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Introduction: The Trustworthiness Test (Matthew 5:33-37): Do I Need to CONVINCE OTHERS of the TRUTHFULNESS of what I say? (Matt 5:33–34a) Do I Look for LOOPHOLES to GET OUT of what I say? (Matt 5:34b–36) Matthew 23:22 – And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it. 1 Peter 2:22 – He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. Do I Always FOLLOW THROUGH on what I say? (Matt 5:37) James 5:12 – But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation. John 8:44 – You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Sermon Notes (PDF): BLANKHint: Highlight blanks above for answers! Small Group DiscussionRead Matthew 5:33-37What was your big take-away from this passage / message?How can you strengthen your reputation when it comes to honesty and trustworthiness? How can you weaken it?Do you ever make excuses or look for loopholes to get out of what you say?Do you struggle with being a “yes or no” person? How do you fail to be reliable and follow through on what you say?What does it look like to truly repent of deception and make things right with those you have lied to?BreakoutPray for one another. AUDIO TRANSCRIPT Return your Bibles to Matthew chapter 5 verses 33 through 37.Matthew chapter 5 verses 33 through 37.Is it safe to say that trust is in short supply in 2025?We are constantly bombarded with lies, conspiracies, fraud,lame excuses, propaganda, cover-ups.With each passing year, we become less and less trustingas others seem less and less trustworthy.I was going to use an object lesson to prove this point,but for the sake of unity, which you'll see in a minutewhy I'm not doing this, I'm going to have you use your imaginations instead.Imagine with me that a bunch of images are from the screens behind meof famous individuals, politicians, billionaires, tech gurus, celebrities,social media influencers, world-renowned doctors,and popular preachers who you see pop up on Spotify, YouTube, and television.And with each image, with each person, I ask this very simple question,is this person trustworthy?And with some of these famous people, the answer would be a decisive yes,while others would be a resounding no.But some examples may prove to be a bit controversial and divisive.It may be a bit of a mixed reaction, which could lead to some frustration,heated debates, and strained relationships.Hence my unwillingness to show these images in service today.What if I were to close out this slideshow with a picture of you?And for the final time, I ask this very simple question, is this person trustworthy?What would be the response?What would your family members, friends, and fellow church members say about you?Maybe you don't want to play along with my made-up scenario,because you're afraid of what other people would say about you.But you cannot be oblivious in this area of life, because your reputation,when it comes to honesty and trustworthiness, is not a throwaway issue.Your credibility with others on the outside speaks to your integrity before the Lord on the inside.We've been studying the Sermon on the Mount for the past few months,and now this is the fourth week of our latest section, "The Heart of the Law."And throughout Matthew chapter 5, Jesus doesn't lessen the Old Testament law.He elevates it. He doesn't abolish it and throw it away.He digs down deep into our hearts to show how it applies at the deepest levels of who we are.Jesus proves that obeying God's commands and displaying true righteousness are matters of the heart.Jesus cares way more about the internal than the external,because who you are internally shapes all that you say and do externally.So far, we have covered what Christ commands and expects when it comes to anger,sexuality, and marriage.In Matthew chapter 5, verses 33 through 37,the Lord turns your attention to what he has to say about making promises and keeping your word.To help you gauge your own personal credibility, Jesus assigns an important testthat you cannot afford to skip or to fail.And this test is the trustworthiness test.Before we dig into the first question, let's go to the Lord in prayer.Please pray that I will faithfully proclaim God's word.While I pray that you will faithfully and joyfully receive God's word.Father, we thank you for the gift of your word.It is a mirror that you hold up to our hearts to show us what means to change.Lord, this morning you're going to show us some very challenging and difficult things about ourselvesthat we do not want to see,but we must recognize them and we must make changes by the power of your Holy Spirit.So may you do the work that only you can.We ask all these things in Jesus' name. Amen.All right, who is ready for the trustworthiness test?Well, we're going to take it anyway. So the trustworthiness test, question one.Do I need to convince others of the truthfulness of what I say?Do I need to convince others of the truthfulness of what I say?Let's read verses 33 through 34.Jesus says, "Again, you have heard that it was said to those of old,'You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.'But I say to you, do not take an oath at all."This is the fourth time in Matthew chapter 5 that Jesus repeats the same verbal pattern."You have heard that it was said, but I say to you."So let's cover what was said in the past."You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn."You will not find this exact sentence word for word in the Old Testamentbecause it is a mashup of three different passages about keeping oaths.With the Nicos 19-2, Numbers chapter 30 verse 2 and Deuteronomy 23-21.In the Old Testament, oath taking was serious business.It wasn't something to be entered into lightly or carelessly.Vows were reserved for important matters.And God put them in place as a first line of defense against dishonesty.I find it helpful to view Old Testament oaths like spiritual speed bumps.Why do speed bumps exist?To cause you to slow down and keep pedestrian safe.Let me ask you, do speed bumps always do that?No, we've all seen maniacs treat speed bumps like challenges and jumps instead of warnings.And maybe you've been that maniac from time to time.Oaths were set up by God to curb the natural tendency to be deceitful and unreliable.They were like speed bumps.By taking an oath, you were saying,"God, you can bring judgment and cursing upon me if I do not keep my side of the bargain."But these spiritual speed bumps could not stop all dishonesty.It couldn't do away with people being deceitful.So vows help provide accountability, but they could not change the human heart,which is seen most clearly in the lives of the religious leaders of Jesus' day.The rabbis, the scribes, the Pharisees misinterpreted the Old Testament commands about vowsand twisted God's word to advance their own dishonest agenda.They believe that you shall not swear falsely, only spoke to perjuring yourself in a court of law.We'll talk about this in even greater detail in a few minutes,but they also believe that the instruction you shall perform to the Lord what you have swornleft some room for coloring outside the lines when it came to keeping your word.If you weren't in a court setting or you didn't make vows directly to Godand in His name there was some wiggle room to tell some lies.It wasn't ideal, but hey, not a big deal.As long as you said the right things and as long as you kept their man-made rules.Once again, the religious leaders are taking God's word, taking His commandsand putting it into their own man-made box.Their standards were shallow and their righteousness was phony.But Jesus calls His followers to a greater righteousness, to a higher standardwhen He says, "But I say to you, do not take an oath at all."This command brings up an important question that we have to answer.Is Jesus saying that it's always sinful to make a promise or a vow of any kind at any time?Well, some Christians, some scholars and pastors certainly think so,but that's a really hard stance to defend from the rest of Scripture.The Apostle Paul kept and he made and kept a vow in Acts 18-18.In Revelation chapter 10 verses 5 through 6, the Apostle John records an angel swearing enough.In the Old Testament, God made oaths to show the seriousness of His covenant promises.God didn't do that because he had a shaky reputation.He lovingly did that to give His people a rock-solid confidence in His trustworthinessand the certainty of His purposes and His plans.God's vows were like exclamation points that highlighted His credibilitybecause we so often do not trust Him even though His track record is flawless.The Lord established the Old Covenant with Israel and He has established a new covenant with all who believein the life, death, and resurrection of His Son.And at its core, a covenant is an oath-bound relationship that is built upon promises being keptand the Bible is crystal clear that God always keeps His promises.And speaking of covenants, the Bible describes marriage as a covenant relationshipwhich means that as a good and godly thing, you swear your devotion to your spouse.You know, 11 years ago, Pastor Jeff married my wife and Iand when he asked me to repeat my vows to Kate after him, I didn't say, "Whoa, wait preacher boy,I don't make promises or take vows. Don't you study the Bible for a living?Shouldn't you know that? Pass." Did I do that? Jeff, do you remember that? I don't think I did that.Let's move from the marriage ceremony to the courtroom.I'm called to testify in a very important case and the judge tells me to raise my right handand he asked me, "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you God?"What should I say?Sorry, judge. I'm a Christian. I can't do that. You may as well call the next witness. I'm out of here. Deuces.Is that going to go very well with the judge?Listen, Jesus is not condemning vows in the context of a courtroom or a wedding ceremony.Jesus is forbidding the practice of taking frivolous oaths and making pointless promises in everyday life situations.He's saying, "Do not be the kind of person who needs to swear on something or someone to be believed.Do not be the kind of person who needs to clarify that you're not lying.Who needs to clarify that you're telling the truth.Be so trustworthy that your word can be taken at face value without jumping through hoops.As a follower of Christ, you shouldn't need the spiritual speed bumps of promises, oaths, and vows to be taken seriously.You should be a person of such great integrity that promises are unnecessary because your past performance speaks for itself.Others should trust you implicitly because you have proven yourself explicitly.Your heart should be so full of the truth that lying doesn't even register as a valid option to choose or path to take.For the Christian, honesty is like breathing.You inhale the truth of God's word and then you exhale the truth in every situation.You don't tell white lies because you understand that there are no such thing as white lies.Every lie, no matter how small, is a huge deal to the Lord.You don't embellish your stories or add on extra details to impress people because who cares what other people think about you.What matters most is what God thinks about you.And He knows what you're saying is not true.You don't cut corners at work because you ultimately serve the Lord of all creation who sees everything,not the human boss across the hall who cannot see into your heart.You cannot control much in this life, but you do have the ability to deepen your credibility or destroy it,to strengthen it day by day or to willingly weaken it.You have no right to be offended when someone doesn't believe you if you have a shady history of saying things that are not trueand making promises that you didn't keep.You are simply reaping the consequences of what you have sown.You are receiving the label of untrustworthy, which is a title that you have repeatedly earned.The trustworthiness test.Move on to the second question.And it will not be easier than the first.Do I look for loopholes to get out of what I say?Do I look for loopholes to get out of what I say?So Jesus pulls the rug out from underneath the religious leaders and exposes their ridiculous schemes in verses 34 through 36.But I say to you, do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God,or by the earth, for it is His footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king.And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.As I said earlier, the scribes and Pharisees were experts at looking for loopholes and creating escape patches to get out of what they said,especially if what they said wasn't made in a court setting.So instead of swearing in God's name, they would swear by heaven, they would swear by the earth, the city of Jerusalem, or even their own heads.In their minds, swearing on these things was not binding like swearing in God's name.This is the verbal equivalent of crossing your fingers behind your back whenever you make a promise.They thought they were so clever. They found their own get out of oaths free card.But Jesus shows them that this line of thinking is childish and dumb.He destroys their loopholes and he closes their escape patches.Let's follow his logic.Jesus says, "Do not swear by heaven because who does heaven belong to?"All right. I know it's early. I'm going to ask that question again.Who does heaven belong to?It is His throne.And Matthew actually reinforces this later on when Jesus says,"And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it."He also says, "Don't swear by the earth because who does it belong to?"Once again, I'm going to try it again. Who does the earth belong to, everyone?It is His footstool. God is so awesome. He is so big.The earth is like a teeny tiny ottoman where He puts His feet up.The earth belongs to God, so don't swear by it.It's also not a great idea to swear by Jerusalem because who does it belong to?Great job, everyone.The king of Jerusalem, the king of the earth, and that is God.You swear by Jerusalem. You swear by the one who created and rules over Israel.And He also says, "Don't swear by your own head."It seems kind of weird, right? What does that even mean?Well, it means this. "If I don't keep my word, let me be decapitated."A modern day equivalent of this would be, "Cross my heart and hope to die. Stick a needle in my..."These words mean nothing and they control nothing.Jesus says, "You cannot make one hair white or black."Back in those days, people could not control their hair color with hair dye like we can today.Once your hair started going gray, there was no going back.But even today in 2025, you can't speak a change of hair color into existence, right?You can't say, "Let my hair be black. Let my hair be blonde again."You cannot do that.So Jesus is saying, "If you cannot even control the color of your hair with your words,your words definitely cannot control if you're decapitated or not."God is saying, "My words certainly control that."Which means, "I own you. I own your head. I am the one who controls all things.So do not swear by heaven, by earth, by Jerusalem, or your own head."Jesus even exposes the other things the religious leaders swore by in Matthew chapter 23 verses 16 through 22.They would swear by the gold of the temple instead of the temple itself.They would swear by the gift on the altar instead of the altar itself.Jesus doesn't actually commend them for their shrewd thinking and their creative brainstorming.He calls them blind fools who cannot see the stupidity of their own actions.He labels them as blind guides who have fallen into a sinful pitand are calling the rest of Jerusalem to join them in the darkness.I know what you may be thinking at this point.Taylor, this is an interesting history lesson at all.I just don't see how this relates to me.I haven't sworn by anything or anyone for a long time.I haven't said, "I swear on my mother's life. I swear on my grandma's grave.I swear by my life that I'm not lying."So how does this relate to me? I haven't done that for many years.Well, here's how the text relates to you."Don't be a sneaky word ninja like the scribes and Pharisees.Do not be a sneaky person.Do not look for escape hatches and loopholes to get out of what you say,because that does not honor the Lord."Let me give you some examples that may hit close to home.Husbands, you're supposed to carry out a task for your wife, but then you forget.Yeah, stretch your imagination because that never happens, right?Then your wife calls you on it and to save face you say, "Oh, I was just about to do it.You didn't give me enough time. That's sneaky. So don't do it."You commit to a small group, but on one particular night, you don't really feel like going.So you call your small group leader, "Oh, man, I'm really under the weather.I don't want anybody else to get what I have. So I'm not going to make it tonight."That's sneaky. So don't do it.Someone texts or calls, someone texts or emails youand really annoying message that you do not want to respond to.So the next time you see that person, you pretend like you accidentally missed it.That's sneaky. So don't do it.You get invited to an event that you desperately do not want to go to.So what do you say? "Yeah, maybe that might work. Let me get back to my calendar and get back to you."You ain't getting back to them about nothing. You are going to ghost this person.That's sneaky. So don't do it.Unfortunately, you do get sucked into that event that you do not want to go to.Instead of biting the bullet and attending, you call that person the day of,"I really wanted to come, but something came up."But nothing came up.That's sneaky. So don't do it.And I know what some of you are saying to yourselves right now."Taylor, this seems like really small potatoes in the grand scheme of things."Shouldn't we move on to something a bit bigger?I mean, come on. These kinds of excuses are harmless and they hurt no one.Actually, these kinds of excuses are harmful and they hurt everyone, including you.You are numbing yourself to the deceitfulness of sin.And you are paving the way to lie in bigger and bolder ways moving forward.Listen, no one starts out as a pathological liar.It starts with one compromise that you get away with.And then it's way easier to make another compromise.You cross the line, you get away with it,and then you make a habit out of pushing boundaries and testing the limits.If you keep this up, you will end up saying and doing things that you never thought you were capable of.Sneakiness is a way of slipping into your heart and taking over if you're not on guard against it.But most importantly, these kind of devious excuses are sinful and sinning against the Lord.And that alone should give you pause and cause you to cut this behavior out of your life.It is not wise, it is not right to walk in the sneaky footsteps of the scribes and Phariseeswho rejected and murdered the Son of God.Instead, walk in the footsteps of the one who committed no sin.Neither was deceit found in his mouth.Jesus always told the truth even when it cost his own life.Jesus never made excuses to get out of his mission of dying on the cross.You must always tell the truth even when it gets you into trouble.Never make excuses even when it seems like everyone else around you is.The final question of the trustworthiness test.Do I always follow through on what I say?Do I always follow through on what I say?Jesus wraps up by showing the alternative to being an undependable and sneaky person in verse 37.Let what you say be simply yes or no.Anything more than this comes from evil.Well, according to our Lord, being an honest person is not a complex concept.Say yes if you'll do something. Say no if you will not do something.That's super easy, right?Not really.It is so simple, but it is also so hard to live out.It isn't convenient to be a yes or no person, but it is the freest way to live.It is so stressful to not keep your word.It is so stressful to have all those deceitful plates spinning in your mindbecause at some point one will come crashing down and you will have to deal with the consequences.It is exhausting to put on a mask and pretend to be someone who you are not.It is painful to not be the person who you project yourself to be.It is embarrassing to be unreliableand to have the reputation of being a constant flake and not an unshakable rock.When I am closing things down in my office for the day and packing things up,I often text my wife to let her know that I am on the way home.But sometimes I get distracted with other things after I send that text.Writing down a sermon thought that I don't want to lose,wrapping up a task that I forgot to complete, or talking to Pastor Jeff.That never happens, right Jeff?Several months ago I arrived home way later than I told Kate that I would.And I profusely apologized and I will never forget her blunt response with a loving smile on her face."Oh, that's okay. I always add an extra 15 minutes to your arrival time when you text me."Ouch!That loving burn really stung my conscience.My wife gave me some extra wiggle roombecause she was aware that I often missed the target of my stated arrival time.Do people need to give you wiggle room because they know that you often missed the target of keeping your word?They know you'll be somewhere off on the board but way off-center,or maybe you'll miss the board completely.You mean well, you have good intentions but your follow-through fall short.Maybe you feel very discouraged by your unreliable reputation.You're thinking to yourself, "I don't want to be this way. I want to help everyone.I want to be there for everyone but I can't seem to keep all of my commitments."Well, it sounds like you have a no problem.You say yes to everything because you don't want to let anyone down.But in the process, you let everyone down because you cannot equally serve everyone.If you say yes to everyone, your word will not carry weight with anyone.And to be clear, saying no can be wrong and sinful.Some of you in this room say no way more than you should at home, at work, and even in this church.God may be calling you to step up more, not step back less.But at the same time, saying no can also be right and productive.Because you have to recognize that you are not God.You cannot be everywhere all the time and you cannot do everything at the same exact time.You are a limited person.You need to count the cost of what you are committing yourself to before you say yes or no.It takes great wisdom and discernment to say no to good things.So that you can say yes to the best things.And Jesus is so direct at the end of verse 37 and says that anything beyond being a yes or no person is evil.It is wicked.And this is recapt in James 512.Some translations of Matthew 537 say that this kind of behavior beyond being a yes or no person is from the evil one.Meaning if you live this kind of deceitful lifestyle, you are way worse off than just being like the scribes and Pharisees.You are also like their spiritual father, Satan.Listen to what Jesus says to religious leaders in John 844.You are of your father the devil and your will is to do your father's desires.He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him.When he lies, he speaks out of his own character for he is a liar and the father of lies.My kids bear a family resemblance to Kate and me.They have my eye color and thankfully they have her good looks.After service, you see them running around.It shouldn't come as a surprise that they belong to Kate and me because they look just like us.There are two spiritual families and it's obvious which one you belong to based on which father you resemble the most.Do you resemble Satan who lies, cheats and steals or do you resemble God who tells the truth, does the right thing in the right way and selflessly serves?Which father do you resemble the most?We've reached the end of the trustworthiness test.How did you do?Did you pass or did you fail?Did you stick the landing or did you crash into the runway?Maybe the Lord has encouraged your heart and revealed to you that you have a strong and solid reputation that is well deserved.If that's you, keep up the good work, keep your foot on the gas pedal and keep moving forward by the grace of God.Maybe you're convicted that yes, you are in the family of God, but you sure aren't acting like it right now.Instead of hiding away and keeping your lies a secret, be honest about your dishonesty to God and to those you have betrayed.It is not enough to just stop lying from now on. You also have to uncover the lies that you've already told.I know that's hard. I know that feels shameful.But remember, if you are a true believer in Christ, there is no condemnation for you.You can be honest about your sin and ask for forgiveness from others because the penalty has already been paid by Jesus Christ.We can share openly about our failures because they're no longer held against us.Maybe you've come to the realization that you resemble the evil one and belong to the wrong family.For years, you've unapologetically told bold-faced lies. You've shared half truths.You've led people on. You've been underhanded and you've covered your tracks so you can avoid getting in trouble.You may feel crushed under the weight of your own dishonesty right now.If that's you, please do not try to do better or be better on your own.Do not try to clean up your act because that will not solve the problem.Self-improvement and self-help are fools errands that lead straight to hell.Those worldly methods will not solve the problem that is truly within you, which is the problem of your heart.Please come clean and confess your sins to the Lord.Turn from your deceptive ways and throw yourself at the mercy of Jesus Christ who died on the cross and rose again to save liars like you and me.If you do that, the Lord will give you a brand new heart that loves the truth, that desires the truth.A heart that is overflowing with a desire to share the truth with everyone.Only the most trustworthy one in all of existence can truly turn you into a trustworthy person.Let's pray.Father, I am a man of unclean lips who dwells among the people of unclean lips.Lord, we have sinned against you with our deception and our lies and our half truths.Lord, on our own, we are so helpless. We are so hopeless.But we thank you for your redeeming work.We thank you that you have cleansed us.You've cast our lies away from us as far as the east is from the west.Lord, help us not to be sneaky anymore.To not be deceptive anymore. To not make untrue excuses.Lord, help us to be people of our word who don't need to make promises.Help us to be people who have a solid reputation because our reputation impacts your reputation in this world.Lord, there's someone in this room who does not know and love you.May today be the day where they finally make the most important decision of their livesand are transformed and changed forever.We thank you for your goodness. We thank you that you are unchanging even though we're constantly changing.We ask all these things in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Os Encontros de Arles, que acontecem no sul da França, voltam a reunir o mundo profissional e amador da fotografia do mundo todo. A programação é eclética e extensa, com uma forte presença feminina, principalmente de japonesas. O Brasil também compareceu em várias vertentes do evento durante a semana profissional, de 1 a 7 de julho. As exposições em Arles podem ser vistas até 29 de setembro. Patrícia Moribe, enviada especial a ArlesCristina de Middel, diretora da mítica agência Magnum, ocupa a Igreja dos Irmãos Pregadores com “Viagem ao Centro”, uma espetacular – em vários sentidos – releitura do complexo movimento migratório saindo do México em direção aos Estados Unidos.Inspirado inicialmente na “Viagem ao Centro da Terra”, de Júlio Verne, a artista mistura ficção, encontros com personagens extraordinários e homenagens visuais a artistas como a fotógrafa mexicana Gabriela Iturbide, permeado de experiências trágicas de vítimas anônimas ou não.O Japão também é presença marcante, a começar pelo prêmio Woman in Motion, que neste ano homenageia a veterana Ishiuchi Miyako. Através de imagens quase etéreas, fantasmagóricas e poéticas de objetos pessoas, um apanhado de sua obra traz uma imersão na intimidade de pessoas como a própria mãe, Frida Kahlo, e de vítimas da tragédia de Hiroshima. Outra mostra que destaca o olhar de fotógrafas japonesas é “Que alegria de vê-las de novo”, com mais de vinte artistas de várias gerações. Em outra exposição, “Réplicas”, fotógrafas e fotógrafos japoneses revisitam a catástrofe de Fukushima, em 2011. Um relato visual emocionante é o de Mayumi Suzuki, que perdeu os pais no desastre. Ela encontrou objetos nos destroços, como a câmera do pai, que também era fotógrafo.  Arles também revisita a obra seminal e humanista da americana Mary Ellen Keller. Já a francesa Sophie Calle usa uma cripta do centro histórico para expor obras condenadas, ou seja, imagens expostas recentemente no museu Picasso em Paris, mas que foram atingidas no depósito da instituição pelas águas de violentas tempestades. Condenadas à destruição por estarem contaminadas por fungos, a cripta serve como último receptáculo dos trabalhos de Calle. Conexão BrasilO Brasil compareceu em várias seções da semana profissional dos Encontros de Arles. A fotografia brasileira contemporânea na França é cada vez mais presente, principalmente devido à atuação da associação Iandé, fundada por Glaucia Nogueira e Isabelle Brosolette Branco.A Iandé, que em tupi-guarani quer dizer nós, pronome pessoal inclusive, surgiu como plataforma para dar visibilidade à fotografia brasileira na França. Em 2024, a Iandé fez parte do circuito OFF de Arles, com um espaço próprio, um local de exposição de livros brasileiros e de intercâmbio.O leque de atuação da Iandé também vem se expandindo. “Agora queremos fazer a ponte entre os profissionais franceses e brasileiros, dos dois lados”, explica Glaucia Nogueira. Foi o que se viu na sexta-feira (5), durante um café da manhã promovido pela associação, reunindo representantes de festivais brasileiros, de instituições francesas e artistas dos dois países, para um contato informal de trocas de muitas ideias. “Eu gosto muito dessa ideia de que a França não está restrita apenas à metrópole, mas é capaz de se abrir para territórios ultramarinos, com um forte vínculo com o Brasil”, explicou Erika Negrel, diretora do Réseau Diagonal (Rede Diagonal), que reúne 30 centros fotográficos em toda a França. “Em nossa rede, temos também uma instituição implantada na Guiana Francesa, chamado La Tête dans les images (Cabeça nas Imagens), lembrando que a fronteira mais longa e extensa que compartilhamos com um país, é com o Brasil. São 700 quilômetros de fronteira que nos separam do Brasil”, diz a responsável francesa. “Como rede, temos o desejo de sermos abertos, de nos enriquecermos também com experiências, projetos e de compartilhar ideias com colegas, especialmente no Brasil.”Livros e encontrosNa feira de livros dos Encontros, Rafael Roncato apresentou “Tropical Trauma Misery Tour”, vencedor em 2023 do Dummy Award, um concurso internacional de projetos de livros de fotografia, antes conhecido como Kassel Dummy Award e que atualmente é outorgado pelo PhotoBookMuseum, de Colônia (Alemanha) e MAS Matbaa, de Istambul (Turquia). O livro de Roncato, uma revisão do fenômeno Bolsonaro, foi sua defesa na tese de mestrado da Academia Real de Haia, na Holanda, onde ele hoje é professor de fotografia.A primeira semana do festival de Arles também traz uma maratona de encontros reunindo especialistas e fotógrafos do mundo todo para encontros de 20 minutos cronometrados para intercâmbio de ideias. Entre os especialistas, estava João Kulcsár, diretor dos festivais de São Paulo e de Paranapiacaba (SP). Na seção OFF de Arles, muitas leituras de portfólio são organizadas pelas estruturas participantes, entre galerias e revistas.Ainda no circuito OFF, o fotógrafo Ricardo Tokugawa foi finalista do prêmio revelação Saif x La Kabine, com a série "Travessia".Em outro evento paralelo, o artista Shinji Nagabe, baseado em Madri, participou da mostra "Embajada", com peças da série Dioramas. 

