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In the image above, we see an industrious Noah diligently tending his vineyard, in striking contrast to a later depiction in the same chapter that describes him as being in an inebriated stupor. Scholars have noted the odd inconsistency between these two scenes. Can these two opposing pictures of Noah be reconciled? The post Essay #77: Noah (Moses 8): Was Noah Drunk or in a Vision? (Genesis 9) first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

In the image above, we see an industrious Noah diligently tending his vineyard, in striking contrast to a later depiction in the same chapter that describes him as being in an inebriated stupor. Scholars have noted the odd inconsistency between these two scenes. Can these two opposing pictures of Noah be reconciled? The post Essay #77: Noah (Moses 8): Was Noah Drunk or in a Vision? (Genesis 9) first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

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In this episode of the Backpacking Light Podcast, longtime Backpacking Light contributor Mark Wetherington reads his essay The Backpacking Tithe Project. In it, he considers the implications of intentionally focusing on frequent, short trips over long thru-hikes. Click here for show notes: https://backpackinglight.com/episode-47-mark-wetherington-reads-the-backpacking-tithe-project

In this episode of The Therapy Show I talk with Dr. Steve Thayer about psychedelics, burnout and pivoting your skill set in the counseling field. Dr. Steve Thayer earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Brigham Young University, where his doctoral research focused on measuring and optimizing therapeutic relationships in group and individual psychotherapy. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in counseling skills, clinical psychology, and personality theory. He completed his clinical residency with the U.S. Air Force at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center in San Antonio, Texas, receiving training in cutting-edge treatment modalities for PTSD. Following his residency, Dr. Thayer served as an activity duty clinical psychologist stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, LA. While in the military, Dr. Thayer served as the Barksdale Mental Health Clinic Officer In Charge, managed the base Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention & Treatment (ADAPT) Program, provided therapeutic and assessment services and counseled military leadership about community mental health concerns. Dr. Thayer maintains his commitment to serving veterans and first responders through his position as the Executive Director of Therapeutic Operations for the World Voice Project. Learn more:  Dr. Thayer's website:: Dr. Stephen Thayer - Clinical Psychologist (drstephenthayer.com) Podcast: Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers Connect with Dr. Thayer on IG:: Dr. Steve Thayer (@drstevethayer)  Kevin Kelly's Essay 1000 True Fans:: https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/ Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS):: https://maps.org/ Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research:: https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/ If you are enjoying the show, please consider leaving me a 5 star rating and review on Apple podcasts here. Need continuing education contact hours? If so, I got you!  I have 9 Podcourses available for your listening and learning pleasure! You can find them on my site and get your first one FREE! (And did you know I'm a NBCC approved provider?)  I've made it my mission to provide you with continuing education that fits your busy lifestyle. No more having to sit in front of a computer to obtain your contact hours. You can listen to the Podcourses in between sessions, on your commute, while you walk your dog or make dinner! Just head to my site to check them all out.  This episode brought to you by: Want to be more comfortable while sitting on the therapist couch? I sure did and went looking for athleisure wear and activewear that was soft, wrinkle resistant and would match just about anything I already had in my closet. I wanted stylish and high quality apparel that wouldn't break my bank account. And now Zyia Active makes up about 80% of my wardrobe. Want to learn more? Head to lisamustard.com/active-wear. Don't think this is just for women, they have mens' and kids' clothes too. Our family is loving the styles and quality while I love the price tags! So head over to my site to check it out. ZYIA is available in the US and Canada. My current faves for work: the work flow pants and parallel tanks. And I love these black leggings for any type of workout. Sign up here to receive the latest activewear releases, restocks, customer appreciation specials and offers - https://slkt.io/fWYE. I am an affiliate and receive a commission if you decide to purchase from the above links.   

Ethan has returned from the Big Apple and he's going to tell us all about it on the pod! Jump in to hear him talk about all the shoes he tried on, the amazing vintage stores, and how all of our favorite shops are doing (as well as a few thoughts on the product). Ethan's Essay: https://alittlebitofrest.com/2021/10/10/ethans-solo-nyc-2021-trip/ Support us on Patreon and join the Discord: https://www.patreon.com/styleanddirection/ Follow us on Instagram! Style & Direction: https://www.instagram.com/styleanddirection/ Ethan: https://www.instagram.com/ethanmwong/ Spencer: https://www.instagram.com/spencerdso/ Watch us stream on Twitch: http://twitch.tv/styleanddirection Subscribe to our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/styleanddirection/ Podcast is produced by MJ Kintanar

Darja Keller ist Teil einer Generation, die nicht erwachsen und spiessig werden will. Ende Zwanzig wünschen sie und ihre FreundInnen sich trotzdem nichts mehr, wie irgendwo irgendwann mal anzukommen. Über diese widersprüchlichen Wünsche und Träume ihrer Generation hat Darja Keller für "Das Magazin" einen Essay geschrieben. Darin fragt  sie sich: «Werde ich in zehn Jahren noch dieselbe sein?»Gelesen wird der Text von Tagi-Redaktor Jean-Marc Nia.Hier geht's zum Text: «Werde ich in zehn Jahren noch dieselbe sein?»https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/die-komplizierten-sehnsuechte-meiner-generation-254476288748 (ABO)Lesen Sie den «Tages-Anzeiger» inkl. «Das Magazin» 30 Tage lang kostenlos im Probeabo, jederzeit kündbar:www.tagiabo.ch

