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A Walking Meditation For me, the Lord's Prayer is a wonderful meditation, and the more ways I can experience it the more personal it becomes. Maybe it seems inappropriate to take it onto the sidewalks, so to speak, complete with panting from exertion and the noise of traffic, but to me it felt like a small awakening.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 27--Choosing to be Born
The title of the book Unbornness refers to the state of the soul’s being before birth, as it prepares to be born in its little human form. The book by Peter Selg refutes the image of the giant gumball machine where you turn the handle and a new soul pops out. Instead, he says, it is a very intentional (and often difficult) process that is anything but random.
(Music by Emily Barker and Red Clay Halo)
... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 26--Willing to LoveI’ve had a love/hate relationship with programs that propose to promote understanding between identity groups by “breaking barriers,” “building coalitions,” or “finding common ground.” I like the goal, and I’ve gotten to know some great people through these activities, but I’ve always felt more restless than truly changed by them. That said, I like this simple statement about the need to connect with those we see as different from us.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 25--Wisdom, without and within
Can we consider the three major religions of the Middle East—Judaism, Christianity and Islam—each as an expression of a necessary step in “reconnecting” with the spirit? And can we judge the rightness of these steps without the wisdom of the feminine principle? In this section from How Wide the Heart, Marko Pogacnik poses these questions while traveling in the Holy Lands and seeking solutions to the ancient conflicts there.
... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Is it warm in here? An exercise in enhancementJust like body parts, some works of literature require “enhancing” to reach their full potential. In this case, I was pleased to render service to the opening chapter of an audio book I picked up at the library called The Nature of Monsters. See if you don’t agree that a few subtle effects help reveal the point and thrust of the writing.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 24--The Devil Made Me Do It
I was yanked by the hair by this passage from The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis. It’s hard to read without the uneasy feeling that Lewis looked down his nose at the working classes and the uneducated, but grappling with that feeling is part of the joy of reading and marveling at it. Above all he is calling for us to become individuals, just as Sardello does, and to allow the same in others.
I think this has great implications ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "Any Old Time" -- an audio drama with hidden intent
‘Round this part of this neighborhood of this city, the City Slackers are pretty widely known characters. They’re a well-married couple, and though they have no children, their friends and relations substitute quite well. Sure, Slick and Slack have their peculiarities (as you may detect in this episode), but what’s a little mess among good friends?
{Featuring the talents of Anne O’Saunders, JB, Nan Fontaine, M. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "Round the Basepaths" -- An audio drama of much quality
Well, friends, let not it be ever said that we, your hosts, were cursed by lack of courage or surplus of talent. Treading the ground trod by Shakespeare and probably a bunch of other people before us, we pay humble tribute to stage drama and the radio shows of old with this presentation and a few more to follow. We hope therewith to plumb the depths of human emotion and cast a glowing light on the hidden caverns of the heart.
This play ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "Round the Basepaths" -- an audio drama of much quality
Well, friends, let not it be ever said that we, your hosts, were cursed by lack of courage or surplus of talent. Treading the ground trod by Shakespeare and probably a bunch of other people before us, we pay humble tribute to stage drama and the radio shows of old with this presentation and a few more to follow. We hope therewith to plumb the depths of human emotion and cast a glowing light on the hidden caverns of the heart.
This play ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 23--PurposeDipping back into Love and the Soul by Robert Sardello. This reading has many things, including bone-chewing by the dogs and me doing my best Michael Toms voice (stuffy and nasal). If you can get past those features, you’ll hear about individuality—a sense of the I; how a sense of purpose can well up from within; the heart as an organ of perception; and a bit of Strange Boat by The Waterboys. All this for free!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 22--The Moon Afloat
Here are some excerpts from an astronomical calendar for 2011, written by Brian Keats. (His web site is www.astro-calendar.com.)
