Podcast appearances and mentions of anita barrows

Today on the Show: Israel continues its Genocide in Gaza. Nora Barrows Friedman documents another week of violence and mass murder in Gaza. And we'll feature a special report from writer-activist, Kate Raphael, from the Occupied West Bank where violent settlers continue to collaborate with the IDF to beat and kill Palestinians and steal their land. And where harvesting olives has become a deadly affair. And poet Anita Barrows joins us  with a poem on day 411 of the Genocide The post Flashpoints – November 20, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

Voices from the Middle East; Bringing out the Voters; Band of Sisters; Swap Your Vote   We begin GREEP #196 in the Middle East with DENNIS BERNSTEIN and ANITA BARROWS.   RUTH STRAUSS warns of burning drop boxes and has some advice for the Harris campaign.   Getting Out the Vote is the expertise of the great ANDREA MILLER whose non-partisan Center for Common Ground website shows us how to direct voters to the polls.   From Florida we get the latest update on rampaging fascism from JIM NATHAN.   Atlanta-based RAY MCCLENDON guides us to Communities United for Justice, which supports canvassers in the field.   MARGOT KING & JOHN STEINER update us on the Band of Sisters, which supports women' reproductive rights.   Swap the Vote is explained by MIKE HERSH as a way to use the Electoral College to balance support for 3d parties in “safe states” versus major candidates in swing states.   Andrea Miller reminds us that leaving messages increases turnout by 5%, and that it's key to let citizens know that early voting can be decisive.     We must, says Andrea, let voters know they are invited to the dance, & the dance is democracy.   We adjourn early to make phone calls to potential voters…and we hope you will too….  

Solomon sets out to build a house for God, as people across time and place have done over and over again. But even in the dedication prayer, Solomon acknowledges that God cannot be contained by a building, regardless of size or grandness or even how delicious it smells. Just as Pastor Megan's delicious-smelling cedar chest could never contain her bounty of beautiful quilts, so too Solomon's cedar temple could never contain the enormity of God. Houses for God have never been about or for God, so much as they are for a people, seeking to create sacred spaces for living in relationship with one another and God; a people seeking to recharge their spiritual batteries.Sermon begins at minute marker 5:421 Kings 5.1-5, and 8.27-30, 41-43ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 609 – Dedicating the Temple, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, JrRainer Maria Rilke, “Ich bin, du Ängtlicher. Hörst do mich nicht,” from Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy, 66.Image: rendering of quilts stacked at SMC during our Jubilee celebration, 2018.Voices Together Hymn 647 There is a Balm in Gilead. Text & Music: African American Spiritual (USA) Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Today on the Show: Legendary Consumer Advocate, Ralph Nader  on the Underestimates of war dead and wounded as a result of what experts assert is an ongoing genocide in illegally occupied Gaza. Also, Texas AG, Ken Paxton, on arresting Texas voters and searching their homes for DNA evidence of voter fraud?  And noted poet and translator  Anita Barrows documenting the genocide in poems in poems of suffering memory and loss. The post Ralph Nader on Underestimated Amount of Dead and Wounded in Gaza appeared first on KPFA.

Most of August 14th, 2024's edition of Flashpoints -- the daily news and information show hosted by Dennis Bernstein on KPFA Community Radio in Berkeley, California -- was dedicated to music and poetry related to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The segment consists of Kamala Emanuel and me going back and forth with the absolutely breath-takingly powerful poet, Anita Barrows, who has written a poem every day since the genocide began in October.

Today on the Show: An eye-witness report from a surgeon just back from treating genocide victims in the Gaza Strip: The message from the doc, ” As Surgeons, We Have Never Seen Cruelty Like Israel's Genocide in Gaza”. We urge anyone who reads this to publicly oppose sending weapons to Israel as long as this onslaught continues. Is it times for the Dems to say no more Joe, step aside. And poet Anita Barrows continue to take on the Gaza Genocide in Poetry. Vote The post Eye Witness Report From Surgeon Just Back From Gaza appeared first on KPFA.