Graffiti is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view. It dates back to the Roman Empire, older to ancient Greece, and more advanced ancient Egypt. It's like hunting since it's an act that can land anywhere on the spectrum of honorable to deplorable. With game trophy hunting of endangered species being vandalism while sustenance hunting which honors the animal being natural, graffiti that's not art is contractive, such as gang signs that make the surface it's made on worse, while graffiti that's art can make the surface it's made on better.Outside of commercial graffiti, where artists are hired to paint a billboard on the side of a high rise per se, the majority of this action outside of those rare occurrences, involves the graffitist self creating a canvas in public view without permission. So most graffitists through time have chosen to protect their identities through anonymity and/or to avoid prosecution from the state.Ask anyone on a street about graffiti, especially the artistic type, and they will surely mention one nom de plum - Banksy. A nearly household name who's a pseudonymous England-based street artist who's become one of the world's most notorious known for his political art. Anonymity, which has been the superhero trait for many authentic occultists through time, has also worked to Banksy's personal advantage. For both reasons he planned and didn't plan for. As he said in the 2010 documentary film focused around him, Exit Through The Gift Shop, “What I do is in sort of a legal grey area”, thus he takes his privacy very seriously. It also of course gives him more of a safety blanket. And allure. While not making his works so much about his ego, but more the art works themselves. At least in theory. With Banksy in the past saying “fame is a grotesque sole destroying vulgarity for the egomaniacal, narcissists who are, of course, staggeringly insecure”. Having no desire for fame is a very soul mature and sophisticated trait. Yet every once in a blue moon, those who feel that way still acquire it. Or perhaps it acquires them.To highlight how incredibly talented Banksy is, The film Exit Through The Gift Shop started out being made in the early 2000's by a Los Angeles-based French shopkeeper Thierry Guetta, whose obsession with street art leads him to attempt to make a documentary about the subject. Notice how I said attempt because the halls of the akashic records are full of struggling filmmakers who want to or try to make a documentary and never finish one. This is because Guetta is what we call a shooter. Which is just a dude with a camera who shoots stuff, without really any editing skill and even less narrative writing skill. He actually connected up with Banksy and gets exclusive access to film him, but turns out to be such a crap filmmaker that Banksy actually ends up taking over the project and steering the creative with the many thousands of hours and years of footage Guetta had shot. The film, after being assembled into something with a narrative story by Banksy, shows how Thierry Guetta has become Mr. Brainwash, now one of the most provocative and famous figures in the contemporary world of street art, and also contains exclusive interviews and footage of Banksy, Invader, Shepard Fairey, and many other graffiti artists. So for never having taken on this moving medium, and perhaps being the one and only time he does so in feature length. He did a quite good job putting it together into an enjoyable to watch doc. Which is not an easy task.Banksy's primary focus, street art, has typically contained common motifs of monkeys, apes, rats, children, elderly, police, and soldiers with recurrent critiques of societal operating problems such as hypocrisy, despair, absurdity, poverty, greed, alienation, and off balance profiteering - of which there's certainly no shortage of in the world. His work could be said to be anti-establishment, anti-war, anti-authoritarian, anti-fascist, and even critical of capitalism while also being somewhat anarchistic and nihilistic. All with twists of humor and relevance. Because he is not only a brilliant graffitist, multi medium artist, activist, not to mention adding filmmaker to that resume - Unlike many lukewarm artists, Banksy's work stands out from the hoards because it actually has real things to say and we very much personally resonate with him and his creative outputs.Since our personal main form of documentary still image work is street photography, we'll highlight here that the vast majority of those who have ever seen a piece of Banksy art have done it through the photographs taken of it, rather than the physical work itself. Banksy's stencil spray work, an artform which allows one who prefers to sneak around in the shadows, and usually under cover of night, to get in and out very quickly, has a quite distinct (individualized, hint, hint) visual style. So much to the point where you know it when you see it. But the only real way to absolutely confirm a work is genuinely his, is when Banksy shares a street photo or video on the internet. As confirmation a work is his, you if you will. Some of the most compelling street shots have a focal point of someone or something interacting or in a scene, (in situ), with a sign, or storefront, or work of art. We've personally taken photos inside art galleries that entail a painting and people's reaction to the painting, or in frame in front of the painting, which then became a meta expression of the artwork, being another artwork created with an artwork contained within. Some of the most amazing street art becomes even more amplified when photographed and that photograph has someone or something accentuating or interacting with the artwork. For example, a Banksy painting on a wall of rats in a beach chair was intentionally done on a concrete wall against a sandy beach. So the floor of sand was intended to be part of the artwork. Or a small memorial of the World Trade Center is placed right at a location with a crack in the wall running vertically down one of the towers so that a flower can be placed inside of it. Banksy does oftentimes include a secondary focus to a piece which may be a life sized person who is then looking at the focal point of the art. But oftentimes these real life 3D additions make what would otherwise be a 2D piece of art into more of a full volume, which when then captured photographically, becomes the largest expression of what the piece of art could hope to be. So the art becomes as much about the photography of it than the piece itself.It's known that Banksy is for sure a male, originally from Bristol, England, and there are debates about his real identity. At the time of this writing, there's actually significant proof of his birth corporate fiction name but we'll touch on that another time. There's also proof that he may operate as himself with another person or multiple other people. Radiating out from Bristol, down to London, his work has been thrown up across parts of Europe, the United States, and more specifically in locations such as Chiapas Mexico - an area known fort the indigenous Zapatista Army of National Liberation, and also in Palestine, hitting the Palistinean side of the aprprtide states of Israel's controversial and ironically enough, holocaust style West Bank barrier.Banksy's art is a prime example of the classic controversy of vandalism vs. art. Or another way to frame it is brandalism vs vandalism - brandalism being the sanctioning of corporate culture plastering their message and sigeles (another form of vandalism) everywhere in public space. No different than graffiti, only sanctioned because they've paid for it. The book Seven Years With Banksy says “By prescient I mean that what you see on a wall boldly painted by someone often projects into the future; it's powerful and effective – and the status quo doesn't like it. They never have and they never will, because they can't control it. But if you can pay through the nose for a billboard, you can say virtually anything you like. And as citizens we all have to swallow the messages of envy and greed from our ‘friendly' corporations because they have created laws saying that kind of indoctrination is OK. It's been paid for. And every graffiti artist, understands that. Adverts are as far from the truth as it is possible to get. They represent the utopia that you must pay for as you slope through your trashy end of town without a penny to scratch your arse with. But to go out there in the dead of night when even the dogs are asleep and to put up on a wall a picture of the way you, as a free citizen, see this whole setup is to have the courage of your convictions so the general public can witness how you see it, for free. And we all know graffiti can be exquisitely poignant and beautiful, more than any advertiser can co-opt or come up with. As long as there are advertising billboards there will be graffiti and there is no contest as to which is the more creative and true.”Supporters of public art very much endorse Banksy's work distributed in urban areas as pieces of art over vandalism and some government councils, such