How To Tickle Yourself
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How to Tickle Yourself is an award-winning podcast about finding your true self. It's where we use the spark of inquiry to light your mind on fire. Learn how to tickle yourself, and once you find that, the rest will take care of itself.
Hosted by Duff McDonald & Joey Moss. Duff is a New York-based journalist and author of the book TICKLED: A Commonsense Guide to the Present Moment. Joey is an organic gardener and mother to eight chickens and two cats.
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How To Tickle Yourself
3 days ago
Connecting to People Through Art
Today marks yet another first for this show. It’s the first time we have ever had the sibling of a previous guest on the air. We set new records all the time at How to Tickle Yourself, and we’re doing it again right now.
Susanne Langlois is a Canadian artist, based in Kingston, Ontario. She is sister to Paul Langlois, the musician, who we’ve recently had on this show. Sue has been painting for over 20 years and currently works in three distinct styles: abstract, still life botanicals, and contemporary landscape, featuring wind turbines. We have two of that last type in this house.
Anyone listening right now, I encourage you to go check out her website before you continue. So you can, like, know what we’re talking about.
https://www.susannelanglois.com/
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How To Tickle Yourself
Nov 7, 2023
How to Write About Pain
Today’s guest, Margo Steines, is the author of the recently-released and captivatingly titled memoir Brutalities: A Love Story. A professor, creative coach, and editor on the faculty of the University of Arizona Writing Program, Margo teaches small-group creative nonfiction writing classes and seminars. As she describes them, they are the classes she wishes she had found when she was a fledgling writer: warm, generative, and trauma-informed, with value placed on process before product. So she’s helping people find their voice. We are very much in favor of that on this show.Trauma, as it turns out, is a central theme in Brutalities, her memoir of a couple of decades spent in parts of the world and of life that most of us have only heard about: a former professional dominatrix, Steines takes her readers on a journey through S&M parlors, mental institutions, hospital detox wards, antidepressants, and a couple of suicide attempts thrown in for good measure. It might seem a little counterintuitive to be discussing the memoir of a former dominatrix on this show, especially one that explores, in graphic detail, what it’s like to both give and receive (with consent) the most extreme kinds of physical pain imaginable. But Margo Steines finally found the tickle on the other side of all that suffering. She’s here to tell us all about it.
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How To Tickle Yourself
Nov 21, 2023
Vedanta and Music
Dr. Jeffery D. Long is the Carl W. Zeigler Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College, in central Pennsylvania. He has taught there since receiving his doctoral degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School in the year 2000. He is the author of several books, including Jainism: An Introduction and Hinduism in America: A Convergence of Worlds and Discovering Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist Thought, which will be released in February of next year. He has also published a wide array of articles and has spoken at a variety of venues, both national and international, including three talks at the United Nations. He received initiation into the Vedanta tradition of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda in 2005 and is a regular speaker at Vedanta Societies and Hindu temples across the US.
But here’s where it gets really interesting. Dr. Long, like many of us, is a lifelong fan of the Beatles and George Harrison in particular. His book on Jainism includes a section on George Harrison and he has given talks on the influence of Vedanta in Harrison’s music. Fans of Harrison will know about the very obvious influences in Harrison’s legendary solo album All Things Must Pass. But there are hints of Harrison’s Hindu influences in many Beatles songs as well.
We are so excited to speak to him about so many things – Hinduism, George Harrison, Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, and the Bhagavad Gita, for starters.
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BrainStuff
May 17, 2020
BrainStuff Classics: Why Can't You Tickle Yourself?
It’s almost impossible to trick your brain in order to tickle yourself. Learn why, and how tickling works to begin with, in this classic episode of BrainStuff.
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Something You Should Know
May 22, 2023
The Very Excellent Reasons We Have a 7-Day Week & How Cats Became Pets
As you know, you can’t tickle yourself. But if you are ticklish, anyone else can tickle you. So why is that? Even if you know someone is about to tickle you, it still tickles. Listen as this episode begins with an explanation of how tickling works. http://www.livescience.com/3882-tickle.html
Our culture – in fact the whole world lives on schedule of a 7-day week. Yet, the week is a totally artificial, man-made invention. Other ways of measuring time such as days, hours, months and years are related to the sun, the moon, the rotation of the earth and other things – but the week is all just made up. Yet it works so exquisitely well! Imagine life with the week. Your schedule would be a disaster. Here to discuss how the week came into being and why it is so important is David Henkin, a professor of history at the University of California at Berkley and author of book The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are (https://amzn.to/3InCDwl)
Are you a cat lover?…
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