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Christine Valters Paintner is joined by author Claudia Love Mair for a series of video conversations. Every other month they take up a new book by or about a voice of color. The community is invited to purchase and read the books in advance and participate actively in this journey of deepening, discovery, and transformation. This month they sat down with Patrick Saint-Jean to discuss his book The Spirituality of Transformation, Joy, and Justice: The Ignatian Way for Everyone. Discover how rooting our beliefs and practices in relationship–with each other, the natural world, and the Source of All Life–leads us to transform ourselves and the world. At its heart, Ignatian spirituality is practical and experiential, offering modern readers a structure for pursuing inner growth that results in transformed action. While it is a deeply contemplative practice, Ignatian spirituality appeals to many of us who are looking for purpose and meaning, and who are wondering how to live out that purpose in a way that addresses the brokenness of our world. At the heart of this thoughtful introduction to Ignatian spirituality are the Spiritual Exercises, developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola of Spain. Using ordinary language, these meditations point to the ways in which this spiritual path not only “grows our souls” but also inspires us to defend human rights, respect and listen to other cultures, find common ground between science and religion, struggle for justice, and honor a Divine Spirit who is actively at work in each aspect of our world. As twenty-first-century spiritual seekers, we do not need to be Jesuits, Catholics, or even Christians to make use of Ignatius's methods; some of history's most important thinkers–from René Descartes to Carl Jung–were influenced and inspired by the Spiritual Exercises. Let them guide you to transformation in the ordinary, everyday world. AbbeyoftheArts.com/lift-every-voice/the-spirituality-of-transformation/

