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Pres. Trump admires Pres. Polk and Pres. McKinley - two presidents who expanded America's territories in an age when territorial expansion was a measure of national success. In this interview, my guest compares Pres. Trump with Pres. Polk and Pres. McKinley. He also explains Manifest Destiny, and indulges my questions about what I term 'America's Manifest Destiny 2.0'. Mr. Merry also talks about America's Men of Destiny. So I ask him this: Is Pres. Trump a Man of Destiny?

00:00 Introduction to Mutuality Matters  00:02 Cultural Background and Personal Story  01:33 Guest Introduction: Mayra Ugalde  03:24 Mayra's Experience with the Bible  07:22 Impact of the Bible on Women's Lives  13:41 Challenges and Misinterpretations  16:40 Mayra's Work and Contributions  21:38 Jesus's View of Women  24:02 Translation vs. Interpretation  43:49 God's Maternal Love  52:11 Conclusion and Resources  Speaking as a Christian born, raised and in the Latin culture where she continues to work, Mayra explores the complex influence and tension between Bible translation and culture, including Bible culture. Mayra observes how often culture and church tradition have more influence than one's one reading of Scripture. Mayra briefly explores the history of Christianity in Latin America with the influence of the Catholic church. It wasn't until 1966 that the dominant religion opened opportunities for lay people to read Scripture, on their own. At this time, the British and Foreign Bible Society distributed these throughout Latin America. As people began to read the Bible, they began to change some of their perspectives.  Mayra's mother believed her daughters should serve their brothers. Mayra's father treated her brothers as kings. Her father said women should have and raise children. Life's work was defined by gender. Mayra met a man who did not believe girls and women should read the Bible without a man in the room. Reading scripture for herself, Mayra found Sheerah's story (1 Chron. 7:20–24) empowering Though Sheerah's father was disgraced by having a daughter, Scripture notes that her name means “At least one woman”; and this one daughter--Sheerah brought honor to her family and nation by building two large, strategic, and successful cities. While people believe that God's word says negative things about females, if read well, Scripture challenges gender bias by honoring women like Sheerah as strong rescuers.   Throughout her career, Mayra noticed how Bible translations and commentaries teams were produced by scholars holding to a single perspective. From this she learned the importance of including scholars that honor the authority of Scripture yet hold diverse perspectives on key issues. Mayra reminds us that the Holy Spirit guides us as we read Scripture. This is especially true and crucial for women who too often are told by pastors what the Scripture says about women. But by reading the text themselves, the Spirit can liberate women from cultural, church and denominational gender bias. Women in the Church have to read the Bible for themselves to hear the Lord speaking to them because the pastors are not God, as Paul said about the people from Berea, in Acts 17:11 “... Day after day they studied the Scriptures to see if these things were true.”   It is fascinating how Jesus interpreted Scripture, introducing woman as the “daughter of Abraham” at a time when women were not considered equal heirs with the “sons of Abraham.” Luke's Gospel is very clear about the welcome Jesus gave to women.  Mayra discusses the importance of understanding Bible translation as a science. Skilled translators understand Bible culture and realize that Scripture was written by about 40 authors over 1,200 years. In lapses of time like this, there were vast changes in the culture; in languages; and in the people's views. The Bible is a collection of books of many authors from many differing cultures, many of whom did not know each other. It's important to understand the unique culture of each text we read and to understand what is applicable for us today.   Consider the story of Vashti (Esther 1.15-20) as it honors how Vashti challenged the cultural expectation that a wife obeys their husband in everything even as he asks her to do something morally reprehensible. Vashti resisted evil. Her expectation was that her husband would behave as Paul notes in Ephesians 5:25-33.   When you read the Bible, you need to recognize the historical and cultural context of the text, as every culture upholds good and permits evil. Mayra considers the story of Hagar and Gen 1:26–27 (woman is created in God's image); Gal 3:26–30 that being clothed in Christ is our highest identity regardless of race, class or gender; that Jesus found women who suffered (in Samaria and Syrophoenicia) and he freed and gave women respect, dignity and empowerment.  Mayra explored the Motherly Love of God as it heals the church, especially women. God's Motherly Love is noted in:  Gen. 3:8–21 when God sewed clothes (like a mother) for Adam and Eve, after they sinned and were naked and afraid. God does not abandon his son and daughter after they sin but sends them his maternal love. God loves us from his depth, from the bottom of his heart. God has maternal love for his creation, and for the human being.  In Hosea 11:3–4 Like a mother, God took Israel by the arm and taught them to walk. But they would not admit that I was the one who had healed them. 4 I led them with kindness and with love, not with ropes. I held them close to me; I bent down to feed them.  Deut. 32:11 God, like a mother bird, swooping down to catch it's young   Isaiah 49:15 God, like a mother, cannot forget the child she bore, fed and nursed with her own body. Even if a mother forgets her child, God cannot not forget God's children.  Guest Bio  Mayra Ugalde currently serves as Honorary Director of the Bible Society of Costa Rica, where serve in different areas of the Publishing, Promoting and Distribution of the Bible in all over the country, for more of 43 years.  Also serves in the Publishing Committee for the all American Continent in the United Bible Society, where participate in the developing and publishing different study Bibles and specifically in the developing of  Bible with helps for the women for Latin America that's call “The Women in the Bible” and also a Bible with helps for the women in the adult time that was call “The Bible I Adore”. Mayra has an MBA in Administration, and Postgraduate in Bible, publish articles in national newspapers and nowadays writes devotionals and blogs leading readers to interact with the Bible.         Other CBE Resources  God as Motherly Father and Fatherly Mother  Three (Faulty) Objections to Feminine Language for God  Why Mothers Matter as much as Fathers in Shaping Our Perception of God 

Who is the most successful president in American history? George Washington secured American independence. Abraham Lincoln preserved the union and ended slavery. Franklin D. Roosevelt ended the Depression, remade government, and won World War II. But if we define "success" as the ability to articulate your goals and achieve every single one of them, perhaps only one president in American history was ever perfectly successful. In 1845, James K. Polk, newly elected by a whisker-thin margin, confided to his friend George Bancroft the four goals of his four years in the White House. Acquire Oregon from Great Britain. Acquire California from Mexico. Reduce the tariff. Establish an independent treasury. Four years later, he'd done all this and more. As the historian Daniel Patrick Howe wrote, "Judged by these objectives, Polk is probably the most successful president the United States has ever had.” And that's why Polk is the subject of today's show. I don't think another president in American history has so large a gap between his modern reputation and his actual achievement. There are two great biographies about Polk that I've read that have been published in the last 20 years. I'm very pleased that today, we have both authors on the show. Walter Borneman is the author of 'Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America.' And Robert Merry is the author of 'A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent_._' If you have questions, observations, or ideas for future episodes, email us at PlainEnglish@Spotify.com. Host: Derek Thompson Guests: Walter Borneman and Robert Merry Producer: Devon Baroldi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode concludes the recounting of my excursion to Southern England in search of the glorious era of Tudor England that helped shape the early exploration and colonization of the American Continent. Queen Elizabeth was crowned and buried in 1603 at Westminster Abbey, a large twin-towered Gothic church with a vast interior. Founded over a millennium ago, it is one of the United Kingdom’s most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. Many royal marriages and national commemorative events have also been held within its walls. Check out the YouTube version of this episode which has accompanying visuals including maps, charts, timelines, photos, illustrations, and diagrams at: https://youtu.be/8vOAsYqUzbA https://youtu.be/5Ug4jat5Amg Westminster Abbey books available at https://amzn.to/3AXBaZH Queen Elizabeth books available at https://amzn.to/45YvzPN England History books available at https://amzn.to/4526W5n British Kings & Queens books available at https://amzn.to/430VOo0 Age of Discovery books available at https://amzn.to/3ZYOhnK Age of Exploration books available at https://amzn.to/403Wcjx ENJOY Ad-Free content, Bonus episodes, and Extra materials when joining our growing community on https://patreon.com/markvinet SUPPORT this channel by purchasing any product on Amazon using this FREE entry LINK https://amzn.to/3POlrUD (Amazon gives us credit at NO extra charge to you). Video channel: https://youtube.com/c/TIMELINE_MarkVinet Website: https://markvinet.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.vinet.9 Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistoricalJesu Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denarynovels Books: https://amzn.to/3k8qrGM See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Robert Merry about the Presidency of James Polk. They give and overview of James Polk, influence of Andrew Jackson, Polk's personality and trajectory, and the four major issues he tackled as President. They discuss Polk's expansionism, the Mexican-American War, Polk's one-term deal, legacy, and many more topics. Robert W. Merry has an extensive background as a reporter, newsroom manager, and publishing CEO. He has both his Bachelor's and Master's in Journalism. Currently, he is the author of numerous books on American history and foreign policy, including, A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent. Website: https://www.robertwmerry.com/ Get full access to Converging Dialogues at convergingdialogues.substack.com/subscribe

Caroline co-rifs with segments of this powerful deep great show, whereby to magnetize money for KPFA/fund drive… Offering this fantabulous book, “Wild New World: the Epic Story of Animals and People in America,” as a thank you for pledging $150 or more… Or $15/month https://secure.kpfa.org/support/   Original post: (Replay from January 19, 2023) Cultivating Wonder, Curiosity & Biophilia to re-kin with what remains of our Fauna Caroline re-hosts Dan Flores, author of 11 books, including “Coyote America,” and his most recent “Wild New World: the Epic Story of Animals and People in America,” Flora Fauna from Pleistocene, 66 million years ago, to now… “deep-time history of animals and humans in North America detailing human-wildlife relations across the continent, the sixth extinction, and the odyssey of species recovery in recent decades.” Elephants, Giant Buffalo, Camels, horses, giant Cats, have been found with arrowheads in their bones – humans on American Continent, hunting fantabulous animals 12,450 years ago…. and destroying our fauna kin in cruel ways, especially the last 500 years… Dan Flores is an American writer and historian who specializes in cultural and environmental studies of the American West. A native of Louisiana, Dan Flores is a writer who presently lives in the Galisteo Valley outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is A. B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of the History of the American West at the University of Montana-Missoula. He is the author of ten books, most recently the New York Times Bestseller, “Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History” (2016), and “American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains” (2016). Dan Flores is an ambassador for Project Coyote, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote compassionate conservation and coexistence between people and wildlife through education, science and advocacy. Wild New World website   Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Cultivating Wonder, Curiosity & Biophilia (Replay) appeared first on KPFA.

Cultivating Wonder, Curiosity & Biophilia to re-kin with what remains of our Fauna Caroline re-hosts Dan Flores, author of 11 books, including Coyote America, and his most recent Wild New World: the Epic Story of Animals and People in America, Flora Fauna from Pleistocene, 66 million years ago, to now… “deep-time history of animals and humans in North America detailing human-wildlife relations across the continent, the sixth extinction, and the odyssey of species recovery in recent decades.” Elephants, Giant Buffalo, Camels, horses, giant Cats, have been found with arrowheads in their bones – humans on American Continent, hunting fantabulous animals 12,450 years ago…. and destroying our fauna kin in cruel ways, especially the last 500 years… Dan Flores is an American writer and historian who specializes in cultural and environmental studies of the American West. A native of Louisiana, Dan Flores is a writer who presently lives in the Galisteo Valley outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is A. B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of the History of the American West at the University of Montana-Missoula. He is the author of ten books, most recently the New York Times Bestseller, “Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History” (2016), and “American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains” (2016). Dan Flores is an ambassador for Project Coyote, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote compassionate conservation and coexistence between people and wildlife through education, science and advocacy. Wild New World website     Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Cultivating Wonder, Curiosity & Biophilia appeared first on KPFA.

Hello! Today we are going to read and listen the anthem of the American Continent known also as "Himno de las americas" or "Himno de la hermandad". I will be reading the song in Spanish very slowly and you will try to understand word by word. You will be learning some interesting words and new vocabulary and also you will be improving your listening skills in Spanish. I will translate the song in English and then read in Spanish again in a normal speed but explaining some words at the same time. Here is the anthem:Un canto de amistad, de buena vecindad,unidos nos tendrá eternamente.por Nuestra libertad, por Nuestra lealtad,debemos de vivir gloriosamente.Un símbolo de paz, alumbrará el vivirde todo el Continente Americano.Fuerza de Optimismo, fuerza de la hermandadserá este canto de buena vecindad.Argentina, Brasil y Bolivia,Colombia, Chile y Ecuador,Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela,Guatemala y El Salvador,Costa Rica, Haití y Nicaragua,Honduras y Panamá,Norteamérica, México y Peru!!!!!Cuba y Canadá:Son hermanos soberanos de la libertad!Son hermanos soberanos de la libertad!Here is the link of the song "Himno de las Americas" by R. Sciamarellahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On4YYGglP8UYou can also listen the song at the end of this episode.Enjoy the song and the Episode :)

"Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are alive, a glow of hope will be alive as well as a true concept of life." - Rigoberta Menchú Join Sarah and Dr Linda Westman from the Urban Institute at Sheffield University to discuss the life and accomplishments (thus far) of Rigoberta Menchú. Rigoberta is a renowned Kʼicheʼ Indigenous feminist and human rights activist, politician, and Nobel Peace Prize winner who has spent her life fighting for the lives and rights of indigenous Guatemalans. Dr Linda Westman is a Postdoctoral Research Associate whose work engages with the governance of sustainability and climate change, urban sustainability transformations, and justice. Dr Westman is excited to join Demons and Dames to discus how Rigoberta's work has provided an alternative perspective on the familiar concept of sustainability. Documentaries: Dawn Gifford Engle. Rigoberta Menchu: Daughter of the Maya (2016). Documentary. Pamela Yates, Newton Thomas Sigel. When the Mountains Tremble (1983). Documentary. Pamela Yates. Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (2011), Documentary. Testimonial Biography: Menchú, R., & In Burgos-Debray, E. (1984). I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian woman in Guatemala

This episode starts at the end of the story of the Pilgrims at Plymouth by looking at the famous "Mayflower Compact," and how Americans have spoken and written about it for more than 200 years. Was it a "document that ranks with the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution as a seminal American text," or merely an expediency for heading off the possibility of mutiny? Everybody from John Adams to historians writing today - and now the History of the Americans Podcast! - have debated that first grassroots American social contract. Twitter: @TheHistoryOfTh2 Facebook: The History of the Americans Podcast Selected references for this episode (If you buy any of these books, please click through the links on the episode notes on the website.) Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War George Bancroft, A History of the United States From the Discovery of the American Continent to the Present Time (Vol 1) Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: The New World Samuel Eliot Morison, The Oxford History of the American People Paul Johnson, History of the American People Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States Alan Taylor, American Colonies: The Settling of North America Walter A. McDougall, Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History 1585-1828 Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States Louis P. Masur, The Sum of Our Dreams: A Concise History of America Wilfred M. McClay, Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story The American Yawp (Vol 1) Mark L. Sargent, "The Conservative Covenant: The Rise of the Mayflower Compact in American Myth," The New England Quarterly, June 1988.