Because we are imaginative beings, we can imagine and call into being all kinds of better possibilities for ourselves and those around us. At the same time, our imaginations can have us pretend to ourselves about the reality of our lives and experience. It's completely understandable that we do this - distracting ourselves with what Rainer Maria Rilke calls ‘empty freedoms' is surely one way to try to avoid experiences and feelings we don't want to have.  But those distractions, those ‘empty freedoms' do little to help us plant deep roots, or to learn how to fly when called for. So how might we turn with courage and whole hearts towards the reality of what is, as a way of opening ourselves to the possibility of acting to bring about a better future? Hosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace. Join Our Weekly Mailing: www.turningtowards.life/subscribe Support Us: www.buymeacoffee.com/turningtowardslife Turning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace.  Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google, Amazon Music and Spotify. Here's our source for this week: How Surely Gravity's Law  How surely gravity's law  Strong as an ocean current,  Takes hold of even the strongest thing  And pulls it toward the heart of the world.  Each thing – each stone, blossom, child – is held in place. Only we, in our arrogance,  Push out beyond what we belong to  For some empty freedom. If we surrendered to Earth's intelligence  We could rise up, rooted, like trees … This is what the things can teach us: to fall,  Patiently to trust our heaviness.  Even a bird has to do that  Before he can fly.  Rainer Maria Rilke Translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy Photo by Cindy Tang on Unsplash

Today on the Show: Israel/US cease fire plan, a non-starter for Hamas: also Yemen's Houthis launch a missile attack on a US aircraft carrier in response to deadly US and British strikes on Yemen that have killed at least 16: and poetry in a time of war, poet, translator, child psychotherpist, Anita Barrows…writes a poem about Gaza everyday of the genocide The post Flashpoints – May 31, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

This is a deeply nourishing conversation with Sarah, diving into the world of sensitivity, embodiment & the divine feminine with so much gentleness & ease. Enjoy with a warm cup of tea or on your walk. Sarah's work is devotional feminine artistry. Blending energetics, archetypal wisdom, and teachings of the deep feminine mysteries, her work is an ode to the immanence of the sacred and embodied feminine knowing. You can find Sarah & her offerings through her website or Instagram. Sarah shared with us her reading list if you feel called to dive deeper into these topics: Dance of the Dissident Daughter, Sue Monk Kidd The Pregnant Virgin, Marion Woodman Coming Home to Myself, Marion Woodman Descent to the Goddess, Sylvia Brinton Perera Jung: A feminist revision, Susan Rowland (for if you want to dive into the theory☺️) Rilke's Book of Hours (I have the English translation by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy) The Invisible Embrace of Beauty, John O'Donohue More info on The Way Home Website / Instagram / Journal

In our final podcast of the year, a special selection of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry offers nourishment for heart and spirit. Twenty-five years ago, Buddhist scholar and eco-philosopher Joanna Macy collaborated with award-winning poet Anita Burrows to translate Rilke's seminal collection of poetry, The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, which explores the nature of God through divinely received prayers. In this reading, excerpted from the album Be Earth Now, produced by Fletcher Tucker at Gnome Life Records, Joanna and Anita recite some of these poems, reminding us of the ever-urgent call to love the world into being. Sign up for our newsletter to hear more stories as they are released each week. Cover artwork by Claire Collette. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on the Show: Remembering The legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower, Dan Ellsberg, whose release of the Pentagon Papers, put the lie to the entire US justification of the Vietnam War. We'll play a few excerpts of our last interview with Dan who was speaking out forcefully on behalf of Wikileaks whistleblower Julian Assange. Then we'll be joined by some of his closest longtime friends including healing Visionary, and Rilke Translator, Joanna Macy. Also joining us, Anita Barrows, Rilke Translation and child psychotherapist. And Anitia's daughter, Nora Barrows Friedman, author and host of the Electronic Intifada, a former producer here at Flashpoints: The post Remembering Legendary Pentagon Papers Whistleblower, Dan Ellsberg appeared first on KPFA.

