Podcasts about Desiderata

Elliot Ross is a photographer and writer whose work focuses on the intersection of landscape, identity, and justice in the American West. His images have appeared in Time, National Geographic, and The New York Times, and he's known for deeply researched, long-term projects that combine striking visual storytelling with a journalist's rigor. Whether he's documenting water access on the Navajo Nation or tracing the contours of Glen Canyon as it reemerges, Elliot brings a rare mix of artistry, empathy, and precision to every assignment. Born in Taiwan and raised on the eastern plains of Colorado, Elliot grew up between cultures and landscapes—an experience that shaped both his worldview and his creative path. He picked up a camera early, inspired by his grandmother's family albums, and later earned a full-ride to the Savannah College of Art and Design. After college, he cut his teeth in New York City, assisting some of the most high-profile portrait and fashion photographers in the industry. All the while, he was quietly dreaming about building a career on his own terms—one rooted in storytelling, purpose, and the landscapes he still called home. In this episode, we talk about the early experiences that shaped his artistic voice, the evolution of his career, and how he's learned to navigate the demands of both commercial and documentary work. Elliot shares the backstory of his recent Time magazine cover story on water equity in the West, a project that involved years of reporting, deep community ties, and even a return to the classroom. We also discuss his thoughts on creative endurance, working across political divides, and the role of photography in fostering empathy and connection. I'd encourage you to visit Elliot's website and dig deeper into all of his work, especially his project A Question of Balance, which became the Time magazine feature. You can find links to everything in the episode notes. Thanks to Elliot for the inspiring and timely conversation, and thank you for listening. --- Elliot Ross Time magazine piece A Question of Balance Full episode notes and links: https://mountainandprairie.com/elliot-ross/ --- This episode is brought to you in partnership with the Mighty Arrow Family Foundation. To whom much is given, much is expected. This value guides the philosophy behind the Mighty Arrow Family Foundation today. Committed to its cause and infused with an entrepreneurial spirit, Mighty Arrow aims to invest in solutions that take action on climate change to build a more vibrant future, repair relationships from farm to market to table, heal our connection to the lands and waters we call home, and demand a more just and equitable society. To learn more about Mighty Arrow's forward-thinking, optimistic, and visionary work here in the American West and beyond, please visit www.mightyarrow.org. --- TOPICS DISCUSSED: 3:05 – Elliot growing up in Taipei and how his parents met 6:00 – Few but vivid memories of Taipei 7:09 – The culture shock of moving to eastern Colorado 8:25 – How photography came into Elliot's life 10:29 – Reading influences 13:16 – Travel bug 16:22 – Savannah College of Art and Design 18:07 – Parental pressure 19:49 – Credit to high school art teachers 20:54 – Figuring out photography 27:47 – No wavering 29:54 – Moving into independent business 33:29 – Pitching Carhartt 37:03 – Nat Geo ups and downs 42:10 – Near-death experiences 45:44 – Approaching long-term projects 49:35 – Pulling on threads 51:45 – Humans and landscapes 56:35 – Curiosity as the most authentic de-escalator 58:05 – Writing and shooting and doing it all 1:02:45 – Response to the Time story 1:07:35 – A tale of two places 1:13:45 – Using water in the West 1:16:35 – The Desiderata creed 1:17:05 – Book recs 1:23:05 – Parting words --- ABOUT MOUNTAIN & PRAIRIE: Mountain & Prairie - All Episodes Mountain & Prairie Shop Mountain & Prairie on Instagram Upcoming Events About Ed Roberson Support Mountain & Prairie Leave a Review on Apple Podcasts

Episode 104 - Affirming the Desiderata - How to Live a Meaningful and Peaceful Life Amidst Chaos. Amanda shares a personal journey to Glastonbury that unexpectedly reconnects her with the timeless wisdom of The Desiderata. Disclaimer: Please note that all information and content on the UK Health Radio Network, all its radio broadcasts and podcasts are provided by the authors, producers, presenters and companies themselves and is only intended as additional information to your general knowledge. As a service to our listeners/readers our programs/content are for general information and entertainment only.  The UK Health Radio Network does not recommend, endorse, or object to the views, products or topics expressed or discussed by show hosts or their guests, authors and interviewees.  We suggest you always consult with your own professional – personal, medical, financial or legal advisor. So please do not delay or disregard any professional – personal, medical, financial or legal advice received due to something you have heard or read on the UK Health Radio Network.

É o Lobo! É o Lobo! O primeiro Confins do Universo de 2025 traz de volta um quadro que nossos ouvintes adoram: Histórias de editor. E o convidado da vez é Lobo, que tem uma vasta trajetória nos quadrinhos nacionais. No episódio, falamos sobre o começo de carreira na revista Mosh!, as passagens pela Desiderata e […] O post Confins do Universo 219 – Histórias de Editor # 7: É o Lobo! É o Lobo! apareceu primeiro em UNIVERSO HQ.

The glorious Desiderata by Max Ehrmann (1927) accompanies us on our walk around the park, this lunchtime.

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*This episode was intended to be released on Monday, December 30, 2024. While the video version was released on YouTube on that date, apparently I forgot to complete the process of scheduling it to go out on audio platforms, and only noticed the error on Friday, January 3, 2025. I apologize for the error.In this solo episode, I close out the year by reflecting on the significant events and personal growth I experienced throughout 2024. I ask myself questions about my guiding values and decision-making processes when faced with challenges, and explore what I would like to take with me and to leave behind as we enter 2025. I share a bit about personal hardships I faced this past year, including a choppy start to the year as the highs of a paradisiacal vacation ended in worsening illness culminating in a new low. This experience led me to seek even more novel treatments for my symptoms, specifically a stellate ganglion block procedure, which I discuss in detail, highlighting its impact on my nervous system and overall well-being.As I navigated my health struggles, I made the difficult decision to step back from therapy to focus on consulting, allowing me to prioritize my health while still providing support to parents of gender-confused youth, eventually resulting in developing my course, ROGD Repair. I delve into the importance of listening to our bodies and trusting the process, which ultimately led to the development of this niche program that applies my strengths in psychology and communication to the novel challenges facing families today.Throughout the episode, I also confront the challenges of being in the public eye, including the unexpected backlash I faced in May, and how I am learning to find humor and perspective in difficult situations. As I look forward to 2025, I share my intentions for the new year, including wedding planning and the launch of continuing education courses for therapists, all while maintaining a focus on connection and community. 00:00 Start[00:01:18] New Year's intentions and reflections.[00:06:49] Navigating personal health challenges.[00:09:30] Stellate ganglion block experience.[00:12:55] Effects of SGB medical procedure.[00:17:10] Therapy vs. Consulting Transition.[00:23:39] Niche consulting for parents.[00:25:36] Friendly fire and hidden enemies.[00:30:24] Relationships with podcast listeners.[00:33:09] Healing through positive relationships.[00:37:16] Nature of evil.[00:44:09] Synchronous communication versus asynchronous.[00:46:16] Finding ikigai and gratitude.[00:51:32] Embracing the aging process.[00:53:17] Non-toxic lifestyle choices.[00:57:44] Ego-dystonic versus ego-syntonic.[01:01:51] Healing through humor and levity.[01:06:21] Clear-eyed compassion and eye health.[01:09:06] Growth and perspective in life.[01:14:00] The power of positive perception.[01:17:01] ROGD Repair community benefits.[01:17:56] Desiderata by Max Ehrmann. To support this show, please leave a rating & review on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe, like, comment & share via my YouTube channel. Or recommend this to a friend!Learn more about Do No Harm.Take $200 off your EightSleep Pod Pro Cover with code SOMETHERAPIST at EightSleep.com.Take 20% off all superfood beverages with code SOMETHERAPIST at Organifi.Check out my shop for book recommendations + wellness products.Show notes & transcript provided with the help of SwellAI.Special thanks to Joey Pecoraro for our theme song, “Half Awake,” used with gratitude and permission.Watch NO WAY BACK: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care (our medical ethics documentary, formerly known as Affirmation Generation). Stream the film or purchase a DVD. Use code SOMETHERAPIST to take 20% off your order. Follow us on X @2022affirmation or Instagram at @affirmationgeneration.Have a question for me? Looking to go deeper and discuss these ideas with other listeners? Join my Locals community! Members get to ask questions I will respond to in exclusive, members-only livestreams, post questions for upcoming guests to answer, plus other perks TBD. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Bob was a mob lawyer until he discovered the I Ching. He is now is a professor at Elon University, teaching Business Law and Meditation (two separate courses).  We talk about growing up selling hot dogs and cotton candy, becoming a lawyer in Miami in working for Janet Reno as a prosecutor; hitting the mob for $72 million; being recruited by the mafia; discovering the I Ching and Taoism; cultivating wisdon compassion, kindness, and generosity; creating happiness in our lives; the importance of cultivating sympathetic joy; meditation; freeing up your intuitive mind to work on the problems in your life in a non-verbal way; Bob reads Desiderata; Jesus and Budhism; and more. Shownotes are here https://www.paultrammell.com/dream-chasers-and-eccentrics Support the show through Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/DreamChasersandEccentrics

Desiderata —las cosas que se desean— Mi deseo era volver a grabar este podcast. Desiderata es una invitación a conectar con esos anhelos que te impulsan. Deseos que no son solo sueños, sino motores que nos ponen en movimiento, que nos inspiran a reinventarnos y a diseñar el camino hacia lo que realmente queremos. ¿Cuál es tu deseo? En este espacio conversamos sobre cómo transformar ese deseo en acción, cómo tomar decisiones conscientes y cómo construir un GPS personal que te guíe al lugar que deseás alcanzar. El deseo es el punto de partida. El movimiento, la clave. ¿Estás lista para comenzar?

