Open Minded Podcast

By Jacob and Joel

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Episodes: 142

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The only philosophy and psychology podcast you need. With Jacob’s curiosity, Joel’s brain, and a variety of knowledgable guests, we discuss life’s questions in the pursuit of the truth (or close to it)

Episode Date
#143 The Will to Power & The Procrustean Bed
May 14, 2026
#142 Tina Yao - Ancient Chinese Philosophy That Actually Works
May 04, 2026
#141 Attachment Psychology & Machiavelli’s Ethics
Apr 27, 2026
#140 Zac Zinn (Scibblemouth) The Philosophy of Truth & The Future of Science
Apr 14, 2026
#139 The Zeigarnik Effect, Rituals & Spirituality
Apr 10, 2026
#138 Child Psychology & The Highly Intelligent
Mar 30, 2026
#137 East vs West: 2 Paths To Mastery
Mar 23, 2026
#136 Fallen Angels & The God Delusion
Mar 16, 2026
#135 The Jaunt - Jestermaxxing & ‘The Hardening of Your 20s’
Mar 11, 2026
#134 The Triad of Meaning & The Metaphysics of Change
Mar 02, 2026
#133 Heidegger's Dwelling & Living Beyond the To-Do List
Feb 23, 2026
#132 Nick Kasmik - Aristotle’s 3 Types of Friendship & Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Feb 16, 2026
#131 Fear of God & Absurdism
Feb 10, 2026
#130 The Villains Journey & Parento Distribution
Feb 02, 2026
#129 Masha Kaptilina - Dark Psychology, Human Nature & Perception
Jan 26, 2026
#128 High Performance And The Nature Of Evil
Jan 22, 2026
#127 Sam Tefera - Morality, Stoicism, & Metaphysics
Jan 14, 2026
#126 Aaron Vartiainen What Makes A Car a Car?
Jan 05, 2026
#125 The Psychology of Alcohol & The Neuroscience of Gym Workouts
Dec 29, 2025
#124 Schizophrenia, Religion and Memetics
Dec 21, 2025
#123 Profound Pondering (Eyan Bryant) What Does It Mean To FIND Yourself?
Dec 14, 2025
#122 Tolkien’s Letter To His Son & The Neuroscience of Depression
Dec 04, 2025
#121 The REAL Truth About Being a University Student & The Gospel of Thomas
Nov 25, 2025
#120 Knowing Thyself, Murphys Law & Hell is Other People
Nov 18, 2025
#119 Angelo Somers - Existentialism vs Hedonism vs Absurdism
Nov 10, 2025
#118 Mary Chan - Music Psychotherapy & Child Psychology
Nov 03, 2025
#117 The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth & Developmental Psychology
Oct 28, 2025
#116 Alex Aliume - The Source of Art & Being Chosen by The Universe
Oct 20, 2025
#115 The Ethics of Gene Editing & Jung’s Archetype of Rebirth
Oct 15, 2025
#114 Dostoyevsky, University & Internal Vindication
Oct 06, 2025
#113 Consciousness Is Like The Sun Carl Jung’s Developmental Theory
Oct 02, 2025
#112 Greek Mythology & The Hidden Levels of Experience
Sep 23, 2025
#111 Therapy Culture & Pascal’s Wager
Sep 16, 2025
#110 The Flower of life & Wittgenstein’s Beetle problem
Sep 08, 2025
#109 Freud vs. Epicurus: Who Really Understood Desire?
Aug 29, 2025
#108 Jamais Vu, Height & IQ, Terence McKenna, Overachieving & Heidegger's Dwelling
Aug 18, 2025
#107 ScribbleMouth (Zac Zinn) Colour Psychology & The Will To Live
Aug 12, 2025
#106 Plato’s Republic: Are Evil People Happier?
Aug 04, 2025
#105 The Psychology of Novelty + The Butterfly Effect
Jul 28, 2025
#104 Melvin Poh - Nietzsche and The Black Swan
Jul 21, 2025
#103 What Happens When You Choose What Makes You Feel Alive? (The Erotic)
Jul 14, 2025
#102 Cometan - I Invented a New Religion Because Nothing Else Worked
Jul 07, 2025
#101 Farsi & Cigssss - What Happens To Music When You Leave Earth?