A Butterfly wants to kill the World?Book 3 in 18 parts, By FinalStand. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels.Although Love is both fire and shadow, we often forget to take comfort from the coolness of the memories when the burning flames are absentThere were precisely two things, okay, four things, keeping me alive. The fourth thing would come to her later when her 'furious was replaced by her 'curious' ~ as in how I knew her inhuman lingo ~ which would lead to my legacy with Grandpa.The top three reasons -She had poked my chest. It was a challenge, calling for one of my guardians to come out and play. The avatar knew I was the chosen heir of the Goddess Ishara and my goddess had devoted a good deal of time and effort to my survival and continued service in her cause. If Ishara made an 'appearance', it would be enough reason to not eviscerate me for my foul treatment of her august personage.Nope. It seemed Ishara was busy at the moment.Still, she most likely knew SzelAnya had shown a keen interest in me in Romania, though I'd never told Selena, or any other member of the 9 Clans, the Dragon's Daughter had killed Ajax for me. Figuring out SzelAnya, a storm deity, had helped me and Aya escape from our kidnapping in the midst of a cyclone in the Pacific Ocean wasn't much of a reach.But no bolt of lightning coalesced from my chest to singe her finger. No clap of thunder. Not even a cloud with a hint of disfavor appeared above us.Her obsidian fingernail began penetrating my shirt, touched my skin, then drew my blood, and something 'twitched'.That would be Contestant Goddess #3. She wasn't actually hanging around me. She didn't have to. She'd left me a memento of our last shindig before we parted ways. That was the nightmare-inducing episode where she, the chthonic goddess Sarrat Irkalli, had compressed one man's body into a dagger and then proceeded to suck another's soul into it to use as a power source for an Airbus 350 (a commercial airliner, if you didn't know).I still had that snaggletooth-looking thing at my back. Well who the Hell was I going to leave it with? Honestly, the only people I felt could keep it safe I loved too much to curse with it. Anyway, the second her divine claw touched my blood, the long dormant weapon whispered to me in a somewhat bored, lofty feminine voice from beyond the grave,Do you want me to discorporate this pathetic has-been for you?Quick check. Only the avatar and I, and her priestess-savant heard that. Of course, in downtown, New York City, noon Sunday, how weird would such a declaration be? The avatar's eyebrow arched. Her big bat-ears (still looking human to the normal viewing public) flicked this way and that, figuring out precisely where the threat originated from. Slowly, her once poking hand began to slide across my chest, along my ribs and around my back.She touched the dagger. Nothing.Gingerly, she drew it forth. I'd had a makeshift sheath made. As the blade made its journey around me, she took a half-step back to better observe it."Please don't kill him!" Theddy squealed. "We haven't had sex yet!"Being 'who' and 'what' she was, the avatar did what came natural. Fortunately for Theddy, I'd become accustomed to working with psychopaths.She stabbed the dagger at Theddy. I clamped my hand down on her wrist. The claws of her left hand came down on my constraining wrist. My free hand came down on that hand, trying to pry it free. It was a hopeless struggle, except.Yes, my old friend 'except'. Except the avatar was holding the dagger. As powerful as Ītzpāpālōtl was, she wasn't pushing against me. She was pushing against Sarrat Irkalli.Ītzpāpālōtl was a living, breathing terror machine who killed and received sacrifices on a regular basis.Sarrat Irkalli hadn't been actively worshipped in 3,000 years.Uneven contest? Oh yeah.See, Ītzpāpālōtl had spent the past 500 years continuously fighting against the Weave to keep her fingers on this side of reality.Meanwhile, for the most part, Sarrat Irkalli had sat upon her throne in the Sumerian Underworld with hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of souls toiling under her watchful gaze for eternity. Sure, her version of Hell wasn't getting any fresh deposits, but she knew how to milk the system well.Even the bad karma for the dagger's creation wasn't hers. She'd stolen it from the foolish Gong Tau sorcerers who had meant to enslave my soul, aka one-third of the Baraqu-Alal-Cáel deal she'd worked out millennia ago. It was the Weave giving her a 'freebie' for playing by the rules, if you considered the Weave sentient.And now Ītzpāpālōtl was touching it. Whoops. It wasn't as if Ītzpāpālōtl was stupid. It isn't like there are tons of magic weapons running around, much less soul-munchers like the one I had. Rationally, who would give a novice like me, a weapon like this? I say again, 'whoops'.Once I'd figured this out, I couldn't stop being me."Theddy, do you like girls?""What?" she squeaked. Here was this psycho trying to drive a Smilodon incisor into her bosom and I was giving her a sex quiz.Ītzpāpālōtl was really starting to struggle now."I, ah, are you okay?" she continued."Oh, I'm dandy. I'm serious. You think this chick is hot? I mean, would you do her in a three-way?" I proposed casually."Timothy?" Sovann."Bro?" Timothy to me."It's all good. Sovann, you want to know what my life is like? This lady who came to discuss business with me today is an immortal mass murderer. You give the word, I'll let go and this knife is going to cut her up like a Ginsu blade on market day because just cutting her heart out isn't going to be enough. Worse. Eventually she'll get back up.""Timothy?" Sovann repeated, this time with more concern. He thought I was nuts. I released my left hand. The blade flipped up, twisting in the avatar's grasp. That was the point her minions figured out something was wrong."El Amado?" the priestess-savant called out softly. The three goons began reaching for 'things'."Call them off, or I open my other hand," I cautioned the avatar. She spared me a swift, hostile look. My fingers tingled."Esten quietos!" she snapped. They stopped."Cáel, bad day, or not. This isn't you. Stop it. The girl's in danger," Timothy spoke up. He didn't mean Theddy. He meant the avatar."I'm being a real asshole, aren't I?" I sighed."Pretty much. You never let the bitches get to you before. Girl pops an attitude, you smile and move on. Life is too short," he reminded me. Too true."I'm going to put my hand over the blade," I told Ītzpāpālōtl. "When I do, you can let go."She didn't say anything for several seconds, even after my left hand covered the semi-serrated edge."Why should I trust you?" she sizzled."Because 'me' letting anything bad happen to you would make me a total, judgmental jerk. I don't know you. Whatever you did before you showed up today shouldn't matter to me. I acted stupidly. I should have stopped you. I didn't. I didn't even warn you and I could have. I was angry, and not even at you. Just angry and I apologize. Now, let go.""Why?""Hi. I'm Cáel Nyilas. Can I have my knife back? Please?"Blink. She released it. For a millisecond, it wanted to do something else because bitches are bitches. It didn't, so my palm wasn't sliced open. My right hand took the hilt. I carefully put the blade away."Yes," Theddy gulped."Huh?" Sovann shook his head at the sudden evaporation of the life and death tension. Welcome to my life. Theddy meant 'yes' to the 'girl-girl-guy' thing I had proposed earlier. It pays to keep things prioritized."What is this movie you were talking about?" Ītzpāpālōtl asked. Had she forgiven me for anything which had transpired? Bwahahaha, no way. She was taking the initiative and going with Option 1 from my earlier insane diatribe."Wait!" Sovann nearly shouted. "You nearly, I don't know, threatened Cáel's life and tried to stab Theddy and now you think you can go with us to a movie?""I told you," Timothy put an arm around his shoulder, "life with Cáel is rarely dull.""I thought you meant he was fun to party with, or something like that," Sovann looked up at his lover. "I thought his uncle showing up, and trying to kill him and then being blown the fuck away by those women and federal agents, and that other girl who pointed a gun at us, is this the new normal?""I love you, Sovann," Timothy grew compassionate. "Cáel is my best friend. He'd never deliberately hurt either of us and normal friends are something he has in short supply. Today being a great case in point."Ten seconds passed."The title is 'As Above, So Below'," Sovann addressed the avatar, "and what do we call you?"Since 'if you are not a worshiper and addressing me, I normally am about to kill you' would sound really cool in Olmec-ic, but I might be asked to translate,"How about we go with 'Obsidian', please?" I pleaded with her.She knew I was currying favor now ~ and behaving like a weather vane caught in the wall of a tornado ~ she gave a gracious bow of her head."Obsidian will do for now. Is the Legend of the dagger 'business'?" Translation: it had better not be."No," I smiled. "It's pillow talk." Rancor, 'how presumptuous', followed by 'but that dagger ups the count to three Goddess interested in him', and next to recalling all the trivial babble about me being a sexual dynamo (I prayed my PR was that good) having some relevance. Her chimera emotions allowed me to get a few more crucial words out, because even women who aren't sleeping with me are jealous."Esta mujer fue la primera en ofrecer bienes funerarios tras la muerte dee mi padre," I reinserted Theddy back into my close company. For some reason, Obsidian considered me unreliable thus had to verify what I'd just said."Did you make funerary offering upon his father's passing?" she asked Theddy. Let's think about this. The wacko chick questioning Theddy had tried to stab a huge freaking blade into her not a minute ago. Fleeing in terror while screaming for the cops? Nope."Yes. I baked him some walnut and caramel chip cookies," she nodded. "It is a family recipe." Sovann looked over the three of us, then back to Timothy."I told you 'that's impressive cocking like I've never seen before'," he explained."She may remain," Obsidian 'permitted'. Theddy wrapped up my right arm with her left and gave it a squeeze. She wanted attention/explanation."Obsidian is a Master Vampire, Theddy," I leaned in and whispered. "Before she was turned, she was captured in a raid by the fey, mentally, spiritually and physically raped and made into their sex-slave. Part of her spirit never healed properly. While this imperfection allows her to walk around in daylight, her heart can never hold on to any emotion for long, so she is forced to forever seek passion, no matter how dangerous, from the world around her."Revealing secrets? Ha. I had noticed Theddy had every work done by Laurel K. Hamilton in her place, including the comic book series."You are not supposed to know, so act like I didn't tell you anything, okay?"'Okay,' she mouthed back at me. I could see it in her eyes. My chaotic life suddenly 'made sense' to her because a best-selling fiction author said so.Obsidian thought the movie was; hilarious. She couldn't stop snickering, giggling and poking at me as horrible shit happened to the various actors. She thought the plot was 'insightful' and wouldn't stop whispering to me throughout the entire thing. During the closing credits, I told her I'd get her the DVD for Christmas ~ she knew the concept behind digital technology, but didn't own any ~ she kissed me.The first kiss was fierce and joyous with the added benefit of her tongue doing things no normal tongue could do, it stretched. Not sure how I felt about that. The second kiss was more sultry, longer and came with some accompanying body action which, I'm no virgin. Not even close. She was on my left side, so when she twisted in her seat, her left leg insinuated itself between mine. Her left hand cupped my jaw and held my head in place as her lips played along mine.A dance of the scorpion perhaps? Tender at first, then suddenly stabbing, dominant and brutal. My lips and tongue battled back, using my superior Kiss-fu to nullify her natural strength and agility. She liked it. By her moaning, she liked it a lot. As the kiss progressed, more and more of her flowed from her seat into my seat, body facing me. Her body rose over mine, forcing my neck back to maintain contact."So, Dot Ishara is hovering around somewhere close, isn't she?" I murmured as our lips separated barely a centimeter apart. One chick kissing you to make another one jealous. It's happened to me plenty of times. Obsidian didn't give a damn about Theddy, or any other mortal woman in close proximity so,"Yes," she purred. "Do you mate with her?""A man does not brag of such things, but no, unless heavy petting counts?""What will she do to you when I steal your seed?"'When'? Why was I not surprised? Why was I not surprised another concussion was in my immediate future either? Was it possible I was, learning?"Chastise me for not fighting harder," I breathed across her lips, "and, in case you forgot, I'm on a date with the girl beside me.""Who I care nothing for," she sent a cruelly playful look Theddy's way. Wisely, the girl shivered."Who I am indebted to and how I honor my debts might matter to you," I hazarded. My words hurt Theddy's feelings. That was on purpose. Obsidian took pleasure in me hurting Theddy because she was basically a vicious monster."Yes?" I pressed her gently."Yes," Obsidian allowed, easing up slightly both romantically and physically."And Theddy, if you believe I'm with you solely because of some sense of obligation, you clearly haven't been listening to your recordings," I shot the human girl a wink."Oh.""Am I, or am I not, a sex-obsessed little monkey?" I teased her. Theddy giggled. I paid for my diversion with four obsidian claws to my ribs outside of Theddy's view. After all, it wasn't like Theddy could possibly compete with her for my attention. Considering Obsidian's legendary ability to rip open her opponent's ribcages and feast upon their hearts, I slipped my left hand, the one next to her between her legs and stroked her cotton-slacks covered cunt.Theddy hugged my right arm and put her head against my shoulder. Not to be outdone," Qu  un centenar dee hombres se quemaron vivos como el sonido?" Obsidian inquired with sexually sadistic hunger. Ah, memories of burning 7P Commandos.Whoops. Theddy knew Spanish."No lo s . Ten an respiradores en," I replied casually. "Si lo desea, puedo describir lo que se siente al tirar de una flecha de guerra lanzar mi propio muslo.""Eep," slipped out of Theddy's lips."Why did you do that?" Obsidian looked over us both."Well, I was showing a little girl I believed in her,""And she shot you?" Theddy gulped."No. She hit the target I was standing next to. A co-worker mistook me for a cardboard cutout of a Jehovah's Witness and let fly. Seems she had issues with organized religion as well as a reaction to the oscillation effect of florescent lighting and ceiling fans.""But why did you pull the arrow out?" Theddy asked. "Couldn't you wait until you got to the hospital?""Mosquito," Obsidian menaced, insinuating Theddy was a pest."I wasn't thinking rationally at the moment, I work in an asylum, I had a hot date in a few hours, any of those three will do," I smiled at Theddy."Copil such as Cáel don't bother with petty human conventions," Obsidian turned my gaze back her way with her hand on my jaw. 'Copil's were 'god-touched' in her lingo."More than one girl?" Theddy mused."Four.""Okay," she sighed happily."Theddy, three under-age girls and the police office he was dating acting as their chaperone," Timothy intervened. "He hurried home so he could keep a promise to the children, not for sex." Bastard. He really was my best friend. He didn't mention my post-injury, pre-festivity sex with Odette giving me a few extra, urgently needed Brownie Points to suggest I might be a decent human being."You are a wonderful guy," Theddy ran a fingernail over my free hand. Clearly I was 'wonderful' enough to risk Obsidian's anger over. The screen went blank as the last credits scrolled away and the room was plunged into darkness. Five seconds later, the lights snapped on.Pain!"Fuck," I hissed. It wasn't any extra physical trauma causing me discomfort. No, a metaphysical dam had burst within and my stream of conscious thought had been turned into a white-water rapids. The competing cyclones of thoughts in my mind had stopped cooperating and my hypothalamus was letting me know I was in danger."Cáel", "Cáel", "Bro", and "Ishara" all came in rapid succession. I needed some space both tangible and social."I need to step outside," I eased Obsidian off me and stood up. My sense of my personal danger was ratcheting up. While I had been studying Obsidian, so I could screw her, I had discovered more and more Alal-badness.The light display had ignited a series of pressing implanted memories which had been clamoring for my attention. Things like not all 'divinities' were stewards of the Weave. Some even wanted its destruction, preferring risking all on a chaotic restructuring of reality over what existed now ~ things like Obsidian. They weren't attempting to do so because they thought they had no chance.But there was. A real serious chance to unravel reality existed; and it was staring her in the face. It wasn't 'me' as in 'I was the Anti-Christ'. But with the torrent of memories pouring forth, I knew where the peril lay and I was completely responsible for it. Hell, I was a prime ally of Armageddon and hadn't even known it.'Holy Shit!'I blinked. Timothy was shaking me. We were out in the lobby."Oh my God, Timothy," I nearly wept. "What am I going to do?""I have no idea what you are talking about. Is there someone you can talk to about this?" he suggested. Normal folks were around us. Obsidian was at my side. Sovann was behind Timothy with an arm around Theddy's shoulder."Theddy," I looked at her. "Can I catch up with you later? I just realized I've screwed up something fierce." I put my best 'really don't want to go but I gotta' face on. Her worried look brightened, she slipped around Timothy and gave me a tingling French kiss."I'll hold you to that, Cáel," she murmured when we parted."Timothy, go home, I got shit to deal with," I hoped my grin didn't become as feeble as I felt it to be."I," he started to say something. "Time not to ask questions?""Yeah.""Okay.""Wait." I pulled us to the side and went on to my toes, leaned in and whispered in his ear, "Tell Pamela 'he' sent Ajax to kill the Professor, his family and the sisters. They were the targets all along. It wasn't me, or the other women. Just in case,""Okay," Timothy patted my arm. It was cryptic. It was the best I could do. See, I wanted to cry so badly.{2:09 pm Sunday, September 7th ~ Last day}Where to begin:Every mythology across the globe has some creature, or creatures, which threatens Existence. Usually a God, or a Hero-God, slays the creature and everything is right with the world, except such a being, being older than Existence itself, can't really die, so they are carved up, buried ~ what have you.Illuyankamunus was one such manifestation of this underlying cancerous desire to destroy reality. He'd had a far more real child, SzelAnya, and she's never quite given up on her dad. Of far greater critical importance, she was 'part' of Illuyankamunus, somewhat in the way I was part of Alal and Baraqu. And yes, that meant all the offspring of Bolu, the guy I'd praised a few hours earlier, held the seeds of that malignant deity as well.And Alal knew it. He hadn't been killing off the descendants. He'd left that task up to a group far more capable of the task, the Egyptian Rite, who knew a fucking threat to existence when they saw it. Lest I forget, No secret society are the 'good guys'. Also lest I forget, I alone decided to go after the Arinniti sons to fulfill Vranus' quest. I had no divine mandate I was aware of nor any real world orders.Inadvertently, I had rounded up the last five mortal remains of Illuyankamunus in one place for convenient disposal in a remote Transylvanian town. The only problem was: if someone didn't get to them quickly, I was also about to whisk them into the loving (and heavy-armed) protective embrace of the Amazon Host, where the completion of centuries of culling would have suddenly become a cast-iron bitch instead of a simple disposal.Enter Ajax. Yeah, I bet the Egyptians were trying to figure out how I stopped him as well as Alal. I thought I was being clever by not telling most of the world. In fact, they most likely suspected; and the reality of SzelAnya watching over me was much more terrifying. Ishara had put a serious curse on the Amazons, yet her curse only affected her followers, the Amazons, who were fair game.SzelAnya had killed someone for me, and I hadn't been one of her followers. Thus I had committed a blasphemous act only a magician of some significant ability could have managed. I wasn't a sorcerer, but I had a cornucopia of mystic knowledge rolling around in my noggin. Trying to figure all this out was one of my major headaches.The others?I even suspected I knew who betrayed me ~ kinda. They didn't do it on purpose. At least I hope they didn't, because my odds-on favorite was my Mother by way of Captain Delilah Faircloth. Realistically, there was only one secret society who might help her against Grandpa and that was the Egyptian Rite, and they did send three people to Dad's funeral including two 'somebodies'. I'm an idiot.I'd chatted away in fluent New Kingdom Egyptian and it never occurred to me how odd it was for two of them to also be so fluent in it. Know it, sure, but as fluent as Kimberly had taught me to be? That should have been a Red Flag.The Earth & Sky had sent Iskender, who should have been the benchmark I judged the other delegations by, damn it.Three Condos? They'd killed my Dad and their guys had been flunkies.The 7 Pillars had been nobodies, which they'd proven by their inaction.Now I had to question why I had 3 actual  9-Clans  assassins at my dad's funeral too. Holy Ishara, I wasn't nearly paranoid enough.Anyway, why would the Amazons be aiding and abetting the End of All Life on Earth? Normally, they wouldn't be, but 3000 years ago, the majority of Human life did a colossal dump on the Amazons. And when they needed help, they got it in the form of SzelAnya and her dual-sex followers. I seriously doubt they told the Amazons their purpose was to resurrect SzelAnya's daddy. I imagine the Amazons didn't pry too much either.It turned out almost to be okay. During the 2nd Betrayal, the Amazons betrayed SzelAnya and almost short-circuited her plans by exterminating her lineage.Except for the Arinniti elders and Bolu. Good old 'except'.I can imagine when the Egyptians heard about the 2nd Betrayal, they figured they were 'okay'. Those wacky Amazons had inadvertently done the world a favor. Except an act of maternal love kept a slender hope of Illuyankamunus' return alive. By the time the Egyptians realized they'd been prematurely hopeful, Bolu's descendants were all over the Balkans and hunting them down had proven difficult.But, it gets worse. Much worse.When those Gods shattered Illuyankamunus, they scattered him in the relative certainty no one would ever gather the parts back together.His flesh was scattered across the land, modern day Turkey, but encompassing everything from Pakistan to Italy and Egypt to Poland. The flesh became soil, then plants, the things that eat plants, then food for humans. Get the picture.Whoops. SzelAnya had been doing just that for centuries upon centuries every time she mated with a mortal of Illuyankamunus' line and had offspring, they accumulated his energy, which made hunting down the few remaining ones easier to find, since they were 'beacons of badness', except...There were two key pieces missing which SzelAnya could never get. After all, you would think burying them on the far side of the world would matter, right?The 'breath of Illuyankamunus' ~ his cosmic fire ~ they buried in a volcano in a distant land far across the Great Sea. His spirit 'body' they imprisoned in a great river, again, across the Great Sea.But wait, it gets worse.The being standing next to me knew precisely where the 'breath of Illuyankamunus' was. Seems Mesoamerica is laced with volcanos. They'd discovered 'the breath' long ago and used it as a weapon called Xiuhcoatl. Better yet, Alal suspected she and her buddies were more than happy to reunite it with the rest if they thought the Weave itself wouldn't annihilate them for daring to do so.In their current, weakened state they were vulnerable to such a karmic backlash. In theory, a reborn Illuyankamunus would have access to power beyond the bounds of the Weave, older and more terrifying. Still, without the mortal remains to anchor the energy, giving it to the spirit would be pointless.Alal knew where the spirit body was (in general), but that wasn't the worst part. The worst part was where it was,Of all the places the Arinniti sons could have fled to, they had to choose Brazil, the burial place of the restive spirit body of Illuyankamunus. Mother-fucker.And Ildiko 'Alkonyka' aka Dusk Lovasz had sworn she'd travel to Brazil to fulfill Bolu's side of the quest in the same way I was holding up Vranus' end. If I tried to stop her, SzelAnya would know something was up. Fuck.I was processing all of this when Obsidian violently yanked me out of the way. A cabby had swerved to avoid a flurry of trash and nearly run over us. It was the third near-concussive experience in the past five minutes she'd help me avoid while she had walked by my side. I'd been mumbling like a madman."That would be my Goddess wanting to talk with me," I looked her way."I know," she gave me a clever smile."She's really not going to like that," I shook my head."I know that too," she kept smiling. "Where is your mind?""Five lives away from making the world a safer place," I sighed."Safer for who?" she purred. Where were all the bimbos? Not only was it an insightful question, it cut straight to the heart of my dilemma.What decision could I make? If I elected to help my fellow Amazons, I risked screwing with the world. In truth, I was risking everything even if I did nothing. Well Dad was always clear that things didn't change by themselves. You needed to do something that would have an effect. So, 'What are you going to do?'More to the point, I wasn't Grandad. Killing the last five of the line of Illuyankamunus wasn't 'me', so it wasn't going to be something I'd worry about.SzelAnya wanted to bring back her Dad, I could understand that. I'd have to figure out a way for her to believe this world sticking around was more important. How? Well, I had a goddess-like creature right in front of me to probe for ideas."You are an immortal," Obsidian commented. She'd been weighing her opinion for some time. I could tell by the wonderment with which she gifted each word."What? No. I can die.""No. I don't think so. Your wounds. Normally the wounds I inflict flow freely for some time. Yours have already scabbed over," her eyes flickered to the various minor scars she'd imparted to me in the few hours we'd been together.Of course, her idea was insane, Oh God No! I was in Grandad's body. Well Duh! His body was supposed to be immortal."Are you sure?" I looked deep into her eyes."You are a young immortal, the youngest I've ever met, but you are an immortal," she seemed to be convincing herself as much as me.Stupid Assumption (on my part)! I wasn't in Alal's body. I was in Cáel's. Because the Cáel soul shard was young, Alal hadn't been able to find it because it had moved through Time, to me, sonofabitch! 'I' hadn't been around for him to find. No! I was making yet another damn assumption.What did I know? When Pamela found Baraqu, it had been in an object, not a person, though she had been short on details. When the Alal-shard went to the Land of the Endless Black Sands to bring Saku back, the Cáel-shard had been in reality, so it had been allowed to create a body, 'me'. Still, the curse Sarrat Irkalli placed on Baraqu was on Alal and myself as well, which meant I might just be immortal.My Alal-mind agreed with Obsidian's assessment. In his first years, his healing had been slow, still taking days for what took mortal people weeks. I'd stupidly attributed my swift recovery to Amazon medicines, ugh. Because I got wounded more than most Security Detail trainees while concurrently entertaining two and three sex partners."Can you talk with Dot Ishara?" I asked her."Yes, but why would I?""Sex?""We are going to have sex anyway," she smiled. I'd tricked her. Set her up with the right so I could now drop her with the left."I can bring the mbo  tat  back to life," I pledged. That was not what she was expecting at all. "If you bring the Xiuhcoatl, I can bring the flesh and we can unite the three." Mbo  tat  was the Tupi name for the legendary 'fiery serpent' of the Amazon Basin. In Portuguese, it had become Boi-tat , a will-o-wisp with a confused, Christianized mythology ~ a serpent dwelling in darkness, devouring the eyes of corpses, glowing in the forests at night."Where is the flesh?" she whispered."In his mortal children," I replied."Who?""You are a monster, Ītzpāpālōtl. I'm not going to tell you and you don't have the time to drag the information out of my mind before my allies drop on you like a nuclear detonation," I drew my body tightly to her."Why would the Amazons do this?""They are not. This is a deal between you and me," I kissed her lips. I pulled back. A few seconds later she kissed me back."Why?""My grandfather had my father murdered and I would avenge him. In the end, despite my father's Amazon heritage, my 'Sisters' will let his death go unavenged for the greater good of the Host. He was a man and they will never look beyond that ~ they will never value his life as they would that of a woman.""Your mother's father?""Yes. Cáel O'Shea of the Illuminati.""We are not at war with the Illuminati," she murmured. It was a casual observation, not a protest."You are at war with Cáel O'Shea.""He was slain.""He didn't stay dead.""You know much more than you are saying," she was finally catching on."Absolutely.""I need much more than a few names to convince my kin to help," she purred, a cocktail of sexual immersion and flesh-flaying pain."I don't work for you. You are agreeing to work for me," I was hard as iron in more than one way. Why? Boundaries. She lived in a world where only the fundamentals of reality constrained her. Having a human, no matter how polished my pedigree, or how much I might appear to be 'special', tell her 'you are not the boss' in a reasonable fashion was new and very unwelcome."What would make you think that?""My mentor taught me knowledge is a curse. It is our inability to forget, and I can see into your soul, Ītzpāpālōtl. You care not one wit for the life of an assassin. But the thought of the other 'Factors' of the 9 Clans treating you as an equal galls you almost as much as the crushing reality that you need them."You have lived 500 years in chains and I'm offering you a desperate grab at freedom," I added."Your brief glimpse of immortality gives you no insight into my existence," she bristled."Oh, how many have given up? How many have decided the fight was no longer worth it and faded from the Sunlight to make their final trip into the Underworld, never to return? Do you even visit them?" I spoke with a voice tinged with compassion and loss. I pulled upon the pitiless, blank memories of a childless Alal all those centuries and imprinted on them my own fears of fatherhood and failure."How do you know so much?" she let her fa ade crack, then blow away, in the hollowness of her own sorrow. How could I pity such a monster? I could because I was me and I wouldn't surrender that to the barbaric past and most likely horrific future. I pulled her close, resting my chin on the top of her head."You are not the first, wonderful, very bright woman who has stepped into my life, Obsidian," I whispered. "You are not even the first divinity. For all the millions of differences enforced by power and time, I think love, hate and the conflict between the two wear upon us all. If anything, you face an endless parade of hope and misery. Even if you chose to ignore it, you have seen it and perhaps it leaves its marks ~ water scarring the rocks of a riverbed."We paused. I was able to peripherally scan about and realize we'd made it to Central Park ~ the Ramble and off the beaten path."Your Goddess is a fool for not keeping you closer," she murmured."She does keep me close. You have been actively keeping me from her," I reminded my guest. "She also plays by the rules, so is of limited help in my plans for vengeance."Translation: I could enlist Ītzpāpālōtl's aid while still remaining loyal to my matron Goddess. Ishara could not provide what I needed and my Amazons wouldn't agree with my scheme, so I needed her. Three hours ago, she wouldn't have considered me a worthy supplicant, much less an allied equal, yet here she was conspiring with me to shake the foundations of Creation.Personally, I was thanking Mamitu, Destiny. Had I not been having my worst Sunday ever when we first crossed paths and then acted like a total cockhead, pissed her off and led her to holding Sarrat Irkalli's dagger, thus putting her life in my hands, and not had Timothy as a best friend, I wouldn't have taken her to the movie, and my mind wouldn't have wandered down those dark corridors of Alal's memories to piece things together.Whatever itinerary Obsidian had approached me with, my abrasive behavior had forced her to it cast aside. Dagger, movie, revelations, I was now so much more in her eyes than she had envisioned."Share my need and share with me an ounce of your sorrow," I murmured to her as I gently curled my fingers in her hair and directed her head up until she faced me."The dagger," she rumbled. While she was stroking my hard-on, I knew she was using it as a double meaning."I was pinned to an onyx sacrificial table," I began my tale. We worked off pants to mid-thigh then 'got busy'. Penetration was only going to be possible by turning her around. Ground-breaking was her ready acceptance of my instruction. I leaned against a tree, then pulled her onto my lap. She guided my phallus home.One locomotion and I sunk in deep. It was warm molasses until I hit and pressed against her cervix. For a second Obsidian trembled, then her muscles clamped down tightly, gripping my manhood firmly in a vise, keeping me still."Ah," I groaned. Obsidian had her neck twisted, so we were kissing with eye contact as I described my adventures with the Gong tau sorcerers. She shot me a quick twinkle of delight, a connection. She'd relayed physical pleasure in the way I was giving her cerebral gratification, aka hope.I rolled up her shirt, and gave both nipples a brutal tweak in response. She gasped. I was applying a little 'rough' with my tender intercourse. She rolled her tush against my groin, an invitation to double-down on my nipple-play. I kept my left hand working over each tit while working my fingernails down her abdomen. As I described the terror in old Tsu's face as he shouted out 'M iyǒu! (Mandarin for 'No!') as he recognized too late the curse he was invoking. She relished the visual of the Han necromancer's terror.'Me' smacking two fingers down on her clit earned me a squeal and a small gush of fluids on my nut-sack. Her look of astonishment was something I'd always cherish. Before me, sex was something she demanded from her followers/victims and definitely orchestrated. Her partners being fearful/worshipful must have limited their initiative."A-a-a-ah, we are being observed," she groaned, her lips less than an inch from mine. It took me a second."Which direction?" I kept pumping her, strumming her clit and treating her tit like taffy on a hot Coney Island summer afternoon. Her hooded eyes flickered to our right. I gave it ten seconds. I had to get Obsidian refocused on what I was going to do to her next, in case this was innocent voyeurism. Nope. It was Chaz.Why Chaz? See, I'm an idiot. My cryptic warning to Timothy for Pamela had been good for all of one minute. He'd called her and she'd gathered what she could and come looking for me.Why was she concerned? I was babbling to Timothy then wandering off with a 'beyond-freaky' chick I had just met named 'Obsidian' who came my way courtesy of another chick with the name of Estere.Let me see, Estere was Hashashin and for Timothy to describe someone in my life as 'beyond freaky' was bad news. Timothy was seriously worried about me and Timothy was an emotional rock ~ he didn't panic. Lest we forget, I was in a federal taskforce. A quick peek into New York traffic cameras revealed me and Obsidian wandering into Central Park from the south, so in the rescue party went, splitting up and Chaz 'lucked-out'.I still had two, no, three problems. I was really enjoying my sexual excursion with Obsidian and she was seeming to truly enjoy her experience with me. Oh, and Central Park is big, Pamela had been pressed for people, so she had pressed some unlikely participants into my rescue party."He's," smooch, "my brother, by adoption," I headed off the whole idea she'd been briefed on me already."Visual, Peacekeeper Six, OS2, L-11," Chaz muttered into his headset before taking up a casual stance on the path overlooking our trysting spot. Sex with an audience didn't bother her, so, we worked out as much action from twist, turns and two inches of in-and-out motions (she liked to keep our bodies tight) as we could. Obsidian was humming along in no time. Her vaginal walls were undulating, wearing away at my self-control.Panting, not from us,"Is he o, are they, who is she?" huffed and puffed a trio of voices from Chaz's locale. Oh. Pamela had recruited my 'Hounds'.I accidently (from a timing perspective) took that moment to grind my nails into her left nipple, pinched her clit and hammered her as hard as I could. Obsidian howled. Her vocalization exited the human realm in a cataclysmic manner.The noise scared avians a mile away into terrorized flight. Cats hissed, then raced for cover. Dogs tucked tail and ran. Streetlights a hundred yards away shattered in sprays of glass. Better yet, for the entertainment of my viewing public, she lashed out with her right hand at the closest Black Cherry sapling, exploding it into a mist of sap and pulverizing the bark and wood fiber into pulp.On the downside, her cervix gave my balls an ultimatum ~ release my seed at once, or she was going to twist off my head. My cock and balls have a long history of making decisions without me. I began lavishing her. Before I finally got the feeling I was out of the danger zone. She was back to rubbing against me and purring in blissful satisfaction."Onun g zleri," whispered Belgin, one of the Turks. 'Her eyes'?"Cáel, are you aware of the alternative nature of your liaison?" Chaz coolly cautioned me. Translation: 'mate, do you know you have your cock in a demon?'"Yeah," I coughed. I had a face full of her hair. I was working on some post-coital nuzzling along with slowly helping her get her pants back up."Ininzqueoccehpa," she hummed to me, ignoring our gathering. That was 'let's do this again'."Tehuatlcochitlehua," I replied with some fondness. She studied me for a second before deciding my term was one of endearment, thus 'you are what dreams are made of', not 'nightmares'.Obsidian had another issue to deal with. Timothy would call it a righteous cocking. Whatever it was, her hold on her human mein had slipped and her inhumanity was slipping through, mainly in her glass-like, black, multi-facetted eyes and her fingers which now ended in molten obsidian talons. On the subconscious level, her predatory nature was setting everyone close-by on edge. I could also make out the high pitched, ultrasonic pipping of her chiropteran cries ~ purpose unknown.Obsidian made her way off farther into the underbrush leaving me a few precious seconds to appreciate her retreating posterior while holstering my equipment. More people were arriving. I had one more thing to take care of before, oh look, Nikita had brought her Mom along, the NYPD Sergeant."Chaz, I need to have a quick chat with Dot before I can explain things. She's been waiting and that's unwise," I looked to the Brit. He nodded."Cáel? Mr. Nyilas? Prince?" all came my way. I relaxed as best I could. Chaz went to a body blow to stagger me, then an epic upper cut to send me to Lullaby Land.Dot & the DragonessDot and SzelAnya, in dragon form, were waiting as I tumbled forward. By the state of my haziness, I knew my unconsciousness wouldn't last long."You gave her your seed," came the accusation."Yes," I staggered, "and now you should be able to track her," I pointed out the bonus part of the arrangement. No comment."I've got to make this quick, SzelAnya, I've found your father, geographically speaking," I dropped the bomb."Don't," Dot Ishara commanded. After all, she and her divine cohorts had done the killing and corpse-dividing eons ago. Undoubtedly, they'd executed their own oaths to one another to 'never reveal what they had done' as well."Too late," I shook my head. SzelAnya's attention was magnetized. "I owe you and I'm paying my debts. I'm not blind to the dangers, believe me.""You have no idea what power you are invoking," Dot's undercurrent of displeasure was the worst I'd experienced."Wrong. I've got thousands of years of Alal boiling around in my head, Plus the rest of you betrayed her 2600 years ago. It doesn't mean I have to. And now, given the chance, I'm not. Even if you kill me, she's got enough toBack in the Ramble"Really expect me to believe," Nikita's mom was growling."Man down," I waved a weak arm skyward."Mr. Nyilas, what is going on here?" the Sergeant addressed me. I was reclining in a circle of my 'Hounds'; most were kneeling. Chaz was in a tiny bit of trouble for having clocked me."Umm, thanks for coming out and looking for me. I assure you, Mr. Tomorrow did what he did as a matter of his professional duties ~ intelligence gathering." As I struggled to stand, my ladies helped me. I saw Pamela with three Hounds coming up fast from one direction and Virginia with three more coming from the other. The gang was all here.The mutterings in non-English tongues suggested a bit of explaining was already going on."You've been bleeding," Nikita pointed out with an unspoken 'again'."This?" I pulled my shirt out and looked at the first bloodstain of my encounter. "This is the just the start of the bad news." I shed my windbreaker and then t-shirt.The professionals shouldered aside the others to take a closer look."All of these are from noon and less than an hour ago," I identified the damage. Sarge was skeptical. Chaz, Nikita and Virginia less so."They look older," the senior lawman noted."I've been curious about that," Chaz frowned."I've inherited my Grandfather's curse. My soul fragment was in the 'Here and Now' twenty-three years ago while his was, 'over there', so I was allowed to come into creation. According to my recently departed guest,""You are immortal," Virginia mumbled to finish the thought. Had the speaker not been a member of the FBI, who knows how the thought would have been received."From the memories I've been gifted with," I tapped the tiny divot on my forehead, "his healing abilities started out rather slowly too. I certainly don't want to test this theory, so no worries there," I scanned the group."How do you explain seeing your Grandfather in Hungary and again in Rome?" Virginia wondered."Again, that woman who just left," I got out."Was no woman," Nuray, another one of my Turkish Hounds interrupted. "Her eyes..." she tried to explain, "and look what she did to that tree," she pointed to the greatest piece of evidence of supernatural wrongdoing. The other two witnesses nodded."We all saw the same thing. Her eyes were, bottomless, definitely not human," Belgin affirmed. The veteran players looked to Chaz."She had a collapsed nose-bridge, lacked a blink response, her dental work was carnivorous and her tongue was extremely clipped and showed prehensile qualities," he reported calmly. Pause. Chaz was a freaking intelligence operative, after all."If her hands were a type of glove weaponry, I've never seen it s like before. While I know it is possible for a human to exert the force-pounds necessary to snap a two inch diameter tree trunk in one blow, it is a rare skill and requires intense discipline. This appeared to be done spontaneously, without preparation of any kind and as a reaction to other stimuli," he added."It was also your assessment he needed to be knocked unconscious?" Nikita's mom countered."Mr. Nyilas' psychological constructs are something the whole team has to work around. At times, he seeks 'insight' from his mind in a deliberately unconscious/non-sleep state," he replied."He claims to be talking with spirit powers. I know when he returns to consciousness, he delivers useful intelligence. I'm not a psychologist, psychiatrist, or psychic. I don't know why his mind functions that way. I do know results. And I know I work with people who would achieve those results by other means if it were at all possible. Since we haven't found another method, we accept that from tim

