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Blue Cliff Record Case 39: The Golden Haired LionA student asked Yunmen, “What is the pure and everlasting body of reality?”Yunmen said, “A fence of flowers and healing herbs.”The student asked, “What's it like when I reach there?”Yunmen said, “A golden-haired lion!”I am landing back in Ohio after about two weeks visiting my old homes in Oregon, Great Vow Zen Monastery and Portland. I was at Great Vow for a weeklong sesshin that we call Grasses, Trees and the Great Earth—a unique retreat where we move the zendo outside, and sit in a circle together in ceremony with the Earth, Sky, Trees, Grasses and beings of the forest, meadow creek and pond. I initially gave this series of talks in the heart of the summer, when flowers, healing herbs, tomatoes and blueberries are fruiting on the fences, in the gardens and windowsill pots of our lives. A time of year that tropical astrologers assign to the constellation Leo, the lion—a fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. As Leo season ends, and we find ourselves in late summer, returning back to our own inner light, and the work that needs to be done. I offer these talks and reflections on the Golden Haired Lion, Koan Work and the Changing of the Seasons.The ancient greek astrologers saw the sun as the heart of the cosmic animal as well as the heart of the human being. To know one's heart was to connect to the wild, mysterious heart of the cosmos.Lion-imagery crosses cultures. Lions have spoken to the human heart throughout antiquity we see remnants of this relationship today on the lion panel of the Chauvet Cave in France painted 30K years ago, in the image of the lion-headed dakini in Tibet, Sekhmet the Egyptian warrior-healer goddess with a lion head and in the strength card in the tarot. The RWS version of the strength card in the tarot is quite evocative of the imagery from this koan. A woman wearing flowers in her hair and on her dress, pets a seemingly tamed lion—framed by a bright yellow background invoking the summer sun. Who or what are these part lion-part human beings?Animals and nature frequent koans. I always feel like their appearance reminds us that our spiritual lives unfold within these animal bodies, within the place that we live, within our passions and desires. The appearance of a wild animal connects to our instincts. The lion to our sovereignty as well as our magical child.So here we are again. Conversing with a Zen teacher about the body of reality. And again, the teacher points to the flowers. This time blooming together with medicinal herbs on a fence.While the image was probably something in the immediate environment of the questioner. There are always levels of meaning and exploration within a single interaction. The questioner is asking—what is it? What is always present? Is there something that you can say to express the freedom and love of our original nature, how is it—what is it—right, here–right now?Yunmen shares a bit of his mind by naming— the flowering fence, the medicinal herbs.Images of beauty as well as nourishment—medicine. Alive right here in the present. Is beauty medicine? What nourishes your heart? This koan is very much a koan with heart.Earth Dreams is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Have you ever meditated on a flower? Or attended to a flower blooming over the course of days or weeks. Budding, the opening which is a process of contraction and expansion, then the full expression of its open-ness and followed by the falling petals that slowly turn to soil.Flowers reveal nature's beauty in full display. Their sweet smells and arresting appearance attract humans as well as pollinators. Long associated with the heart, they show us something about the tender process of moving towards openness. As well as reflecting to us the nature of cycles and deep interconnection. Flowers are in-bedded in a place, they are relational.In the Buddhist tradition the nature of mind, the pure body of reality, awareness is likened to a flower that is eternally blooming—always present. While simultaneously human life, the life of the world is —seasonal, is changing, is subject to the whims of nature, the turning of the earth, night and day and all the other beings that we share this cosmos with.What's it like when we realize the pure body of reality for ourselves? A golden haired lion.Together we share the great heart of the cosmos, like the lemniscate above the woman in the strength card—we recognize our continual inter-connection, our shared being with animal, earth, flower, night sky. We find and lose and find ourselves in the heart of our being.In Hua-Yen Buddhism, the golden-haired lion is a symbol of inter-being, inter-penetration. Like a great hologram, it was said that each of the lion's hairs contained the whole lion. So the lion itself was an embodiment of Indra's net. It was a symbol for the living body of reality, where everything is contained within everything else.Majushri, the bodhisattva of Wisdom, is said to ride on this lion. Living this insight.So the appearance of this lion in this koan is an invitation to walk through the world as such. Seeing everyone you meet, every interaction as a reflection of the whole cosmos. Similar to the gnostic belief that the divine is contained within each of us. We are of one substance, and we are utterly unique in our expressions. Our heart is both the heart of the cosmos, and our personal heart (soul/psyche) which will flower in its own way, based on the causes and conditions of our precious life.The lion's gaze is another teaching in the buddhist tradition. The analogy goes that if you throw a ball to a dog, the dog will run after the ball. If you throw a ball to a lion, the lion will look back at the source. As practitioner's we train in the lion's gaze. Instead of following every thought form that flashes through our mind, we trace the thoughts back to our embodied experience, back to awareness itself—back to the source.We learn to gaze into the spacious source of our nature.The images of a koan are like the images of a dream, or even a fairy tale. Where each image is us. We are questioner, we are teacher, we are flowers opening alongside medicinal herbs, we are fence, we are lion, we are the bodhisattva of wisdom.Koans invite us to carry these images into our meditation practice and into our day. Where, like dreams, our associations carry insights into the more personal as well as archetypal dimensions of the koan. Perhaps we will find ourselves practicing our roars, or walking with confidence, embodying courage, letting ourselves shine or take up space. Maybe we will learn more about the mythological lions from fairy tales.Koans invite participation. Embodiment. Creativity.What is it like to sit as a lion? To walk down the street as your lion self? To show-up at a meeting with lion-like courage or confidence, optimism? How familiar are you with your inner strength? What would it be like to practice the lion's gaze when someone criticizes you, or when you criticize yourself? What is it like to let yourself be accompanied by such a lion? This is something I love about koans, they offer support. Companionship. As we get acquainted with the lion of our true nature, we can imagine having them around. Perhaps like in the strength card.Another dimension of this koan is the flower and the medicinal herbs. And so one tangible practice is to simply spend some time meditating with flowers or looking at flowers—really seeing them. Or maybe making yourself some medicinal herbal tea.I have a few friends who as a practice always have a bouquet of flowers on their altar or table, as a way of connecting to beauty and remembering self-appreciation (one friend realized that it was a way of giving herself a gift everyday, the other said it was a small way of connecting to joy).Last year Kennyo and I watched the early season of Twin Peaks, and there was this scene where Agent Cooper is getting pie at the dinner and he says to the sheriff Harry S Truman, “I give myself a gift everyday”.This koan is also about that. How do you nourish your heart? How can you be generous with yourself? Can you do something generous for yourself everyday?We might also try on some of the paradoxes these images hold. How can we be eternally blooming, and also allow all things to have their seasons? Can we sense our oneness, and allow each being to express themselves as they are? As you can see, each koan contains a lot of teachings even within a few images. This layered aspect of koans is what makes them potent teaching tools. So notice, was there any part of the koan, any one of the images or the teachings that the image invokes that you are curious about or do you have an area of life that you feel concerned about, that you aren't sure how to practice with—could the koan accompany you there….that might be the way to bring this teaching into your week.…Koan Practice and the Three Bodies of the BuddhaIn this next talk, I take a deeper dive into how to work with a koan using Blue Cliff Record Case 39: The Golden Haired Lion. I provide a framework for koan practice from the teachings of the Three Bodies of Buddha—three aspects of our embodied awakened life, which are:* Dharmakaya/Essence/Secret—koans point to our awakened nature, the ground of being, our shared light* Sambhogakaya/Inner/Dream Body—working with koan images and energies can help us meet and work with the stuff of our own hearts and minds and empower us to cultivate the awakened qualities that the koan points to. Koan images can also act as dharma protectors, beings we can turn towards to help us meet the inner demons, distractions and deeply conditioned patterns of mind that cause suffering to others and ourselves* Nirmanakaya/Outer/Form/Compassion Body—bringing the koan into our relationships, work we do, expression, embodiment, how we live…Seasons of Practice: Exploring Emptiness + FullnessThis final talk is a reflection + celebration of the end of summer and the practice opportunities that come with late Summer, a time symbolically represented by the Hermit. …I'm Amy Kisei. I am a Zen Buddhist Teacher, Spiritual Counselor, budding Astrologer and Artist. In my Spiritual Counseling Practice, I practice at the confluence of spirituality and psychology, integrating mind, body and spirit. I am trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dream Work, Hakomi (Somatic Therapy) and Mindful Eating.I also lead a weekly online meditation group through the Zen Community of Oregon and am leading a class series on the Zen Bodhisattva Precepts this Fall. Also if you are interested in workshopping your meditation practice join me in collaboration with Pause Meditation for a 5-week online class series called Beyond Mindfulness. More information can be found below.Monday Night Meditation + DharmaEvery Monday 6P PT / 9P ETJoin me on zoom for 40 minutes of meditation and a dharma talk. We are currently exploring the freedom, spontaneity and love of our original nature through the teachings of the Zen koan tradition. Koans invite us into the mythos of practice awakening, gifting us with the ordinary images of our lives, they help awaken us to the wonder, intimacy and compassion of life as it is!All are welcome to join. Drop in any time.Zoom Link for Monday NightLiving the Questions: 16 Bodhisattva Precepts Class SeriesBe patient with all that is unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek the answers, which can not be given to you, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. And perhaps you will then gradually…find yourself living the answer. — RilkeFar from being a set of rules or doctrine that we must follow, the Bodhisattva precepts act as koans, inquiries that we are empowered to take into our life. They ask us to consider, what does love look like in this situation? In this relationship, how do I work with my anger? Who is it who wants to gossip, or inflate one's self? How can I show up authentically in the world?With the final five grave precepts, pure precepts and refuges as our guide we will explore the heart of what it means for each one of us to live a life of integrity and love. We will explore how each precept touches the personal, interpersonal, global and secret dimensions of our living.Beyond Mindfulness: Deepening Your Meditation Practice Class SeriesThis workshop style course is designed to provide a map of the meditation path as well as:* Introduce you to the five main styles of meditation (calm-abiding, concentration, heart-based practices, inquiry and open-awareness)* Help you understand the intention of each method and how to practice it* Help you understand how the various methods and techniques fit together and support each other* Provide a fun, non-judgmental learning environment where you can try things out, ask questions and explore* Give you the opportunity to work with a teacher with an extensive background in various meditation techniquesI currently live in Columbus, Ohio with my partner Patrick Kennyo Dunn, we facilitate an in-person meditation gathering every Wednesday from 7P - 8:30P at ILLIO in Clintonville through Mud Lotus Sangha. If you happen to be in Columbus, feel free to stop by. We have weekly meditation gatherings, and are offering a day of meditation in October. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amykisei.substack.com/subscribe