About Ancient American MagazineThe purpose of Ancient American magazine is to describe the prehistory of the American Continent, regardless of presently fashionable beliefs--- to provide a public forum for certified experts and nonprofessionals alike to freely express their views without fear nor favor.In sharp contrast to majority academic opinion, its editorial position stands firmly on behalf of evidence for the arrival of overseas visitors to the Americas hundreds and even thousands of years before Columbus--- not only from Europe, but the Near East, Africa, Asia, and the Western Pacific. Each issue presents such otherwise neglected and even suppressed factual evidence demonstrating the lasting impact made on the Americas by Scandinavian Norsemen, Pharaonic Egyptians, Bronze Age Mediterraneans, Semitic Phoenicians, West Africans, Dynastic Chinese, seafaring Polynesians, and many other culture- bearers. All contributed to the birth and development of numerous and sophisticated civilizations which flourished throughout the American Continents in pre-Columbian times.It is the magazine's purpose to show readers just how, when, and why these once powerful societies arose to great heights of cultural splendor and fell into deep obscurity as dramatic object lessons for our time. No rehash of well-worn theories, Ancient American offers up-to-the-moment news about ongoing discoveries and original perspectives, bringing to light a surprising abundance of fresh material that is seriously challenging entrenched conceptions of our past.AA Subscribe BannerAs such, our staff and contributing reporters believe they are writing a New History of our nation by convincingly offering research that, in the coming century, will amount to virtually a total revision of American antiquity. Because of its revolutionary potential, Ancient American, although authoritatively written, is not a scholarly journal. It is a popular science publication specifically aimed at attracting the broadest possible general readership, while refusing to compromise its scientific credibility.Ancient American is an open forum for anyone, regardless of academic background, to share their discoveries and ideas about the prehistory of our country with readers across the nation and around the world. As an exercise in freedom of thought, we welcome the participation of amateurs, in addition to professionals. In turn, public input is accepted and encouraged. Feel free to contact us about subscriptions, book orders, back issues, change of address, article submissions, advertising, books for review, and general information.www.ancientamerican.com

Mestizo is a Spanish word to define mixed blood but also the blending of cultural traditions among the mixing of ethnicities in a country. The show will present the Mestizo Music that arose in France in the late eighties that ignited an international music scene during the next two decades around mainly South Europe, North Africa and throughout the American Continent. This is music with social conscience performed by musicians from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. This is a scene that started in the streets in the banlieues, blocks, favelas or barrios of the underprivileged areas and then went to recording studios. Their leaders are not only musicians but also social activists. This is not World music. This is music made by young people blending tradition and modern music. Mestizo as a label maybe lack of marketing appeal but define better the cultural aspect of this music than the mixed bag of World music for non-English modern music. 1- VIVA ZAPATA - MANO NEGRA 2- LE BRUIT ET L'ODOUR- ZEBDA 3- TRES DELINQUENTES - DELINQUENT HABITS 4- RAINBOW COUNTRY - GECKO TURNER 5-DOUGA DOUGA - GNAWA DIFFUSION 6-RODA, RODETE, RODEANO - CHICO SCIENCE & NAÇAO ZUMBI 7-PULA NA MUVUCA – NEGGATIVA 8-BUEN ROLLITO – AMPARANOIA 9 - LOS LUNATICOS - LOS DE ABAJO 10 - A VENEZUELAN IN NY - KING CHANGO 11- MEDLEY: PASTURES OF PLENTY/THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND/ LAND - LINDA DOWNS 12- CLANDESTINO - MANU CHAO 13 - ZOBI LA MOUCHE - LES NEGRESSES VERTES 14 - ACABAR MAL - SERGENT GARCIA 15 - BALLA E PENSA - 99 POSSE 16 - MI CUBA – P18 17 - S .O. S. - MACACO 18- TABACO Y RON - LA KINKY BEAT 19 - CURRUPUTU – TERRAKOTA 20 - STAR – 08001 21 - LA VALLA - BRONX RIVER PARKWAY 22 - AL MERHBA BEAT - HAMID EL KASHRI (REMIX BY AL WEST) 23- OYE COMO VA - 3 CANAL FEATURING LA CORTE 24 - DO RESPEITO SURGE A PAZ - EM MARROCOS 25- LAS CALLES DE MEDELLIN - LOS COFFE MAKERS 26 - HASTA SIEMPRE - KING MAFRUNDIBLURB:

Trump Still In Charge! The golden question that needs answering.. Is Donnie Trump somehow still in charge? Well.. lets not drag out the answer shall we... Yes he is but not as POTUS. Lets say he's still the Commander In Chief and temporary Guardian or President of the American Continent and Not the United States per se.

On the face of things, the Constitution is concerned with individual and collective rights - to free speech, assembly, religion and that part about guns. Supreme Court cases serve as public tests of its core precepts, and lightning rods for current political argument. The focus tends to be on the Bill of Rights. Between ‘We the People' and the end of the 7th Article is everything else, of which the text of the Presidential Oath of Office is the most recognisable. The document's concern with the architecture of government, combined with disputes between originalists and loose constructionists obscures the fact that the Constitution is not merely a mechanism of domestic law. In Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the US Constitution (Oxford UP, 2020), Max Edling offers a very different account of the creation of the Constitution. It appeared at a juncture when a loose federation of states seized control of a large segment of the American Continent from Britain and sought to establish a lasting republic in a political landscape dominated by Indigenous and European imperial formations. This was an international as opposed to purely national context. Edling's book reminds us that the founding was not a neat intellectual exercise of drawing up a new government, but part of a messy, protracted and always violent process of carving states out of Indigenous spaces and assuming a position among the powers of the earth. Max M Edling is Reader in Early American History at King's College, London. Charles Prior is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Hull (UK), where he co-leads the Treatied Spaces Research Cluster. His latest publication is Settlers in Indian Country (Cambridge University Press). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the face of things, the Constitution is concerned with individual and collective rights - to free speech, assembly, religion and that part about guns. Supreme Court cases serve as public tests of its core precepts, and lightning rods for current political argument. The focus tends to be on the Bill of Rights. Between ‘We the People' and the end of the 7th Article is everything else, of which the text of the Presidential Oath of Office is the most recognisable. The document's concern with the architecture of government, combined with disputes between originalists and loose constructionists obscures the fact that the Constitution is not merely a mechanism of domestic law. In Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the US Constitution (Oxford UP, 2020), Max Edling offers a very different account of the creation of the Constitution. It appeared at a juncture when a loose federation of states seized control of a large segment of the American Continent from Britain and sought to establish a lasting republic in a political landscape dominated by Indigenous and European imperial formations. This was an international as opposed to purely national context. Edling's book reminds us that the founding was not a neat intellectual exercise of drawing up a new government, but part of a messy, protracted and always violent process of carving states out of Indigenous spaces and assuming a position among the powers of the earth. Max M Edling is Reader in Early American History at King's College, London. Charles Prior is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Hull (UK), where he co-leads the Treatied Spaces Research Cluster. His latest publication is Settlers in Indian Country (Cambridge University Press). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the face of things, the Constitution is concerned with individual and collective rights - to free speech, assembly, religion and that part about guns. Supreme Court cases serve as public tests of its core precepts, and lightning rods for current political argument. The focus tends to be on the Bill of Rights. Between ‘We the People’ and the end of the 7th Article is everything else, of which the text of the Presidential Oath of Office is the most recognisable. The document’s concern with the architecture of government, combined with disputes between originalists and loose constructionists obscures the fact that the Constitution is not merely a mechanism of domestic law. In Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the US Constitution (Oxford UP, 2020), Max Edling offers a very different account of the creation of the Constitution. It appeared at a juncture when a loose federation of states seized control of a large segment of the American Continent from Britain and sought to establish a lasting republic in a political landscape dominated by Indigenous and European imperial formations. This was an international as opposed to purely national context. Edling’s book reminds us that the founding was not a neat intellectual exercise of drawing up a new government, but part of a messy, protracted and always violent process of carving states out of Indigenous spaces and assuming a position among the powers of the earth. Max M Edling is Reader in Early American History at King's College, London. Charles Prior is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Hull (UK), where he co-leads the Treatied Spaces Research Cluster. His latest publication is Settlers in Indian Country (Cambridge University Press). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

On the face of things, the Constitution is concerned with individual and collective rights - to free speech, assembly, religion and that part about guns. Supreme Court cases serve as public tests of its core precepts, and lightning rods for current political argument. The focus tends to be on the Bill of Rights. Between ‘We the People’ and the end of the 7th Article is everything else, of which the text of the Presidential Oath of Office is the most recognisable. The document’s concern with the architecture of government, combined with disputes between originalists and loose constructionists obscures the fact that the Constitution is not merely a mechanism of domestic law. In Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the US Constitution (Oxford UP, 2020), Max Edling offers a very different account of the creation of the Constitution. It appeared at a juncture when a loose federation of states seized control of a large segment of the American Continent from Britain and sought to establish a lasting republic in a political landscape dominated by Indigenous and European imperial formations. This was an international as opposed to purely national context. Edling’s book reminds us that the founding was not a neat intellectual exercise of drawing up a new government, but part of a messy, protracted and always violent process of carving states out of Indigenous spaces and assuming a position among the powers of the earth. Max M Edling is Reader in Early American History at King's College, London. Charles Prior is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Hull (UK), where he co-leads the Treatied Spaces Research Cluster. His latest publication is Settlers in Indian Country (Cambridge University Press). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

On the face of things, the Constitution is concerned with individual and collective rights - to free speech, assembly, religion and that part about guns. Supreme Court cases serve as public tests of its core precepts, and lightning rods for current political argument. The focus tends to be on the Bill of Rights. Between ‘We the People’ and the end of the 7th Article is everything else, of which the text of the Presidential Oath of Office is the most recognisable. The document’s concern with the architecture of government, combined with disputes between originalists and loose constructionists obscures the fact that the Constitution is not merely a mechanism of domestic law. In Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the US Constitution (Oxford UP, 2020), Max Edling offers a very different account of the creation of the Constitution. It appeared at a juncture when a loose federation of states seized control of a large segment of the American Continent from Britain and sought to establish a lasting republic in a political landscape dominated by Indigenous and European imperial formations. This was an international as opposed to purely national context. Edling’s book reminds us that the founding was not a neat intellectual exercise of drawing up a new government, but part of a messy, protracted and always violent process of carving states out of Indigenous spaces and assuming a position among the powers of the earth. Max M Edling is Reader in Early American History at King's College, London. Charles Prior is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Hull (UK), where he co-leads the Treatied Spaces Research Cluster. His latest publication is Settlers in Indian Country (Cambridge University Press). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

On the face of things, the Constitution is concerned with individual and collective rights - to free speech, assembly, religion and that part about guns. Supreme Court cases serve as public tests of its core precepts, and lightning rods for current political argument. The focus tends to be on the Bill of Rights. Between ‘We the People’ and the end of the 7th Article is everything else, of which the text of the Presidential Oath of Office is the most recognisable. The document’s concern with the architecture of government, combined with disputes between originalists and loose constructionists obscures the fact that the Constitution is not merely a mechanism of domestic law. In Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the US Constitution (Oxford UP, 2020), Max Edling offers a very different account of the creation of the Constitution. It appeared at a juncture when a loose federation of states seized control of a large segment of the American Continent from Britain and sought to establish a lasting republic in a political landscape dominated by Indigenous and European imperial formations. This was an international as opposed to purely national context. Edling’s book reminds us that the founding was not a neat intellectual exercise of drawing up a new government, but part of a messy, protracted and always violent process of carving states out of Indigenous spaces and assuming a position among the powers of the earth. Max M Edling is Reader in Early American History at King's College, London. Charles Prior is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Hull (UK), where he co-leads the Treatied Spaces Research Cluster. His latest publication is Settlers in Indian Country (Cambridge University Press). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

