Podcasts about Always already

Inward was created by R' Zac Kamenetz and is produced by Zev Gavriel. The music is by Zusha. To learn more, please visit InwardTorah.org.

Continuing with our look back at some of our favourite episodes while we take a break between seasons, this week we’re going back to March 2019.  In 1969 National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre traveled deep into the Amazon in search of the fabled Mayoruna tribe who were said to have no contact with the outside world.  What happened next left him wondering for the rest of his life whether it had truly occurred or not...  Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.  

IN WHICH OUR HEROES battle a family(!?) of bugbears and continue their mountain journey to Highlake. Himo makes a boulder trap. Pimlan roasts his enemies. Magnuss has a chip on his shoulder. Sukha experiments in a safe environment. Palfrey and Jebeddo fight over a shield. Editing, sound design and original music by Luke Brevoort: splendorsound.com Page of visuals: splendorsound.com/vengeance

Welcome to the Five Song Mixtape! This week we discuss the mixtape titled “Devin Loves Violence To Women” by Devin. You can find the playlist by following our account on Spotify @FiveSongMixtape or you can find us on Instagram @FiveSongMixtape. We would love to hear your thoughts on the playlist and please give us a rating via iTunes to help spread the word!“Devin Loves Violence To Women” by Devin1. “Always Already” by La Luna2. “New Refused” by Closer3. “18 Years and Counting” by Amygdala4. “Survivors Guilt” by Roman Candle5. “An Endless Cycle // I Was More Than the Weight of My Work” by Massa Nera Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Loch points us toward our natural awake consciousness with the inquiry, “What's here now when there's no problem to solve?” The premise of Effortless Mindfulness is that an awake consciousness is already here and available to all of us; it just needs to be revealed. Once revealed, we can discover our true nature and live from it with an open mind and an open heart. Try it for yourself with the guided mindful glimpse micro-mediation! For more info about Loch, visit: https://lochkelly.org/ For additional information about this podcast, visit: https://podcast.effortlessmindfulness.com/ For the Loch Kelly App, visit: https://effortlessmindfulness.com and to donate, visit: https://lochkelly.org/donate

Use mindful awareness of the breath and sensations in the body to drop into the space of you: your self as you always already are. Whatever you are experiencing in this moment can be a gateway to deeper awareness of your formless, limitless self.

The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/09/why-jesus-commandment-that-we-love-one.htmlPlease feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (double bass)

S18:E4• Reb Joey shares a fundamental teaching on working with trauma. 'Inward' is a production of the Shefa Podcast Network, and is supported in part from a grant from the Hadar Institute. Please support Rabbi Joey's teaching and this podcast by contributing here, designating "Inward". Music is by Zusha. Help support them by purchasing their music. Audio is by David Kwan. Production & Cover Design is by Zev Gavriel.

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An epic journey begins. Which path will produce the most profound profundity? The wisest wisdom? Bill Arnett eases us into first gear, but Mark Linsenmayer pulls the wheel toward murder. For more about Mark and Bill, respectfully see partiallyexaminedlife.com and chicagoimprovstudio.com respectively. Hear more PvI. Support the podcast to get bonus stuff and good karma!

Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with Crystal Davis of Blooming Fire Healing where we discuss how magic helps us survive, becoming a BIPOC healer, and much more. Topics we cover include: Shapeshifting Learning to live with depression Becoming a healer and reiki master Being a “feral witch” (or Crystal’s term for solitary magical practitioners) Building relationship with the things we can see and the things we can’t BIPOC healing circles Tarot as a mirror and a map About Crystal: Crystal Davis (she/they) is an intuitive empath, healer, and magic maker living in Portland, OR. She moves through the world as a queer Black cis woman. The alchemy of her interests, experiences, and survival have led her down this winding road of exploration, reflection, and the path of the witch. She found her way to metaphysics in her hometown of Richmond, VA. After beginning her Reiki training, Crystal was called to the Pacific Northwest to continue her study of alternative healing and magic.  Healing is a journey - one step inevitably leading to the next. Her perspectives on healing have been informed by her lived experiences, work with youth, and individuals surviving houselessness and poverty at Sisters of the Road. She is an alumni of the Blue Iris Mystery School and a Holy Fire Reiki Master/Teacher. She is a volunteer practitioner with healing justice organization Radical Rest which provides mental health and wellness services to support BIPOC organizers and activists in their continued work of liberation. Through Blooming Fire Healing, she offers tarot, energywork, and monthly BIPOC healing circles to support the healing and magic that her clients bring into the world. She believes that when individuals are in full bloom they give a gift to their entire community.  Find Crystal online: On the web: www.bloomingfirehealing.com On Social Media:  IG: @bloomingfirepdx FB @bloomingfirehealing Soundcloud: Blooming Fire Healing Links to relevant resources: Black Lives Are Magic calendar - https://www.instagram.com/blacklivesaremagic WooPDX - POC-owned magic shop in Portland - https://woopdx.com Sisters of the Road - https://sistersoftheroad.org/ Radical Rest - https://www.radicalrest.org Blue Iris Mystery School - https://www.blueirismysteries.com https://www.wweek.com/culture/2020/09/23/in-2020-everyone-is-struggling-with-mental-health-heres-our-guide-to-finding-peace https://soundcloud.com/bloomingfirehealing/the-shielding-song Links to So Many Wings’ social media and website On the web: https://somanywings.org On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somanywingspodcast On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/somanywingspodcast On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/somanywingspodcast

Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with Crystal Davis of Blooming Fire Healing where we discuss how magic helps us survive, becoming a BIPOC healer, and much more. Topics we cover include: Shapeshifting Learning to live with depression Becoming a healer and reiki master Being a “feral witch” (or Crystal’s term for solitary magical practitioners) Building relationship with the things we can see and the things we can’t BIPOC healing circles Tarot as a mirror and a map About Crystal: Crystal Davis (she/they) is an intuitive empath, healer, and magic maker living in Portland, OR. She moves through the world as a queer Black cis woman. The alchemy of her interests, experiences, and survival have led her down this winding road of exploration, reflection, and the path of the witch. She found her way to metaphysics in her hometown of Richmond, VA. After beginning her Reiki training, Crystal was called to the Pacific Northwest to continue her study of alternative healing and magic.  Healing is a journey - one step inevitably leading to the next. Her perspectives on healing have been informed by her lived experiences, work with youth, and individuals surviving houselessness and poverty at Sisters of the Road. She is an alumni of the Blue Iris Mystery School and a Holy Fire Reiki Master/Teacher. She is a volunteer practitioner with healing justice organization Radical Rest which provides mental health and wellness services to support BIPOC organizers and activists in their continued work of liberation. Through Blooming Fire Healing, she offers tarot, energywork, and monthly BIPOC healing circles to support the healing and magic that her clients bring into the world. She believes that when individuals are in full bloom they give a gift to their entire community.  Find Crystal online: On the web: www.bloomingfirehealing.com On Social Media:  IG: @bloomingfirepdx FB @bloomingfirehealing Soundcloud: Blooming Fire Healing Links to relevant resources: Black Lives Are Magic calendar - https://www.instagram.com/blacklivesaremagic WooPDX - POC-owned magic shop in Portland - https://woopdx.com Sisters of the Road - https://sistersoftheroad.org/ Radical Rest - https://www.radicalrest.org Blue Iris Mystery School - https://www.blueirismysteries.com https://www.wweek.com/culture/2020/09/23/in-2020-everyone-is-struggling-with-mental-health-heres-our-guide-to-finding-peace https://soundcloud.com/bloomingfirehealing/the-shielding-song Links to So Many Wings’ social media and website On the web: https://somanywings.org On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somanywingspodcast On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/somanywingspodcast On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/somanywingspodcast

We move beyond Us vs Them to talk the Open Secret, Always Already, and Contested Truth Join the conversation. Comment below or email VHUMCpastor@gmail.com  Support the podcast with a tax-deductible donation on our  online giving app   

Today’s podcast continues our Podcast Snippet installments. We use these shorter podcasts to share quickly, and hopefully succinctly, our thoughts on key topics or distinctions. In today’s snippet we explore the distinction of a potential unconscious behavior of always already listening versus a powerful capacity called Listening to Connect. To find out more connect with us at Mazzi Partners.

In last week's episode, Always Already, we journeyed deep into the Amazonian rainforest with the Mayoruna tribe and acclaimed photojournalist Loren McIntyre, who hoped to be the first person to photograph them. To some, McIntyre's ambition to locate the Mayoruna despite their desire to avoid all contact with outsiders speaks to a bygone age of colonial self-importance.  In this episode we look at the perils of such contact, cultural erasure and what happened when missionary John Allen Chau attempted to reach the islanders of North Sentinel Island in November 2018. Go to @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

Part 2 of S04 Episode 4: Always Already In 1969, National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre travelled deep into the Amazon in search of the Mayoruna tribe who were said to maintain no contact with the outside world. What happened next left him wondering for the rest of his life whether it had really occurred or not. Go to @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

In 1969, National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre travelled deep into the Amazon in search of the Mayoruna tribe who were said to maintain no contact with the outside world. What happened next left him wondering for the rest of his life whether it had really occurred or not. Go to @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.  