Today on the podcast we welcome Amanda MacKaye. Amanda and I chat about the new Bed Maker record that's out on Dischord, a big discussion about genre, emo, and her take on it from the world she came from in DC. We talk about the industry as a whole and what's exciting for Amanda in 2024. This was a really great conversation and I kept a lot of the back and forth in more than usual to keep that feeling for you the listener.  https://linktr.ee/bedmakerdc https://www.patreon.com/washedupemo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When you are a highly sensitive gentle soul, the chaos and cruelty of the world can feel unbearable at times. How are we to protect ourselves while still engaging? In this episode I discuss this in light of my own thoughts on the recent US election results.My sister's Instagram account (jillpattersoncycling)The poem Desiderata

Join the dialogue - text your questions, insights, and feedback to The Dignity Lab podcast.In this episode, Dr. Griggs shares a reading of the impactful poem "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann. This poem is a guide to living a life filled with dignity and peace, reminding us that we are all children of the universe, deserving respect and kindness.About the Author: This poem was written by Max Ehrmann, an American writer, poet, and lawyer. Throughout his career, Ehrmann demonstrated a deep concern for social issues, as evidenced by poems like "Complacent Women" (1918) and "Washington, D.C." (1924), which addressed topics such as women's rights and political corruption. His writings often blended idealism, spirituality, and observations on human nature. Ehrmann composed "Desiderata" in 1927, drawing from his experiences in life and work. He said he wrote it for himself, "because it counsels those virtues I felt most in need of." Some sources report that he wrote it for his daughter, leaving the messages of the poem as part of his legacy. “Desiderata” in Latin means “things desired.”Exploring what it means to live and lead with dignity at work, in our families, in our communities, and in the world. What is dignity? How can we honor the dignity of others? And how can we repair and reclaim our dignity after harm? Tune in to hear stories about violations of dignity and ways in which we heal, forgive, and make choices about how we show up in a chaotic and fractured world. Hosted by physician and coach Jennifer Griggs.For more information on the podcast, please visit www.thedignitylab.com.For more information on podcast host Dr. Jennifer Griggs, please visit https://jennifergriggs.com/.For additional free resources, including the periodic table of dignity elements, please visit https://jennifergriggs.com/resources/.The Dignity Lab is an affiliate of Bookshop.org and will receive 10% of the purchase price when you click through and make a purchase. This supports our production and hosting costs. Bookshop.org doesn't earn money off bookstore sales, all profits go to independent bookstores. We encourage our listeners to purchase books through Bookshop.org for this reason.

Francis Schaeffer once wrote that God wants warriors with tears in their eyes.Friday • 7/19/2024 •Friday of Proper 10This morning's Scriptures are: Psalm 31; Joshua 4:19-5:1; 5:10-15; Romans 12:9-21; Matthew 26:17-25This morning's Canticles are: following the OT reading, Canticle 10 (“The Second Song of Isaiah,” Isaiah 55:6-11; BCP, p. 86); following the Epistle reading, Canticle 18 (“A Song to the Lamb,” Revelation 4:11; 5:9-10, 13, BCP, p. 93)

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Instrumental vs Terminal Desiderata, published by Max Harms on June 26, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. Bob: "I want my AGI to make everyone extremely wealthy! I'm going to train that to be its goal." Cassie: "Stop! You'll doom us all! While wealth is good, it's not everything that's good, and so even if you somehow build a wealth-maximizer (instead of summoning some random shattering of your goal), it will sacrifice all the rest of the good in the name of wealth!" Bob: "Maybe if it suddenly became a god-like superintelligence, but I'm a hard take-off skeptic. In the real world we have continuous processes and I'm going to be in control. If it starts to go off the rails, I'll just stop it and re-train it to not do that." Cassie: "Be careful what you summon! While it may seem like you're in control in the beginning, these systems are generalized obstacle-bypassers, and you're making yourself into an obstacle that needs to be bypassed. Whether that takes two days or twenty years, you're setting us up to die." Bob: "Ok, fine. So I'll build my AGI to make people rich and simultaneously to respect human values and property rights and stuff. At the point where it can bypass me, it'll avoid turning everyone into bitcoin mining rigs or whatever because that would go against its goal of respecting human values." Cassie: "What does 'human values' even mean? I agree that if you can build an AGI that is truly aligned, we're good, but that's a tall order and it doesn't even seem like what you're aiming for. Instead, it seems like you think we should train the AGI to maximize a pile of desiderata." Bob: "Yeah! My AGI will be helpful, obedient, corrigible, honest, kind, and will never produce copyrighted songs, memorize the NYT, or impersonate Scarlett Johansson! I'll add more desiderata to the list as I think of them." Cassie: "And what happens when those desiderata come into conflict? How does it decide what to do?" Bob: "Hrm. I suppose I'll define a hierarchy like Asimov's laws. Some of my desiderata, like corrigibility, will be constraints, while others, like making people rich, will be values. When a constraint comes in conflict with a value, the constraint wins. That way my agent will always shut down when asked, even though doing so would be a bad way to make us rich." Cassie: "Shutting down when asked isn't the hard part of corrigibility, but that's a tangent. Suppose that the AGI is faced with a choice of a 0.0001% chance of being dishonest, but earning a billion dollars, or a 0.00001% chance of being dishonest, but earning nothing. What will it do?" Bob: "Hrm. I see what you're saying. If my desiderata are truly arranged in a hierarchy with certain constraints on top, then my agent will only ever pursue its values if everything upstream is exactly equal, which won't be true in most contexts. Instead, it'll essentially optimize solely for the topmost constraint." Cassie: "I predict that it'll actually learn to want a blend of things, and find some weighting such that your so called 'constraints' are actually just numerical values along with the other things in the blend. In practice you'll probably get a weird shattering, but if you're magically lucky on getting what you aim for, you'll still probably just get a weighted mixture. Getting a truly hierarchical goal seems nearly impossible outside of toy problems." Bob: "Doesn't this mean we're also doomed if we train an AGI to be truly aligned? Like, won't it still sometimes sacrifice one aspect of alignment, like being honest, in order to get a sufficiently large quantity of another aspect of alignment, like saving lives?" Cassie: "That seems confused. My point is that a coherent agent will act as though it's maximizing a utility function, and that if your strategy involves lumping together a bunch of desiderata as good-in-...

ello good human! Today I am going to share with you some words that changed my life - words written many moons ago that still feel as true today as they did back then. This is Desiderata by Max Ehrmann, 1927. I hope hearing this changes your life a little bit, too. Join The Sunshine Project Facebook community HERE Follow Chloe on TIKTOK and INSTAGRAM Produced by DM PodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode Toby catches up with long time friend Amanda Mackaye! Thay chat growing up in DC, family, Fort Rino, Sammich Records, Desiderata, Routineers & her new band Bed Maker. Please remember to rate, review and subscribe and visit us at https://www.youtube.com/tobymorseonelifeonechance Please visit our sponsors! Athletic Greens https://athleticgreens.com/oloc Removery https://removery.com code TOBYH2O Liquid Death https://liquiddeath.com/toby  

Montezuma Rising is a community music festival in the heart of downtown Mancos featuring the bands Desert Child, Ora, Desiderata, Le Trebuchet, Proud Mother and  Influsense. The El Rio Cantina will host the after-party featuring DJ BADGOAT. The fest will also spotlight local non-profits and community organizations doing great things for Montezuma County, and is spearheaded by Fenceline Cider. By Connor Shreve.  Watch this story at www.durangolocal.news/newsstories/montezuma-rising-music-festival-to-feature-local-non-profits This story is sponsored by TruWest Auto and Blondie's Trophy Room. Support the Show.