Charlie and Manda Scott (Any Human Power) discuss her book in terms of its Shamanist contexts, her informed ideas for how we can change and thus improve the UK political system, and playing Dungeons And Dragons with Terry Pratchett and Fay Weldon. We also discuss Mass Multiplayer Online gaming in the context of both Manda's book and, briefly, ourselves - this is an episode wherein two gamers meet. A transcript is available on my site General references: Historical Writer's Association Accidental Gods Podcast Thrutopian Writer's Association Ursula K Le Guin's original quotation, "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art" is from her speech in acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, 19th November 2014 Chauvet Cave artwork The writer Charlie couldn't remember is Max Porter, his book is Grief Is The Thing With Feathers World Of Warcraft Guild Wars 2 Doom The Accidental Gods membership program Books mentioned by name or extensively: Isabel Harman: Why We Get The Wrong Politicians Manda Scott: Any Human Power Manda Scott: Boudica Max Porter: Grief Is The Thing With Feathers Buy the books: UK || USA Release details: recorded 11th March 2024; published 22nd July 2024 Where to find Manda online: Website || Twitter || Facebook Where to find Charlie online: Website || Twitter || Instagram || TikTok Discussions 01:50 What was the very initial thought or kernel of this book? 08:52 What Manda would like to see happen in order to start accomplishing the environmental and political goals put forth in Any Human Power 14:13 Lan - why is she dead? 18:00 About the 'spirit guides' in the book, discussing crows 22:02 Lan not stopping the story thread in which Kaitlyn dies 25:42 Manda delves into all the political change in the book and her thoughts on our real UK world in this context 37:10 How far we're meant to like/connect with the characters and how flaws are important 41:16 At the end we have the sense of cycles; do we see a chance for things to change for Lan later on? 43:43 Manda talks about one of her influences, Taiwan's government system 46:22 Talking Manda's use of World Of Warcraft (WoW) in the book, which devolves into a short gaming conversation 50:21 Manda played D&D with Terry Pratchett and Fay Weldon - details 53:07 About Manda's podcast, Accidental Gods 56:30 What Manda's writing now, including book 2 Disclosure: If you buy books linked to my site, I may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookshops

Copyright Story Monsters Press Author: Conrad J. Storad Narrated: Brian Dewar McNamara Find Online @ StoryMonster.com Story Monsters Among Us: A Brief History of Human Storytelling, by award-winning children's author Conrad J. Storad, whisks readers away on a journey spanning 50,000 years to discover the origins of storytelling—from the Chauvet Cave painters of southern France to the brothers Grimm to modern-day stories in the digital age. As the history of storytelling is recounted to Story Monster, readers are reminded of where storytelling came from and what it delivers to listeners. Delightful illustrations accompany each of the stories.