On the face of things, the Constitution is concerned with individual and collective rights - to free speech, assembly, religion and that part about guns. Supreme Court cases serve as public tests of its core precepts, and lightning rods for current political argument. The focus tends to be on the Bill of Rights. Between ‘We the People’ and the end of the 7th Article is everything else, of which the text of the Presidential Oath of Office is the most recognisable. The document’s concern with the architecture of government, combined with disputes between originalists and loose constructionists obscures the fact that the Constitution is not merely a mechanism of domestic law. In Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the US Constitution (Oxford UP, 2020), Max Edling offers a very different account of the creation of the Constitution. It appeared at a juncture when a loose federation of states seized control of a large segment of the American Continent from Britain and sought to establish a lasting republic in a political landscape dominated by Indigenous and European imperial formations. This was an international as opposed to purely national context. Edling’s book reminds us that the founding was not a neat intellectual exercise of drawing up a new government, but part of a messy, protracted and always violent process of carving states out of Indigenous spaces and assuming a position among the powers of the earth. Max M Edling is Reader in Early American History at King's College, London. Charles Prior is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Hull (UK), where he co-leads the Treatied Spaces Research Cluster. His latest publication is Settlers in Indian Country (Cambridge University Press). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

On the face of things, the Constitution is concerned with individual and collective rights - to free speech, assembly, religion and that part about guns. Supreme Court cases serve as public tests of its core precepts, and lightning rods for current political argument. The focus tends to be on the Bill of Rights. Between ‘We the People’ and the end of the 7th Article is everything else, of which the text of the Presidential Oath of Office is the most recognisable. The document’s concern with the architecture of government, combined with disputes between originalists and loose constructionists obscures the fact that the Constitution is not merely a mechanism of domestic law. In Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the US Constitution (Oxford UP, 2020), Max Edling offers a very different account of the creation of the Constitution. It appeared at a juncture when a loose federation of states seized control of a large segment of the American Continent from Britain and sought to establish a lasting republic in a political landscape dominated by Indigenous and European imperial formations. This was an international as opposed to purely national context. Edling’s book reminds us that the founding was not a neat intellectual exercise of drawing up a new government, but part of a messy, protracted and always violent process of carving states out of Indigenous spaces and assuming a position among the powers of the earth. Max M Edling is Reader in Early American History at King's College, London. Charles Prior is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Hull (UK), where he co-leads the Treatied Spaces Research Cluster. His latest publication is Settlers in Indian Country (Cambridge University Press). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

We're joined by Nathanael Haun, communal farmer and noted poster. We cover Monsanto, factory farming, and the corporate techniques killing family farms across America for decades. You should all read his Substack post "The American Collective: the role of the commune and party in the 21st century of the American Continent", as it is excellent. By the way, did you know that in Japan the LDP appointed a "Minister of Loneliness"? Where to find Nathanael: https://turbonics.substack.com/ @Turbo_Fucker

Hear the thrilling conversion story of modern-day prophet Cindy Jacobs. How Cindy's father was saved out the vicious gangs of Hell's Kitchen – New York – which became known as “the most dangerous area on the American Continent.”  How His newfound love for Christ and the lost led him to yearn for revival and missions as he became a fulltime pastor. How Cindy dedicated her life to Christ at a very early age. Even as young as four years old Cindy knew things that would happen in the future. Hear how as a teenager God had to teach Cindy to sanctify her gift of the prophetic. Cindy's forerunner call led her to preach the gospel in an era when women were not allowed to even speak from the stage.  Today, Cindy Jacobs is a modern-day prophetic revivalist with an anointed teaching gift ministering continually all over the world. The Conversion of Cindy Jacobs is the story, behind the messenger. 

"Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are alive, a glow of hope will be alive as well as a true concept of life." - Rigoberta Menchú Join Sarah and Dr Linda Westman from the Urban Institute at Sheffield University to discuss the life and accomplishments (thus far) of Rigoberta Menchú. Rigoberta is a renowned Kʼicheʼ Indigenous feminist and human rights activist, politician, and Nobel Peace Prize winner who has spent her life fighting for the lives and rights of indigenous Guatemalans. Dr Linda Westman is a Postdoctoral Research Associate whose work engages with the governance of sustainability and climate change, urban sustainability transformations, and justice. Dr Westman is excited to join Demons and Dames to discus how Rigoberta's work has provided an alternative perspective on the familiar concept of sustainability. Documentaries:  Dawn Gifford Engle. Rigoberta Menchu: Daughter of the Maya (2016). Documentary.  Pamela Yates, Newton Thomas Sigel. When the Mountains Tremble (1983). Documentary.  Pamela Yates. Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (2011), Documentary.  Testimonial Biography:  Menchú, R., & In Burgos-Debray, E. (1984). I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian woman in Guatemala

Do you love the story of the star that the shepherds saw on the night that Jesus was born? We are talking a little about why we love that story so much, and also a story of people who saw that same star that you may not have heard before. It’s one of my very favorite Christmas stories.  But did you know there’s a new star this year? Yes. A new Christmas star that will be visible tonight from anywhere in the world where skies are clear. I hope you enjoy these three short (but true!) stories and that you feel the Christmas spirit, the spirit of Christ, as you listen to them.   In this episode, you will hear: The story of the shepherds who saw a star and got frightened but the angel appeared to them and told them to not be afraid The story of another group of people in the American Continent who saw the star Samuel the Lamanite prophesied about the star but the people threatened to kill the believers if the star didn’t appear.  Nephi prayed for an answer and God revealed to him the coming of Christ – the sun didn’t set and there was light all night. The same star had the same effect on two different groups of people. The movie, The Case for Christ, a movie based on a story about an atheist and journalist who wanted to prove that Christ never existed and then became a believer How much more faith would you have had to have in the time before Jesus was even born?  A spectacularly rare Christmas star that’s happening today, December 21 Signs preceding the 2nd coming of Christ mentioned in the early verses of Luke 21 that seems to be happening now in 2020  Our brightest days are yet ahead, and the Lord will perform some of his greatest miracles.   Supporting Resources: Christmas Star Article http://www.thefamilyproclamation.org/how-a-new-christmas-star-coming-on-dec-21-relates-to-the-family-proclamation/   Story of people seeing the star at Christ’s birth in the Americas https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/1?lang=eng   Movie: “The Case for Christ” https://amzn.to/380kWzR   Signs Preceding the 2nd Coming of Christ  Luke 21:7-13   Subscribe and Review Have you subscribed to our podcast? We’d love for you to subscribe if you haven’t yet. We’d love it even more if you could drop a review or 5-star rating over on Apple Podcasts. Simply select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” then a quick line with your favorite part of the episode. It only takes a second and it helps spread the word about the podcast.   Episode Credits Produced by Emerald City Productions

Today we’re speaking with an incredible woman, humanitarian, and Acupuncturist Jacqueline Arellano. She is a badass who Alix met via a beauty forum a few years ago, and we have been dying to speak with her this season!Jacqueline is a lifelong humanitarian who grew up in California within communities that border Mexico. As the child of Mexican immigrants, Jacqueline was raised with these communities being an extension of her own, always looking to help Americans who endure the dangerous and long journey through the desert, escaping the horrors and unlivable conditions from which they fled in the hopes of having a chance at life. (As an aside, I have many Latinx friends who constantly remind me that the United States is not the only country on the American Continent and that technically, we are all American. Amen!)Today Jacqueline donates her Acupuncture services to the non-profit Border Kindness, whose mission is to provide asylum-seekers, migrants, refugees, and the displaced with comprehensive services that include food, shelter, clothing, medical care, and legal services. She also leaves food, water, and supplies in the desert for people still in the middle of their journey.This interview was incredibly eye-opening for both Alix and I, and we think it will be for you too! You can donate to Border Kindness using:Paypal (please specify Border Kindness)Venmo to @Border-KindnessZelle to info@borderkindness.orgCash App to $borderkindnessGoFundMeClick this link to purchase Christmas gifts from the Border Kindness Holiday Shopping List, and donate a toy to a vulnerable child on the borderCheck out Jacqueline and give her some love on Instagram via @borderkindness or her personal page @agua.agujas .Check out our Instagram @truebeautybrooklyn or @truebeautybrooklynpodcast.Visit us at www.truebeautybrooklynpodcast.com to learn more about us, and all of our incredible guests!If you live locally, make an appointment and come check us out at www.truebeautybrooklyn.com. Don’t forget to send us your questions and segment letters to truebeautybrooklynpodcast@gmail.com and we’ll see you back here next week. Don’t forget to rate us 5-stars, or leave a review on Apple iTunes, and tell a friend to tell a friend if you like the show!

Wanda Vásquez de Garcia is a music educator, choir director, clinician and choir singer. A native of the Dominican Republic currently living in Colorado,  she holds a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, first University in the American Continent, and a Master's Degree in Music Education with an emphasis on choral music from the University of Northern Colorado.  Wanda is currently the general music teacher at the Escuela Bilingüe Pioneer in Lafayette, Colorado, and the children and youth choir director at First Congregational Church of Greeley, Colorado. As a K-5 music educator, she believes music is a very effective way to learn about cultures. She also believes in the importance of exploring diversity in ways that are fun, meaningful, and inclusive in order to embrace our differences with respect and tolerance. Wanda has presented clinics and reading sessions promoting multicultural music and music technology in the elementary classroom at Colorado ACDA, CMEA, and Little Kids Rock Modern Band Summit. Want to know about Wanda's Culturally Responsive Classroom Blog? Click here! ...or copy and paste this link into your browser! https://culturallyresponsivemusicclassroom.blogspot.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/musicast-podcast/support

The Savior continues teaching the children of Israel on the American Continent how to pray, ponder, and minister. He institutes the sacrament, blesses the children, and heals the sick.

Carrington Event, Mass Migrations to American Continent and Australia, due to severe cooling (Dalton minimum), droughts, famines, violent earthquakes & volcanic eruptions, topped with wars & religious persecution; might have been some of the harsh circumstances many of our ancestors experienced and survived less than 200 years ago. Historic records & witness accounts tell a different story of what caused the events. Tess *Mythos Decoded Top Links : Tess *MythosDecoded : COMET HISTORY ERASED 1800s, New Madrid Quake, Great Chicago Fires, Pandemic, Volcano, Famine (9 May 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmQtImwDDDA spaceweathergallery.com : Auroras https://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=168043 Curiosity Link : DW News : Brazil: World's largest wetland faces record wildfires (16 Sept 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_A2EcH-Th4 Recommended Links : Alyn Wallace : What's in the Night Sky September 2020 #WITNS/Aurora Borealis/Harvest Moon (1 Sept 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY4MXfeH_EQ Planet X News : Something Massive Has Just Been Observed Behind Our Sun (6 Sept 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6W0QKu_cPQ Stonehenge Dronescapes : Hackpen Hill Crop Circle Ghost (5 Sept 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ueapxOiOqg Stonehenge Dronescapes : Chirton Bottom nr Urchfont Wiltshire / Reported 5/9/2020 (5 Sept 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFAHkSk6wi4 Welsh Ginger Hobo : HUGE CROP CIRCLE FORMATION!! Ariel Views (6 Sept 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6KIkigc5fc Stonehenge Dronescapes : Roundway nr Devizes Wiltshire / Reported 13/9/2020 (13 Sept 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1OpLJVa-B0 Stonehenge Dronescapes : Patney Bridge Crop Circle - After The Harvest (14 Sept 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CKDVjNAFB8 chave weather - daily videos : Unbelievable sandstorm engulfs Polath, Ankara, Turkey September 12 2020 (12 Sept 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-Y2leKF0Bc Against The Grain : FACT IS THE FACT (16 Sept 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXeNxx6YvlA Against The Grain : HOW DEEP IS THE STUPIDITY OF THE NAIVE PEOPLE (13 Sept 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNaPNmypMOY Against The Grain : WHY ARE YOU IGNORANT (15 Sept 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msKone_MVgI MrMBB333 : Sun Has Strange Appearance in Eastern US / Apple Tree Owner Shocked When They Saw This Happening! (16 Sept 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRIskwoA8Vg MrMBB333 : The MAIN reason #SALLY could be so problematic - "Days of Noah" scenario (14 Sept 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUN4EKSK5dQ The Real BPEarthWatch : Sally Jumps to 90 MPH. Cat 2 By Night Fall. (15 Sept 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V75rE2p_vbU WAGES WORLD : HURRICANE SUPER SLOW SALLY WILL BRING LOTS OF RAIN/SCHUMANN REPEATS, MAGNETIC FIELD HITS (16 Sept 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEEbVuEAW2A DW News : Donald Trump dismisses climate change influence on US wildfires (16 Sept 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg1rsjgGtc0 Recommended Music Link : Ferdinands Channel : 'Chariots of Fire' - The London Symphony Orchestra (11 Nov 2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pQlRZZ9NMs

I used to think Anti-Vaxxers were kind of ridiculous. But compared to Ant-Maskers? Hell, Anti-Vaxxers are practically mainstream. An.ti - Mask.er (an ti mas ker) n. 2020 origin American Continent 1. Angry or discontented American, devoid of care for their fellow country men or any human for that matter to the point of refusing to wear a mask the way a normal person wears pants. 2. Person who believes wearing a mask potentially protecting their fellow man from a deadly virus is so egregious to their "constitutional rights" they would rather get infected and die than simply WEAR A GODDAMN MASK. (See Herman Cain) (except you can't see Herman Cain because he's hospitalized with Covid-19 after not wearing a mask to Trump's Tulsa Oklahoma rally) Yeah man, this is where we are right now. I type this as I watch a series called Life After People. It now seems less like fantasy and more prophetic. The current news makes our Signs of the Apocalypse seem like a silly joke. In other news, Joe comes out of the basement to throngs of tens, Trump goes into hysterics after crowds of hundreds not millions, and the election on Nov 3rd is likely to be in chaos for millions. Other than that it should be fine. And what happened to the murder bees? All that and more tonight on: UF/UF 291 The Rise of the Anti-Maskers

In the winter of 1777, George Washington invoked a covenant that has been part of the American Continent for thousands of years. What did that covenant include? How has it been used before? What are the consequences of disobeying it? Take a journey through time as we look at the covenant that comes with living in this great promised land.

