How Anger Hides Sadness: Phil & Grant on Becoming Dragon

(55) Phil Phails @ philosophy with Grant Potts
Philosophy Book Club series #11: Anniversary

🔥 What happens when philosophy meets oracle cards, childhood wonder, and shadow work?

In this clip from Phil Phails @ Philosophy Book Club #11: Anniversary, Phil Jones and philosopher Grant Potts draw cards from “The Coming Dragon” deck by Chris Beasley — and fall into a deep exploration of anger, despair, belonging, and avoidance.

Their conversation moves from childhood memories of discovering dragons aren’t real, to reflections on male depression, emotional repression, and cultural conditioning. Along the way, they connect myth, psychology, and spiritual insight:

How anger can mask sadness and fear
Why men often replace vulnerability with force
The Buddhist idea of “wrathful protectors”
Shadow work and integrating your inner fire
The tension between belonging and avoidance

It’s one of the most soulful and human moments from the Philosophy Book Club series — both funny and profoundly real.

🧠 Guest: Grant Potts, philosopher and professor
🐉 Featuring: “The Coming Dragon” Oracle Deck by Chris Beasley
🎙 Host: Phillip Jones
📺 Watch the full episode: Phil Phails @ Philosophy Book Club #11: Anniversary (1h44m)

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About Grant Potts

Grant Potts is a distinguished faculty member at Austin Community College, specializing in Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities. Trained primarily as a scholar of religion, Grant is also a dedicated philosopher and curriculum developer, committed to promoting liberal education through the Great Question Foundation to benefit community college students of all disciplines. Outside the academic sphere, he is a passionate gardener, an enthusiastic hiker and cyclist, and an ardent tabletop roleplaying game enthusiast, delighting in adventures with friends and family in classics like Dungeons and Dragons as well as newer games like Coriolis and Forbidden Lands.

About Phillip Jones

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