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Episode 3: Worker, author, musician, storyteller and culture activist Stephen Jenkinson

This episode was recorded on May 25th, 2022
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00:00:00 Foreword
00:04:04 A culture that doesn't believe in endings or limitations. Machines and tools.
00:09:06 Tere Vadén, syntytieto and addiction to progress.
00:13:21 Elders and the alchemy of crafting wine.
00:17:10 The rough start of Henry's parenthood and diminishment.
00:20:41 Wisdom and elderhood
00:24:50 Particularity, locality and farming.
00:28:55 Leisure, parenthood and priorities.
00:33:16 Parenting in a sane culture.
00:39:27 Children, temporarity and community
00:44:11 Health and meaning
00:47:20 A wake. Becoming an ancestor.
00:51:02 Embracing ambivalence and temporariness.
00:54:53 What in our behavior shows that we really know that we are dying?
01:02:42 Death avoidance.
01:08:57 Griefwalker and parents faced with the prospect of a dying child.
01:15:10 Grief illiteracy and death phobia. Loving when there's no forever.
01:26:38 Short final questions.
01:31:25 Afterword

Other keywords:

Hands
Prejudice
Parentling
Village
Clarity
Humility
Mastery
Vagrancy
Uncertainty
Prayer

Links:

James W. Jesso's podcast Adventures Through the Mind https://www.jameswjesso.com/podcast
Stephen's book Die Wise https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22716546-die-wise
Griefwalker, a documentary on Stephen's work https://www.nfb.ca/film/griefwalker

Stephen's page Orphan Wisdom https://orphanwisdom.com/
Orphan Wisdom's Facebook https://www.facebook.com/orphanwisdom

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Driven by a deep thirst for understanding, Curious on Earth is a slow enough podcast by Henry Soinnunmaa, Finnish musician, writer and amateur generalist. Some topics and keywords: deep time, cognition, creativity, mental health, technology, religion, play, ecology, sexuality, slowing down, AI, wisdom, cold swimming, reality tunnels, movement, stillness, psychedelics, antifragility, conscientiousness, beginner mindset, political polarization, pratītyasamutpāda, magic, music, game b, altered states of consciousness, commitment, BJJ, decentralization, energy policy, dance, language, adulting, drug policy, meditation, metamodernism, meaning crisis, neurodiversity, emergence, honesty, sensemaking, animalness, (post)rationality, media, death, love.

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