LDS Study Session seeks to generate reflection and about areas in the Restored Gospel. Whether it's Come Follow Me, a General Conference talk or a recent Gospel Topic, hopefully you'll find something to keep the Spirit of Christ in your life. @mattsroberts90 ldsstudysession@gmail.com Today we pause from our regular study to dip into the Book of Mormon Study Challenge. We consider the events after the Saviour's Resurrection with the people on the American Continent and what lessons we learn. We reflect on the principles taught here and how it cements the Book of Mormon's aim to be a testament of Jesus Christ. Kathleen H Hughes: I’m certain that each of you has felt, at one time or another, encircled in Christ’s arms. But if you are like me, there are times when you are fearful, when the stress and busyness of life seem to overwhelm you, when you feel adrift from the Spirit. Perhaps you even feel as though you have been abandoned. When I encounter those feelings, the best antidote is my memory of the moments when Christ’s peace has come to strengthen me. So tonight I invite you to remember with me what it is to feel the Lord’s love in your life and to feel encircled in His arms.

This week we're taking one of my most frequently asked questions and answering it in an entire episode. Because I share my love for scripture study frequently on social media, I also get a lot of questions about HOW I study the scriptures. And when I asked recently what you guys wanted to see or hear from me, one of the top requests that came in over and over was for me to explain how I do my daily scripture study, what it looks like, where I fit it in, and how to get more out of a daily scripture study. During this episode you'll hear Neil and me reference the Book of Mormon frequently, which is another Testament of Jesus Christ written by people in the American Continent during the same time as the bible, by people who were followers of Jesus Christ. Although we talk about the Book of Mormon frequently, we also strongly believe in the Bible to also be the word of God and have specifically studied the New Testament all year long. I hope that no matter what faith you belong to, whether you're Jewish or Christian or Islamic or a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints like me or not, that you'll hear what Neil and I share in this episode and apply it to your own scripture study and your own version of strengthening your personal spirituality. Show Notes:    Face to Face with President Eyring and Elder Holland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZXEtcdVcRA   Books: Essentialism by Greg McKeown https://amzn.to/2ozHvbQ As a Man Thinketh by James Allen https://amzn.to/2ozHLaO Get a free copy of the Book of Mormon https://www.comeuntochrist.org/beliefs/book-of-mormon-request Get a free copy of the Bible:  https://www.comeuntochrist.org/beliefs/holy-bible/bible-request     Produced by Dear Media

Ultimate Boxxer indepth. Tommy Frank, Kevin Lerena, Prince Patel, Sam Egginton, Jo Jo Diaz, Peter Quillin and Jun Zhao headline fight cards. Check this out for a comedy fight https://youtu.be/3h8Zc0-MyRA

Julián and Joaquín Azulay (Gauchos del Mar) are two argentine brothers who made a trip through the American Continent on a truck starting from Los Angeles, CA and finishing in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Their dream of surfing the American Pacific Coastline lasted 403 days, where they drove more tan 30,000 kms across 13 countries. They show the Continent as a whole, through its different cultures, towns, villages, food, people, animals and landscapes while camping and surfing perfect and remote waves on their way back home. They are currently on a two year roadtrip through Africa.    Follow the Gouchos   Listen to Mount Saint Eilas   Comment on the episode here   Sign up for the weekly email   Buy me a coffee on Patreon   Follow me on Instagram   The Motherfucker Awards   Contact: info@kyle.surf   SC Medicinals Use the code KYLE10 to get 10% off everything at SC Medicinals.   Environmental episodes:   #133 Understanding Plastic Pollution - Stiv Wilson   #153 How To Save A Wave - Nik Strong-Cvetich   #173 The Future of Eating Meat - Elliot Swartz   #180 Gift Economy & Ecological Regeneration - Charles Eisenstein   Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Julián and Joaquín Azulay (Gauchos del Mar) are two argentine brothers who made a trip through the American Continent on a truck starting from Los Angeles, CA and finishing in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Their dream of surfing the American Pacific Coastline lasted 403 days, where they drove more tan 30,000 kms across 13 countries. They show the Continent as a whole, through its different cultures, towns, villages, food, people, animals and landscapes while camping and surfing perfect and remote waves on their way back home. They are currently on a two year roadtrip through Africa.    Follow the Gouchos   Listen to Mount Saint Eilas   Comment on the episode here   Sign up for the weekly email   Buy me a coffee on Patreon   Follow me on Instagram   The Motherfucker Awards   Contact: info@kyle.surf   SC Medicinals Use the code KYLE10 to get 10% off everything at SC Medicinals.   Environmental episodes:   #133 Understanding Plastic Pollution - Stiv Wilson   #153 How To Save A Wave - Nik Strong-Cvetich   #173 The Future of Eating Meat - Elliot Swartz   #180 Gift Economy & Ecological Regeneration - Charles Eisenstein  

Today's guest is a Maya Ajq'ij who originates from and resides in Guatemala. He was the Coordinator of the Spiritual Reserves of Humanity for Central America and the Coordinator of the Water Project for Central America for UNESCO. He has been given the mission by the elders to share the prophecies and teachings of the Maya people with the rest of the world. He travels internationally sharing these teachings and generating awareness and helps the preservation of the ancestral Maya tradition. He is the author of "The Book of Destiny", translated to 7 languages, which speaks about the cosmogony, Chol-Ki and the prophecies of the Maya people. He is an expert in the Sacred Maya Calendar, member of the Council of Elders and organizer of the first gathering of Native Elders of the American Continent in 1995. Carlos Barrios Traveling with other elders of Sufi, Hindu The Sufi’s levitating in circles Working with a processor of the university His introduction to the Mayan Fire Ceremony Meditation is having attention to what you do in your life The story of having an elder touching his eyes and gifting an illumination experience The Clan of the eagle Magic walking 100 km’s in 10 minutes Learning from a guardian of ancient Mayan wisdom Reality is produced by 20 energies 10 from space and 10 from earth Why magic and breaking this reality is just normal The Mayan Cycle and the truth about 2012 We are in a new cycle now which is a balance between masculine and feminine The spirituality for these times is ACTION The arrival of the 5th Dimension and entering the Ether energy The Hopi 5th dimension The Mayan’s have 20 different senses The Mayan explanation of Aliens Religion is the tool of devotion but not the tools to develop inner power Who is quetzalcoatl? How we can communicate with inter-dimensional beings The Ti’kal pyramids the Mayans believe they are over 16,000-20,000 years old The Mayan Technology is internal If you like the show please share, do an act of kindness, and become a patron here http://www.patreon.com/mattbelair THANK YOU! Website: http://www.mattbelair.com/podcast (sign up for the email list) and most importantly do 1 act of kindness today! :) Guest website: https://www.amazon.ca/Book-Destiny-Unlocking-Secrets-Prophecy/dp/0061833835 Support the show for as little as $1 Here: http://www.patreon.com/mattbelair Donate: http://bit.ly/mattbelair Support by Doing an Act of Kindness for Someone Today! Subscribe: Podcast: http://goo.gl/1euQe7 YouTube: https://goo.gl/Mz7Ngg FREE STUFF: Guide to Lucid Dreaming E-Book and Guided Hypnotic Experience: http://www.mattbelair.com/luciddreaming About Me: ======== ✰⏀✡︎☯︎ Master your mind, body, and spirit with Matt Belair and world-renowned leaders today! This unique show features candid conversations with experts in personal development, spirituality, and human optimization. Each episode is another key to help you unlock your infinite potential and assist you on your path to self-mastery! You will discover the best tips, tools, and technologies to master your mind. The science, principles, and practices to master your body. Finally, you will dive into the deepest depths of yourself, life, the universe and the pursuit of GOD/CREATOR/SOURCE with the timeless lessons, ancient teachings, and philosophies of today’s greatest minds and spiritual leaders. May Love, Joy, Passion, Peace, and Prosperity fill your life! Namaste

In this episode we give the background on how the native peoples of the American Continent dealt with the Euro-Americans during the first decade of the 19th Century.  New leaders will rise.  John Norton, a Scottish-Cherokee who became a Mohawk and Tecumseh a Shawnee leader who had a vision to unite all tribes together to save their people from extinction.    Sources: The Journal of Major John Norton, 1816 The Iroquois in the War of 1812 by Carl Benn The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict by Donald R Hickey  

Let's talk trade again. NAFTA is dead people...., long live… USMCA.. Yes USMCA... you heard me right, let me try again USMCA. On Sunday evening, Canada agreed at the 11th hour to join - if you will - an updated version of NAFTA with the United States and Mexico, now called the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). it will take me a while to memorize it.... The three countries will move from a deal that Donal Trump has called “the single worst trade deal” the United States has ever done to one he says is “the most important trade deal we’ve ever made so far.” Holy smoke... I am Roozbeh Aliabadi. Join me as I'll be looking at Trade but this time in the American Continent.