Ever been curious about the hidden costs of joining an MLM? Discover the raw truths about multi-level marketing schemes with our special guest, Dani Leigh, a seasoned digital nomad and the insightful voice behind Travelling Jezebel and Not Your Boss Babe (which she built and developed and recently sold - aka a real digital business!) Dani takes us on her personal journey from globetrotting volunteer to uncovering the predatory practices of network marketers that target individuals seeking remote work opportunities. This episode peels back the layers to reveal how these schemes have surged, especially during the pandemic, trapping many in financial and emotional turmoil.Our conversation exposes the realities behind the glossy façade of MLMs, focusing on their recruitment-heavy models and overpriced products. Dani and I dive into manipulative marketing strategies, like the guilt-inducing "women supporting women" narrative, and the deceptive income disclosures that lure people into these traps. Hear real-life stories of how MLMs infiltrate communities, from expats to military families, and exploit vulnerabilities with empty promises of financial freedom and flexible work. Together, we highlight why these schemes are nothing more than modern-day scams and offer advice on how to recognize and avoid them.We wrap up with a deep dive into the nuances of running a successful online business. Dani shares her own experiences in diversifying income streams through affiliate marketing, website ads, and new ventures like Instagram and organizing group trips. This episode is packed with practical tips and valuable resources to help you navigate the ever-changing digital landscape while steering clear of unreliable business models like MLMs. Whether you're a seasoned digital nomad or just starting your remote work journey, this episode offers essential insights to protect and empower you.Connect with Dani on here - https://www.instagram.com/travellingjezebel/ (Iand check out her delicious blog https://travellingjezebel.com/, to see what a REAL remote business looks like

