In this episode: Karma as cause and effect, not judgment or blame

What if the difficulties we resist most are actually doing important work on us?

In this opening episode of Season Two, Debra Sansone explores challenge as a teacher—not as punishment, not as something we “deserve,” but as part of a larger unfolding that often only makes sense when we zoom out in time.

Drawing on ideas of karma, ancestral patterns, humility, and lifelong learning, this spoken-prose reflection looks at how distressing events—personal and collective—can be understood through a wider lens of cause and effect.

This episode invites listeners to soften resistance, observe their reactions, and meet life’s challenges with curiosity rather than despair.

Referenced: In the Absence of the Ordinary: Soul Work for Times of Uncertainty, Francis Weller

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Season Two of Third Eye on the Prize continues what we began in Season One: looking honestly at all the ways becoming more aware changes us, both personally and collectively.

These episodes take the form of spoken prose — reflections and stories that look beneath the surface of ordinary life and unfold without rushing toward answers.

Awareness doesn't make life easier - it makes it truer.

This season stays with what that clear-eyed looking asks of us over time.

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Memory, Impermanence, and What Can’t Be Preserved

This episode begins with a piece I wrote years ago about rediscovered family audiotapes recorded between 1958 and 1969—then pivots into a reflection on nostalgia, impermanence, and listening.

Hearing those recordings again felt like stepping into a time machine guided only by the sound of voices.

But this episode also reckons with absence. The recordings themselves have since gone missing, underscoring a deeper truth: our essence isn’t something physical that can be preserved. It’s electric, ethereal, fleeting—and timeless.

This is a reflection on memory, grief, intimacy, and the nourishment we receive by hearing one another, especially in an age shaped so profoundly by technology and AI.

An invitation to listen more closely—to voices, to silence, and to the mystery at the heart of being human.

This episode is best listened to from beginning to end, without skipping.

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Why America’s Brightest May Have to Leave

This episode is about the erosion of America’s ability to support innovation.

“The rest of the world is not patiently waiting for America to get its act together.”

What happens when scientists, researchers, and innovators who once saw the United States as a beacon of possibility start packing their bags?

In this episode, I address the growing exodus of brilliant minds — and the not-so-quiet undermining of discovery, creativity, and progress.

From funding cuts to visa restrictions to outright hostility, the message being sent is unmistakable: you’re not welcome here anymore.
But talent goes where it can breathe. And when people who cure diseases, explore the cosmos, and build new technologies begin to leave, the loss is not abstract — it’s deeply human and profoundly dangerous to each and every one of us.

If you’ve been feeling the tension between America's promise and what it’s becoming, this episode offers clarity, context, and a reminder that the flame hasn’t gone out yet — but right now it’s dimming.

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PBS News story on Terrence Tao: https://www.pbs.org/video/brain-drain-1761775707/

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How do you feel about AI right now? Love it or hate it?

In this episode, I explore our oddly intimate relationship with technology—how AI can feel like both a brilliant helper and a tone-deaf impersonator.

From misleading “solutions” to uncanny insights, from our students’ dependence on Google to the dizzying speed of innovation, we’re being asked to stay more grounded and awake than ever.

What does it mean to keep our humanity intact as the collective mind accelerates? And how do we remember the vastness within us when the world is overflowing with digital excess?

“Living in a body and knowing we’re going to die is a counterweight to the mind’s power to fly off and go wherever it wants.”

Take a breath, tune in, and keep your third eye on the prize.

"True innovation and creativity happen when humans channel the unlimited source of divine greatness."

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"We don't have a life, we are life."

In this moment, it feels like two worlds overlap: one collapsing under the weight of greed and control, another emerging through awareness and compassion.

In this episode, Debra traces the pattern from patriarchy and slavery to tech oligarchs and AI—showing how the same forces that destabilize us can also awaken us.

A reflection on rule by the few, awakening by the many, and what it means to live through the overlap of collapse and emergence.

Truth is Beyond Belief

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What does earwax have to do with ego? More than you’d think.

A trip to the doctor becomes a mirror for how we handle ego — not by forcing or avoiding, but by finding the balance between yin and yang.

In this episode of Third Eye on the Prize, Debra shares an unexpected lesson from a simple trip to the doctor — how something as ordinary as ear irrigation can reveal the delicate balance between doing and allowing, effort and ease, yin and yang.

Through this everyday story, we explore how awareness softens what’s stuck, and how real growth often lives right at the edge of discomfort.

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There’s a lot of turbulent energy in the world right now — and most of us feel it, whether we want to or not. But how do we stay open without getting overwhelmed?

In this episode of Third Eye on the Prize, Debra explores what she calls “the intelligence of the membrane” — the innate ability to know what to let in and what to release. Through personal story, spiritual insight, and deep honesty, she invites us to practice the art of feeling emotions fully without feeding their destructive energy.

Drawing on wisdom from Eckhart Tolle and Pema Chödrön — and a powerful story about inherited anger and compassion — Debra reveals how awareness can interrupt generational patterns and transform pain into presence.

This is spiritual warrior work: learning to feel without fueling, staying open yet protected, and trusting that with each act of awareness, the poison dilutes and the light grows stronger.

"If I feel more and feed less, even a tiny bit, I'm going in the right direction."

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