Belonging with Sebene Selassie | Living Mirrors #43

Описание: Sebene Selassie is a meditation teacher, author and speaker whose work focuses on belonging and identity. You can find her teaching meditation on the popular Ten Percent Happier meditation app, alongside previous guest Joseph Goldstein. Born in Ethiopia and raised in the US, Sebene began studying Buddhism 30 years ago as an undergraduate at McGill University where she majored in Comparative Religious Studies. She went on to receive an MA from the New School in New York in race and cultural studies. Her new book is called "You Belong: A Call for Connection". Today we talk about belonging on all levels from the metaphysical to the social.

Topics & timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:56 Becoming a meditation teacher
2:26 Metaphysical belonging
4:20 The absolute and the relative
6:33 Intimacy and denying the relative
11:46 Social activism and the fundamental importance of belonging
18:28 Anger and not-self
21:30 Domination and not-belonging
24:29 Code switching and semiotic vigilance
28:00 The wisdom of marginalized groups
31:09 The value of multiple perspectives
35:34 Epistemicide and wayfinding
39:11 Embodiment, belonging and colonization (or why the British are bad dancers)
42:48 Not-belonging and assimilation
49:17 Cultural conditioning and enforcing not-belonging
51:08 How to cultivate belonging and our relationship to the land
53:34 Inherited trauma as wisdom
56:24 Considering seven generations
57:50 Self love and belonging
1:00:11 Meditation and connecting to belonging
1:02:09 Closing

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Dr. James Cooke:
Neuroscientist, writer & speaker, focusing on perception, meditation, psychedelics, mental health and wellbeing.
PhD in Neuroscience, Oxford University
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MA in Experimental Psychology, Oxford University


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