As whores for criticism, we wanted to have Kasra on to discuss his essay The Deutschian Deadend (https://www.bitsofwonder.co/p/the-deutschian-deadend). Kasra claims that Popper and Deutsch are fundamentally wrong in some important ways, and that many of their ideas will forever remain in the "footnotes of the history of philosophy". Does he change our mind or do we change his? Follow Kasra on twitter (https://x.com/kasratweets) and subscribe to his blog, Bits of Wonder (https://www.bitsofwonder.co/p/the-deutschian-deadend). We discuss Has Popper had of a cultural impact? The differences between Popper, Deutsch, and Deutsch's bulldogs. Is observation really theory laden? The hierarchy of reliability: do different disciplines have different methods of criticism? The ladder of abstractions The difference between Popper and Deutsch on truth and abstraction The Deutschian community's reaction to the essay References Bruce Neilson's podcast on verification and falsification: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/episode-61-a-critical-rationalist-defense/id1503194218?i=1000621362624 Popper on certainty: Chapter 22. Analytical Remarks on Certainty in Objective Knowledge Quotes By the nature of Deutsch and Popper's ideas being abstract, this essay will also necessarily be abstract. To combat this, let me ground the whole essay in a concrete empirical bet: Popper's ideas about epistemology, and David Deutsch's extensions of them, will forever remain in the footnotes of the history of philosophy. Popper's falsificationism, which was the main idea that he's widely known for today, will continue to remain the only thing that he's widely known for. The frustrating fact that Wittgenstein is widely regarded as a more influential philosopher than Popper will continue to remain true. Critical rationalism will never be widely recognized as the “one correct epistemology,” as the actual explanation (or even the precursor to an explanation) of knowledge, progress, and creativity. Instead it will be viewed, like many philosophical schools before it, as a useful and ambitious project that ultimately failed. In other words, critical rationalism is a kind of philosophical deadend: the Deutschian deadend. - Kasra in the Deutschian Deadend There are many things you can directly observe, and which are “manifestly true” to you: what you're wearing at the moment, which room of your house you're in, whether the sun has set yet, whether you are running out of breath, whether your parents are alive, whether you feel a piercing pain in your back, whether you feel warmth in your palms—and so on and so forth. These are not perfectly certain absolute truths about reality, and there's always more to know about them—but it is silly to claim that we have absolutely no claim on their truth either. I also think there are even such “obvious truths” in the realm of science—like the claim that the earth is not flat, that your body is made of cells, and that everyday objects follow predictable laws of motion. - Kasra in the Deutschian Deadend Deutsch writes: Some philosophical arguments, including the argument against solipsism, are far more compelling than any scientific argument. Indeed, every scientific argument assumes the falsity not only of solipsism, but also of other philosophical theories including any number of variants of solipsism that might contradict specific parts of the scientific argument. There are two different mistakes happening here. First, what Deutsch is doing is assuming a strict logical dependency between any one piece of our knowledge and every other piece of it. He says that our knowledge of science (say, of astrophysics) implicitly relies on other philosophical arguments about solipsism, epistemology, and metaphysics. But anyone who has thought about the difference between philosophy and science recognizes that in practice they can be studied and argued about independently. We can make progress on our understanding of celestial mechanics without making any crucial assumption about metaphysics. We can make progress studying neurons without solving the hard problem of consciousness or the question of free will. - Kasra in the Deutschian Deadend, quoting Deutsch on Solipsism At that time I learnt from Popper that it was not scientifically disgraceful to have one's hypothesis falsified. That was the best news I had had for a long time. I was persuaded by Popper, in fact, to formulate my electrical hypotheses of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission so precisely and rigorously that they invited falsification - and, in fact, that is what happened to them a few years later, very largely by my colleagues and myself, when in 1951 we started to do intra- cellular recording from motoneurones. Thanks to my tutelage by Popper, I was able to accept joyfully this death of the brain-child which I had nurtured for nearly two decades and was immediately able to contribute as much as I could to the chemical transmission story which was the Dale and Loewi brain-child. - John C. Eccles on Popper, All Life is Problem Solving, p.12 In order to state the problem more clearly, I should like to reformulate it as follows. We may distinguish here between three types of theory. First, logical and mathematical theories. Second, empirical and scientific theories. 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Dr. Julian E. Kunnie, professor of religious, Latin American, Middle Eastern and North African studies at the University of Arizona. In the denouement of our three-part series with Dr. Julian Kunnie, we discuss the following: The general lack of class consciousness within struggle. An example of how neoliberal/neocolonial policies have had dire consequences for the people of Azania (South Africa). Encapsulation of social movements. And, much more! Dr. Julian Kunnie's forthcoming book, The Earth Mother and the Assault of Capitalism: Living Sustainable with All Life, is scheduled for release June 25, 2025 (new release date as of January 27, 2025). This episode is dedicated to our beloved freedom fighter, distinguished elder, and now former political prisoner, LEONARD PLETIER! Your example of resilience and struggle has inspired many, and will continue to inspire many, well into the future via the beautyful ones that are not yet born. Welcome Home Dear Brother! This episode has featured music from: Rakaa of Dilated Peoples & 2Mex – “Right This Wrong” and Buggin Malone – “Peltier's Beat Goes On”, from the album Free Leonard Peltier: Hip Hop's Contribution to the Freedom Campaign Conscientization 101– "Decolonize This? Properly Defining Settlers – Part 1" Akala – “Welcome to Dystopia” from his album Doublethink A-Alikes (feat. M-1 & Raye 6) – “Whole Life” from their album Us Against Them Raggo Zulu Rebel – “Tears of Gaia (Raggo Recitals)” from his album Arthur Fleck The Podcast Was Just A Snippet Of The Interview. Want to Listen To The Unabridged Interview? Try C-101 Premium Podcast Free For 7 Days!