In this special crossover episode of Epistemic Unruliness, James sat down with Kaitlin Smith, the founder of the Wild Mind Collective and host of their podcast, for an intimate conversation focusing on the spiritual praxis of critical cultural studies. The pair discussed the inspiration behind Epistemic Unruliness and the interpersonal relationships between Always Already hosts, James’s […]

Way back in Episode 16 we paired up with Always Already to talk about a book on gender and the interaction of science and society. Unsurprisingly, that conversation spanned far beyond the scientific study of gender and so we never really got into the biological weeds. Our intent with this episode was to go back to gender, with a focus on the explaining the current state of the science. What we quickly learn, however, is that it's very difficult to talk about gender without talking about society. So we first work through this by airing our anxieties on the topic, and our personal motivations for finding this science interesting. Eventually though, we break into the biology of embryonic sexual differentiation and certain "natural experiments" that alter the course of this differentiation. People with abnormal differentiation offer a chance to see what happens when things like chromosomal sex (XX vs XY) and external genitalia are decoupled, which offers some insight into normal gender development. Next we cover some biological hypotheses on sex that didn't pan out (but are still being promoted...). Finally we turn to the better controlled world of animal experimentation and cover what factors impact gendered behavior in macaque monkeys. As it turns a lot of findings on gender don't replicate, but here's one that does: whenever the Unsupervised Thinking crew has a conversation on gender it takes more than an hour.

On this "very special" episode of Unsupervised Thinking, we partner with our fellow podcasters over at Always Already, a critical theory podcast, to burst out of our respective academic bubbles and tackle issues of science and society. The fodder for our conversation is Brain Storm, a book by Rebecca Jordan-Young, that lays out the evidence that prenatal hormone exposures influence gender differences in behavior later in life. In the book, she claims that the sum total of the studies she covers only offers weak support for the hypothesis, and that scientists need to appropriately incorporate other factors into their models such as socialization and environment. While we use this book as a common starting point, our conversation quickly moves beyond the particulars of these gender science studies. We start by questioning who is the intended audience of this book and what it's trying to say to different groups. This moves us into a discussion on critiques of science made by non-scientists and the role that those should/could play in shaping research agendas. We also spend some time dissecting the two-way street between science and society: particularly, how are common notions of gender shaped by scientific studies and how do society's stereotypes seep into the methods of science? An underlying disagreement about the nature of truth peppers the discussion, but we hold off on a full blown debate on that. Ultimately it is clear that the extent and cause of gender differences in behavior is far from settled science, and that is something on which we all can agree.

What is the relationship between state power and self-destructive violence as a mode of political resistance? In her book Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia University Press, 2016), Banu Bargu (Politics, The New School) analyzes the Turkish death fast movement and explores self-inflicted death as a political practice. Amid a global intensification of the “weaponization of life,” Bargu argues for conceptualizing this self-destructive use of the body as a complex political and existential act. In doing so, she theorizes a reconfiguration of sovereignty into biosovereignty and of resistance into necroresistance. To accomplish this, the book innovatively weaves together political and critical theory with ethnography in a way that enables the self-understanding and self-narration of those in and around the death fast movement to speak to canonical thinkers and concepts. John McMahon is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Beloit College. He is a former Fellow at the Center for Global Ethics and Politics at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY, which sponsors the podcast. In addition to NB Global Ethics and Politics, he also co-hosts the Always Already critical theory podcast.