as Bristol, have officially protected them, while officials of other areas have deemed his work to be solely vandalism so it's been removed by the state or by other taggers. This is very common behavior for graffitists, who constantly paint over one another's works. Jocking for the top stop position of being seen and not covered up.For we must also never forget, the matrix is a cultural overlay on top of nature, which only allows and encourages lukewarm creativity to a certain point. And anything beyond that is strictly prohibited for being too truthful. For truly free expression and speech are the cornerstones of any real authentic democracy. Not pho, somewhat pretending to be democracies that are really, corporatocracy, plutocracies, or kleptocracies. So forms of real journalism and art are always swimming upstream from these systems. And one who works inside this system only can become an exception when they become so well known - Even though they may still highlight the subversive inversion to the powers of the corportized state. Now that Banksy's works are considered so valuable, he's almost become somewhat protected by that system. For Capitalism even finds a place for its enemies when they make it money. And the larger and more well known Banksy's art gets, the more he trolls the art world, the more both are exploited. For now everything he touches somewhat becomes gold monetarily. With literally entire sections of walls he tags removed soon after they go up. Knowing this, he often keeps his work to more publicly owned buildings or walls and only hits easily removable surfaces if he intentionally intends to use a work of his as a donation to the place. Such as leaving a stencil on an exterior door of a youth club that's struggling financially so they gain the revenue from selling the work. Or donating an artwork honoring health care workers who've been redlind during the covid pandemic.But as a whole, he hates the commodification and commercialization of art - Often trolling it. Being quoted as saying “The art world (meaning combining art with money) is the biggest joke,” “It's a rest home of the over privileged, the pretentious, and the weak. Knowing it doesn't care as much about the aesthetics let alone the messages of what the art is saying, which was proved in the case of an occurrence of Banksy having an old timer set up a fold up table in New York city for one day of his artwork. Which is perceived as fake with canvases selling for only $60 when they're worth in excess of $200,000, very few people bought them on the day. For the business art world cares exclusively about an artist's work's perceived high value and the standing of the artist themselves. Not the quality of the work. This was something we once personally experienced when showing our street photography to a Leica gallery manager. They wanted to know all about us and our status and standing in the photographer world, rather than the quality of the photography itself. Banksy himself has said Graffiti art has a hard enough time as it is, without hedge fund managers wanting to hang it on their walls.Another example of this sliminess was a blockchain company, (and there a lot of good things about blockchain) bought a $95,000 Banksy artwork, burned it and broadcast it live on the anti socials — all part of a process of turning the work into a virtual asset called a non-fungible token, or NFT - of which there are some good things, and some bad things as well. The company behind the stunt acquired the print in a New York gallery, then destroyed it. Moments later, they uploaded the digital representation of the art using blockchain technology on a NFT selling site. Hopefully they didn't really destroy it but instead a copy and it was just a marketing stunt for the NFT. But, whether real or staged, their mindset was that they were transferring the physical value of art by removing the physical piece from existence. So they bought the physical art piece just to destroy it. The problem here is they obviously don't give a shit about the artwork itself, they set fire to it.Prior to this, Banksy did probably the most known “high class negging” stunt against the art selling world in the now famous occurrence of his “Girl with Balloon” painting which was designed to self district after being remote triggered the moment after being sold at auction for $1.4 million dollars. With a built in shredder inside the frame being activated, with initial tests of the self shredding frame having ripped up the work successfully in trial runs, but on the actual day, only functioning to about half way, leaving the piece mostly intact. Sure it's a bit questionable to not think that Sotheby's, the world's largest art broker who caters to the ultra rich, couldn't have somehow been aware of the stunt prior to it occurring. Not taking the time to do a thorough inspection on the very unusually thick frame the artwork was in. But, who knows.Anything truly novel art will be a bid disconcerting and unsettling to the more conservative minded. It will rise up and break through multiple glass ceilings and the more it punches through, the more it will be discouraged. Yet, real leading edge creativity will be fiercely individualistic, challenge the status quo, not to mention be paradigm destroying. For every institution Banksy criticizes for suffering from extreme pretentious un-creative disease loves his artwork even more - because it's valuable to them monetarily. Which is the only language they know. And after the occurrence used it to their commercial advantage. The stunt gained not only massive attraction online but then also followed up by a press release from them, stating that Banksy was actually the first artist to create a final work of art live at auction. Not to mention the fact that the stunt made the painting more famous and thus valuable.Banksy's take on the semi successful stunt was that the urge to destroy is also creative. Which is also a Picasso quote. This has been seen many times with performance art or public stunt art, much of which also happens on the street and harkens back to the monks destroying their sand mandalas to highlight the ephemeral nature of life and reincarnations.After another work from Banksy, the ‘Devolved Parliament' painting, was sold, Banksy posted a quote from art critic Robert Hughes: “Art should make us feel more clearly and more intelligently. It should give us coherent sensations that we otherwise would not have had. But the price of a work of art is now part of its function, its new job is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. “Instead of being the common property of humankind the way many books are, art becomes the particular property of somebody who can afford it. Suppose that every worthwhile book in the world cost $1 million – imagine what a catastrophic effect on culture that would have.”We admire Banksy so much. Not just for his messaging, but consistency with his values over the years. Making folks think. Engaging them in discussion. Speaking through his art. High art, or art movements, with purpose and thus impact, are often started and created on the street - where everyone, not just those who can buy it, have access. No matter how known Banksy is, his work will have major elements that continue right where they started, perhaps on your soggy neighborhood street corner. He's not full of fake subversion and rebellion, and although he does a stunt or two, his main medium shows no sign of degrading. Since popularity does not equate to value, it's encouraging to see over the years, and he has been active for many years now, it's encouraging to see that although money and some ego of his name, sure now do apply, his free expression and continued creativity are leading edge. Culture jamming is a protest used by many anti-consumerist social movements to disrupt or subvert media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions, especially including advertising. It constantly works towards "exposing the methods of domination" of mass society. And Banksy has long shown that he is a master of it.———An Infinite Path podcast official URL http://www.aninfinitepath.comSpotify | iTunes | Overcast FM | Stitcher | Player FMElevate yourself with a membership to nilesheckman.com, purchasing our current extended episode archive or essay volumes, or sharing a proactive review on iTunes. 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Thomas Cole's artistry evokes poignant emotions as it leads the viewer's eye from the foreground to the background of the painting. The rough rocks nearby recall recent scenes of cleansing upheaval and destruction; beyond them, the Ark is finally at rest in calm waters, a witness of the divine love that preserved its righteous passengers in their journey through the deep; in the distance, the towering peak is a beacon of hope, a “Sinai” for Noah — presaging new revelation for the faithful remnants of humanity. The post Essay #76: Noah (Moses 8): Was Noah's Ark Designed as a Floating Temple? (Moses 8:22–30; Genesis 6:5–22; chapters 7–8) first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

