The Cognitive Liberty Podcast with ChrisPYounce

This episode is the last section of Chapter 2. I talk about what makes cognitive freedom relevant to our cultural conditioning and our egoic habits that leave us disillusioned and astray. In part, I actually introduce a simple Taoist concept, one that speaks directly to the essence of this project and its definition. A concept that I plan to go a little deeper on in the future episodes of chapter 3 just around the corner. 

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This episode is about integrating feedback and what this means in our societal evolution. Our cognitive liberation often depends on questioning who we are, and what the self is, and recognizing that the things we’re told and the things we believe could be a falsehood leading us astray.  

In this episode, I cover the section from the book on Interpersonal Neurobiology and its implications for what it can tell us about ourselves, our mental health, and the relationships that contribute to the development of our brains. Friendships are what give us our sense of connection to the world. In fact, having fr...

In this episode, I scratched the surface of perceiving the ego differently. What does the ego offer to our neurological and psychological way of being? How do our social circumstances reinforce the ego? And what does this mean for our lives on a personal level?

In our journey of becoming more self-aware, I think it's important to question how our ego becomes developed over tim...

This episode is about how societal habits mimic the autistic tendencies we unconsciously engage in when it comes to the cultural ideologies and economic policies that keep us stuck in a box of limited perspective, especially when it comes to our ability to self-reflect how we treat the environment, each other, and ourselves.

As self-referencing beings, we must remember to check in with ourselves individually and embrace our ability...

This episode was recorded on July 8th, 2023. In this episode, I share a story of some recent adversity I faced personally. Part of this lends to the ongoing process of how challenging it can be to summon our resilient nature when we’re faced with unexpected changes and curveballs, which can render us at the mercy of nature to the point where we may feel hopeless and frozen. My personal account of this ex...

In this episode, I introduce a book I’m reading by Gregg Braden, who introduces a critical question: who are we? As we address this question, we can reflect more deeply on our choices based on free will. But how much free will do we actually have? This question could also be “How conscious are we?” Be it of the choices we make or how much of our lives are self-directed. We rely on the space in between mo...

In this episode, I hop into the significance of our neurological energy as derived from the fungal kingdom. We are animals first, and humans second. So, in order to get in touch with our human nature, we must become familiar with our animal nature, and thus our fungal nature.

Our roots come from the fungal kingdom, which is where animals come from. Neurons and fungal behavior ...

In episode 11, I open the floodgates of chapter 2, Cultural Conditioning, by describing the indisputable fact that we are survival mechanisms at the end of the day. Our energy is based on how we respond to our natural and social environment. Without getting too deep into our unique subjectivity, we mustn’t forget that we are beings subject to our objectivity.

This is how we ju...

In this episode, I lead off by acknowledging the death of a dear friend and former supervisor of mine, Valerie LeGrand. Thank you for everything you taught me in the realm of person-centered human services, fiscal responsibility, and much more. My hat is off to you, your work ethic, and the legacy you built. Huge loss for the world. We will always miss you, Val. 

As the episod...

In this episode, I open up by paying tribute to my family’s recent loss of their dog, our beloved Maisy. As is the fact that we all learn differently – we all grieve differently, too. It is up to each of us on an individual basis to find a deeper capacity within ourselves to work together and love and tolerate one another. In doing so, we can overturn the demons we foster within as we all too often harbo...

In this episode, I provide a glimpse of how our comfort zones relate to autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It’s important to acknowledge how our comfort zones have pros and cons embedded within their operating systems, which can either leverage our sense of well-being or blind us to the reality that life is a process of changes happening all around us.

We all learn differently as...

In this episode, I dive into the section in the book that has to do with the diversity of autism characterized by a binary relationship between the intellectual wiring and the emotional wiring of the brain. Using two examples of autistic individuals, I outline that their way of thinking depends on how they relate to their world: one through a sense of needing to feel accepted, and the other through a sen...

This episode was recorded shortly after daylight savings time, so I was feeling a bit off due to lack of sleep in trying to adjust to the new morning schedule. I began by introducing a form of augmentative/alternative communication (AAC) known as Facilitated Communication, or FC for short. FC is still a very fringe topic so it’s tricky to talk about it to a broader audience who hasn’t heard of it or to t...

This episode was one of my favorites to record because it covered some of the key points of autism based on what I’ve personally discovered. I was so excited to present this section that I decided to read it first and then debrief the episode by ranting on about it afterward.

Autism operates primarily like an automatic force outside of consciousness or executive functioning. M...

This episode is where I open up Part One of the book, The Social Continuum: Autism in Culture and Ego in Subconscious. This becomes the central focus of the first few minutes of the episode, trying to describe what I mean by the opening title. Then I segway into the relevance of why it’s important to relate to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which happens to be the title of chapter 1 of the book: Relatin...