join us on a profound episode of "Interviews with Innocence with Marla Hughes" as we delve into the life-altering experiences of Dr. Tony Cicoria, an orthopedic surgeon with a unique twist of fate. Once a typical medical professional, Dr. Cicoria's life took an unexpected turn when he was struck by lightning in 1994, leading to a near-death experience that unveiled his unforeseen talent in classical piano music and composition. In this episode, Dr. Cicoria shares his astonishing transformation from a board-certified Orthopedic Surgeon to a sudden musical savant, unraveling how a lightning strike led him to discover his hidden prowess in music. We'll explore his journey from the initial shock and the subsequent near-death and out-of-body experiences to his unexpected emergence as a composer and pianist. Dr. Cicoria will take us through his talk at the IAND's International Conference, providing insights into his research and the spiritual aspects of human history that his experiences have illuminated. His story, featured in Dr. Oliver Sacks' "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain," showcases the incredible interplay between music, the brain, and the human spirit. Discover how Dr. Cicoria's compositions, featured in his CD "Notes From an Accidental Pianist" and his upcoming book "On the Other Side of Life," reflect his profound journey and the lessons he has gleaned about life, death, and the transcendent power of music. Tune in to this captivating episode as Dr. Cicoria takes us on a journey of resilience, transformation, and the undeniable impact of the unseen forces that shape our lives. Tags: #TonyCicoria #MusicSavant #NearDeathExperience #ClassicalMusic #TransformationStory #OrthopedicSurgeon #InspirationalJourney #HumanSpirit #MusicAndBrain #InterviewsWithInnocence