Thomas Cole's artistry evokes poignant emotions as it leads the viewer's eye from the foreground to the background of the painting. The rough rocks nearby recall recent scenes of cleansing upheaval and destruction; beyond them, the Ark is finally at rest in calm waters, a witness of the divine love that preserved its righteous passengers in their journey through the deep; in the distance, the towering peak is a beacon of hope, a “Sinai” for Noah — presaging new revelation for the faithful remnants of humanity. The post Essay #76: Noah (Moses 8): Was Noah's Ark Designed as a Floating Temple? (Moses 8:22–30; Genesis 6:5–22; chapters 7–8) first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

"You should know this: that feed is your poem.” - Anne Boyer"You should know this: that thing you casually do is probably not your art. But it actually might be your art. Totally depends on the person." - MeLINKS:Buy Garments Against Women here: https://www.mobythegreat.com/books/anne-boyer/garments-against-women/9780141990217?gclid=CjwKCAjwtfqKBhBoEiwAZuesiNrZKfmdDm3cfsCp_4cA3ysYNXTUAvX3YEHFst5LXVIBjpTnI2LkUxoCXXUQAvD_BwEMy Website: https://www.robynoneil.comMy Shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

Yesterday, Harvard Business School was the first MBA program to release its 2021-22 Round 1 interview invites and dings, meaning that thousands of MBA hopefuls around the world have just received news they didn't want to hear. This episode is for anyone who experiences a business school rejection this year and isn't sure what it means about their candidacy or what their options are now.

The painting by Tissot shown above highlights the great anticipation for Noah's birth that appears in many ancient traditions. For example, in the pseudepigraphal book of 1 Enoch, Noah's appearance and actions as a newborn are described in ways that resemble a “‘full-grown' heavenly being”: “And when the child was born, his body was whiter than snow and redder than a rose, his hair was all white and like white wool and curly. Glorious [was his face]. When he opened his eyes, the house shone like the sun. And he stood up from the hands of the midwife, and he opened his mouth and praised the Lord of eternity.” The post Essay #75: Noah (Moses 8): The Sons of God and the Sons of Men (Moses 8:1-21) first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

The painting by Tissot shown above highlights the great anticipation for Noah's birth that appears in many ancient traditions. For example, in the pseudepigraphal book of 1 Enoch, Noah's appearance and actions as a newborn are described in ways that resemble a “‘full-grown' heavenly being”: “And when the child was born, his body was whiter than snow and redder than a rose, his hair was all white and like white wool and curly. Glorious [was his face]. When he opened his eyes, the house shone like the sun. And he stood up from the hands of the midwife, and he opened his mouth and praised the Lord of eternity.” The post Essay #75: Noah (Moses 8): The Sons of God and the Sons of Men (Moses 8:1-21) first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

Catholicism has a wholeness about it that does not see reason as somehow contrary to either Scripture or human experience.  This essay brings up the peculiar nature of specifically Christian revelation and its relation to the philosophic tradition. 

What Is Theology? is a fairly short discussion which seeks to clarify the relationship between political philosophy and revelation.  This essay originally appeared in “First Principles,” an on-line journal of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.  

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What and Where is Catholicism is a talk that was originally given at a parish in Cockeysville, Maryland.  It surveys the geographical extent of Catholicism but concentrates on the fact that the center of Catholicism is where the Mass is.  

The life of the mind is thinking. We even speak of thought as the highest expression of thought, which in turn refers to thinking the reality that is. Aquinas remains the model of many who see that the first order of the world is the order of mind that reflects that world that exists.

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Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Philip Lopate. Phillip is the author of over a dozen books:  4 personal essay collections (Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body, and Portrait Inside my Head), as well as Being with Children, Waterfront, and Notes on Sontag 3 works of fiction (Confessions of Summer, The Rug Merchant, and Two Marriages) 3 poetry collections (The Eyes Don't Always Want to Stay Open, The Daily Round, and At the End of the Day).   He has also edited several anthologies, including one of my personal favorites—Art of the Personal Essay—and he's the author of To Show and To Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction.  He is a professor in Columbia University's MFA Writing Program, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.   In this episode Phillip and I discuss: Why you need to have some things you haven't worked out when you begin to write an essay. The ground rules, selection process, and organizational structure for his three volume anthology. What qualities make for a great essay, what can kill a piece, and the role the past plays.   Plus, his #1 tip for writers. For more info and show notes: diymfa.com/377

In this episode, our host Erika interviews her 2020-21 client Jenny, who found a way to differentiate herself from the rest of the financial services pack and gained admission to both CBS and Wharton. 

Tradistae is a Catholic Worker organization promoting Catholic Social Teaching. The goal of the Easy Essay, inspired by Peter Maurin, is to blow the dynamite of Catholic Social Teaching by boiling down key ideas into short and simple essays. The following is a review, guide, and introduction to the excellent "Good Money" series of New Polity: https://newpolity.com/podcasts The full text of this Easy Essay: https://tradistae.com/2021/09/18/an-introduction-to-good-money/  Re-introducing Easy Essays (a tradition of Peter Maurin): https://tradistae.com/2019/05/30/re-introducing-easy-essays/  The full list of Easy Essays: https://tradistae.com/easy-essay-list/