“When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in turmoil asking, ‘Who is this?'” Mt. 21 Matthew 21:1-11 Isaiah 50:4-9a Philippians 2:5-11 Matthew 26:14-27:66 What is God like? And how will we respond? Give me your hand and we will see. In December 1945, halfway up the Egyptian portion of the Nile River, a farmer named Muhammad ‘Alī al-Sammān made an extraordinary archaeological discovery. Thirty years later he told his story. Not long before he and his brothers avenged their father's murder, they were digging for soil to fertilize their crops when they found a three foot high red, earthenware jar. Wondering if it contained an evil spirit, at first they hesitated to break it open. Then he had the idea that it might contain gold, so he smashed it with his axe and discovered thirteen papyrus books bound in leather. [i] At home he dropped the books on a pile of straw by the oven. His mother used much of the papyrus along with the straw to kindle fire. A few weeks later, after killing their father's enemy ‘Alī worried that the police might search the house, so he left the books with a local priest. For years experts tried to collect the manuscripts. In the end they discovered fifty-two texts at Nag Hammadi. Carbon dating of the papyrus used in the bindings places these Coptic translations sometime between the years 350-400 CE. Some scholars, including my New Testament professor Helmut Koester, believe that these are translations of Greek manuscripts that may be even older than the gospels of the New Testament. One of the first European scholars to discover the texts was startled to read the following line, “These are the secret words which the living Jesus spoke, and which the twin Judas Thomas, wrote down.” [ii] This is the opening of the first complete copy of the Gospel of Thomas ever discovered. We had fragments of it in Greek but suddenly we had the whole thing along with pages of other sources we had never dreamed of. My favorite quotes from the Gospel of Thomas describes the kingdom of God as a “state of self-discovery.” That ancient papyrus says, “Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will realize that you are the sons of the living Father.” It says, “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” [iii] For years all we knew about the Gnostic Christians in the first centuries after Jesus' death came from the orthodox Christians who called them heretics. Now finally, to some degree, we can hear them speak for themselves. I first encountered these ideas at the age of twenty-one when I read Elaine Pagels' book The Gnostic Gospels. I am attracted to their thought primarily because Jesus has changed my life and I long to learn more about what people in the first centuries thought of him. I am also sympathetic to the Gnostics' respect for wisdom. We are often trapped in stories that make us miserable. Great thinkers can lift us into a truth that frees us. The Greek word gnosis means a kind of knowing by experience that differs from rational or scientific knowing. [iv] It also describes an ancient faith, a family of religious convictions that shaped what we believe today. This year on Palm Sunday as we enter Holy Week rather than trying to tell the whole story of Jesus' passion, I want to talk about this ancient faith. We cannot be a Gnostic in the way that third century people could. But studying these ideas give us a way of talking about our tradition's value and how we experience God in our own lives. On this Palm Sunday I am going to talk about three central gnostic ideas. But first I need to say a little more about what Gnostics believed. Gnostic groups differed from each other but mostly they believed in a kind of dualism between the spiritual which they regarded as good and the evil material world. They held that the spiritual human soul is part of the Divine and is imprisoned in physical existence. They believed that the soul could be saved by coming to realize its greatness, its origin in a superior spiritual world. For Gnostics an inferior god or demiurge (sometimes called the god of the Old Testament) made the material world. In their upside down interpretation of the Genesis creation story, the snake was the hero. Many Gnostic Christians (the Docetists) believed that it only seemed as if Jesus suffered, or was mortal. 1. The first idea that I would like to criticize is the Gnostic belief that there are secret teachings for the elite that are not available to everyone else. The Gnostic believed that, in the words of an ancient manuscript, he was, “one out of a thousand, or two out of ten thousand.” [v] This contrasts with Christians who believe that everything we need to know about God and Jesus is public. There is no hierarchy of secret knowledge, or spiritual wisdom. We can all read the Bible and with help, draw our own conclusions. Christians go further than this. In Paul's Letter to the Galatians he writes, “There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:28). This may be one of the most difficult ideas for us to assimilate. It is the basis for our democracy. We are all equal before God, and before the law. As humans we naturally form groups and are drawn into conflict based on our identity. For instance, it is very difficult to avoid the culture war tension between liberals and conservatives. The philosopher Agnes Callard spoke about this recently at Harvard. She pointed out that the science journal Nature endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. It's editors wanted to speak out for science and objective truth. She pointed out that in a world where everything becomes ideological this had the unintended outcome of making some people distrust science as political. Callard said that people on the left use the same tactics as those on the right. “We bully people without knowing it. Not bullying people is harder than it appears.” Her answer is to take a Socratic approach. We should ask people to explain their position rather than trying to beat them in an argument. She says that Socrates is, “not trying to win. He's trying to find out.” [vi] 2. A second Gnostic belief is that we should focus on overcoming illusion through introspection rather than worrying about sin or morality. The important thing for the Gnostic is a relation with our true self not our neighbors. In the second century Irenaeus rejected the idea that knowledge is enough to save us. He insisted that participating and growing in Christ is a “practical, daily form of salvation.” [vii] In the third century Clement of Alexandria writes that God became human so that humans can become God. Every day we improve. He writes about choosing to live joyously so that, “all our life is a festival; being persuaded that God is everywhere present on all sides we praise him as we till the ground, we sing hymns as we sail the sea, we feel God's inspiration in all that we do.” [viii] 3. Finally, Gnostics taught that the material world is evil. In contrast, Christians believe that God created the world and that it is good. We have a responsibility for nature. We see God through the material world. It gives us opportunities to care for each other. Over the next seven days we will experience the implications of this belief. We will follow Jesus through the exultant crowds, witness his poignant goodbye at his last meal with friends. We will see his betrayal, abandonment death and finally his triumphant resurrection and reunion with his loved ones. My friend Matt Boulton says that we cannot take all of this in at once. These events require time and space for us to adequately feel and understand them. [ix] Last night I received an email from one of our readers who feels overwhelmed by the passion narrative. My friend writes, “the most powerful moment that stands out for me is Jesus' response to Judas' kiss.” Jesus says, “Friend do what you are here to do” with no blame or shame, just a sense of love and grief. This idea that God is present to us in the material world gives us the hope that we can change some things for the better. In an interview the poet Maya Angelou said that believing in God gave her courage. “I dared to do anything that was a good thing. I dared to do things distant from what seemed to be in my future. When I was asked to do something good, I often said, yes, I'll try, yes, I'll do my best. And part of that is believing, if God loves me, if God made everything from leaves to seals and oak trees, then what is it I can't do?” [x] What is God like? And how will we respond? There is no secret religious knowledge or a spiritual elite. Introspection will not bring us as close to God as care for those around us. The material world matters and the presence of Jesus in this world then and now is a message of hope and salvation. All our life is a festival, so bring forth what is within you and may God bless you as you walk with Jesus this week. I would like to close with these lines from the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). “God speaks to each of us as he makes us / then walks with us silently out of the night.//These are the words we dimly hear. // You, sent out beyond your recall, / go to the limits of your longing / embody me. //Flare up like flame / and make big shadows I can move in. // Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. / Just keep going. No feeling is final. / Don't let yourself lose me. // Nearby is the country they call life. / You will know it by its seriousness. // Give me your hand.” [xi] [i] Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (NY: Random House, 1979) xiff. [ii] “These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down.” The Gospel of Thomas, translated by Thomas O. Lambdin. https://www.marquette.edu/maqom/Gospel%20of%20Thomas%20Lambdin.pdf [iii] And later, “When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and female one… then you will enter [the Kingdom].” Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (NY: Random House, 1979) 152, 154-5. [iv] Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (NY: Random House, 1979) xvii. [v] Ibid., 176. [vi] Clea Simon, “In an era of bitter division, what would Socrates do?” The Harvard Gazette, 27 March 2023. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/03/in-era-of-bitter-division-what-would-socrates-do/ [vii] Margaret Ruth Miles, The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005) 33. [viii] Ibid., 38. [ix] https://www.saltproject.org/progressive-christian-blog/2020/3/29/palms-and-passion-salts-lectionary-commentary-for-palmpassion-sunday [x] https://www.saltproject.org/progressive-christian-blog/2019/2/6/maya-angelou-on-being-christian [xi] Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God tr. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (NY: Riverhead, 2005) 119.

