Podcasts about bright path

This episode is sponsored in part by Betterhelp. Ishayas' Ascension—also known as the Bright Path—is a new-agey meditation movement that promises spiritual enlightenment through “stillness” and expensive courses. But behind the soothing mantras and lofty ideals lurks a leader who demands total submission. Followers are taught that their thoughts, emotions, and even their sense of self aren't real—only God is. What could possibly go wrong? Our guest today is Cristina Coello, who spent years deep inside the Bright Path under its guru, Maharishi Krishna Nanda. From 2018 to 2021, Cristina was an active teacher and organizer, drawn in by the promise of personal and collective healing. But as she became more involved, she witnessed firsthand the manipulative control tactics, gaslighting, and financial exploitation that kept members devoted. The turning point? Experiencing sexual harassment from the leader himself and the community's toxic response when she spoke out. In this episode, Cristina shares her journey—from being drawn into the group's teachings to the painful process of leaving and rebuilding her life. We also discuss the dangers of dismissing mental health in spiritual spaces, the subtle ways cults dismantle personal identity, and the red flags to look out for when seeking a safe community. Find Cristina on Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok: @iamcristinacoello and her website at uncultedpodcast.com   Also… let it be known that: The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything. Nobody's mad at you, just don't be a culty fuckwad. Check out our lovely sponsors Join ‘A Little Bit Culty' on Patreon Get poppin' fresh ALBC Swag Support the pod and smash this link Cult awareness and recovery resources Watch Sarah's TEDTalk CREDITS:  Executive Producers: Sarah Edmondson & Anthony Ames Production Partner: Amphibian.Media Writer & Co-Creator: Jess Tardy Associate producers: Amanda Zaremba and Matt Stroud of Amphibian.Media   Audio production: Red Caiman Studios Theme Song: “Cultivated” by Jon Bryant co-written with Nygel Asselin  

Dive into the colorful world of Samantha Jezek, is a modern artist who explores figures, faces, and abstracts in bright, colorful hues. Samantha shares her artistic journey, from discovering her love for painting in college to creating the impactful 'Not Alone' series, which addresses themes of trials, addiction and recovery. Learn about her collaborations with companies to produce unique trinket trays, coasters, and apparel, and her plans to expand into textiles and home goods. Samantha also discusses the importance of finding a niche, staying true to one's creativity, and balancing motherhood with an art career. Get inspired by her story of resilience, evolution, and community in the ever-changing art world. TAKEAWAYS: After going through a period of addiction and recovery, Samantha found healing and inspiration through art. She created a series called 'Not Alone' to represent trials, sorrow, grief, and addiction, and to let others know they are not alone. Embrace the evolution of your art over time and appreciate the changes. Balancing motherhood and an art career can be challenging but rewarding. Find a supportive community of artists to connect and collaborate with. LINKS: Watch on YouTube Follow Samantha Jezek on Instagram Shop Online  - https://samanthajezekart.com Follow Brush Strokes Pottery on Instagram - Shop Ceramic Cactus - https://brushstrokespottery.com NOMINATE AN ARTIST: If you'd like to nominate an artist (can be yourself) send us an email at info@brushstrokespottery.com

The Bright Path Pro 4:8  #RTTBROS  #Nightlight #nightlight #rttbros #normankissinger   The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Proverbs 4:18 (KJV).  What a beautiful and hopeful verse this is! It reminds us that following God's ways leads us on an ever-brightening path. Our walk with Him is not static, but one of increasing illumination and understanding. The accompanying illustration depicts this truth perfectly. A winding path rises upwards, beginning in the shadows of early dawn and leading into the warm brilliance of a sunny day. This reflects the Christian life - we start out tentative and uncertain, but as we persist in faith our comprehension expands. With each step we take, guided by God's truth, the radiance around us intensifies. And the promise is that this glow will continue shining "more and more." Our spiritual journey will never stop unfolding. There will always be more nuance to grasp, more of God's character to comprehend. What a marvelous, lifelong adventure! Of course, this requires that we stay on the path. We cannot veer off onto side trails of our own reasoning. We must walk steadily in the ways of righteousness, keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the perfecter of our faith. Then we can be sure our footing is firm. What a gift it is to have this assurance from Proverbs. God does not intend for us to stumble in obscurity. If we but follow Him wholeheartedly, He guarantees that the way will only get increasingly brighter. What a hope to hold onto! He who began this good work in us will be faithful to complete it. He will light our way until that most perfect day when faith becomes sight.   Our Podcast, Blog and YouTube Links https://linktr.ee/rttbros   Be sure to Like, Share, Follow and subscribe it helps get the word out. https://linktr.ee/rttbros

I discuss one of the 1st great dual threat QBs, Johnny Bright, who starred for Drake University and in the CFL. He's known for the Johnny Bright Incident, which was a racially motivated attack against him during a game.

Oliver Seligman is a published author and prominent mental health advocate. Both he and John Poehler, founder of The Bipolar Battle, touch on the topics of meditation, bipolar disorder, and other mental health topics. To find out more about The Ishayas' Ascension as taught by The Bright Path: www.thebrightpath.com To find out more about Oliver's book, Befriending Bipolar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f5tNi88-ow To buy Befriending Bipolar: https://amzn.to/3FXTP7A Oliver's website is www.oliverseligman.com Oliver's Youtube channel is https://www.youtube.com/c/BefriendingBipolar --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-poehler/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-poehler/support

Carolyn Millemon learned about a form of meditation called ‘Ascending' at a weekend workshop in Western Australia when she was 21. A couple of years later, in North Carolina, she decided to dedicate her life to the teachings. A decade later, some of the behaviours of her own teachers weren't sitting so well with her.Full research sources listed here. You can support us on Patreon or Acast+, with a one-off donation, or grab some merch. Sarah Steel's debut book Do As I Say is available on audiobook now. With thanks to Audio-Technica, presenting partner for season 5 of Let's Talk About Sects. Use promo code LTAS10 at Audio-Technica's Australian store for 10% off and to support the show!Links:MSI and the Ishayas — posts by user ‘scribe' archived from now defunct FACTNet forum, late 2004 to early 2005The Ishaya's Ascension — by MSI, Sedona Journal, May 1997First Thunder: An Adventure of Discovery — by MSI, 1996Group Claims TM Movement is a Cult — by Phil McCombs, The Washington Post, 2 July 1987Para — by R. Vaughn Abrams, Seven Suns Publications, 1986, The University of Sydney Rare Books & Special Collections listingThe Society for Ascension — North Carolina Secretary of State listing, accessed March 2023The Bright Path Ishayas + Maharishi Krishnananda — Cult Education Institute forum, includes post by user ‘FlatEarthRound' which shares an email circulated to teachers in 2008, posted 19 July 2020the bright path — Cult Education Institute forum posts from 2009The Bright Path — official websiteThe Lineage — page on The Ishayas' Ascension website, accessed March 2023 Subscribe and support the production of this independent podcast, and you can access early + ad-free episodes at https://plus.acast.com/s/lets-talk-about-sects. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An American gold medalist and considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports.

Part 1 - Marvin Nesbitt and Emmanuella Perez-Cassius, director and assistant director of Resident Wellness & Empowerment within the Virgin Islands Housing Authority, join guest host Sommer Sibilly-Brown to discuss the "Bright Path" program and the ways by which we can move our Virgin Islands community forward.

The International Olympic Committee recently restored the gold medals Sac and Fox athlete Jim Thorpe won at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. The decision comes after decades of work by advocates who considered stripping the medals an injustice. Thorpe was the first Native American to win gold medals for the United States. He was an athletic pioneer, playing professional baseball, football, and even basketball. Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce celebrates Thorpe's legacy and discusses his influence in American sports with Nedra Darling (Cherokee and Potawatomi), co-founder of Bright Path Strong and producer for the film Bright Path; Teresa Thorpe, (Sac and Fox, Potawatomi, and Kickapoo), Jim Thorpe's granddaughter; and Bob Wheeler, honorary board member of Bright Path Strong, Jim Thorpe biographer, and founder of the Jim Thorpe Foundation.

The International Olympic Committee recently restored the gold medals Sac and Fox athlete Jim Thorpe won at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. The decision comes after decades of work by advocates who considered stripping the medals an injustice. Thorpe was the first Native American to win gold medals for the United States. He was an athletic pioneer, playing professional baseball, football, and even basketball. Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce celebrates Thorpe's legacy and discusses his influence in American sports with Nedra Darling (Cherokee and Potawatomi), co-founder of Bright Path Strong and producer for the film Bright Path; Teresa Thorpe, (Sac and Fox, Potawatomi, and Kickapoo), Jim Thorpe's granddaughter; and Bob Wheeler, honorary board member of Bright Path Strong, Jim Thorpe biographer, and founder of the Jim Thorpe Foundation.