join us on a profound episode of "Interviews with Innocence with Marla Hughes" as we delve into the life-altering experiences of Dr. Tony Cicoria, an orthopedic surgeon with a unique twist of fate. Once a typical medical professional, Dr. Cicoria's life took an unexpected turn when he was struck by lightning in 1994, leading to a near-death experience that unveiled his unforeseen talent in classical piano music and composition. In this episode, Dr. Cicoria shares his astonishing transformation from a board-certified Orthopedic Surgeon to a sudden musical savant, unraveling how a lightning strike led him to discover his hidden prowess in music. We'll explore his journey from the initial shock and the subsequent near-death and out-of-body experiences to his unexpected emergence as a composer and pianist. Dr. Cicoria will take us through his talk at the IAND's International Conference, providing insights into his research and the spiritual aspects of human history that his experiences have illuminated. His story, featured in Dr. Oliver Sacks' "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain," showcases the incredible interplay between music, the brain, and the human spirit. Discover how Dr. Cicoria's compositions, featured in his CD "Notes From an Accidental Pianist" and his upcoming book "On the Other Side of Life," reflect his profound journey and the lessons he has gleaned about life, death, and the transcendent power of music. Tune in to this captivating episode as Dr. Cicoria takes us on a journey of resilience, transformation, and the undeniable impact of the unseen forces that shape our lives. Tags: #TonyCicoria #MusicSavant #NearDeathExperience #ClassicalMusic #TransformationStory #OrthopedicSurgeon #InspirationalJourney #HumanSpirit #MusicAndBrain #InterviewsWithInnocence

O festival ON/OFF, que corre paralelamente aos Encontros de Arles, encomendou ao Initial LABO, um dos principais laboratórios fotográficos profissionais da França, uma programação ligada ao Brasil, com projeções e discussões em torno da imagem. Patricia Moribe, enviada especial da RFI a Arles “Initial LABO é um laboratório fotográfico. Mas não só isso; nós somos um lugar onde todas as coisas são feitas para conectar um fotógrafo antes de apresentar o trabalho do fotógrafo e aumentar sua visibilidade. Por isso que nós estamos em Arles”, explica Denise Zanet, diretora do Initial LABO, enquanto prepara o palco do “Brasil Imprevisto”, na Cour du Archeveché, no coração do centro histórico da cidade. Ela explica que todos os dias da semana profissional, de 3 a 6 de julho, os trabalhos de fotógrafos brasileiros serão exibidos em projeções, mesas redondas e tardes de autógrafos. Gláucia Nogueira é outra figura de proa na divulgação da fotografia contemporânea brasileira. Ela fundou a Iandé, que começou como plataforma em 2016, evoluiu para um coletivo e hoje é uma associação francesa. “Nosso objetivo é fazer com que a presença da fotografia brasileira ganhe cada vez mais espaço na França”, explica.“Estamos na Fundação Manuel Rivera Ortiz, já pela terceira vez, este ano com o José Diniz, que tem curadoria de Ioana Mello. Pau Brasil - na exposição coletiva Grow Up - é uma exposição muito bonita, que fala de colonialismo, e traz para o presente e para o contexto atual a expropriação dessa árvore tão importante para o Brasil”, comenta Gláucia Nogueira. Andrea Eichenberger, catarinense radicada em Paris, participa de uma das projeções com “Parque”, realizada em Florianópolis. “É um espaço natural, protegido, e que foi vendido de forma irregular à propriedade privada. Esse lugar que está sendo ameaçado pela construção de um hotel de luxo. Um movimento popular se formou em torno desse espaço, exigindo a criação de um parque público natural no local. Então este trabalho gravita em torno disso, desse movimento, das formas de ocupação desse grupo, e tenta promover um diálogo com outros moradores da cidade sobre o uso desse espaço em Florianópolis.”, explica a fotógrafa.

Breaks fans, get ready! This week on the RIPEcast, we're blasting off with Dancing Mandy live set from Breakfast of Champions x It's A New Day 2023. Here's what Dancing Mandy shared about her set: “Playing Breakfast of Champions was a bucket list gig and I was so honored to open up the Wild West Stage. I pulled out some new and old school breaks to celebrate the first morning of 2023 :)”  More from Dancing Mandy: https://soundcloud.com/dancingmandy https://www.instagram.com/DanceMandyDance https://www.facebook.com/dancemandydance https://www.twitch.tv/dancingmandy

Who's ready for a thicc slab of funky ass beats from an OG Space Cowboy DJ? This week's RIPEcast is serving up exactly that—here's DJ Brad Robinson's smokin' set from this year's Breakfast of Champions x It's A New Day block party! Here's what Brad says about the party and his set: “It was another epic Breakfast of Champions as we completely “threaded the needle” with the weather and managed to get the only day of sunshine in 2 weeks.  What amazing luck that was!!!  Thanks so everyone who came out to celebrate with us, all those that rocked out on my danceflooe, and the epic team that helped to make it all happen.  Cheers to what 2023 brings!!!” Track List: 1. Joshwa - Miracles (DBR Edit) 2. Carlos Pineda - RUFF (DBR Edit) 3. Rodney Hunter - Dance (DBR Edit) 4. Mike Newman, Antoine Cortez, Djsakisp - In The Mix 5. CASSIMM - Jackin 6. Sharam Jey - Move Out (HSKT DBR Edit 7. DJ Mes - Re-Programmed 8. Block - Crown, Sean Finn - Que Pasa (DBR Edit) 9. Rescue - Make 'em Move 10. D-Rossini - Keep On Rockin 11. Sebastien Drums, Avicii - My Feelings For You (MERCER DBR Edit) 12. SHEE - Disco Machine Sound (DBR Edit) 13. Rubber People, Sinner - James - I-m Bad (DBR Edit) 14. The Cube Guys - Rich Girl (DBR Edit) 15. Gabriele Ranucci - Reach Out

Hello Friends! On this week's RIPEcast we have our very own Rumblemunk with his epic set of heavy beats and bass from Breakfast of Champions x It's A New Day 2023. Here's some word from Rumblemunk about the mix: “Upon listening to the recording of my set, I learned that I had skipped AN ENTIRE TRACK. Since all tracks are critical to a set, I had to re-record. Here is the best version of what I intended on that beautiful clear evening with you all. It's a busload of the best breakbeats I found in 2022, plus 5 (!) original productions from years past.”

Buckle up, friends! This week's RIPEcast takes us back to an epic set from Breakfast of Champions x It's A New Day 2023. We're thrilled to share this live mix from legendary pioneer of bass n beats, Freestylers! This set absolutely mashed the dance floor with old school vibes and new school flavor. Huge thanks to Freestylers for not only sharing these massive tunes with the BoC party, but letting us bring it to you on the podcast as well. 

