The Ten Thousand Heroes Show
Why are you here?
What is this short and fragile life about?
These questions have easy answers in traditional cultures. You listen to the myths and stories of your elders and nod along.
But once we’re exposed to the chaos and diversity of the larger world (#thanksglobalization), the simple narratives of our ancestors suddenly seem silly and unattractive.
Rationality leads us into a desert of meaning.
But it turns out that we left something important behind: Purpose.
The Ten Thousand Heroes Show aims to restore our collective sense of meaning and fulfillment through demystifying purpose.
We present empirical techniques and rational arguments for taking Purpose seriously, while leaving room for fun and mystery.
And we interview inspiring humans along the way, each of whom has a clear sense of Purpose, and whose sense of Purpose has allowed their success.
The Conflict Operating System
The Art of Forgiveness
The 5th Agreement, Intergenerational Trauma, and How To Love A Dictator
Ken Cloke on Insults
Faith, It's What For Dinner (Sermon at OUUF on March 2, 2025)
What is an enemy? Sermon at Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
#00128 What Is An Enemy?
#00127 How To Create Political Hatred
#00126 It's Worse Than You Think: We Too Must Grow!
#00125 How to Win a Democracy
#00124 Move Slowly and Heal Things: A Muslim-Jewish partnership conversation
#00123 Pacific Northwest Sea Gardens and What We Owe Our Descendants (with Nicole Norris)
#00120 The Six Dimensions of Conflict Transformation
#00122 The Third Side
#00121 Civic Engineering V1 Plan (How to Prevent a Civil War)
#00119 Three examples of slow dialogue
Global Nuclear Disarmament (The Easy Way)
#00118 A Sober Roadmap to Nuclear Disarmament (with Ward Hayes Wilson)
Civic Engineering Dialogue V1
Conflict Transform Book Review: The Third Side (William Ury)
Every Conflict Hides a Story
Atheism, Spirituality, and Civil War
Pain, Drugs, and Gratitude (episode 00115)
Justice, Revenge, and the Régimen de excepción in El Salvador
Thanksgiving Sourdough Bread Recipe (Depth-First Search)
Abby Carl: Composting Trauma into Healing
Jason Taylor: Five Elements Acupuncture and The Seasons of Life
Crystal Beasley: Making Decisions with the Heart and A Finishing School For Men
Walter Faro: The actual Assassin’s Creed
How to stop a war? Israel, Hamas, and the prospects for peace-building with Ken Cloke