Jim Thorpe, born into the Sac and Fox nation, became the first Native American Olympic gold medalist at the Stockholm 1912 Games by dominating in the new events of pentathlon and decathlon. So why was this versatile athlete stripped of his medals and titles one year later? From facing racism, heartbreaking loss, substance abuse, encounters with future Presidents, and playing professional football, baseball, and basketball, Thorpe's story is one of constant struggle and serves as a reminder that even our greatest athletes are still human. GIVE US YOUR FEEDBACK ON SEASON 1 HERE! Show Notes: Start saving and investing the easy way with the Acorns app. Sleep better and feel better with a Layla mattress and get up to $210 off! Our website: gamesodyssey.com Find us on Facebook at The Games Odyssey Podcast page On Twitter Games Odyssey On Instagram Games Odyssey And on your podcast app of choice Sources: Bright Path (new Jim Thorpe movie and petition) Stuff You Missed In History Class Jim Thorpe series Jim THORPE | Olympics.com Olympedia – Jim Thorpe Jim Thorpe - Wikipedia Thorpe Has Cancerous Growth Removed From Lip in Hospital at Philadelphia - The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20071114205622/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/olympics/2004/08/08/bc.olympics.athletics.thorpe/ Ferdinand Bie - Wikipedia Hugo Wieslander - Wikipedia