Copyright Story Monsters Press Author: Conrad J. Storad Narrated: Brian Dewar McNamara Find Online @ StoryMonster.com Story Monsters Among Us: A Brief History of Human Storytelling, by award-winning children's author Conrad J. Storad, whisks readers away on a journey spanning 50,000 years to discover the origins of storytelling—from the Chauvet Cave painters of southern France to the brothers Grimm to modern-day stories in the digital age. As the history of storytelling is recounted to Story Monster, readers are reminded of where storytelling came from and what it delivers to listeners. Delightful illustrations accompany each of the stories.

Copyright Story Monsters Press Author: Conrad J. Storad Narrated: Brian Dewar McNamara Find Online @ StoryMonster.com Story Monsters Among Us: A Brief History of Human Storytelling, by award-winning children's author Conrad J. Storad, whisks readers away on a journey spanning 50,000 years to discover the origins of storytelling—from the Chauvet Cave painters of southern France to the brothers Grimm to modern-day stories in the digital age. As the history of storytelling is recounted to Story Monster, readers are reminded of where storytelling came from and what it delivers to listeners. Delightful illustrations accompany each of the stories.

Copyright Story Monsters Press Author: Conrad J. Storad Narrated: Brian Dewar McNamara Find Online @ StoryMonster.com Story Monsters Among Us: A Brief History of Human Storytelling, by award-winning children's author Conrad J. Storad, whisks readers away on a journey spanning 50,000 years to discover the origins of storytelling—from the Chauvet Cave painters of southern France to the brothers Grimm to modern-day stories in the digital age. As the history of storytelling is recounted to Story Monster, readers are reminded of where storytelling came from and what it delivers to listeners. Delightful illustrations accompany each of the stories.

Copyright Story Monsters Press Author: Conrad J. Storad Narrated: Brian Dewar McNamara Find Online @ StoryMonster.com Story Monsters Among Us: A Brief History of Human Storytelling, by award-winning children's author Conrad J. Storad, whisks readers away on a journey spanning 50,000 years to discover the origins of storytelling—from the Chauvet Cave painters of southern France to the brothers Grimm to modern-day stories in the digital age. As the history of storytelling is recounted to Story Monster, readers are reminded of where storytelling came from and what it delivers to listeners. Delightful illustrations accompany each of the stories.

Copyright Story Monsters Press Author: Conrad J. Storad Narrated: Brian Dewar McNamara Find Online @ StoryMonster.com Story Monsters Among Us: A Brief History of Human Storytelling, by award-winning children's author Conrad J. Storad, whisks readers away on a journey spanning 50,000 years to discover the origins of storytelling—from the Chauvet Cave painters of southern France to the brothers Grimm to modern-day stories in the digital age. As the history of storytelling is recounted to Story Monster, readers are reminded of where storytelling came from and what it delivers to listeners. Delightful illustrations accompany each of the stories.

Copyright Story Monsters Press Author: Conrad J. Storad Narrated: Brian Dewar McNamara Find Online @ StoryMonster.com Story Monsters Among Us: A Brief History of Human Storytelling, by award-winning children's author Conrad J. Storad, whisks readers away on a journey spanning 50,000 years to discover the origins of storytelling—from the Chauvet Cave painters of southern France to the brothers Grimm to modern-day stories in the digital age. As the history of storytelling is recounted to Story Monster, readers are reminded of where storytelling came from and what it delivers to listeners. Delightful illustrations accompany each of the stories.

Copyright Story Monsters Press Author: Conrad J. Storad Narrated: Brian Dewar McNamara Find Online @ StoryMonster.com Story Monsters Among Us: A Brief History of Human Storytelling, by award-winning children's author Conrad J. Storad, whisks readers away on a journey spanning 50,000 years to discover the origins of storytelling—from the Chauvet Cave painters of southern France to the brothers Grimm to modern-day stories in the digital age. As the history of storytelling is recounted to Story Monster, readers are reminded of where storytelling came from and what it delivers to listeners. Delightful illustrations accompany each of the stories.

Copyright Story Monsters Press Author: Conrad J. Storad Narrated: Brian Dewar McNamara Find Online @ StoryMonster.com Story Monsters Among Us: A Brief History of Human Storytelling, by award-winning children's author Conrad J. Storad, whisks readers away on a journey spanning 50,000 years to discover the origins of storytelling—from the Chauvet Cave painters of southern France to the brothers Grimm to modern-day stories in the digital age. As the history of storytelling is recounted to Story Monster, readers are reminded of where storytelling came from and what it delivers to listeners. Delightful illustrations accompany each of the stories.

What part do our collective stories play in historical turning points? Can new narratives change a culture, a society, a political structure, or do narratives react to changes to explain them afterwards? What do narratives inspire, and how are they disseminated? Martin Puchner, professor for comparative literature at Harvard University and author of, among others, The Story of Culture, is the person to ask. We speak about the importance of technologies such as writing and print, but also of creative misunderstanding and appropriation, a political minefield, as well as a main mechanism of cultural transmission. What can we learn from this convoluted history, and is it possible to initiate a narrative turn today, away from destruction and domination towards a more symbiotic understanding of culture?