Dr. Julian Kunnie In part two of our illuminating series with Dr. Julian Kunnie, we discuss the following: How and why miscegenation has been used historically as a tool for colonial domination, referencing his book–The Cost of Globalization: Dangers to the Earth and Its People–and an article by Chinweizu–“Reparations for Darfur 4: A Resolution.” The importance of understanding the term genetic colonialism. Arab hegemony in Africa. And, much more! Dr. Julian Kunnie's forthcoming book, The Earth Mother and the Assault of Capitalism: Living Sustainable with All Life, is scheduled for release April 23, 2025. This episode features music from: Conscientization 101– "Decolonize This? Properly Defining Settlers – Part 1" Big Frizzle – “Fast” Akala – “Maangamizi” from his album The Thieves Banquet   Donnie Mossberg – “Tragedy Mix” Raggo Zulu Rebel – “Unity” Donnie Mossberg Instagram: @machingunfunk Chinweizu's “Reparations for Darfur 4: A Resolution”, appears in our complied document The Chinweizu Reader. In reference to Akala's The Thieves Banquet, see also Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's The Devil on the Cross. The Podcast Was Just A Snippet Of The Interview. Want to Listen To The Unabridged Interview? Try C-101 Premium Podcast Free For 7 Days!

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Dr. Julian E. Kunnie, professor of religious, Latin American, Middle Eastern and North African studies at the University of Arizona. It has been over 20 years since the publication of Dr. Julian Kunnie's prescient and perspicacious treatise, Is Apartheid Really Dead?: Pan Africanist Working-Class Critical Perspectives, and nine years since we first dialogued with Dr. Kunnie about his book (podcast episodes 9 and 10), so what is the political terrain of Azania (South Africa) today? Is the analysis of Is Apartheid Really Dead? in regards to post-apartheid Azania still relevant today? Is Azania finally a fully sovereign nation run by its autochthonous inhabitants? If not, is it on its way? Or worse, is Dr. Kunnie's analysis just as relevant today as it was when his book was first published; which means Azania is still suffering under neocolonial hegemony, which makes true revolutionary Pan-African working-class sovereignty for Azania a mere chimera? In this episode of Conscientization 101 podcast, we present part one of a three-part dialogue with Dr. Julian Kunnie in regards to these vexing questions. And while the aforementioned book was the original impetus for this dialogue; we also incorporate Dr. Kunnie's other publication, The Cost of Globalization: Dangers to the Earth and Its People (podcast episodes 23-25), his forthcoming book The Earth Mother and the Assault of Capitalism: Living Sustainably with All Life–scheduled for release on April 23, 2025–as well as a myriad of other topics. In part one of our scintillating series with Dr. Kunnie, we set the stage for parts two and three, by giving an analysis of the impact of imperialism on the world's people and ecosystem, and much more. We also debut our new podcast intro: written, mixed, and performed by our esteemed brother Raggo Zulu Rebel! We also discuss details about our new Conscientization 101 Premium Podcast subscription; as well as the hand Raggo Zulu Rebel played in assisting us with our premium podcast subscription by introducing us to UK based music producer–and graphic designer we might add–Morfius! A very providential occurrence indeed. And if that wasn't enough, we also discuss the following: Settler colonialism, Palestine, and why resistance against settler colonialism is never a casus belli The election of a choleric, misanthropic, septuagenarian to the U.S. presidency. The utterly absurd, out of touch, and reactionary presidential campaign of the Democratic party Neocolonialism and wokeness And, much more! This episode features music from: Conscientization 101– "Decolonize This? Properly Defining Settlers – Part 1" Fela Kuti – “Confusion Break Bones (C.B.B.)” from his album Underground System Wise Intelligent – “Robbers, Barons, And Bankers” from his album El Negro Guerrero Raggo Zulu Rebel – “Freedom” (feat. Spliffy & Killa B) from his album The Rainmaker Donnie Mossberg – “Tragedy Mix” Excerpts for our Morfius anecdote were from the following: Cyclonious – “My Name Is Morfius” from his Heroes For Hire album Big Cakes – “The Outro” from his album CCC, and “Twitter” from his album KFC (we purchased this album on November 13, 2014, but when researching for the link to this album on November 26, 2024, we noticed the only place this was available was on Big Cake's Bandcamp page, and this track no longer on the album) Raggo Zulu Rebel – “Give It To Dem” (feat. Jayjayborn2sing) from his album The Return of Jah Messenger – Vol. 2, and “Babylon” from his album Ganja Music Vol. 2  Morfius Instagram: @MorfiusUK Donnie Mossberg Instagram: @machingunfunk The Podcast Was Just A Snippet Of The Interview. Want to Listen To The Unabridged Interview? Try C-101 Premium Podcast Free For 7 Days!

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Prestige-ish Media Season 1 Episode 5 review of the True Detective episode The Secret Fate of All Life. Join us as Craig Lake, Jessica Z, and Dan McNair give the reactions to the HBO show. In this episode we discuss the Ledoux boys, the 1995 shootout, time being a flat circle, and Rust creeping around crime scenes. Join us as we review all the previous episodes on the way to True Detective Night Country / True Detective Season 4.