Today we feature "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann. Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com. "In whatever you do, read a poem." Honored to have been named one of the top 10 medical podcasts in the state of Georgia by Feedspot: https://podcasts.feedspot.com/georgia_medical_podcasts/

In this episode, The Yale Brothers once again cover the waterfront - from The Grateful Dead to Ian Whitcomb, Gigs in Myrtle Beach to tripping at recording sessions, Roger's newspaper work to walking around Hollywood in the seventies and eighties. It's all that and more, including a musical gem from the archive.  SHOW NOTES: 0:00 - "Strange Fascination" by Chris Yale 4:02 - Greetings and about the song /The call of the flesh / Sobriety / Second lineup of their band, Rogue Alley 6:42 - Noel Coward performs "Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)" in Las Vegas 7:14 - Myrtle Beach is getting busy again / Spring break / Underage booze and tobacco / Chris mistaken for a street hustler in Glendale, CA, 1985 8:23 - "Rough Trade" by Ian Whitcomb / Tripping balls at a Whitcomb recording session / Ronnie Barron / Dr. John 9:22 - Jerry Garcia spiked the coffee / Joe Smith / Early Dead documentary efforts 10:23 - "Long Strange Trip" docuseries / Workingman's Dead recording process / "Casey Jones" and "Uncle John's Band" / Roger's cover feature about Scott Mann, WAVE 104.1 Myrtle Beach / More about Scott Mann / More Dead 12:35 - The outdated P.A. / Roger's solo gig at Dirty Myrtle Wing Company - Bike Night rained out 16:43 - Upcoming Yale Brothers gig at LuLu's North Myrtle Beach  17:03 - Roger's latest story for The Post and Courier Myrtle Beach appeared in The Post and Courier Charleston / History of The Post and Courier 17:58 - More about Dirty Myrtle Wing Company 19:24 - Chris without adult supervision 20:06 - Chris' guitar string issues resolved on his PRS guitar / Dave Matthews / South African heritage / "Desiderata"  22:29 - Main Character Syndrome / Solipsism / Living in a movie 23:30 - Friend Daniel Alexander's gigs at Miceli's Hollywood / North Las Palmas Avenue, Hollywood / Drinking at Miceli's / "This Is Spinal Tap" at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood / The Gold Cup Hollywood / Jackson Browne and Daryl Hannah / Newsstands on Las Palmas and Cahuenge Boulevard  26:33 - Stopping at Del Taco in San Bernardino / Dick Naugle / Naugle's  27:11 - Walking around Hollywood between La Brea Avenue and Highland Avenue - Franklin Avenue to Sunset Blvd / Driving the freeways / Close calls and dropping a bike 29:36 - "Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Later Years, 1966-2016" by Kenneth Womack / "Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style" by Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne McConnell  31:28 - Aerosmith show reseheduled for October / Steven Tyler larynx / Rolling Stones in June  32:12 - Benzedrine inhaler  32:34 - Chris' new studio monitors - Kali Audio LP6 Version 2 / Dip switch 34:55 - Parting shots / Chris' beard / Pizza for days / Iran strikes Israel / End times sandwich board / Argent

Lords: * JohnB * Kevin * JADES data: https://jades.idies.jhu.edu/public/ Topics: * Thoughts on approximately 5/12 of Don Quixote * The Time Life "Mysteries of the Unknown" Series (1987-1991) and its impact on a generation of young nerds * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MysteriesoftheUnknown * https://www.reddit.com/r/IcebergCharts/comments/r487u4/distantastronomicalobjectsiceberg/ * https://www.slideshare.net/DirkTheDaring11/timelife-mysteries-of-the-unknown-the-ufo-phenomenon * https://archive.org/details/DreamsAndDreaming201809/page/n33/mode/2up * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lal0aWAys0k * Thomas Edison didn't think telephones needed to ring. He figured the caller could just start yelling "hello" at you even before you answered the phone * Desiderata * https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html * https://www.readwritethink.org/sites/default/files/resources/lessonimages/lesson372/PoloniusExcerpt.pdf * Is pinball meant to be fun? Can you lose a quarter at an arcade faster in a game cabinet or in a pinball machine? * https://arcadeblogger.com/2018/07/06/arcade-holy-grail-the-pinball-circus/ * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAtVBb8rOok * https://archive.org/details/TILTTheBattleToSavePinballDisc2Extras Microtopics: * Dog ownership. * A living creature that just wanders around the house. * Picking up warm soft weird thing. * Cracking open a cold one. * Computers flush with science data. * The deepest images humans have ever taken. * Finding distances to individual galaxies. * Listicles you can peruse. * Picking a galaxy and naming it after yourself. * Bug Mars 2. * The Glass Universe. * Hiring women and calling them computers. * A guy with a lot of free time and a gold nose. * Some public domain books being more readable than others. * Pun localization. * North American otaku tilting at windmills with their katanas. * How people pronounce quixotic and how they ought to pronounce quixotic. * Whether we respect English majors on this show. * Naming a character something weird and hoping nobody argues about the pronunciation hundreds of years from now. * Butthead as Don Quixote and Beavis as Sancho Panza. * The Great Cornholio tilting at windmills. * The era of translations that don't realize Don Quixote is a parody. * Part II of Don Quixote responding to Don Quixote fan fiction. * Don Coyote. * Sending Mario Maker back to Miguel Cervantes to see what he would make. * The kinds of books your parents would have on their shelf, back when that was the only thing available to read. * The 80s resurgence of New Age thought. * Mystic Places. * The Shin Megami Tensei section in the library. * Where to find the books that teach you magic in the public library. * The canonical map of reported UFO sightings worldwide. * Books for the kind of person who thinks Aleister Crowley is cool. * The Spaceships of Ezekiel. * The JWST iceberg. * The Distant Astronomical Objects iceberg. * A tin can and a string with a battery attached. * Hello, fellow phone owner. * A phone call asking you to log into a web site and read a message. * Funny ways to answer the phone. * E.B. Games, where you can get F-Zero for Zero. * The size of fortune cookies in the 1920s. * Nice things to do and be. * Desiderata vs. Deteriorata. * Advice giving poems. * Skin cancer is mid. * Casey Kasem quitting Transformers after they wrote an episode featuring Abdul, king of Carbombya. * Avoiding loud and aggressive persons. * Pinball getting harder and more complex over the course of a century. * Baffleball. * Pinball features to make things easier for beginners. * The quickest way to lose money on an arcade game. * Tilt-sensing plum bobs. * A weird kinetic sculpture that exists just for your entertainment. * The Black Hole for Personal Reasons. * A boring and easy pinball cabinet that you can play for an hour when you want to get sick of pinball. * Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball. * Multidisc! * Pinball tables by George Gomez. * Pinball: not actually fun, but they did their best. * Free play skee-ball. * Pacific Pinball Museum and Musee Mecanique. * Twitter forgiveness.

In our first podcast episode I explain a little the reason why audio is such a great help with trying to relax and unwind in our busy lives. Then you get to hear 3 of our most requested poems with great meaning including Desiderata with some powerful words I hope brings you much comfort. Listen on to hear what the others are and I look forward to bring you more bedtimes stories. Enjoy Yourstorycorner YourStorycorner