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One this week's RIPEcast we've got another thumpin set of bass n breaks. This one's from Space Cowboy's very own DJ Sol, recorded live on 1/1/23 at the Breakfast of Champions + It's A New Day New Year's Day Block Party in San Francisco. Here's what Sol had to say about the party and the mix: "It's nearly impossible to describe the energy and vibe when you walk into this event, but you are instantly transported into a space of amazing people, love and music from every direction. Hugs and high-fives all day long. After weeks of torrential rains the only day without rain amazingly enough was New Year's Day! The sun was shining and the weather was sweet, it made you want to move your dancin feet. Playing at High Noon on the Wild West Stage was a blast! I started the set off with some Tech-y House and worked into some Bass and Breaks, then finally tag teaming a portion of the next set with my homie Shizzla!  Gradtude and thanks to my Space Cowboy family plus love and respect to Dusty Rhino, Brass Tax, Green Gorilla Lounge, Heavy Petting Zoo and to the Great Northern / It's A New Day family for another flawless event! Enjoy and thanks for your support! ~Sol" More from Sol: www.soundcloud.com/spacecowboys/sets/sol

This week's RIPEcast features a scorching live set from one of this year's Breakfast of Champions x It's A New Day guests—DJ producer and label owner at 83, Guau! Here's some lovely sentiments Guau shared with us about the set and his experience: “The more time I spend in San Francisco, the more I love this city. It has been an honor for me to be able to share the first dances of 2023 with the Space Cowboys team and for this reason I prepared a very special session, full of exclusive versions that I premiered at the BOC NYD 2023. Classics and unpublished songs mixed in 1 hour and a half of good vibe. Many thanks to J9 and the Space Cowboys crew for inviting me.”

This week's RIPEcast features another epic set recorded live at Breakfast of Champions + It's A New Day 2023—we're bringing Space Cowboys DJ WorkR with a set that features some of his favorite tracks from 2022! Here's some deets about the mix from the DJ: “Breakfast of Champions landed on a clear day between weeks of dark and rainy skies. I felt that with a new year starting on such a beautiful day some uplifting house music was exactly what was needed for a morning set. Thank you for listening - WorkR” More from WorkR: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/theworkr Twitch: twitch.tv/theworkr Setlist: Going Back - pinkloud Just Live It - Jacq (UK) Crazy About You - Kevin McKay Honey - 8ubbles Sunshine Day - Maickel Telussa Get Up - Per QX It's a Killa - Shermanology Get Down Low - Dark Heart Highway To Hell (DJ Vartan & Techcrasher Remix) - Dain Solo The Rhythm - Earth n Days The Rock - Luan Trombin People Happy - KLP Moon Groove - Noizu This Is How We Do - Richard Grey Life Is Back - Alexander Som Everyday - Wh0 California Dreamin' (Ray Montreal & Dor Halevi edit)- The Mamas & The Papas

This week on the RIPEcast, we've got Space Cowboys' own J9 the Angel with her set of dirty breaks and bass house, recorded live at Breakfast of Champions + It's A New Day 2023. Here's what J9 has to say about her set on New Year's Day: “BOC 2023 absolutely went OFF! That stage was crowded with love, and I was so happy to be joined up there by my family and friends. Thank you SF. You sure know how to bring it on the dance floor. Playing this set for you was an immense pleasure. The energy was palpable, and I love the exchange that we engage in, bringing each other higher, and elevating the vibe to the stars!! I was incredibly honored to open for my friend GUAU from Spain, and play many tunes that were crafted by friends of mine. I'm incredibly lucky to be able to do something that brings me SO MUCH JOY!!! I hope you enjoy these selections and reliving the day or getting a taste if you couldn't be there in person. Thank you so much for your support. Lots of love! j9” Setlist * Shine On (Deekline 2Step Remix) - Deekline, Benny Page, Origin8a & Propa * Hold It (Original Mix) - NeuroziZ, G$Montana * Lift Me Up (Original Mix) - Left/Right, LOWCO * Purpura (Original Mix) - Yo Speed, Nosk * HRDR (Original Mix) - MNNR * R U Ready Part 2 (Original Mix) - Backdraft * Dibby Dibby DJ (Original Mix) - AC Slater * Rush (Original Mix) - MPH, Cecelia * Tell Me feat. Jungle Brothers (Stanton Warriors Remix) - State of the Nation * Back Atcha (Original Mix) - Destroyers, Basstyler * Dielectric (Hankook & KALOCOM Remix) - The Darrow Chem Syndicate * DOWN TO RIDE (Colombo Remix) - BBK, Dmoney, OOdie, Xuptour * Back To Back (Original Mix) - Atomic Drop, Specimen A, Chesire Cat * Bass Shaker (Original Mix) - Defkline * Make My Day (OnDaMike Remix) - Brothers Of Funk * You Don't Know Yours (Kid Panel Remix) - The Darrow Chem Syndicate * New Dope (Original Mix) - Paket * Death Race (Original Mix) - Destroyers * House Broken (DJ30A & Huda Hudia Remix) - The Crystal Method, Naz Tokio ::Keep up with J9 the Angel:: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/j9theangel Facebook: facebook.com/j9theangel/ Instagram: instagram.com/j9theangel Twitch: twitch.tv/j9theangel Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR5SU9zFmg8dL5g1TyvEG3A

On week's RIPEcast we're bringing you a scorching set Space Cowboys' dancefloor igniter, Leyl Master Black, recorded live at Breakfast of Champions + It's A New Day 2023. Leyl's mix of techy, funky, and soulful house is regularly featured in the SF club and Burner scene, and her set at the Space Cowboy's Outer Space stage at BoC absolutely went off! Here's more about the mix from Leyl: “Breakfast of Champions is my favorite party of the year, and I always have a blast planning my set so I can bring something special to the stage. I'm so proud to be a part of the Space Cowboys and to produce events that bring our amazing community together. Thank you to everyone who came out to dance and celebrate with us!!!” More from Leyl Master Black: Soundcloud: @leylmaster Facebook: facebook.com/leylmasterblack Upcoming gigs: linktr.ee/leylmasterblack

Next up for the RIPEcast's Breakfast of Champions + It's A New Day 2023 sets, we're excited to bring you one of our fav guests, DJ ICON (Opulent Temple, Fraktured SF)—a local heroine of SF dance music & the Burner community, not to mention a dear friend of Space Cowboys! DJ ICON's bangin set of vocal-infused Bass House & Tech House blew up our Wild West stage tent and fired up the dance floor. Whether you were there in person or just in spirit, get ready to re-live these 60 minutes of epic vibes! Here's more about the mix from the DJ: 
“Definitely a major highlight of the past year! I had an amazing time rocking a near flawless set of my fave Bass House & Tech House tracks to a sea of my fave people all living their best lives. Thank you to the Space Cowboys for inviting me to play!” - DJ ICON More from DJ ICON: http://linktr.ee/djicon http://facebook.com/sfspacecowboys Setlist: 01. Wuki - Edge of Seventeen 02. Who Da Funk - Shiny Disco Balls (Alex Amaro Remix) 03. KVSH & verk - 1, 2 Step 04. SIDEPIECE - Reborn (Kyle Walker Extended Mix) 05. Cazztek - The Jam 06. Armand Van Helden - You Don't Know Me (Edit) 07. Joshwa - Miracles 08. Henry Fong & JSTJR - I Wanna 09. David Guetta & Dimitri Vegas feat. Nicole Scherzinger & Azteck - The Drop (Öwnboss Extended Remix) 10. Hutch, Block & Crown - Riddem 11. Öwnboss & SEVEK - Move Your Body 12. BIJOU - Six Shots 13. Cedric Gervais x Joel Corry - MOLLY 14. Diplo & Sleepy Tom - Be Right There (HUGEL Remix 15. Öwnboss & FAST BOY - Left & Right (BYOR Remix) 16. BIJOU & MARTEN HØRGER - I Know 17. Gorillaz - New Gold feat. Tame Impala and Bootie Brown (Dom Dolla Remix Extended) 18. Elton John & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart (Claptone Extended Mix)