In our Mysticast conversation with  Dr. James K Powell 11 who has been teaching philosophy and religion for more than 20 years the last 10 very successfully online. https://www.youtube.com/c/opensourcebuddhism According to James: ‘Everyone has a worldview or else you would be dead! How can we transcend our differences and work together as the one that we are? ANS : By binding groups of like minded believers and thinkers.' Jack and I were definitely on the same page as James as he enthusiastically weaved together different religious schools of thought, even explaining why people in Thailand honk their horns when passing through a cemetery - “it's obviously really - no one wants to  run over a ghost!” The biggest parallel drawn from this exploration was the ONENESS of everything. Dr. King (Note 1) spent a lot of time teaching us about this and he said: “When you really study the nature of all things, you can see that ALL LIFE is ONE. It is expressing itself in thousands of different ways in order to gain the essential experience of this terrestrial classroom. If you regard all life in this way, you will better understand your own particular tiny position in this great sea of life.” Further study: https://www.aetherius.org/god-and-the-meaning-of-life/ https://cloud.aetherius.org/the-sixth-freedom-lecture-ascension/(Note 2) Note 1 Dr. George King (1919-1997) was a Master of yoga, trance medium and the author of many books on spirituality. He was contacted by an extraterrestrial intelligence known as “Aetherius” in 1954, and founded The Aetherius Society in 1955 – to promote and act upon the wisdom of highly evolved intelligences from other planets who communicated with, and through, him for over 40 years. Note 2 ‘To attain this Freedom, the Master has to not only have experienced Cosmic Consciousness, but be able to enter this state at will, which, we are told, is very much more demanding. Ascension cannot be gained by the average person in one life; it takes many lives of sustained spiritual effort – but, nevertheless, however distant it may seem,Mars Sector 6 informs us that it is the birthright of us all to one day reach this mighty spiritual goal'.

Viewing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling something outside of our 10 bodies, ignites the chemistry inside the physical body and it's this chemistry inside that produces the sensation of connection. With this experience of connection, we get to re-member the space between our preferences and a state of presence. It's within the space that we consciously connect with ALL Life allowing us to transcend the "need" for constant consumption... ** Join The 13 Moons Community with Guru Singh and practice the new 28-Day Meditation Journey alongside heart-led members like yourself.- JOIN NOW -

Note to Listener from Aubrey Marcus and Dr. Marc Gafni We are at a time between worlds, at a time between stories. We live in a world of outrageous pain. We live in a world of outrageous beauty. We live in a world of outrageous love. In this time between stories, we step beyond the old stories of good and evil in its primitive forms. But that does not mean that we are moral relativists or that value is not real. Indeed all of reality, all of life is Value. We can feel the truth of this in our bodies. We may not be able to explain it perfectly, but when we feel we know. And this is what gives us courage to stand on the side of Life. And to stand on the side of Life is to take a side. A stand for Life, is by nature a stand against anti-Life, or anti-Value. What that means about what should be done is a question of impossible complexity, pain and uncertainty.  We stand for a culture of Eros against a culture of death. We stand for intimacy against alienation. This requires us to be both tender and fierce, to stand for Life against the forces of anti-life. It is not that there is no value in the universe and therefore naturally no battle between value and anti-value. Value is real.  Good and Evil are real. But good and evil are not split along racial or national, or ethnic or religious grounds. This is a seductively simple conception, that in and of itself is the cause of so much horror. In our formulation, Good and Evil is discerned simply: To be Good is to be ALL IN FOR ALL LIFE. No one is outside of the circle of Life.  To be All in for All Life requires the cultivation of radical discernment within a broken information ecology, and full blown 5th generational warfare in the form of attention hijacking and propaganda. To stand for Life means to make love to the tender sensuality of sense making. Feeling our way slowly and carefully, but not with timidity masking as humility. Evil is evil. As much as we might be tempted, we cannot be afraid to call it what it is. Within that is a rejection of universal moral relativism. It is a solemn vow to protect the innocent, all of the innocent, and to protect the world from being held hostage by the forces of anti-life - wherever they are found. We speak with broken hearts, with clarity, but always in the unknowing. Always in devotion to the Mystery, while always whispering love in every distinction with every breath.   It is our prayer that this inspires a story that is unifying rather than dividing. Clarifying rather than confusing. It is a prayer for all Life. Comments will be off on this video, so that everyone can watch it and feel with their own hearts and minds. This episode is sponsored by: FOUR VISIONS fourvisions.com Use code AMP for 15% off the customer's first order. MUD/WTR Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠mudwtr.com/amp⁠⁠⁠⁠ and get 15% off your order by using the discount code AUBREY at checkout Connect with Marc Gafni: https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/about-dr-marc-gafni/ Download The Erotic and the Holy Audiobook: http://eroticandholyworkshop.com/ Instagram: ⁠http://bit.ly/3VDpio4⁠ YouTube: ⁠http://bit.ly/3VPa6UV⁠ Facebook: ⁠http://bit.ly/3H0Ujhu⁠ Twitter: ⁠http://bit.ly/3XO640F⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠To partner with the Aubrey Marcus Podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | Connect with Aubrey | Website | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://bit.ly/2GesYqi ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://bit.ly/2BlfCEO ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://bit.ly/2F4nBZk ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter |⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://bit.ly/2BlGBAdAd⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out "Own your Day, Own Your Life" by Aubrey Marcus | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://bit.ly/2vRz4so⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the Aubrey Marcus newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.aubreymarcus.com/pages/email⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the Aubrey Marcus podcast: iTunes | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://apple.co/2lMZRCn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Spotify |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://spoti.fi/2EaELZO ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Stitcher | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://bit.ly/2G8ccJt ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ IHeartRadio | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ihr.fm/3CiV4x3 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Google Podcasts | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3nzCJEh ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Android | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/2OQeBQg⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Our argument at the end of last episode spilled over into discord, DMs, and world news, so we felt compelled to dedicate a full episode to addressing the question "Is all thought problem solving?" Some arguments make history, like whether atomic bombs were required in WWII, whether all philosophy is simply a language game, and whether the chicken did indeed come before the egg. Will this be one of them? We cover: - How Vaden listens to podcasts and why he thinks Andrew Huberman sucks (but studies show that Andrew Huberman is great!) - Popper's evolutionary take on problem-solving - Problems defined as "disappointed expectations" - Whether all volitional thought is problem-solving - Are irrefutable theories ever valuable, or should they all be discarded a-priori? References All life is problem-solving (https://www.amazon.com/Life-Problem-Solving-Karl-Popper/dp/0415249929) In Search of a Better World (https://www.amazon.ca/Search-Better-World-Lectures-Essays/dp/0415135486) Episode 51 of Increments (https://www.incrementspodcast.com/51), where we discuss "implicit definitions". Quotes Men, animals, plants, even unicellular organisms are constantly active. They are trying to improve their situation, or at least to avoid its deterioration. Even when asleep, the organism is actively maintaining the state of sleep: the depth (or else the shallowness) of sleep is a condition actively created by the organism, which sustains sleep (or else keeps the organism on the alert). Every organism is constantly preoccupied with the task of solving prob- lems. These problems arise from its own assessments of its condition and of its environment; conditions which the organism seeks to improve. - In Search Of A Better World, p.vii At bottom, this procedure seems to be the only logical one. It is also the procedure that a lower organism, even a single-cell amoeba, uses when trying to solve a problem. In this case we speak of testing movements through which the organism tries to rid itself of a troublesome problem. Higher organisms are able to learn through trial and error how a certain problem should be solved. We may say that they too make testing movements - mental testings - and that to learn is essentially to tryout one testing movement after another until one is found that solves the problem. We might compare the animal's successful solution to an expectation and hence to a hypothesis or a theory. For the animal's behaviour shows us that it expects (perhaps unconsciously or dispositionally) that in a similar case the same testing movements will again solve the problem in question. The behaviour of animals, and of plants too, shows that organisms are geared to laws or regularities. They expect laws or regularities in their surroundings, and I conjecture that most of these expectations are genetically determined - which is to say that they are innate. - All Life is Problem Solving, p.3 Socials Follow us on Twitter at @IncrementsPod, @BennyChugg, @VadenMasrani Come join our discord server! DM us on twitter or send us an email to get a supersecret link Solve all our problems and get exclusive bonus content by becoming a patreon subscriber here (https://www.patreon.com/Increments) Toss us some coin over hur (patreon subscription approach (https://www.patreon.com/Increments/posts) or the ko-fi, the "just give us cash you animals" approach (https://ko-fi.com/increments)), and click dem like buttons on youtube over hur (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_4wZzQyoW4s4ZuE4FY9DQQ). Do studies show that Ben or Vaden is correct? Tell us at incrementspodcast@gmail.com

Laurie Huston from News the Heart is talking with Tracy McBurney on The Source of all Life. News for the Heart is back for the Season and my 1st show back was with Tracy.We shared her Prayer/Intention that I borrowed from her years ago and she borrowed before that. "From the Spark of Pure Love and Light that resides within me, I connect with (The) Source (of All Life)", and give Thanks. Recently, Tracy added in The Source of All Life when she began her ritual. Prior it was Source. Tracy refers to it as an Operational Template and it is Amazingly Heart Opening and Expansive. She believes it connected her with her Dan Tien (what is loosely translated as "elixir field", "sea of qi", or simply "energy center") from Traditional Chinese Medicine. We shared again how Ego is Wholeness and NOT something to be feared. And how we must have a Willingness to Surrender while examining our blocks and fears. This was a Great show to come back for the Season. Another powerful show. Join us for this fascinating discussion! We're Getting to the Heart of what Matters!

This is a prayer to affirm where you are at in your life. To see it as designed. Part of a greater story unfolding towards an unknowable destiny. When we affirm where we are, including the pitfalls and challenges, we move into our natural flow state. This prayer also calls in the Divine to remind us of the Sacred Design of All Life. Blessings on your journey.  

I catch God peeking at me, from around every corner, from behind every person, situation, and thought, smiling at me, ready to be found, so He can be It, and I can know Him as All.  I Love you, Nik To claim your free gift, leave a review on Apple Podcasts, screenshot it and send it to me at nikki@curlynikki.com!  Join us on Patreon to support the show, and tune into and participate in live video Q&As with me!  Support the show Today's Quotes: "Young children, who have not yet accumulated a lot of stress, exhibit an abundance of energy, enthusiasm, profound joy, and unconditional love. These qualities that manifest spontaneously in an innocent child demonstrate the truest, unadulterated essence of humanness. We are all born with a wellspring of love and joy.  These qualities are not just emotions, they are the essence of our existence. The truth of our essence cannot change, it can only be covered over and hidden from us." -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "Your Name is Everything. Hare Rãma. It should be heard, spoken, sung, thought. And yet ultimately it is unheard, unspoken, unsung, unthought. The mantra is the bridge to this unknown. -@gaieasanskrit via IG "Really, if only you have this faith in the Name, you need not struggle to secure the chance to detail to me your desires and wants. I will fulfill them even without your telling me. Have the Nam bright and clear on your tongue, in your mind; and the form symbolised by it before your eye and mental vision-nothing can harm you." -Shirdi Sai Baba  "As Consciousness is Lifted into Awareness, there is nothing but Harmony. All Life is of God, Infinite Love. Go right to God and stay there." -Al Denninger

How do you invoke the goddess in your life? There's so many ways to invoke the goddess whether it be rituals, ceremony, daily prayer, meditation, using past life memories or spending time on your altars. The goddess is always with you and she is waiting to offer you love, assistance, safety and comfort.    In this week's episode, discover what a daily circle of protection and invoking the divine mother of all life could do for your safety and protection. April also shares the history of the “Watchers” and how they are used in ritual High Magick. Harmony shares her story of how the Divine Mother of All Life offers her validations that the goddess is with her and supporting her journey. Maggie shares how she created her own full moon ceremonies.    If you would like to learn more about invoking the goddess in your life, join the Priestess Path with Harmony and enjoy 13% OFF with coupon code: GWW13 https://mysticharmonymysteryschool.teachable.com/p/priestess-path-1     Connect with the Goddesses:  https://www.goddesswitchwomb.com   Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goddesswitchwomb/   Follow us on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@goddesswitchwomb   Divine Feminine Membership: https://mysticharmonymysteryschool.teachable.com/p/membership  

In this episode, Zen chats with Rev. Dr. Marcus Jerkins about his book, Black Lives Matter to Jesus: The Salvation of Black Life and All Life in Luke and Acts. The book explores the significance of Black characters in the theological story of salvation told throughout Luke and Acts. Here's the books blurb: ############## The third evangelist makes Black-skinned people central to his claim in Luke and Acts that the gospel of Jesus is restoring the children of God. Within Luke's literary environment, the identity of the children of God was linked to national/ethnic identity. Many Jewish texts argued for the Jews' position as God's children because they are bound to God by covenant; they are God's firstborn. But there is also a more general sense within this tradition that all human beings are made in the image of God and are, thus, the children of God through Adam. In the Gospel, Luke asserts that all nations and all ethnicities, including Israel, have questionable filial status vis-à-vis God. Both Israel and the nations are restored in status as God's children through Jesus, the Son of God. In Acts, Luke explores the initial return of Israel and all ethnicities to God through the witness of the church empowered by the Spirit. To epitomize the return of all nations to God, Luke narrates the salvation of Black-skinned Africans. These Black lives are emphasized to signify that their representation in the church demonstrates the universal extent to which the salvation of Jesus Christ will reach. Their presence in the church is also meant to dignify their Black skin against an aesthetic bias that was prevalent in Greco-Roman views at that moment. This subversion of ethnographic bias helped Luke's audience sustain a gospel-centered critique against the devaluation of Black life. ############## Marcus Jerkins earned his PhD in Religion from Baylor University. He also holds a BA from Emory as well as a MDiv and ThM from Candler. He serves as pastor to Resurrection Baptist Church in Silver Spring, MD and adjuncts at Northern Seminary. He and Courtney, his wife of 14 years, have three beautiful children. Here's the full quote and video from Megyn Kelly about Jesus being white. "Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't mean it has to change...Jesus was a white man, too. It's like we have, he's a historical figure that's a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I just want kids to know that. How do you revise it in the middle of the legacy in the story and change Santa from white to black?"

