Philosophical Imprisonment: Why Your Life Is A Prison | Elevated U Podcast #52

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I hate to break it to you, but your life is a prison. No, not like a jail cell or some nefarious living quarters guarded by a malefactor, but a philosophical conundrum, inescapable and all-encompassing. From birth, we are confined to the time period and circumstances we are born into. We possess bodies with inextricable needs, limited perceptive capacities, and a guiding human nature and temperament that set the ground rules for what potential we have available within us. Our societies and cultures govern the parameters with which we can live willfully and reality never conforms to the snap of our fingers or wishful thinking. Even our free decisions are subject to the cause-effect nature of action and sequential events.

Do not despair, however, friend. Once you know the limitations, you also learn the flexibility you have to implement autonomy and change. The human spirit is a transcendent force against limitations. This episode touches on the concept of metaphysical imprisonment, philosophy as a practical tool, and the layers of imprisonment we find ourselves subject to. Elevated U will not be publishing content in October as a means of reflection and extrapolating vision, so this may be the final episode until November, 2018. Have a lovely start to Fall! #stayelevated