How it went from Gold Plates to the Book of Mormon ---Transcript--- Hey everyone, this is Russell. I want to welcome you guys back to the Book of Mormon Challenge podcast. I am super excited for today's episode. I apologize to those who have been waiting. It has taken a while. It's interesting how when you try to move forward on important things like this how many things get in the way. So today, I got my kids ready for school, I woke up early this morning to get all the outlines prepared, got up, got my kids out the door to school, and then now I'm back in here recording this before I'm allowing myself to go into the office and get started on my day, to make sure you guys have it. Because I keep wanting to dive into 1 Nephi Chapter 1, I've got the entire episode all prepared and ready, and there's so much exciting stuff I want to share with you. But I felt like there was a preamble, something I needed to give and share with you before that. And it's the story of how we actually got the Book of Mormon. I'm sitting here in my office, and I have as you know, one of the original 5000 books that was printed here. And I'm not so much going to go into how the book was printed and published and things like that, that's not the purpose of the podcast. But how did we actually get it? Every time I share anything with my friends who aren't members of the church, they are confused, “So what is this? A new Bible? A new translation?” And not matter how many times I explain it they always get confused. So I want to kind of go through the details of the story and it's one of the most amazing, insane, cool stories in the history of the world, yet nobody seems to talk about it very much. So I wanted to share it because I think it's important. And my goal, in fact, my entire goal of this podcast, I think I've told you. There's a couple of reasons, one is to get me to really get back into studying and learning and trying to find out the most amazing things from the Book of Mormon. But number two is to get you excited about the Book of Mormon. It's not so much me telling you my commentary on the Book of Mormon, that's not my goal. My goal is to talk about it in a way that gets you so excited after you hear the episode that you have to go and open it, you have to read the next chapter or the next verse. If I can do that, then I've done my job correctly. So I figure the best thing I can do today is get you so excited that if you haven't got the Book of Mormon yet, you're like, “Alright I'm going to go and just buy one, I'm going to go order it online.” Whatever you need to do, you're going to get one and so you'll actually open it and start reading it. So that's my goal today, just to get you pumped by….because the back story about how it came to be because it really is fascinating. And hopefully you've listened to some of the earlier episodes, I talk about the history and all those kind of things. If not, please go back to the very beginning. I'm trying to, all these episodes kind of build on each other. So make sure you're listening to them as you go. But this story is really, really cool. If you listened to a couple of episodes ago, I talked about Joseph Smith and his first vision. So if you remember that, I'll kind of recap it really quickly. As a 14 year old kid he was confused and trying to figure out which church to join, and he went and he prayed and had a vision where Heavenly Father and Jesus came to him and said, “Don't join any of the churches.” And he was like, “What? I never even considered that.” And they're like, “Yeah, don't join any church. None of them are here and you're going to be an instrument to help bring back my true church here on the earth.” So he has this vision and he goes and tells his family about it, tells other people and he thinks that everyone is going to be excited to hear that Heavenly Father and Jesus came to him, and what actually happened was the opposite. He was lucky to have his family and people close to him believe him, but most of the people in the community didn't. And he was persecuted really heavily. He was, his family was, and it was a really, really difficult time for the next few years. If you can imagine as a young boy having this vision and then not hearing from Heavenly Father again, you're like, “What happened? Did I do something wrong?” You know, what's the next step? So that's kind of where this part of the story picks up. It's Joseph Smith wondering that same thing, what's the next step? So most of this podcast is going to be coming from two different things. One is Joseph Smith History. I went through the history and found some really cool parts of the story to tell. And the second one is a talk given by President Russell M. Nelson, who is the living prophet of the church today. This is a talk he gave called A Treasured Testament. He gave it a long time ago, I don't know, 1992. So a long time ago, but it kind of tells the back story and shares some of the amazing insights, some amazing quoting of stuff from that as well. The goal of both of these things is to get you so excited to open up the book and start reading with me because the next episode we are going 1 Nephi Chapter 1, and we're finally going to be diving in. So what happened, in Joseph Smith History he was talking about how there had been a space of time between the first vision and he was trying to figure out what to do. And he said during that time, you know he was a young boy. He was a teenager, and as most teenagers, I've got two boys, twin boys who are going to become teenagers here in about two months or three months from now. And he started just doing what teenagers do and he said, “I frequently fell into many foolish errors and displayed the weaknesses of youth and foibles of human nature. I'm sorry to say it lead me to diverse temptations offensive in the sight of God. But in making this confession, no one needs to suppose me guilty of any great or malignant sins, a disposition to commit such was never in my nature, but I was guilty of levity and sometimes associating with jovial company, etc. Not consistent with the character of which ought to maintained by one who was called of God, as I had been.” So can you imagine that? You're a young kid and you see Heavenly Father, you see Jesus, but then you're a teenager and you're doing stupid stuff and whatever, but always having that guilt of, I should be better. I know better than this. But continually falling back on those ways. And I don't know about you, but I have those things all the time, where I feel like our Heavenly Father has blessed me so, so greatly, yet I do stupid things. I'm like, “Why am I doing this? I should be better than that.” And I think he felt the same way, obviously. He goes on and said, “I often felt condemned for my weaknesses and imperfections.” So that's kind of how he felt going into this. So it'd been I think 3 or 4 years after the first vision and he was like, “Alright, I need to find out where I fit with God.” And hopefully all of us have this conversation. It's a scary one, it's one that sometimes I don't think any of us really want to go ask because you might find out and that can be kind of scary. But Joseph Smith thought, I'm going to find out what God thinks. Am I doing okay? Where am I at with him? So he goes on to say, “I betook myself to prayer and supplication to the Almighty God for forgiveness of all my sins and my follies. And also for a manifestation to me that I might know of my state and standing before him.” Can you imagine going to Heavenly Father like, “Okay, so I need to know my state and my standing. How am I doing? Am I doing good, am I doing bad?” something that I'm sure we're all super curious about, but man, that's a scary thing. What if he told you? What if he was like, “Man, you're doing a horrible job Russell.”? But he did that. But first, he asked for forgiveness of his sins, “I know I've not been doing what you, I haven't been living up to what I believe what you want me to be, so I'm asking for forgiveness. And then I want to know my standing. How am I doing? What should I be doing? You came to me, what now? Obviously you don't come to everyone, what was the purpose, and what should I be doing?” He goes on to say, “I want to know of my state and standing before him, for I had a full confidence in obtaining a divine manifestation as I'd previously had one.” Can you imagine, he's like, “I've had a vision before, I'm probably going to have one again.” He just believed it that much. I think most of us, we forget of the miracles we've had in our life and we just kind of pass them off, whereas he was like, “You know I had a miracle last time, he came and visited me. I think he's going to visit me again. Let's go pray.” And he did that, which is such a cool thing. So much faith, I wish I had that faith like that. So he went in there and asked for forgiveness of his sins, he prayed to know his state before God and what happened next is amazing. What happened next is an angel came and appeared to him in his room. And the angel's name was Moroni. So those of you guys who don't know who Moroni is yet, you know obviously the word Mormon from the Book of Mormon. So Mormon was the last prophet, one of the last prophets in the Book of Mormon and he had a son named Moroni. Moroni  was the last one who was kind of writing all the history and he was the last righteous person in the land at the time, so he had been entrusted with these Gold Plates. These are metal pages that they had been etching in their history for 600 years of what was happening with them and with God, it was their journals. So he had all of these, they called them Gold Plates, where they were metal pages and they all had all these things etched in them. So Moroni had these and before he died he went and buried them in a hill so that nobody could find them. But they were a history of his people. So that's kind of who Moroni was. So he's sitting there in bed praying to find out his standing before God and all the sudden this angel appears to him. And the angel's name was Moroni and Moroni started talking to him. And the first thing Moroni tells him is, “Hey, just so you know Joseph Smith, my name should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindred's and tongues, where there should be both good and evil spoken among all people.” So you imagine that, an angel comes and just so you know, if you start on this mission, your name is going to be used for good and evil. So people who love you are going to think that you are the greatest thing in the world, and the rest of the world is going to hate you and think you're an evil, horrible person. Can you imagine stepping into your mission, you know at this time he was, I don't know how old he was at the time, but still a teenager, maybe 18-19 years old or something like that. And say, just so you know if you decide to go on this mission, your mission should you choose to accept it is this thing and your name is going to be used for both good and evil. So then he goes on and says, “Okay, there was a book deposited, written on gold plates, giving the account of the former inhabitants of this continent and the source from whence they sprang.” He also said, “That the fullness of the everlasting gospel is contained in it, as delivered by the savior to the ancient inhabitants.” So he said, there's these gold plates that I buried up in the mountain. He said that on these's plates are record of the ancient Indians, the people who used to live here in America. And it talks about when the savior came to them. He said that, “I buried these in the mountain and I also, because I know that you don't know how to speak the language that we wrote in, there are also two stones and silver bows, and these stones fastened to the breast plate constitute what are called the Urim and Thummim.” And he says, “The Urim and Thummin are what were called seer stones, these stones are what would constitute seers in ancient or former times, and that God had prepared them for the purpose of translating this book.” So he didn't know what these were, but he said, “There's these seer stones, if you look through them you'll be able to translate the Book of Mormon, they're also buried in the mountain.” And he kind of explained the whole thing. So I'm sure Joseph Smith is like, “Oh my gosh, this is so cool. There's these buried gold plates in a mountain and there's these seer stones. If I look through the stones I can translate this ancient language.” This is, I don't know about you, but this is better than any movie in the history of the world. So the angel's telling him this stuff, then after that the angel starts quoting him scriptures. So he's quoting him scriptures from Isaiah and Malachi and  all these things. So he's quoting these scriptures and he quotes the scripture and he says, ‘This is about to be fulfilled.” And he quotes another scripture and says, “This is about to be fulfilled.” And he quotes another one and says, “This is not yet fulfilled, but it's soon going to be.” So the angel is like telling him, all these things these ancient prophets wrote about, like Isaiah, all these people, they testified that in the coming days, in the future, these things are going to happen. He's like, all those things are being fulfilled right now. You are the literal fulfillment of all these prophecies of all the prophets up until this point. Can you imagine being this kid, sitting here thinking I've read Isaiah, I've read these people, I've read these words and what they were talking about was happening. I'm experiencing this right now. Can you imagine that? Imagine yourself as a kid going through this. So he goes through the things, he shares all these things, and at the end of it, then the angel leaves. So Joseph is sitting here in bed going, “What in the world just happened? An angel visited me, told me about these gold plates, these really cool Urim and Thummim, seer stones, I'll be able to translate this book. Then he started telling me all these, quoting these scriptures and telling me that all this stuff is actually happening right now and it's coming true. And he's telling all this stuff….” And as he's thinking about it, pondering and meditating about it, all the sudden the light comes back in the room and the angel appears again. So the angel appears a second time and then tells him the exact same thing. And he's like, “What in the world?” So he tells him the exact same thing as the first time. So he's like, okay I get it. He listened to the whole thing, and the second time the angel added something, he said he informed him, “There's going to be great judgments which are coming upon the earth and great desolations by famine, sword and pestilence and these grievous judgments should come upon the earth in this generation.” So he said that and then he left again. So the first time he comes and tells the story and leaves. The second time he comes again and tells the entire story again and then he's like, “Oh by the way, in the very near future the whole world is going to be roght with desolations, famine, sword, pestilences and the grievous judgments are coming upon the earth because this is a wicked time and a wicked place we live in.” and then he leaves. Can you imagine, Joseph Smith is probably like, “What? An angel came to me twice. You just told me again that all the fulfillment of all these prophecies are happening…” and he's sitting there thinking about it, and guess what happened? The same messenger came a third time. He said he gave him the exact same message again, but this time he added a caution, and this is what he said, “The same messenger at my bedside and I heard him rehearse or repeat over again to me the same things as before, and this time he added a caution to me telling me that Satan would try to tempt me in consequences of my indignant circumstances in my father's family.” Because Joseph Smith's family was really poor at the time, “To get the plates for the purpose of being rich. This he forbade me saying I must have no other object in view of getting the plates but to glorify God, and must not be influenced by any other motive than that of building the kingdom. Otherwise, I would not get them.” So he comes back and tells the whole thing and says, “Oh by the way, these gold plates are worth a ton of money and just so you know, you are going to be tempted like crazy from Satan to sell these things because you are poor and you are broke and if you try to use that for any purpose like that, if you even think about it, you're not going to get them.” In fact, in another spot he actually says, “You'll be destroyed if you try to use them for anything else.” Can you imagine this angel telling you, just be good or you're going to be destroyed. I don't