Wisdorise Podcast

About Wisdorise Podcast

Wisdorise is an independent space for long-form thinking, conversation, and exploration at the intersection of philosophy, neuroscience, and contemporary life. It was created as an alternative to the fast, reactive culture of mainstream platforms. Instead of short attention cycles and algorithm-driven discourse, Wisdorise is built around slower, more attentive engagement with ideas. Essays, videocasts, and discussions published here are meant to be followed with patience and reflection rather than quick consumption. www.wisdorise.com (https://www.wisdorise.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Ali Delshad Tehrani

Category

science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

27 Aug 2024

Latest episode

10 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

53 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Jul 2026

   The Nordic Way

   In this conversation with Xenia Klerk (https://www.linkedin.com/in/xenia-klerk-kurpatow-34aa97150/), the discussion begins with Scandinavian education but gradually opens into a wider conversation about childhood, social care, critical thinking, and the systems that shape human beings from an early age. The dialogue explores how schools and families can either protect curiosity or slowly turn children into standardized versions of one another. As the conversation develops, the focus shifts toward the Nordic model, welfare, equality, social trust, and the fragility of systems that are often imagined from the outside as utopian. Rather than presenting Scandinavia as a perfect model, the conversation reflects on both its achievements and its tensions, including individualism, racism, social segregation, and the difficulty of preserving care inside modern societies. The discussion eventually moves toward self-development, spiritual searching, Afghanistan, imperialism, freedom, and the language of progress. Through personal experience and political reflection, the conversation asks why people and societies search for salvation, why external models often fail when imposed on other cultures, and how ordinary lives continue under the pressure of power, fear, history, and empire. Books mentioned in this episode: * The Gardener and the Carpenter (https://books.google.pt/books/about/The_Gardener_and_the_Carpenter.html?id=SPXlDAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y) * Nothing About Us Without Us (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_about_us_without_us) * The Gay Science (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gay_Science) * Mutual Aid (https://books.google.pt/books/about/Mutual_Aid.html?id=e7B1EQAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y) Essays mentioned in this episode: * Politics and the English Language (https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/) Episodes related to the two-volume Neurophilosophy (https://delshad.me/en/podcasts/zharfa/two-volume-neurophilosophy/): * Responsibility at the institutional level (https://delshad.me/fa/%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7/%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%b9%db%8c%d8%aa-%d8%b0%d9%87%d9%86%db%8c/%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%b9%db%8c%d8%aa-%d8%b0%d9%87%d9%86%db%8c-%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%84/%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%a6%d9%88%d9%84%db%8c%d8%aa-%d9%be%d8%b0%db%8c%d8%b1%db%8c-%d8%ba%db%8c%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%af%db%8c/) * The myth of happiness (https://delshad.me/fa/%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c-%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%84/%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%b7%d9%88%d8%b1%d9%87-%db%8c-%d8%ae%d9%88%d8%b4%d8%a8%d8%ae%d8%aa%db%8c/) * Apex And Abyss (https://delshad.me/fa/%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c-%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%aa-%d8%b3%d9%88%d9%85/%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%b4-%d9%88-%d9%81%d8%b1%d8%b4/) * Dignified revolt (https://delshad.me/fa/%da%98%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%a7/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c/%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%b2%d9%87%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a6%db%8c-%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%aa-%d8%af%d9%88%d9%85/%d8%b4%d9%88%d8%b1%d8%b4-%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%b1/) Figures mentioned in this episode: * Olof Palme (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Palme) * Friedrich Nietzsche (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche) * George Orwell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell) * Hannah Arendt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt) * Peter Kropotkin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin) Key terms in this episode: * Nordic model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model) * Welfare state (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state) * Jante Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante) * Critical thinking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking) * Individualism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualism) * Global majority (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_majority) * Nation-building (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation-building) Poems from Friedrich Nietzsche: English — Section 173: “Those Who Make Themselves Appear Deep” Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be deep: it is so timid and dislikes going into the water. ⸻ Deutsch — §173: “Von den Denkern, welche sich tief scheinen machen” Wer weiss, dass er tief ist, strebt nach Klarheit; wer vor dem Pöbel gelten will, strebt nach Dunkelheit. Denn das Pöbel hält alles für tief, wovon es den Grund nicht sehen kann: es ist so scheu und geht nicht gern ins Wasser. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wisdorise.com (https://www.wisdorise.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

2. 