This is a week with all four elements in strong expression. Mercury (Storyteller) trines Uranus (Maverick) in the earth signs of Virgo and Taurus inviting you to open your mind to innovative ways to make things work. Venus (Relational One) trines Jupiter (Teacher-Mentor) in the fire signs of Leo and Aries expanding your romantic and creative soul. Mars enters the air sign of Gemini for a seven-month journey to challenge you to change limited mindsets and speak your truth. Mercury in Virgo opposes Neptune (Visionary-Dreamer) in the water sign of Pisces calling you to explore ways to ground into reality your visions and dreams.Poem: "All Will Come in its Strength" by Rilke  (translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)Sheila's website: https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com

We talk to Mary Pipher about A Life In Light: Meditations On Impermanence. And Anita Barros talks with us about her novel, The Language of Birds. The post Mary Pipher, A LIFE IN LIGHT & Anita Barrows, THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS appeared first on Writer's Voice.

June 13, 2022 Why do you pause? Why do you take this moment and stop, so that you can tend to your body, mind, heart, and spirit? I know for me, although it brings peace and groundedness to my moment of chaos, it also has become the way I can help put my ego in the back seat everyday. And when I do that, I can actually see, discern, move and love in a way that does not expect anything in return. I can be transformed and that transformation can spill out over into my actions. In today's episode we will picture ourselves in a wide-open tent, where we feel grounded, calm, clear, and open. We will experience how it feels to be a peace. And then we will identify a situation in our lives where we are opposite of that – and imagine bringing our tent to that situation. Our listening portion today is from Rilke's Book of Hours: Each thing – Each stone, blossom, child – Is held in place. Only we, in our arrogance, Push out beyond what we each belong to For some empty freedom. If we surrendered To earth's intelligence We could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves In knots of our own making And struggle, lonely and confused. So, like children, we begin again To learn from the things, Because they are in God's heart; They have never left. Ranier Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/angie-winn/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/angie-winn/support

This poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows) really spoke to me. Let's use them as part of a meditation practice called Lectio Divina. Let the words bring peace to your day—and peace to the world.