know about you, but that would scare me a lot. So he gets the warning, be careful what you do with these because it really, really matters. So then the angel leaves again, and that's when it ends. So now he's sitting there, and he's laying there in bed and all the sudden the sun starts coming up and he realizes, “I've been talking to this angel the entire night.” So he gets up and he's like, “I gotta go to work in the farm.” So he runs out, starts working in the farm and he's super tired, he hasn't slept all night and his dad notices how tired he is and says, “Go back home, go take a nap, go get some sleep.” So he's walking back to the house and he's jumping over this fence as he's going back to the house and he passes out, literally falls on the floor and just goes unconscious. And a few minutes later he wakes up, and guess who he sees when he wakes up? The same angel again. And the angel tells him the same message again. The entire message. Then after he tells him the message, then he's like, “Go tell your dad what I just told you.” I wonder if he was just like, “Dude, I spent the entire night with you. Why wouldn't you have told your parents about this?” So he tells him the whole message again and says, “Go tell your father.” So Joseph Smith gets back up, walks over to his dad and is like, “Alright dad, this is what happened, a messenger came…” and tells him the whole thing and his dad, and this is so telling of the relationship this father and son had, his father told him, “This is from God. You need to go do exactly what the angel told you to do.” So the angel had told him in the vision exactly where the gold plates were at, and they were in a hill called Hill Cumorah, which happened to be right by his house. I wish I had time, I wish I had enough time to have researched this ahead of time, I wanted to but I just ran out of time and I wanted to get this episode out. But it's interesting, all the things the lord had to do to get Joseph Smith to end up in Palmyra, New York next to the Hill Cumorah. His family wasn't born there, he wasn't raised there, they were born somewhere else. And there were all sorts of insane things. There was a volcano that erupted that made their family crops die, which made them go bankrupt, which made them move their farm three or four times to eventually get to this spot hundreds of miles, I don't know how far away, hundreds of miles away from where they were born and raised to this farm that happened to be next to the exact same spot where angel Moroni, where Moroni before he was an angel, where Moroni had buried these plates. So the lord had moved their family and shoved them to this spot, boom, so they were in the right spot to be able to go and get those plates. So Joseph Smith knew where, he'd seen the vision of exactly where it was at, so he walked over to the Hill Cumorah and found the spot where those plates were at and let's see if I can find where it says….its talking about the Hill Cumorah, he said, “On the west side of this hill, not far from the top under a stone of considerable size, lay the plates deposited in a stone box. The stone was thick and rounding in the middle and on the upper sides, and thinner towards the edges so that the middle part of it was visible above the ground, but the edges all around were covered with earth.” So imagine this, Joseph finds this spot and he's like, “This is it, this is the spot.” And then he started digging it out. So it says, “Having removed the earth, I obtained a lever which I got fixed under the edge of the stone, and with a little exertion I raised it up, I looked in and there indeed I beheld the plates and the Urim and Thummim, and the breast plate, as stated by the messenger. The box in which they lay was formed by laying stones together in some kind of cement. In the bottom of the box lay two stones cross ways over the box and on these stones lay the plates and the other things with them.” Can you imagine that? You have these visions and then you go and you find this rock, you move the rock and then boom, in there, just like the angel had said, there are these gold plates, and there's the Urim and Thummim to translate, everything is there. I can't even imagine, as a teenaged kid, can you imagine find that? That's like the greatest treasure in the world. So the first thing he does when he sees it, is start grabbing it to pull it out. That's the first thing I would do, I need to touch it. And he started to grab it and he said, “I made an attempt to take them out, but was forbidden by the messenger and was again informed that the time for bringing them forth had not yet arrived, and neither would it until four years from that time. But he told me I should come to that place in precisely one year from that time, and that he would there meet with me, and that I should continue to do so until the time should come for obtaining the plates.” So he's like, “don't touch these plates, you're not allowed to.” And he's like, “Ah, but I want the gold. This is so cool.” And the angel's like, “Don't touch it. You gotta come back next year.” So he goes on to say, “Accordingly, as I had been commanded, I went at the end of each year and at each time I found the same messenger there and received instructions and intelligences from him at each of our interviews, respecting what the lord was going to do and how in what manner his kingdom was to be conducted in the last days.” So every year for four years he goes back, the angel talks to him again, sends him away. He comes back and keeps doing this for four more years. So for four years he gets to learn about him, see him. I'm sure, can you imagine how much curiosity he'd have, “What is on these things. I want to read them so bad.” Okay, then fast forward a little bit later, after four years, he says, “The length of time had arrived for obtaining the plates and the Urim and Thummim and the breast plates on the 22nd day of September 1827, having gone as usual at the end of another year, to the place where they were deposited. The same heavenly messenger delivered them unto me with this charge, that I should be responsible for them, that if I should let them go carelessly or through any neglect of mine that I should be cut off. But if I would use all my endeavors to preserve them until he, the messenger, should call for them, that I should be protected.” So I'm going to trust you with these gold plates, but if you lose or you neglect them you will be cut off. I don't know exactly what cut off means, but it does not sound like very much fun. So he finally gets the gold plates and the chance to take them, and there's rumors. Because he's been talking about this, he's told people an angel came to him, there's gold plates, he told people about it and people didn't believe him. But they thought, “Well, if he does have gold plates then we want them.” And the persecutions that came from that point forward were insane, people trying to steal them and trying to murder him. There are so many stories that I just don't have time to tell you guys today, but it's crazy. But I do want to share a little bit about the translation process, because this is the coolest part. This is why this book, again I'm holding in my hand right now, one of the original 5000, why this book is so exciting. Because imagine this, if somebody told you there was this book that was inscribed upon golden plates that the ancient American's told their stories, their dealings with God, the talked about God, when Christ came to them, and the entire history of their life, and if you read this book you'll understand Jesus, and Christ and salvation better than anything else on earth. And it's all on these gold plates. And to be able to read it you have to translate, and there were these little seer stones that you look through and as you look through them you'll see the character and it will tell you what the actual word needs to be and be able to find out and decode this book and find out what it is. If someone told me that, I'd be like, “I have to read this book. This sounds like the most exciting, interesting, fascinating story in the history of world.” And it is, yet hardly anybody in the world knows about it. That's what us, as Mormons are always talking about. “If you understood what's in this book you would go crazy. If you knew what was here, if you realized what we had to go through to get this.” Imagine Joseph Smith going back for four years and seeing these gold plates and wondering what in the world is on there. These have been protected for thousands of years from the world and now today they are, the lord is telling me let's bring these out. Aren't you curious what's on there? Aren't you curious, all the revelations, all the prophecies of Isaiah and Malachi, all these prophecies where the angel came back and said, “Look, this is the literal fulfillment of that prophecy. Isaiah was talking about this moment right here.” Aren't you curious what he's talking about? What's actually inside the book? I don't know how you couldn't be curious. It drives me wild when people are like, “Oh, well I'm not going to read it.” It doesn't make any logical sense to me whatsoever, even just out of raw curiosity. What in the world could possibly be in here? Especially when you have people like me where it's literally changed their life. If you look at, I can't even tell you happiness…everything…if you know me and follow me and wonder, “Man, why is Russell so happy?” This is the foundation of why. So I don't know how much more of an endorsement I can give than that. This will bring you more peace, security, happiness….I don't even know how…it's everything I'm saying and a whole much more. It's insane. So I'm hopefully getting you excited to like, “What was on those gold plates?” Aren't you curious? With that said, I'm going to jump over to this talk from President Russell M. Nelson that he gave back in 1992 because there are some quotes I'm going to share from this. So I'm going to read some parts because it's going to explain how the translation part worked. Because if you think about this, Joseph Smith was a young boy, he had no formal education, he could barely read, and he had in a very, very short period of time, and I'll explain that here in a second, had to take these gold plates that were written in some ancient language that most people didn't even know at the time, and he had to translate them into English, and he did the whole thing in less than three months. So how is that even possible? Now me, as an author I've written two books, those who know me, I'm writing book number three right now, just for me to write a book, it takes me four or five years of research, one year of actual writing, and my books aren't even that good compared to this. This book is weaving out 600 years of history from multiple different civilizations, inside the book there's all sorts of proof elements. One of the things in here is an ancient type of Hebrew poetry called Chiasmus, I'm probably going to pronounce it wrong, chiasmus, which is this really cool ancient type of poetry that we didn't even find out about until well after the Book of Mormon was published and then scholars found out about this thing. You go back to the Book of Mormon, the entire book is laced with this amazing poetry where sometimes it's within four or five versus, sometimes its wrapped within 20 or 30 chapters to be able to see the whole hierarchy of this poetry that's been built into the book. All these things that there's no way that Joseph Smith or any human could have done that, unless they lived at that time, actually doing it. Anyway, there's so many proof elements, but none of those matter. My goal, again is not to get you to prove any of this, other than to read it and pray and ask God, because he'll tell you. But just to get you excited and intrigued. Alright I'm going to jump into this talk. So the first thing that Russell M. Nelson said, he said, “I'm intrigued that Joseph Smith, an unschooled young man in rural America could have translated this Semitic language mix into the English language. The unlikely scenario relates to Isaiah's remarkable prophecy. In Isaiah Chapter 29, Verse 14 he said, ‘I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and wonder.' This, the becoming forth of the Book of Mormon, the restoration of the church, this is the marvelous work and wonder that Isaiah was prophesying about, that the angel Moroni came back and said, “Look…remember Isaiah was talking about a marvelous work and wonder that's going to happen in the last days, this is it. It begins today.” Can you imagine that? I'm going to go on and keep reading this. It says, “Truly this latter day work is precisely that. Think of the short time that Joseph Smith took to translate the Book of Mormon. Working from April to June of 1828, Joseph translated the first 116 pages that Martin Harris later lost.” So kind of the back story, and I'm going to actually share this story when we get a little deeper in the Book of Mormon, there's a huge miracle around it. But they translated the first 116 pages, it was called the Book of Lehi. And when you read the Book of Mormon you'll notice there's not Book of Lehi. Where'd the Book of Lehi go? And Lehi was the father of Nephi. So they translated the first 116 pages and Martin Harris got all excited and begged to be able to show his family so they could justify all the money, time and effort he's spent on this. And Joseph Smith went and asked the Lord, said, ‘Hey can Martin Harris show his family these pages?” and the lord said no. And then Joseph Smith told Martin Harris, Martin Harris was like, “Please.” And they went back and forth and kept fighting and praying and finally the Lord is like, “Fine, go do it.” So he did and he lost the pages. So they were going to start retranslating and the Lord's like, “No, no, no. I told you not to give it to him, you did, you sinned, you are losing the power to translate for a season.” So he took away his ability to even translate for a while, then they started retranslating it and said, “Look, we're not going to re-translate that because if you do, Satan will use that as a tool to get people to not believe in this work. So instead you're going to start on this other book,” that was kind of an afterthought, that was called the Book of Nephi, and again, I'll tell you that story when we get to the Book of Nephi. It's a similar story, but it's written by Nephi, Lehi's son. So the first 116 pages are lost and we'll never, we never have had a chance to see those unfortunately. So that was the first translation, then they started over and it said, “Joseph began translating again on Tuesday, April 7,1829 with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe. The manuscript was completed eighty-five days later, on June 30 of that year.” So 85 days, they translated the entire Book of Mormon. I don't know about you, but it's taken me more than 85 days just to read it, let alone translating it from an ancient language. “Of course, not all of that time was spent working on the translation. The prophet and his scribes all took time to eat, to sleep, to seek employment, to receive the Aaronic and Melchizedek priesthoods, to make at least one and possibly two trips to Colesville, 30 miles away….” Which again, they didn't have cars back then, so 30 miles is like 500 miles now days. “…to receive and record 13 other revelations that are now sections of the Doctrine and Covenants, to move from Harmony to Fayette, to acquire the Book of Mormon copyright, and to begin making arrangement for the publication of the Book of Mormon. Conservatively estimated that left 65 or fewer working days on which the prophet and his scribes translated this book, which contains 531 pages in its current edition.” Alright that's 8 pages per day. “Consider that when you translate a book from another language or as you try to read at your own schedule of the Book of Mormon.” It said, “Oliver Cowdery testified a few days later, ‘these days were never to be forgotten. To sit under the sound of a voice dictated by the inspiration of heaven, awakened with the utmost gratitude of this bosom.” Can you imagine that, sitting there as Joseph Smith is translating this book by the gift and power of God? He said, “Those were days never to be forgotten. To sit under the sound of a voice dictated by the inspiration of heaven.” So cool.  