In Part Two of Why We Keep Falling Back Asleep, Cassidy Stone and Christopher Labonte continue the conversation beyond Stoicism—into ancient philosophy, spiritual traditions, consciousness, and the patterns that keep pulling us back into automatic living.

Why do so many civilizations and traditions seem to arrive at similar ideas? Why do we recognize something as true, begin to change—and then somehow forget again?

This episode explores Stoicism, negative visualization, the mind and its “ripples,” higher self, prayer, purpose, ancient religious thought, and the connection between our inner state and the world we create around us.

We also ask what happens when ideas separated by thousands of years begin sounding strangely familiar—and whether science, philosophy, theology, and ancient pr ...