Today I talked to Beth Alvarado about her new novel Jillian in the Borderlands (Black Lawrence Press, 2020) We first meet Jillian Guzmán when she is nine. She's mute, has a big imagination, and communicates through her drawings. She and her mother, Angie O'Malley live in the borderlands of Arizona and Mexico. Jillian can see ghosts – in the first story a dead child-bride saves her from the clutches of a predatory neighbor. These dark stories introduce faith healers, talking animals, and spirits of the dead. As she grows up, Jillian's drawings begin to both reflect and create the realities she sees around her, culminating at the Casa de los Olviados, a refuge for the sick and elderly run by a traditional faith healer, Juana of God. Beth Alvarado is an American author of both fiction and nonfiction. Her essay collection Anxious Attachments won the 2020 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and was long listed for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spievogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She is also the author of Anthropologies: A Family Memoir and Not a Matter of Love and other stories, which won the Many Voices Project Award. Her stories and essays have been published in many fine journals including The Sun, Guernica: An International Magazine of Politics and Art, The Southern Review, and Ploughshares. Three of her essays have been chosen as Notable by Best American Essays. She is a recipient of a 2020 Oregon Career Artist's Fellowship, and lives in Bend, Oregon, where she is core faculty at OSU-Cascades Low Residency MFA Program. I interview authors of beautifully written literary fiction and mysteries, and try to focus on independently published novels, especially by women and others whose voices deserve more attention. If your upcoming or recently published novel might be a candidate for a podcast, please contact me via my website, gpgottlieb dot com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Today I talked to Beth Alvarado about her new novel Jillian in the Borderlands (Black Lawrence Press, 2020) We first meet Jillian Guzmán when she is nine. She's mute, has a big imagination, and communicates through her drawings. She and her mother, Angie O'Malley live in the borderlands of Arizona and Mexico. Jillian can see ghosts – in the first story a dead child-bride saves her from the clutches of a predatory neighbor. These dark stories introduce faith healers, talking animals, and spirits of the dead. As she grows up, Jillian's drawings begin to both reflect and create the realities she sees around her, culminating at the Casa de los Olviados, a refuge for the sick and elderly run by a traditional faith healer, Juana of God. Beth Alvarado is an American author of both fiction and nonfiction. Her essay collection Anxious Attachments won the 2020 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and was long listed for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spievogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She is also the author of Anthropologies: A Family Memoir and Not a Matter of Love and other stories, which won the Many Voices Project Award. Her stories and essays have been published in many fine journals including The Sun, Guernica: An International Magazine of Politics and Art, The Southern Review, and Ploughshares. Three of her essays have been chosen as Notable by Best American Essays. She is a recipient of a 2020 Oregon Career Artist's Fellowship, and lives in Bend, Oregon, where she is core faculty at OSU-Cascades Low Residency MFA Program. I interview authors of beautifully written literary fiction and mysteries, and try to focus on independently published novels, especially by women and others whose voices deserve more attention. If your upcoming or recently published novel might be a candidate for a podcast, please contact me via my website, gpgottlieb dot com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this episode, I read my most recent essay on “Eros, the Evolution of Life and Mind, and Moving from Psychology Toward Soul-Making.” This paper explores Eros (in it's mythological and evolutionary sense) as a guiding organisational principle of life and invites us to tend to our connection to Eros as a partner in our renewal and re-engendering of relationship. Drawing on evolutionary biology, integral theory, attachment theory, theories of mind, developmental moral imagination, and more, I attempt to show how an Eros-(re)infused way of seeing and being might afford us great energy and direction in this time of fragmentation. Dive in, come to understand, and feel Eros in a renewed way. Let it animate your life and leadership. You can also download the paper here. --Show-notes and links hereConnect with Al on InstagramConnect with Al on FacebookMusic by RhoneSupport the show (https://aljeffery.com/podcast/)

Our use of color in Classic Menswear is the topic of this episode! To us, it's more than just a "pop of color" as many bloggers state. We're much more about how the colors signal an aesthetic; Colors, like everything we talk about, is all about that POV. It may be internalized, but I'm certain that you have some rule or guideline that you use when incorporating color into your looks! Shout out to our Patron Eric for helping us with this episode! Ethan's Essay: https://alittlebitofrest.com/2021/09/27/how-i-think-about-color/ Support us on Patreon and join the Discord: https://www.patreon.com/styleanddirection/ Follow us on Instagram! Style & Direction: https://www.instagram.com/styleanddirection/ Ethan: https://www.instagram.com/ethanmwong/ Spencer: https://www.instagram.com/spencerdso/ Watch us stream on Twitch: http://twitch.tv/styleanddirection Subscribe to our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/styleanddirection/ Podcast is produced by MJ Kintanar

Pictured on his deathbed, Adam is supported by Eve and surrounded by a daughter and two sons. In the background, Seth converses with an angel. The scene of the Death of Adam is part of a cycle of frescoes in the church of San Francesco in Arezzo, Italy illustrating the Legend of the True Cross. In this cycle, the classical forms of the quattrocento appear against a “sparse, often surrealist landscape—the pictorial equivalent of silence. To the modern eye, Piero's paintings show a subdued emotion, where rational theory appears to have overwhelmed naturalism.” The post Essay #74: The Family of Adam and Eve (Moses 6:1–12) first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

Pictured on his deathbed, Adam is supported by Eve and surrounded by a daughter and two sons. In the background, Seth converses with an angel. The scene of the Death of Adam is part of a cycle of frescoes in the church of San Francesco in Arezzo, Italy illustrating the Legend of the True Cross. In this cycle, the classical forms of the quattrocento appear against a “sparse, often surrealist landscape—the pictorial equivalent of silence. To the modern eye, Piero's paintings show a subdued emotion, where rational theory appears to have overwhelmed naturalism.” The post Essay #74: The Family of Adam and Eve (Moses 6:1–12) first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

In this episode, we hear from Just Wondering, a collective of three individuals based in Eastern Europe. M, Mina and Aron. They make animated videos which they describe as “inescapably political and speculative”. I picked some of the video that had really piqued my interest - an impossible choice really, as the topics covered by Just Wondering cover so much ground, from Tim Morton's hyperobjects to Sunaura Taylor's disability liberation approach.  A liberation movement must change the narrative and storytelling is Just Wondering's strength. We hear about their learning journey through the theory and how the collective came to make videos, as well as details about the illustration and animation process. We also hear briefly about some of the collectives plans for the future.Just Wondering on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/justwondering/featuredJust Wondering website: https://www.justwondering.io

