125. The Light and Dark of Western Spirituality with Jules Evans

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Jules Evans is a prolific philosopher who writes on a wide variety of topics from stoicism and cognitive behavioral therapy to Artisotle and ayahuasca. Today’s conversation touches on the weaponization of social media, the need for real in-person community, the counterculture sparked by Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, and Krishnamurti, and the surprising affinity many Nazis had for the occult, alternative medicine, and biodynamic farming.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Commune, a global wellness community and online course platform featuring some of the world's greatest teachers.
0:09.8	We are on a mission to inspire, heal, pass down wisdom, and bring the world closer together.
0:17.0	This is the Commune podcast where each week we explore the ideas and practices that help us live this healthy, connected, and purpose-filled life.
0:25.9	In addition to our courses on yoga, meditation, and personal development, commune also offers an array of social impact courses, including unwinding prejudice, redefining leadership, and organize a march. If you are
0:39.8	interested in enrolling in any of those course offerings for free, please email me at jeffK at
0:46.7	onecommune.com. Right now, I think we can all benefit from learning and growing in order to better
0:53.6	serve our communities. Okay, so my guest on the show
0:57.8	today is philosopher and writer Jules Evans. Jules has written three books, including
1:04.1	philosophy for life and other dangerous situations, the art of losing control, and holiday from the self. He writes about stoicism,
1:14.4	cognitive behavioral therapy, Aristotle, and plant medicine, which I find to be a brilliant
1:19.8	combination of subjects. His output has been prolific during COVID, and I have come across a number
1:26.0	of his articles published on medium,
1:27.8	including one that went viral entitled Nazi hippies, when the New Age and the Far Right overlap.
1:35.1	Today on the show, we talk about the Third Reich's unexpected affinity for the occult,
1:40.9	alternative medicine, and biodynamic farming.
1:43.9	We talk about Aljus Huxley, Allen Watts,
1:46.9	and Krishna Mertie. And we touch on the weaponization of misinformation on social media and the
1:52.8	need to cultivate in real life community. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Jules Evans.
1:59.5	My name is Jeff Krasno, and welcome to Commune.
2:17.2	Okay, Jules Evans. Welcome to the commune podcast. Thank you for taking your time today. I appreciate it.
2:24.3	Thanks for having you. Yeah, and we're many time zones apart. So as I was saying, I'm just having my first coffee and you're likely headed to the pub.
2:36.9	I came to your work through an article that, I suppose, one might say, went viral
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