This episode is all about why LOVE IS OUR WAY to a better life and a better world. I was thinking that I needed to take a break from guest interviews and revisit this all-important theme. And I'm choosing to do that by re-issuing the audio for S3E4. There are many spiritual topics that I've talked about in Our Spiritual Life episodes in the past 3 years. But these five are fundamental: 1) Love is Our Way, 2) We Are All One, 3) We are Individuations of the Divine, 4) We are All Equal (in the eyes of the Divine), and 5) The Divine is Pure Love and the Source of All Life. (Those were usually not the episode titles, by the way.) But if we can fully understand and commit to these fundamental truths, then we can begin to live consciously at a deep, world-changing level. In this episode, I talk in detail about topics 1, 2, and 3. In another episode (tentatively targeted for February 20, 2023), I will drill into topics 4 and 5 and talk about how living true to these five fundamentals can change humanity's future in wonderful ways.Support the show

You say PINATA, we say PIÑATA! In this extra long episode, we're calling out for consistency, exploring Mexican arts and letters, and chatting with the #Hivemind's own Peggy Robin! [Check out Peggy's blog, "All Life is Local", here and follow her on Twitter @StillLifewRobin.]

All LIFE is valuable and has meaning.  All life is good.  When we pass away all of life's simple good little things are over.  So what should our response be?We should be thankful to be a LIVE DOG rather than a DEAD LION!  What?There are several statements like this one from Solomon in Ecclesiastes 9 that Joel and Ryan will be working through today.  Take a few minutes to enjoy the conversation and take some positive steps in alignment with God's Word.God doesn't waste pain or hard experiences in our lives.  We can have gratitude for the smallest things even in the hardest times.  Watch and listen and be encouraged to rely on God TODAY as you keep walking on your way Home to Jesus!Email us at cornerstoneonourwayhome@gmail.com

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee    Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events 1791 On this day, Australia's first thriving grapevine was planted. The First Fleet's Captain Arthur Phillip brought grape cuttings from South America and South Africa and produced a small vineyard at Farm Cove. Today, Farm Cove is the location of the Sydney Botanical Gardens. When the plants did not bear, they were transplanted to Parramatta.  Arthur Philip served as the first Governor of New South Wales when his Crimson Grapes flourished in the warm Australian fertile soil. Today Crimson Grapes can also be found in Victoria and southeastern Queensland. Australian Crimson Grapes enjoy a long harvest period from November to May.   1869 Birth of Charlotte Mary Mew, English poet. In her poem, In Nunhead Cemetary, she wrote, There is something horrible about a flower; This, broken in my hand, is one of those He threw it in just now; it will not live another hour; There are thousands more; you do not miss a rose.   And in The Sunlit House, she wrote, The parched garden flowers Their scarlet petals from the beds unswept Like children unloved and ill-kept But I, the stranger, knew that I must stay. Pace up the weed-grown paths and down Till one afternoon ... From an upper window a bird flew out And I went my way.   1887 Birth of Georgia O'Keeffe, American modernist artist. During her incredible career as a painter, Georgia created over 900 works of art. She is remembered for her iconic paintings of skulls and flowers. In 1938 Georgia's career stalled. Yet she was approached by an advertising agency about creating two paintings for the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (now Dole Food Company) to use in their advertising. Georgia was 51 years old when she took the nine weeks, all-expense-paid trip. Georgia never did paint a pineapple. And gardeners will enjoy this obscure fact: Of all the floral paintings that O'Keeffe created in Hawaii, exactly NONE were native to the island. Instead, Georgia loved the exotic tropicals imported from South America: Bougainvillea, Plumeria, Heliconia, Calliandra, and the White Bird of Paradise. It was Georgia 0'Keeffe who said all of these quotes about flowers - a subject for which she held strong opinions. Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time ...like to have a friend takes time. I hate flowers. I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move! If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment. I decided that if I could paint that flower on a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.   1930 Birth of James Graham Ballard (pen name J.G. Ballard), English novelist. James was part of the New Wave of science fiction in the 1960s. Yet, he is most remembered for his 1984 war novel, Empire of the Sun. In The Unlimited Dream Company, James wrote, "Miriam - I'll give you any flowers you want!' Rhapsodising over the thousand scents of her body, I exclaimed: "I'Il grow orchids from your hands, roses from your breasts. You can have magnolias in your hair... In your womb I'll set a fly-trap!" And in The Garden of Time, James wrote, "Axel," his wife asked with sudden seriousness. "Before the garden dies ... may I pick the last flower?" Understanding her request, he nodded slowly.   James once wrote, I believe in madness, in the truth of the inexplicable, in the common sense of stones, in the lunacy of flowers.   Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake This book came out in 2021, and the subtitle is How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures. This book has won all kinds of recognition: The Wainwright Prize, the Royal Society Science Book Prize, and the Guild of Food Writers Award • Shortlisted for the British Book Award Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. The publisher writes, In Entangled Life, the brilliant young biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view, providing an exhilarating change of perspective. Sheldrake's vivid exploration takes us from yeast to psychedelics, to the fungi that range for miles underground and are the largest organisms on the planet, to those that link plants together in complex networks known as the "Wood Wide Web," to those that infiltrate and manipulate insect bodies with devastating precision.   Entangled Life is a fascinating read. Merlin's passion for fungi (fun-ghee) knows no bounds. Fungi are often referred to as a neglected kingdom of life. Compared to other kingdoms like plants and animals, we know very little about fungi, and only six percent has thus far been described. And Fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants. Today most plant life depends on relationships with mycorrhizal fungi or fungi that live in their roots. These fungi help plants acquire water and nutrients. They also protect the plants from disease.  But its not just plants that need fungi. All Life on earth depends on fungi. Most fungi are mycelium - the branching fusing networks of tubular cells that feed and transport substances around themselves. Fungi have a unique way of organizing themselves. Mycelium cover the earth in a chaotic, sprawling way. Mycelium can be stretched out end to end up to ten kilometers from a single teaspoon of soil. This book is 368 pages of the mysterious and miraculous world of fungi.  You can get a copy of Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $9.   Botanic Spark 1909 On this day, the orange blossom was designated as the official state flower of Florida. This gesture inspired the poet William Livingston Larned to write a poem called Florida's State Flower. The last little bit goes like this: Whenever you see the spotless bud, You know tis Florida the fair. And wafted to you comes the scent Of all the blissful regions there. The rose may have its followers, The violet its standard, too; The fleur-de-lis and lily fair In tints of red and pink and blue; But just a scent, On pleasure bent, Of orange sweet, The nostrils greet, And from our dreams, the castles rise, Of groves and meadows 'neath calm skies.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.

I catch God peeking at me, from around every corner, from behind every person, situation, and thought,smiling at me, ready to be found,so He can be It, and I can know Him as All.  I Love you,Niknikki@curlynikki.comLOVE CHARGING STATION, Live, Daily, Group Practice-  6:30am ET (Spotify LIVE):▶▶ https://apps.apple.com/id/app/spotify-live/id1517524960Support the show:▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmorningsGoOD Mornings merch:▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmorningsWeekly LIVE Meditation, Tuesdays at 7pm ET (FREE on Spotify)▶▶ https://spotify.link/meditation_________________________________Today's Quotes:"Young children, who have not yet accumulated a lot of stress, exhibit an abundance of energy, enthusiasm, profound joy, and unconditional love. These qualities that manifest spontaneously in an innocent child demonstrate the truest, unadulterated essence of humanness. We are all born with a wellspring of love and joy.  These qualities are not just emotions, they are the essence of our existence. The truth of our essence cannot change, it can only be covered over and hidden from us."-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar"Your Name is Everything.Hare Rãma.It should be heard, spoken, sung, thought.And yet ultimately it is unheard, unspoken, unsung,unthought.The mantra is the bridge to this unknown.-@gaieasanskrit via IG"Really, if only you have this faith in the Name, you need not struggle to secure the chance to detail to me your desires and wants. I will fulfill them even without your telling me. Have the Nam bright and clear on your tongue, in your mind; and the form symbolised by it before your eye and mental vision-nothing can harm you."-Shirdi Sai Baba "As Consciousness is Lifted into Awareness, there is nothing but Harmony. All Life is of God, Infinite Love. Go right to God and stay there."-Al DenningerSupport the show

I'm here with Wemimo Abbey from Esusu. Esusu raised over $140M and the company is valued at $1BN today, as a unicorn company. Their partnerships with real estate owners and operators represent 2.5 million units across 50 different states and they are helping people improve their credit score with the rent that they pay. They are leveraging data to help bridge the racial wealth gap in the United States. Hear more from him on: Why You should Raise in a Position of Strength Navigating Fundraising as a Minority Statistic Founder Justice Capitalism - Giving People a Fighting Chance Building Your Mansion On a Solid Foundation Friendship Being the Antidote to All Life's Challenges Head for Business, Heart for the World Find out more at KindredCapital.VC/FoundersUncut This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Kat has coach turned friend, Chelsea Adair, on the podcast this week! Chelsea is a feminine embodiment mentor helping women reclaim their pleasure, sexuality, and power. After leaving her job as a personal trainer and physical therapists assistant, Chelsea spent the next 6 years studying herself and helping others along the way, traveling to Bali to receive her Yoga Teacher Training through Embodied Flow and studying under some of the greatest leaders in trauma healing, sexuality & intimacy. Chelsea guides her clients into their inherent wholeness and authentic expression through emotional release, somatic healing, and basic psychology - all rooted in the reclamation of the Feminine. This week we talk about Chelsea and her story, eroticism, the pleasure path, relearning what sucks energy is, feminine embodiment, what it's like own vs suppress our desires and not numbing anymore and anchoring into our power Reclaiming our feminine essence as a woman is our birthright and we are taught in so many ways generationally and societally that we should suppress that. But your womb, your sacral chakra, that creation energy and your essence of being a woman is your gift to this world. Kat had to work through shame, embrace her devotion to things, own her desires, learn to surrender to the bigger picture of life, and more. These are some of the things that Kat had to learn as she worked with Chelsea and moved from judgement to embodied and awakened. LINKS: Womb Awakening: Initiatory Wisdom from the Creatrix of All Life: https://a.co/d/0Es4ZP4 Pussy: A Reclamation: https://a.co/d/cwIq7ll Follow Chelsea on Instagram: https://instagram.com/chelseaadair?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Work With Chelsea & access her *FLASH SALE!*: https://embodiedwoman.thinkific.com/

Ben King Welcome to the #ShareYourHotness Podcast episode 70! Y'all are in for a treat! Ben King is like a sea or serenity and joy wrapped up into a single, wonderfully amazing person. Benjamin King and his wife, Cheryl King, are the founders of a nonprofit called Blue Petal Foundation. In addition to raising their eight children together, they serve to bring a message of peace, inspiration and whole-heartedness to the world. Through his work as a Chinese Energy Medicine practitioner, Qigong instructor, and hypnotherapist, Benjamin helps clients, students and members of his foundation to _Return to the Way of All Life. _He is a trained actor, singer and dancer and a graduate of Brigham Young University's Acting program. https://www.bluepetalfoundation.org This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode 57: How Earth and the global existential challenges we face, demand the full participation of all women around the world with Nina Simons Nina Simons is co-founder of Bioneers and serves as its Chief Relationship Strategist. She is a social entrepreneur who is passionate about the power of women to transform the world, reaching racial and gender justice, indigeneity and rekindling a sacred relationship to nature, while co-creating a just transition that's regenerative, loving and peaceful. She speaks internationally and co-facilitates transformative leadership offerings that integrate Relational Mindfulness, Restoring the Deep Feminine and The Work That Reconnects. Nina co-edited Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, and recently wrote the award-winning book Nature, Culture & the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership. In 2017, Nina Simons received the Goi Peace Award with her husband and partner Kenny Ausubel (** The Goi Peace Award was Established in 2000, and is an international award presented annually to honor individuals and organizations in various fields that have made outstanding contributions toward the realization of a peaceful and harmonious world as envisioned in the Declaration for All Life on Earth. They are selected not only in recognition of their past achievements, but for their ongoing contribution to building a better future.) They received this award for “pioneering work to promote nature-inspired innovations for restoring the Earth and our human community.” Past honorees include Bill Gates, James Lovelock, and Deepak Chopra. Book referred to in episode: When Healing Becomes A Crime Video: When Healing Becomes A Crime Movie Referenced in episode: The Burning Times To learn more about Nina and her amazing work, go to https://bioneers.org/ncs/ Connect with me @ www.zenny.ca/links Join the conversation on Instagram and Facebook Visit #TATS group program overview and connect with me! Can't wait to see you! Don't forget to take a screenshot of your review and send it to info@zennya.ca Visit #TATS group program overview and connect with me! Can't wait to see you! Continue living with compassion and mindfulness.