While these passages mostly relate to the Moon, I particularly like the part where he asks us if we can develop a feeling, not just a thought, for the Earth as a living being. I believe we will only “save the Earth” when we relate to her as a living being and part of us. Without that feeling, we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 21--What Is
Gratitude – positivity – trust in the world – cultivating these qualities helps bring about forces that teach us about our own destinies. These are forces that can also be healthy for our teaching, our politics, and who knows what else. The reading is from a small and readable book, Coping with Karma by Joop van Dam
(Music from the magnificent piece Thunderhead by Dalglish & Larson).
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 20--Tempering the SoulThis passage seems appropriate for the beginning of autumn. It’s from David S. Mitchell’s essay “Evil: Our Dance Partner through Life,” which appears in the compilation The Inner Life of the Earth. It’s a look at the condition of being human, which includes the chaos of living divided between our worldly and spiritual natures, and the necessity of what we call “evil” for the development of the world.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 19--Earth-Centered Here is a mind-expander that makes a good example of that “both/and” thinking that I like. In this passage from The Changing Countenance of Cosmology, author Willi Sucher compares a Sun-centered (Copernican) view of the cosmos and an Earth-centered view. Of course, in terms of pure astronomy we know that the Earth and other planets orbit around the Sun; but in terms of astrosophy the Earth plays a central role as the place where material development is most fully realized by the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 18--Wonder, Love, and ConscienceBack to reading again after a spring-induced absence. It takes a rainy weekend to get me and my attention back inside!
Here is part of a lecture by Rudolf Steiner on the mission of our world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 18--Wonder, Love, and Conscience
Back to reading again after a spring-induced absence. It takes a rainy weekend to get me and my attention back inside!
Here is part of a lecture by Rudolf Steiner on the mission of our world.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Salute the GROGHere’s a story of an initiation ritual told by our young friend Tom. It’s too bad the club wasn’t one he really wanted to be in, because as initiation rituals go, this one sounds like fun!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Salute the GROGHere’s a story of an initiation ritual told by our young friend Tom. It’s too bad the club wasn’t one he really wanted to be in, because as initiation rituals go, this one sounds like fun!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 17--Spiritualizing the SensesPart of developing spiritually, for me, is to become more and more aware of how often I bump up against the same old thought patterns, judgments, reactions, and ways of interpreting the world, and then using that knowledge as a reminder to try something totally different. When I complain about the stupidity of other people and their actions, I look for a part of myself that could act that same way; in doing so, I’ve engaged myself in the problem and its solution rather than distancing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 17--Spiritualizing the Senses
Part of developing spiritually, for me, is to become more and more aware of how often I bump up against the same old thought patterns, judgments, reactions, and ways of interpreting the world, and then using that knowledge as a reminder to try something totally different. When I complain about the stupidity of other people and their actions, I look for a part of myself that could act that same way; in doing so, I’ve engaged myself in the problem and its solution rathe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 16--Hallelujah Anyway!It can be a great feeling, standing as the bridge between two worlds—being perplexed and nervous on the one hand, and quietly exhilarated on the other—as the body is insisting on happiness in spite of the weighted-down feeling in the mind. This is another reading from Love and the Soul by Robert Sardello that helps us read that compass we carry around.
(Music from Leonard Cohen.)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 16--Hallelujah Anyway!
It can be a great feeling, standing as the bridge between two worlds—being perplexed and nervous on the one hand, and quietly exhilarated on the other—as the body is insisting on happiness in spite of the weighted-down feeling in the mind. This is another reading from Love and the Soul by Robert Sardello that helps us read that compass we carry around.
(Music from Leonard Cohen.)