Full Text of ReadingsFriday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 453All podcast readings are produced by the USCCB and are from the Catholic Lectionary, based on the New American Bible and approved for use in the United States _______________________________________The Saint of the day is Saint John Henry NewmanJohn Henry Newman, the 19th-century's most important English-speaking Catholic theologian, spent the first half of his life as an Anglican and the second half as a Roman Catholic. He was a priest, popular preacher, writer, and eminent theologian in both churches. Born in London, England, he studied at Oxford's Trinity College, was a tutor at Oriel College, and for 17 years was vicar of the university church, St. Mary the Virgin. He eventually published eight volumes of Parochial and Plain Sermons as well as two novels. His poem, “Dream of Gerontius,” was set to music by Sir Edward Elgar. After 1833, Newman was a prominent member of the Oxford Movement, which emphasized the Church's debt to the Church Fathers and challenged any tendency to consider truth as completely subjective. Historical research made Newman suspect that the Roman Catholic Church was in closest continuity with the Church that Jesus established. In 1845, he was received into full communion as a Catholic. Two years later he was ordained a Catholic priest in Rome and joined the Congregation of the Oratory, founded three centuries earlier by Saint Philip Neri. Returning to England, Newman founded Oratory houses in Birmingham and London and for seven years served as rector of the Catholic University of Ireland. Before Newman, Catholic theology tended to ignore history, preferring instead to draw deductions from first principles—much as plane geometry does. After Newman, the lived experience of believers was recognized as a key part of theological reflection. Newman eventually wrote 40 books and 21,000 letters that survive. Most famous are his book-length Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of Doctrine, Apologia Pro Vita Sua—his spiritual autobiography up to 1864—and Essay on the Grammar of Assent. He accepted Vatican I's teaching on papal infallibility while noting its limits, which many people who favored that definition were reluctant to do. When Newman was named a cardinal in 1879, he took as his motto “Cor ad cor loquitur”—“Heart speaks to heart.” He was buried in Rednal 11 years later. After his grave was exhumed in 2008, a new tomb was prepared at the Oratory church in Birmingham. Three years after Newman died, a Newman Club for Catholic students began at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In time, his name was linked to ministry centers at many public and private colleges and universities in the United States. In 2010, Pope Benedict XVI beatified Newman in London. Benedict noted Newman's emphasis on the vital place of revealed religion in civilized society, but also praised his pastoral zeal for the sick, the poor, the bereaved, and those in prison. Pope Francis canonized Newman in October 2019. Saint John Henry Newman's liturgical feast is celebrated on October 9. Reflection John Henry Newman has been called the “absent Father of Vatican II” because his writings on conscience, religious liberty, Scripture, the vocation of lay people, the relation of Church and State, and other topics were extremely influential in the shaping of the Council's documents. Although Newman was not always understood or appreciated, he steadfastly preached the Good News by word and example. Click here for our list of top 10 most influential Catholics! Saint of the Day Copyright Franciscan Media

Keir Starmer released a nearly 12,000-word essay about what he stands for as the Labour leader. But who was it for? And while Starmer braces himself for his party's conference this weekend, should we be bracing ourselves for this gas crisis to worsen? Max Jeffery talks with Katy Balls and James Forsyth.

In this episode Jenny talks to health and wellness expert Katrina Scott, who happens to be the cover model of the most recent issue of Strong Fitness Magazine! Katrina shares her unique story of how a family trip to the racetrack at age 10 led to her beginning her own personal fitness journey. After being bullied and body shamed at a young age she started to learn young that you need to participate in your own dreams and have the courage to do what you believe is right for yourself. Katrina opens up about her own fertility journey, how she was present in the earliest days of online influencing, and how sharing entrepreneurship and personal stories can connect and inspire us all to “live beautifully” Find Katrina here:Follow Katrina on IGThe Live Beautifully BlogThe Tone It Up WebsiteThe Live Beautifully Podcast If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating  and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser and Castbox. STRONG Fitness Magazine Subscription Use discount code STRONGGIRLResourcesSTRONG Fitness MagazineSTRONG Fitness Magazine on IGTeam Strong GirlsCoach JVBFollow Jenny on social mediaInstagramFacebookYouTube 

Phoebe Robinson, comedian, actress, and former co-host of the WNYC Studios podcast, 2 Dope Queens, joins us to discuss her new collection of essays, Please Don't Sit On My Bed in Your Outside Clothes.

Listen to Steve Siegel, ASA, MAAA, SOA Research Institute Senior Practice Research Actuary discuss the Aging and Retirement Issues for People of Different Races and Ethnicities – Essay Collection  with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Research Institute Managing Director. The Society of Actuaries' Aging and Retirement Strategic Research Program in collaboration with the International Association of Black Actuaries (IABA) and the Organization of Latino Actuaries (OLA)  released this collection of essays in response to a call for essays aimed to explore how differences in wealth and retirement outcomes are experienced by people of different races and ethnicities and to promote a better understanding of the underlying issues surrounding the differences. We welcome your questions or comments at researchinsights@soa.org.

This carefully conceived scene, executed in grisaille to decorate the top of a niche containing a portrait of Adam, is part of a set of large altarpiece panel paintings in the Joost Vijdt chapel in the Cathedral of St. Bavon at Ghent, Belgium. The portrayal of Abel lifting up the lamb “prefigures both the sacrifice of Christ and the Eucharist.” The contrasting choices of Cain and Abel with respect to their covenantal obligations typify the account of the parting of the ways of righteousness and wickedness that begins in Moses 5. Of those who follow the way of wickedness, Jude wrote: “Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain.” The post Essay #73: The Two Ways (Moses 5): The Five Celestial Laws (Moses, chapters 5–8) first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

This carefully conceived scene, executed in grisaille to decorate the top of a niche containing a portrait of Adam, is part of a set of large altarpiece panel paintings in the Joost Vijdt chapel in the Cathedral of St. Bavon at Ghent, Belgium. The portrayal of Abel lifting up the lamb “prefigures both the sacrifice of Christ and the Eucharist.” The contrasting choices of Cain and Abel with respect to their covenantal obligations typify the account of the parting of the ways of righteousness and wickedness that begins in Moses 5. Of those who follow the way of wickedness, Jude wrote: “Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain.” The post Essay #73: The Two Ways (Moses 5): The Five Celestial Laws (Moses, chapters 5–8) first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

Five audio-makers from around the world take over The Essay to offer a series of Radio 3's innovative Between the Ears features in miniature. Each edition takes an image as its starting point - from a radio producer who finds herself caught in a news image to a painting come to life. Chromophonia explores colour for the ears, through the eyes of two colour experts. Cheryl Porter is a books and paper conservator, specialising in medieval manuscripts and methods of creating and preserving pigments. David Batchelor is a contemporary artist and writer who works with and writes about colour. Through the colours black, yellow and blue, we hear physical processes and personal reflections. How is colour created, and how can it be used? And how does it feel to spend a career working with colour? Produced by Calum Perrin A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3