Hello Interactors,This is the last week of winter. Next week I’ll start writing about cartography. Today’s post just may whet your appetite. All of the dislocation maps resulting from the war in Ukraine got me thinking about a pervasive human behavior; the ultimate interaction of people and place – migration.As interactors, you’re special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You’re also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let’s go…BOWLING FOR BALLERSI was on a walk last weekend and as I approached an Indian restaurant I noticed two families gathered a car in the parking lot. The parents were saying their goodbyes as the kids tussled about impatiently. Just then a perfectly spherical white ball of wadded up paper came rolling down the parking lot entrance and on to the sidewalk in front of me. Chasing behind was boy, maybe thirteen years old, with his shirt untucked, coat half on, and out of breath. He glanced at me, swopped up the ball, swiveled around, and threw it back toward his family like a skilled cricket bowler.A generation ago this would have been a rare sight. More likely it would have been a boy, probably White, winding up and pitching like his favorite pitcher on a baseball mound. I did a bit of pitching when I was that kid’s age. I was taller than most at that age and could throw pretty hard. So they put me on the mound. I threw hard alright, but batters trembled with fear. I had a control issues.Give me a glove today and I’ll spare you the fast ball, but I still throw a mean knuckle ball. I kept a couple gloves at Microsoft and would occasionally go out and play catch with anybody willing. It was fun introducing that sport to team members from other parts of the world. At some point we decided to introduce each other to our respective national sports. First up was India and cricket.Guess who volunteered to be the bowler – or pitcher in baseball terms. Me. The guy who pitched as a kid, but also hit a fair number of them too. We played on a patch of artificial turf on the Microsoft soccer field. That field has since been torn up to make way for more buildings and an on-campus cricket pitch.  Cricket balls are quite hard and travel at great speeds so we decided a tennis ball would be best. I took to it pretty fast, according to my Indian teammate Deepak. The bowling motion is very different than a pitching motion, but he was a good coach. The arm is kept straight and is rotated around the shoulder joint. Much like Pete Townsend of The Who strumming his guitar.I loved it. Until the next day...and the next. Ok, for a full week my arm, shoulder, and back were wondering what the hell I was thinking. That was the last of cricket. The next international sport came from a Dutch teammate, Martijn. It’s called Fierljeppen (or far-leaping). It’s basically pole vaulting over a canal. We had a nearby canal designated, but a proper pole never materialized. Probably for the best. I was pushing it on the liability front. Somebody was sure to end up in the water.The would-be canal to be leapt was in Redmond, in the county’s biggest and oldest park, Marymoor Park. While Feirljeppen is unlikely to ever occur there, cricket soon will. Microsoft isn’t the only one building a cricket pitch in Redmond. Just a couple weeks ago the county approved a 20-acre Marymoor Cricket Community Park. Here’s what the King County Council Chair, Claudia Balducci, had to say,“As our region grows, we see more interest in cricket, which is one of the most popular sports in the world. I can’t think of a better place for a world-class cricket pitch than East King County and especially Marymoor Park.”When she says ‘world-class’ she means it. The city of Redmond and the county are partnering with Major League Cricket (MLC) to build the facility. Construction is expected to start in 2023 and may one day host professional cricket, the U.S. National Team, and maybe even the World Cup. If you didn’t know, the Cricket World Cup is the most watched sporting event in the world. An estimated 2.2 billion people tuned in during the 2019 cup.The first international cricket match was actually between the U.S. and Canada in 1844 and was played in New York City. It was contested at the St. George’s Club Bloomingdale Park in front of 20,000 people. That site is now the NYU Medical Center. A decade later baseball began displacing cricket as one of America’s favorite sports.American football was hitting the scene then too. It eventually displaced rugby in popularity in the U.S. after the American’s won the first gold medals in Rugby in 1920 and 1924. But like cricket, that sport is also hugely popular outside of the U.S. But rugby is again gaining popularity in the United States. One survey claims participation grew 350% between 2004 and 2011. In 2018, over 100,000 fans showed up in San Francisco for the World Cup Sevens tournament. The United States is bidding to host the Rugby World Cup in 2027.Both rugby and cricket originated in England and spread throughout the world through colonization. Baseball also started in England and American football is a derivative of rugby. The forward pass was perfected and popularized by the Indigenous American Wa-Tho-Huk, or “Bright Path.” But he was named and baptized at birth as "Jacobus Franciscus Thorpe" – Jim Thorpe.His father was half Irish and half Sac and Fox (two Great Lake area tribes forced to settle in Oklahoma) and his mother was half French and half Potawatomi. They were both practicing Catholics and so was their son until the day he died. Jim Thorpe and his Carlisle Indian Industrial School teammates are largely responsible for the style of American football you see today. Thorpe was also the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal and was a professional baseball player.Baseball, cricket, and rugby – and it’s American Football derivative, originated in England but spread with White colonial settlers. Like a ball tossed from it’s origin to it’s destination. And now after generations of colonization, kids of parents born in those far away colonies – like the kid in that parking lot – will be tossing them to players with heritage as mixed as Jim Thorpe…on soil Bright Path’s Indigenous ancestors once called their own.Colonization really did toss people as if they were balls. It very much was an origin and destination game. Slaves and indentured workers were pulled from their homes to imperial origins while White administrators and ‘adventure’ seekers were tossed to colonial outposts to ‘settle’ land and people. And then before long, in a postcolonial world, people from those extended territories began migrating to colonial origins.It's what the Jamaican poet Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or “Miss Lou” referred to in her poem as, Colonization in Reverse. The first stanza reads:Wat a joyful news, Miss Mattie,I feel like me heart gwine bursJamaica people colonizinEnglan in ReverseHERE, THERE, EVERYWHEREMuch of social science has dwelled on this concept of migration being about people going from ‘here’ to ‘there’. This has drawn excessive attention to these locations and the effects of the movement of people from place to place. It leads some people to wonder what will happen to that place over ‘there’ when people leave? But even more people wonder what will become of this place ‘here’ as a result of them immigrating? Immigration is one of the most polarizing and thorny societal issues wrought with emotion and socio-political implications. People seem to be most concerned with the immediate situation and seek political near term solutions fearing their own lives and cultures may be threatened.But there’s a growing number of postcolonial thinkers and researchers challenging the ‘here’ and ‘there’ obsession and the impulse to seek near-term solutions. One group of diverse cultural geographers assembled by the American Association of Geographers settled on two major themes of interrogation of postcolonial migrations. They relate to time and place:Broaden the temporal lens. Before jumping to remedies aimed to cure local symptoms of migration, reach back to its colonization origins to better understand it’s roots.Reassess the ‘here’. What is ‘here’ today is a product of the relationships it formed with ‘there’. The people and the land of colonizers have been shaped by the people and lands of those distance territories.Within this framework, ‘here’ and ‘there’ no longer exist or have lost their distinction. Centuries of colonization and migration have created a multi-faceted tapestry of trans-territorialism and mix-ethnicities in a beautiful, albeit complex, cross-cultural milieu.This blurring and multiplicity is a very hard sell in a world that is becoming increasing polarized and nationalized. Nationalists would like a Hogwarts-style sorting hat from Harry Potter fame. They’d like to place this hat upon the head of every immigrant so they may be sorted into ‘here’ or ‘there’ categories. Many immigrants, if not most, feel the pressure to act, look, and speak in ways that reduce the chances of people wondering are they one of us or one of them? They’re forced to reduce their vibrant, complex heritage to fit a binary ‘here’ or ‘there’ dichotomy with questions of race intertwined.Meanwhile, those Western colonizers who were sent or ventured to faraway lands absorbed, stole, interpreted, and profited from those distant cultures and traditions. Their kids went to school there, made friends, and maybe even stayed, married a local, and raised their own mix-ethnicity family. And of these countless families, many returned to their colonial homeland but few are asked to place the sorting hat upon their head. They then wrote books, told stories, and painted pictures of people and places of faraway lands – and still do – while the people of those lands are often denied entry to their country.And what do we make of the effects of territories carved, fractured, and divvied up among Western imperialists? Susan P. Mains, a professor of Geography at Dundee University in Scotland, is the lead author on a 2013 paper Postcolonial Migrations. She quotes two historians writing on the partitioning of Indian and other South-Asian territories by the West. They write that,“’...18 million [Indian refugees who] struggled to resettle themselves and the energies of at least two generations were expended in rebuilding lives shattered by the violent uprooting caused by the partition’.” Mains continues, “Displacement and ongoing territorial conflicts are the legacy of this fracture.”In 1947 the British divided the subcontinent into two independent states, India and Pakistan. The partition was largely along Muslim and non-Muslim lines. Those religious tensions and divisions have been reignited recently as India’s Prime Minister, a Hindu, has increasingly been blending his politics with his religion. His critics accuse him of being Islamophobic and say he’s guilty of igniting hate crimes against Muslims. Human rights watchdogs are seeing more evidence of this and warn it may get worse – especially in impoverished neighborhoods. The sorting hat, a British import, seems to have followed a well trodden path to India.This current conflict will no doubt cause Muslims to migrate creating even more displacement and fracturing of family and friends. Again, the focus by most media and academics will be on where they are from and where they are going. Are those people over ‘there’ coming over ‘here’?  But little attention will be given the diaspora within the sub-continent, the historic origins of conflict and violence by imperialists, and the impact on the individual human lives.For many, the fear of where these migrants will land outweighs their concern for their well-being. This fear strips them of the curiosity needed to assess how their own actions, and those of their ancestors, contribute to the plight of the disenchanted, disowned, and dislocated.GO WITH THE FLOWIn 1885, the Geographer and German immigrant to England, Ernst Georg Ravenstein published what he called “The Laws of Migration”. It was a paper that appeared in the Journal of Statistical Society. But, as my former Geography professor, Waldo Tobler, pointed out in 1995 (the 100 year anniversary of Ravenstein’s laws) Ravensein failed to provide a single mathematical equation to support his so-called laws.It seems, like his contemporizes in Economics, he was seduced by the mathematical certainty of Physics. He sought laws to describe the migration patterns he observed in 19th century England, but forgot the math. Or perhaps he knew, like many economists, that human behavior lacks the certainty of physics and these laws were more suggestive than declarative. Either way, this lack of certainty and clarity doesn’t keep social scientists from continuing to borrow metaphors, research techniques, and language from physics.For example, Tobler says, “It is most curious that the literature on migration is replete with this kind of [fluid physics] terminology. We speak of "migration flows" and "migration streams" and "counter-currents", and refer to intellectual or cultural "backwaters", as if there were eddy currents. One can be "outside of the mainstream". And there are "waves of immigration", etc.”Tobler also found an 1885 map Ravenstein created for his paper that “seems to have been completely ignored by scholars, historians, and cartographers.” The map is titled, as expected, “Currents of Migration." Tobler was a pioneer in computer cartography, but even he admitted it would be “difficult to see how one could program a computer to produce this map using the kinds of statistics available [in 1995]. Certainly it would be a challenge.”Mapping migration continues to be a challenge for cartographers. As Putin seeks to reassemble a former Soviet Union partitioned into independent nation states in the early 1990s, he’s induced mass migration. Different media outlets use different ways to communicate these migrations with varying degrees of success. James Chesire is Professor of Geographic Information and Cartography at University College London and he took to Twitter a couple weeks ago critiquing the BBC’s crude interpretation of the crisis. He wrote, “It’s time to innovate the ways we show people fleeing war. 8 arrows for 874,026 human beings is not good enough.”He goes on to illustrate how arrows imply ‘flow’ in a particular direction from ‘here’ to ‘there’. As you can see, even today, we seem to be stuck using centuries old flawed physics metaphors while continuing to emphasize place based abstractions that imply binary flows from one place to another. Lost are the heartbreaking stories, the historicity that lead to mass movement of people, and cultural and ethnic complexities that define the region.One map he points to from 2016 is by the mapping company ESRI. It attempts to bridging the gap between stories, images, and cartography in communicating what they title, “The Uprooted: War, sectarian violence, and famine have forced more than 50 million people from their homes—the largest number of displaced people since World War II.”But somehow it still portrays the movement of people solely as a crisis. People indeed are suffering crisis, but migrations and movement of humans, of all animals, doesn’t have to be articulated as perpetual crisis. We don’t have to keep focusing on the spatiality, the borders, the nations, the states, and the cascade of political and social hierarchies they instill. Migration is an artifact of human existence – of animal existence – whose fate can be reduce to arrows.Arrows typically show movement in one direction. What about migrants that return? Where are their arrows? In the Handbook of culture and migration Dr. Julia Pauli, a cultural anthropologist at the University of Hamburg, writes,“In all regions of the world, state policies frame human migration by enabling, encouraging, restricting, punishing and hindering movement. Major events like the so-called ‘European refugee crisis’ have made this very visible…New policies and programs worldwide aim to encourage migrants to leave their host and destination countries and return to their original communities.”She cites other researchers who point out, “’there is a significant overlap between the latest surge of interest in return and efforts to remove unwanted immigrants from destination countries.’” And many countries are capitalizing on return migration. Citing Asia as an example, Pauli says “Countries like Vietnam perceive wealthy and well-educated migrants more and more as a resource that needs to be returned home.”You can bet the state policies Pauli cites will include government sponsored technologies to track, trace, and true these flows of humanity. Trump is as crude as the wall he wants built. Meanwhile, Biden is as stealth as the cameras, drones, and biometric AI technologies he’s funding on the southern border of the United States. A report titled The Deadly Digital Border Wall was jointly created and published between Mijente, Just Futures Law, and the No Border Wall Coalition. They write, “By exposing these technologies, this report aims to empower border activists, organizers, and residents to challenge the corporate tools used for border control and immigration enforcement by U.S. government agencies, and to more effectively advocate for a surveillance-free world.”It's striking that Ukraine had the second fastest declining population in the world in 2018. Russia’s birthrates climbed after the fall of the Soviet Union but they too have declining birthrates. Coupled with high mortality rates, especially among older men, from alcoholism, depression, accidents, homicides, and suicides most of the former Soviet Union states were barely holding on to citizens well before this war.Russia was offering families money to have two or more kids. Payments were not in cash, but in a ‘mother’s trust fund’. Women could draw from the fund at a later date to pay for a mortgage, education, and a small pension. Few found that offer attractive. Since 2014 Ukraine has been offering $1,500 cash over a 3-year period for every kid a woman births. Critics warned this may only lead to more orphaned kids as parents may prefer take the money and abandon the kids. Another potential dislocation migration story waiting to happen.China’s birthrate dropped for the fifth year in a row last year despite their lifting of the ‘one child policy’ in 2015. It’s their lowest rate since 1949 and the birth of Communist China. Rising living expenses is the number one reason parents give for not having more kids. Two centuries ago, women in the U.S., China, Russia, and India all would have had five kids or more, but now they’re all clumped together around two births per woman – just below the world average of 2.44.Meanwhile low income countries are declining but average 4.34 children per woman. Many of these countries will also be the first to suffer the effects of climate change, war, and increased risks of poverty.Nationalists around the world, including the more powerful U.S., China, Russia, and India, cling to a narrative that roots their feet in the ground of a given homeland, as if ordained by their God to take root. They then build border walls that restrict, repel, or release people based on their own delusions of righteousness. This grasping of false identity, yearning for elusive security, hungering for more land, money, and resources, and fretting over dwindling birthrates of their ‘chosen ones’ only makes them tighten their grip on faith, pump their inflated egos, and deepen their roots of nationalism.Meanwhile, for a myriad of simple and complex reasons, people move. We like to draw lines to form borders and arrows on maps. Draw attention to binary origins and destinations – ‘here’ and ‘there’. But Susan Mains and her colleagues believe arrows are forms of “intellectual violence” and remind us that “Lines do not determine boundedness of the communities from which folk came; or those to which folk are moving. Instead lines acknowledge that circulation, movement and cultural transfer have been integral to human populations, their cultures and society.”Cricket, rugby, baseball, and even Jim Thorpe’s American football are all demonstrations of circulation, movement, and cultural transfer. Even the passing glance between me, a middle-aged man of mixed European ethnicity and a boy likely of mixed sub-continental Indian ethnicity is an acknowledgement of cultural transfer. Our age difference broadens the temporal lens of our own colonial origins. Soon he’ll be playing on a cricket pitch in Redmond on colonized land shaped by the people of distance territories. This is a public episode. 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Chapter 41 of Tao Te Ching, as translated by Gia-Fu Feng (馮家福 Feng Jia-fu, 1919–1985) and Jane English (1942–), Vintage Books, 1989 Consciousness Way Facebook pagefacebook.com/consciousnesswayConsciousness Way Websitecwe.hagut.netOriginal music composed and performed by Nazim Kilicsoundcloud.com/orhannazim 