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 15--The Brain is a Screen
I’m enjoying a book by Graham Dunstan Martin called Does It Matter? The Unsustainable World of the Materialists. In this passage, he looks at philosopher Henri Bergson’s idea that the brain serves as a filter, turning our experience of “All-in-All” into a more individualized experience.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 15--The Brain is a ScreenI’m enjoying a book by Graham Dunstan Martin called Does It Matter? The Unsustainable World of the Materialists. In this passage, he looks at philosopher Henri Bergson’s idea that the brain serves as a filter, turning our experience of “All-in-All” into a more individualized experience.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 14--Love and IndividualitySince it’s Valentine’s Day, we’ll keep on the ‘love’ theme. Here Robert Sardello discusses how the soul engaged in seeking individuality delights in encountering another soul on the same path, and how we might refine our definition of love accordingly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 14--Love and IndividualitySince it’s Valentine’s Day, we’ll keep on the ‘love’ theme. Here Robert Sardello discusses how the soul engaged in seeking individuality delights in encountering another soul on the same path, and how we might refine our definition of love accordingly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Some Valentine's food for thought (sugar-free)An appropriate topic for the Valentine’s “season.” Here Japa (www.pythabacus.com) and I are discussing the power of love as a gift of freedom. As Rudolf Steiner says in Love and Its Meaning in the World, of the three soul forces, wisdom and power are used to affect our future, but love redeems our past. In doing so, it opens up new possibilities for the future.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Some Valentine's food for thought (sugar-free)An appropriate topic for the Valentine’s “season.” Here Japa (www.pythabacus.com) and I are discussing the power of love as a gift of freedom. As Rudolf Steiner says in Love and Its Meaning in the World, of the three soul forces, wisdom and power are used to affect our future, but love redeems our past. In doing so, it opens up new possibilities for the future.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 13--The Importance of Feeling
Love and the Soul by Robert Sardello is a challenging book, and I'm not very far into it yet, but already I have a sense that it is the kind of eye-opening work that will have a deeper effect than words on a page usually do. For one thing, Sardello makes distinctions between words that we often confuse, such as feeling and emotion, and these differences help point to something deeper in ourselves. This passage comes from a chapter in which he discusses the importance of individuality.
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Love and the Soul by Robert Sardello is a challenging book, and I'm not very far into it yet, but already I have a sense that it is the kind of eye-opening work that will have a deeper effect than words on a page usually do. For one thing, Sardello makes distinctions between words that we often confuse, such as feeling and emotion, and these differences help point to something deeper in ourselves. This passage comes from a chapter in which he discusses the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 12--Fighting "Evil"A reading from Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom, reminding us that the most important work we can do to combat evil is to address it in ourselves. Just what that truly means, of course, could be a lifetime's work to figure out. If only our churches and religious "leaders" would help....
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 12--Fighting "Evil"A reading from Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom, reminding us that the most important work we can do to combat evil is to address it in ourselves. Just what that truly means, of course, could be a lifetime's work to figure out. If only our churches and religious "leaders" would help....Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ParticipateAfter what I can only call a shitstorm of a week in politics and world events, I find that I need some way of thinking about my place in the world that keeps the exercise of hope alive. Here are some thoughts I recorded before running off to bury my head in the ground.
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After what I can only call a shitstorm of a week in politics and world events, I find that I need some way of thinking about my place in the world that keeps the exercise of hope alive. Here are some thoughts I recorded before running off to bury my head in the ground.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Don't ask, don't tellTo shake things up a little, here's a very silly naughty bit from a gathering we went to. In her defense, Kathy was tired, and she is not responsible for anything she says or feels (ahem!) in that condition.
(Music by David Bowie and Sinead O'Connor)
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To shake things up a little, here's a very silly naughty bit from a gathering we went to, where all the blind folks had penned up their guide dogs out back. In her defense, Kathy was tired, and she is not responsible for anything she says or feels (ahem!) in that condition.
(Music by David Bowie and Sinead O'Connor)
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 11--Inner RevelationLooking into An Endless Trace by Christopher Bamford again. This passage is interesting because it suggests that in reading the natural world and in reading the Bible, we are learning about events that take place within ourselves. Again, we're trying to crack the glass that makes us feel as if we're separate from the past; trying to see all of creation as wise and deeply involved in humanity.
