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© Ithaka O.
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🧽 Life is a story. I am a shiny sponge that reflects what is absorbed is what is reflected is what absorbs. ✨ There are spoilers. 🧽
49 Episodes
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Faces, places, names, fame.
Flashes, cameras, art, work.
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Resources for this episode
“Visages, Villages” (Faces, Places)
“Death Note”
“All 243 of Taylor Swift’s Songs, Ranked.”
Architect Yoo Hyunjoon’s thoughts about the Las Vegas Sphere(“라스베가스에 만들어진 3조원 공연장 '스피어', 건축가의 생각은?”)(This Youtube video has English subtitles)
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/049-everyday-mundanity-transformed-into-art-and-work/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
On autotelic love that tastes of honey, connecting the external with the internal.
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Resources for this episode
“The Poetics of Space” by Gaston Bachelard
“The Spectral Arctic: A History of Dreams and Ghosts in Polar Exploration” by Shane McCorristine
“The Tibetan Book of the Dead” (Bardo Thodol)
“The Handmaiden” (아가씨)
“The Silent Strength of Stones” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/048-honey-here-are-some-words-of-honey/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
On the horror (and humor) of mistaking avatar-world separation for storyteller-level separation.
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Resources for this episode
“The Love Witch” (2016)
Anna Biller
“A Star Is Born”
The Storyteller’s Eye
“Psycho-Cybernetics”
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/047-fulfilling-love-spells-for-the-seekers-of-unfulfillment/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
On moving bodies that are dead, undead, or alive.
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Resources for this episode
Point (geometry)
“Halley”
Room temperature
Room tone
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/046-the-beginning-and-end-thereby-the-middle/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
On language, translation, and the possibility and impossibility of conveying exactly what the writer of a piece of writing meant, when it is being translated.
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Resources for this episode
“The Spectral Arctic: A History of Dreams and Ghosts in Polar Exploration” by Shane McCorristine
“The Poetics of Space” by Gaston Bachelard
“The Tibetan Book of the Dead” (Bardo Thodol)
Maria Jolas
“Psycho-Cybernetics” by Maxwell Maltz
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/045-soul-mind-and-other-words-lost-and-found-in-translation/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
On the amusing symmetry between the nonexistent/bad parent figure archetype of the Young Adult genre and the wild freedom attributed to and taken advantage of, to the maximum degree, by the Greek gods.
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Resources for this episode
Rufus Beck
Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
Marius Clarén
Poseidon
“Young Adult and New Adult Book Markets”
“Where Did The Centaurs Come From? A Journey Through Ancient Art”
Manticore
Saturn Devouring His Son
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/044-yay-being-auto-better-than-the-immortal-parents/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
“Objectivity as represented in the stereotypical Enlightenment way relies on the separation between observer and observee, when, in reality, in actual reality, the two cannot be separated and therefore objectivity isn’t objective in the way that a separationist dreams of.”
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Resources for this episode
"The Spectral Arctic: A History of Dreams and Ghosts in Polar Exploration" by Shane McCorristine
Shane McCorristine
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/043-a-dreamer-dreams-a-polar-dream/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
”Unconscious and subconscious information rises to the surface of the conscious all the time.”
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Resources for this episode
“The Silent Strength of Stones” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
10-second barrier
Clarke's three laws
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/042-i-dont-know-what-i-know/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
“If only there had been some kind of explanation. Any explanation.”
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Resources for this episode
“Mask Girl (마스크걸)”
Rorschach test
“The Shining”
“American Horror Story”
“Hereditary”
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/041-eerie-meanie-gory-woe-symmetry-softens-random-blows/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
“There is comfort in obeying authority.”
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Resources for this episode
“Professor Marston and the Wonder Women”
“DISC assessment”
“MBTI” (Myers Briggs Type Indicator)
Yin Yang
“Eureka”
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/040-the-power-move-called-submission/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
“It would be so nice if humans, in general, could overcome their own limitations before things hit the bottom. However, maybe it’s not possible, especially without hitting an emotional bottom first.”
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Resources for this episode
“V for Vendetta”
Episode 31 about my hairstyle change
“I Found A Reason,” sung by Cat Power
“Chungking Express”
Game of Thrones
Previous episode about no-needless-suffering meditation
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/039-fire-and-water-rebirth-the-transformer/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
“Perhaps the most crucial choice that we make is whether to struggle or not. And if and when one chooses to stop struggling, the struggle stops. Rationalization, intellectualization, as well as reasoning cease to matter. Instead, what matters begins to matter.”
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Resources for this episode
“True Meditation”
Adyashanti
Alan Watts
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/038-to-suffer-or-not-to-suffer-that-is-the-question/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
“Perhaps I should live my life the way I write fiction, especially the way I write fiction with so-called restrictions.”
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Resources for this episode
“Random Word Grotesqueries”
“Agora Phantasmagoria”
“Watermelon Love Song”
Dean Wesley Smith
Klein bottle
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/037-the-universe-trickles-into-out-of-me-via-the-klein-bottle/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
“If there is something to be found in emptiness, can such an emptiness be truly empty? What does it even mean for something to be empty?”
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Resources for this episode
“La jeune fille sans mains (The Girl Without Hands)”
“The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (film)”
Studio Ghibli
007 ⌨️ By showing its true colors, a story unfolds.
“Noir Urbanisms”
Animated wonder
“Sin City”
“300”
035_The present vanished into the past in the future.
Why Physics Says You Can Never Actually Touch Anything
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/036-full-emptiness-empty-fullness/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
“In the present, the past has vanished and the future has not yet materialized. Thus, the past is a figment of the imagination and so is the future. Moreover, in the future, the present will become the past, and in the past, the present was the future, so this very present moment either will be a figment of the imagination or used to be one. Given this, what is the desire to be in the past, the future, or the present? Moreover, what does it mean to be in the past, the future, or the present?”
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Resources for this episode
“Now Wait for Last Year”
The Butterfly Dream
022_You walk in the forest.
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/035-the-present-vanished-into-the-past-in-the-future/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
“The playful obsession with one’s state of being, independent of artificial constructs, is a fundamental element in finding a creative well that never dries up.”
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Resources for this episode
“Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda”
Donald Glover
“Her”
“Beef”
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
From “The Revenant”
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/034-merry-nostalgia-mr-sakamoto/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
“In articulating a message, delivering it by using the stories the recipient is accustomed to is highly effective.”
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Resources for this episode
"The Wonder"
"The Power of Your Subconscious Mind"
Joseph Murphy
"The Secret"
Hoʻoponopono
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/033-message-received/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
“One cannot give what one hasn’t unveiled in oneself; moreover, one cannot receive what one hasn’t unveiled in oneself. So it is with unconditional love.”
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Resources for this episode
“Joe Bell” directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green
The Youtube video from a Korean spirituality channel where I heard the phrase “conditional love is like hatred.”
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/032-to-a-world-of-unconditional-love/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
“Opposing extremes coexist in a person, and an experience that allows a person to see that in a short period of time can have a freeing effect.”
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Resources for this episode
“V for Vendetta”
Ithaka’s Blog
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/031-mother-daughter-head-shaver/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
“Humor makes the most gruesome horror bearable—even enjoyable.”
😂🔪😂
Resources for this episode
“Manitou Blood” by Graham Masterton
Full transcript and links
https://sponge.ithakaonmymind.com/audio/030-laughing-my-way-out-of-horror/
Everything I do is organized here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
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