Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
GREG GOODE: It's using the resources mostly of Western
philosophies, the philosophies that people study in school, Plato
and Aristotle, and the other Ancient Greeks, or maybe Descartes
or Berkeley, to solve the same kinds of distressing issues that a lot
of people would use therapy to solve. And the reason that you
might not have heard it is it tends to be a very academic thing,
most of the practitioners are academicians, and most of the people
who go to those folks for assistance don't have the same end
results in mind that spiritual seekers do. It could work for
spiritual seeking, but mostly the presenting issues are different,
people want to know like, what should I do, I have a career choice
to make between two choices, what should I choose? Should I go
to school, or should I go to work? One issue came up three times
in two years when I first hung out my shingle to do this kind of
work.
One particular issue came up three times from different people
and that is, I work and I know my boss, I know my boss' family.
I've been over to their house for holidays and stuff like that, and
one day I see my boss out with not his or her spouse but someone
else, and they're holding hands and they're kissing. Back at work
now, what should I do? So that's a classic ethical dilemma, and so
they go to a philosopher because that seems like just the person
who's well equipped to solve those things. That's a common issue.
I've heard it from other people and I had it myself three times as a
reporting issue. So that's a whole different universe of discourse
from things that we're used to talking about. And actually most of
the people who come to me aren't even interested in that academic
stuff, they just ignore the fact that there's that philosophical
counselling stuff, and they just ask me the same questions that we
are familiar with in a spiritual realm.
TRIP: Interesting. So is it ethics? Is it like somebody might come
to you and say, “I won a lot of money and now I have people
around me that are in need, is it incumbent upon me to…”
GREG GOODE: That's a good one, yes. That's a question too,
we'll get that question. Actually I had a spiritual seeker who also
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