What is the relationship between state power and self-destructive violence as a mode of political resistance? In her book Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia University Press, 2016), Banu Bargu (Politics, The New School) analyzes the Turkish death fast movement and explores self-inflicted death as a political practice. Amid a global intensification of the “weaponization of life,” Bargu argues for conceptualizing this self-destructive use of the body as a complex political and existential act. In doing so, she theorizes a reconfiguration of sovereignty into biosovereignty and of resistance into necroresistance. To accomplish this, the book innovatively weaves together political and critical theory with ethnography in a way that enables the self-understanding and self-narration of those in and around the death fast movement to speak to canonical thinkers and concepts. John McMahon is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Beloit College. He is a former Fellow at the Center for Global Ethics and Politics at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY, which sponsors the podcast. In addition to NB Global Ethics and Politics, he also co-hosts the Always Already critical theory podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the relationship between state power and self-destructive violence as a mode of political resistance? In her book Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia University Press, 2016), Banu Bargu (Politics, The New School) analyzes the Turkish death fast movement and explores self-inflicted death as a political practice. Amid a global intensification of the “weaponization of life,” Bargu argues for conceptualizing this self-destructive use of the body as a complex political and existential act. In doing so, she theorizes a reconfiguration of sovereignty into biosovereignty and of resistance into necroresistance. To accomplish this, the book innovatively weaves together political and critical theory with ethnography in a way that enables the self-understanding and self-narration of those in and around the death fast movement to speak to canonical thinkers and concepts. John McMahon is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Beloit College. He is a former Fellow at the Center for Global Ethics and Politics at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY, which sponsors the podcast. In addition to NB Global Ethics and Politics, he also co-hosts the Always Already critical theory podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the relationship between state power and self-destructive violence as a mode of political resistance? In her book Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia University Press, 2016), Banu Bargu (Politics, The New School) analyzes the Turkish death fast movement and explores self-inflicted death as a political practice. Amid a global intensification of the “weaponization of life,” Bargu argues for conceptualizing this self-destructive use of the body as a complex political and existential act. In doing so, she theorizes a reconfiguration of sovereignty into biosovereignty and of resistance into necroresistance. To accomplish this, the book innovatively weaves together political and critical theory with ethnography in a way that enables the self-understanding and self-narration of those in and around the death fast movement to speak to canonical thinkers and concepts. John McMahon is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Beloit College. He is a former Fellow at the Center for Global Ethics and Politics at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY, which sponsors the podcast. In addition to NB Global Ethics and Politics, he also co-hosts the Always Already critical theory podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the relationship between state power and self-destructive violence as a mode of political resistance? In her book Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia University Press, 2016), Banu Bargu (Politics, The New School) analyzes the Turkish death fast movement and explores self-inflicted death as a political practice. Amid a global intensification of the “weaponization of life,” Bargu argues for conceptualizing this self-destructive use of the body as a complex political and existential act. In doing so, she theorizes a reconfiguration of sovereignty into biosovereignty and of resistance into necroresistance. To accomplish this, the book innovatively weaves together political and critical theory with ethnography in a way that enables the self-understanding and self-narration of those in and around the death fast movement to speak to canonical thinkers and concepts. John McMahon is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Beloit College. He is a former Fellow at the Center for Global Ethics and Politics at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY, which sponsors the podcast. In addition to NB Global Ethics and Politics, he also co-hosts the Always Already critical theory podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do nonprofits representing immigrants participate (or choose not to participate) in electoral politics, and what forms does their participation take? In his new book, Immigrants and Electoral Politics: Nonprofit Organizing in a Time of Demographic Change (Cornell University Press, 2016), Heath Brown (Assistant Professor of Public Policy, John Jay College and The Graduate Center, CUNY) analyzes the contexts shaping the political behaviors of immigrant-serving nonprofit organizations, and the activities of these nonprofits in response to these conditions. In doing so, the book examines the complex relationship between immigrants, nonprofits, and electoral politics in the United States. This conversation between Brown and the US Federal Government and Politics class at Beloit College explores the political situation for immigrants in the US, the role of immigrant-serving nonprofits in immigrant politics, and the future of immigrant politics under a Trump administration. John McMahon is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Beloit College. He is the co-host of New Books in Global Ethics and Politics and of the Always Already critical theory podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do nonprofits representing immigrants participate (or choose not to participate) in electoral politics, and what forms does their participation take? In his new book, Immigrants and Electoral Politics: Nonprofit Organizing in a Time of Demographic Change (Cornell University Press, 2016), Heath Brown (Assistant Professor of Public Policy, John Jay College and The Graduate Center, CUNY) analyzes the contexts shaping the political behaviors of immigrant-serving nonprofit organizations, and the activities of these nonprofits in response to these conditions. In doing so, the book examines the complex relationship between immigrants, nonprofits, and electoral politics in the United States. This conversation between Brown and the US Federal Government and Politics class at Beloit College explores the political situation for immigrants in the US, the role of immigrant-serving nonprofits in immigrant politics, and the future of immigrant politics under a Trump administration. John McMahon is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Beloit College. He is the co-host of New Books in Global Ethics and Politics and of the Always Already critical theory podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do nonprofits representing immigrants participate (or choose not to participate) in electoral politics, and what forms does their participation take? In his new book, Immigrants and Electoral Politics: Nonprofit Organizing in a Time of Demographic Change (Cornell University Press, 2016), Heath Brown (Assistant Professor of Public Policy, John Jay College and The Graduate Center, CUNY) analyzes the contexts shaping the political behaviors of immigrant-serving nonprofit organizations, and the activities of these nonprofits in response to these conditions. In doing so, the book examines the complex relationship between immigrants, nonprofits, and electoral politics in the United States. This conversation between Brown and the US Federal Government and Politics class at Beloit College explores the political situation for immigrants in the US, the role of immigrant-serving nonprofits in immigrant politics, and the future of immigrant politics under a Trump administration. John McMahon is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Beloit College. He is the co-host of New Books in Global Ethics and Politics and of the Always Already critical theory podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do nonprofits representing immigrants participate (or choose not to participate) in electoral politics, and what forms does their participation take? In his new book, Immigrants and Electoral Politics: Nonprofit Organizing in a Time of Demographic Change (Cornell University Press, 2016), Heath Brown (Assistant Professor of Public Policy, John Jay College and The Graduate Center, CUNY) analyzes the contexts shaping the political behaviors of immigrant-serving nonprofit organizations, and the activities of these nonprofits in response to these conditions. In doing so, the book examines the complex relationship between immigrants, nonprofits, and electoral politics in the United States. This conversation between Brown and the US Federal Government and Politics class at Beloit College explores the political situation for immigrants in the US, the role of immigrant-serving nonprofits in immigrant politics, and the future of immigrant politics under a Trump administration. John McMahon is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Beloit College. He is the co-host of New Books in Global Ethics and Politics and of the Always Already critical theory podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Part 1 of this first-ever Always Already on the Road, James attends the American Studies Association Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. This year’s theme was Home/Not Home: Centering American Studies Where We Are, and this allowed for James and attendees to discuss the urgencies created by the election of Donald Trump, including the rise […]