Jun 30, 2025
#100 What is Youth? What is Health?
Jun 17, 2025
#99 Animal Ethics & The Psychology of The Self
Jun 10, 2025
#98 How To Treat Life Like a Work of Art & The Fool Archetype
Jun 03, 2025
#97 The Philosophy of Potential
May 28, 2025
#96 Dr Shirley Koeh - How to Live to 120 Years Old
May 18, 2025
#95 Isabel Fang - The Pyschology of Clowns & How Human Nature Shapes marketing
May 12, 2025
#94 The Death of Socrates & Unconscious Virtues
May 05, 2025
#93 Kirkegaards Either/Or & Jungian Psychopathology
Apr 28, 2025
#92 Metaphysical Skills And The Philosophy Of Knowledge
Apr 21, 2025
#91 Escaping Plato’s Cave And Living in the Unspeakable world
Apr 14, 2025
#90 Arcane Human - The Psychology Of Nihilism And The Book Of The 5 Rings
Apr 06, 2025
#89 Avinash Sai - If Free Will Doesn’t Exist, Then What?
Mar 31, 2025
#88 Good and Evil, Hitler, and sub personalities
Mar 23, 2025
#87 The missing shade of blue + The anti alter ego
Mar 14, 2025
#86 The map is not the territory & the eternal student
Mar 10, 2025
#85 Platonic love + the pscyhology of neuroticism
Mar 05, 2025
#84 The Death of God and Stoned Ape Theory
Feb 24, 2025
#83 Kate Ireland - your life isn’t about you
Feb 15, 2025
#82 The purpose of dreams, and the Will
Feb 07, 2025
#81 Isla & Leo Hill - Feminism Debate and Optimal Relationships
Jan 31, 2025
#80 Stories that symbolise the human experience
Jan 24, 2025
#79 the courage to be disliked & archetypes of the unconscious
Jan 16, 2025
#78 how many doors of perception should you open?
Dec 27, 2024
#77 - the time is gonna pass. So create deep moments
Dec 20, 2024
#76 Kai Bilimoria - What Art, Philosophy, and Religion Taught Me About Life
Dec 13, 2024
#74 An unexamined life is not worth living
Nov 29, 2024
#73 Andrew Oneill - “skydiving and mushrooms are an interesting concoction”
Nov 22, 2024
#72 How to find what you love
Nov 15, 2024
#71 Chloe Kirk - can we cure cancer?
Nov 08, 2024
#70 It’s not what happens to you it’s what governs you
Nov 01, 2024
#69 Shaun Greenaway - how to protect your fertility
Oct 25, 2024
#68 the mirage of the mind
Oct 18, 2024
#67 Michael Vasconez - there’s more to Ayahuasca then you think
Oct 11, 2024
#66 How to justify the weight of your existence
Oct 04, 2024
#65 Wu Wei, how reality experiences itself through you
Sep 27, 2024
#64 Mariam Al Sayed - fix yourself before you blame your partner
Sep 20, 2024
#63 Nikki Vasconez - how to communicate better with your pets
Sep 13, 2024
#62 Liza Libes - the wisdom of classical literature
Sep 06, 2024
#61 Marco j Williams how to listen to the universe
Aug 30, 2024
#60 Living at your edge
Aug 23, 2024
#59 Steve Latta - “ive done dmt 200 times”
Aug 16, 2024
#58 Farsi - the mind behind an atmospheric musician
Aug 09, 2024
#57 The morality of casual sex
Aug 02, 2024
#56 flirt with the world
Jul 26, 2024
#55 Dorian “Dr Dreams” Banks - how to balance your chakras and control your dreams
Jul 19, 2024
#54 the ape that understood the universe
Jul 12, 2024
#53 Cigssssss - the psychology of the entertainment industry
Jul 05, 2024
#52 Isolation is a gift
Jun 28, 2024
#51 Kyle Rose - sonic healing, shamanism and the rise of alternative medicine
Jun 21, 2024
#50 Jack Davey - the athletic philosophy, building resilience
Jun 14, 2024
#49 Meenadachi - somatic healing, transform your trauma through energy
Jun 07, 2024
#48 Carmen and Lupita Andrade - conjoined twins on what it’s like to be them
May 31, 2024
#47 life is a comedy
May 24, 2024
#46 become someone worthy of self love
May 17, 2024
#45 Kanna D’souza - How to make mundane days more interesting, what is the ultimate goal of life?
