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Wide-ranging talks on all things relating to spirituality, meditation, yoga, current affairs, politics and philosophy. contact me via info AT peteyates.uk.
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Sunday Jul 25, 2021
Sunday Jul 25, 2021
In this podcast, we jump off from Dawn Butler's expulsion from the House of Commons for the offense of mentioning the Prime Minister's predilection for lying. This event, in combination with incompetent handling of increasing COVID infection, the breakdown in supply chains to supermarkets as a consequence of Brexit, and the steady turning of the right wing press on the Tory government add fuel to a dangerous and chaotic public mood which the far right will attempt to capture. [Free. 31 minutes.]
Sunday Jul 18, 2021
Sunday Jul 18, 2021
In this podcast we comment on the state of the Tory Cabinet as members are 'pinged' as a result of the Secretary of Sate for Health testing positive for COVID19 on the eve of 'free-dumb day'. We focus on contradictions within the right as authoritarian social conservatism vies with libertarian-libertinism for dominance and powerful opportunists attempt to face both ways. In this context we examine Javid's espousal of Randianism. [Free. 35 minutes.]
Saturday Jul 10, 2021
Saturday Jul 10, 2021
In this podcast, I examine the mental health consequences of the COVID19 pandemic and their embeddedness in entwined economic, cultural/ideological and ecological systems. [Free. 26 minutes.]
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
This podcast is a commentary on Eyes which is a verse from Songs of No and Yes explicating a meditation on the human face. [Free. 15 minutes.]
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
This episode in our Lao Tzu series deals with Chapter 52 of the Tao Te Ching in which Lao Tzu discusses the benefit of contemplative alignment with the Tao and the modest comportment it induces. [Free. 15 minutes.]
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
This podcast is the first in an ongoing series on Freud and psychoanalysis which is meant to be useful to our series on fascism and reason, as well as to our many considerations of the workings of propaganda and ideology. Here, give some background to Freud's intellectual journey and elucidate the notion of 'the unconscious' and its significance for humanity's self-image. [Free. 34 minutes.]
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
This short podcast offers some preliminary reflections on questioning and curiosity. [Free. 13 minutes.]
Thursday Jun 10, 2021
Thursday Jun 10, 2021
In this podcast we examine El Salvador's recent decision to make Bitcoin legal tender. [Free. 28 minutes.]
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
This podcast deals with Chapter 53 of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. We draw out resonances between this chapter and our current state of affairs and explain Lao Tzu's contemplative communism. [Free. 17 minutes.]
Friday Jun 04, 2021
Friday Jun 04, 2021
In this podcast, we attempt to identify the covert thinking behind the Tory Party's implementation of post-Brexit arrangements. We arrive at the conclusion that a nihilistically destructive agenda that can only benefit the global oligarchs is being forced through despite the fact that its supporting neoliberal cock-and-bull story is now running out of momentum. We find some grounds for optimism in the fact that the government's wish to greenwash itself in direct contradiction to its attempt to install techno-feudalism in the UK, as well as signs of progressive consolidation. [Free. 34 minutes.]