Why have I been so grumpy?Why the under eye bags? What is this about imposter syndrome?I've been crying. And dealing with some health challenges. Health challenges always suck, but they are especially hard when you're supposed to be some kind of “wellness expert”. In this solo cast “short”, I'm going to be brave, and I hope that by listening/watching this episode, you too can be inspired to be a little more brave.These days I'm not just crying about my health issues. I've got some broken plates I'm dealing with (LINK TO EP 124) as well as coming to terms with my tree stump status (LINK 125).   As I type these show notes, I'm sitting in the waiting room of a dermatologist. I'm here for a biopsy that will help us to investigate a tricky little blood marker for autoimmune that came up positive for me. Why is my body attacking itself?     I'm not going to get all BOO HOO here. In dealing with this “bad news”, I remembered a wonderful clip from SoulPancake that featured an extraordinary young man, Zach Sobiech. I hope SoulPancake won't be mad that I took about 14 seconds of one of their clips for my podcast- hey, maybe I can help to promote it!   Zach was diagnosed with a terminal illness. When he received this information, he launched into an amazing period of creativity to share lessons about life.  One of my favorite songs by Zach is Clouds.  I think about what Zach faced, and how he remained positive.    What I'm dealing with pales in comparison.  I mean, just because I've got a bunch of doctors appointments and tests, does that give me the right to become Ms. Grumpy pants?No. I will talk about serious stuff on my podcast, but I will always endeavor to Make It Fun. Here are the 3 mantras from today's “Solo Cast Short”:   #1: Put yourself in each others shoes- ask the two questions I forgot to say out loud on Episode 125 (but I put them in the show notes).  Here they are:  Question 1: Will the boy step into the tree's shoes* (know and feel the giving of unconditional love) Question 2: Will the tree step into the boy's shoes** (know and feel the receiving of unconditional love) #2: People change, all the time. There is nothing as constant as change.   When I work in my nonprofit Nurture, I tell kids during our “nutrition education classes” that they don't have to try the broccoli if they don't want to. But I remind them that their taste buds change all the time. I get a lot of success with this approach. What do you think?   #3: Every sentient being that you encounter is a potential spiritual guide. All you have to do is be ready and open!   I'm curious about your thoughts on my desire to go on a journey inward.  Did I pick the wrong season for this journey?   The song for today's episode is The Safety Dance. I've put the lyrics below with two important lines highlighted. Any other lyrics you'd like to emphasize?   Sticky notes for future episodes:  - We're gonna do an EP on Happiness.  Stay tuned! - Glennon Doyle Melton's, “it's not a good idea to protect our kids from pain” concept. I was intrigued when I met her and saw her speak; she's on to some great ideas.   In this episode, I I mention my Positive on Publishing interview with #1 NYT bestselling author and transformational leader, Marci Shimoff. She has this beautiful “recipe” for manifestation, as follows:IntentionAttentionNo tensionListen to the full interview with Marci here (LINK) (so good!).    The Safety Dance Lyrics We can dance if we want toWe can leave your friends behind'Cause your friends don't danceAnd if they don't danceWell, they're no friends of mine Say, we can go where we want toA place where they will never find And we can act like we comeFrom out of this worldLeave the real one far behind And we can danceOr sing We can go when we want toNight is young and so am IAnd we can dress real neatFrom our hats to our feetAnd surprise 'em with the victory cry Say, we can act if we want toIf we don't, nobody willAnd you can act real rude and totally removedAnd I can act like an imbecile And say, we can dance, we can danceEverything's out of controlWe can dance, we can danceThey're doing it from pole to pole We can dance, we can danceEverybody look at your handsWe can dance, we can dance Everybody's taking the chance Safety dance We can dance if we want toWe've got all your life and mineAs long as we abuse it, never gonna lose it Everything'll work out right I say, we can dance if we want toWe can leave your friends behindBecause your friends don't danceAnd if they don't danceWell, they're no friends of mine Well, it's the safety dance It's the safety dance Well, it's the safety dance Well, it's the safety dance Oh, it's the safety dance Oh, it's the safety dance Everybody's taking the chance

For the next several weeks, we are excited to be featuring some of our favorite female DJs in our communities. This week we are thrilled to bring you Haute Mess's set from the Brass Tax stage at IAND/ BOC 2022! Get ready for bouncy bass and sexy tech house — selected for peak-hour dancing pleasure.   Catch Haute Mess playing at ‘Do it for the Gals', a Dusty Rhino Fundy at The Great Northern in San Francisco on June 18th! Keep up with Haute Mess: Soundcloud: @hautemessthedj Facebook: www.facebook.com/hautemessthedj Instagram: www.instagram.com/hautemessthedj Twitch: www.twitch.tv/hautemessthedj More about this week's guest: Haute Mess is a performance DJ hailing from the underground party crew: Brass Tax, and all-femme San Francisco DJ crew: Angels of bAss. Inspiring movement is her passion — expect a surge of energy when Haute Mess hits the decks. Her multi-genre selections delight with bass-heavy, hip-shaking, smile-making beats. Tracklist: Bizznizz (Extended Mix) Blvckr Give Me A Sign (Betoko Remix) LouLou Players, Pimpo Gama Step Closer (Original Mix) Ayaba Poetic, Dunmore Brothers Mother Funk House (Extended Mix) Fractall, Rocksted Wait A Minute (Extended Mix) Biscits Shakes Bass (Dub Mix) ZNMK 100% Tapped (Original Mix) Little Fritter House Of Love (Extended Mix) Raven & Kreyn Need It (Extended Mix) Ship Wrek Mercy FOMO Tempted (Extended Mix) Hawk Gimme Some Keys (Original Mix) Matroda Keep On (Original Mix) Phibes, DEEPROT Tweakalizer (Original Mix) Jean Bacarreza, FeelGood Phenomenon (Main Mix) Redlight Locked In (Darius Syrossian Remix) Kill Your Heroes, Dave Giles II Boing (Original Mix) Black Caviar Vibin' Thing (Extended Mix) Giant, Vush TURMA (Original Mix) Twogangs TCL (Original Mix) Bellecour Threat Level Midnight (Original Mix) Cloverdale Hustler (Original Mix) edetto I Want It (Extended) No Thanks Taste On My Lips (Extended Mix) RITN Talk To Me (Extended Mix) Biscits The Joker (Doc Brown Remix) Luigi Rocca I Gotta Let U Go (Bart B More Remix) Dominica "What You've Done To Me (feat. Bemendé) KREAM, Millean., Bemende

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sayadaw U Tejaniya style of practice

Well whaddaya know? Like finding that favorite album tucked away in a nook, we discovered we still have more amazing BoC recordings to share! This is a driving, get you going, butt off the chair mix from our very own WorkR. Let's goooooo! Here's what WorkR had to say about the mix: "I was beyond excited to play Breakfast of Champions again in person after our long lockdown break of virtual events. I played early in the day, basking in the sunlight and the vibe of the crowd. What a great way to start the new year." More from WorkR: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/theworkr Twitch: twitch.tv/theworkr

Welcome back to Variety Pack Podcast! We been gone for a minute, but we're back ! Iand so is kyle... tune in. Sit back, relax, and join us! We have a seat just for you. Our socials: Twitter: @podcast_pack Instagram: @VP_podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUa3dEo1fA-X7oVJMMDRREg email: variertypackpodcast52@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Can it be? We're on the very last set from our epic new year's day party. We might find a few hiding in a shelf here and there but for now, this is it! We're looking forward to the artists we're about to feature and a new series coming up featuring female DJs in the area. RIGHT NOW though, check out this slamming non-stop pedal-to-the-metal breaks and bass/tech house mix from our friend Nugz (@b-nugetz) on the Dusty Rhino stage!

On the RIPEcast this week, closing out Q1 and our BoC Cowboys recording, we have fan-favorite Space Cowboy ShOOey with a live recording from the Hoedown stage. It's an hour of first pumping breaks that you've come to expect and love. ✊

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Happy Friday everyone! Let's get this weekend started with another IAND+BOC 2022 set from our very own Space Cowboy @rumblemunk and debuts his original bootleg. Here's what rumblemunk had to say: "This mix includes my latest bootleg, an acid breaks remix of an early 2000s classic and a free download here: https://soundcloud.com/rumblemunk/shake-that-thing-get-busy-bootleg" More from Rumblemunk: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/rumblemunk

We've still got a few more BoC+IAND mixes to dish out and we're saving some of the best for last! This week it's our very own Kapt'n Kirk with his signature breaks sound.

This week on the RIPEcast, we have our very own Space Cowboy: Sol who brings us a funky, breaky, feel good mix live from the Hoedown stage at It's a New Day + Breakfast of Champions 2022, It's sure to get your romp shaking and your weekend warmed up. More from DJ Sol: Soundcloud: spacecowboys/sets/sol

This week, we are getting back to the IAND+BoC 2022 sets from our very own Leyl Master Black (@leylmaster) with a high powered house set that's sure to drive you all the way through the rest of the week. "Well that was one for the record books! This was absolutely my favorite BOC yet. The music, the people, the layout, the decor, the operations… all our hard work paid off in so many ways, and it was just perfect. I feel like the Space Cowboys and our friends at The Great Northern took it to the next level this year! Profoundly grateful I got to celebrate the new year in the best city in the world with all you beautiful maniacs. :)"

It might be February but we are still feeling the glow of the Space Cowboys New Year Day party and reliving the amazing music. This time, it's our veteran Cowboy, Brad Robinson with a funky, upbeat, disco-y house mix to get your weekend started! "So much energy went into pulling off BOC-IAND 2022 this year and it is hard to believe that it happened with the state of the pandemic in our area. I am so grateful for everyone that contributed to the event and showed up to dance with us in the sunshine. This set was a blast for me to play with so much good energy coming back to me from the crowd. Enjoy!" More from Brad Robinson: Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/djbradrobinson Facebook: facebook.com/djbradrobinson.spacecowboys www.djbradrobinson.com