This amazing channeling tells the complete story of creation, heaven, eden, the earth. An account of origins channeled by Marjorie Livingston “The First Creation radiated from God as an Aura of Magnetism, Energy, and Thought, and became the First Cosmic Radix and the Primordial Orbit of Created Life. . . The First Creation was possessed of cosmic consciousness. Its mind was One with the Parent Mind of the Father-Mother God. It was the issue of the First Act of Creation, which was Emanation. It now underwent the processes of individualisation and of expansion. Out of this sublime Reservoir of Pure Spirit . . there began to form individual nuclei.   Light begat darkness, that the Positive gave rise to the Negative Principle, in order that, by co-ordination, they should produce experience, which is the foundation of Ecstasy. Absolute Light . . could have had no conscious existence. Only the comparison of darkness could have made it comprehensible to the mind. Absolute Good would have produced inertia within the evolving fœtus of the primal ego.   God . . is the Supreme Macrocosm, the Positive Principle. Emanating from this . . the . . Negative Principle. In this Aspect is embodied the Macrocosm.   In the beginning, God. All Life is invested in Him, all knowledge, all intelligence, all consciousness. This is the Supreme Macrocosm, the Father-God, the Positive Principle. Emanating from this Aspect of the Being of all Life, is the Negative Aspect, the source of all Life, the Mother-God, or Negative Principle. In this Aspect is embodied the Microcosm, which contains within itself the potential faculties of the Parental Macrocosm. All Spirit, then, is of God, and is Immaculate. . . . Creation occurs where the great Principle of Life . . acquires . . individual consciousness. Buy My Art - Unique Sigil Magic and Energy Activation Through Flow Art and Voyages Through Space and Imagination. https://www.newearth.art/ BUY MY BOOK! https://www.amazon.com/Reality-Revolution-Mind-Blowing-Movement-Hack/dp/154450618X/ Listen to my book on audible https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Reality-Revolution-Audiobook/B087LV1R5V The New Earth Activation trainings - Immerse yourself in 12 hours of content focused on the new earth with channeling, meditations, advanced training and access to the new earth https://realityrevolutioncon.com/newearth Alternate Universe Reality Activation  get full access to new meditations, new lectures, recordings from the reality con and the 90 day AURA meditation schedulehttps://realityrevolutionlive.com/aura45338118  Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/The-Reality-Revolution-Podcast-Hosted-By-Brian-Scott-102555575116999 Join our Facebook group The Reality Revolution https://www.facebook.com/groups/523814491927119 Contact us at media@advancedsuccessinstitute.com For coaching – https://www.advancedsuccessinstitute.com For all episodes of the Reality Revolution – https://www.therealityrevolution.com Subscribe to my Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgXHr5S3oF0qetPfqxJfSw   Follow Us on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRealityRevolution/ Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_reality_revolution/ Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/mediaprime Follow me on MeWe https://mewe.com/i/brianscott71 Join our reality revolution group on twitter https://twitter.com/i/communities/1509405555579777024  Music Epidemic SoundEskimo Nebula  Final Departure  Appeased Sountrack 11antidote xinfinite sustainbalancecharcoal streamdistanct encountersolarflareshalcyon daydreammuted rainstratosphere voyagegordian knothelix nebula  All My Neville Goddard Videos In One Playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKv1KCSKwOo8kBZsJpp3xvkRwhbXuhg0M All Audiobooks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jo8qS0B3n0&list=PLKv1KCSKwOo-ArT_9WQ-SrKaEP7VgIPb5 New to the Channel?  Start Here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKv1KCSKwOo9O95w5w6aOPNdLe2NOgc2N Parallel Realities Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKv1KCSKwOo-1-dStwX7huyhcxpJPMrWi The Prosperity Revolution:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKv1KCSKwOo8M7wX4D348BfA2Auj_h0MP The Higher Self Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKv1KCSKwOo8r2DNRnZDzIHt3fVOF8wg0 The Guided Meditations Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKv1KCSKwOo_BfNnb5vLcwouInskcEhqL All Short Meditations here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKv1KCSKwOo-Mc0SiXK8Ef0opJeahwgfM The Morning Meditations Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKv1KCSKwOo8oVjETeDbNybjs5RHUlAyL All Sleep Meditations here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKv1KCSKwOo_5Sv8NSXuDWudAVmoDns6Z The Quantum Jumping Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKv1KCSKwOo8ya5NupYv272JMMjIWDlM2 All my Interviews - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKv1KCSKwOo_Y78_zt_zv9TI1AGx-WimT 

Benjamin King and his wife, Cheryl King, are the founders of Blue Petal Foundation. Besides raising their nine children together in Orem, Utah, their work is centered in teaching others the Way of All Life – the manner in which happiness, harmony, wholeness, autonomy and peace are realized and sustainably enjoyed. Benjamin is a certified Medical Qigong practitioner, Qigong instructor and certified hypnotherapist. He studied acting at Brigham Young University and spent 14 years in the performing arts. Since 2010 he has worked with hundreds of individuals who struggle in their health, relationships, spiritual practice and overall path of life to find meaningful solutions, breakthroughs and peace.

Benjamin King and his wife, Cheryl King, are the founders of Blue Petal Foundation. Besides raising their nine children together in Orem, Utah, their work is centered in teaching others the Way of All Life – the manner in which happiness, harmony, wholeness, autonomy and peace are realized and sustainably enjoyed. Benjamin is a certified Medical Qigong practitioner, Qigong instructor and certified hypnotherapist. He studied acting at Brigham Young University and spent 14 years in the performing arts. Since 2010 he has worked with hundreds of individuals who struggle in their health, relationships, spiritual practice and overall path of life to find meaningful solutions, breakthroughs and peace.

Episode twenty six of Embracing Bliss,  All Life is YogaFrom darkness to light, just a little each day, consciousness can be changed. Embracing Bliss shows us how.Order the book here:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Embracing-Bliss-108-Daily-Meditations-ebook/dp/B09SN8KJ3MFind Jeff here: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jeffkobermeditation/Website - https://jeff-kober.com/

Episode twenty of Embracing Bliss,  All Life is Yoga.From darkness to light, just a little each day, consciousness can be changed. Embracing Bliss shows us how.Order the book here:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Embracing-Bliss-108-Daily-Meditations-ebook/dp/B09SN8KJ3MFind Jeff here: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jeffkobermeditation/Website - https://jeff-kober.com/

Do you often ask the question "What is my purpose in life? When life takes unexpected and unwelcome turns, Pastor John Onwuchekwa teaches we can find peace and hope in Ecclesiastics, through his book We Go On: Finding Purpose in All Life's Sorrows and Joys. Then guest host Peter Kapsner is joined by Tim Yearsley from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity to discuss the need for the gospel to permeate every aspect of our life.

Due to the mind-numbing circumstances of this week's Supreme Court decision, we decided to re-release our abortion episode. Right, critics, we know if our moms got abortions, we would not be born to tell the tale. Your fallacy of logic is too exhausting to even address.  As women, moreover as mothers, we are consumed with grief and anger over what is happening on the daily to threaten our children, but now, even the bodies of our female children?  While we regroup and figure out how to take action, we want to reshare our thoughts and some facts about Islam and abortion. Check our shownotes on this one for sure to get the links.  For all these years, the cockroaches have been warning the world about Sharia Law when their own religious laws are SO MUCH more dangerous to women. The irony is maddening. Tell us what you think about Roe v Wade being overturned in comments, but if you identify as male, you should observe and remain silent. As owners of the only set of organs to have laws created to control them, we are hypervigilant right now and have given fair warning to tread lightly or not at all. Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon, or ask Alexa. You can also click the link in our bio to SHARE THIS EPISODE with a woman you love. Islam and the Abortion Debate from Yaqeen Institute: https://yaqeeninstitute.org/omar-suleiman/islam-and-the-abortion-debateAbortion in Islami animated information from Yaqeen Institute: https://yaqeeninstitute.org/omar-suleiman/abortion-in-islam-animated-videoFor parenting courses on how to talk to Muslim kids about sex: @thehalalsexpertState by state restrictions on abortion at Planned Parenthood: https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/abortionMuslim Kids and Sexual Activity:https://muslimmentalhealth.com/lets-talk-about-sex-and-muslim-mental-health/Sex Education Reduces Unplanned Pregnancy:https://www.aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom/study-finds-comprehensive-sex-education-reduces-teen-pregnancyWho is Alex P. Keaton?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_P._KeatonWeb: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast12. YouTube:https://youtu.be/OpbMZseC8KoSupport the show

Welcome back to, The Real Double Dose Channel- aka S&M ELEVATION! Hello Familianz & New Coming Friends! We hope and pray that all is being, doing, and going well with you all! Thank you all for joining us! Welcome to another amazing episode, growing within even more expansion! Have you ever considered yourself to be, #The Full Package..? Or, have you ever understood what the full package even means when it comes to your levels..? Humm, so many times in life we accept those with a fuller package, not even looking at the fact that we are the full package, to begin with, especially when it boils down to either the baggage that comes along with someone or the beautiful attributes of what an extraordinary gift that comes along with them and or ourselves, vice versa. We must understand the sanctities, as well as the fruitfulness of what the full package validly means to us all... Absolutely, it is an overall perception of value and understanding from where the omnipresent, Mysterious Creator has given us understanding within our minds to see and seek... Then, are we not asking for enough within the full packages that we uphold..? We must be sure we're not simply taking blindness for someone else's package, that is not meant for our fullness and the fullest to come. We need to embrace the fact that we are indeed, #The full package of All Life given to us by God!

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How do you express the inexpressible?  How do you say something that has no meaningful way to be said?  It may be difficult, but we are still going to try in this episode.  "What are we going to get From the Hat today?"Our featured guest for this episode is Benjamin King.Ben is a family man. He and his wife Cheryl are joyfully (and often exhaustively) raising 8 magnificent children in Orem, Utah. In 2018 he founded the non-profit charity Blue Petal Foundation (www.bluepetalfoundation.org), which is dedicated to strengthening society by helping individuals learn and embody a distinct ideology called The Way of All Life – the way of sustainably enjoying happiness, peace, harmony and health. It's through this that he serves as a certified Medical Qigong practitioner and hypnotherapist, as well as Qigong instructor. Previously, Benjamin spent a few years helping professionals learning how to develop relationships of trust for personal and professional growth. In 2009 he graduate from Brigham Young University with a BFA in Acting, which ironically concluded his 14 years in the performing arts.Subscribe, read our blog, and most importantly, leave any comment, question, or feedback. Follow us on  all the social medias: https://linktr.ee/RyanPondVOA  We want future shows to be driven by listeners on topics, questions, and ideas.  We'd love to hear from you! 

This past year—much like the year before—has put increasing pressure on professionals working in life sciences and healthcare. We hear the inspiring and sobering stories from those on the front lines of life sciences who are making a real difference to save lives. To celebrate the strong tailwinds behind us and the people who helped pave this road to success – notably amid an ongoing pandemic – Qualio is donating for the 2nd year in a row 1% of annual revenue. We call this initiative 1% For All Life. Every year we will continue to support organizations that ensure underserved communities receive the healthcare they need.At Qualio, we share a core belief that everyone deserves to live a long, happy and healthy life. We are continuing our work to extend this mission by supporting organizations that align with our shared values. After nearly two years in a global pandemic, we feel strongly that we must continue to support better healthcare access to underserved communities. Here is where our donations will go as 2021 comes to an end:Saint Francis Foundation: Community Crisis Response Fund (COVID-19)Gates Philanthropy Partners: the Must-Solve Problems fund with the hope of supporting their efforts to drive healthcare innovation, eradicate disease, and reduce inequity in the world.Learn more about why we've made this pledge and hear from Saint Francis Foundation's President, Mark Ryle on their inspiring work in this episode of the From Lab to Launch podcast.Links:https://www.saintfrancisfoundation.org/https://sfcommunityhealth.org/program/hhome/Find service opportunities near you: https://www.volunteermatch.org1% for All Life 2020 articleApply to be on the show: https://forms.gle/uUH2YtCFxJHrVGeL8Music by keldez

