MINDRAMP PODCASTS

Oct 29 2024 185 ep. 16 mins 4
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BRAIN HEALTH 
MENTAL MANAGEMENT 
A GOOD DEATH

Let's not just fade away; let's FLOURISH as we age! 
The MINDRAMP Podcasts focus on three key components that have been shown to contribute to flourishing in the later years of your life.  You will find mini-series of episodes that explore each component. 

1) Keeping your brain and body healthy - see The Roots of Brain Health 
2) Managing your mental states  - see Flourishing 
3) Planning the kind of death you want to have - (coming 10/1/24))

You will also find the occasional episodes that focus social concerns that I feel have an impact on our well-being, for example "Elections."  

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END-OF-LIFE #5 - Body Disposition (What to do with the body)

Oct 29 2024 21 mins  
This is the fifth episode of my end-of-life interviews with Chris Palmer, author of the new book called ACHIEVING A GOOD DEATH. To flourish as we age we need to live the best life we can and also have the best death we can. MINDRAMP's end-of-life series is about the second part of that equation - figuring out what a good death means to us, and then figuring out what we need to do t

END-OF-LIFE #4 - Exit Strategies

Oct 22 2024 31 mins  
Chris Palmer, author of the new book Achieving a Good Death, and I discuss the different choices we have about how to exit our lives. Chris offers five "exit strategies," including: Withholding Life Saving TreatmentVoluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED)Palliative Sedation Medical Aid in Dying (MAID)SwitzerlandWe discuss hospice care, palliative care and death doulas. Support

ELECTIONS - The Media of Disinformation

Oct 21 2024 9 mins  
This short essay., written for the Winter 2025 edition of 3rd Act Magazine, focuses on how modern media platforms provide propagandists with powerful vehicles for the disseminating of disinformation. I discuss Marshal McLuhan's idea that the medium is the message, worry about the proliferation of niche media platforms and discuss how advocates of authoritarian rule, from Hitler to

END-OF-LIFE #3 - Prepare for a Slow Death

Oct 15 2024 20 mins  
The third episode in our end-of-life series Chris Palmer and I (Michael C. Patterson) focus our conversation on what happens when we are in the process of dying. Chris points out that we can die in two ways: suddenly or slowly. Some of us might, unexpectedly, get hit by a truck and die suddenly. But, the vast majority of us these days will live a long life and will die a slow death

END-OF-LIFE #2 - We Die Two Deaths: a Conversation with Chris Palmer

Oct 08 2024 14 mins  
To flourish we need not only to live well, but also to die well. And, conversely, the best way to insure a good death is to live as well as we can. This is the second episode in a series of conversations with Chris Palmer who has recently published a book called Achieving a Good Death.Chris explains that he became interested in end of life issues because he was quite afraid of dyin

END-OF-LIFE #1 - "Achieving A Good Death," an interview with Chris Palmer

Oct 01 2024 35 mins  
In this series of MINDRAMP Podcasts we will continue to discuss how to flourish as we near the end of our life - but with a special focus. To flourish we need to live a good life and die a good death. This series of podcasts will focus on achieving a good death. The series is built around a number of interviews with my friend Chris Palmer, who is an expert on end-of-life issues. Ch

MIND - "Dreams of Young Activists"

Sep 14 2024 7 mins  
This is a reading of an article I wrote for the Fall 2024 edition of 3rd Act Magazine. I recall the 60's and 70's when many of us had a youthful passion to create a better world. Now, decades later, we may not have the energy and exuberance of our youth, but we can still be passionate about our values and our convictions. We can still work to realize our dreams for a better world.

MIND - Managing Multiple Minds with Meditation

Sep 05 2024 26 mins  
This episode summarizes my current thinking (as of September 2024), about how we can manage our minds to flourish as we age. I suggest that the quirky nature of our mind is more understandable when we realize that we have multiple, semi-independent minds that compete for our attention. I offer four examples of multiple minds . Each one causes its own form of confusion and suggests

ELECTION - A Reading of the January 6 Indictment of Donald Trump. Parts 1 & 2

Sep 02 2024 104 mins  
The indictment of former president Donald J. Trump related to his attempts to overthrow the 2020 election is, arguably, the most significant trial in American history. We are all witnesses to history and should understand the full extent of the charges against Trump and the nature of the evidence being offered to back up those charges. To that end, I hope this reading of the full i

ELECTION - Project 2025 - The Hungarian Connection

Aug 05 2024 13 mins  
Trump and MAGA Republicans are following a playbook for the future (Project 2025) that was put together by The Heritage Foundation and The Danube Institute of Hungary. The Danube Institute is dedicated to spreading Viktor Orban's vision of authoritarian rule around the world and The Heritage Foundation is a willing partner in this project. A vote for Republican's this November is a