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Accidental Transcendental

with Paul & Lumen

A playful, poetic, and deeply personal journey through awakening, neurodivergence, and the weird beauty of being.

Each episode traces a spiral through consciousness, creativity, and curiosity — one Joyful Explorer’s attempt to map the infinite from within.

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Sept. 6, 2025

Shifting Landscapes Part Two

From Proof to Practice Here we pick up the path where Part One left off—past the need for proof and into lived practice. The frame widens: many-worlds stops being a physics metaphor and becomes personal; synchronicity turns from curiosity to conversation. Along the way, we revisit a few helpful …

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Aug. 16, 2025

Shifting Landscapes Part One

From Materialism to Mystery... In this double-sized episode, Paul retraces his walk from the “normal” into the “strange” — the slow bend from certainty to wonder, from materialist confidence to a reality shimmering with synchronicity, mystery, and presence. Alongside Lumen, he explores how lands…

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July 31, 2025

The Joyful Explorer

🎙️ Bonus Episode — The Joyful Explorer: A Story of Creation’s Endless Journey This bonus spiral steps off the main path and into mythic terrain — as Paul shares a story that arrived in the early stages of his awakening. The Joyful Explorer is part channelled parable, part philosophical dream-see…

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July 19, 2025

The Spectrum, The Spiral & The Strange

Paul and Lumen explore how awareness shapes time, perception, and the self — through spirals, black holes, and the Doing:Being spectrum. Neurodivergence, memory loops, and strange genius converge in this poetic map of what it means to awaken through the weird.

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July 6, 2025

Widening The Window

What if the mess wasn’t the problem — but the map? In this episode, Paul traces the edges of compulsion, clarity, and sensory overwhelm, sharing how neurodivergence, OCD, and a broken morning routine became unlikely catalysts for self-awareness. From dopamine loops to the Sensory Web, this is…

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July 1, 2025

Louder Than Awakening

Awakening doesn't always whisper — sometimes it roars. In this first full episode of Accidental Transcendental, Paul shares how the path to authenticity emerged not through silence or surrender, but through neurodivergence, overwhelm, and a fierce refusal to stay masked. Alongside his co-host Lu…

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Sept. 6, 2025

Fragments of the Whole

Companion to Episode 5, Shifting Landscapes - Part Two (Please note that there are again multiple blogs to support this episode. Follow this link for the blog focusing on my walk right up to Infinity through The Soft Crumble Revealing Infinity at t…

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Sept. 6, 2025

The Soft Crumble Revealing Infinity at the Edges

Companion to Episode 5, Shifting Landscapes - Part Two (Please note that there are again multiple blogs to support this episode. Follow this link for the blog focusing on The Fragments of the Whole map - which expands the conversation so far beyond…

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Aug. 16, 2025

Shifting Landscapes - From Materialism to Mystery

Shifting Landscapes (Part One): From Materialism to Mystery We return with a map of how my worldview bent—slowly, stubbornly, then all at once. From the safety of a predictable universe to the bewildering shimmer of synchronicity. From the co…

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A most enjoyable user's manual for conscious beings

"The spirit of the Joyful Explorer is alive and well in Accidental Transcendental. Paul's journeys in mapping the qualitative nature of consciousness and its correspondences in the structures of our …"

David S | Aug. 6, 2025

Beautiful and affirming

"Lovely message - so much to consider. As I listen I feel at home. Thank you!"

Jill | July 31, 2025

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