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The Ten Thousand Things

The Ten Thousand Things

By: Sam Ellis Joe Loh and Ali Catramados
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Sometimes deep, often amusing, therapeutic chats touching on philosophy, spirituality, religion, consciousness, culture, music, dating, and life. Join Sam, Joe and Ali as they discuss the 10,000 illusions that make up “reality”. Musical theme by Ehsan Gelsi - Ephemera (Live at Melbourne Town Hall)Sam Ellis, Joe Loh and Ali Catramados Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Social Sciences
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  • Attraction
    Aug 26 2025

    Is this episode Joe and Sam get into attraction. Capricious, fleeting, hard to pin down. More than just boobs and bums and 90's pin ups? We seem to think so.

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Radical Honesty
    Aug 14 2025

    Sam and Joe discuss listener Kate's question about "radical honesty". They also get into rigorous honesty, brutal honesty and kind honesty.

    Links:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_honesty

    https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26792/honesty0707/

    Image: Giorgio Trovato

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Is there a higher purpose to the universe?
    Jun 30 2025

    Sam and Joe discuss this quote:

    Behind the sometimes seemingly random or even chaotic succession of events in our lives as well as in the world lies concealed the unfolding of a higher order and purpose.

    This is beautifully expressed in the Zen saying "The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place." We can never understand this higher order through thinking about it because whatever we think about is content; whereas, the higher order emanates from the formless realm of consciousness, from universal intelligence. But we can glimpse it, and more than that, align ourselves with it, which means be conscious participants in the unfolding of that higher purpose.


    Eckhart Tolle - A New Earth


    This episode includes a personal reference to AA. I fully respect the tradition of anonymity and am speaking only from my own experience, not on behalf of AA. - Joe

    Image: Kirill Pershin

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    1 hr
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