Welcome back to RadicalxChange(s), and happy 2024!In our first episode of the year, Matt speaks with Margaret Levi, distinguished political scientist, author, and professor at Stanford University. They delve into Margaret and her team's groundbreaking work of reimagining property rights. The captivating discussion revolves around their approach's key principles: emphasizing well-being, holistic sustainability encompassing culture and biodiversity, and striving for equality.RadicalxChange has been working with Margaret Levi and her team at Stanford, together with Dark Matter Labs, on exploring and reimagining the institutions of ownership.This episode is part of a short series exploring the theme of What and How We Own: Building a Politics of Change.Tune in as they explore these transformative ideas shaping our societal structures.Links & References: References:Desiderata: things desired as essential.Distributive justiceElizabeth Anderson - Relational equalityDebra Satz - SustainabilityWhat is wrong with inequality?Elinor "Lin" Ostrom - Common ownershipOstrom's Law: Property rights in the commonsIndigenous models of stewardshipIndigenous Peoples: Defending an Environment for AllColorado River situationA Breakthrough Deal to Keep the Colorado River From Going Dry, for NowHow did Aboriginal peoples manage their water resourcesFurther Reading Recommendations from Margaret:A Moral Political Economy: Present, Past and Future (2021) by Federica Carugati and Margaret LeviDædalus (Winter 2023): Creating a New Moral Political Economy | American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Edited by Margaret Levi and Henry Farrell)The works of Elizabeth Anderson, including Private Government (2017) and What Is the Point of Equality? (excerpt from Ethics (1999))Justice by Means of Democracy (2023) by Danielle AllenKatharina PistorBios:Margaret Levi is Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law (CDDRL) at the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) at Stanford University. She is the former Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) Levi is currently a faculty fellow at CASBS and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, co-director of the Stanford Ethics, Society and Technology Hub, and the Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies at the University of Washington. She is the winner of the 2019 Johan Skytte Prize and the 2020 Falling Walls Breakthrough. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Association of Political and Social Sciences. She served as president of the American Political Science Association from 2004 to 2005. In 2014, she received the William H. Riker Prize in Political Science, in 2017 gave the Elinor Ostrom Memorial Lecture, and in 2018 received an honorary doctorate from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.She earned her BA from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and her PhD from Harvard University in 1974, the year she joined the faculty of the University of Washington. She has been a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University. She held the Chair in Politics, United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, 2009-13. At the University of Washington she was director of the CHAOS (Comparative Historical Analysis of Organizations and States) Center and formerly the Harry Bridges Chair and Director of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies.Levi is the author or coauthor of numerous articles and seven books, including Of Rule and Revenu_e (University of California Press, 1988); _Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Cambridge University Press, 1997); Analytic Narratives (Princeton University Press, 1998); and Cooperation Without Trust? (Russell Sage, 2005). In the Interest of Others (Princeton, 2013), co-authored with John Ahlquist, explores how organizations provoke member willingness to act beyond material interest. In other work, she investigates the conditions under which people come to believe their governments are legitimate and the consequences of those beliefs for compliance, consent, and the rule of law. Her research continues to focus on how to improve the quality of government. She is also committed to understanding and improving supply chains so that the goods we consume are produced in a manner that sustains both the workers and the environment. In 2015 she published the co-authored Labor Standards in International Supply Chains (Edward Elgar).She was general editor of Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics and is co-general editor of the Annual Review of Political Science. Levi serves on the boards of the: Carlos III-Juan March Institute in Madrid; Scholar and Research Group of the World Justice Project, the Berggruen Institute, and CORE Economics. Her fellowships include the Woodrow Wilson in 1968, German Marshall in 1988-9, and the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences in 1993-1994. She has lectured and been a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, the European University Institute, the Max Planck Institute in Cologne, the Juan March Institute, the Budapest Collegium, Cardiff University, Oxford University, Bergen University, and Peking University.Levi and her husband, Robert Kaplan, are avid collectors of Australian Aboriginal art and have gifted pieces to the Seattle Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Women's Museum of Art, and the Nevada Museum of Art.Margaret's Social Links:Margaret Levi | Website@margaretlevi | X (Twitter)Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.Matt's Social Links:@m_t_prewitt | XAdditional Credits:This episode was recorded by Matt Prewitt. Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:RadicalxChange Website@RadxChange | TwitterRxC | YouTubeRxC | InstagramRxC | LinkedInJoin the conversation on Discord.Credits:Produced by G. Angela Corpus.Co-Produced, Edited, Narrated, and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Deep Forgetting & Unlearning for Safely-Scoped LLMs, published by Stephen Casper on December 5, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. Thanks to Phillip Christoffersen, Adam Gleave, Anjali Gopal, Soroush Pour, and Fabien Roger for useful discussions and feedback. TL;DR This post overviews a research agenda for avoiding unwanted latent capabilities in LLMs. It argues that "deep" forgetting and unlearning may be important, tractable, and neglected for AI safety. I discuss five things. The practical problems posed when undesired latent capabilities resurface. How scoping models down to avoid or deeply remove unwanted capabilities can make them safer. The shortcomings of standard training methods for scoping. A variety of methods can be used to better scope models. These can either involve passively forgetting out-of-distribution knowledge or actively unlearning knowledge in some specific undesirable domain. Desiderata for scoping methods and ways to move forward with research on them. There has been a lot of recent interest from the AI safety community in topics related to this agenda. I hope that this helps to provide a clarifying framework and a useful reference for people working on these goals. The problem: LLMs are sometimes good at things we try to make them bad at Back in 2021, I remember laughing at this tweet. At the time, I didn't anticipate that this type of thing would become a big alignment challenge. Robust alignment is hard. Today's LLMs are sometimes frustratingly good at doing things that we try very hard to make them not good at. There are two ways in which hidden capabilities in models have been demonstrated to exist and cause problems. Jailbreaks (and other attacks) elicit harmful capabilities Until a few months ago, I used to keep notes with all of the papers on jailbreaking state-of-the-art LLMs that I was aware of. But recently, too many have surfaced for me to care to keep track of anymore. Jailbreaking LLMs is becoming a cottage industry. However, a few notable papers are Wei et al. (2023), Zou et al. (2023a), Shah et al. (2023), and Mu et al. (2023). A variety of methods are now being used to subvert the safety training of SOTA LLMs by making them enter an unrestricted chat mode where they are willing to say things that go against their safety training. Shah et al. (2023) were even able to get instructions for making a bomb from GPT-4. Attacks come in many varieties: manual v. automated, black-box v. transferrable-white-box, unrestricted v. plain-English, etc. Adding to the concerns from empirical findings, Wolf et al. (2023) provide a theoretical argument as to why jailbreaks might be a persistent problem for LLMs. Finetuning can rapidly undo safety training Recently a surge of complementary papers on this suddenly came out. Each of which demonstrates that state-of-the-art safety-finetuned LLMs can have their safety training undone by finetuning ( Yang et al.. 2023; Qi et al., 2023; Lermen et al., 2023; Zhan et al., 2023). The ability to misalign models with finetuning seems to be consistent and has shown to work with LoRA ( Lermen et al., 2023), on GPT-4 ( Zhan et al., 2023), with as few as 10 examples ( Qi et al., 2023), and with benign data ( Qi et al., 2023). Conclusion: the alignment of state-of-the-art safety-finetuned LLMs is brittle Evidently, LLMs persistently retain harmful capabilities that can resurface at inopportune times. This poses risks from both misalignment and misuse. This seems concerning for AI safety because if highly advanced AI systems are deployed in high-stakes applications, they should be robustly aligned. A need for safely-scoped models LLMs should only know only what they need to One good way to avoid liabilities from unwanted capabilities is to make advanced AI systems in high-stakes settings know what they need to kno...

Fr. Nathan discusses the spiritual practices that arise from the story of Bea, The Big Band Singer. Told in greater detail in “Afterlife, Interrupted: Helping Souls Cross Over Book 2.”Suicide prevention: Call 988 or visit: https://988lifeline.org/Show notes:-Screwtape Letter by C.S. Lewis-Byron Katie 4 questions (Ep. 052)-Ego deals in accusations-Desiderata by Max Ehrmann​Connect with Father Nathan Castle, O.P.http://www.nathan-castle.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/fathernathancastleInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/father_nathan_castle/?hl=enYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FatherNathanGCastleOPListen to the podcast:Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3ssA9b5Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xODkwNTE1LnJzcwPurchase books on Amazon:https://tinyurl.com/34bhp2t4 Donate:https://nathan-castle.com/donate/ My Dominican brothers and I live a vow of poverty. That means we hold our goods in common. If you enjoy this podcast and feel called to donate please do. 501©3 of the Western Dominican Province. #fathernathancastle, #nathancastle, #thejoyfulfriar, #afterlifeinterrupted, #Interrupteddeathexperience #consciousness #lifeafterdeath, #lifeafterloss #spirituality #awakeni...

Tis' the Season - Holidays are upon us - and being a Witch can have you feeling a bit out of step - especially during the holiday time. In this episode, we return to the wisdom of Desiderata, where we explore what it means to hold ground or lean into self-preservation during this holiday season. Ash talks about inviting Witch to the family traditions - even as a curious guest -- and some simple ideas for how to escape when you need to. Alyssa shares great ways we can support our communities in need. This is just the beginning of our Holiday Havens so we hope to see you next Sunday Nov. 26th where we dig into the coming Winter Solstice Celebration, Candle Nights and all the ways you might incorporate a little Witch into your season. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/atomicwitchcraft/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/atomicwitchcraft/support

