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An Infinite Path

An Infinite Path is a self-development podcast focused around philosophical, psychological, spiritual, ecological, and political themes. It consists of audio only versions of our short life insight videos which we record on camera and longer narrated essays. Both which have their own YouTube channels. Hosted by Niles Heckman, it can be found at www.aninfinitepath.com.

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00:02:58

Why Those In Theocratic Fascist Cults All Say The...

An Infinite Path ·

2025/11/16

One of the many great things about "No Kings" is the varietyof messaging we saw. Which means a variety of thoughts. For the progress side of America this is both good and bad becausemessaging can be scattered. As historically, there will always be the "free Tibet" Berkeley hippies there with those fighting for civil rights, affordable healthcare, and upholding the constitution. For the regress side of America, they're messaging is oftenmore homogenized because there is less variety of thought. This

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00:03:14

American Reactionaries

An Infinite Path ·

2025/11/08

The other day, on some of our content, we had a troll attempt to sling mud. They abided by the same exact pattern we see with every troll, who were triggered because what we were saying threatened one of their underlying fictional operating systems. Not to mention one of their multiple nested cults which they are in. We encourage you to listen to our previous insight titled "RegressiveReactionaries" because that is the pattern. Which is that we have never seen anAmericanimperial advocate, meaning

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00:02:14

On Avoiding Complacency

An Infinite Path ·

2025/10/26

Complacency is a comfortable little narcotic of the mediocre mind. It’s the warm blanket people pull over themselves when they’ve decided that the status quo, however absurd, will do just fine. Complacency is not merely laziness; it’s moral sedation. It’s the smug conviction that because things are tolerable forsomeone, they must therefore be tolerable in general.A comfortable mental prison cell of negative certainty — well-upholstered, climate-controlled, and locked from the inside.Evolution,

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00:02:06

No Kings: The Pro-Democratic Protests of Joy

An Infinite Path ·

2025/10/19

The No Kings protests are a marvelous eruption of the human spirit into the political landscape. To see people in the United States of America, a society long habituated to the theater of managed choice and the soft hypnosis of consumerism, awakening and dancing in the streets beneath banners that declare the blatantly obvious “No Kings” — well, that is the body politic rediscovering its pulse and deeper spirit.Democracy, in its truest sense, is not a system of bureaucratic rituals or a cold

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00:02:45

How Non-violent Rebellion Defeats One of Fascism’s...

An Infinite Path ·

2025/10/17

The fascist psyche of growing up in cults of lovelessness, sexual repression, internal fear and weakness, and shadow thrives on the fictional creation of an enemy so vivid, so grotesque, that violence against it can be justified. They long not merely to demonize the majority that aren't in their minority cult of dark imperial fake supremacy, but to provoke that other into striking back. Because the moment the patriotic people of dissenting voices are baited into violence, then the fasct clowns can

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00:02:58

News Media Problems #13: Sycophantic Billionaire...

An Infinite Path ·

2025/10/14

What we are witnessing in what calls itself conservative but is really just regressive media in the west today is not journalism in the classical sense - it is court ritual, a choreography of flattery and fear. It has become sycophantic because it no longer serves truth but instead power and no longer enlightens but anesthetizes. In periods of higher consciousness, we had counsels of wise elders in democratic organization. In dark age kingdoms, monarchs werealmost never the WaltDisney version of a

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00:06:04

Carlin Vs Rogan

An Infinite Path ·

2025/10/09

Comedian George Carlin, that great court jester ofempire, pierced the veil with these words. He was not joking, though it came wrapped in laughter. He was revealing the

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00:03:06

Hate Speech is Scared Speech

An Infinite Path ·

2025/10/02

The insight hidden in plain sight: hate speech is not the roar of strength, but the cry of fear dressed up in armor. When someone unleashes venomous words - when they spit their bile into the public square - it is easy to mistake it for dominance, for power. But if you lean closer, if you listen not just to the words but to the trembling beneath them, you hear something else: fear. Fear of displacement, fear of change, fear of the unknown that looms like a shadow over the familiar world.Hate speech

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00:004:56

Do Not Give Into Wanna Be Fascist Fear

An Infinite Path ·

2025/09/28

Fascists, when you strip away the theatrical suits and the jargon, are not only professional liars but terror engineers. Their business is not merely trying to win arguments with rapid fire lies; it is manufacturing a climate in which people feel so besieged, so atomized and frightened, that they will surrender their freedoms for the promise of safety. They want your imagination hostage. Fear is the lever they try and pull to make moral and political reasoning inert; fear makes weak and spiritually