What happens when the Muses of Greek mythology want to have a podcast... but they don't actually want to do the work of making one? They conscript a demigod, of course! In the inaugural episode of Myths and Muses: A Plato Learning Podcast, we start at the very beginning: origin stories and myths of creation! Whether it's stories of how the whole world and all the gods came to be, or stories with a smaller focus, like the creation of a particular flower, origin stories can tell us a lot about a culture. They're also Origin something we humans seem to find endlessly fascinating – at least if all the Batman and Wolverine movies are anything to go by! We'll look at a few examples, then dive into the origins of storytelling itself. This episode's interview features Persephone and her mortal alter-ego, Plato Learning founder Crystal Bobb-Semple! If you'd like to submit a story or artwork to be featured on Myths & Muses, use this form (with a Mortal Guardian's permission!). [Transcript for Episode 1] Stuff to Read: 25 Creation Stories from around the World Where did writing come from? A history of cuneiform  Visible Writing: a multimedia exploration from Google Arts & Culture Middle-Grade book recommendation (ages 7-11+): In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World, by Virginia Hamilton and Barry Moser Young Adult book recommendation (ages 12-18+): Popol Vuh: A Retelling, byIlan Stavans and Gabriela Larios A book for grown-ups: The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, by Jonathan Gottschall More information on our summer camps and other programming! Stuff to Watch:  Myths & Muses Episode 1 tie-in YouTube playlist: A series of short videos, including:  The Greek creation of the world and the gods The Taino creation myth The Khmer origins of lightning, thunder and rain Hades, Persephone, and the origin of the seasons The Aztec origins of humanity TED Ed: Why do we tell stories? series (each video between 9-18 minutes) Cool Images:  Cave painting: Chauvet Cave, France. 30,000 to 28,000 BCE. Cave Painting: Serra da Capivara, Brazil. 28,000 to 6,000 BCE. Cave Painting: Cumberland Valley Caves, Tennessee, U.S. Dated to: 4,000 BCE. Cave Painting: Cueva de las Manos, Argentina. 7,300 BCE to 700 CE. Cave Painting:  Lubang Jeriji Saléh, Indonesia. More than 40,000 years old. Cuneiform tablet, Shuruppak, circa 2600 BCE Egyptian hieroglyphs, c. 3000 BCE:  Oracle Bone Script, China, c. 1250 BCE:  Maya codices, c. 900-1500 CE: 

What An Owl Knows - Smithsonian Associate Jennifer Ackerman The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Art of Living Interview Series on radio and podcast.  I'm Paul Vogelzang and as part of our Smithsonian Associates interview series, a wonderful, joyous, and important interview with our guest, New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Ackerman, who I'll introduce in just a minute. But quickly, if you missed any episodes, last week was our 718th episode when I spoke with University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford Distinguished Professor, Dr. Arthur Lupia, who's written recently in Nature Magazine about how political endorsements impact scientific credibility.  Two weeks ago, in honor of Memorial Day and the USS Arizona, I spoke with Kevin Kline, executive director of Operation 85 and the USS Arizona.  There are still 85 “unknown” Navy and Marine service members from USS Arizona whose remains are in unmarked graves, and we can help find them.  Excellent subjects for our Not Old Better Show audience. If you missed those shows, along with any others, you can go back and check them out with my entire back catalog of shows, all free for you, there on our website, NotOld-Better.com. You can Google Not Old Better and get everything you need about us! For millennia, owls have captivated and intrigued us. Our fascination with these mysterious birds was first documented more than 30,000 years ago in the Chauvet Cave paintings in southern France. With their forward-looking eyes and gaze and quiet flight, owls are often a symbol of wisdom, knowledge, and foresight. But what does an owl really know? And what do we really know about owls? Scientists have only recently begun to understand in deep detail the complex nature of these extraordinary avians. Some 260 species of owls exist today, and they reside on every continent except Antarctica, but they are far more difficult to find and study than other birds because they are cryptic, camouflaged, and mostly active in the dark of night. Our guest today, Smithsonian Associate Jennifer Ackerman, author of the New York Times bestseller The Genius of Birds, pulls back the curtain on the nature of the world's most enigmatic birds as she explores the rich biology and natural history of owls and examines remarkable new scientific discoveries about their brains and behavior.  Jennifer Ackerman has been writing about science, nature, and health for three decades.  Her work aims to explain and interpret science for a lay audience and to explore the riddle of humanity's place in the natural world, blending scientific knowledge with imaginative vision.  Jennifer Ackerman will be appearing at Smithsonian Associates coming up, so please check out our show notes or the Smithsonian Associates site for more details.  But we have Jennifer Ackerman today and here is a brief passage from her new book, What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Bird , which we'll be discussing, and is the title of Jennifer Ackerman's upcoming presentation at Smithsonian Associates. That of course, is New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Ackerman reading from her new book, What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Bird. Please join me in welcoming to the Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates interview series on radio and podcast, Smithsonian Associate Jennifer Ackerman. My thanks to Smithsonian Associate Jennifer Ackerman.  Jennifer Ackerman will be appearing at Smithsonian Associates coming up, so please check out our show notes or the Smithsonian Associates site for more details. My thanks to the wonderful Smithsonian team for all they do to support the show.  My thanks to you, my wonderful Not Old Better Show audience here on radio and podcast.  Please be well, be safe, and let's talk about better.  The Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast.  Thanks, everybody, and we'll see you next week.

In this beautiful, amazing stunner we cross the sweep of time from Chauvet Cave to Gobekli Tepe to Diana Pasulka's amazing comment that insiders are now calling the visitors our “sponsors” and then go beyond into some of the deepest and most brilliantly coherent speculations about our visitors ever recorded.We explore amazing questions, such as why is the “donation site” Diana Pasulka talks about in American Cosmic near the same location that, in the seventeenth century, Maria of Agreda bilocated and appeared to the local native American tribes? Then we go with John Santos into caves beneath Teotihuacan to find out how they “activated” knowledge traditions that are beginning to make sense in terms of the visitor experience.Never never never has there been anything like this conversation anywhere at any convention, or any podcast, show or anywhere!Jeff Kripal's website is JeffreyJKripal.com. Diana Walsh Pasulka can be found at DianaWalshPasulka. Learn more about John Phillip Santos on his University of Texas at San Antonio profile.To get Jeff's book Superhumanities, click here. For Diana's American Cosmic, click here. For John's memoir, Places Left Unfinished at the End of Time, click here.We are hoping that this important 2 week discussion is going to help change the conversation about aliens and UFOs and are therefore offering it in full to both our subscribers and our free users. If you are a free user, please subscribe and support this unique and important website.