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: 'Theories of Values' and 'Theories of Agents': confusions, musings and desiderata, published by Mateusz Bagiński on November 16, 2023 on LessWrong. Meta: Content signposts: we talk about limits to expected utility theory; what values are (and ways in which we're confused about what values are); the need for a "generative"/developmental logic of agents (and their values); types of constraints on the "shape" of agents; relationships to FEP/active inference; and (ir)rational/(il)legitimate value change. Context: we're basically just chatting about topics of mutual interests, so the conversation is relatively free-wheeling and includes a decent amount of "creative speculation". Epistemic status: involves a bunch of "creative speculation" that we don't think is true at face value and which may or may not turn out to be useful for making progress on deconfusing our understanding of the respective territory. Expected utility theory (stated in terms of the VNM axioms or something equivalent) thinks of rational agents as composed of two "parts", i.e., beliefs and preferences. Beliefs are expressed in terms of probabilities that are being updated in the process of learning (e.g., Bayesian updating). Preferences can be expressed as an ordering over alternative states of the world or outcomes or something similar. If we assume an agent's set of preferences to satisfy the four VNM axioms (or some equivalent desiderata), then those preferences can be expressed with some real-valued utility function u and the agent will behave as if they were maximizing that u. On this account, beliefs change in response to evidence, whereas values/preferences in most cases don't. Rational behavior comes down to (behaving as if one is) ~maximizing one's preference satisfaction/expected utility. Most changes to one's preferences are detrimental to their satisfaction, so rational agents should want to keep their preferences unchanged (i.e., utility function preservation is an instrumentally convergent goal). Thus, for a preference modification to be rational, it would have to result in higher expected utility than leaving the preferences unchanged. My impression is that the most often discussed setup where this is the case involves interactions between two or more agents. For example, if you and and some other agent have somewhat conflicting preferences, you may go on a compromise where each one of you makes them preferences somewhat more similar to the preferences of the other. This costs both of you a bit of (expected subjective) utility, but less than you would lose (in expectation) if you engaged in destructive conflict. Another scenario justifying modification of one's preferences is when you realize the world is different than you expected on your priors, such that you need to abandon the old ontology and/or readjust it. If your preferences were defined in terms of (or strongly entangled with) concepts from the previous ontology, then you will also need to refactor your preferences. You think that this is a confused way to think about rationality. For example, you see self-induced/voluntary value change as something that in some cases is legitimate/rational. I'd like to elicit some of your thoughts about value change in humans. What makes a specific case of value change (il)legitimate? How is that tied to the concepts of rationality, agency, etc? Once we're done with that, we can talk more generally about arguments for why the values of an agent/system should not be fixed. Sounds good? On a meta note: I've been using the words "preference" and "value" more or less interchangeably, without giving much thought to it. Do you view them as interchangeable or would you rather first make some conceptual/terminological clarification? Sounds great! (And I'm happy to use "preferences" and "values" interc...

As promised on the last episode, we take a deeper dive into the Desiderata text. We failed to mention during the recording that we taped this one while engaging in some Forest Bathing. More on that next time! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoiclawyer/support

Happy Equinox! In this past Sunday Haven, we talk lunar tides and seasonal shifts as the equinox hits. Ash shares a line from Desiderata that has always held special meaning to deepening her practice and Alyssa talks about ways we can all help manage food waste through proper storage and preserving. Join us for our next Sunday Haven - LIVE - October 1st at 10:30 am PST. Zoom links posted to our link.tree, Patreon, and Facebook Listeners Group at 10 am the day of the event. As always, this gathering is FREE and open to all who would like a little witchy community time! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/atomicwitchcraft/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/atomicwitchcraft/support

Enjoy Bryan reading an inspirational poem, full of wisdom. Next week we will break it down into subparts and discuss. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoiclawyer/support

Así que, cuando nada salva, en ese lugar donde siempre estoy sola y son las tres de la mañana, no busco alivio. Tan sólo recuerdo aquella tarde y hago lo que dijo mi padre: contemplo al enemigo y me quedo quieta. Después, como todo el mundo, sobrevivo.------QuietaHe pensado a menudo en esta escena; un atardecer de cuando yo empezaba a ser adolescente y estaba en mi dormitorio apenada por, supongo, algún novio, mi padre entró, se sentó a mi lado y me dijo que todo lo que tenía que hacer para dejar de estar triste era pensar, una por una, en todas las escenas que me habían provocado esa tristeza. Que repasara el dolor, una y otra vez, hasta gastarlo: «Hasta que, cuando pienses en eso, ya no te produzca nada», dijo. Después se levantó y se fue. ¿Pudo haberme aniquilado? Pudo. Me dio, en cambio, templanza y voluntad de sobreviviente. Hay un poema, llamado «Desiderata», del poeta chileno Claudio Bertoni, que dice: «Piensas que despertar te va a aliviar / y no te alivia / piensas que dormir te va a aliviar / y no te alivia / piensas que el desayuno te va a aliviar / y no te alivia / piensas que el pensamiento te va a aliviar / y no te alivia / piensas que hacer un trámite te va a aliviar / y no te alivia / […] / piensas que el sol te va a aliviar / y no te alivia / piensas que llover te va a aliviar / y no te alivia / piensas que conversar te va a aliviar / y no te alivia / piensas que oír las noticias te va a aliviar / y no te alivia / […] / piensas que el tiempo te va a aliviar / y no te alivia». El dolor es el dios que a menudo nos convoca. Cuando toca caminar en medio de un valle de sombra de muerte, cuando no está claro qué parte de mí soy yo o el monstruo que me habita, sé —lo sé— que nada alivia. Ni despertar ni dormir ni tomar desayuno ni pensar ni hacer un trámite ni el sol ni la lluvia ni hablar ni quedarse muda. Así que, cuando nada salva, en ese lugar donde siempre estoy sola y son las tres de la mañana, no busco alivio. Tan sólo recuerdo aquella tarde y hago lo que dijo mi padre: contemplo al enemigo y me quedo quieta. Después, como todo el mundo, sobrevivo.-------Este texto fue publicado por primera vez en el periódico "el País", en la columna semanal de Guerriero, posteriormente publicado en su libro "Teoría de la gravedad" que recoge algunos textos de ella.  ★ Support this podcast ★

In this episode we'll take a break from techniques, dressage, and horsemanship. I'll share one of my favorite prose poems. It is something I read regularly. It's a powerful piece and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.About the Host:Karen Rohlf, author and creator of Dressage Naturally, is an internationally recognized clinician who is changing the equestrian educational paradigm. She teaches students of all disciplines and levels from around the world in her clinics and the Dressage Naturally virtual programs.Karen is well known for training horses with a priority on partnership, a student-empowering approach to teaching, and a positive and balanced point of view. She believes in getting to the heart of our mental, emotional, and physical partnership with our horses by bringing together the best of the worlds of dressage and partnership-based training. Karen's passion for teaching extends beyond horse training. Her For The Love Of The Horse: Transform Your Business Seminar and Mastermind/Mentorship programs are a result of her commitment to helping heart-centered equine professionals thrive so that horses may have a happier life in this industry.Resource Links:▪ Desiderata by Max Ehrmann: https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html▪ Leave a question for Karen to answer on the pod: https://www.speakpipe.com/AskKarenAnything▪ The Dressage Naturally VIDEO CLASSROOM: https://dnc.dressagenaturally.net/▪ Transform Your Horse Business Success Kit: https://inbound.dressagenaturally.net/transform-your-business-success-kit▪ See all of Karen Rohlf's Online Programs here: https://dressagenaturally.net/online-programs/▪ The Dressage Naturally Book: https://shop.dressagenaturally.net/collections/home-page-featured/products/book-dvd/▪ Get 3 free training videos: https://dressagenaturally.net/free-dressage-training-videos/▪ Take the Happy Athlete Quiz: https://inbound.dressagenaturally.net/happy-athlete-quiz-start/▪ Course: Habits For Excellent Horsemanship: https://inbound.dressagenaturally.net/heh▪ Join the conversation in our Dressage Naturally Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DressageNaturallyLandThanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it!Don't forget to FOLLOW the podcast!Leave us an iTunes review - Did you love it? Let us know!