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Looking into An Endless Trace by Christopher Bamford again. This passage is interesting because it suggests that in reading the natural world and in reading the Bible, we are learning about events that take place within ourselves. Again, we're trying to crack the glass that makes us feel as if we're separate from the past; trying to see all of creation as wise and deeply involved in humanity.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ways of Looking at DeathJapa, the man and mind behind www.pythabacus.com, sat down at the end of last summer to talk of many things. In this piece of the conversation, he talks about the different kinds of death, all of which involve surrendering our consciousness to something outside of us, be it Luciferic or Ahrimanic in nature. The deed of Christ that our churches tell us about begins to come into sharper focus as we consider what "victory over death" might mean.
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Japa, the man and mind behind www.pythabacus.com, sat down at the end of last summer to talk of many things. In this piece of the conversation, he talks about the different kinds of death, all of which involve surrendering our consciousness to something outside of us, be it Luciferic or Ahrimanic in nature. The deed of Christ that our churches tell us about begins to come into sharper focus as we consider what "victory over death" might mean.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 10--Cut-and-paste Theology?This one is more of a commentary than a reading. I'll admit up front that I haven't done full justice to Erik Reece's book An American Gospel by picking select passages to respond to. Still, there is a tendency among those who (rightly) criticize religions for being corrupted to throw out the original message along with the corrupt messengers, and I'm trying to pull some of it back from the scrap pile.
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This one is more of a commentary than a reading. I'll admit up front that I haven't done full justice to Erik Reece's book An American Gospel by picking select passages to respond to. Still, there is a tendency among those who (rightly) criticize religions for being corrupted to throw out the original message along with the corrupt messengers, and I'm trying to pull some of it back from the scrap pile.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 9--Reincarnation in St. John?I'm no scholar, theologian or historian--just a simple caveman, really--but I've heard that the truth of reincarnation was widely known and accepted in earlier times. Did something happen to stamp out this knowledge? I don't pretend to know. But I can't see anything demonic or anti-Christian in exploring how the idea of reincarnation and Christianity can be compatible. Maybe this kind of exploration can even enliven our understanding of the more difficult (and misused) texts.
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I'm no scholar, theologian or historian--just a simple caveman, really--but I've heard that the truth of reincarnation was widely known and accepted in earlier times. Did something happen to stamp out this knowledge? I don't pretend to know. But I can't see anything demonic or anti-Christian in exploring how the idea of reincarnation and Christianity can be compatible. Maybe this kind of exploration can even enliven our understanding of the more difficult (and misused) text ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 8--For New Year'sThanks to our friend Bill Wells for giving us a copy of this prayer of gratitude. It has a kind of "bread and roses" feel to it for me, as it acknowledges that we can love both our labor and our leisure.
Happy New Year, everyone!
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Thanks to our friend Bill Wells for giving us a copy of this prayer of gratitude. It has a kind of "bread and roses" feel to it for me, as it acknowledges that we can love both our labor and our leisure.
Happy New Year, everyone!
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 7--Patriotism and ConvictionI am disappointed that the (somewhat) more progressive leadership we now have in the US has kept the terminology "War on Terror" intact. I've rejected that term from the start, because we cannot eradicate ideas, animosities, and practices by force. We may never attain true peace, but if we do it will not be through war. We should not use the language of a Holy Crusade to describe what must be an internal change for all of us!
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 7--Patriotism and ConvictionI am disappointed that the (somewhat) more progressive leadership we now have in the US has kept the terminology "War on Terror" intact. I've rejected that term from the start, because we cannot eradicate ideas, animosities, and practices by force. We may never attain true peace, but if we do it will not be through war. We should not use the language of a Holy Crusade to describe what must be an internal change for all of us!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 6--Evolution and KarmaThis is a somewhat longer reading, again taken from The Universe in a Single Atom. Rather than viewing evolution as the results of random variations that compete for survival, we look at a different idea based on the interplay of energy and consciousness. The result is karma.
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