Jump to the moments that matter most:
00:07 - Welcome & introduction: Embodiment & radical wholeness
04:38 - Philip's journey at 18: From security to freedom
09:29 - As teenager: Intolerance for small compromises that make life smaller
13:22 - "Has the train left for me?" - Finding freedom in body always possible
14:02 - High vs. low: Cultural value system - Flight from body to head
16:38 - What is culture? Story that defines what being human means
20:06 - Necktie metaphor: Body isolated from Thinking - Symbolic dividing line
21:16 - Traveling through cultures: Recognize luminosity & limitation of each
23:33 - Anlo-ewe: Seselelame - Feeling in body instead of 5 separate senses
27:24 - Can one experience Seselelame? 300 practices over years of training
31:13 - More time thinking about thoughts than feeling world - Loop in head
34:04 - School system: 12 years let body sleep for head-thinking
37:13 - Body thinks millions of relationships - Every cell participates
42:11 - Tree metaphor: Whirlpool in river - process not static object
47:04 - Fantasy of aloneness: No independence exists in cosmos
51:05 - Unangan hunters feel seal 10 miles away - Ancient intelligence
56:01 - World flows through us: Breath of trees, apple becomes your energy
59:00 - Desire for wholeness fundamental - Organized inadequacy
1:01:37 - Wholeness undefinable - Embodied present process
1:07:02 - New book preview: Remembering Ourselves - Cleverness vs. intelligence
1:12:07 - AI is AC (Artificial Cleverness) not intelligence
1:14:29 - Metacrisis: Not new technology but new being needed
Key Takeaways:
Our culture has built a self-image that lifts us out of life and places us in the head.
We watch ourselves and the world from the outside, instead of participating in it.
This separation creates a deep sense of insufficiency — a feeling that something is missing — which cannot be solved by doing more, but by belonging again.
Wholeness is not a state to achieve — it is a way of being in relationship.
Not as an observer, but as part of a living field.
The Anlo-Ewe call this seselelame —
a knowing that does not arise from five separate senses,
but from the whole body feeling, sensing, listening, knowing.
Real intelligence is embodied.
It emerges from relationship, presence and permeability,
not from control or concepts.
There is no true independence.
Every breath is exchange, every cell a conversation with the world.
We are not an isolated “I” — we are a place life moves through.
Freedom begins when we question the cultural story that traps us in the head
and return to direct, lived experience.
The question is not: How do I become whole?
But: How do I make room for the wholeness that is already here?
