Hear the flowing 42-minute audio file, complete with the 15-second mistake at the beginning From Dante’s Divine Comedy, to 12-Step programs and the Enneagram, insight is mixed with overemphasis on the negative and a failure to recognize the new and better way: we (at least non-addicts) can first be …
Love and cosmic truth
Prefer a 20-minute audio file? Some people we find hard to love. What they say, how they say it; what they do, how they do it . . . their words and deeds get to us; and we react. We stare at the facts that make it hard for us to love someone, and that reinforces our own unbeautiful emotions. Lots of …
The Easy Version
Let’s Help Construct a New Philosophy of Living—and Grow How would you express your current philosophy of living? Would you like to develop it further? Here’s an opportunity to do so based on the idea that thinking aspires to truth, feeling responds to beauty, and doing can be governed by …
Cosmology Centered
Saggitarius Want the podcast episode? I find it stabilizing to orient myself with respect to a few places that I find meaningful. One of them is akin to a pilgrimage site; another one is comparable. But the third one is in the sky, near Saggitarius: it is called the Great Attractor. It is the …
Planetary Crisis Overview
Podcast episode Prologue Many thoughtful people speak of our planet as now being in crisis. What’s going on? This is an episode in the planet’s biological, cultural, and spiritual evolution. Individuals have the freedom to contribute to progress or not, and in the ways of their choosing. Rejecting …
The mosaic of history and the present crisis
Beyond the urge to exhort, assured rejoicing unveils a partial glimpse of the mosaic of world history from origin to destiny. Here: this world, hemisphere, continent, this place. Now: this age, this life, this generation, this day. The natural friendliness of living prophets replaces subterranean …
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