   5 Jul 2026

   A Journey Into Persian Culture

   In this conversation with Henry (https://www.youtube.com/@HGTArchitects), the discussion begins with his encounter with Iran and Persian culture. He reflects on travel, hospitality, food, architecture, language, and the way a culture can become personal through ordinary human connection. The conversation then moves into Persian poetry and the experience of hearing a poem in its original language. Henry talks about learning Farsi, the sound of Persian, and the difference between reading a translation and feeling the rhythm, voice, and emotional weight of the original poem. This becomes a wider reflection on Persian culture as something living; not only preserved in monuments, books, or historical memory, but also carried through language, food, poetry, landscapes, rituals, and the people who share them. The second half of the conversation moves through travel, desert silence, architecture, Sufism, Arabic, and the deeper curiosity that comes from entering unfamiliar cultures with attention rather than simply passing through them. Figures mentioned in this episode: * Saadi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadi_Shirazi) * Hafez (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafez) * Rumi (https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalaladim_Maom%C3%A9_Rumi) * Omar Khayyam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khayyam) * Ferdowsi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdowsi) * Khalil Gibran (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahlil_Gibran) * Coleman Barks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Barks) * André Gide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gide) Key terms in this episode: * Farsi / Persian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language) * Sufism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism) Poems read in this episode: من چرا دل به تو دادم که دلم میشکنی یا چه کردم که نگه باز به من مینکنی دل و جانم به تو مشغول و نظر در چپ و راست تا ندانند حریفان که تو منظور منی دیگران چون بروند از نظر از دل بروند تو چنان در دل من رفته که جان در بدنی Why did I give my heart to you, when you are the one who breaks it? What have I done, that you no longer turn your gaze toward me? My heart and soul are wholly taken by you, yet my eyes wander left and right, so that my rivals may never know that you are the one I seek. Others, when they leave the eye, leave the heart as well; but you have entered my heart as the soul enters the body. Saadi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadi_Shirazi) از آمدنم نبود گردون را سود وز رفتن من جلال و جاهش نفزود وز هیچ کسی نیز دو گوشم نشنود کاین آمدن و رفتنم از بهر چه بود My coming brought no gain to the turning heavens; my going added nothing to their glory or command. And from no one have my two ears ever heard what this coming and going of mine was meant to be. Omar Khayyam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khayyam) Locations mentioned in this episode: * Ferdowsi Square (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdowsi_Square) * Tajrish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajrish) * Shemroon / Shemiran (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shemiran) * Tochal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tochal) * Caspian Sea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea) * Shiraz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiraz) * Hafez Tomb (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Hafez) * Pink Mosque / Nasir al-Mulk Mosque (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir-ol-Molk_Mosque) * Yazd (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazd) * Isfahan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isfahan) * Naqsh-e Jahan Square (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naqsh-e_Jahan_Square) * Kashan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashan) * Varzaneh Desert (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varzaneh) * Nushabad Underground City (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/nushabad-underground-city) * Tabriz (https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabriz) * Blue Mosque of Tabriz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mosque,_Tabriz) * Kandovan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandovan,_Osku) * Gilan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilan_province) * Rasht (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasht) * Persepolis (https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pers%C3%A9polis) * Antalya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antalya) * Konya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konya) * Rumi’s Tomb/Mevlâna Museum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mevl%C3%A2na_Museum) * Cappadocia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappadocia) * Göbekli Tepe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe) * Çatalhöyük (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87atalh%C3%B6y%C3%BCk) * Hagia Sophia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia) * Blue Mosque of Istanbul (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mosque,_Istanbul) * Jakarta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta) * Bali (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bali) * Ubud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubud) * East Java (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Java) * Beirut (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beirut) * Maronite Church (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maronite_Church) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wisdorise.com (https://www.wisdorise.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

3. 

   16 Jun 2026

   The Voice Beneath the Noise

   In this conversation with Lidia Lins (https://www.lidialins.com/), the discussion begins with movement between places, cultures, and identities. The conversation then moves into Lidia’s unusual path from deep sea biology to music. She reflects on her years as a scientist studying life in extreme ocean environments, and on the parallel presence of music in her life since childhood. This becomes a wider discussion about art, the body, the voice, and the tension between making a living and making something humanly meaningful. The episode explores the economic fragility of artistic work, the traps of visibility, the limits of platforms such as Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/5SkSyoxByWevXqJNW6FRJP) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF2bRtOrZG7qar59bResSDQ), and the need to rethink support for artists not as donation, but as a form of payment, care, and cultural responsibility. The second half of the conversation moves through voice activation, AI, plant medicine, healing culture, and the search for something more grounded than performance. Lidia explains how voice can become a doorway into the body, memory, fear, and self-expression. The dialogue also questions modern promises of healing, redemption, and salvation, whether they appear in religion, spirituality, self-development, or psychedelic culture. Related Links: * The Blue Planet (https://www.bbcearth.com/shows/blue-planet) * Boom Festival (https://www.boomfestival.org/) * Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/home) * Ko-fi (https://ko-fi.com/) * Substack (https://substack.com/) Key terms in this episode: * Voice activation: A body-based practice in which the voice is used as a way to explore tension, fear, expression, memory, and self-alignment. * Healing culture: A modern field of practices, workshops, ceremonies, and narratives that often promise transformation, relief, or self-discovery, but can also become a form of escape or commercialization. * Plant medicine: A term often used for psychoactive substances used in ritual, therapeutic, or spiritual contexts, especially in relation to ceremonies connected to Indigenous or neo-spiritual practices. * Embodiment: The idea that experience, emotion, memory, and self-expression are not only mental but also deeply rooted in the body. * Coping mechanisms: Coping mechanisms are the conscious and unconscious thoughts or behaviors you use to manage stress, anxiety, and difficult emotions. They fall into two main categories: adaptive strategies (which promote well-being) and maladaptive strategies (which can provide temporary relief but cause long-term harm). * Ready-to-hand and present-at-hand: Heidegger’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger)distinction between things we use without noticing and things that become visible to us when they break, disappear, or stop functioning smoothly. * Following mode: In Martin Heidegger’s philosophy, a “following mode” relates to how humans interact with the world. It typically describes either the passive, thoughtless following of societal norms, or the active following (repetition) of history and possibilities that make authentic living possible. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wisdorise.substack.com/subscribe (https://wisdorise.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

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