We've noticed that many people have been seeking out this poem by Rilke on our website this week. It feels like a meditation and a salve for this fraught, uncertain moment in the world. So, we're sharing it here as well. Rainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. His poem, “Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower,” is read here by Joanna Macy. It was translated by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows, and originally read in the On Being episode “A Wild Love for the World.” Watch a film version of this poem on our YouTube channel. 

As we approach the longest night of the year, we invite you to find a few moments of quiet to tune in to this re-broadcast of recitations from Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God. In his seminal collection of poems, the great twentieth-century poet explores the nature of—and his relationship to—God through divinely “received” prayers. Twenty-five years ago, Anita Barrows, an award-winning poet and translator, and Joanna Macy, a Buddhist scholar and eco-philosopher, collaborated to translate this collection. On the album Be Earth Now, produced by Fletcher Tucker at Gnome Life Records, Anita and Joanna recite a selection of these poems. Through their potent recitations, they bring the spirit of Rilke's words fully into our time and remind us of the ever-urgent call to love the world into being. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the turn of the 20th Century, a teenage military cadet and budding poet began a correspondence with Rainer Maria Rilke. The young man expected some guidance and criticism from the great German poet but received something far greater: instructions on love and solitude, beauty and art, spirituality and life. Almost 100 years on, two grand dames of literature – Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows – have delivered a new translation of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, unveiling new insights in the context of today's world.

Though we think of manna as the bread that God rained down on the wandering Israelite community in the wilderness, “manna” was first a question. “What is it?!” The Israelites draw near enough to the strange flaky substance on the ground to ask “Manna?” and in so doing encounter the answer “Manna!” How might this story, along with the crowd asking Jesus for a daily dose of “bread of life”, inform our curiosity about seeking spiritual sustenance for our own lives?Sermon begins at minute 04:06Scripture: Exodus 16.1-18Image: “Manna,” folio 6, from the Augsburger Book of Miracles (f°6), ca 1552 Hymn: Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah; Words and Music - Public Domain; Text: William Williams; Music: John Hughes. [Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.]Additional Resources:Bibleworm podcast: Episode 306 - Manna in the Wilderness, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.“Ich bin, du Ängstlicher,” Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours: Love Poems to God - I,19; trans Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (1996), 66.

Weekly Round-Up:Read “A Ritual Guide for What We've Learned and Lost in Covid” from Ritualist and The Joy List.Listen to Krista Tippett's On Being podcast episode, “What a World You've Got Inside You” with Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows on the new translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet Listen to the Still Processing podcast episode, “The People in the Neighborhood.”

Written Summaries: https://www.owltail.com/summaries/3958-on-being-with-krista-tippett/RDbui-Joanna-Macy-and-Anita-Barrows-What-a-worldOther podcast summaries if you're on Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/5-min-summariesOr in other apps: search 'podcast summaries'.Original episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-being-with-krista-tippett/id150892556?i=1000526762559

Written Summaries: https://www.owltail.com/summaries/3958-on-being-with-krista-tippett/RDbui-Joanna-Macy-and-Anita-Barrows-What-a-worldOther podcast summaries if you're on Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/5-min-summariesOr in other apps: search 'podcast summaries'.Original episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-being-with-krista-tippett/id150892556?i=1000526762559

A new translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet has been released in a world in which his voice and vision feel as resonant as ever before. In ten letters to a young person in 1903, Rilke touched on the enduring dramas of creating our lives — prophetic musings about solitude and relationship, humanity and the natural world, even gender and human wholeness. And what a joy it is to delve into Rilke's voice, freshly rendered, with the translators. Krista, Anita and Joanna have communed with Rainer Maria Rilke across time and space and their conversation is infused with friendship as much as ideas.Joanna Macy is a philosopher of ecology and Buddhist teacher, and the root teacher of The Work That Reconnects. She's the author of many books. Our previous On Being episode with her is “A Wild Love for the World.” That's also the title of a lovely book of homage to her published in 2020.Anita Barrows has translated three books of Rilke's writing with Joanna, in addition to Letters to a Young Poet: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God; In Praise of Mortality; and A Year with Rilke. Anita is a psychologist and poet. She was a voice in the On Being episode, “The Soul in Depression.” Her most recent poetry collection is Testimony.This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you've got inside you.'" Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org. 