Today we’re joined by the wonderful Darshana. Her given name is Christina Walker but as a meditation teacher, her name is Darshana. Darshana is a reflexologist, celebrant, and an Ascension Meditation teacher. And if you're asking yourself, “What is Ascension Meditation?”, you’ll certainly find out listening to this episode.  Her business The Bright Path offers easy meditation techniques for experiencing life beyond limitation. The techniques bring you to a direct experience of peace, happiness, and freedom. They involve no belief and can be easily practiced by anyone of any age or cultural background. Contact Darshana Email: darshana@thebrightpath.com  Website: www.thebrightpath.com Contact Us Alternative Health Tools https://www.alternativehealthtools.com/  You can find us anywhere you get your audio. Contact co-hosts Lisa Victoria, John Biethan, and Kim Shea Leave us a message on our Contact Page https://www.alternativehealthtools.com/  Produced by Imagine Podcasting, a DBA of Heard Not Seen Media, Inc. https://www.imaginepodcasting.com/

Today we're joined by the wonderful Darshana. Her given name is Christina Walker but as an Ishaya monk, her name is Darshana. Darshana is a reflexologist, celebrant, and an Ascension meditation teacher. And if you're asking yourself, “What is Ascension Meditation?”, you'll certainly find out listening to this episode.  She is a part of an organization called The Bright Path which offers easy meditation techniques for experiencing life beyond limitation. The techniques bring you to a direct experience of peace, happiness, and freedom. They involve no belief and can be easily practiced by anyone of any age or cultural background. Contact Darshana Email: darshana@thebrightpath.com  Website: www.thebrightpath.com Contact Us Alternative Health Tools https://www.alternativehealthtools.com/  You can find us anywhere you get your audio. Contact co-hosts Lisa Victoria, John Biethan, and Kim Shea Leave us a message on our Contact Page https://www.alternativehealthtools.com/  Produced by Imagine Podcasting, a DBA of Heard Not Seen Media, Inc. https://www.imaginepodcasting.com/

Jeg har gået på meditionskursus hos Åsa, som pt. er den eneste i Danmark, der underviser i den særlige meditationsform Ascension (The Bright Path). Åsa fortæller, hvordan hun selv blev introduceret til meditation mens hun var professionel danser og hvilken betydning det har haft for hendes liv. Om at have det perfekte liv udadtil, men alligevel have en dyb indre følelse af, at der manglede noget, at der må være mere til livet... Vi taler om nærvær, indre ro og følelsen af total frihed. Når Åsa ikke underviser yoga og meditation er hun praktiserende psykolog i København. Du kan se mere til Åsa på hjemmesiden http://www.kalyani.se/ og til Ascension (fra organisationen The Bright Path) på www.thebrightpath.com Du kan følge Det Spirituelle Hjørne på Instagram @detspirituellehjorne og hvis du vil I kontakt med Hjørnet kan du skrive til detspirituellehjorne@gmail.com ©️ Annasophia Petri 2021

Rev Kenneth I Macleod preaches on 'The Bright Path of the Christian' from Proverbs 4:18 in this worship service recorded at home.Order of Service:Call to Worship: Psalm 27:1-4 (Scottish Psalter)PrayerChildren's TalkThe Lord's PrayerScripture Reading: Proverbs 4Sermon: 'The Bright Path of the Christian', Proverbs 4:18Praise: Psalm 36:5-10 (Sing Psalms)Benediction Proverbs 4:18    [18] But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,        which shines brighter and brighter until full day. (ESV)     5    Your steadfast love is great, O LORD;            it reaches heaven high.        Your faithfulness is wonderful,            extending to the sky.    6    Your righteousness is very great,            like mountains high and steep;        Your justice is like ocean depths.            Both man and beast you keep.    7    How precious is your steadfast love!            What confidence it brings!        Both high and low find shelter in            the shadow of your wings.    8    They feast within your house, and drink            from streams of your delight.    9    For with you is the source of life;            in your light we see light.    10    To those who know you as their God,            your steadfast love impart;        Maintain your righteousness to those            of pure and upright heart.

Rodasi Campbell is our guest on this episode of the Craving Consciousness Podcast! Please note that there is some sound interference that could not be cleaned up so don't have your volume on too high. Rodasi is an international teacher + speaker based out of Traverse City, MI. She is a Meditation + Yoga & Women's Spirituality Teacher, a Spirituality Mentor & Leads the Rock Your Mind Meditation Programs. I had to have her on the podcast because she is a modern day priestest with a world changing vision and it all starts with CONSCIOUSNESS!! She teaches for the International meditation organization known as The Bright Path, which teaches a specific meditative technique known as the Ishayas' Ascension practice. Rodasi has trained hundreds of individuals, business teams & non-profit organizations. She has led thousands of classes & workshops and has also been a guest teacher and co-facilitator at a dozen retreats. Rodasi has given experiential talks to women's groups, special needs children, foster kids, in treatment centers and beyond. Rodasis' VISION is of a world where Humanity lives in the very alive, personal experience that Peace is our fundamental Nature – where humans are able to live in a state of freedom, joy, passionate aliveness & grace- effortlessly. IMAGINE if we were ALL taught meditation, mindfulness, etc… as a part of our core curriculum through primary & secondary education! It's not only Rodasi's Vision- it's her MISSION to empower as many people as possible to share these tools with as many other people as possible…and on…and on…shaping the kind of world we all know is possible in our heart of hearts. Speaking of the next generation…Rodasi is also the proud Mama of two beautiful daughters and a privileged active member in the recovery community. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/craving-consciousness/message

Rodasi Campbell is our guest on this episode of the Craving Consciousness Podcast! Please note that there is some sound interference that could not be cleaned up so don’t have your volume on too high. Rodasi is an international teacher + speaker based out of Traverse City, MI. She is a Meditation + Yoga & Women’s Spirituality Teacher, a Spirituality Mentor & Leads the Rock Your Mind Meditation Programs. I had to have her on the podcast because she is a modern day priestest with a world changing vision and it all starts with CONSCIOUSNESS!! She teaches for the International meditation organization known as The Bright Path, which teaches a specific meditative technique known as the Ishayas’ Ascension practice. Rodasi has trained hundreds of individuals, business teams & non-profit organizations. She has led thousands of classes & workshops and has also been a guest teacher and co-facilitator at a dozen retreats. Rodasi has given experiential talks to women’s groups, special needs children, foster kids, in treatment centers and beyond. Rodasis’ VISION is of a world where Humanity lives in the very alive, personal experience that Peace is our fundamental Nature – where humans are able to live in a state of freedom, joy, passionate aliveness & grace- effortlessly. IMAGINE if we were ALL taught meditation, mindfulness, etc… as a part of our core curriculum through primary & secondary education! It’s not only Rodasi’s Vision- it’s her MISSION to empower as many people as possible to share these tools with as many other people as possible…and on…and on…shaping the kind of world we all know is possible in our heart of hearts. Speaking of the next generation…Rodasi is also the proud Mama of two beautiful daughters and a privileged active member in the recovery community. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/craving-consciousness/message

Rodasi Campbell is our guest on this episode of the Craving Consciousness Podcast! Please note that there is some sound interference that could not be cleaned up so don't have your volume on too high. Rodasi is an international teacher + speaker based out of Traverse City, MI. She is a Meditation + Yoga & Women's Spirituality Teacher, a Spirituality Mentor & Leads the Rock Your Mind Meditation Programs. I had to have her on the podcast because she is a modern day priestest with a world changing vision and it all starts with CONSCIOUSNESS!! She teaches for the International meditation organization known as The Bright Path, which teaches a specific meditative technique known as the Ishayas' Ascension practice. Rodasi has trained hundreds of individuals, business teams & non-profit organizations. She has led thousands of classes & workshops and has also been a guest teacher and co-facilitator at a dozen retreats. Rodasi has given experiential talks to women's groups, special needs children, foster kids, in treatment centers and beyond. Rodasis' VISION is of a world where Humanity lives in the very alive, personal experience that Peace is our fundamental Nature – where humans are able to live in a state of freedom, joy, passionate aliveness & grace- effortlessly. IMAGINE if we were ALL taught meditation, mindfulness, etc… as a part of our core curriculum through primary & secondary education! It's not only Rodasi's Vision- it's her MISSION to empower as many people as possible to share these tools with as many other people as possible…and on…and on…shaping the kind of world we all know is possible in our heart of hearts. Speaking of the next generation…Rodasi is also the proud Mama of two beautiful daughters and a privileged active member in the recovery community. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/craving-consciousness/message

Destiny of the souls departing from this world by the “Bright Path”, “The Dark Path” and the superiority of Bhakthiyoga --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raghu-guda/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/raghu-guda/support

