"Prelude to Pansophy"

Dave gives some backstory on Pansophical’s creation and what you’ll hear here.

• Hello, my name is Dave Thomas and this is Pansophical Podcast. Welcome to this first episode I call Prelude to Pansophy. Most of the work I've done was voice work on commercials. I realized concentrating on selling required me to keep tabs on our shared narrative, and manipulating that knowledge got me more work. It seemed justifiable at the time but now it's just too heavy on my soul
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• to carry around. I feel partly to blame for the overwhelming sense of everything headed for disaster. I used tricks to suck in the audience and helped make all this happen. I want to share why I created Pansophical Podcasts. First, I impacted millions and millions of people with my clever deliveries.
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• And I'm sorry, I was just trying to pay rent. But I think it's only fair that I share the immensely powerful tricks that I used to lower your defenses by tickling your ego. The perspective that made it so
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• successful.
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• This is the best way I can think of to erase the red on my ledger and and teach and to show and to demonstrate just how powerful and successful our species could become through a positive viewpoint and a positive mindset. It turns out evolutionarily people like hearing sincere, entertaining, and emotional story. Sharing stories is powerful and uplifting in our species. When we see our past and its predicted near future, it shows using money as a metric for measuring anything is evolutionarily stupid and suicidal.
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• I mean, in short, I mean, we are where we are because we no longer know how to listen or how to differentiate what's good for our species and what's bad. Now, our present shared narrative started before I was born in 1955, but I've been watching as we've been steered towards being lazy listeners. My retrospective view of life is much easier to see the older I get. Everything is starting to really connect.
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• You know, why stuff happened, and what I did with it is largely influenced by my childhood and what I was born with, like dyslexia and realizing I was different in a good way very, very early on. By the age of five, I knew how powerful being nice to people was. And I say that because I suffered childhood trauma in silence for decades. But I survived.
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• And I became, you know, what I am today. A good human. There were 20 years in there where I wasn't happy, but my positive mindset, my evolutionary elder's DNA kept me in the fight till I could get the therapy to discipline my perspective and live in the now.
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• You know, the repaired me is a confident, old and crafty guy. And the trick was shutting down that negative voice in my head and really embracing more of a positive view and a positive mindset.
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• And that's the secret to winning. I mean, that kind of mental attitude has made my life a very satisfying experience. You know, even when I was lost down deep in the hell of hells, I knew there had to be a way to get out of it.
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• I just had to be patient, stay positive. Pansyfy gives meaning to the reality that we all live alone in our bodies, but we can only exist by sharing with others. This is how our evolution has worked for hundreds of thousands of years.
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• I met loads of people along my way, like the Dalai Lama. Presidents, tons of actors, comedians, producers, directors, loads of brilliant writers, amazing powerful women, artists from all kinds of art making, photographers, printers, painters,
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• sculptors, potters. I learned something from every one of them. You know, life is a chain and it's only as strong as its weakest link. We all know we can...