A new translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet has been released in a world in which his voice and vision feel as resonant as ever before. In ten letters to a young person in 1903, Rilke touched on the enduring dramas of creating our lives — prophetic musings about solitude and relationship, humanity and the natural world, even gender and human wholeness. And what a joy it is to delve into Rilke's voice, freshly rendered, with the translators. Krista, Anita and Joanna have communed with Rainer Maria Rilke across time and space and their conversation is infused with friendship as much as ideas.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.Joanna Macy is a philosopher of ecology and Buddhist teacher, and the root teacher of The Work That Reconnects. She's the author of many books. Our previous On Being episode with her is “A Wild Love for the World.” That's also the title of a lovely book of homage to her published in 2020.Anita Barrows has translated three books of Rilke's writing with Joanna, in addition to Letters to a Young Poet: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God; In Praise of Mortality; and A Year with Rilke. Anita is a psychologist and poet. She was a voice in the On Being episode, “The Soul in Depression.” Her most recent poetry collection is Testimony.

It's natural that the process of our growing into adulthood results in our leaving a whole lot of ourselves behind - as we navigate what it takes to belong, to not be shamed, to stay safe, to build a life with some measure of predicability in it. But alongside all of that, what gifts and wonders, what song and words, what works of the creativity that is uniquely human might we bring to the world in service of others? And how might we support one another in doing that? This week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about the faith in one another's bigness - and in our own - that can help us step into what's calling, hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace. This is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google and Spotify. Here's our source for this week: I believe in all that has never yet been spoken I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. I want to free what waits within me so that what no one has dared to wish for may for once spring clear without my contriving. If this is arrogant, God, forgive me, but this is what I need to say. May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Then in these swelling and ebbing currents, these deepening tides moving out, returning, I will sing you as no one ever has, streaming through widening channels into the open sea. Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy) Photograph of Durdle Door by Justin Wise

In Rainer Maria Rilke’s seminal collection of poetry, The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, the great twentieth-century poet explores the nature of—and his relationship to—God through divinely "received" prayers. Nearly twenty-five years ago, Anita Barrows, an award-winning poet and translator, and Joanna Macy, a Buddhist scholar and eco-philosopher, collaborated to translate this collection. Now, on the new album Be Earth Now, produced by Fletcher Tucker at Gnome Life Records, Anita and Joanna recite a selection of these poems. Through their potent recitations, they bring the spirit of Rilke’s words fully into our time and remind us of the ever-urgent call to love the world into being.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re increasingly attentive to the many faces of depression and anxiety, and we’re fluent in the languages of psychology and medication. But depression is profound spiritual territory; and that is much harder to speak about. This is an On Being classic. Krista opens up about her own experience of depression and talks with Parker Palmer, Anita Barrows, and Andrew Solomon. We are putting this out on the air again because people tell us it has saved lives, and so many of us are struggling in whole new ways right now.Anita Barrows is a psychologist, poet and translator. Her most recent poetry collection is We are the Hunger. She has translated several volumes of the writings of Rainer Maria Rilke together with  Joanna Macy, including Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God.This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "The Soul in Depression." Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.

We’re increasingly attentive to the many faces of depression and anxiety, and we’re fluent in the languages of psychology and medication. But depression is profound spiritual territory; and that is much harder to speak about. This is an On Being classic. Krista opens up about her own experience of depression and talks with Parker Palmer, Anita Barrows, and Andrew Solomon. We are putting this out on the air again because people tell us it has saved lives, and so many of us are struggling in whole new ways right now.Andrew Solomon is a journalist and writer of epic books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist  The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, and Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "The Soul in Depression." Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.

We’re increasingly attentive to the many faces of depression and anxiety, and we’re fluent in the languages of psychology and medication. But depression is profound spiritual territory; and that is much harder to speak about. This is an On Being classic. Krista opens up about her own experience of depression and talks with Parker Palmer, Anita Barrows, and Andrew Solomon. We are putting this out on the air again because people tell us it has saved lives, and so many of us are struggling in whole new ways right now.Andrew Solomon is a journalist and writer of epic books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist  The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, and Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.Anita Barrows is a psychologist, poet and translator. Her most recent poetry collection is We are the Hunger. She has translated several volumes of the writings of Rainer Maria Rilke together with  Joanna Macy, including Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God.Parker J. Palmer is a teacher, author, and founder and senior partner emeritus of the Center for Courage & Renewal. His many books include Healing the Heart of Democracy, Let Your Life Speak, and On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.orgThis show originally aired January 17, 2003

We’re increasingly attentive to the many faces of depression and anxiety, and we’re fluent in the languages of psychology and medication. But depression is profound spiritual territory; and that is much harder to speak about. This is an On Being classic. Krista opens up about her own experience of depression and talks with Parker Palmer, Anita Barrows, and Andrew Solomon. We are putting this out on the air again because people tell us it has saved lives, and so many of us are struggling in whole new ways right now.Parker J. Palmer is a teacher, author, and founder and senior partner emeritus of the Center for Courage & Renewal. His many books include Healing the Heart of Democracy, Let Your Life Speak, and On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "The Soul in Depression." Find the transcript for that show at onbeing.org.