Esta é uma técnica Ishaya ancestral para curar relações. Ela deve ser usada apenas uma vez ao dia e não deve levar mais que cinco minutos. Use essa técnica inocentemente, sem expectativas ou julgamentos. Seus efeitos podem ser profundos. 1. Primeiro, sente-se confortavelmente e feche seus olhos. Permita-se estar num espaço amoroso. Lembre-se de um momento em que se sentiu amado/a. Se não conseguir encontrar-se num espaço amoroso, um estado neutro também funcionará. 2. Em sua mente, visualize uma amorosa luz rosa irradiando a partir do seu coração e te envolvendo. 3. Agora traga a sua mente uma imagem amorosa de si mesmo/a. Essa imagem pode ser de qualquer momento da sua vida. Se você não conseguir encontrar uma imagem amorosa sua, traga uma imagem neutra. Se você não consegue ver nenhuma imagem, é suficiente ter a intenção. 4. Traga essa imagem sua para fora da bolha de luz rosa que te envolve, e visualize a si mesmo/a cobrindo a imagem com a luz rosa. Quando a imagem estiver coberta, deixe-a ir. 5. Em seguida, traga uma imagem amorosa de cada membro da sua família imediata – mãe, pai, irmã/ãos, filhas/os, etc (mesmo que tenham falecido). Cubra cada pessoa numa esfera de luz rosa, em seguida deixa-a ir e passe para a próxima pessoa. 6. Traga a imagem de qualquer pessoa com quem você tenha uma carga emocional ou incômodo. Cubra-a com a luz rosa amorosa e deixa-a ir. Se estiver difícil trazer uma imagem amorosa de uma pessoa, simplesmente a imagine na sua frente. Se não puder fazer isso, então a imagine bem distante e de costas pra você. 7. Permita que qualquer outra pessoa apareça, cubra-a com a luz rosa amorosa e então deixe-a ir. 8. Se ninguém mais aparecer, então a prática terminou. Pode abrir seus olhos. Fácil! Se você não consegue visualizar uma luz rosa amorosa, não se preocupe – basta ter a intenção de visualizar. Quando você estiver fazendo esse exercício, cubra com a luz rosa qualquer pessoa que apareça – não rejeite ninguém. Após ter coberto qualquer imagem, entenda que é suficiente e que não há necessidade de repetir. Você perceberá quando o trabalho com alguém estiver completo e não precisa ser repetido no futuro. Mesmo que ninguém apareça durante sua prática desta técnica, faça-a em si mesmo. Leva 5 segundos. Parece muito simples pra ser efetivo, não é? Mas e se fizer diferença, e se de fato curar relacionamentos, você dedicaria alguns minutos diários para essa prática? Só experimente. Faça a cada dia e permaneça aberto para ver a mágica. Essa técnica de cura está sendo compartilhada pelos Ishayas de The Bright Path. Para mais informações sobre as técnicas de meditação do The Bright Path, visite www.thebrightpath.com.

This week on the #Wednesdaywellbeing show we chat with the mum who's a modern day monk Anita or Viramata Ishaya.   A modern day monk and international meditation teacher of ascension meditation. She works with thousands of monks globally through an organisation called the Bright Path   Anita is an ordinary mum who has unbelievable extraordinary tools to stay in the present moment and create love and space for all her family. She will share with us how with simple changes that literally saved her mental health can bring you back to peace. www.thebrightpath.com viramata@thebrightpath.com  I'll also be chatting with James Angus who works full time running text relief.  Last year James experienced the loss of a friend and he has his own mental wellbeing challenges.  James was driven to help provide a service in South Shields to support the community and those who are struggling to reach out for help so he created Text relief.  Text relief provides a 24 hour service for anyone who needs support and perhaps can't pick up a phone, for many reasons, and make a call but who can text.  Text relief is a wonderful community interest company that aims to support people in the community and I cant wait to find out more. https://www.facebook.com/textreliefmentalhealth/?ti=as  Tune in live at 8 pm www.radioshields.co.uk  Or catch up later on Amanda Joy's podcast. On to the questions now! Focus on the lockdown and for some people this is a very stressful time. Discuss how to find less stress more peace!Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/AJHarrison27)

COVID-19 has brought global attention to the fragility of the medical supply chain. For those with chronic illnesses, drug shortages and access to medication often are lifelong battles. As the coronavirus spread begins to slow, will the pandemic bring about increased awareness of the everyday struggles of patients with chronic diseases? And how can we bridge the gaps in the medical supply chain?On this episode of the Patients Rising Podcast, we discuss new technologies that can quickly develop small-batch drugs in high demand among patients. We also look into how the pandemic has slowed the supply chain’s transportation of APIs (active pharmaceutical ingredients). Lili VallettaFounder and CEO of CIEN+, and Marketing Executive at Bright Path Laboratories.Lili Valletta is a marketing professional with over 20 years of experience, specifically in the medical and pharmaceutical industries. In 2010, Lili co-founded CIEN+, which is a Cultural Intelligence Engine designed to help companies bring cultural trends into their business designs and solutions. In conjunction with CIEN+, where Lili continues to serve as the CEO, she is a marketing executive and strategic partner at Bright Path Laboratories. Bright Path focuses on pharmaceutical manufacturing technology for API production designed to meet drug shortages in the supply chain due to its scalable design. For 10 years, Lili worked as the Director of Global Marketing at Johnson & Johnson, where she developed numerous diversity marketing initiatives, including the company's first multicultural marketing strategy. PRWeek named Lili one of its Top 50 Healthcare Influencers. Lili earned her Masters in Business Administration from the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. Hosts:Terry Wilcox, Executive Director, Patients RisingDr. Robert Goldberg, “Dr. Bob”, Co-Founder and Vice President of the Center for Medicine in the Public InterestKate Pecora, Field Correspondent Links:Bright Path Laboratories The APANDEMIC InitiativePatients Rising Concierge Need help?The successful patient is one who can get what they need when they need it. We all know insurance slows us down, so why not take matters into your own hands. Our Navigator is an online tool that allows you to search a massive network of health-related resources using your zip code so you get local results. Get proactive and become a more successful patient right now at PatientsRisingConcierge.orgHave a question or comment about the show, want to suggest a show topic or share your story as a patient correspondent?Drop us a line: podcast@patientsrising.orgThe views and opinions expressed herein are those of the guest(s)/ author(s) and do not reflect the official policy or positions of Patients Rising. 

