Drawn Together: Recent Episodes
Listen to two brand new pals codify their budding friendship in this very candid podcast. Visual artist Kelsey McMillan and musician Tomáš Andel discuss meditation, consciousness, and their deepest darkest secrets.
What separates us, these glorified digestive tracts, from the air, food, vitamins, and experiences that pass through us? In episode 6 of Drawn Together, Kelsey and Tomáš discuss Ken Wilber's No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth.
Keywords: No Boundary, Ken Wilber, Eastern philosophy, meditation, zen buddhism, Alan Watts, Ram Dass, Duncan Trussell, integration, holistic, perennial, vitamins, ego, centaur, transpersonal, interdependence, Carl Jung
Can mindfulness help nudge us out of our negative habitual loops? Can a meditation practice help us embrace the parts of ourselves we typically push away? In this episode, Tomas and Kelsey talk about making the familiar unfamiliar, the benefit of meditation retreats, and learning to accept and love the physical body. They also philosophize about a millennia-old question – would you have sex with Jack Black?
Sonya Renee Taylor, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ken Wilber, Butoh, The Body is Not an Apology, Duncan Trussell, No Boundary, Buddhism, meditation retreats, spirituality, covid, self love, radical self acceptance, bodhisattva
Tomáš comes dressed as Mr. Krabbs, Kelsey's day was "good," a ZZ Top guitar solo drives by the window, and the fans slurp it up. Episode 4 is (mostly?) about projection, reciprocity, gifting, interconnectedness, and the "more-than-human" world.
dreaming #octopusteacher #speciesloneliness #nature #epigenetics #generationaltrauma #mrkrabbs #collectiveunconsciouss #gift #sacredeconomics #projection #leftbrainrightbrain #flow #citydesign
Ever hold back a question from someone because it was too spicy? Too rude? Too bold? In this episode, Tom and Kelsey go there. In an experiment in radical honesty, they step on the pressure plates of family history, fear, love, guilty pleasures, pleasureful guilt, and many other social landmines.
keywords: vulnerability, brenebrown, conversation, honesty, radical honesty, masculinit, love, zen, ram dass, duncan trussell, soggy codec, language, no boundary, relationships, suffering, pure comedy
In this episode, Tomáš and Kelsey learn a little more about each other, reminisce on how they met through art and music (and facebook stalking) and scientifically prove once and for all that Tomas was visited by an alien.
keywords: creativity, art, cockroach, sigils, magick, sleep paralysis, aliens, perceptual filters, buddhism. masculinity, artist growth, the path, art school, friendship, wisdom, philosophy, eastern philosophy, buddhism, west vs east, love
Listen to two brand new pals codify their budding friendship in this very candid podcast. In this episode, Kelsey McMillan and Tomáš Andel discuss meditation, deep listening, consciousness, synchronicity, and why Sharon Salzberg never answers her goddamn phone.