It said, “Day after day I continued, uninterrupted to write from his mouth as he translated the history of a record called the Book of Mormon.” He goes on to say, “The details of this miraculous method of translation are still not fully known, yet we do have few precious insights. David Whitmer wrote: ‘Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat, and put his face in the hat, drawing it closely around his face to exclude the light, and in the darkness the spiritual light would shine. A piece of something resembling parchment would appear and on that appeared the writing. One character at a time would appear, and under it was the interpretation in English. Brother Joseph would read off the English to Oliver Cowdery, who was his principle scribe, and when it was written down and repeated to Brother Joseph to see if it was correct, then it would disappear and another character with the interpretation would appear. Thus the Book of Mormon was translated by the gift and power of God, and not by any power man.' Can you imagine that, he just got the gold plates, they're in this hat or something, and then he pulls it up so there's not light shining in there and he's got this stone and he looks down and he looks at the character, which is like, imagine ancient reformed Egyptian, right, a little thing. And he puts the seer stone over it, and below the seer stone it's like, “This is what that word or that phrase means.” He would say the word, he'd write it down, and it would disappear and he'd go to the next word. I can't even imagine how cool this is. This is better than if you guys watch those movies like National Treasure or something, where they're trying to decipher the secret message from the founding fathers. This is secret messages from God. This is secret messages from his prophets on ancient America, aren't you curious what he said? I hope you are. Alright, let me come back in here. So Emma Smith, this is Joseph's wife, it says, “Emma Smith, who acted as an earlier scribe for Joseph gave this account in 1856: ‘When my husband was translating the Book of Mormon, I wrote a part of it, as he dictated each sentence, word for word, and when he came to proper names he could not pronounce, or long words he spelled them out, and while I was writing them, if I made any mistake in spelling, he would stop me and correct my spelling, although it was impossible for him to see how I was writing them down at the time. Even the word Sarah he could not pronounce at first, but had to spell it out and Ij would pronounce it for him. ‘When he stopped for any purpose at any time he would, when he commenced again, begin where he left off wiout any hesitation, and one time while he was translating he stopped suddenly, pale as a sheet, and said, ‘Emma, did Jerusalem have walls around it?' when I answered yes he replied, ‘Oh I didn't know, I was afraid I had been deceived.' He had such a limited knowledge of history at that time that he did not even know that Jerusalem was surrounded by walls.” I got chills just sharing that. Can you imagine, he's reading stuff and sharing it and he's discovering it as we're discovering it and we're reading it. He's asking Emma is that actually true? That is so cool. It says, “On another occasion Emma recorded: ‘The plates often lay on the table without any attempt at concealment, wrapped in a small linen tablecloth which I had given him to fold them in. I once felt of the plates as they thus lay on the table, tracing their outline and shape. They seemed to be pliable like thick paper, and would rustle with a metallic sound when the edges were moved by the thumb, as one does sometimes thumb the edges of a book.” “Although the prophet would polish his skills over the years, Emma acknowledged that Joseph possessed only rudimentary literacy at the time he translated the gold plates.” This is coming from his wife, who loves him. I can imagine most husband's spouses are willing to tell the true story about who the person actually is. So this is what Emma said about Joseph's ability to actually do something like this. She said, “Joseph Smith could neither write nor dictate a coherent and well-worded letter, let alone dictating a book like the Book of Mormon. And though I was an active participant in the scenes that transpired, it is marvelous to a me, a marvel and a wonder, as much so as to anyone else.” So his wife is like, there's no way he wrote this book. I love him but he's not that smart. He couldn't even dictate a coherent or well-worded letter. So it's just, it's fascinating. So as you go on here, that kind of gives you kind of a glimpse of what happened as they translated this book. And then the story afterwards, again, I could spend 20 podcasts just pre-setting up the book, but I want to get into the book. But after that they had it translated right, so it was written out and then they had to go and there is a whole story about how they got EB Grandin to actually print this book that I'm holding in my hands right now. They went and had to get it typed so they had to get the money for it. If you look back in the day, they didn't have type writers or printers, they had to get every letter, letter by letter, THE, print it out and stamp ink on it, and they'd stamp that onto a piece of paper and cut the bindings, sew it together. So when I look at this book and I open it up and I look at the ink and how it's so hard to read in some areas and I look at the bindings how they're hand sewn together. I look at the sacrifice that went into this, but not just that. The translation that happened prior to it, and then to get this book and all the people trying to steal the gold plates from him and eventually, the angel took the gold plates back. And then they get the book, get it printed, get it out there, and then they thought, “Man, everyone in the world is going to freak out when they see this. They're going to be so excited. Can you imagine the miracles that happened for us to get this thing.” And they gave it out to the world initially, as you know, the world didn't just runningly accept it. People did, but not everybody. And to this day it's still, Satan fights against it so hard because he doesn't want it to get into people's hands. But as you read the Book of Mormon, in this talk he shares like 30 different amazing things about the Book of Mormon, but there's one that I want to stress because it's the key. I think that the biggest tragedy to me is that Christians who are great Christian people who are scared to read it or don't want to read it, or whatever it might be, and we'll get more into those reasons as we dive into the book, but I want all my Christian brothers and sisters to feel comfortable with this. So this is one thing that President Nelson talked about, he said, “The Book of Mormon reveals that Jesus of Nazareth, born of Mary is literally the son of God. No book of scripture bares more solemnly the weighty burden of that testimony than does the Book of Mormon. It's pages contain nearly 4000 references to Christ using more than 100 different titles for him. His holy name is mentioned on the average of once every 2.8 verses. No wonder this book has been designated another testament of Jesus Christ.” So anyone who's scared like, “This is going to take away from the Bible. Or this is going to take away from Christ.” Or whatever, no. This is another testament of Christ. The whole purpose, the whole focus of this book is to get people to believe in Christ, to get them to turn their heart to Christ. It is the most amazing proof we have that our savior came to this earth, that he died, and he was resurrected again. I promise you that if you read it and you ponder about, and you pray about it, you don't have to take my word for it, you don't have to take anyone's word for it. But if you pray, if you read and you pray about it, our Heavenly Father will tell you it's true. I had an interesting talk yesterday with one of my friends and he said that there was someone who lives by us, who as a young boy became a member of the church and got baptized and then left. He hasn't been back to church for, I don't know 50-60 years. And he was going and he was trying to get him to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it and find out what he once knew. So finally the guy said, “I commit, I will read the Book of Mormon and I'll pray about it.” And he's like, “Cool.” So he came back a week later and said, “How'd it go?” and he's like, “Well, I spent 3 hours online researching the Book of Mormon and I didn't feel good.” And he said, “Well of course you didn't. What were you reading about it.” And he kind of told him, and he's like, “you're reading people who hate the church, who hate the Book of Mormon. How do you think you're going to feel.” And he's like, “I didn't feel good about it.” And he said, “How about this, I want you to take a different challenge. This time spend 3 hours actually reading the Book of Mormon and then tell me how you feel.” That's the test. When you read the book you will feel the Lord's spirit, you will feel the Holy Ghost, you will feel the feelings of God because this book is from him. Don't read about the book, that's my one fear of this podcast , you're going to listen to me talk about the book and then you're going to base your judgments based on that. Please don't. My only goal of this podcast is to get you so excited that you go and you open the book and you read it. And if you read it you will feel that, I promise you that. You'll read it and you'll feel it and then pray about it and ask God if it's true. Don't take my word for it, don't take anyone's word for it because that's not the goal. The goal is not to convince you of anything, the goal is for you to read it, to feel it and then to pray and ask God. And then if you do, it'll change your life. I promise you that. It's changed my life, it's changed millions of other people's lives around the world and it'll change yours as well. Alright to end, I want to end actually reading part of, the ending part of this talk from President Nelson and then I want to share my testimony as well. But I thought he did such a good job kind of summing this up. He said, “It is a book that the Lord Jesus Christ has personally testified to be true. In the form of an oath, the Lord said, referring to the Prophet Joseph Smith's work, ‘He has translated the book, even that part which I have commanded him, and as your Lord and your God liveth it is true.' So that was in Doctrine and Covenants section 17 verse 6 where Jesus Christ himself testified that the Book of Mormon is true. He said, “you know well that this promise that the Lord offers to the readers of the Book of Mormon. If you do these last commandments of mine, which I have given you, the gates of hell shall not prevail against you, for my grace is sufficient for you, and you shall be lifted up at the last day. “The Prophet Joseph Smith declared and his successor, President Ezra Taft Benson, has reaffirmed that at the Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion. It is a treasured testament of truth. It is the prophesied sign that the Lord has commenced to gather Israel and fulfill his covenants. “ So I just want to testify to you, just like the angel did when he told Joseph Smith when he came three times in the night and again the next day, and then every year for the next four years. He said that all of the prophecies from the old testament, all of the things that Isaiah and all these prophets wrote about, that were going to happen in the last days, they're happening. It's happening all around you. And Satan's going to deceive you and try to get you blind to it by keeping you busy and I feel this in my life every single day. There's so many things that are happening. So many things fighting for our time, good things that are fighting for our time, it's hard to keep our eyes open enough to look for the truth. But it's there, it's right in front of our eyes. It's been restored. There was a boy who was humble enough and worthy enough to pray and get Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ to come to him. He then, through the gift and power of God was able to go and find these Gold plates, this old record of people who lived here on the ancient American Continent. People who actually had a chance to see Christ and feel the wounds in his hands and his feet and put all those things in their record. He was able to translate them by the gift and the power of God. They weren't translated 10, 50, 100 times by tons of different people. It was translated once. So this book in my hands that I'm holding today is the exact same thing that came, went from the prophets here in ancient America, right into the Gold plates, then from one translation being put here in this book. So when you read this, you know it hasn't been changed, hasn't been manipulated. It is literally the words of God. And what's interesting is that the ancient prophets who wrote this, this book was not for them. They didn't have a chance to see it right. As you read through the book you'll see, they were writing this book, the Lord commanded them and said, you're writing this book. It's not for you, it's for a future people who need to have this book. This book will turn their hearts back to God. So they're like, I'm not writing this for my people, I'm writing it for you, whoever is reading this someday in the future. I'm writing this for you so you'll know what happened to us, so you can protect yourself and you can protect your families. So it was written by ancient American prophets for me and for you, specifically for today. Specifically for us to get through the challenges and the trials and tribulations and all the amazing things that Satan's throwing at us today, this book was written to protect us and to save us and to bring us closer to Christ. He is our savior, he is our messiah, he is our God and he's our king. I testify to you that this book will draw you closer to him than anything else on this planet. And I want you, I pray that you read it and that you feel it. And if you do that, like I said, your life will be changed forever, just like mine has. So I want to share that with you on the end of this episode, and get excited because on the next episode we're going to be diving into 1 Nephi Chapter 1. So if you don't have your Book of Mormon yet, go and get one. If you go to bookofmormonchallenge.com there's a link where you can get a free one. Or you can go to Amazon, I'm sure you can get a free one on Amazon. Just get a copy of it because I want you to start reading this together with me, otherwise what's the point of all this work I'm putting into it, right? So we're going to go to 1 Nephi chapter 1. This is the way that the game is going to be played. I'm going to tell you about 1 Nephi Chapter 1. I'm going to get you so excited, so fired up, and so pumped to read it and then I'm going stop and I'm going to leave you hanging and that's going to drive you to go and actually read it. And that's how this podcast is going to go moving forward. I'm going to get you excited about what's happening, what to look for, the magic, the secret messages, all the amazing things that the Lord has weaved into these verses that if you're not careful you're going to miss it. I'm going to set those things up so you can look for them and you can find them so when you read them you'll have these amazing spiritual moments where you'll be reading something and it'll hit you. And for everyone it's going to be different. Everyone's at different times and points in your lives. And some things you'll read and it won't make sense, and some things you'll read and you won't be ready for it. But some things you'll read and you'll sit there and be like, how in the world did this prophet, and it could be Alma or Nephi or Leman, not Leman, Helamin or Moroni, how did they know? How did they know that I would be struggling with that today? They literally, they must have put that chapter in for me. They must have put that verse. That phrase must have been for me. They saw our day and they must have known that was for me. You're going to have those experiences and it'll be the most amazing, spiritual, coolest things, when those things happen. It doesn't happen all the time, but I promise you that if you will read this book with me, and dive in there and study it, and you'll be looking for those things, and you're praying for answers to your prayers, as you read them, you'll find that these prophets hid things in here specifically for you, things that you may have read in the past, or other people read and it didn't touch them, but when you read it, it will hit you differently than it has hit anybody else in the history of time. And you'll know that scripture was specifically written for you.  And that's what's so magical about this book. I hope that you take me up on the challenge and you dive in and you read it and you enjoy it. With that said, I will end this episode of the podcast. Thank you so much for listening and for participating. I will see you guys on the next episode when we jump into 1 Nephi Chapter 1.