Light Work presents "The Lottery" a solo exhibition of new works by Pittsburgh-based photographer Melissa Catanese. In "The Lottery," Catanese turns her attention to the tense and confusing state of contemporary politics and culture. Her images bring together large groups of people, barren caverns, natural forces, physical exertion, and eruptions both crude and colorful. The accumulated manic puzzle shifts the viewer from crowded street to darkened cavern. Along the way, we see a geyser of oil, streaks of lightning, veins of molten rock, and cooling craters. Punctuating these natural phenomena are people in states of glee, pain, confusion, and anguish.Catanese borrows the title from literature. In Shirley Jackson's famous short story, a village casually embarks on a yearly ritual of selecting an individual and then stoning them to death. Catanese's "The Lottery" teases out similar themes regarding ritual, culture, and the diffused accountability of a mob.Melissa Catanese's work blends anonymous photographs, press clips, and images from NASA's archive with her own. Single images resemble sentence fragments that Catanese completes with her sequences. Sometimes seamlessly blending in, Catanese's own images also act as punctuation throughout the work. This creates a sensation of call and response between the archival material and Catanese's own images that brings to mind the Chauvet Cave in southeastern France. There, brilliant cave paintings date back 37,000 years. Over this enormous stretch of time, additional visitors added their own marks to the cave murals, sometimes with gaps of more than 5,000 years. The idea that collaboration can reach across time, decoding or willfully rethinking, is present throughout "The Lottery."melissacatanese.comMusic: "Pacing" by Blue Dot Sessions —Special thanks to Daylight Blue Mediadaylightblue.comLight Worklightwork.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Chauvet Cave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave Hertfordshire Bronze Age axe hoard found by girl detectorist https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-59386261 Wired Magazine Predicts the Troubles of the 2020s Back in 1997: “An Uncontrollable Plague,” Climate Crisis, Russia Becomes a Kleptocracy & More https://www.openculture.com/2021/11/wired-predicts-the-troubles-of-the-2020s-back-in-1997.html Elizabeth Holmes throws scientists under the bus https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/11/elizabeth-holmes-throws-scientists-under-the-bus/ Human head carvings and phallus-shaped pillars discovered at 11,000-year-old site in ... Read more

In the current "attention economy," which has resulted in plummeting literacy rates and the almost wanton neglect of various cultural practices, what significance does culture even have? Why seek to preserve something our age has decided doesn't have to exist? Perhaps Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game can be read as an answer to those questions. The order of monastic scholars in the novel exists mainly to remember what others were happy to consign to oblivion. In this episode, Phil and JF discuss Hesse's ideas on the order and its sacred game in terms of how they might help us meet the challenge facing anyone who believes the value of culture can't be expressed in dollars and cents. REFERENCES Herman Hesse, The Glass Bead Game (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780312278496) Pope Benedict XVI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI), former head of the Catholic church J.S. Bach, Well Tempered Clavier, Rosalyn Tureck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XoAJ98PbDM) interpretation and Glenn Gould (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOHnzWo8FXY) interpretation Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781453722480) Chauvet Cave (https://archeologie.culture.fr/chauvet/en) Peter Bebergal Strange Frequencies (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780143111825) Andy Goldsworthy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Goldsworthy), British artist Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780307476821) William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780312160623)

I do declare... I will not be squishing anything into a 10 inch hole. Podcast “Chauvet Cave Paintings” by Unexplained Mysteries Youtube video “The Dawn of Art: A Virtual Journey Inside Chauvet Cave” by Google Arts & Culture https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/france-chauvet-cave-makes-grand-debut-180954582/

Storytelling has been a major part of the human experience, from the paintings of Chauvet Cave in France to the discovery of using electromagnetic waves to broadcast sound. Get meta with us by tuning into our episode on the rise of podcasts.

On December 18th, 1994, three cave scientists discovered a narrow opening in a cliff near the Ardèche River in France. When they cleared enough debris to get inside, they found a cave covered in perfectly preserved 30,000-year-old paintings.

One of humankinds greatest mysteries as only presented like the amazing Werner Herzog can do it. The Chauvet Cave paintings are one of man kinds greatest discoveries that tell a story of our past. First thought to be forgeries due to the pristine condition of the paintings that haven't been seen or touched in thousands of years. --- 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/threedudespod/message

Hey Eavesdroppers, this week we are joined by author, philosopher and founder of Astronism, Cometan. We had a few audio gremlins here and there but don't worry they are only brief. I obviously forgot to perform the necessary sacrifice to the Gods of Wi-Fi. You can follow Cometan here: Website – https://www.cometan.org Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/CometanOfficial/ Medium – https://medium.com/@cometan Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/cometanofficial/?hl=en Twitter – https://twitter.com/CometanOfficial Find Cometan's dissertation here: https://www.cometan.org/masters-dissertation-of-cometan Topics mentioned with Cometan... Astronism, Origins of Theology, Archaeology, Prehistory, Astronality, Paganism, Abrahamic, Dharmic, Taoic, paleolithic, Ancient Cave Art, Ancient Carvings, Cup Marks, Lascaux Cave, Chauvet Cave, Constellations, The Cosmic Hunt, Orion, Dawn of Agriculture, Ice Age, The First Religion, Star Myths, David Mathisen, Diffusionism, Progenitor Civilisation, Persecution, Connection to the Cosmos, Futurist, Gnosticism, Astrology, Panspermia, Space Exploration, Alien Life, Nicolaus Copernicus, Religious Freedom... After Cometan we had a reet old laugh going through the Housekeeping, Rona News etc Message us here....follow, like, subscribe and share. (comments, corrections, future topics etc). We read out iTunes reviews if you leave them. Email Twitter Facebook Instagram YouTube Find out how to become a Producer here... Become a Producer! The Amish Inquisition is 100% supported by YOU.  NO Ads, NO Sponsorship, NO Paywalls. We really don't want to suckle at the teat of some faceless corporate overlord. But that is only avoidable with your help! Join your fellow producers by donating to The Amish Inquisition via the PayPal button on our website, simply donate whatever you think the show is worth to you. If you find the podcast valuable, please consider returning some value to us and help keep the show free and honest.