Exercises are an important part of preparedness and the lifecycle of crisis management, business continuity, or communications planning. But most exercises are just plain boring. In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser and Senior Consultant Jennifer Otremba talk about why exercises are often so boring and techniques to "spice them up" for your exercise participants. Topics include non-linear exercises, varying inject introduction methods, and the need for unique, high-energy facilitators. //static.leadpages.net/leadboxes/current/embed.js Episode Transcript Bryan Strawser:                   I have been to a lot of boring exercises. Jen Otremba:                        Yeah, I was at one last spring that was so boring. Bryan Strawser:                   Why was it boring? It was boring because poorly facilitated, poor content? Jen Otremba:                        It just felt very monotone. It felt it was a little bit drug out, I thought. It was super long. And it was just boring. Bryan Strawser:                   Do you think in that case of the boring exercise that the folks that were doing the exercise got anything out of that? Jen Otremba:                        I think that they probably still got some things out of it. I think that they recognize that they were lacking in certain areas and they didn't have some of the information that they needed. But, in general, I don't think they got out as much of it, because I don't think it was very memorable. Bryan Strawser:                   What I think has been typical at least of the exercises I've gone to is that they're just poorly constructed. They're almost always about the most innocuous thing that you could have happen, or it is about the alien invasion and we're all going to die. It's like the Kobayashi Maru from Star War ... Star Trek, that there's no way that you're going to survive the scenario. It's the no-win scenario. Jen Otremba:                        Yes, and I think in this case, I think it felt like a scenario that they have run 300 times before, and the way they presented it, it was as if they were bored with the scenario, because they've done it a bunch of times before. I don't think it was very well done towards ... done for the client to meet their specific needs. Bryan Strawser:                   It's really unfortunate because I think that I think exercises are important. I think we spend an enormous amount of time in the business continuity, or crisis management processes of conducting risk assessments and doing the business impact analysis, if you do those. The constructing plans and then it's time to practice, because that's how you build muscle memory. That's how you kind of understand roles and responsibilities in real life, and then the exercise is always such a let down. Jen Otremba:                        Yeah, ultimately you don't want to spend all that time on the plan, and just put it on the shelf- Bryan Strawser:                   Woo-hoo, we're done. Jen Otremba:                        We did it. It's obviously best to test those processes, and make sure that they're working and not wait till an actual crisis to test them. Bryan Strawser:                   And they have to be tested in a realistic manner. We don't want to test the, oh, the network switch failed, and that's your exercise scenario, but you also don't want the, hey, I'm out here in space by myself and now there's five Klingon warships about to destroy me, and I'm going to die. Jen Otremba:                        Right. You generally don't want to do a zombie apocalypse as a realistic scenario. While it sounds fun and exciting- Bryan Strawser:                   How do you defend your business against the zombies? Jen Otremba:                        Right. I mean, it sounds fun and it probably is fun at the time, but are you actually getting out of it what you need to get out of it. Bryan Strawser:                   We connect a lot of exercises here at Bright Path for clients, and we've come up with some unique and interesting scenarios, but I think we've learned a few things about how do you make your exercises fun and relevant? Jen Otremba:                        Memorable. Bryan Strawser:                   Memorable maybe, is the right term. One thing that I think we've really done recently has been getting away from the what we've called the boring linear exercise, where somebody's talking in a monotone at a podium and it's okay, step one. Here's the scenario. Step two, this happens. What do you do? Step three, this happens. What do you do? Jen Otremba:                        Yeah, and now this. Bryan Strawser:                   And now this, and now that. Jen Otremba:                        Yeah. Bryan Strawser:                   Oh, and here's an inject that you didn't see coming. Jen Otremba:                        Right. Bryan Strawser:                   And here's that. I don't know, because crises don't evolve in that linear fashion. Jen Otremba:                        They never do. Bryan Strawser:                   Maybe if the scenario really is like, oh, the network switch failed, and we lost internet connectivity. Jen Otremba:                        But is that really a crisi then at that point? Bryan Strawser:                   Ooh, a crisi. Jen Otremba:                        Crisi ... crisis. Bryan Strawser:                   Is it? It depends on your organization, right? It depends on your risks. Jen Otremba:                        Yeah. Bryan Strawser:                   But what we've been constructing more recently has been, I think, more nonlinear scenarios, because that's real life. When you get into a data incident ... data incident or breach. For example, it's going to come at you from all directions. We joke sometimes that, wow man, like life comes at you fast. Jen Otremba:                        Yeah. Bryan Strawser:                   But it's true in most situations. Jen Otremba:                        In our previous employer we experienced that many times when we have a major situation going on, and we talked about this in previous podcasts too, but we have a major situation going on over here, but then we also have other things that continue to pop up as well. Bryan Strawser:                   What's the great scene in the movie Crimson Tide about the submarine captain that Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington plays the XO, and they have the conflict between the old generation and the new, but there's a scene early in the movie where there's a fire. A real fire onboard a sub, which is a life threatening situation, and as they're fighting the fire, the captain orders a missile drill. The crew reacts, but Denzel Washington, playing the XO of the boat, kind of freaks out on the captain. Jen Otremba:                        Yup. Bryan Strawser:                   And the captain's like, "We'll talk about this later," and then after the test is over they meet in his cabin, and the captain's like, "I think that the perfect time to run a drill, because we're going to have bad stuff happen, and then something else bad is going to happen, and we got to deal with them both." Jen Otremba:                        Right. Bryan Strawser:                   So we practice. Jen Otremba:                        Well, to be fair, is there ever a good time to run a drill? Bryan Strawser:                   No. Jen Otremba:                        No, because there's always something going on. Bryan Strawser:                   So when we talk about a nonlinear exercise, what we've done has been to combine this multiple sensory experience where you've got your team in a room, or you've got them virtually on a WebEx, or go to meeting or whatever, and you're working through what feels like the typical table top scenario. You're going from point A to point B to point C, when the phone rings in front of the communications team. And they pick up the phone, and there's an actor, role playing a reporter. You can't run from that. You got to deal with it. It's not like, oh, I've read the scenario on the PowerPoint and here's what I'm going to do. It's ... they're on the phone and I have to react to the real time. Jen Otremba:                        Right, and the whole group doesn't stop while that person takes the call. Bryan Strawser:                   Right. The facilitator has to keep the thing going. Jen Otremba:                        The group is still trying to work through the problem while the communications expert is on the phone over there, and eventually we'll get off the phone and say, "Hey guys, something changed." Bryan Strawser:                   Yup, okay, we have a pause and now we have a comm's team explain to us- Jen Otremba:                        What's going on. Bryan Strawser:                   What just happened. Jen Otremba:                        Or an email. Bryan Strawser:                   Or an email. Jen Otremba:                        You could get an email. Bryan Strawser:                   Or both at the same time. Jen Otremba:                        Right. Bryan Strawser:                   To the general counsel gets a phone call, or your sales team gets a phone call, and the list goes on. Jen Otremba:                        Or there's non-pertinent information that starts coming in, and they have to sift through is this something I need to deal with now, or not? Bryan Strawser:                   So one thing I think we've done effectively, more recently, has been to interject in the exercise just completely irrelevant stuff, that has a very casual relationship to the incidents, perhaps a physical security incident at the campus that causes people to have to step out and deal with that. It could be a second smaller crisis situation that seems urgent at first, but isn't, but the point is that we're trying to ... this is real life, we're trying to break up the process and make it more nonlinear and catch people a little off guard, and get them used to dealing with things in different ways. Jen Otremba:                        Forces them to prioritize and triage as well. Bryan Strawser:                   Mm-hmm (affirmative). Jen Otremba:                        Yup. We've done that a few times. We just did that recently. Bryan Strawser:                   We did this this week. Jen Otremba:                        We did. Bryan Strawser:                   At least the week we're recording this anyway. Jen Otremba:                        Yes. Yes, exactly. Bryan Strawser:                   So the first thing to make your exercise not boring is to have ... think about this nonlinear process of how can you break it up, and how can you do injects and bring the conversation forward in a different way. We've gone as far as to have radio reporters do voice over news reports for us that we can inject into the exercise. We've had actors call in and role play different roles. We've had print news stories that have appeared. We've sent emails. We've done the phone thing, as we've described. We've had people pop on the WebEx conference call for the exercise, and say, "Hey, I just got this number. I got this situation going on," and it's just a distraction. Jen Otremba:                        Yup. Bryan Strawser:                   But it's to see what the group does. Are they going to punt it, which is really what you want, get the non-essential stuff out of the way, or are they going to get bogged down in detail arguing about this thing that has injected itself. Jen Otremba:                        Yup. I think it's good to be creative, I guess, in this respect, because it's going to keep people interested and keep people engaged in the whole process. Bryan Strawser:                   So when the exercise is ... this exercise has to start, by the way, with I think a viable scenario, and the more that you can tie it to an actual real risk that the company is afraid of, or should be afraid of, then I think there's the more likelihood you're going to get good participation, and a really good engagement from the group. So the more you understand about the company and some of the risks that they're faced with, that where perhaps there are gaps that are not closed. Jen Otremba:                        Yup. And I think sometimes it depends on do you know exactly what it is that you're testing, so yeah, we know we're testing this plan that they just created, but is there some kind of specific weakness that you want to outline for them, so that they have to work that out. What is it exactly that you're testing. Bryan Strawser:                   Right. Have a good scenario. Construct a nonlinear exercise, and when the exercise is over, what do we do? Will we connect a good after-action process, so we're trying to understand what do we all ... I would just start the question of what did we see here today? What did you see? I'm not asking for wins or opportunities, I'm just asking the big open-ended question, and you get interesting answers when you pose that question. Jen Otremba:                        You do. Yeah. Then also that immediate discussion I think is important because there's things that are just real fresh on people's minds that they want to get out right away. So that initial ... those initial thoughts and observations are super important to capture. Bryan Strawser:                   And then what are the wins and what are the opportunities, and what do we want to do about what we saw here today. I think it's important there to make sure that you get good concrete clear actions, and who's going to do it, coming out of that conversation, coming out of that after-action? Then there should be a written report, even if it's just a few pages, but how do you translate that kind of after-action discussion into here's what the report says? Jen Otremba:                        Well, and what we've done too, is we've done, say, a survey after, so it gives them a little bit more time, a couple of days maybe, to actually really think through the things that they want to capture in that after-action as well. The initial discussion followed by a survey, followed by the report, followed by maybe some sort of a presentation of key findings. So then what? What do you do with all that information? Bryan Strawser:                   Well, then you've got work to do. You've got action items to go address, and follow up on, but I also think that you should look at what's the next exercise? This should not be a one time a year thing, particularly with your crisis process. You want to be able to go ... you want to be able to kind of make this a constant evolution, because you want the muscle memory with your team. You want their roles and responsibilities to be clear. You want them to be used to collaborating in working through this process, so your next exercise should attempt to break something different within that process, and hopefully you've addressed those after-action items- Jen Otremba:                        Yeah. Bryan Strawser:                   That have been addressed in your previous exercise. Jen Otremba:                        Right, so whether that be some sort of a process change, or a change in the plans, or even just a additional training maybe, is all is needed- Bryan Strawser:                   Right. Jen Otremba:                        To utilize the plans that already exist. Bryan Strawser:                   Right. Jen Otremba:                        And then retest. Bryan Strawser:                   Yup. So, we do a lot of exercise work here at Bryghtpath. If it's something we can help you with, feel free to reach out at bryghtpath.com/contact, or give us a call at 612-235-6435. Good luck with your next exercise.

IT BEGINS! Ladies and Gentlemen: the Prologue to The Gods We Made, book two of “Preposterous History.” Two years after the events of The Bright Path, Gog the Hammer finds himself facing down a new enemy–and big guns suddenly seem not quite so big. Jonathan Miller arrives in Devi Valley with Simon and Devi, determined to find something in Vault Three–but comes away empty handed.