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00:02:16

Supremacy is A Problem

An Infinite Path ·

2025/09/26

Supremacy — whether painted in racial hues, religious banners, national flags, or even the smugness of intellectual elitism — is the metaphysical disease of our species. It is the conviction that my group, my tribe,my caste,my mental software configuration, is not merely different but somehow better, ordained, inevitable, the top rung on some imaginary ladderand that all other visions of tribe or the sacred are false, dangerous, or subordinate. This is not merely a potential theological position; it

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00:03:32

Life Taking vs Life Giving Systems

An Infinite Path ·

2025/09/18

Life-taking systems compared to life-giving systems arethe essential polarity of human civilization’s spiritual, economic, and ecological struggle. One paradigm consumes, extracts, commodifies, and alienates; the other nurtures, regenerates, harmonizes, and connects. These are theforces that either nourish or vampirize the living world.A taking system is built on extraction. It is the foundation of empire which seesEarth not as a living web of relationships, but as a warehouse of resources to be

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Improving the Masculine #3: Bro Lone and Male Loneliness

An Infinite Path ·

2025/09/08

Human beings are social creatures, yet there is a noticeable difference between how women and men engage with friendship and emotional intimacy. Across cultures, women consistently demonstrate stronger social ties, richer networks of support, and more emotionally fulfilling friendships. In contrast, men are often more socially isolated, with many struggling to form and maintain close friendships, especially as they age. This disparity reveals both deep-rooted cultural conditioning and unaddressed

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00:02:50

Improving the Masculine #2: Dad's Downloads to Their...

An Infinite Path ·

2025/09/05

To speak of young boys and the shaping of the men they are to become is to invoke one of the most delicate and vital alchemical processes in the human journey. For in the crucible of childhood, the psyche is molten, receptive, and impressionable — and it is here that the figure of the father, or the lack thereof, becomes a kind of mythic force, casting long shadows across the soul’s landscape.In a later part of this series we'll of course speak to the massive importance of the mother, and especially

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00:03:04

Why American Empire Hates Democratic Socialism

An Infinite Path ·

2025/09/03

The American Empire despises democratic socialism not because it misunderstands it, but because it understands it all too well. For democratic socialism, in its essence, is the insistence that the fruits of collective labor be shared more equitably, that the machinery of wealth serve human beings rather than enslave them. This is heresy to empire, whose lifeblood is the concentration of power in the hands of the few and the perpetual commodification of everything.Empire thrives on hierarchy, on the

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00:02:32

Labor Day and Awakening The Dragon

An Infinite Path ·

2025/09/01

Labor Day, at least in the American context, is one of those curious holidays that has been both hollowed out and yet still retains a subterranean charge of meaning. On the surface, it has been domesticated—absorbed into the consumer calendar as the symbolic end of summer, a long weekend for barbecues, travel, and back-to-school sales. The American empire, as it so often does, has taken what was once a cry of resistance and repackaged it as an occasion for zombieconsumerism.There used to be both

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00:07:39

What is a Shaman and What is Shamanism?

An Infinite Path ·

2025/08/31

Do you like music? And do you care about nature andour environmental crisis? Then you should care about shamanism.Which is one of humanity’s oldest spiritual (spiritual meaning full spectrum nature which then allows for direct experience with the mystery) practices. Older than organized religion, older than written language, and in many ways,as old as consciousness itself. It is as old as the hills. Found in various forms across nearly every continent and culture, shamanism is less a "belief system"

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00:08:23

Archetypes Across Ages

An Infinite Path ·

2025/08/29

An archetype is a pattern older than any one culture or story, a primordial shape in the collective psyche that keeps reappearing in myths. or fairy tales, dreams, or art

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00:03:48

The MAGA Cult #3: Projection, Inversion, and, Confession

An Infinite Path ·

2025/08/23

MAGA as slogan functions less as a policy platform and more as a psychological spell, an incantation deeply embedded in the dynamics of projection, inversion, and confession. This triad is the very machinery through which the MAGA cult sustains itself, manufacturing an alternate reality while displacing responsibility for systemic collapse onto scapegoats.These insight sub-episodes are mirrored on our primary YouTube channel which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@NilesHeckman/videos

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00:02:48

Beware of Using the Words "Good" and "Evil"

An Infinite Path ·

2025/08/22

To speak in terms of good and evil is to flatten reality. It is to reduce the infinite nuance of being into a two-dimensional moral cartoon. It pretends at clarity, but at great cost: the cost of understanding, the cost of compassion, the cost of truth.These insight sub-episodes are mirrored on our primary YouTube channel which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@NilesHeckman/videos

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00:06:50

An Introduction to Improving the Masculine

An Infinite Path ·

2025/08/18

These insight sub-episodes are mirrored on our primary YouTube channel which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@NilesHeckman/videos

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