While we, as a species, grapple with ongoing legacies of racism and violence, and as biodiversity loss and the mass extinction of wildlife on earth accelerates, the call to bear witness becomes ever more necessary. What might it mean - for ourselves and the other beings on this planet - if we were able to sorrow, if we knew how to grieve? As things disintegrate around us, is bearing witness a final act of love we can offer our world? “Loving and grieving are joined at the hip,” says spiritual activist and author Stephen Jenkinson. “Grief is a way of loving what has slipped from view. Love is a way of grieving that which has not yet done so.” Biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber and poet and psychologist Anita Barrows reflect on what is lost as beloved species and places of wilderness continue to vanish; reparations scholar-activist Esther Stanford-Xosei grieves the genocide of communities that were the custodians of ways of living in harmony with the earth; and activist Kofi Mawuli Klu mourns the immense beauty of forests now destroyed. Every waking moment is a requiem - not what we signed up for. But what did you sign up for? Into what were you initiated? Lacking in ceremony and ritual, grappling with legacies of undone spirit work and ancestral trauma, bearing witness to what is happening within ourselves and around us might “not be everybody’s idea of a good time” (Stephen Jenkinson), but it might be what we need to do. It might help us to belong. Voice of the chorus: Niamh O’Brien. Cello improvisations: Lucy Railton Additional words and music: Phil Smith Produced by Phil Smith. A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3.

In this episode, Anita Barrows and I discuss Rilke's perception of God, his connection with darkness and read various poems by both Rilke and Anita. Anita Barrows was born in Brooklyn in 1947 and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1966. She holds Master's degrees in English and Italian Literature and a PhD in Psychology. Her translations of poetry, plays, fiction and non-fiction from the French, German and Italian have been published in this country and in Great Britain; most recently, she has collaborated with Joanna Macy on translations of three volumes of work by Rainer Maria Rilke. Six volumes of her poetry have been published, including a previous book, Exile, by The Aldrich Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Tikkun, The Nation, Prairie Schooner, Bark, and Bridges. Barrows lives in Berkeley, where she is a professor at The Wright Institute and maintains a private clinical practice. She is a mother and a grandmother and lives with a menagerie of dogs, cats, and birds. For more mental health resources, please go to wewillgetthroughthis.org To become a patreon, you can go to patreon.com/wwgtt --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/we-will-get-through-this/message

In this episode we talk about the nature and practice of open marriage as opposed to monogamy. Are open marriages more trusting? Is monogamy outdated and out of step with human nature? Hear what we think. If you want to contact us, hit us up at therilkeanzoo[at]gmail.com. Also, find us on Patreon at patreon.com/therilkeanzoo. Text: Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (New York: Riverhead Books, 2005), 43.

A Buddhist philosopher of ecology, Joanna Macy says we are at a pivotal moment in history with the possibility to unravel or create a life-sustaining human society. Now entering her 90s, Macy has lived adventurously by any definition. She worked with the CIA in Cold War Europe and the Peace Corps in post-colonial India and was an early environmental activist. She brings a poetic and spiritual sensibility to her work that’s reflected in her translations of the early-20th-century poet Rainer Maria Rilke. We take that poetry as a lens on her wisdom on the great dramas of our time: ecological, political, personal. Joanna Macy is an activist, author, and a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology. Her 13 books include translations of Rilke’s “Book of Hours: Love Poems to God,” “A Year with Rilke,” and “In Praise of Mortality.” She is the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, a framework and workshop for personal and social change. Her new translation of Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet,” together with Anita Barrows, is upcoming in 2020. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Joanna Macy — A Wild Love for the World.” Find more at onbeing.org.

A Buddhist philosopher of ecology, Joanna Macy says we are at a pivotal moment in history with the possibility to unravel or create a life-sustaining human society. Now entering her 90s, Macy has lived adventurously by any definition. She worked with the CIA in Cold War Europe and the Peace Corps in post-colonial India and was an early environmental activist. She brings a poetic and spiritual sensibility to her work that’s reflected in her translations of the early-20th-century poet Rainer Maria Rilke. We take that poetry as a lens on her wisdom on the great dramas of our time: ecological, political, personal. Joanna Macy is an activist, author, and a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology. Her 13 books include translations of Rilke’s “Book of Hours: Love Poems to God,” “A Year with Rilke,” and “In Praise of Mortality.” She is the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, a framework and workshop for personal and social change. Her new translation of Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet,” together with Anita Barrows, is upcoming in 2020. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