In this podcast, Aditya Kuvalekar talks to us about Aurangzeb and was the Mughal emperor a fanatic? In light of the recent events to portray Aurangzeb as someone who was not bigoted this podcast is an attempt to look at the primary sources and have an open discussion about Aurangzeb. We discuss whether history should have an impact on contemporary politics? Follow Them: Aditya: @adikuva You can read the Essay written by Aditya and Kedar here: https://openthemagazine.com/essay/the-truth-about-aurangzeb/ #Aurangzeb #History ------------------------------------------------------------ Listen to the podcasts on: SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/kushal-mehra-99891819 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1rVcDV3upgVurMVW1wwoBp Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-c%C4%81rv%C4%81ka-podcast/id1445348369 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-carvaka-podcast ------------------------------------------------------------ Support The Cārvāka Podcast: Become a Member on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKPxuul6zSLAfKSsm123Vww/join Become a Member on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/carvaka UPI: kushalmehra@icici To buy The Carvaka Podcast Exclusive Merch please visit: http://kushalmehra.com/shop ------------------------------------------------------------ Follow Kushal: Twitter: https://twitter.com/kushal_mehra?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KushalMehraOfficial/? Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecarvakapodcast/?hl=en Koo: https://www.kooapp.com/profile/kushal_mehra Inquiries: https://kushalmehra.com/ Feedback: kushalmehra81@gmail.com

Five audio-makers from around the world take over The Essay to offer a series of Radio 3's innovative Between the Ears features in miniature. Each edition takes an image as its starting point - from a radio producer who finds herself caught in a news image to a painting come to life. Tonight, the audio artist Fallon Mayanja explores the idea of words as corpses, or shells, as she brings a photograph of crashing waves to life. Produced by Fallon Mayanja A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3

In this episode, Jenny shares some insight about how unplugging while on vacation with her family inspired her to reset and feel rejuvenated. We're reminded about the importance of “turning off” and how downtime, even if brief and local, can actually motivate you and empower you to work hard and keep your focus on what's next. Jenny also discusses the need to stop chasing greener grass and how crucial it is to live in the moment. Jenny talks about how “There is no way to happiness; Happiness IS the way”. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating  and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser and Castbox. STRONG Fitness Magazine Subscription Use discount code STRONGGIRLResourcesSTRONG Fitness MagazineSTRONG Fitness Magazine on IGTeam Strong GirlsCoach JVBFollow Jenny on social mediaInstagramFacebookYouTube 

IN THIS REPEAT: Here's an essay chat with Dr. Charlie Starr about the shorter work entitled HORRID RED THINGS. After beginning an occasional series examining a single essay from Lewis in 2012 and doing more than a dozen that year, I ended up doing a lot fewer since that time. The following discussion with Dr. Charlie Starr was first released in April, 2013. It's on the essay “Horrid Red Things.” The hope is that by listening to this essay chat you will want to read or re-read it. “Horrid Red Things” can be most easily found in a collection called God in the Dock. Charlie has been on several other shows since this essay chat. Be sure to check the links below to hear the other programs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Purchase God in the Dock Purchase Light: C.S. Lewis's First and Final Story Visit Charlie's Website Listen to Interview with Charlie about his book Light Listen to Other Podcasts with Dr. Charlie Starr Purchase  Lewis Books on Amazon Listen to All About Jack on iTunes Visit ScrewtapeCompanion.com Learn about The Misquotable C.S. Lewis Visit EssentialCSLewis.com

Five audio-makers from around the world take over The Essay to offer a series of Radio 3's innovative Between the Ears features in miniature. Each edition of takes an image as its starting point - from a radio producer who finds herself caught in a news image to a painting come to life. In this edition, Australian documentary maker Mike Williams revisits the scene of a family photo on a road trip to visit a famous outback pub. An unexpected obstacle forces him to contemplate the future. Produced by Mike Williams A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3

Round 1 of the 2021-22 MBA application cycle is soon drawing to a close, and along with those deadlines comes a surge in self-sabotaging applicant behavior. This episode covers 3 things you should do before submitting, as well as 3 mistakes you should avoid making after your materials are in.

We go back in time—with the help of groundbreaking work by anthropologist David Graeber and archaeologist David Wengrow—to examine what the history of social inequality can teach us about the political developments of today and the course we can plot for tomorrow. Along the way, with the help of the two Davids, we deploy the sharpest tools of historical materialism to debunk, dismiss, and dunk on the big idea bozos like Jared Diamond and Francis Fukuyama who make sweeping—and sweepingly wrong—proclamations about the essence of human nature and the naturalization of capitalist society. Essay we discuss: How to change the course of human history | David Graeber and David Wengrow https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/# Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab your TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)