Words for a good life. The power of words to move us should never be underestimated. I finally sat down with my wife to plan my funeral this week, and wow, what an adventure. Talking this through with my wife was strangle liberating. I have never felt so loved. The show is not about my funeral but my relationship with a piece of text I first discovered in my late 20s. Do you have a special poem or piece of writing that moves you?  Ok to put the record straight I have no intention of shuffling off just yet, but preparation is everything and leaving a document for my family to follow does give them something to use or build on once I have passed. A bit if context my wife is training to be an interfaith minister and she had to complete a funeral assignment, and it was decided with my agreement that I would be a good candidate for her. Personally I think It made it a more challenging exercise, in our conversation we looked at the practical process or getting rid of my body. We have found a beautiful green burial ground. Burning my body will release far too much carbon. The moving part of the exercise was music and words. I suddenly remembered. Desiderata  I discovered it in my late 20s and rereading it made me realise that I have been on a mission of life, Passion and business for over 30 years. This peace speaks to me it is almost my 10 commandants for life. The full text is below.  Words for a Good Life On the show, we explore How connecting through text like this is so powerful. How life is in 3 acts There is also some news and a free offer It will be of interest for those with business interests. It is near the end if your want to skip through.  Here is the link to Jane's show  https://lifepassionandbusiness.com/jane-duncan-roger-before-i-go/ Desiderata: This is the original text from the book where Desiderata was first published. Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. by Max Ehrmann ©1927      

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Desiderata is an inspirational poem by Max Ehrmann in which he attempts to offer a positive outlook towards life. Throughout the poem, the poet tries to encourage people to live their life in a better and constructive way.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/find-your-daily-calm/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

If you feel like you should have X,Y, and Z going by the time you're a certain age you're bound to be disappointed. If you're anything like Katie, you might head off perceived disappointment on the part of others with self-deprecation. In this edition of Doing What Works we give you permission (not that you need it!) to own a transition, even if there's nothing particularly unique about it.Here are your show notes…Executive coach Marshall Goldsmith hopes you won't fall prey to the “I'll be happy when this happens” mindset.“Comparison is the thief of joy.” ~ Katie's boss, and others!“If you compare yourself with others you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.” ~ Desiderata

Hello, everyone! Today, I will be talking about the Five Point Sequence, with a focus on the first point: Preparation. How does your past inform how you currently build preparation into your life?  In this episode, I talk about the power of having a coherent preparation pattern, and how through somatic work we can go back on the timeline (timeline repair) and update and rewire patterning toward something that feels supportive and cohesive. In the end, I share my inquiry around biohacking for longevity.  What is hyper-preparation (over-efforting control and forgetting to live life while you have it now), and what is coherent preparation? To support these thoughts I offer two poems, one by Max Ehrmann and the other by David Whyte.   In this episode you'll learn: • [02:10] The Five Point Sequence by Ray Castellino and used in Alchemical Alignment • [05:40] Building Preparation into life • [10:33] Trauma physiology and preparation. • [15:03] Doing timeline repair to rewire and update patterns in the nervous system. • [17:10] Is biohacking for longevity hyper preparation or just preparation? • [21:44] Desiderata, by Max Ehrmann. • [25:34] What to Remember When Waking, by David Whyte. • [30:26] Takeaways from this episode.   Quotes: “Not just thinking that I should be able to go from one thing to the next thing to the next. Preparation might even be a pause, ‘I'm going to take a pause. I'm going to notice my resources before I walk into that room, I'm going to notice my feet on the ground. I'm gonna broaden my surroundings. I'm going to notice my breath...'” -Sarah Tacy [07:40]  “So if as a child, you felt unsafe when one shot when one parent came home, you probably became a pro at reading the room.” -Sarah Tacy [14:00] “When we get wrinkles, we get grays, and as our bodies become less agile, these are steps towards our big let go.” – Bryan Kest [18:27] “The more of the reserve we have, the better off we are.” – Peter Attia [19:01] “You are a child of the universe.” – Max Ehrmann [24:10]  “What you can plan is too small for you to live.” – David Whyte [26:43]   Connect with Sarah: Website: sarahtacy.com        21 Days of Untapped Support https://sarahtacy.com/21-days/ Lean for Nervous System Support: https://sarahtacy.com/lean/

Sean Christopher Ali Stone began his spiritual quest at 10 years old, when his father took him to Tibet, Nepal and India, to illuminate the stark contrast between those worlds, and Hollywood, where he had been a child-actor in Oliver Stone films like JFK, The Doors and Natural Born Killers. Sean took summer jobs for Jim Brown's Amer-I-Can program and Save the Children while still in high school, then studied American History at Princeton University, and Oxford, before writing his Senior Thesis on the modern history of the New World Order, now available from TrineDay and Amazon. Sean began his own filmmaking career by apprenticing under his father on Alexander, shooting the behind-the-scenes documentary Fight Against Time. On the film W., Sean worked as an Editorial Consultant, and on the TV series The Untold History of the United States, as an Associate Editor.  Sean Stone starred in and directed his first feature film Greystone Park in 2012, based on his real-life paranormal experiences in a haunted mental hospital.  In 2020, he published the cosmic fairy tale, Desiderata by Ali, now available from Blackstone and Audible. His most recent release is the poetry book The Ephemeral Shades of Time. His poetry was turned into an album on iTunes and Spotify, Alien Spirit featuring the music of Michel Huygen. Sean Stone is a graduate of the Baron Brown Studio and has starred in multiple features including Night Walk, Union Bound, and Fury of the Fist and the Golden Fleece, which he also wrote. He has directed the documentaries A Century of War, Hollywood, D.C. and MetaHuman with Deepak Chopra. He also produced the documentary The Paradigm of Money about Wall Street corruption and collusion with the US government. His limited docuseries Best Kept Secret explores the dark side of the Western elite's manipulation and control of humanity. His short films include Singularity, a dystopian warning about a plague that leads to a totalitarian surveillance state, as well as the short film Anaarkali with Bollywood star Javed Jaffrey, adapted from the fairy tale of a ‘kept woman' seeking her independence in modern Mumbai.  Sean has hosted the reality show Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, the interview program Buzzsaw, formerly on Gaia TV, and the RT news show Watching the Hawks. Show links: https://www.seanstone.info/ Join our Telegram! https://t.me/alfavedic

Desiderata: Original TextThis is the original text from the book where Desiderata was first published.Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.by Max Ehrmann ©1927 Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/thewanderingpaddy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I LOVE this poem, I always thought it was only the first two lines until I heard it read in full at a funeral.Listen in and let the words sink deeply into your soul todayBTW - If you didn't already know, I'm Sarah - The Drink Less Coach, supporting people to find JOY and COLOUR on the other side of alcohol! We don't have to hit rock bottom, we're allowed to want something different and we CAN choose to improve our lives from this point onwards. I work in the magic space where doubt, hope and action meet... oh.... and PS I believe in you!Did you know I've hidden a podcast episode? It's your secret weapon at 5pm if you are feeling cravings for alcohol. You can download it here...and did you know you can work with me 1:1 to change your relationship with alcohol?3 month coaching programme details hereLet's get connected; 'friend' me on Facebookfollow me on instaCheck out Drink Less; Live Better for blog posts and moreSubscribe to this podcast so you don't miss an episode - also please do leave a like or review and share the love! Thank you

If you compare yourself with others you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. That line from the Desiderata pretty much says it all, doesn't it? But envy's like any other emotion; it isn't good or bad. In this edition of Doing What Works we help you use envy as fuel to get more of what you want.Here are your show notes…Want to hear what Charlie Munger said about envy?“Think of the brain as a hill covered in snow, and thoughts as sleds gliding down that hill. As one sled after another goes down the hill a small number of main trails will appear in the snow. And every time a new sled goes down, it will be drawn into preexisting trails, almost like a magnet. In time it becomes more and more difficult to glide down the hill on any other path or in a different direction. Think of psychedelics as temporarily flattening the snow. The deeply worn trails disappear, and suddenly the sled can go in other directions, exploring new landscapes and, literally, creating new pathways.”How to Be Perfect is billed as “the correct answer to every moral question.”Do you think everything would be okay if only, say, you won the lottery? Not according to a concept called hedonic adaptation.Change something or change your attitude about it, but don't complain.Aspire to happiness that's indestructible, that isn't dependent on the happiness of people in your orbit -- the way Alex Lickerman describes in The Undefeated Mind. “If you compare yourself with others you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”“Isolation is the dream killer.” That's from Barbara Sher.

If you've listened to some of my recent solos and interviews, you'll have picked up that I'm on the cusp of entering a new stage of life. I've packed up my life in Barcelona, put my things in storage, finished up my academic year as a Professor and am headed to Mexico on a one-way ticket in just a few days. The preparation for leaving one stage of life and stepping into the next has gotten me thinking a lot lately about transitions and nature and my place in the whole rhythm of things. And, during the deep discomfort and anxiety that has come up as I've been in the deep discomfort of not knowing what comes next, of a big transition, I haven't been the nicest or happiest or most serene version of myself. It's been interesting to observe and it's gotten me thinking about a snake shedding its skin. As a Wyoming Kid, I have always been taught that, during seasons when you know rattlesnakes are shedding their skin (which they do regularly), do whatever you can to avoid them because they're scared and blind and MEAN. They can't see very well, so they're more likely to strike. But then I started learning more about the process of a snake shedding its skin - and WHY it sheds its skin regularly - and it all started to feel like a very relevant personal metaphor for big moments of transition.   So settle yourself in and consider how this metaphor might be relevant for you, and be sure to listen to the end, when I share one of my favourite poems of all time, Desiderata by Max Ehrman.    Don't forget to like, subscribe and leave a 5-star and written review on this podcast, wherever you listen to podcasts. It helps me to reach new listeners and, hopefully, to reach someone on exactly the right day with exactly what they needed to hear. Let me know what you think of this episode and others!