In this episode, On Being Project founder and CEO Krista Tippett reads “God speaks to each of us as he makes us” by Rainer Maria Rilke. She shares how the poem gave her courage and resolve during the creation of her public radio show, Speaking of Faith, in 2003. In the years since, Speaking of Faith has grown and evolved into The On Being Project, a media and public life initiative exploring the intersection of spiritual inquiry, science, social healing, community, poetry, and the arts. Tippett’s latest book is Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living. “God speaks to each of us as he makes us” by Rainer Maria Rilke appears in the collection Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy, and published by Riverhead Books. Keep up with Krista Tippett on Twitter and onbeing.org. We feature one short listener poem at the end of every episode. To submit, call the Haiku Hotline at 612-440-0643 and read your poem after the beep. For the occasional prompt, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Subscribe on RadioPublic, iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher. https://radiopublic.com/interesting-people-reading-poetry-60aNDL/ep/s1!1e3d8#t=2

We’re fluent in the languages of psychology and medication, but the word “depression” does not do justice to this human experience. Depression is also spiritual territory. It is a shadow side of human vitality and as such teaches us about vitality. Is depression possible for the same reason that love is possible? This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “The Soul in Depression.” Find more at onbeing.org.

We’re fluent in the languages of psychology and medication, but the word “depression” does not do justice to this human experience. Depression is also spiritual territory. It is a shadow side of human vitality and as such teaches us about vitality. Is depression possible for the same reason that love is possible? This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “The Soul in Depression.” Find more at onbeing.org.

We’re fluent in the languages of psychology and medication, but the word “depression” does not do justice to this human experience. Depression is also spiritual territory. It is a shadow side of human vitality and as such teaches us about vitality. Is depression possible for the same reason that love is possible? This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “The Soul in Depression.” Find more at onbeing.org.

We’re fluent in the languages of psychology and medication, but the word “depression” does not do justice to this human experience. Depression is also spiritual territory. It is a shadow side of human vitality and as such teaches us about vitality. And what if depression is possible for the same reason that love is possible?

Music can bring us into new, profound kinds of awareness. Composer and classical guitarist Sam Guarnaccia is doing his part. We talk about his new musical work that calls on orchestra, chorus, and soloists to celebrate the evolving universe we all share. I've heard Sam's Emergent Universe Oratorio—it's lush and evocative and includes praise for life forms and forces you don't often hear about in concert halls, like cell membranes, tree roots, and gravity. There are selections from Sam's Emergent Universe Oratorio in this episode. He and I talk about stuff like: -The role music plays in heightening our awareness -How this new Universe Story differs from indigenous stories -Sam's religious background and how he's oriented now -What "emergence" is and why it rocks -Humanity's fatal flaw -Slime molds and why I want Sam to put them back in the oratorio. Some of the people we mention in this episode are Buddhist and systems scholar and writer Joanna Macy; cultural historian Thomas Berry and mathematical cosmologist Brian Swimme, who wrote The Universe Story and other related works; Mary Evelyn Tucker, a religious scholar at Yale University who worked with Thomas Berry (She and Brian Swimme produced the film Journey of the Universe); and Ursula Goodenough, cell biologist, writer, and professor of biology at Washington University. Here's information on the June 2017 premiere of the oratorio in Cleveland, and Sam Guarnaccia's other works. Awakening "We are beings In whom the universe Shivers in wonder at itself — The space where earth dreams." Brian Thomas Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker Gravity's Law How surely gravity's law, Strong as an ocean current, Takes hold of even the smallest thing And pulls it toward the heart of the world. Each thing — Each stone, blossom, child — Is held in place. Only we, in our arrogance, Push out beyond what we each belong to For some empty freedom. If we surrendered To earth's intelligence We could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves In knots of our own making. And struggle, lonely and confused. So, like children, we begin again To learn from the things, Because they are in God's heart; They have never left him. This is what the things can teach us: To fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that Before it can fly. Rainer Maria Rilke Translated by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows

"When the inner and the outer are wedded, revelation occurs." - Hildegard of Bingen Kim Rosen is the author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words.  Combining her devotion to poetry with her background as a spiritual teacher and therapist, Kim has touched listeners around the world with poetry's power to awaken, inspire, and heal.  She gives poetry concerts, lectures, and workshops in the U.S. and abroad.  You can learn more about her work at kimrosen.net.  You can also connect with her on the Saved by a Poem Facebook Page, and on Twitter at @savedbyapoem. Some of the poems, poets, and books Kim mentions during the interview are: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath David Whyte Mary Oliver Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Rainer Maria Rilke. Translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye