The Crystal Quiet Podcast
The Crystal Quiet Podcast focuses on presence, the nature of silence, and what it means to live as an end in itself.
Episodes
5 episodes
The Vulgarity of a Blush
Is blushing an only human trait? Do animals blush? Can an AI ever express emotion? The face is the chief seat of expression. In this episode, I discuss the biological and psychological process of blushing, based on The Expression o...
Unexploited Potential: Imagination
Are you sure you're the one who gets to decide what you allow into your consciousness? In this episode, I continue to discuss the book Flow, and study the ways to control consciousness, and the way we process information. I take a ...
The Autotelic Life
In this episode, I discuss some points from the book Flow: the psychology of optimal experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly. I focus on the traits of the autotelic personality, my own experience with flow, and the transformation that came from r...
Natural Laws - The Serpent in Paradise
In this second episode, I discuss two chapters of the book Yoga and Health, by Selvarajan Yesudian and Elisabeth Haich. I focus on respecting the body and the instincts, and how to bring the mind in harmony with the body in order to become whol...
The Muse Visits You in the Shower
In this episode, I discuss a quote from the book Antic Hay, by Aldous Huxley, which gave me the inspiration for the name of this podcast: The Crystal Quiet. I have managed to turn this Crystal Quiet into a haven and a home for myself. I also ta...
