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Ricky Derisz

Berlin, Germany
As seen in: Mind That Ego, Forge, Medium, Yahoo Entertainment, Looper, Mad In America
Mental Health Coach/Advocate focused on vibrancy post-depression. Mixture of mindfulness, meditation, movies, MindThatEgo. Plus stuff not beginning with M.
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Transrationality and the Paradox of Divine Madness

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By Ricky Derisz
| Mind That Ego
Please subscribe on your favourite platform! This episode features my talk from the 2024 edition of Too Mad to be True on the theme of The Paradoxes of Madness. In exploring Transrationality and the Paradox of Divine Madness, I use philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's theory of language games to demonstrate how the models of reality directly influence how sanity and insanity is framed. If we change our model from conventional materialism to non-duality or pure consciousness, what changes?
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🎧 63. Symbols, Psychosis, and Common Ground: A Lacan-Jung Dialogue with Stijn Vanheule

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By Ricky Derisz
| Mind That Ego
OTHER PLACES TO LISTEN: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts + all other major platforms. Please subscribe on your favourite platform! Stijn Vanheule is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and professor at Ghent University, Belgium. Our conversation was inspired by his most recent book, Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy. Stijn overviews the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.
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🎧 62. A Philosophy of Madness and Mysticism with Wouter Kusters

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By Ricky Derisz
| Mind That Ego
OTHER PLACES TO LISTEN: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts + all other major platforms. Please subscribe on your favourite platform! Wouter Kusters is a Dutch philosopher and linguist. He is the author of five books, including the award-winning A Philosophy of Madness, which was translated to English in 2020. His writing details his experiences of psychosis through a philosophical lens, including stays in psychiatric institutions and solitary confinement.
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