Glen Phillips
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I mean, I love reading Oliver Sacks' books and, oh, God, what is his name? Brief Tour of Human Consciousness and Phantoms in the Brain, Ramadakran, I think. David Eagleman has a book called Live Wire on neuroplasticity. I got really into popular neurology books just because they were helping me also understand my own mind, my own perception of my body.
I mean, I love reading Oliver Sacks' books and, oh, God, what is his name? Brief Tour of Human Consciousness and Phantoms in the Brain, Ramadakran, I think. David Eagleman has a book called Live Wire on neuroplasticity. I got really into popular neurology books just because they were helping me also understand my own mind, my own perception of my body.
I mean, I love reading Oliver Sacks' books and, oh, God, what is his name? Brief Tour of Human Consciousness and Phantoms in the Brain, Ramadakran, I think. David Eagleman has a book called Live Wire on neuroplasticity. I got really into popular neurology books just because they were helping me also understand my own mind, my own perception of my body.
And the fact that most of my perception of my body is fairly accurate is amazing, right? But, yeah.
And the fact that most of my perception of my body is fairly accurate is amazing, right? But, yeah.
And the fact that most of my perception of my body is fairly accurate is amazing, right? But, yeah.
It's a lot of things. I think people are resilient. And I mean, I know people who've lost everything multiple times, right? With the fires in Santa Barbara, the landslides, we lost 24 people in the landslides a few years. Yeah, it's terrible. One of my wife's students and his father, it tore the community up. I have friends who've had their houses burned down. Not everybody makes it.
It's a lot of things. I think people are resilient. And I mean, I know people who've lost everything multiple times, right? With the fires in Santa Barbara, the landslides, we lost 24 people in the landslides a few years. Yeah, it's terrible. One of my wife's students and his father, it tore the community up. I have friends who've had their houses burned down. Not everybody makes it.
It's a lot of things. I think people are resilient. And I mean, I know people who've lost everything multiple times, right? With the fires in Santa Barbara, the landslides, we lost 24 people in the landslides a few years. Yeah, it's terrible. One of my wife's students and his father, it tore the community up. I have friends who've had their houses burned down. Not everybody makes it.
I mean, part of it is to understand life, you have to understand death, right? This is a limited time offer with no guarantee of anything on the other side. There are various beliefs about people who've come back to tell us about it, but I don't know what happens next. I don't know. I love life.
I mean, part of it is to understand life, you have to understand death, right? This is a limited time offer with no guarantee of anything on the other side. There are various beliefs about people who've come back to tell us about it, but I don't know what happens next. I don't know. I love life.
I mean, part of it is to understand life, you have to understand death, right? This is a limited time offer with no guarantee of anything on the other side. There are various beliefs about people who've come back to tell us about it, but I don't know what happens next. I don't know. I love life.
And I've seen so much resilience and heart and capacity in people around me who've lost more than I have. And I think in studying grief and grief work, I've learned a lot from that world. People like Francis Weller and there's This element of understanding that grief is love plus loss, right? Grief. There's a guy, Martin Prechtel, who had a talk called Grief and Praise, wrote a book.
And I've seen so much resilience and heart and capacity in people around me who've lost more than I have. And I think in studying grief and grief work, I've learned a lot from that world. People like Francis Weller and there's This element of understanding that grief is love plus loss, right? Grief. There's a guy, Martin Prechtel, who had a talk called Grief and Praise, wrote a book.
And I've seen so much resilience and heart and capacity in people around me who've lost more than I have. And I think in studying grief and grief work, I've learned a lot from that world. People like Francis Weller and there's This element of understanding that grief is love plus loss, right? Grief. There's a guy, Martin Prechtel, who had a talk called Grief and Praise, wrote a book.
It's a little flowery, but it's called The Smell of Rain on Dust. It's about grieving. And he talks about how in the Mayan language, grief and praise are the same word. Because everything changes, that grief is praising what you love and have lost. Praise is grieving what you love and will lose. And that understanding that you don't grieve what you don't love, that... That's profound. Yeah.
It's a little flowery, but it's called The Smell of Rain on Dust. It's about grieving. And he talks about how in the Mayan language, grief and praise are the same word. Because everything changes, that grief is praising what you love and have lost. Praise is grieving what you love and will lose. And that understanding that you don't grieve what you don't love, that... That's profound. Yeah.
It's a little flowery, but it's called The Smell of Rain on Dust. It's about grieving. And he talks about how in the Mayan language, grief and praise are the same word. Because everything changes, that grief is praising what you love and have lost. Praise is grieving what you love and will lose. And that understanding that you don't grieve what you don't love, that... That's profound. Yeah.
Well, and David White talks about it even with anger. He says anger, when removed... He has a book called Consolations. He's a great poet, and he talks about anger, when removed from its initial flush of violence, tells us what we most care about and are most passionately willing to protect. And... So grief, anger, loss, these things inform us what we love.
Well, and David White talks about it even with anger. He says anger, when removed... He has a book called Consolations. He's a great poet, and he talks about anger, when removed from its initial flush of violence, tells us what we most care about and are most passionately willing to protect. And... So grief, anger, loss, these things inform us what we love.