Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Habib. Welcome to 2023. Hello, friends. And welcome also to a series

of episodes called How to Live Beyond. To open 2023, each episode in this series, we'll consider a set of

tools or a way of thinking that are useful, but that we're ready

to go beyond, especially this year.

We'll be looking at things like abundance and manifestation, wellness and self-development,

entheogens, paganism, and more.

These are the techniques and traditions that we use to cope with and confront the

challenges of our time, whether it's economic challenges, political challenges, just setting

goals and wanting to get stuff done in our life and wanting to be better people. But these

all risk, if we can't consider them deeply, getting us stuck more deeply in those

challenges or worse, funneling their strengths back into those challenges and reinforcing them.

These episodes aren't a call to forget about the techniques and the traditions,

but instead a call to bring them forward with what they've offered into

2023, without the barbs of the problems they're tangled up with stuck in them. So, in other words,

I'm taking as a starting point last year's How to Live series, which was one of the most

popular runs of episodes

of this show, but pushed a bit, not just talking about what we should do, but also what we

should be untying and leveling up from, what we should be redeeming as we engage in new patterns,

habits, perspectives, and ways of thinking this year.

And I'm sure it'll be applicable next year, although, who knows, things change quite rapidly

these days. This time, to start, I'm taking up the flurry of resolutions that accompany

the new year and talking with New Age scholar and

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