Involution with Veronica
Involution with Veronica is a space to think aloud about the questions shaping our understanding of healing, identity, relationship, attention, and change.
We live in a culture saturated with easy answers: Change your mindset. Let go. Heal the wound. While these phrases can sometimes offer helpful language, they often arrive before we have understood our actual experience.
Involution creates room to stay with the question a little longer… to trace assumptions, examine the words we use, and bring spiritual teachings into grounded conversation with psychology, philosophy, and lived experience.
Why “Involution”?
Involution refers to the inward movement of attention. Not as a withdrawal from the world, and not as another invitation to turn ourselves into a project to fix, but as a willingness to look carefully at what we bring into our participation with life.
Explore Further
Listen here or visit veronicapenacho.com for complete episode notes, written reflections, accompanying practices, and ways to continue the inquiry through Gathering Pieces of You, my framework and growing collection of conscious practices.
About the Host
Veronica Penacho is a conscious practice teacher exploring what it means to be human and how we can participate in life more consciously. Her work brings spiritual teachings into grounded conversation with philosophy, psychology, lived experience, and the patterns that shape our individual and collective lives.
Involution with Veronica
How Images Teach Us What to See
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Transforming the Established Self
What happens when the image stops simply representing reality and begins teaching us what reality is supposed to look like?
In this reflection, Veronica brings the work of French philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard's ideas of simulation, simulacra, and hyperreality into conversation with attention, perception, conditioning, identity, and conscious participation.
This reflection explores:
- how representations can participate in training perception,
- how standards teach attention where to look, and
- how repeated attention gives significance to particular features, beliefs, identities, and ways of seeing.
Maybe the question isn't only... what am I seeing?
Maybe it's... what taught me to see it this way?
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If you're a visual learner: the video includes several diagrams I created to help map some of the more conceptual parts of this conversation. The audio stands on its own, but you may find the visual version especially helpful.
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Stay Connected:
Slow down.
Gather yourself.
And return to what is true.
Veronica
About the Host
Veronica Penacho is a conscious practice teacher exploring what it means to be human and how we can participate in life more consciously. Her work brings spiritual teachings into grounded conversation with philosophy, psychology, lived experience, and the patterns that shape our individual and collective lives.
Disclaimer: This podcast is offered for educational and contemplative purposes only. It is not medical, psychological, therapeutic, or other professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The reflections and practices shared here invite personal inquiry and are not a substitute for care from a qualified professional. Please honour your own needs and seek appropriate support where needed.
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