The Parent and the Pendulum | Frankly 95
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In a culture driven by achievement, autonomy, and digital distraction, our sense of identity is often shaped by performance and external validation. Yet beneath this surface, many carry unseen psychological imprints from childhood and culture alike. What happens when we begin to examine these layers and imagine healthier ones?
In this week's Frankly, Nate explores the themes of attention, awareness, and the psychological impacts of modern life. Through poetry and reflection, he examines the pull toward validation and control that shapes many of our behaviors. Building on the Ideal Parent Figure Protocol developed by Dr. Daniel P. Brown, he expands the concept to explore what ideal cultural and ecological figures might offer in addressing our deeper collective needs.
What are the qualities of a healthy culture -- one rooted in belonging, continuity, and shared purpose? How can we reconnect with ecological kinship and wisdom? And finally, where is your branch of stillness, the one place the pendulum of this world doesn't reach?
(Recorded May 12, 2025)
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. Every week, I have great intentions for the following weeks, |
| 0:08.0 | bio-physical macro, frankly. And then I get an idea based on this Friday's, frankly, |
| 0:16.4 | on something new. Last Friday, I talked about attention and awareness and how important that is in our |
| 0:24.7 | lives. And I realized in my own life, there's a few people I have 100% awareness and attention to. |
| 0:33.8 | Often that way with my ducks and my dogs and in nature. |
| 0:38.3 | But increasingly, this year since January or so, |
| 0:43.3 | especially early in the morning, 5.36 in the morning, |
| 0:47.3 | I play music from YouTube, Philip Glass or Brian Eno or something kind of ambient or trans like. |
| 0:57.0 | And I write poetry. |
| 0:59.0 | I write about animals. I write about people that I know. |
| 1:05.0 | I actually was biking with a friend this weekend. |
| 1:08.0 | I was doing impromptu haikus on my bike ride. But yesterday morning, |
| 1:13.2 | I wrote a poem about a friend of mine. I think all of us know the one or two traits of each |
| 1:23.6 | individual we know that kind of speaks to them. Like my golden retriever Murphy, she is compulsively has to carry one or two or three things |
| 1:32.5 | when she comes up to meet you and she chases squirrels. |
| 1:35.7 | Those are her things. |
| 1:37.9 | This friend of mine has an intense need for social approval and to be liked. |
| 1:45.5 | And she has an intense avoidance |
| 1:50.9 | of being pinned down or having commitments. |
| 1:56.5 | And she requires complete control over her own schedule |
| 2:00.6 | and surroundings. And she knows this control over her own schedule and surroundings. |
| 2:03.6 | And she knows this, of course. |
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