Show Notes
What happens to the self when the voice inside your head goes quiet?
Taoist Master Mikel Steenrod and Morgan explore consciousness, mortality, immortality, and why humans so often connect permanence with value. Is the “self” something real and fixed—or simply a concept placed over the changing experience of living?
The discussion ultimately arrives at a classic Daoist destination: the true human, and the strange possibility that the great spiritual journey ends by becoming what you already are.
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