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Beauty is one of the most powerful—and overlooked—doorways to presence.

In this episode, we explore how great works of art can pull us out of the small self into something much larger. When we truly immerse ourselves in music, painting, or performance, the ego softens and we become receptive to the source of creativity.

I share a curated playlist from my YouTube channel, Third Eye on the Prize, called Embodied Artistry—featuring extraordinary performances from artists like the Beatles, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea & Gary Burton, John Batiste, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Hornsby, Eric Clapton, Wynton Marsalis, Oscar Peterson, and Sarah Vaughan.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjGo6MEjTb6B02rteolUlioDv4PscztUp

These aren’t just great performances—they’re living examples of what it means to be fully embodied in the creative act.

We also explore:

• How beauty can dissolve the ego
• The idea of artists as channels
• The connection between art, science, and truth
• How openness and humility allow us to access deeper presence

When we meet great art with receptivity, something shifts.

We’re no longer observing—we’re participating.

And in that space, presence reveals itself.

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In this second episode of the 4 Doorways to Presence series, we explore embodiment — the simple but profound act of coming back into the body.

Many of us live mostly in our heads: thinking, planning, worrying, solving problems. Meanwhile, the body quietly holds a powerful key to presence.

Dancers, actors, athletes, and even people facing illness often discover something the rest of us overlook: when awareness moves into the body, something shifts. Tension can soften. Energy can flow. The mind and body begin to work together instead of against each other.

Through meditation, breath awareness, and simple observation, the body becomes more than a physical container — it becomes a doorway.

A doorway to presence.

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Doorways to presence are always available to us.

In this new series, I explore four of them: Intuition, Embodiment, Beauty, and Pain.

Today’s episode focuses on Intuition—what it actually is (and what it isn’t).

Intuition is not emotion. It’s not opinion. It’s not wishful thinking or ego in disguise.

It’s the human capacity to receive subtle but unmistakable guidance from beyond the small self.

In this episode, I share:

• How intuitive messages arrive
• Why they only give us “50%”
• The difference between certainty and completeness
• Why faith is required to act
• And what happens when we ignore that inner knowing

Featuring wisdom from Rabindranath Tagore, we explore the courage it takes to trust the light before it fully appears.

If you’ve ever felt a quiet nudge and wondered whether to follow it—this episode is for you.

Keep your third eye on the prize. Truth is beyond belief.

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How do we stay conscious, compassionate, and psychologically steady when confronted with large, unsettling public stories?

...really sitting with the unknown is so uncomfortable.

In this episode, I reflect on the tension many of us feel between staying informed and becoming overwhelmed — between engagement and mental saturation. Using the ongoing conversation around the Epstein files as a starting point, I explore why uncertainty is so destabilizing, why speculation is so seductive, and why truth, historically, rarely emerges quickly or cleanly.

I also share thoughts on the role of courageous journalism, the patience required for real understanding, and the importance of protecting our own nervous systems in an age of nonstop information.

Referenced in this episode:

Ezra Klein’s conversation with Anand Giridharadas, What the Epstein Files Reveal About How Elite Worlds Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBnQ6qxoMr8

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How Presence Defuses Emotional Bombs...

You can't let go of something that you're not letting be.

If you've ever struggled to "just let go," this one is for you.

One ordinary morning, a knock at the door and a sudden scream changed everything.

In this episode, I share a moment with my daughter that revealed something subtle and powerful about emotional escalation - and why "just letting go" so often doesn't work.

This is a reflection on presence, energy, and what becomes possible when we stop resisting what's here long enough to let it be.

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In this episode: Karma as cause and effect, not judgment or blame

What if the difficulties we resist most are actually doing important work on us?

In this opening episode of Season Two, Debra explores challenge as a teacher—not as punishment, not as something we “deserve,” but as part of a larger unfolding that often only makes sense when we zoom out in time.

Drawing on ideas of karma, ancestral patterns, humility, and lifelong learning, this spoken-prose reflection looks at how distressing events—personal and collective—can be understood through a wider lens of cause and effect.

This episode invites listeners to soften resistance, observe their reactions, and meet life’s challenges with curiosity rather than anger or despair.

Referenced: In the Absence of the Ordinary: Soul Work for Times of Uncertainty, Francis Weller

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Season Two of Third Eye on the Prize continues what we began in Season One: looking honestly at all the ways becoming more aware changes us, both personally and collectively.

These episodes take the form of spoken prose — reflections and stories that look beneath the surface of ordinary life and unfold without rushing toward answers.

Awareness doesn't make life easier - it makes it truer.

This season stays with what that clear-eyed looking asks of us over time.

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Memory, Impermanence, and What Can’t Be Preserved

This episode begins with a piece I wrote years ago about rediscovered family audiotapes recorded between 1958 and 1969—then pivots into a reflection on nostalgia, impermanence, and listening.

Hearing those recordings again felt like stepping into a time machine guided only by the sound of voices.

But this episode also reckons with absence. The recordings themselves have since gone missing, underscoring a deeper truth: our essence isn’t something physical that can be preserved. It’s electric, ethereal, fleeting—and timeless.

This is a reflection on memory, grief, intimacy, and the nourishment we receive by hearing one another, especially in an age shaped so profoundly by technology and AI.

An invitation to listen more closely—to voices, to silence, and to the mystery at the heart of being human.

This episode is best listened to from beginning to end, without skipping.

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