I reached a point where not existing seemed more appealing than existing. That's a sad state of mind. But something shifted—a paradigm inside me changed everything. Now I'm under just as much stress (maybe more), but I have space inside. Joy. Elation. Enough energy to carve out time for this podcast. How does someone go from daydreaming about a car taking them out to feeling this alive?This episode is about standing nowhere—not clinging to any rigid concept about reality, whether that's "God is a man with a beard in the sky" or "the universe is random meaningless chaos." Both are concepts. Both trap you. When you stand on a concept, it's got you by the balls, dragging you through the mud, forcing you to interpret everything through that filter.Here's what loosened the soil for me: You are not separate from the universe. You ARE the universe. An apple tree produces apples; the universe produces people. You can't separate the two. Your body is material. Your mind is the universe expressing itself as you. When you describe your feelings, you're describing the universe. So it's objectively incorrect to call the universe "cold, unfeeling, random, stupid"—because you are none of those things. You are intelligent. You feel love. You came out of the Big Bang, so your potentiality was already there.Featuring Alan Watts on "you are the universe waving" (the ocean isn't separate from the wave), Genesis as poetry about ego birth (Eve biting the apple = the moment humans could differentiate "this from that," creating the illusion of separation), Jesus' "I am" statements pointing to shared being ("before Abraham was, I am"), the pathetic fallacy being itself a fallacy (depends on illusory separation), opposites creating each other (you can't have up without down, being without non-being, life without death), the stick metaphor (mind abstracts two ends but there's just the stick), Lao Tzu on wu-wei (not forcing, not striving), Paul on "I die to self daily," and faith vs belief (openness vs clinging to rigid ideas).We discuss: why church attendance is declining (rigid concepts drive people away), "love thy neighbor AS thyself" (not LIKE yourself—because you ARE them), why helping others feels like otherworldly joy (you're not separate from them), Genesis' "knowledge of good and evil" as Hebrew idiom meaning "knowledge of everything" (the ability to differentiate/classify), "Who told you you were naked?" meaning "Who told you you were separate?", why cause and effect are illusory (just one thing flowing), the yin-yang (you can't have known without unknown), and "standing nowhere" as standing NOW-HERE.If you're a Christian who threw out the faith, a nihilist convinced everything's meaningless, or someone who senses these traditions all point to something but can't see past the contradictions—this one's for you. Let go of rigid concepts. Use them as exit ramps off the NASCAR ring of perpetual clinging. Come to your breath. Stand nowhere with me.Closing with Alan Watts: "Faith is a state of openness or trust...the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."Want to share a thought?Support the show🔗 All links: https://linktr.ee/standingnowhere🎧 Listen on your favorite app💬 Join our community on Discord📩 Email: [email protected](Tap “Support the show” above to become a Patron — thank you!)

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