In this episode, H and K check in with one another to see how each is handling the "Global F******* Pandemic" we are all facing. They jump into prehistoric architecture by exploring caves and their purpose, while highlighting some of the oldest images ever created--cave paintings. Can caves be considered architecture if they aren't man-made? Were the cave paintings used for functional or aesthetic purposes? The Gothic Girls discuss these topics and more!Sources: https://brewminate.com/prehistoric-architecture/ https://www.ancient.eu/Lascaux_Cave/https://www.ancient.eu/Chauvet_Cave/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131008-women-handprints-oldest-neolithic-cave-art/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhoukoudian

Quoting from my book: Recovering and Healing After the Narcissist: "For millennia artists have used a sense of place to shape and deepen their creativity."  "When we enter the natural world, everywhere we turn we experience billions of shapes, colors, hues and rhythms. ..Nature stretches the imagination and enriches us in a very personal way.  "All creativity begins with nature, and even the greatest artists cannot replicate her beauty, eternal variety, paradoxes and mysteries---"  " Watching several films of the Great Barrier Reef, I entered a world that was so magnificent that it was difficult to believe it was real. From space, the Great Barrier Reef is called the Blue Opal..."  The story of the Paleolithic cave artists:  Three spelunkers exploring cliffs of Pont d'Arc discovered  exquisite Paleolithic art that had been unseen for 30,00 years.  "Artists had gathered and worked in the caves for thousands of years to paint their surroundings, especially the animals...Trios of horses, sublimely drawn and painted, arrest our gaze. Deer and bison are rendered with great detail by artists who loves with these animals daily. Within the Chauvet Cave are glorious paintings of hundreds of animal species that had never been discovered: bears, lions, panthers, hyenas and rhinoceroses...the Chauvet Caves reminds us of our shared creatiavity and humanity with our Paleolithic brothers."  https://tinyurl.com/y39j2uke www.mhnrnetwork.com https://tinyurl.com/y3ss5clg  

From the ancient charcoal animals of France's Chauvet Cave, to 17th century Dutch windmill paintings, art history can tell us a lot about our evolving view of the natural world. In this episode, producer Taylor Quimby (a self-described art-world neophyte) searches for individual works and genres through history that reveal something interesting about human society and the outdoors. This episode has visual aids - so click this link or find us on Instagram to follow along with the show! Outside/In needs your help. Click here to find out how you can support the show. There's lots of great swag to choose from (so check out the thank-you gifts!) but for $20 a month, we'll send you a ticket to an Outside/In Trivia Night! Test your knowledge of the natural world, share an evening with Sam and the rest of the team, and support the podcast you love.

Let’s get deep, Doccalo. No, not deep like that you goddamn pervert! We mean “cave deep”. Chauvet Cave “deep”. All kinds of Ginger for this Herzog Month and she selected this week’s Werner Herzog directed documentary “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” from 2010. When archaeologists found a hidden cave in southern France, they knew it could be special, but they couldn’t have possibly predicted what they found. Cave drawings. Well preserved and at least 32,000 years old. The oldest known so far. Werner had unprecedented, and limited, access to this cave that is a window to understanding life during the Paleolithic Ice Age. You wouldn’t believe what was wandering around Southern France at the time. The Wooly Three-Horned Gérard Depardieu! Baguette trees as far as the eyes could see! Behold with Bob and Ginger, the works of the first French Artsy Fartsy Man®. Guest starring Andy Gibb. Try not to get Carbon Dioxide poisoning and Keep on Doccin’. Here’s the trailer: https://youtu.be/kULwsoCEd3g The Chauvet recreation! :https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/france-chauvet-cave-makes-grand-debut-180954582/ An essay: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chav/hd_chav.htm Try not to shake your ass too hard: https://youtu.be/7j_yGYU_jUU

