Connected to Place with Matt Biggar

  Jan 16, 20261h 40mS1

  <p>NOTE: </p><p>I mistakenly attributed a quote to Thomas Merton that was actually from Bruno Barnhart! Here’s a reference to the actual quote!</p><p>https://www.awakin.org/v2/read/view.php?tid=2416&sso_checked=1 </p><p>Introduction</p><p>Welcome to Negotiating Reality, where we explore how our civic, spiritual, and natural processes tethering us to reality are breaking down, and what we might do about it.</p><p>I’m Eric Hekler. Today, I’d like to invite you into a conversation I had with Matt Biggar, author of Connected to Place: Regenerating Nature, Commun...

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  Episode #4

  Episode 4B. Interview with John Kesler

  Nov 25, 20251h 40mS1

  <p>Episode Summary</p><p>In today’s episode I interviewed John Kesler. John brings together decades of contemplative wisdom and leadership experience across multiple sectors in this deeply personal conversation. From his early discovery as a young atheist in Hamburg, Germany—where he found a foundational “physical resonance” through silence and stillness—to his journey through Columbia Law School grappling with language’s ephemeral nature, to re-engaging with his Mormon roots and training with Zen master Genpo Roshi, John’s path has been one of integrating seemingly contradictory ways of knowing. Over the past 20 years, he has developed Integral Polarity Pract...

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  Episode #4

  4A. Explorations with Rob Dunn

  Sep 26, 20251h 36mS1

  <p>Introduction</p><p>Welcome back to Negotiating Reality, where we explore how we understand our world and reckon with the possibility that many of our deeply held truths just might be delusions. I'm your host, Eric Hekler.</p><p>Throughout Season 1, we've been building a framework for understanding the fundamental nature of reality—what philosophers call metaphysics. We've discovered that "Life Breathes" together across vast scales of space and time, that "Islands Sculpt" each other in endless webs of relationship, and that "Beings Adapt" by consciously constructing reality through cultural concepts and social agreements.</p><p>Today, I'm thrilled to...

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  Episode #4

  Episode 4. Beings Adapt

  Sep 5, 20251h 15mS1

  <p>Introduction</p><p>Hello, and welcome back to the Negotiating Reality Podcast. I'm your host, Eric Hekler.</p><p>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). </p><p>In Episode 1, we explored the ch...

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