Jonathan and Merrily live the consequences of one moment of choice. Cyrus Stoat wakes up in a strange bed, and Hobb finds a remedy to two of his most irritating problems. Sir Richard signs off, ending his tale with a guest writer.  Features excerpts from "Find Heaven"; complete track, sung by Danielle Erin Rhodes, available on SoundCloud.  Part 1 of 2.

Ben Birney has worn a lot of different hats in his life. He's been a lawyer, a Broadway composer, and now an author. He discusses how he got to be where he is today and just how he's meandered his way through the years. Also in this conversation you will hear about video game music, law school, and fantasy novels.

In today's show, we interviewed investor, entrepreneur, and president of BrightPath Notes, Justin Bogard. Together, we dissected a topic not many listeners might be familiar with—note investing. Justin's real estate journey began in the early 2000s. After getting professional training in real estate investing, he eventually quit his full-time job and started a fix and flip business. His massive success in real estate led him to get specialised training in discounted real estate note investing. Over the years, he was able to network with thousands of other investors and worked with many successful people in the note business. Justin believes discounted real estate notes is one of the best ways to build wealth. So if you're looking for passive income with less liability, this episode is for you!

In today’s show, we interviewed investor, entrepreneur, and president of BrightPath Notes, Justin Bogard. Together, we dissected a topic not many listeners might be familiar with—note investing. Justin’s real estate journey began in the early 2000s. After getting professional training in real estate investing, he eventually quit his full-time job and started a fix and flip business. His massive success in real estate led him to get specialised training in discounted real estate note investing. Over the years, he was able to network with thousands of other investors and worked with many successful people in the note business. Justin believes discounted real estate notes is one of the best ways to build wealth. So if you’re looking for passive income with less liability, this episode is for you!

Cyrus bids a fond farewell to Sheria. Johnathan and Merrily go to meet some demons, but find an entirely different mystery. Daven and Devi make a bad deal to get their new friends out of trouble, and both of them suffer the consequences. Episode 13 covers Chapter 17 of The Bright Path.

In the frontier forest, King Simon tries to keep his new subjects from eating each other. He finds that culinary advice and fragrant incense only go so far. Simon and The Gizzard discover that they have some unexpected assets, and Simon introduces his henchman to the fine distinction between trade and murder. In Hog Hurst, Alice is confronted once again by her strange visitors, and decides on a new course of action. Episode 12 of the podcast covers Chapters 15 and 16 of The Bright Path.

Part 3 of 3.  The village of Hog Hurst has some difficult decisions to make.  Cyrus comes up with a bad plan, and then replaces it with an even worse one.  Someone lets the mule out.  Daisy relives his glory days. Episode Seven covers Chapter Eight of The Bright Path.  It is available in three parts.

Part 2 of 3.  The village of Hog Hurst has some difficult decisions to make.  Cyrus comes up with a bad plan, and then replaces it with an even worse one.  Someone lets the mule out.  Daisy relives his glory days. Episode Seven covers Chapter Eight of The Bright Path.  It is available in three parts.

Part 1 of 3.  The village of Hog Hurst has some difficult decisions to make.  Cyrus comes up with a bad plan, and then replaces it with an even worse one.  Someone lets the mule out.  Daisy relives his glory days. Episode Seven covers Chapter Eight of The Bright Path.  It is available in three parts.

Tweet This episode we fire up the DeLorean and head back to explore part 1 of a 2-part series of Jim Thorpe, "The World's Greatest Athlete".  The timeline covered in this episode is Jim's birth through his time in college and the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.  So strap on your seat belt, and let's get ready to take this baby up to 88mph.   Connect with the show: https://thefootballhistorydude.com/episode12/ (Visit the show notes for this episode) https://thefootballhistorydude.com/about-the-show/ (Visit me on the web - my about page) https://thefootballhistorydude.com/contact/ (Contact the show) https://twitter.com/FHDude (Follow me on Twitter) Subscribe on YouTube   Click below for the transcript.  I have included affiliate links to Amazon throughout the transcript to complement the episode.  If you purchase through these links it will support the show at no extra cost to you. Read Full Transcript Today we celebrate the 4th of July in the United States of America. This is the day back in 1776 where our forefathers finalized a Declaration for Independence. We all must not take lightly the sacrifices made by the men and women back in 1776, nor any time in history. So first, I want to thank all the men and women for protecting this great nation of ours and in this upcoming episode, I'm going to cover part 1 of a 2 part series of the World's Greatest Athlete, Jim Thorpe. Childhood This time as we step off our DeLorean, the date is June 25th, 1876. Which is basically a 100 years after the Declaration of Independence. And we are in Little Big Horn valley. You see, this was the scene of the most decisive victory for the Native Americans in the Plains Indian War, which was a very long war. And most of you know it as the Battle of Little Big Horn, or you might also know it as the famous Custer's Last Stand. And why am I talking about wars that happened all these years ago? What's the reason for it? Well, like I said, today is the day of our independence. And part of that was the independence for all peoples, and the guy we're going to talk about in this episode, Mr. Jim Thorpe. He was born 12 years after this battle. So you gotta say, there was not that many years between when America was still fighting with Native people of this land. Jim Thorpe was born on a reservation, which we're going to go ahead and take that DeLorean back to May 28th, 1888. We are in Prague, which is present day Oklahoma, and it was Indian Territory at the time. Jim Thorpe was born with the name James Francis Thorpe. But that wasn't really the name that he recognized as a young boy. He was predominately American Indian, and this came from his mother's side. Who was a descendant of Sauk and Fox Chief, Black Hawk. According to the ESPN Classic video that I saw, and I'm going to provide links to you. When a Native American mother had a baby, she would name the baby after the first thing she saw, and they mentioned how she saw the sun rising and there was a path. Kind of like through the trees or something. She named him Wah-Tho-Huk, which translated into Bright Path. And the name Bright Path for Jim Thorpe was an understatement. He would go on to have one of those once in a millennium type of careers, and no one else could rival him. And he was Native American. Like I said, there was that war that was going on, and there wasn't a whole lot of getting along back in 1888. He was born on a reservation. This is where we start the journey of Jim Thorpe, and what turned him from an Indian on a reservation into what would become the World's Greatest Athlete. The first major adversity Jim had to deal with was he had a twin brother that passed away at the age of 8. He was one of Jim's best friends. Then 6 years later his mother passed away. So Jim was kind of this kid that was losing his way, didn't quite understand in the world, and they spoke in the video how he still had that running with the feet and his heart to the... Support this podcast

Shrimad Bhagavata Mahapurana Synopsis of the Twenty-First Session Bhagavata Tritiya Skanda (Book Three) Chapter 31 to 33  ———————————— Ponder and Uncondition Scenario 1: A student comes into the exam and there are multiple sets of question paper which have been given, to avoid cheating. Now, the child finds nothing he knows in the sheet allotted to him. He requests the examiner for another sheet, and yet another sheet.  Finally, the examiner says don't worry go and sit down, with the sheet you have in your hand. He comes and marks a ‘B grade' on the paper. Another student objects and the examiner justifies his action by saying, he has certainly studied, that is why he is looking for set of question he knows the answers to.  Now, Are we all not like that, we all are just looking for that set of Information that agrees with our current knowledge. If it does, we accept and if it does not we reject. Moreover, we are not receptive of what is being said, we are filtering it to fit our mind set, and many a times we have a selective reception. No matter what is being said, we will understand it based on our own sensibilities.  If we sat with an open mind unconditioned mind, how different would our journey be. Scenario 2: A man for the first time comes to India and visits a village, and sees Cow Dung on the Wall. He asks his friend what is this, the friend said this is Cow Dung. Do you know what we use it for? The man says, Please tell me first how did the cow get on the wall? Now, The cow does not get on the wall, some one picks the cow dung, flattens it and puts it on the wall.  All that we read is an experience of another. Many a times it is quoted from others experiences and other books. We choose and pick and accept it as our own. We become so rigidity, to an extend that it makes us a fanatic.  Not only this, the saddest bit is; It robs us of the ability to have an individual experience.  The lord is nothing but absolute consciousness, thought one he appears in diverse forms, the seers, the object seen, the means of sight and so on.  Just as one and the same substance possessed of several attributes (such as colour, taste and so on) is perceived in different ways thought the sense. Even so Lord though one is realised thought different paths. ——————————— Story/Kapil Muni teaching continued We have delved deep into the concept of Appearance(creation) and also have been trying to understand Kapila Muni's Shankya philosophy, along with mother Devhuti.  Kapila Muni goes on to say that we take re-brith based on what we are attached to. If we are attached to a woman we will be born as one, if a woman is attached to a man she will be born as man. This combined with our deeds determine the next birth we take. Examples:  We know about Bharat and his immense attachment to the deer. He was so concerned about the deer, died with the deer in his mind. In his next birth he was born as a deer.  If we practice today, we will be able to turn our mind inward towards God, and detach from the people and things that surround us, at time of death.  Kapila muni goes on to say that we depart from the Dark Path and the Bright Path, depending on the deeds and attachments.  Destiny of the soul departing from the Dark Path - If an individual is only focused towards his body and things related to it. If he is not able to let go of the ‘I' and ‘Mine', and all his life is focused only on the three objects of Human Pursuit - Religious merits, wealth and sensual enjoyments. His soul departs through the Dark Path. To the lower realms of the manes and when he exhausts his merits is reborn in the Mritu Loka. Destiny of the soul departing from the Bright Path: - If an individual is beyond ‘I' and ‘mine' and and surrenders to the divine bliss, departs through the bright path and merges into the divine bliss. On the contrary, if one worships Brahma he attains...