If you consume media not just to be entertained but more to better yourself that's wonderful and you deserve a cookie. If you read books MORE than you watch screens, that's super amazing and you deserve a big fat brownie with gold flakes on top. Either that or full of pot. And / or our respect. Or all of the above.We've previously touched on the unfortunate truism that few read anything anymore. A night show in 2020 (during global Covid lockdowns when people were more home based than otherwise usually would be anyway) interviewed people cold on the street asking the question “what was the last book you read?” and it was followed by almost exclusively un-articulate answers, with a few clear and concise responses being those that quickly admitted to reading nothing. One of our colleagues who's created a variety of output has written several books, only one of which got to successful publishing, and has been by far, their least selling product. Even though it appears on the surface that there are many New York Times bestselling authors out there, the reality is that it's rare for a book to sell more than 300 copies in its entire lifetime. That's why the selections at almost all bookstores, larger chains or even smaller locales are very narrow and the publishing industry has as many stinking backwaters as any other. One of our societal problems is a lack of philosophers. To actually become a lover of, and embodier of, and communicator of wisdom (Trivium) we must read extensively, over our whole lifetime. This lack of reading is mainly in regards to traditional books, but a wonderful now seachange that technology does deserve credit for is the spoken word - as podcasts for example are now more ubiquitous and prevalent than live broadcast television. Hallelujah!Outside of personal experience, and internal communication, the spoken word from one inquiring mind to another, has been how knowledge is transmitted. Through time this was done around campfires, mystery schools, other philosophical institutions of higher learning, and books. Modern versions of those things still do exist, but there's also this modern advent of archives now existing through podcasts and audiobooks. So the spoken word, which has always been of predominant importance through time, only continues to amplify with technological advancement. The sense of listening has such a primary importance because listening is how humans input information most of the time while also having the ability to do something else. Because life is short and the internet has allowed for a deluge of great content in the form of audiobooks, lectures, podcasts, as well as other spoken word yummy audible knowledge, there is more than you can ever listen to in a lifetime and there are only so many hours in the day with that short life. Yet just like with all mediums, any form of spoken word can deliver quality or hot garbage. Radio, which has now been around for the better part of a century, is a perfect example. But if you're constantly listening to yummy, informative, and expansive spoken word content, whatever the medium, you deserve an affogato. Podcasts typically are interviews. Or sometimes individual, off the cuff, or else written content delivered to an audience similar to traditional lectures, sermons, stand up comedy routines, or speeches. But non fiction books, for thousands of years, have been a deeper, longer form medium for the voice to be transmitted. So we would actually place books as having the capability of being superior in depth to almost any other medium. Some of the world's most bold and profound content comes from pros which require multiple reads over numerous years. That takes a significant amount of time and life, to some extent, is short. And since we have this reading barrier problem which causes a large drop in audience, there remains a problem that many books, especially more rare ones, don't have audiobook equivalents. If you're a bibliophile or any form of book lover, you've probably come to realize that in the 21st century most digital versions of these books can be found or converted to audiobooks. This was all discussed in one of our previous essays entitled “reading through your ears” but there's also now technology to easily turn any text that is copy/pastable into a now not horribly robotic but actually listenable synthetic voice audiobook. We personally share books we've found valuable, who's authors have passed on, with patrons of our work and that entails sharing the PDf version (not under copyright - to honor creators income streams) as well as audiobook versions which if not already available, we will make our own audiobook versions of and share those audio files as well. Touch is some folk's prefered sense and some are able to just straight up soak up information more via conventional reading. So there will also continue to be purests for not only traditional reading but also via physical paper. In the interest of resource depletion, cell phones and e-readers certainly do require mineral extraction but less cutting down of trees. As digital devices have proven they are the forefront for the majority, analoge copies will always have their place - not to mention in case of electromagnetic pulse attack or grid collapse, but are now secondary to reading off any sort of screen. All though that is a joke, here's a legitimate criticism of traditional analogue reading which is not. It's a bit like running because it's very healthy but over long periods of time, can cause physical strain. Audiobooks have a great advantage over traditional books in the sense that you can be listening to an audiobook while doing other things. Going to the gym, gardening, driving etc… So they allow for multitasking and thus increased productivity.Another unique advantage of listening to any spoken word source is it also allows for soaking up the audio at faster speed. Seeking out media playing tools that allow you to change the speed of a source in increments. As you try this, you get more productive at it and can get through many more sources in the day. It really depends on the density of the material and how quickly the speaker is delivering the information, but we can listen easily to 5/10 podcast episodes in one day for example because we've worked up the skill set to ear canal input most sources at double speed if not 2.5x speed or rarely but occasionally even 3x speed. Anyone truly serious about their spiritual development will know study is a key component of that. Which, outside of direct communication, arrives through the eye or the ears, or if you're blind, through the fingers, from braille books. So having the tool of speed adjustment can be beneficial for having to do multiple passes over a pros over the years.If we ever go back and listen to ourselves in one of these essays, for example, we never do it at regular speed. It's a bit painful to listen at normal speed actually. So we praise any service, such as a video or spoken word app, which allows for speed changes as a valuable life-saving tool. Or at very least a three-hour podcast now turning into an hour and a half long podcast instantly. Every minute you save, is another minute you can have to yourself. Or another minute for study. So narrowing the spectrum of the inner juju juicy material you input, combined with a faster delivery of it to save time and increase efficiency has the potential to send you much further along the way to being philosophically astute.———An Infinite Path podcast official URL http://www.aninfinitepath.comSpotify | iTunes | Overcast FM | Stitcher | Player FMElevate yourself with a membership to nilesheckman.com, purchasing our current extended episode archive or essay volumes, or sharing a proactive review on iTunes. Niles' work can be found elsewhere on YouTube, Vimeo, and Substack.Here's our affiliate link for Jambo Superfoods as well.

Matt Chorley speaks to Financial Times journalist Sebastian Payne about his new book Broken Heartlands, which documents the key constituencies Labour leader Keir Starmer needs to win back in the next election, and hears from Andrew Adonis, a former Labour cabinet minister, James Meadway, a former advisor to John McDonnell and Sienna Rogers from Labour list about Starmer's standing with MPs.PLUSLibby Purves and Andy Silvester pick over the day's news. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, Tiny, Ben, and I continue our journey through Roger Ebert's Great Movies List. In this installment, we discuss Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Tarkovsky's Solaris, and Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon. We also pay tribute to Michael K Williams, discuss the trailer for The Matrix Resurrections, and share our thoughts on the latest Christopher Nolan news. Timestamps Show Start - 00:33 Christopher Nolan's next movie - 07:47 Tribute to Michael K Williams - 13:09 The Matrix Resurrections trailer - 27:42 Ebert's Great Movies Part 10 - 48:05 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - 50:01 Solaris (1972) - 1:22:42 Dog Day Afternoon (1975) - 1:58:28  Picks for Part 11 - 2:22:46 Closing the Ep - 2:27:45 Patreon Clip - 2:29:49 Pre-Recorded Outro - 2:32:40 Related Links Michael K. Williams, Omar From ‘The Wire,' Is Dead at 54 Christopher Nolan Bombshell: Director Talking To Multiple Studios On Film He'll Direct About J. Robert Oppenheimer & Development Of The A-Bomb In WWII The Matrix Resurrections Trailer  Ebert's Great Movies Episode Archive Ebert's Essay: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Ebert's Essay: Solaris (1972) Ebert's Essay: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)  Matt's Review: John and the Hole (2021) Matt's Review: The Night House (2021) Matt's Review: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)  Ben's Review: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) Ben's Review: Anne at 13,000 Ft. (2021) Ben's Review: Mogul Mowgli (2021) Ben's Happy Valley Essays - Midwest Film Journal Ben's Di$ney Essays - Midwest Film Journal  Help Support the Podcast Archive: Ben Sears Archive: Matt Hurt Official OV Merch: Our TeePublic Store  Obsessive Viewer - The homepage for all the things we do. Facebook - @ObsessiveViewer - @ObsessiveTiny - @IAmMikeWhite - @nerdster330 - @burger_lurker Obsessive Viewer Presents: Anthology - Matt's solo podcast exploring science fiction anthology storytelling in television's first golden age starting with The Twilight Zone. Apple Podcasts - Google Podcasts - Stitcher - Twitter Obsessive Viewer Presents: Tower Junkies - Our spinoff podcast dedicated to Stephen King's magnum opus, The Dark Tower and related topics. Apple Podcasts - Google Podcasts - Stitcher - Twitter Loudlike “Mistakes We Must Make” EP on iTunes - Our theme song is “An Eclipse of Events.” Grab Loudlike's EP and hear the full version of our theme. Patreon: As Good As It Gets– Mike's band's patreon inspired by the old Fan Club Memberships from the 80s and 90s. Episode Homepage: http://www.obsessiveviewer.com/OV351