Live from the Hoedown stage at It's a New Day + Breakfast of Champions, it's our very own @deckard-dj with a versatile booty-shaking, multi-genre, we-need-more-hyphens mix! Check it out! Here's what Deckard had to say about the mix! "Breakfast of Champions 2022 came in like a burst of light sending 2021 to the shadows. The energy and vibe everyone brought combined with all the hard work makes for a special once a year event that can't be topped in my book. Thank you to all the friends and fans who have supported our local scene, Space Cowboys and my DJ sets and mixes. You helped make this BoC my best yet. " About DJ Deckard: Born and bred in Washington, Keith Harris (a.k.a. Deckard) starting DJ-ing in 2000, at venues and clubs in Seattle and Canada. He moved to San Francisco in 2005 where his skills and talent evolved and became even more prolific, garnering interest and accolade and earning him a spot in the underground music scene. Deckard made his big splash as a member of Coda in 2006 at Burning Man. Soon after he joined forces with the Space Cowboys whose parties are legendary in San Francisco and Burning Man and whose Ripecast podcast was nominated for Best Podcast of the Year by Breakspoll for 2013. Mixing together a blend of music selection including, but certainly not limited to breakbeat, nu funk, and house, Deckard keeps crowds on their feet and moving backed by his unique sound and ability to mix genres whether it be playing a sunrise set at Breakfast of Champions or closing down the main room in front of a packed warehouse. Deckard has performed in a variety of venues on the west coast and Canada with DJs such as Jondi & Spesh, Uberzone, Lee Coombs, Plump DJs, Dylan Rhymes, Meat Katie, Elite Force/Simon Shackleton, Worthy and more. More from DJ Deckard: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/deckard-dj Facebook: facebook.com/djdeckard/ Twitter: twitter.com/dj_deckard

In this episode, Dr. Cicoria shares with us his talk that he gave at the IAND's International Conference. His research helps us to discover the aspects of human history that has in many ways remained hidden from us. For more information on this episode please visit: https://www.interviewswithinnocence.com/blog/122

This week, we continue our Breakfast of Champions recordings with the live set from our very own 8ball! Here's what he had to say about the set: "We have have a renewed appreciation for being able to see good friends and our amazing community at IRL events like Breakfast of Champions! This year, I dove into tracks that felt ravey and euphoric—classic old school breaks and new tracks with that classic old school style, plus a generous amount of original edits, samples, and surprises. Happy 2022, friends! Hope we much, much more of each other this year!" More from DJ 8ball: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/spacecowboys/sets/8ball Facebook: facebook.com/dj8ballsf Instagram: instagram.com/dj8ball Twitter: twitter.com/dj8ball Twitch: twitch.tv/dj8ball http://linktr.ee/dj8ball

This week, we have another tag team from It's a New Day + Breakfast of Champions. Our very own kev/null (@kevnull) with special guest davesimon (@djdavesimon)! Here's what they had to say about the set: Kevin: What an epic event. Dave and I started DJing coincidentally the same year and for the past decade have played at many of the same events, supported each other, and shared opportunities. To have our first tag team be at this special event, especially after such a long hiatus, was truly a peak experience. Dave: Meeting up to prepare and practice was hampered by all the things - 210 miles between us (Oakland/Reno), the holidays, an oddly limited number of flight options, and an insane blizzard that shut down the interstates. Thankfully two years of streaming experience inspired us to practice through a combination of high fidelity Zoom and Facetime calls, Dropbox and Soundcloud. Our mixers interfaced to Zoom, with bidirectional audio mixer monitoring + screen sharing made it possible to preview mixes, talk through sequences, flows, and visualize hot-cues. Using a common method for marking up tracks, we were able to make it happen remotely. Our first in-person practice session was the night before BOC, on New Years Eve, with a thrown-together DJ setup on a friends' kitchen table. More from kev/null: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/kevnull Facebook: facebook.com/djkevnull Instagram: instagram.com/kevnull Twitch: twitch.tv/kevnull More from davesimon: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/djdavesimon Instagram: instagram.com/davesimon/ Twitch: twitch.tv/djdavesimon Track listing: 01 Fresh (Frank Caro, Alemany Remix) - @crazibiza 02 Take Me (Extended Mix) - CHESSER 03 David Copperfield (Original Mix) - @genefarris, @kidenigma 04 Hot for You (Extended Mix) - @croatiasquad 05 Good For Critics (Original Mix) - @blockcrown 06 Prepare for the Night (@yvvanBack Remix) - @croatiasquad 07 Rollergirl (Original Mix) - @realblackcaviar 08 Romeo (@thisiswh0 Extended Festival Remix) - Basement Jaxx 09 Livin' on a Prayer (@deepdelicmusic & @djraphaelsiqueira) - Bon Jovi 10 Blue Caboose (Extended) - @skiitour 11 Bassline Drip (feat. Dread MC) (Original Mix) - Dread MC, @nostalgixmusic 12 Bassface (Extended Mix) - Piero @pirupa 13 Get Use To It (Club Mix) - @mje-music, @michael-chodo-music 14 Basuha (Original Mix) - @egoism-live, Platinum Monkey 15 edamame feat. Rich Brian (@diplo Remix) - bbno$, Rich Brian 16 How We Do (Raffa FL Re Edit) - Mr. V, @raffa_fl-music 17 The Sequel (Extended Mix) - @tita_lau 18 Get Ur Freak On (@kevinmckay Extended Remix) - @naderrazdar 19 Wanna Be (@jaxonnewgen, @vanillaace Remix) - Hako 20 Gypsy Woman (@nohopes & @pushkarevdj Remix) - @mauriziobasilotta, @discoverproject 21 I Can (Original Mix) - @zetbee-1 22 When I Hear The Beat (Original Mix) - @lucadebonaire

Kickin' off our It's a New Day + Breakfast of Champions (IAND+BOC) 2022 recordings is the tag team of @bassben and @kem_sf from the Cowboys BoC Stage. Hope you have your seatbelts on because there are no brakes on this ride! Here's what they had to say about the mix: "Now THAT was a fun time! So much work went into making this year's New Day - Breakfast of Champions party on New Year's Day 2022 look effortless, but the end result was oh so worth it! So many smiling faces, so much joy as we finally gathered together again in the California sunshine. Huge thanks to all the people who came out to celebrate with us, especially waveworks for bringing two fantastic sound systems, and Radiant Atmospheres for making a dynamic light show, that added so much magic, even during the day. A+ Please enjoy this recording, direct from the sound board to your ear holes!" Tracklist: Overnight (Extended Mix) - No Pants Party SATISFACTION (Extended Mix)- DON'T BLINK Boys Bass - Flynninha x sherm SHINE LIKE THIS (Original Mix) - Kuestenklatsch Monsters (No Pants Party Remix)- Kyle Robertson Straight Wylin' (DONT BLINK Extended Remix - Cropper Break Yourself (Original Mix) - Redux Saints On The Record (divaDanielle Remix) - DJ Denise SENSATION (Extended Mix) - DONT BLINK Dope Iz Dope (Original Mix) - Loudek, Arzenic Break It Down (Original Mix) - Barry Obzee Loco (Mirko Di Florio Remix) - Juany Bravo I'm in Love with You feat. MELLY - Return of the Jaded Garage Tape (Original Mix) - Kuestenklatsch Boom Bap - Pool Haus Somebody To Love (Extended Mix) - Ben Kim More from bassben: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/bassben About kem: A veteran of the SF underground, kem started rocking underground parties in 1998 and maintained a busy schedule playing regularly at SF venues for many years. His sought-after and innovative style led to gigs in Japan, Australia, Canada, Mexico and cities across the U.S. Today kem can be heard rocking dance floors at local favorite events such as FnF and Brass Tax. More from kem: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/kem_sf Twitch: twitch.tv/kem510

In today's beautiful episode with Robert, he shares with us the talk he have at the most recent IAND's conference. Robert shares with us some of the great challenges he has faced in his life and the spiritual lessons he has learned along the way that has led him to living a full, abundant life. For more information on this episode please visit: https://www.interviewswithinnocence.com/blog/115

Near death experiences and how this affects military and their families.Watch live on Facebook. www.facebook.com/transformationtalkradio/