It’s Part 2 of Always Already on the Road (for part 1 click here!), where James attends the American Studies Association Annual Meeting in Denver, CO for conversations with a multiplicity of critical, engaged scholars. In this episode, James and his guests discuss American colonialism and Puerto Rico, Standing Rock and the dispossession of indigenous land […]

Join James, John, and Emily for an extra special episode of Always Already “After Dark,” a potentially new series. This episode is “after dark” in two senses: 1) we recorded it dangerously near bedtime, and 2) we deviated from our usual format and content! The conversation takes up two broad topics, both of which are […]

Emily, John, and B take on cinema theory at the intersection of critical race theory in this installment of Always Already, discussing Kara Keeling’s book Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, The Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense. How does the concept and figure of the “black femme” create the conditions for the possibility of […]

In this episode of Always Already, Rachel, John, and Emily find a whole lot to like in The Problem With Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks. We discuss the subjectivizing power of the “work ethic,” as well as Weeks’s important contribution to scholarly debates about methodologies in theory-oriented disciplines. We think […]

In this very special episode of Always Already, join all four co-hosts as they peer into the depths of Jane Bennett’s vital materialism in Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. That’s right! Emily, Rachel, John, and B are all together to unravel the meaning of non-human agency, objects-as-subjects (or the collapse of that divide all […]

In this episode of Always Already, Rachel, B, and Emily attempt to de-jargonizify the concepts universal and particular as they circulate in Contingency, Hegemony, Universality by Judith Butler, Slavoj Žižek, and Ernesto Laclau.  In this discussion of Butler’s chapter “Competing Universalities” and Žižek’s chapter “Class Struggle or Postmodernism? Yes please!” the team tries to unpack what the […]

In this episode of Always Already, Emily, John, and B engage in a little film analysis for their first time on the show (and possibly in their lives!) Starting with the Pakistani cartoon Burka Avenger, your critical team struggles to uncover whether there is a reproduction of liberal rights discourse. Is there a colonized narrative […]

In this episode of Always Already, John and B explore the meaning (and afterlife) of the deaths of trans women of color at home and abroad through through “Trans Necropolitics: A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death, and the Trans of Color Afterlife” by C. Riley Snorton and Jim Haritaworn. In tackling the larger conceptual framework […]

In this episode of Always Already, our brilliant guest co-host, Sid Issar, joins B and John to engage with Lyotard’s affective reading of Marx in his Libidinal Economy. Sid breaks down Lyotard’s complex ontological reading of Marx. John points us toward how Lyotard elaborates a practices a unique mode of reading. And B, well, B […]

Matt and Ryan listen to and discuss Bright Eyes “A Christmas Album,” and Matt does his best to ruin Christmas. Episode 87: Christmas Was Always Already Ruined originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Avatar Adi Da Samraj addresses the root cause of fear which is at the core of all suffering. He speaks about the "self-contraction" or the activity of presumed identification exclusively with the separate and mortal body as the place where fear arises. Rather than avoiding the fear inherent in being a body, or try to come up with techniques to "cure it", Adi Da Samraj Calls us to understand and transcend that self-knot by identifying and the Divine Condition that is Always Already the Case and in Prior Unity to presumed separateness of the body-mind.