EPISODE 375

The Social Contract You Never Signed Is Destroying Your Freedom With Mark Gober

Did anyone ask you to sign a contract that gives your government permission to pay for immoral things you never supported like stockpiling nuclear weapons?

Mark Gober explores the many problems with the numerous abstract social contracts you never agreed to and how open-eyed compassion and discernment can light a path to more informed, people-centric decisions this week on Spirit Gym.

Find out more about Mark on his website and on social media via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, YouTube and Telegram.

 

SHOW NOTES

3:13 Before 2020, Mark had less than zero interest in politics.

10:23 Liberty and the non-aggression principle.

13:41 Authority figures.

26:51 A rite of passage at an unconscious level.

30:46 “I think you’re probably right about this, but my life is good the way it is…”

35:18 The connection between liberty and free will.

40:29 Applying near-death experiences to the Golden Rule.

54:33 Statism.

1:07:58 A very different approach to medicine.

1:11:23 Are we living in a Leviathan state?

1:24:29 A need for compassion and discernment.

1:38:02 The Austrian school of economics theory.

1:50:35 A metaphysical political philosophy.

2:08:33 “I can’t control the outcome of the world but what I can control is my own behavior.”

2:15:07 The earth is an elementary school for young souls.

2:23:19 The Riddler.

RESOURCES & FURTHER READING

The Mises Institute

Ecoside in the USSR by Murray Feshback

Marc’s recent conversation on the Kyle Kingsbury podcast via Apple Podcasts

An End to Upside Down Liberty by Mark Gober

An End to Upside Down Reset by Mark Gober

An End to Upside Down Thinking by Mark Gober

An End to Upside Down Living by Mark Gober

The work of Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Dr. Bruce Greyson, Max Planck, Murray Rothbard, P.J. O’Rourke and Thomas DiLorenzo

Mark’s conversation with Dannion Brinkley on Apple Podcasts

Tao Te Ching: The Book of Meaning and Life by Richard Wilhelm

Rivers of Life or Sources and streams of faith of man in all lands by James George Roche Forlong

The Great Plant-Based Con by Jayne Buxton

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg

After: A Doctor Explores What Near Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Death by Dr. Bruce Greyson

All the World an Icon: Henry Corbin and the Angelic Function of Beings by Tom Cheetham

Paul’s Living 4D conversations with Jayne Buxton, James Carse and Ervin Laszlo

Paul’s Spirit Gym conversations with Dr. Christiane Northrup and Anne Helfer

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James Carse

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Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear Music

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