On this episode learn little know essential facts about your life and how to use astrology to make it better! How Venus controls love and money Mayan calendar - social contracts nullified How the Venus retrograde is related to the COVID19 pandemic Are you the one to heal family issues? See if your chart says yes. About Our guest: KELLY'S BIO: Kelly Beard has been a Shamanic Astrologer since 1996, specializing in cycles & patterns, including personal, social & collective cycles that affect everyone. She teaches that there are many planetary cycles that coincide with natural life cycles which allow us to co-create in mystical, as well as practical ways. Kelly is also a certified Earth Medicine Practitioner dedicated to creating sacred space & custom tools that support the individual's lifelong journey of self-healing, ongoing education & transformational soul work. In 2022, she is launching her new Soul Sisters Circle with two different focuses. The monthly circle is dedicated to the *Individual Soul Work*, whereas the seasonal circle will be more *Community Ritual & Ceremony* that is dedicated to the Earth and All Life. You can find more at her website. Astrology ~ www.KarmicTools.com Earth Medicine ~ www.KellyMBeard.com Youtube Channel ~ https://www.youtube.com/c/KarmicTools Instagram ~ https://www.instagram.com/TheSacredSandbox/ December 12 event: "Spinning the Moon with Mother Oshun" Taught by YeYe Luisah Teish and Kelly Beard Register at: www.YeYeLuisahTeish.com About The Host Sanaa Green is a spiritual teacher who helps women see their sacred essence. She reflects and nurtures the divine potential of others. Her purpose is to support the reestablishment the Divine Feminine into our collective consciousness and to show the Divine as an accessible state of being in everyday life. She is an Urban Nature Lover, Reiki Master, Feng Shui Consultant, Environmental Educator, Community Activist and a contributing Creative in the Wisdom Institutes' Passing The Torch Preserving the The Flame transformational womynst program. All of these vocations are tools to express the Creator and fulfill her life purpose. Sanaa uses her voice to speak resonate energy into the world through Center Her Power Podcast, as well as, a new, 15 minute, podcast called Mawu: Goddess Stories. The Center Her Power Podcast features interviews with women who are embodying the divine Feminine in various ways. Sanaa has been spiritually trained in Black Hat Sect Feng Shui, Reiki, Belly Dance, Dagara Elemental Rituals and more. Her academic training includes; Masters work in Ecopsychology at Naropa University and a BA in Communications from Howard University. Sanaa offers these Learnshops: Belly Dance for Earth And Soul - Connecting to the Earth as yourself through Belly Dance. Journey to Purpose - How to discover your purpose and live in it. When God Was A Woman - The journey of the Divine Feminine from power to desecration and back. To connect with Sanaa: website: www.centerherpower Instagram: centerherpower Twitter: centerherpower1 Facebook: In The Center of Her Power --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sanaa-green0/message

After the success of last years final episode, the final Listener Mix of this year again kept the requests open until part way through the LiVE show and the result is this 34 track, three and a half hour long collection of banging SEGA party tunes all picked by you! This is the show that #GoLongOrGoHome was invented for - thanks everyone for your requests throughout 2021! Tracklisting: - RoBKTA: Club Needlemouse - Vanishing Apotos Horizon (Sonic Unleashed) (requested by Eleri) - Fighting Vipers 2 - L.S.D. -Remix version- (requested by Verytex) - Sonic the Hedgehog CD - Sonic Boom -Opening- (requested by Reno_gtk) - Iceferno - Streets of Wrath 2 - Machete (Stage 6-02) (requested by VGBeats) - CayenneGaramonde - MASHUP: Cycle I (Streets of Rage 3 + Streets of Rage Remake) (requested by Iceferno) - BGM1401 - Never Return Alive (Extended Mix) (requested by Jamie) - Sega Vintage Collection - Streets of Rage 3 (requested by steve_c) - The Musical Ghost feat. Swiblet - Persona 5 - Life Will Change [Electro Swing Remix] (requested by Rexy) - Yakuza Dead Souls - "JeweL" OF THE END (requested by Twinny) - SEGA Rally 2 - Searchin' For My Dreams (requested by Jon the VG Nerd) - Clockwork Knight 2 - Salsa de Pepperouchau -Fiesta de los Amigos- (requested by electricboogaloo) - OutRun 2 - Night Flight (requested by FloppyTheRobot) - elj_ - Out Run Medley [Jeroen Tel Style] (N163) (requested by Virtua) - Naofumi Hataya - We Are Burning Rangers (2 Deep Club Mix) (requested by skubman) - GaMetal - Battle Hymn of the Soul (Persona 3) - GaMetal Remix (requested by DragonMerc) - Lost Judgement - Unwavering Belief -Full Spec Edition- (requested by KC) - The Arkadian & Jason Z - Night Trap (requested by Greyfore) - Sonic Generations - BOSS BATTLE: BIG ARMS (requested by INeedFruit) - Sonic Rush - Back 2 Back (requested by acori) - Guifrog - Phantasy Star IV "Sakura Storm" OC ReMix (requested by Rexy) - Trey Nobles - Wave Ocean: Mariko Nanba & Tomoya Ohtani (Full Band Cover) (requested by Eleri) - Iceferno - Streets of Wrath - Streets of Wrath (Original Dub) (requested by Jamie) - Cinossu - Mega Drive Mega Boss Mega Mix (requested by Virtua) - Team Sonic Racing - Green Light Ride - Wall5 Remix (requested by acori) - OutRun 2 - Passing Breeze (Euro Remix) (requested by Iceferno) - Iceferno - Streets of Wrath 2 - Avenue of Blood (Stage 1-01) (requested by VGBeats) - Nightshade - Kurohagane Beta (requested by Verytex) - Super Monaco GP (Mega Drive version) - Theme of Monaco (requested by steve_c) - Etrian Odyssey Nexus - Tumult - Twilight of All Life (requested by DragonMerc) - TETREMIX - Tetremix -Dance Mix Ver.- (requested by Twinny) - F1 Challenge - Suzuka (requested by electricboogaloo) - tefnek & zircon - Streets of Rage 2 "Above Reason" OC ReMix (requested by skubman) - A NiGHTS REMIX ~ Another Dreams - Paternal Horn (Swea-T-shirt Mix) (requested by INeedFruit) - Sonic R - Number One (requested by Jon the VG Nerd)

Greater support was urged for developing nations on biodiversity conservation on the opening day of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP 15, in Kunming, Yunnan province, on Monday. 周一，联合国生物多样性公约缔约方大会第十五次会议（COP 15）在云南省昆明市开幕，该会议敦促发展中国家加大对于生物多样性保护的支持力度。The meeting, on the theme "Ecological Civilization: Building a Shared Future for All Life on Earth", is being held Monday through Friday and will continue in the first half of next year.本次会议以“生态文明：共建地球生命共同体”为主题，将于周一至周五举行，并于明年上半年将继续召开。Ecological civilization is a concept promoted by President Xi Jinping for balanced and sustainable development that features the harmonious coexistence of man and nature.生态文明是习近平主席提出的人与自然和谐共处的平衡可持续发展理念。Xi will participate in the COP 15 leaders' summit on Tuesday via video link and deliver a keynote speech, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Monday.外交部发言人华春莹周一表示，习近平主席将通过视频形式参加周二的COP 15领导人峰会并发表主旨演讲。More than 1,800 participants will gather at a forum on ecological civilization on Thursday and Friday at a sideline event. The forum will cover a wide range of topics, including coping with climate change and nature-based ecological protection and restoration.1800多名与会者将在周四和周五的场边会上参与一场生态文明论坛。该论坛将涵盖广泛主题，包括应对气候变化和基于自然的生态保护和恢复。Addressing the COP 15 opening ceremony, Vice-Premier Han Zheng said China has stuck to an ecology-first path for green development and hopes to step up cooperation as well as exchanges with all parties.国务院副总理韩正在COP 15开幕式上致辞时表示，中国坚持走生态优先的绿色发展道路，并希望与各方加强合作交流。Han, who is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said China will advance biodiversity protection with greater and more tangible efforts.韩正副总理也是中共中央政治局常委。他表示，中国将切实加大努力，推进生物多样性保护。Stressing the importance of adhering to the principles of fairness, transparency and State-driven efforts, Han called for developing countries' concerns about funding support, technology and capacity building to be accommodated.韩正强调，必须坚持公平、透明和国家主导的原则，呼吁关注发展中国家对资金支持、技术和能力建设的担忧。He said countries should seek common ground, follow a path that is ambitious and practical and formulate post-2020 goals in a scientific manner. Countries should explore more channels of funding and provide greater support for biodiversity protection, Han said.他表示，各国应求同存异，走有抱负、务实的道路，科学制定2020年后目标。 韩说，各国应探索更多资金渠道，加大对生物多样性保护的支持力度。China will formulate a national biodiversity protection strategy and action plan for the new era and incorporate biodiversity protection into the mid- and long-term development plans of all regions, Han said.韩正表示，中国将制定新时代国家生物多样性保护战略和行动计划，将生物多样性保护纳入各地区中长期发展规划。"We will press ahead with major biodiversity protection projects and further enhance protection methods to make sure that important ecosystems, species and hereditary resources are fully protected. Public education and public participation in eco-protection will also be encouraged," Han added.“我们将推进生物多样性保护重大工程，进一步加强保护手段，确保重要生态系统、物种和遗传资源得到充分保护。还将鼓励公众教育和公众参与生态保护，”他补充说。Inger Andersen, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, called for more support to help developing nations achieve their goals to counter a grim biodiversity conservation situation. The costs of our "suicidal war" against nature are growing at an alarming rate, Andersen said." As the UN secretary-general has said, making peace with nature is a defining task of the 21st century," she added.联合国环境规划署执行主任英格·安德森呼吁提供更多支持，帮助发展中国家实现应对严峻的生物多样性保护形势的目标。安德森说，我们与自然“自杀式战争”的代价正以惊人的速度增长。“正如联合国秘书长所说，与自然和平相处是21世纪的一项决定性任务，”她补充道。The world's efforts have not been sufficient to reverse the damage done by humankind to nature, she said. When the 2010 Aichi biodiversity targets ended in 2020, the world had some successes, however, the action, ambition and impact were inadequate.她说，全球当前所采取的努力还不足以扭转人类对自然造成的破坏。 当2010年爱知生物多样性目标于2020年结束时，我们取得了一些成功，但行动、雄心和影响力不足。The post-2020 global biodiversity framework now being discussed is an opportunity for "us all", and the world needs to take clear and tangible action, she said.她说，现在正在讨论的 2020年后全球生物多样性框架对“我们所有人”来说都是一个机会，世界需要采取明确和切实的行动。Post-2020 framework《2020年后生物多样性全球框架》COP 15, the largest UN gathering on biodiversity in a decade, is tasked with elaborating on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework and identifying new protection goals through 2030.COP 15是十年来规模最大的联合国生物多样性会议，旨在阐明 2020年后全球生物多样性框架，并确定到2030年的新的保护目标。Andersen also called on parties to focus efforts on an ambitious post-2020 framework and commit to implementing it. "That is how we will ensure a sustainable future for all," she said.安德森还呼吁各方将努力集中在一个雄心勃勃的 2020年后框架上，并致力于该框架的实施。“这就是我们确保全球可持续性未来的方法，”她说。Nature should be placed at the heart of decision-making and the shortcomings of governance and markets corrected. Financial systems need to incorporate biodiversity in their assessments and planning, she said. "We need to mobilize much greater resources from all sources, including finance, technology and the capacity to support developing countries to deliver their international ambitions."应将自然置于决策的核心位置，并纠正治理和市场的缺陷。她说，金融系统需要将生物多样性纳入其评估和规划当中。“我们需要从各方调集更多资源，包括资金、技术和支持发展中国家实现其国际雄心的能力。”Yunnan province, home to more than a half of China's plant species and more than 6,000 animal species, has set up multiple initiatives to protect biodiversity in the past decades.云南省拥有中国半数以上的植物物种和 6,000多种动物物种。在过去几十年里，该省制定了多项保护生物多样性的举措。More than 120 rescue and protection projects targeting plant species with extremely small populations have been implemented in Yunnan in the past five years, with 30 protection zones marked out.五年来，云南实施了120多项针对极小种群植物物种的抢救保护工程，划定了30个保护区。"We will take this opportunity and strengthen our cooperation with foreign governments and nongovernment organizations to enhance our protection, so that we will work together to build a community of shared life on Earth," said Ruan Chengfa, Party secretary of Yunnan.云南省委书记阮成发说：“我们将以此为契机，加强与外国政府和非政府组织的合作，从而加强保护，共同构建地球生命共同体。”

This Sunday:  Dawn Woodring  will share a talk titled  I am Evolving with Earth & All Life   

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Listen as Pastor Todd gives more insight into his Sunday message “The God of All Life” from Psalm 139.

Mrs. Linda B. joins us today to discuss her video on Instagram @Camericanchick in her dialog about the Catholic Pro-Life Movement and not being attentive to LIVING Black Youth and Adults. She discusses the disparity of standing up for those between the Womb and the Tomb. If we are for ALL Life we must SHOW it when it makes us Comfortable and Uncomfortable… Linda B… @CamericanChick is #inYOURlane… Lets ROLL!

PLUS EPISODE 001 - THE CORONAVIRUS: FRAUDULENT DATA? Richard speaks with an investigative reporter about some of the questionable data concerning the Coronavirus Pandemic and the logic behind the lockdown. GUEST: Jon Rappoport is the founder of No More Fake News.com.  He has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, and is the author of five books. He has written on medical fraud, deep politics, and health issues for newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe, including CBS Healthwatch, Spin, Stern and LA Weekly.The LA Weekly placed Jon's name in nomination for a Pulitzer Prize, for his interview with the president of Salvador University, where a military takeover had occurred. He's the author of several books including AIDS, Inc. Scandal of the Century; The Ownership of All Life; and The Secret Behind Secret Societies...He's also produced a massive collection of his interviews with insiders and whistleblowers available on CD-Rom...The Matrix Revealed, Exit from The Matrix, and Power Outside the Matrix.