Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen
Education:Self-Improvement
“Nature, the universe, speaks in metaphor, and one of its truest things is paradox, is holding two things that are both true at once. I remember laying in bed, I was probably 12 and before I go to bed, I'm thinking about the universe because my brain suddenly works and I'm like, how can space be infinite? Infinity makes no sense to my mind. So then I'm imagining space expand, expand, expand. And then I hit a wall, which is the edge of space. And then I go, okay, so let's say if space isn't infinite, well, if you get to the edge of space to the wall, what's on the other side of the wall? There has to be something on the other side of the wall. There can't be nothing. And so I remember thinking in that moment, those two scenarios are both impossible, but then also finiteness is impossible because there must be something on the other side of the wall. And I remember laying there being like, oh, I actually think the computer brain that we have is not designed to understand the wholeness of reality. We're stuck in a partial understanding.”
It’s likely fate that Jedidiah Jenkins is a writer—a New York Times bestseller at that. After all, his parents sold more than 12 million books in the early years of their writing careers, when they were still married, and a duo—they wrote a series of books about walking, yep walking, across America. In Jedidiah’s latest book—Mother, Nature—he retraces their journey by car, with his mother riding shotgun. He suggested this trip to his mother because he wanted to see the world through her eyes—to understand who she is by accessing who she was—and also because of a chasm that keeps them apart. See, Jedidiah is gay, while his mother believes—ardently—that homosexuality is a sin. And a choice. Mother, Nature is a beautiful and tender love story between a mother and a son that revolves around one of Jedidiah’s foundational beliefs: That he cannot excommunicate his mother, even if she might not come to his eventual marriage to a man.
MORE FROM JEDIDIAH JENKINS:
Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to See if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
Life Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are
Jedidiah’s Website
Follow Jedidiah on Instagram
To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Recovering Our Ability to Feel (Prentis Hemphill): TRAUMA
The Myth of Resilience (Soraya Chemaly)
Finding Fear in the Body (Resmaa Menakem): TRAUMA
Take Back Your Brain (Kara Loewentheil)
Where Trauma Begins (Peter Levine, Ph.D): TRAUMA
Choosing Wholeness Over Wokeness (Africa Brooke)
A Toolkit for Working with Your Trauma (James Gordon, M.D.): TRAUMA
The Complexity of Weight Loss Drugs (Johann Hari)
Coming Soon: Special Series on Trauma
Loving the End (Alua Arthur)
On Telling The Truth (Nell Irvin Painter)
When it's Time to Leave (Joy Sullivan)
Introducing: Million Dollar Advice
When Love Feels Unbearable (Anne Lamott)
Understanding the Drama Triangle (Courtney Smith)
The Power of Girls (Mattie Kahn)
Breaking Family Patterns (Vienna Pharaon)
The Upsides of Menopause (Lisa Mosconi, PhD)
When Spirituality and Science are the Same (Jeffrey Kripal)
Five Things I’m Thinking About: The Creative Process, Pricing Your Work, Inspiration vs. Discernment, Insanity, and the Etymology of Should
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Meaningful Life with Andrew G. Marshall
Heal, Survive & Thrive!
A Voice In The Darkness
BPLUS بیپلاس پادکست فارسی خلاصه کتاب
The Jordan Harbinger Show