Today we mostly talk about death but of course in the happiest most uplifting way possible.Nerd pride poster: https://store.dftba.com/products/nerds-like-us-posterHow likely you are to die: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-CK8VxMz9gMicromorts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicromortFamous last words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLm-5B7NXugProcrastinating until death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arj7oStGLkUBanksy art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-6jMi4e-0Qmezoki moviesChauvet caves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-390 – Pam Rickard - Ultras, addictions and recovery (Audio: link) audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4390.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello and welcome to the RunRunLive Podcast episode 4-390.  This is Chris your friend and host.  Today we continue with our ultra-training themes.  I've got a long write up of my last hard week of training before my race.  I've also got an interview with Pam who is an ultra-runner and the director of the Herren project.  She's a talker!  But I think you'll get some good thoughts out of it. Again, this week since the interview is long and the write up is long I'll just air the two segments.  I'm in my taper for my 100-miler at the end of the month.  Today it actually that rarest of animals, a rest day.  Last weekend I knocked out an all-night-long 50 miler and a follow up 20 milers that you will hear all about today.  Now I'm in my taper and trying top do some race prep. … Episode 390… 390 is another good year to talk about on the Julian and Gregorian calendars.  There was the Thessalonica Massacre where the Roman governor killed a bunch of people who were rioting over a sporting event.  See?  This stuff never changes.  Some popular chariot driver got killed and it kicked off a little revolt.  But, more importantly a Goth named Alaric was starting to make trouble up in Thrace.  A Roman general named Stilicho, who was half Vandal spent the next 20 years pushing these Goths around.  You may recognize Alaric.  He ended up sacking Rome with an army of Visigoths in 410, which many historians consider the end for the Roman Empire.  And you know why the Goths were migrating West from the Steppes?  Because they were being pushed on by the Huns.  It's all interrelated.  But, let's set all this talk of barbarian hordes aside and talk about some ultra-running stuff. On with the show! … I'll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported.  What does that mean? It means you don't have to listen to me trying to sound sincere about Stamps.com or Audible.. (although, fyi, my MarathonBQ book is on audible) We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member's only audio. There are book reviews, odd philosophical thoughts, zombie stories and I curate old episodes for you to listen to.  I recently added that guy who cut off is foot so he could keep training and my first call with Geoff Galloway.   “Curated” means I add some introductory comments and edit them up a bit.  So anyhow – become a member so I can keep paying my bills. M … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported.  We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Ultra Training Update the last big week - http://runrunlive.com/100-miler-training-the-last-big-week Voices of reason – the conversation Pam Rickard Over the 30+ years of her running career, Pam Rickard has completed countless races, including more than 75 marathons and ultra-marathons. During the past 10 years, her races have included a 7-day adventure across China's Gobi Desert and a 100k trek through the Alps from Italy to France. In 2008, her journey from addiction to recovery and redemption was featured in the book “A Race Like No Other,” New York Times writer Liz Robbins' chronicle of the 2007 New York City Marathon. She was also a member of the 2016 6-person Icebreaker Run team, running across the US to bring awareness to mental health issues. Pam lives in Rocky Mount, VA and serves as the Director of THP RUNS, an initiative of former NBA basketball player Chris Herren's foundation, (THP). THP RUNS engages people to run, walk, and participate in healthy activities, helping each other, and others, live stronger, healthier lives.  The initiative raises awareness and funding for THP's mission, which includes providing addiction recovery resources, education and prevention initiatives across the country. Links: For help: To join our movement/run with us: Outro OK my friends, you have trotted through the woods listening to one note of binaural audio to the end of episode 4-390 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  Good job.  You are fit and ready to race.  My training is going great.  I'm ready for my race.  Anything can happen of course but I've done the bits that I can control.  Looking at the calendar I can see that the next episode is scheduled to fall on the weekend of the race.  That's probably not going to happen.  I'll figure something out. As is my habit I tend to focus on running the race, not on social media or taking pictures.  Don't expect me to do a running commentary.  I don't see any facility for athlete updates either.  I would suggest following Mike Croy and Kevin Green on the social media feeds because they will be with me and lucid.  I could give my phone to my wife but she is fairly useless with social media.  If anyone wants to say ‘hi' at the race I'll be driving out from Massachusetts the morning of the 27th so I can make check in Friday night.  If you DM me or shoot me an email at cyktrussell at Gmail I'll give you my contact info.  … I found a couple odd things on Netflix this past week.  One is a documentary by Werner Hertzog called .  Werner Hertzog is a German director.  Every time you see a movie that caricatures German directors they are talking about Werner.  They let him bring cameras inside the Chauvet Cave.  This is a cave that contains the oldest human paintings on earth (as far as we know).  The paintings are pristine because a landslide sealed them off in antiquity.  These are beautiful works of art from our ancestors of 30,000 years ago.  There's also a pretty good documentary on Bob Weir called   There's a new podcast I'm listening to which is called about the history of the Northwest.  All the links are in the show notes. That's it for me this week.  I appreciate all your support and encouragement.  There is a membership option on my website if you feel motivated to help me pay my bills.  I wanted to take a moment to thank my coach for getting me to this point.  I, frankly, wasn't sure I had this kind of training in me, but, here we are.  Once more into the breach. Also wanted to thank a couple other folks for reaching out with their notes on the Burning River.  Local Sheila and runner Rick.  And my team mate Dane for the encouragement.   It's been an epic training cycle. and I'll see you out there! MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-390 – Pam Rickard - Ultras, addictions and recovery (Audio: link) audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4390.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello and welcome to the RunRunLive Podcast episode 4-390.  This is Chris your friend and host.  Today we continue with our ultra-training themes.  I’ve got a long write up of my last hard week of training before my race.  I’ve also got an interview with Pam who is an ultra-runner and the director of the Herren project.  She’s a talker!  But I think you’ll get some good thoughts out of it. Again, this week since the interview is long and the write up is long I’ll just air the two segments.  I’m in my taper for my 100-miler at the end of the month.  Today it actually that rarest of animals, a rest day.  Last weekend I knocked out an all-night-long 50 miler and a follow up 20 milers that you will hear all about today.  Now I’m in my taper and trying top do some race prep. … Episode 390… 390 is another good year to talk about on the Julian and Gregorian calendars.  There was the Thessalonica Massacre where the Roman governor killed a bunch of people who were rioting over a sporting event.  See?  This stuff never changes.  Some popular chariot driver got killed and it kicked off a little revolt.  But, more importantly a Goth named Alaric was starting to make trouble up in Thrace.  A Roman general named Stilicho, who was half Vandal spent the next 20 years pushing these Goths around.  You may recognize Alaric.  He ended up sacking Rome with an army of Visigoths in 410, which many historians consider the end for the Roman Empire.  And you know why the Goths were migrating West from the Steppes?  Because they were being pushed on by the Huns.  It’s all interrelated.  But, let’s set all this talk of barbarian hordes aside and talk about some ultra-running stuff. On with the show! … I’ll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported.  What does that mean? It means you don’t have to listen to me trying to sound sincere about Stamps.com or Audible.. (although, fyi, my MarathonBQ book is on audible) We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member’s only audio. There are book reviews, odd philosophical thoughts, zombie stories and I curate old episodes for you to listen to.  I recently added that guy who cut off is foot so he could keep training and my first call with Geoff Galloway.   “Curated” means I add some introductory comments and edit them up a bit.  So anyhow – become a member so I can keep paying my bills. M … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported.  We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Ultra Training Update the last big week - http://runrunlive.com/100-miler-training-the-last-big-week Voices of reason – the conversation Pam Rickard Over the 30+ years of her running career, Pam Rickard has completed countless races, including more than 75 marathons and ultra-marathons. During the past 10 years, her races have included a 7-day adventure across China’s Gobi Desert and a 100k trek through the Alps from Italy to France. In 2008, her journey from addiction to recovery and redemption was featured in the book “A Race Like No Other,” New York Times writer Liz Robbins’ chronicle of the 2007 New York City Marathon. She was also a member of the 2016 6-person Icebreaker Run team, running across the US to bring awareness to mental health issues. Pam lives in Rocky Mount, VA and serves as the Director of THP RUNS, an initiative of former NBA basketball player Chris Herren’s foundation, (THP). THP RUNS engages people to run, walk, and participate in healthy activities, helping each other, and others, live stronger, healthier lives.  The initiative raises awareness and funding for THP’s mission, which includes providing addiction recovery resources, education and prevention initiatives across the country. Links: For help: To join our movement/run with us: Outro OK my friends, you have trotted through the woods listening to one note of binaural audio to the end of episode 4-390 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  Good job.  You are fit and ready to race.  My training is going great.  I’m ready for my race.  Anything can happen of course but I’ve done the bits that I can control.  Looking at the calendar I can see that the next episode is scheduled to fall on the weekend of the race.  That’s probably not going to happen.  I’ll figure something out. As is my habit I tend to focus on running the race, not on social media or taking pictures.  Don’t expect me to do a running commentary.  I don’t see any facility for athlete updates either.  I would suggest following Mike Croy and Kevin Green on the social media feeds because they will be with me and lucid.  I could give my phone to my wife but she is fairly useless with social media.  If anyone wants to say ‘hi’ at the race I’ll be driving out from Massachusetts the morning of the 27th so I can make check in Friday night.  If you DM me or shoot me an email at cyktrussell at Gmail I’ll give you my contact info.  … I found a couple odd things on Netflix this past week.  One is a documentary by Werner Hertzog called .  Werner Hertzog is a German director.  Every time you see a movie that caricatures German directors they are talking about Werner.  They let him bring cameras inside the Chauvet Cave.  This is a cave that contains the oldest human paintings on earth (as far as we know).  The paintings are pristine because a landslide sealed them off in antiquity.  These are beautiful works of art from our ancestors of 30,000 years ago.  There’s also a pretty good documentary on Bob Weir called   There’s a new podcast I’m listening to which is called about the history of the Northwest.  All the links are in the show notes. That’s it for me this week.  I appreciate all your support and encouragement.  There is a membership option on my website if you feel motivated to help me pay my bills.  I wanted to take a moment to thank my coach for getting me to this point.  I, frankly, wasn’t sure I had this kind of training in me, but, here we are.  Once more into the breach. Also wanted to thank a couple other folks for reaching out with their notes on the Burning River.  Local Sheila and runner Rick.  And my team mate Dane for the encouragement.   It’s been an epic training cycle. and I’ll see you out there! MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -

