What It Feels Like To Be Headless - Richard Lang | Modern Wisdom Podcast 336

Richard Lang is the Co-ordinator of the Shollond Trust, a UK charity focussed on sharing the Headless Way. If you see a person from 6 feet away, they're a person. From 100,000 miles away they're a planet. From a few microns away they're cells. So what are they at their very centre? Who are we? This is the central question answered by The Headless Way. Sponsors: Get 20% discount on the highest quality CBD Products from Pure Sport at https://puresportcbd.com/modernwisdom (use code: MW20) Get perfect teeth 70% cheaper than other invisible aligners from DW Aligners at http://dwaligners.co.uk/modernwisdom Extra Stuff: Check out Richard's Website - https://headless.org/ Watch "Who Are You?" - https://youtu.be/X_Vx2NcGWgo Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom #theheadlessway #richardlang #douglasharding - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

Richard LangguestChris Williamsonhost

Jun 19, 202151mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: June 19, 2021
Duration: 51m
Channel: Modern Wisdom
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Richard Lang is the Co-ordinator of the Shollond Trust, a UK charity focussed on sharing the Headless Way. If you see a person from 6 feet away, they're a person. From 100,000 miles away they're a planet. From a few microns away they're cells. So what are they at their very centre? Who are we? This is the central question answered by The Headless Way. Sponsors: Get 20% discount on the highest quality CBD Products from Pure Sport at https://puresportcbd.com/modernwisdom (use code: MW20) Get perfect teeth 70% cheaper than other invisible aligners from DW Aligners at http://dwaligners.co.uk/modernwisdom Extra Stuff: Check out Richard's Website - https://headless.org/ Watch "Who Are You?" - https://youtu.be/X_Vx2NcGWgo Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom #theheadlessway #richardlang #douglasharding - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

SPEAKERS

Richard Lang
guest
Chris Williamson
host

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Modern Wisdom, featuring Richard Lang and Chris Williamson, What It Feels Like To Be Headless - Richard Lang | Modern Wisdom Podcast 336 explores discovering ‘Headlessness’: Seeing Yourself As Space For The World Richard Lang discusses “The Headless Way,” a direct, experiential method of seeing that, in first-person experience, one is not a headed, bounded object but open, empty space in which the world appears. Drawing on the work of Douglas Harding, he explains simple visual and attention-based experiments (pointing, spinning, mirror use) that reveal this headless perspective and contrast it with the socially learned, image-based sense of self. Lang emphasizes that this shift is immediately verifiable, non-hierarchical, and surprisingly playful, yet has profound implications for self-consciousness, stress, relationships, and fear of death. The conversation repeatedly returns to the idea that we are simultaneously “nothing at center” and “everything we see,” and that living from this realization brings a stable sense of home, stillness, and unconditional okay-ness amid life’s chaos.

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