The Sacred Path School: Recent Episodes
A.C. Ping
The Sacred Path School is a school of existential philosophy - this podcast explores existential questions like what's my life purpose? and how do I walk a path of ascension? It's aim is to provide the listener with tools to enable you to think differently.
This is the last episode in this series so it is about putting all of this stuff together.
What are the key questions to ask to be able to walk a sacred path through life?
This episode discusses how to create a self mastery system. It considers the key shifts that need to be made to walk a path of ascension and what the elements of a self mastery system are.
This episode revisits some of the key questions such as - Free will versus Destiny? and The way the world works? It considers what the implications are of the assumptions one makes in answering these questions and then proposes some key shifts required to walk a path of ascension. These are:-
•Release self importance
•Walk between the worlds
•Mastery of Intent
•Getting beyond thinking
•Become comfortable in uncertainty
•Work with cycles
•Surrender to spirit
This episode explores the notion of self mastery and considers what you can actually do to achieve a level of self mastery in your life. It presents the 8 Principles of Self Mastery and the core practices required to achieve this.
This podcast explores the issue of how to create sustainable change. It:-
- revisits existential philosophy and what can hold you in the past
- considers complexity theory and how to use different strategies depending on the environment
- looks at neuro-cognitive science and how complex environments impact on our decision making
- explores systems thinking and the thinking shifts required
- and then finishes with intentional change theory
This episode is a short recap of all of the key concepts covered so far in the first 6 episodes of The Sacred Path School Podcast.
In this episode I delve more deeply into why good people do bad things, look at a couple of case studies and then consider what the red flags are...
•Existential Alignment Model
•Causal factor model explaining why good people do bad things
•Moral Intention Theory
•Good people or Bad?
•Inter-disciplinary theory
•Case Studies
Key Concepts
•Normative ethical theory versus reality
• Ethical decision making
•Is the theory flawed?
•Good people or Bad?
•Inter-disciplinary theory
•Causal factor model explaining why good people do bad things
•Moral Intention Theory
This episode explores the wonderful world of ethics including:-
•A value isn’t a value unless you are willing to pay a price
•Are people good or bad
•What’s ethics?
•Normative ethical theories
•Ethical decision making
•The 3 things that mess up our thinking
This episode explores Visioning and values from an Existential perspective in more depth - it looks at :-
• the implications of world views and stories
• how the brain wants to be ‘right’
• them and freedom
• being and becoming
• cycles
• experimentation and play
• values as aspirations
• head, heart, hand
• defining moments and the implications for belief
My Life as a Project
Key concepts in Existentialism
- nothingness
- freedom
- choice
- authenticity
- intentionality
- action
- angst
The 5 areas of Vision
Daily Practice
The power of play and experimentation
This episode explains what walking a path of ascension in life means - it then goes on to provide an existential framework to address some of life's big questions.