Maybe we've made our modern existence too comfortable and safe? Caves that once provided shelter from the elements, now provide an outlet for exploration and adventure. An escape from the monotony of the modern, safely cushioned world. You can now shop and support the show here: www.carouselsnipervictim.com/shop -LIKE-SHARE-COMMENT-TAG-REVIEW- Every month we'll choose one person from the seedy world of social media notifications and send them some prizes! Find more at www.carouselsnipervictim.com Produced by Shaun Jeffery Sound by Leigh Massoni massoni.sound.design@gmail.com Tunes by Down In A Hole- Alice In Chains (Acoustic Cover)Follow us on all your finest social tubes: @CarouselSniperVictim @DeadGlassDesign Facebook, Instagram, Twitter sources/ further reading: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/what-lies-beneath-mossdale-caving-disaster-794268.html https://www.ranker.com/list/john-jones-nutty-putty-cave-tragedy/melissa-sartore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave https://listverse.com/2017/01/20/10-true-horror-stories-of-people-trapped-in-caves/ "Long Note 1,2,4" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/    

Cate Whetzel reads "Help Me In My Unnatural State" and "To Chauvet Cave."

Seven positive stories from the news this week, including homeless library patrons, online forums and well-being, Amy Schumer's confidence, a replica of Chauvet Cave, humane nursing homes, children with ADHD, and the benefits of daydreams

The Chauvet cave was painted approximately 30,000 years ago and the dreams were buried and sealed for 20,000 years by a land slide.The site and its contents were discovered in 1994 and rocked the world!Now, other images that appear to have been hidden within the paintings have been found that seem to reveal specific designs and intentional masking which may tell a story, or message, that could be massively important from an artistic and historical point of view.What could these images be telling us? How do they offer a connection to the foundation of the ancient Egyptian culture? One Image appears to link from the cave to Seti the 1st’s tomb which could only have been done by the handing down of stories within tradition! Is there evidence that reveals a connection to Ra, the ‘creative power’? Could this be the source of what was to become the ancient Egyptians and other cultures?Steve Meads is originaly from the UK, but has lived in France, Hong Kong and the Philippines. He feels that he is living a life of constant discovery and relishes learning and experiencing new things. Over the years he has been involved in the paranormal fileds, which includes the so called 'ghost and UFO hunts'. He has held the position of lead investigator for almost 5 years with a local group. 

Welcome to another episode of Getting Social with Miriam. I am delighted to be interviewing a brilliant spiritual author today who received a Finalist Award for New Age Fiction, TD Austin. Following a Career in academia, Austin's recent spiritual awakening has sparked a creative outpouring in the form of a series of channeled novels entitled: Periplus of the Sea of Souls, of which People of the Bear Mother is the first.  Austin uses the device of distinctive eye characteristics or colors so that readers can identify the avatars of the narrator and other members of a “soul group” who appears and re­appears in various lifetimes, hence the use of Austin's “cat­eye” instead of a face photo.  Inspired by the work of Joseph Campbell and the artwork of France's 37,000 ­year ­old Chauvet Cave, the novel takes a fresh look at, and is a new take on, the life­ways, interior life and religion of our earliest ancestors through a young female cave artist's encounters with shamans, hunters, avatars and painted caves. This story reveals that the spiritual messages hidden within this magnificent, incredibly ancient art are the same metaphysical beliefs of the New Age and the same universal human truths at the heart of every world religion and mystical philosophy. Connect wtih TD Austin http://www.tdaustinps.com/

Miriam Robbins Dexter, Ph.D., feminist scholar and advocate of Maria Gimbutas' theories, discusses the most important NEW RESEARCH on sacred female display objects -- what they represented to ancient people and  the various manifestations around the world - as well as the little known sacred display female in Catal Hyouck, Turkey and the Chauvet Cave of Forgotten Dreams - and did you know, new findings show the hands in the cave were those of women!          

 Professor Andrew Gurevich will discuss Gaian Interconnectivity and the Future of Public Myth - a sweeping subject that will include a chat about the Chauvet Cave and Goddess in the Upper Paleolithic era, the violent origins of patriarchal religion, Columbia and the history of the American Goddess and much, much more. You won't want to miss it!  

00:00:00 - Your logo may say more about you than you'd like, so spring for the nicer shirt, because sometimes you just can't fight evolution as a new study shows that name brand can make the difference.   00:12:18 - What are we drinking? Charlie talks labels and a different kind of taste. Ben goes back to a brand he trusts. And Ryan tries to stick with the theme with a very convoluted connection.   00:17:41 - Trailer Trash Talk gets both high and deep as the Paleopals break down the trailer for Werner Herzog's new 3D documentary The Cave of Forgotten Dreams Special thanks to Andrew Mayne, of theWeird Things Podcast, for his help figuring out the dark details of Chauvet Cave! Also, special thanks to Ryan forthinking so hard about Centaurs all of the time.   00:33:08 - Science... sort of gets topical with a story about how language affects culture, politics and so much more when a video from RSA about linguistics gets the Paleopals thinking about current events in the Arab world.   00:49:52 - Paleopows are like uprisings, they show up when you least expect it and make you feel much less powerful. But this week we have a few doozies. First off, Ricky sends us a cryptic donation which helps explain last week's sign off. Then Ryan has some followup from the NCAA tournament via Sam A. And finally, Charlie has e-mail from a young whipper-snapper Doug who has been thinking long and hard about dark matter.     Thanks for listening, we have a blog, sometimes we even us it. It's called The Paleocave.     Music for this week's show: Change Clothes - Jay-Z A Beautiful Mine - Aceyalone & RJD2 The Cave - Mumford and Sons That was a crazy game of poker - OAR