Hi guys. And welcome to another play time session.I'm not sure if this is actually going to be a playtime session. I'm not going to do a Q&A. This week instead, I just really felt compelled tonight to share with you what I'm doing and where I'm at, at the moment. So I'm not sure if this qualifies as a playtime session. I think maybe it might be more of a Daring session where I just take a moment to get really real. And so right now, I have returned to one of my most favourite places in the world which is a place called Guayrapa which is a retreat centre on top of a mountain, in a small village, kind of near the coast, a couple hours south of Barcelona, in Spain. And this is where I spent six months meditating full time when I first discovered meditation and where I became a monk and where I trained with the Ishaya's of The Bright Path. I graduated from that course three years ago this week. And so, quite nicely really this week I've returned for the first time. And I'm planning to spend all of September here. It's been a really magical few days coming back to this beautiful place. And I just want to set the scene for you a little bit. Right now I'm actually sitting on the roof outside of my home for the next month. Tonight the sky is clear and there is a full moon and I'm staring right at it right now. And I just had to come outside onto the roof and record this episode. So you might hear a little bit of wind. There's a small breeze coming through. I'm hoping you hear the crickets because there is a little background symphony of crickets going on. And this place in terms of a retreat is kind of everything you would want or hope for a retreat to be. The village that it's in is really small, it's called Mont-Ral. There's probably less than 100 houses in this village. It's based on the top of a mountain and right at the top of the mountain is this amazing old church. I've never had a chance to go onto it yet because it's always been locked. I'm not quite sure how old it is that I will take some photos and I will share them on the show notes so be sure to link through to lilab.life if you want to check them out and then the retreat centre itself. It's called Guayrapa and it's on quite a large property, kind of on a sloping hill and we have a dining room and a student lounge which is where all our meals are prepared and we get food three times a day. Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner. All mainly vegetarian food. They have this beautiful organic garden just below the kitchen so a lot of our salads and fresh vegetables come straight from the garden. Below the garden, there's actually this kind of clifftop lookout that you can walk along to and then above the student lounge you head up the hill and the first thing you come across is a beautiful little yurt which is just a lovely place to spend time and meditate, particularly in the afternoons. Go a little bit further up the hill you'll find a swimming hole and it's September now it's just starting to cool down. The weather's just about to turn slightly into autumn but I dipped my toe in the pool today because the sun was out, really for the first time this week and it's not quite warm enough. And then as you go further up the hill, we get to our meeting room where we spend most of our time meditating and have meetings a couple times a day. Normally one during the morning and then a big meeting during the evening with our teachers. These meetings are an opportunity for people to share their discoveries and experiences of their meditation that day. And for the teachers to give guidance and students to ask questions and for everybody to kind of just learn and discover more. And that's also where we often will receive homework and things and focuses to place our attention on as we are meditating. And so the whole point of being here is basically to meditate as much as possible. But it's not a silent retreat as such. It's very social. You get to meet everybody,...

Who are the Ishaya’s of the Bright Path and What is Ascension Meditation? 'Ishaya' is a Sanskrit word that means 'For Higher Consciousness'. The Ishayas are devoted to experiencing, and helping others experience, higher states of human consciousness through the teaching of Ascension Meditation. The Ishayas are modern-day monks. It’s not about living in a cave and removing yourself from the world - from renouncing your chance to have a fulfilling career, money, relationships, have a family in order to live a peaceful life. It’s about living life at 200%. Living in the external modern, amazing, technologically world that we live in and enjoy AND having a 100% internal experience of infinite peace, unbounded joy, freedom and contentment, and unconditional love. This is what I found with the Ishaya’s. Ascension means to rise above, to rise above and beyond the chatter of the mind to experience the peace within. That allows us to be present. With this presence we clear everything, everything clearly. That allows us to experience more joy, peace, truth - you see beyond our own stories and the voices in our head and discover who we really are - perfect, innocence, pure. The Ascension Attitudes are simple techniques to return to our natural state. It’s completely mechanical - you don’t need to believe in anything, they transcend the beliefs of the limited mind and take you to somewhere greater. Give you a release from your thinking patterns, whether good or bad thoughts, both can cause stress. And due to the mind-body connection, stress in the mind gets translated into stress in the body, which ultimately can lead to anxiety, burnout, depression and ill-health. Ascension is simple because it doesn’t require you to change anything. However side effects may include your perspective shifting, your reactions changing and it may cause happiness for no reason - sorry! It’s not about trying to stop your thoughts because you can’t, and you shouldn't try to force yourself to stop thinking because that only causes more suffering in your meditation practice. It’s about becoming an observer, learning to simply watch your thoughts, and change your relationship with your mind. Learn to become okay with this moment right now - exactly as it is. This brings contentment, acceptance and allowance. You discover that there is nothing wrong with you, with your life, or with anyone else's life either. This brings peace, freedom. You can discover that you don’t need to identify with any thought ever. Thoughts are still useful, they tell you what you need to buy at the grocery store and how to drive a car. But meditation can help take care of the bigger decisions, how to awaken your intuition and your creativity so that problems resolve themselves more easily, so opportunities can magically appear without you trying to force them. So life can simply become more easy and joyful. Ascension is typically taught over a weekend course - a Friday night and Saturday and Sunday. It’s based on four powerful technique called Ascension Attitudes based on praise, gratitude, love & compassion. There are teachers all over the world and you can learn more about Ascension at www.thebrightpath.com But honestly, this podcast isn’t intended to be a sales pitch for Ascension. That’s just the path I found which worked for me. I liked it because it was easy, because the Ishayas were the most unconditionally loving and supportive people that I had ever met. Because it simply felt good to be around them. But you do you. Find a technique, a path, a teacher that inspires you and teaches you in complete service, who doesn’t expect anything from you except that you’re willing to show up and discover truth. It’s my desire that Daring to be Happy will support anyone who meditates or wants to develop a meditation practice, regardless of the technique they choose to use. So do the things that

Please click on the POD button to listen to the latest Atlanta Business Radio  show podcast broadcasting live each Wednesday at 10am EDT from Atlanta, GA, USA.   Here's how to listen to the podcast of our show. First click on the title of the show you are interested in. Then there should be a player in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Now just press play and the show you chose should start playing. You can also download the show to listen on your mp3 player. We are now available on iTunes, click this link and you can find all our past shows. Press SUBSCRIBE and you will automatically get the latest show when you sync your iPod to your computer.Today's show is brought to you by TAB of Northwest Atlanta.The Alternative Board of Northwest Atlanta brings together owners of privately held businesses to overcome challenges and seize new opportunities with a combination of peer advice and strategic business coaching. Board members meet monthly to learn from one anothers successes and mistakes and create more valuable and profitable companies. Achieve Greater Success with Peer Advice and Coaching with TAB of Northwest Atlanta.  www.tab-nwatlanta.comFirst up we had Taun Henderson Director of BNI in Atlanta, GA explain how Business Networking International became the world's largest business referral organization. Taun helps BNI get chapters in Atlanta off and running. He feels that BNI is the best place for business men and women in Atlanta to share ideas, contacts and lots and lots of referrals. Networking is such a big part of Taun's life he recommends that you forget about the Yellow Pages and contact him when you need a referral. He has such a big database of personal contacts he'll know exactly the right person for you.  To find a BNI chapter near you and build your own Golden Rolodex please go to their website www.referrals4life.com Next we had on Art Wood, President of Atlanta's newswet BNI chapter called Brookhaven Rainmakers. His chapter meets every Tuesday from 7:15am-8:45am at the Georgia State Building. He is having a big kickoff get together for his chapter on November 11 from 7:30am-9:30am at Oglethorpe. To learn more about Art's mortgage solutions company Bright Path or BNI please go to his website www.brightpath.com or email him at awood@brightpathmtg.comWe also had on the Education Chairperson from the Brookhaven BNI chapter Bob Albright. Bob owns Buckhead Document Pros and provides scanning, copying and other document related services to lawyers, doctors and dentists in Buckhead. For more on Bob and his firm please go to www.document-pros.comThe VP of the Brookhaven BNI chapter Sylvia Morrow also joined us in the studio. She has been practicing law for over 20 years and her practice extends to all things real estate. From residential to commercial she closes transactions for individual and corporate purchasers and sellers, as well as institutional lenders.Also if you know of a business in Atlanta that we should know about please email Amy Otto at Amy @ atlantabusinessradio.com and we will try and get them on the show