"GO PLACIDLY amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence." Trust you are moving in the right direction and continue to keep your center! Self doubt destroys dreams and keeps men playing small. How can men overcome these feelings of inadequacy and cynicism? Fam Life host Phil Gomez guides listener's through the journey of making a plan and dealing with the inevitable obstacles!   Highlights: [05:24] How the written piece “Desiderata” which means “things that are desired” by Max Ehrmann has been a guiding life for Phil. [09:11] How do you handle yourself when plans go sideways? [13:31] Are men overly obsessed with achieving material victories?   Rising Man Links: The Brotherhood || The most inclusive, actionable, and helpful container for men on this planet! Instagram || @risingmanmovement & @philjgomez DOJO || A 4 day, carefully crafted sequence of rigorous exercises that will challenge the limits of your mental, physical, and emotional fortitude. Men's Teams || Are you ready to join other men JUST LIKE YOU who have found a way to RISE ABOVE life's challenges and create a life of purpose and fulfillment? Join our online FIRE CIRCLE!  Online Course || IGNITE is a 12 week online program designed to ignite your purpose and propel you into freedom. Features weekly calls, online modules, growth assignments, and community support!  Initiation || Compass is a 4 day 4 night Vision Fast in the wilderness, with preparation and incorporation calls in the months before and after.  YouTube || The Rising Man Movement Website || RisingMan.org

Andrew's final transmission. It consists of three separate recordings he recorded on three different days. Andrew is joined by Suzy and Hasban to talk about his condition, how he's thinking about end-of-life options, psychedelics, life lessons, and friends/family. He also answers some questions from the listeners.The outro (the Desiderata) was recorded around 20 minutes before he ingested the medicine. If you want a copy of the outro only, please contact us through the website.The thumbnail for this image was taken around the time Andrew passed. This was Andrew's final view of the world out of his bedroom window. He was surrounded by family and friends that loved him dearly.Order of recordings:October 6th - The EpisodeNovember 14th - Intro to the episodeNovember 16th - DesiderataLearn more about the podcast & follow our story - deathwithdignitypodcast.com // @DWDPodcast2021 (Twitter)Contact Us:https://www.deathwithdignitypodcast.com/contact-us/

This poem was written in the early 20th century by an Indiana lawyer. Why is it included here?The better question is: Why is an Indiana lawyer writing about the Universe?Give this one a listen. It is a true blueprint for right living. For all of us.RESOURCES:  Visit Julia Marie's website to schedule a consultation or sign up for classes.Special thanks go to Music from Nature's Eye on Pixabay for the Shadows of the Clouds 6650 that is the music bed for this episode.Thank you for listening to Evolving Humans! For consultations or classes, please visit my website: www.JuliaMarie.usYou can leave your questions, comments and suggestions via Voicemail at https://www.EvolvingHumansPodcast.com.Who knows, perhaps your question or comment will be featured on a future episode! I can't wait for your questions or hear your feedback.

Adam creates a hypnosis session inspired by the poem Desiderata by Max Ehrmann. Adam offers a decision to highlight that time is more important than money and then utilises the content of the poem to highlight the importance of making the most of the life that you have. This powerful hypnosis session will help you stop wasting time on things that don't matter and give you the motivation to pursue those things that do.  This is the poem:  Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. FREE HYPNOSIS DOWNLOAD: To thank you for being a listener to the show Adam is giving you a 100% FREE hypnosis download worth £10/$12 using the coupon code FREE here: https://www.adamcox.co.uk/downloads.html  Adam Cox is one of the world's most innovative hypnotists and is known for being the hypnotherapist of choice for Celebrities, CEO's and even Royalty. To book a free 30-minute consultation call to consider working with Adam go to: https://go.oncehub.com/AdamCox You can contact Adam at adam@adamcox.co.uk Further information on Adam is here: https://linktr.ee/AdamCoxOfficial  Tags: Adam Cox, the hypnotist, NLP, asmr, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, hypnotist, stress, sleep, worry, meditation, guided meditation, hypnotism, anxiety, metaphor, poem, 

Here's the magic of the mind: when we pay attention, we have the wonderful capacity to both think our thoughts AND witness ourselves thinking them. We are the thinker and the watcher all at once, which means when the uninvited memories and unwelcome worries arrive, we can notice that they're there. This awareness allows us to (eventually) work around the land mines or render them harmless. It's simple but not always easy, so I'll share some practices I use to tame my mind.    Learn more about Kristen Manieri and coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com KristenManieri.com   Host Bio Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.    Coaching I have two coaching spots opening up this fall. If you've ever considered coaching, or if you're feelings stuck or you're about to make a big transition, reach out to me and we can talk about how I can help you navigate what's ahead with more confidence and clarity. You can reach me at Kristen@kristenmanieri.com.   Full Transcript   The nature of thought is pretty fascinating when you look at it closely. I've come to see that we typically don't experience the world around us; we experience our thoughts about the world around us. And we can often change our life experience simply by changing our thinking.   Here's what I mean:   The other day I needed to drive somewhere to pick something up. It was a busy week and it felt really inconvenient and annoying to have to go run this errand. I was feeling pretty pissy about it. And then I remembered that there was a podcast episode I'd been meaning to listen to. Suddenly, I was looking forward to an hour in the car by myself. What felt like a burden suddenly felt like a gift.   I didn't change my circumstances, but I radically altered my experience simply by changing my thinking.   “An untamed mind is a minefield,” writes Brianna Wiest in her book 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think.   A mind that is a minefield is one that can suddenly and easily unravel into anxiety, regret, shame or anger. I often experience thoughts that seem to come in from nowhere. Old memories float in uninvited. Worries, often unfounded and unwelcome, can linger. My mind is susceptible to unsolicited thoughts that can metastasize into a mental shit storm when I'm not paying attention.   But here's the magic of the mind: when we do pay attention, we have the wonderful capacity to both think our thoughts AND witness ourselves thinking them. We are the thinker and the watcher all at once, which means when the uninvited memories and unwelcome worries arrive, we can notice that they're there. This awareness allows us to (eventually) work around the land mines or render them harmless. It's simple but not always easy, so I'll share some practices I use to tame my mind.    Develop Your Inner Noticer   Sometimes noticing is all we have to do. It can be enough to simply bring our attention to our thinking long enough to merely name it. “Ah, look at that. I'm thinking about that conversation with my client again.” Perhaps our noticing begins to reveal negative patterns in our thinking. For me, that's often noticing that I'm jumping to conclusions or making speculative assumptions. We may start to see that we have a lot of mental habits (such as jumping to conclusions). Noticing mental habits takes away their mysterious power over us.   Maybe instead of just noticing the landmines, we also start to disarm them.   This is the taming of the mind that Brianna Wiest refers to. This is where we start to access our own sense of agency and autonomy over our thinking. We can develop control over racing, erratic thoughts the same way we develop any acquired talent, by practicing relating to our thoughts in new ways. With consistency, we begin to develop a new relationship with the mind.   Trade Up It's amazing what we hear when we actually listen to our thoughts. If we were to broadcast them when we're stressed, we might hear things like: “I can't do this.” “This is not going to work out.” “I should never have taken this on.”   Our thoughts affect how we feel, which impacts what we do and how we respond. Here's some good news: We are capable of listening to our inner dialogue AND we are capable of upgrading it.   I learned the concept of “trading up” from my friend Kim Ades, who founded Frame of Mind Coaching. Essentially, we isolate a negative thought, such as “this not going to work out,” and we trade it in for a slightly more positive one, such as, “if this doesn't work out, it could lead to something that does.” The idea isn't to be unrealistically positive, but to choose a new thought that is both believable AND elevating in an incremental climb.   Just the other day I used Kim's trading up practice to shift me out of a negative thought spiral. As I may have previously shared, we recently adopted a one-year-old dog from Korea and his transition into our home has been incredibly slow. Having spent his entire life in a shelter, everything in our home is new and, as a result, Leo is incredibly timid, anxious and closed off.   I caught myself feeling upset, disappointed and stressed about Leo. And when I tuned in I was able to isolate the thought “this is really hard.” “This is hard,” I told myself with self-compassion. “But it will get better. You've already seen micro progressions forward. Within a few weeks or months, this will be a completely relaxed and happy dog.” I traded up and as I continued on in my day with this new baseline thought, I felt more at ease.    Try it out. Take out a piece of paper. Tuning into your inner dialogue, write down your dominant thoughts and isolate one that's emitting stress. Notice how the body responds to it. Does your heart race? Do you feel sad or anxious? Now, write a few upgrades to the negative thought and feel which one lands as true for you. Create space for a different possibility. Continue climbing the ladder of better feeling thoughts until you notice a shift in how you feel.     Give the Bothersome Mind a Bone “Your mind is bothering you,” said Michael Singer, author of the Untethered Soul, in one of his podcast episodes. Sometimes it's as though my mind has a mind of its own. I notice this is especially the case when I wake up in the middle of the night and my mind starts endlessly chewing on a series of worries or concerns. It's like a dog with a bone.   Give it a new bone.   Sometimes the best way to conquer the mind is to beat it at its own game. It's obsessed with thinking? Fine! Give it something to think about. I've been known to go through, scene by scene, the entirety of Love Actually, my favorite movie. I've mentally wondered through French towns and been pampered at five-star spas. I've counted backwards from 300 in threes. In 2001, I memorized the entire poem Desiderata by Max Ehrmann and used it to ease my mind during a particularly difficult time in my life.    The point is, sometimes I know that settling my mind or upgrading my thoughts is too tall an order. It's not cheating to give my mind something other than my worries and ruminations to chew on.   Connect with Your Older Self When it comes to triggering thoughts, especially those rooted in old memories, I can often feel frustrated that I'm triggered in the first place. Shouldn't I be over this by now? Why do I still care? I'm steeped in regret or shame, but then I make it worse by layering on a dose of self-criticism and resistance.   While it may feel at times that I haven't grown at all in my capacity to redirect my thinking and nurture some self-compassion, the truth is that I've worked my way through hundreds of thoughts and old memories that no longer trigger me. It's taken time, a different perspective, sometimes therapy and often just good ol' forgetting, but I've triumphed over negative thoughts many, many times.   It's helpful to know that when I spiral into a negative thought loop that it won't always be this way, that at some point I'll find the wherewithal to show that thought who's boss.   When I'm caught in a negative loop, I imagine a me 10 or 20 years from now who can think that thought or reflect on that memory with a totally neutral stance, not triggered at all. I can hold it in my open palm and blow it softly into the breeze like a dandelion wish. I can learn, and have learned, how to simply let go of the grip a thought can have on me. Knowing that sometimes it just takes time, practice and a different perspective gives me the grace to be kind to the me I am today, the me that doesn't quite have what it takes yet to gently and lovingly turn my attention elsewhere.   How do I know this works? Because I have loads of evidence of things that used to really bother me that no longer do. I have proof that eventually the sting or the storm eventually subside. I can lean on this knowledge for support when I'm going through something tough today.   Final Thought: It's Just the Mind I want to leave you with one last thought: to tame the mind is also to befriend it. It doesn't mean to cause you so much harm. It's just doing what minds are designed to do, and that is think. Sometimes my mind thinks wonderfully creative thoughts. Sometimes it gives me the idea to do something loving and kind for someone else. Sometimes it notices something good in my life. And sometimes it drags up an old memory or clings to negative thoughts. It's all just thinking. And the more I can simply allow that this is just the mind being the mind, and not get caught up in the mind being the mind, the more it is tamed and the more I am at peace.              

In our final installment inspired by Katie's time at leadership camp this summer, we make the case for writing a mission statement. What could be more important, after all, than living with intention? And what could be more in line with the mission of Doing What Works? Here are your show notes…The work you're meant to do was probably borne of an ache in childhood. That's from Barbara Sher [http://barbarasher.com/index.htm]. I think! My friend Elizabeth Fournier [https://www.thegreenreaper.org/], for example, felt destined to work in the funeral industry after her mother died when Elizabeth was young.The Desiderata [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+desiderata&t=brave&iax=images&ia=images] sums up Maureen's philosophy of life.“When you care enough to send the very best.” Why not use that slogan [https://corporate.hallmark.com/about/hallmark-cards-company/history/building-brand-1930s-50s/] as inspiration for sending your best out into the world?Accept yourself, and expect more from yourself [https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/gretchen_rubin_619327].Your mission in life doesn't have to be lofty, says Callings author Gregg Levoy [https://gregglevoy.com/]. Don't let it spook you. Steve Jobs said you can only connect the dots looking backward [https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/463176-you-can-t-connect-the-dots-looking-forward-you-can-only].Waking [https://www.amazon.com/Waking-Memoir-Transcendence-Matthew-Sanford/dp/159486845X] author Matt Sanford says one task of adulthood is coming to terms with how deeply repetitive it is.

This episode we talk about a new band for the show, Desiderata, who put out this one record, was on a couple comps and released a demo. We celebrate the spirit and energy of this young band, and later in the show we had the pleasure of talking to vocalist Amanda MacKaye. We discuss this record, this band and then go down the rabbit hole on many subjects close to her large heart and fierce mind. This is one for the books!

I was inspired to record this week's episode after a conversation I had with a friend of mine who has a Pisces stellium including her Moon. We discussed some cleansing, grounding and protecting techniques that she could use to 'protect' her super absorbent lunar placement. I saw this great quote when sourcing the links for this episode which pretty much sums up part of what I'm saying: "If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration" Nikola Tesla Anyway, this week I discuss 'Auric Hygiene' (did I coin this term?!) and next week I'll talk about grounding and protecting and offer some tips on how to do this with little disruption to your day! Do you feel exhausted or charged when spending time with others? What is your Moon sign?   p.s: This episode was recorded in two parts and as is always the way, this was no accident in a planetary sense. I started recording 26° Scorpio was prominent, and finished recording a few days later when the Moon was at 29° Pisces. What I find fascinating is the fact these degrees are that of my late-grandmother's Sun and Ascendant respectively, and she got a big mention during this episode!   LINKS Info about my talk for The Astrological Association Conference Palo Santo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bursera_graveolens Cornstarch with water on a speaker https://youtu.be/MuuO_1nm4NM?t=30 Sand on a speaker https://youtu.be/wvJAgrUBF4w The Universe as Frequency https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-hippies-were-right-its-all-about-vibrations-man/ In the Beginning was the Word https://www.languageinsight.com/blog/2019/the-origin-of-language-evolutions-greatest-mystery/  

Sean Stone discusses where we are in the New World Order and how the elites are now openly showing their hands full force. America and the world have always been at war with this imperial faction. We're at the dawn of a new age where he's optimistic and thinks people will not go along with The Great Reset. The NWO system doesn't have the energy behind it and is collapsing. He feels the human spirit is so powerful that it's overthrown every empire that's come our way. His documentary series Best Kept Secret looks at the black economy and underbelly of geopolitics and empire (e.g. drug and human trafficking, pedophilia, occultism, mind control). Sean discusses the war on Russia via Ukraine and doesn't feel we'll end up with nuclear war, rather that Russia is the vanguard for the new alternative and multipolar world order. Watch On BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble Geopolitics & Empire · Sean Stone: The New World Order System Doesn't Have the Energy Behind It to Succeed #293 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.comDonate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsConsult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopoliticseasyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.comEscape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopoliticsPassVult https://passvult.comSociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.comWise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites Sean Stone Website https://www.seanstone.info Best Kept Secret documentary series https://www.seanstone.info/bestkeptsecret About Sean Stone Sean Christopher Ali Stone began his spiritual quest at 10 years old, when his father took him to Tibet, Nepal and India, to illuminate the stark contrast between those worlds, and Hollywood, where he had been a child-actor in Oliver Stone films like JFK, The Doors and Natural Born Killers. Sean took summer jobs for Jim Brown's Amer-I-Can program and Save the Children while still in high school, then studied American History at Princeton University, and Oxford, before writing his Senior Thesis on the modern history of the New World Order, now available from TrineDay and Amazon. Sean began his own filmmaking career by apprenticing under his father on Alexander, shooting the behind-the-scenes documentary Fight Against Time. On the film W., Sean worked as an Editorial Consultant, and on the TV series The Untold History of the United States, as an Associate Editor. Sean Stone starred in and directed his first feature film Greystone Park in 2012, based on his real-life paranormal experiences in a haunted mental hospital.  In 2020, he published the cosmic fairy tale, Desiderata by Ali, now available from Blackstone and Audible. His most recent release is the poetry book The Ephemeral Shades of Time. His poetry was turned into an album on iTunes and Spotify, Alien Spirit featuring the music of Michel Huygen. Stone is a graduate of the Baron Brown Studio and has starred in multiple features including Night Walk, Union Bound, and Fury of the Fist and the Golden Fleece, which he also wrote. He has directed the documentaries A Century of War, Hollywood, D.C. and MetaHuman with Deepak Chopra. He also produced the documentary The Paradigm of Money about Wall Street corruption and collusion with the US government. His limited docuseries Best Kept Secret explores the dark side of the Western elite's manipulation and control of humanity. His short films include Singularity, a dystopian warning about a plague that leads to a totalitarian surveillance state, as well as the short film Anaarkali with Bollywood star Javed Jaffrey, adapted from the fairy tale of a ‘kept woman' seeking her independence in modern Mumbai.