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GPF discusses what the novels-turned-hit-TV show tell us about geopolitics and apply GPF's methodology to the Game of Thrones universe. Read "The Geopolitics of Ice and Fire" here: hubs.ly/H06X1KN0 TRANSCRIPT: JS: Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Geopolitical Futures Podcast. I am joined today by our marketing director, Sam Dube. Welcome, Sam. SD: Welcome, thank you for having me. JS: So we are doing something a little bit different for today. This will be publishing on April Fools' and it's going to accompany a special edition piece that we're doing for April Fools' on “Game of Thrones,” which has turned into a hit HBO series. Before it was an HBO series, it was a series of fantasy novels by George R.R. Martin. I know that some of our listeners will be completely uninterested in this, and for that, I apologize and you can just tune in next week for our regular turn at geopolitics. But I actually think that “Game of Thrones” itself is an interesting laboratory for thinking about geopolitics, and I think that the level of interest that it has spawned, particularly in the United States, but not just in the United States, is also interesting to talk about from a geopolitical perspective. And since it was April Fools', we wanted to have a little fun, so that's what we're going to do today. And Sam is joining me because she is a real fan and she is a true fan. She's been reading all the books for a long time. I am just somebody who has come a little late to the party and has been watching the television show. So Sam, thank you for lending us your expertise. I want to jump right into it, and people can read the piece that we wrote and stuff like that. But what I want to start off with rather than the actual content of “Game of Thrones” itself is a discussion of why you like it and why you think people are so drawn to it. I have my own answer, but maybe you can start us off by explaining to the audience why this is something that you gravitated to. SD: Well sure. I've always been a fan of fantasy and in general those sorts of novels. I am also a big reader, so having something with a lot to sink my teeth into was really attractive. But what really kept me into the novels is the number of characters that there are, how dynamic they are and how they change over time. Normally with a novel or with a TV show, there's one main character and you kind of follow them all the way through and you get one perspective. But this is such a multi-person perspective that your emotional reaction to the show changes as they want you to change by following different character's stories, having them meet different situations. It just really draws you in because there's so much going on, and you can adjust your reaction to different people and see the same situation from many different angles. JS: It's funny, so would you say then that for you it's more about the books, or is it more about the show itself? SD: Well, now that there's no more books coming before the shows, I would say now it's about the show. When he was releasing the books ahead of time, it was more about the books for me. Although I won't lie, I really do enjoy watching the shows quite a bit. JS: Well, and also I mean I guess I would ask you as someone who has been reading the books and following George R.R. Martin for a long time, a lot has been made about the current and domestic political overtones of some of his work. So when Daenerys gets stuck in Meereen, for example, people have described that as very similar to the second Iraq War, or the political statement about the United States being stuck in the Iraq War in particular, or in the Middle East in general. Is that something you line up with or do you think it's more abstract than that? SD: I don't know. I think so many of these themes were in play. I am really not sure about that. I haven't seen that myself and I haven't given that much thought. Usually when I am escaping into that, I am escaping into the fantasy of it and to tune everything else out. But I mean I could see it thinking back on many of the things that have happened. I can certainly see, you know, themes or thematically things that have happened in history kind of reappearing in the Westeros landscape. JS: Speaking as somebody who really wasn't into the books that much but is more into the TV show, but I am also somebody who is generally a fan of these types of things myself, and I have been asking myself why I am interested in these things and why I read these books. This is true of fantasy, it goes on down with “Lord of the Rings,” it goes on down to “The Chronicles of Narnia.” I would even extend it to science fiction. “Dune” is one of my favorite novels. Our founder, George Friedman, in our weekly reading lists will throw a science fiction novel in there every once in a while, and he explains why it's a really interesting way of thinking about the world. But one thing that's really struck me thinking about “Game of Thrones” in general, but also just the general trend towards blockbuster superhero movies and huge franchises and fantasy novels and splitting seasons into multiple things. I mean “Harry Potter,” they had seven books, but we're going to make nine different movies and a play and all this other stuff. I think part of the reason for that, and I am playing a little bit of armchair psychologist here, but I hope people will forgive me, because I think what I am going to say is actually a bit true, which is that, I think that we live in this time of fake news, and we live in this time of spin, and we live in this time of people really aren't sure what's going on. There's not a lot of clarity about what's going on in the world. During the Cold War, for both sides, whether you were in the Soviet Union or you were in the United States, there was a defined enemy, there was a defined conflict. You sort of knew what was happening in the world as a way to orient yourself. When people look back at the history of World War II, even World War I, it's very easy to sort of identify, OK, well this was the good side and this was the bad side, and this was my country's or my family's or my particular tribe's tie to that particular conflict. I don't think we live in a world that's like that anymore. It's become less clear what's going on in the world when we see these multinational institutions degrading and we see that there isn't just one conflict. The U.S. wars in the Middle East and with radical Islam is a really good example. Our founder, George Friedman, writes about this all the time. Most Muslims aren't blowing things up or aren't committing terrorist attacks in London. But some Muslims are, and it's impossible to separate those two things from each other. So you can't deny that you are in a war with radical Islam or with Islam itself, but then you also don't want that to make it such that every single Muslim you see you want to ascribe some kind of hateful feeling to. So for me, that's a really long way of saying, I think people, and when I say people, I am really talking about myself here, I gravitate towards “Game of Thrones” because it is a story that tells me something about good and evil. It is something I can sink my teeth into. And I think the thing that is particularly unique about “Game of Thrones” from that point of view, and what I argue in this piece would make it geopolitical, is that it's not clear, right? All of the different sides have some good things and some bad things, and there's very, very few sides that are actually just completely evil, who are horrible, who you can't relate to or understand at all. I think this gets back to your point, because when you are talking about your attachment to it, you are talking about the characters and the different narratives and stories, and for me as an analyst who spends a lot of time doing empathetic analysis of other countries, and especially other political leaders, I relate to that, because that's a lot of my job. A lot of my job is to put myself into the mindset of another person or another leader and try and see the constraints that are around them and see the things that they must do and then use that to analyze geopolitics. And I think that's something as a watcher of “Game of Thrones” that people have to do. As somebody who is a huge fan of this, does that sound sacrilegious to you, Sam, or do you feel like that gets along with the ethos of the general fandom of it? SD: I think that goes along with it well. When you were talking about the Middle East and the conflict going on there, and how we approach that and how it's not really clear who's the good guy and who's the bad guy, you can't lump them all together. I actually thought of Tyrion Lannister and Jamie Lannister and all of the Lannisters, and how evil they seem from the outside, and how evil Tywin was, and how evil Cersei is. I don't think that's changed much. But then you look at Tyrion Lannister, who's good pretty much for the start. He's a really snarky smart-ass, but he's really very smart. And you look at Jamie Lannister, who's gone from a king slayer to kind of almost an anti-hero. All those distinctions, good vs. evil, kind of get muddied in that. And then you look at the people who really are so good, like Ned Stark, who's almost a martyr, and he doesn't get anywhere with it. He's a perfect example of nice guys really do finish last – or headless. So, I think “Game of Thrones” does allow us to have that, you know that view of a world that's as muddy and as hard to understand as our own, but with characters who are as easy to understand as our own political leaders. I mean we have a pulse on what these characters are that are running these various things, and whether or not we argue that the leader of any particular country is very important at any given moment is kind of a separate debate. But in “Game of Thrones” you get that. It's real life. You get these strong political leaders, you can understand their personalities, you can understand their priorities, their backstory, but in this case, I am kind of using the families as political entities, which kind of works for “Game of Thrones,” kind of doesn't, because they shift so frequently. But it's hard to tell if one house is all good or all bad based on the people who make it up. JS: I think that's a really good point. It actually helps segue into a discussion of “Game of Thrones” itself, because you are right “Game of Thrones” doesn't really line up into our world in the sense that there aren't nations. I make this point in the April Fools' piece that we wrote. There really is no nationalism in “Game of Thrones.” There is no sense of national identity. Everything is really feudalistic. One of the things that I realized, and you know just a full confession, I wrote that piece around Christmas time when I was in my grandmother's house, and I had some time away from work, and I was just trying to relax. For fun, I was reading the first volume of Winston Churchill's “A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.” When Churchill is writing that first volume of “A History of the English-Speaking Peoples,” he goes through the way that the monarchy eventually emerges in England, and I was really, really struck by the way he described the transition from feudalism to monarchy and the differences between Britain and between the country in that regard. It really struck me that one of the things that Martin was really playing with was Europe. It's funny that United States has become so obsessed with “Game of Thrones.” And “Game of Thrones,” it's really a worldwide phenomenon. I travel a lot for work. I am in Budapest right now, actually. I find that a lot of people in the world have watched “Game of Thrones,” and know these strange words in English just because they were used in “Game of Thrones” and will talk to me about “Game of Thrones.” It becomes a point of common conversation. One of the things to me that is strange about that, in the United States I think people don't realize that the world that Martin is describing really is very similar to the Medieval or the Middle Ages in Europe. He's talking about a time where there's feudalism, there's monarchy. Religion still plays a great role and has a great deal of power throughout the “Game of Thrones” universe. And he's talking about the intersection of all these things. And for me one of the greater themes in “Game of Thrones” is the collapse of all these things. So the houses themselves are not nations, but you can see in them, in the fact that you know the houses become tied to particular geographies, you can sort of see the beginnings of what a nation might look like, even with the accents and the different faiths and different ethnicities that are attached with each region. So I think one of the reasons that America doesn't even realize that the show is so popular in other places around the world is that it really does, on a certain level, speak to a European audience. Sam, I was talking to you before, and one of the things that you wanted to touch on was the role of magic in “Game of Thrones.” And I think that for people who normally read our stuff, and people who normally are interested in international politics, magic is probably one of the things that turns them off the most about fantasy. You are either a person who likes magic and fantasy or you are a person who's like, you know what, give me the real world stuff, this is a load of garbage, I want to go learn about current things. But you had some interesting things to say about what magic actually represents in the universe. How about you tell me a little about that. SD: Sure. One of the things in the piece that you wrote for this is, you liken dragons to a technology that Valyrians had that allowed them to kind of take over and really dominate the whole world, and later the Targaryens once the Valyrians were wiped out. And I would say although it is fantasy, and I mean yeah, dragons are cool to talk about and of course they are completely unrealistic, there is something in the real world that we can liken magic to and that would be, hold on for this one, it's a microchip. So microchip is a new technology that really changed the world and it really revolutionized a lot of new technologies. I mean it's the grandfather of what I am talking on right now. Likewise, magic was that for the Valeyrians when they went and found the dragons, they just found them slumbering in a bunch of volcanoes. They just went and found them and they were like, oh we can train these dragons. Let's figure out some magic to do it. And it was that magic, it was them developing the magic or having the magic to be able to train those beasts, that allowed them to kind of turn dragons into the technology that made them great. I mean in addition to that, they also created some amazing roadways and Valyrian steel swords, which no one else has been able to match. So their true competitive advantage in the world was that technology, that magic which allowed them to tame things such as dragons which isn't that unlike computers, microchips, laser-guided missiles, all that stuff couldn't exist without the microchip. And all the things that the Valyrians, and later the Targaryens who came from the Valyrians, did to take over and to really force their way out into the world came from that one central thing, the magic that they were able to conjure that other groups of people in Westeros couldn't conquer. JS: It's interesting. I didn't think of this until you just said it just now, but for me, I always thought of the dragons as sort of the equivalent of a nuclear weapon. You know, like a weapon of mass destruction that makes one side completely invincible and makes other people bend to your will. But what you brought up about this, and this betrays that I watch the show and don't read the books, but you said that they found the dragons in a cave somewhere, and for me that immediately goes to the Comanche Indians on the American Continent before the United States has sort of moved out and added Texas and all these other colonial holdings. Because at the time in the West, there were a bunch of different Native American groups, and the Comanche were not the most dominant. What happened was the Comanche discovered the horse, and the Comanche interacted with the horse in a way that none of the other Native American tribes did, and they became the greatest cavalry archers that North America had ever seen and terrorized the Spanish to the point that the Spanish invited American settlers into Texas because they wanted some kind of buffer zone between the Spanish colonies and these Comanche Indians. And the Comanches ended up ruling a wide swath of the West, until eventually the Americans invented the six shooter, the Colt .45, and were able to develop the types of weapons that could neutralize them. But it's funny, it just occurs to me that that's another level in which the technology thing counts. SD: Yeah, imagine if Cersei can come up with a Colt .45 to get rid of those dragons? I don't know what that would look like. JS: Yeah. I'll throw another hard question at you, because I think the dragons are easy to explain in terms of technology. You can think in a religious world if somebody was making a myth that, OK, a weapon of mass destruction or some awesome weapon could totally be represented as a dragon mythically. What about the army of the dead? So you know we've got Daenerys Targaryen is coming back to Westeros with her dragons to conquer, which she sees as rightfully hers, but the other thing that is happening, and it's really going to pick up this season I think, is that this army of the dead, of these zombies, is marching from the north and is about to try and cross over this magic wall that's separating from the rest of Westeros. And they seem completely invincible. We know that they can be killed probably by dragon fire. I haven't confirmed that, but I feel like that seems like an obvious one. Or Valyrian steel, which you mentioned earlier. But when you are thinking about technology and you are thinking about realism, and I think Martin really is a realistic writer, how do you explain the army of the dead? What do you think is the closest analogy to that? SD: Well they're just technology gone wrong. If the dragons are technology gone right, which I think a lot of people would argue they weren't technology gone right, depends on what side you are on, so is the army of the dead. The army of the dead were created by the children of the forest when the First Men first invaded Westeros. Before any men went into Westeros, there was children of the forest, there were giants, there were other magical creatures. They were all over there having a grand old time, and then these First Men with their big swords of bronze and their armor came in, and this peaceful community wasn't ready for it. So they couldn't fight them, they just kept being dominated, dominated, dominated. So they created this army of the dead. They created that with magic. Now the problem with any technology is if you create something that big and that serious, you better be able to control it. I mean, liken it to a virus. Some kid in a classroom somewhere is playing around and sets off a virus that infects 20 million computers. He might have meant to do that. He might have just been screwing around with his computer with a virus program. But once it's out, it's out. And this is kind of like that technology. They use magic to turn a dead person into the first person in this army of the dead, and then it spreads because like a virus, they kind of self-create like create more of themselves. So that's how I would liken it to in terms of technology. JS: I hadn't thought of it that way. That's interesting. Another thing I would ask you, Sam, and it's been fun for me because we're a small team at Geopolitical Futures and we all work on basically all our pieces together. It's really a communal effort every piece that comes out. But, you know, you are a marketing director, and I am over here in analysis, and sometimes we don't get to talk as much about analysis, but this was a case where I think going into this you actually knew more than I did and we got to collaborate a little bit. One of the things you said to me was that you had never thought of the series from the point of view of geography in the way we sort of laid it out. So can you talk a little bit about as a fan of “Game of Thrones,” what it was sort of like to read through it, approach this way with this particular methodology, and whether you were skeptical it was going to work at first and whether you think it did? SD: I wasn't really skeptical of it. I was wondering how it was going to be different, because there's so much fan fiction out there. And I think the geographic approach that you took was really clever because you watch “Game of Thrones” and you don't really have a view of where these things are in your head. Like, where is King's Landing, where is The Reach, you know like where are all these things in relation to each other and it's just a concept you can't really grasp. So the fact that you created this analysis that actually has a map that shows it against Europe so you get a real idea of how far these things are from each other. Everything just makes a little bit more sense. I can see the path that the Valryians took when they were beginning to take over the world after they found their dragons. I can see the little island that the Targaryens went to when one of the children of a Targaryen leader had a vision that Valyria was going to be destroyed. I can even see the destruction on the new map of Valryia because they refer to it as a peninsula. It's not a peninsula. It's a series of islands. I can even see the path that the Valryians took up that push the Andals over into Westeros when they first invaded thousands of years before the television show happened. So it puts a completely different perspective on it all that makes it, I mean it's not real, it's obviously not real, but it makes it feel a little more real, feel a little more subjective and like something that you could actually step into because this is a real world. This is a real physical place and not just some abstract concept in my head. I really liked the fact that it pulls together a real understanding of the world that these people live in. I mean, you can say this army moved from point A to point B, but without seeing it on a map you really have no concept of that. And I think this analysis does a great job of putting that perspective into place. And I never had that before. It was really nice to see that. JS: I appreciate you saying that, and for me, also it drives home one of the things that I think makes “Game of Thrones” really interesting, and for me valuable as a resource. It's not just something I do to burn off time. For me, it's intellectually engaging on a certain level, and this is true of a lot of different fiction. I am a self-confessed nerd and I've already said some of the things that I've read. But I don't know that Martin worked it this way, but it seems to me that Martin must've started with a map and started writing his story after the map. I think the same thing about “Dune,” which is a story about a desert planet where geography plays a huge role. Something like “The Chronicles of Narnia” is very clearly to me about faith. It's very clearly to me about C.S. Lewis' interaction with faith and him dealing with that. “Lord of the Rings” is another one that always gets lopped into this stuff and that has something to do with faith, but Tolkien was a linguist at the end of the day, and he is famous for saying that the first thing that began the whole “Lord of the Rings” saga was he invented a language. And then came all the maps and the geography and all of this other stuff. So for me, approaching “Game of Thrones” for somebody who does geopolitics for a living, I think one of the reasons I gravitate towards “Game of Thrones” as much as I do is because it really is about a map. And I really do think that you can explain things through geography. And one of the things I am really curious about, and one of the reasons I indulged myself in this little exercise while I was on vacation to write this was that I really think this is an interesting laboratory for thinking about geopolitics. I think of “Game of Thrones” and George R.R. Martin in general as a very a realistic take on what politics looks like at a certain level and the way that people betray each other and make alliances and all these other things, and I am curious just how far it goes. I have a great deal of faith in the model that we use at Geopolitical Futures. It's been very good at predicting a lot of events. And for me it's kind of a litmus test, like just how realistic is George R.R. Martin going to be. Is it going to turn out to be just a fantasy series and something incredibly crazy that nobody could have predicted is going to happen, or can I use the same tools that I used to predict global geopolitics and think about this universe that Martin has created, which I think is much more realistic and much more based on geography than most of these types of universes are, and can I say something intelligent about what the future of this universe is going to be. So that's one of the reasons that I've sort of let myself go into that. But when you think about “Game of Thrones,” you think about other things that you've read. Harry Potter is another one in there. I don't know exactly what the genesis was for that in J.K. Rowling's mind, but do you think that Martin really was centered in geography, or do you think there's something else going on there that I am missing? SD: I feel like he couldn't have written it the way he did if he wasn't aware of the geography. I mean when you come at it from the story's angle and then you look at the geography of it, it has to be geographic based. It is too well written to the map to not have had that in his head. It would be too coincidental that the way all of these people moved over time with their geography, there's too many coincidences for him not to have done that on purpose. However, I do think that he is a huge fan of throwing curveballs, things that you don't expect and figures that people who have a lot of ability to change the scene of the world. There's no way to know for sure whether or not Cersei will come up with that Colt .45 that can kill these dragons or, it probably won't be Cersei, but there's no way to know that Aegon Targaryen isn't going to come back theoretically from the dead and claim his throne, and all of the sudden you have three dragons and three Targaryens. Like, who knows what is going to happen with that stuff. So I think he will create twists within the constraints of geopolitics, but I do think it's hard to predict just because he just really likes those twists. But I do think he will keep it constrained by the geography of the world he's created. JS: Well, thanks Sam. For our listeners, I hope you've enjoyed this. This was a little bit different than we normally do and we always appreciate your feedback. But if you liked this, we'd love to hear back from you with comments at www.geopoliticalfutures.com. If you didn't like it, we'd also love to hear from you, too. Don't worry, I promise we are not going to become a “Game of Thrones” website that is cataloging it all the time, and this was a special occasion for April Fools', and we thought we'd just try it. But so as always, appreciate your feedback. I am Jacob Shapiro, I am the director of analysis, this was Sam Dube, who is our marketing director, and we will see you next week for some more podcasting about geopolitics. Thanks.

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