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All Of Eastern Philosophy Explained Slowly For Sleep (opens the original)
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Tonight, let an old man read you the whole of Eastern philosophy, slowly, until the world goes quiet and you drift off. This is a long, calm, hours-long journey through 2,500 years of the East's gentlest wisdom, told the way you would tell a tired friend a story by the fire. We sit with sixteen of the greatest Eastern thinkers and traditions, Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism and its many schools, Vedanta, Yoga, Jainism, Sikhism, Zen, and for each one you get two things at once. The true story of a
What It Was Like To Be On The Ship Of Courtesans That Stopped In Every Major City In The World (Lady Juliana) (opens the original)
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In 1789, a single ship carried more than two hundred banished women slowly around the world, harbor by harbor, to the far side of the earth. History remembers her by a cruel two word name she was never once called in her own time. Tonight, we sail with her, and with the wandering sailor who fell in love with one of the women whose irons he struck away, and spent the rest of his life unable to find her again. In all my years among the old logbooks, I have learned that the labels we hang on the pa
3 Hours of Joan of Arc To Find Courage When You Are Alone (opens the original)
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Think you have to face the world with an army to be strong? Joan of Arc was just a nineteen-year-old farm girl when they tied her to a stake and lit the fire. ⏳ 👋 Get Bonus Grandpa Huxley episodes here or on Patreon . Before she became a legend, she was a completely isolated teenager who regular people thought was losing her mind. Her own king abandoned her. Her story pulled me out of a dark period when I believed I was entirely invisible and alone in my battles. I w
POV: You're Living The Most Hopeless Survival Story In History (Hans Hendrik) (opens the original)
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Tonight, you become a Greenlandic Inuk hunter named Hans Hendrik, and you live a life that might end on a piece of drifting polar ice in 1872. The Polaris expedition is the kind of disaster history teaches incorrectly. Tonight, the floe gets the version it actually lived. This is a special POV episode from my second channel, Sleepy Biographer. When I first read his memoir, the thing that stayed with me was how quietly he wrote it. No drama. No grievance. Just a hunter telling you what the
19 Relaxing Life Lessons My Grandfather Taught Me (3 Hours) (opens the original)
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Tonight, we live the stories of thirty-six grandfathers and grandmothers who lived between the 1800s and the 1950s... and the quiet wisdom they carried out of the world with them. 👋 Get Bonus Grandpa Huxley episodes here or on Patreon . Thirty-six real people. Thirty-six lost lessons. From Ulysses S. Grant writing his memoirs with throat cancer to pay his family's debts... to Chief Joseph and his surrender speech at the Bear Paw Mountains... to Fred Rogers disarming a weary senat
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