May 10, 2024
#44 Sanjana Singh - the Socratic paradox, homeostasis of the mind, and psychoanalysis
May 03, 2024
#43 there is more of you biologically in you, the delusion of success
Apr 26, 2024
#42 IJ Makan - the right way to suffer and the state of being
Apr 19, 2024
#41 Dragons, tunnel vision and masculinity - two episodes in one
Apr 12, 2024
#40 Cam leids - “I did 3 ceremonies of ayahuasca”
Apr 05, 2024
#39 Kanna D’Souza - to live in a state of play, how to reach the intangibles past all illusions
Mar 29, 2024
#38 He who has a why to live can bear almost any how
Mar 22, 2024
#37 Chloe Valdary - the journey of becoming whole
Mar 15, 2024
#36 Michael Kilman - what it means to be an individual
Mar 08, 2024
#35 what if life’s a movie that starts now
Mar 01, 2024
#35 Renee Belz - Biohacks and lifestyle optimisations that people need to know
Feb 23, 2024
#34 HOV (House of Veins)- pressure creates diamonds
Feb 16, 2024
#33 Swami Medhananda - the spiritual path of no ego or desire
Feb 09, 2024
#32 The neuroscience of perception
Feb 02, 2024
#30 George Gray - stoicism and discipline: the work is the reward
Jan 19, 2024
#29 god, trajectory and stability
Jan 12, 2024
#28 NG Jones - the wisdom to be gained from what authors have laboured hard for
Jan 05, 2024
#27 Liam Caulfield - everyone has their own stories
Dec 29, 2023
#26 life update therapy. Authenticity and Competence
Dec 22, 2023
#25 Finn Moxon - how to understand your own psychology?
Dec 15, 2023
#24 Riyad Hacib - Is the world reaching a boiling point?
Dec 08, 2023
#23 Whats the relationship between the brain, mind and body
Dec 01, 2023
#22 Ada Chan - how spirituality awakens the higher self
Nov 24, 2023
21 Siya Mahlangu - the obstacle is the way
Nov 17, 2023
#20 Kieran Kokshun the rise of creative AI and how to make money from it
Nov 10, 2023
#19 Boris Angelov - a poets views on love and expression
Nov 03, 2023
#18 verbal acrobatics and the future self
Oct 27, 2023
#17 breathing and babies
Oct 20, 2023
#16 Liv Tucker - why are you not your brain?
Oct 13, 2023
#15 Riyad Hacib - An intellectual journey into the works of Niezsche, Machiavelli, Plato, Dostoevsky
Oct 06, 2023
#14 Ryan Raghoo - The recipe and life of a world class athlete
Sep 29, 2023
#13 Christian Reeve - why we are all actors and everywhere is an audition?
Sep 22, 2023
#12 - 10+ psychology theories that will change your life. What’s Life’s next chapter?
Sep 15, 2023
#11 Jahin Khan - how the Quran will change your perspectives
Sep 08, 2023
#10 Samuel Okafor - how can you control your infinity ?
Sep 01, 2023
#9 Anil Sahal - what’s a neuroscience perspective on consciousness, dualism and free will
Aug 25, 2023
#8 Adam Colley - are you the main character of your life?
Aug 18, 2023
#7 Sophie Perry - is Atlantis hidden under Antarctica? Do women peak before men in value?
Aug 11, 2023
#6 How does enthusiasm control your frequency, and determine your thoughts?
Aug 04, 2023
#5 Samuel Okafor - how can religion + languages benefit our lives, Are criminals among us?
Jul 28, 2023
#4 - Kole Gjikolaj - the rise of anarchy and the far left. What’s the Conservative Party state?
Jul 21, 2023
#3 - Stanley Brown - Orwell’s vs Huxley’s future, Gods gender debate, existence, morality, + more
Jul 14, 2023
#2 life capital, hoarders, hands, earths core + more
Jul 07, 2023
#1 - angels, living underwater, zoning out, monk mode + more
Jun 30, 2023