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Novembro é tradicionalmente o mês da fotografia na França, com muitas exposições, encontros e debates em torno da imagem. É também a volta em formato presencial, desde o início da pandemia, da feira Paris Photo, uma das maiores do calendário internacional. A fotografia brasileira engajada tem destaque em uma exposição no bairro do Marais, na capital francesa.  Por Patricia Moribe As plataformas Iandê e a Photo Doc apresentam os quatro vencedores do Open Call Rituais Fotográficos/Rituais de Resisência, um concurso lançado no último Encontros de Arles, outro evento importante no cenário internacional. Quinze curadores brasileiros apresentaram o trabalho de dois fotógrafos. Ana Mendes foi o principal destaque, com “Pseudo Indígenas”, com curadoria de Marcela Bonfim. Tendo o registro de povos e comunidades tradicionais do Brasil como norteador de seu trabalho, ela apresenta em Paris imagens dos Akroá Gamella, do Maranhão, e dos Guarani e Kaiowá, do Mato Grosso do Sul. As fotografias sofrem intervenções, com palavras ditas por pessoas públicas, como políticos, juízes ou ministros, “que demonstram o racismo estrutural que o Brasil vive, questionando a identidade de uma população indígena”, explicou a artista. O trabalho de Ana Mendes também foi vencedor da categoria documental do 7° Prêmio Nacional de Fotografia Pierre Verger, realizado pela Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia. O prêmio especial do júri foi para Ilana Bar, com “Transparências de lar”, que há anos vem fotografando a própria família. “As fotos falam de intimidade, de humanidade”, conta Ilana, que começou fazendo experimentações até chegar a um vasto e rico ensaio. “Ele foi se criando de maneira orgânica, no dia a dia, através do contato com os personagens, que são a minha família, que olham para mim, que faço parte da história”. A curadoria foi de Sinara Sandri. Edgar Kanayko, da etnia Xakriabá, foi outro dos quatro finalistas. Além de fotógrafo, ele também é mestre em antropologia. Ele trabalha com a etnofotografia, que é um dos meios de se registrar os aspectos principais da cultura e da vida de um povo, no caso o indígena. O trabalho de Kanayko foi apresentado pelo curador Milton Guran. Já Rodrigo Zeferino concorreu com seu olhar sobre a cidade de Ipatinga, no Vale do Aço mineiro. O projeto “O Grande Vizinho”, realizado entre 2016 e 2018, retrata a convivência entre cidade e usina, planejadas para coexistir lado a lado, frente a frente. A curadoria foi de Eugênio Sávio. O comitê de seleção francês foi composto por Gláucia Nogueira, curadora e co-fundadora da Iandé, Charlotte Flossaut, da Photo Doc, Sophie Artaud, diretora cultural do projeto, Julia de Bierre, curadora e fundadora da galeria Huit Arles, e Christine Barthe, responsável pela unidade patrimonial fotográfica do Museu do Quai Branly. A exposição pode ser visitada até o dia 20 de novembro, na galeria Basia Embiricos, em Paris.

" Je pense qu'il faut avoir la capacité d'être enchanté par le monde. "À l'occasion de l'union entre Initial Labo et Iandé afin de créer un pont entre la culture photographique française et brésilienne, nous vous proposons une interview de Glaucia Nogueira, fondatrice de l'association Iandé et juge du festival Paranapiacaba, qui célèbre la préservation des équilibres naturels, posant des questions pertinentes sur la durabilité, la mémoire et le patrimoine, dont un hors les murs est présenté dans la galerie d'Initial Labo entre le 23 septembre et le 10 octobre.Site de Iandé : https://www.iande.fr/Site du festival : https://www.ffparanapiacaba.com.br/Livres évoqués : História do Brasil em 100 fotografias Types ( The Color of your skin ), Fernando BanziSomos Brasil, Marcus LyonGéants JO Rio, JRCrédits : Cet épisode de Mandarine a été enregistré à Boulogne, dans les locaux d'Initial Labo. Il a été préparé, enregistré, réalisé et mixé par Léonard Pauchon. Gilles Cargueray s'occupe de la communication du podcast, Denise et Julien Zanet participent à sa gestion. L'habillage sonore est issu de la musique Rio, Rio, Rio, composée par Giulio Follaco.Pour toute question ou remarque, n'hésitez pas à me contacter à l'adresse suivante : podcast@initiallabo.com, je me ferais un plaisir de vous répondre. Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Today, Carol the Coach is interviewing Laura Jenkins and Sherri Payne, who have supported the APSATS team to help women who are hurting and alone. They would like to share their story of the betrayal they experienced in their marriages over many years, how Ithey  said “no more”, and overcame their fears to rebuild a life that was shattered. You may have experienced this, or know a woman close to you who struggles in her married relationship. Laura Jenkins says, "Our struggles are held very close and hidden, the pain and isolation leading to additional trauma beyond what our partner's sexual acting out has dealt us."  Having gone through this and found a certain level of healing, Sherri Payne acknowleges that they have felt a definite call to help women Iand in a place of safety as they navigate through the betrayal. Her not for profit, Unbound and Free is a "pay it forward" program is a ministry that that can help partially pay to help another woman who needs access to coaching and mentoring. Laura Jenkins founded Safe Haven Mentoring to be a resource, to provide a safe, compassionate haven for women to be heard and help them navigate this mindfield of hurts and disillusionment.She acknowledges, 'My first step in rebuilding my life was focusing on myself, and getting educated and as a coach I am here to help you rebuild yours too! Listen as these two mentors explain how they are giving back!

Today, Carol the Coach is interviewing Laura Jenkins and Sherri Payne, who have supported the APSATS team to help women who are hurting and alone. They would like to share their story of the betrayal they experienced in their marriages over many years, how Ithey  said “no more”, and overcame their fears to rebuild a life that was shattered. You may have experienced this, or know a woman close to you who struggles in her married relationship. Laura Jenkins says, "Our struggles are held very close and hidden, the pain and isolation leading to additional trauma beyond what our partner's sexual acting out has dealt us."  Having gone through this and found a certain level of healing, Sherri Payne acknowleges that they have felt a definite call to help women Iand in a place of safety as they navigate through the betrayal. Her not for profit, Unbound and Free is a "pay it forward" program is a ministry that that can help partially pay to help another woman who needs access to coaching and mentoring. Laura Jenkins founded Safe Haven Mentoring to be a resource, to provide a safe, compassionate haven for women to be heard and help them navigate this mindfield of hurts and disillusionment.She acknowledges, 'My first step in rebuilding my life was focusing on myself, and getting educated and as a coach I am here to help you rebuild yours too! Listen as these two mentors explain how they are giving back!

Os Encontros de Arles, o maior evento internacional do calendário fotográfico, voltam a dominar a pequena cidade no sul da França, famosa por suas ruínas romanas. O festival foi cancelado no ano passado por causa da pandemia. A fotografia brasileira está presente sob o signo da resistência. Por Patricia Moribe “Um olhar sobre o Brasil” é uma iniciativa das associações Iandé e Photodoc, ambas voltadas para a divulgação da fotografia, com quatro eventos programados. “O tema é o ritual fotográfico como resistência ao colapso”, diz Gláucia Nogueira, da Iandé. “A gente acredita muito na criatividade brasileira, na resistência, e neste momento tão difícil, o evento é um folego, uma maneira de discutir e ampliar o debate do que acontece hoje no Brasil”. O primeiro é a exposição “Jogo de Paciência”, em torno do isolamento, da fotógrafa Ana Sabiá, na galeria Huit Arles. Já um encontro híbrido sobre “rituais fotográficos, rituais de hibridização”, vai juntar as artistas fotográficas Ângela Berlinde e Daniela Paoliello. Ângela Berlinde participa há vários anos do festival de Arles como leitora de portfólios, curadora e artista. Seu livro “Transa, Baladas do Último Sol”, nasceu em 2020, em plena pandemia. “É uma reflexão sobre dez anos de trabalho de processo artístico, criativo e de investigação”, nas idas e vindas entre Portugal e Brasil. “Procurei mergulhar nesse arquivo para buscar formas quase poéticas, a partir da cartografia que me levou a habitar nos últimos anos essas duas terras que são já conectadas pelo expansionismo da história moderna”. Uma mesa redonda reunirá os fotógrafos Cao Guimarães e Rosangela Rennó, com mediação de Christine Barthe, do museu Quai Branly, em Paris. Na mesma ocasião, Andrea Eichenberger apresenta a “Pequeno Inventário Iconográfico do Brasil Contemporâneo”. “Eu comecei a perceber que objetos da vida cotidiana recebiam uma conotação política, como a coxinha, que passa a representar pessoas conservadoras, de nível de vida elevado”, conta a fotógrafa. O contraponto vem com a mortadela. Essas fotos foram realizadas em estúdio. Para cada imagem um sociólogo, antropólogo ou historiador foi convidado a fazer um texto em forma de verbete. “Acho que é uma forma interessante de falar sobre as transformações sociais e políticas pelas quais o Brasil vem passando porque parte de vários pontos de vista”, explica Eichenberger. No dia 8 de julho, a Iandé e a Photodoc promovem a projeção do trabalho de 30 fotógrafos. A seleção foi feita por 15 curadores de festivais no Brasil. "O objetivo é a valorização da fotografia brasileira, através dos festivais de fotografia do Brasil", diz Gláucia Nogueira. Os Encontros de Arles acontecem de 4 de julho a 26 de setembro de 2021.

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This is the third of five poems I wrote when I was 14 and off in the seminary, studying to be a Catholic priest. (The first two were at the beginning of this series.)THE BALLAD OF EAST AND WESTIf i were half the man Who lives within my dreamsOr half the fool who dreams himThen i would close my eyesCast off my fear And leap And if i did not fallOr if my head Came down before my feetIt would be over thenAnd fool and man would meet THE SORCERER I bed with starsAs distant as my soulAnd sup with stonesAs frozen as my heartYou call me wiseAnd follow at my heelBut like the foolI only play my partI am a prophetHear me cryFrom out the deep of hellA seer with no god am IAnd i know suffering very well

"It was another epic year at Breakfast of Champions. We celebrated 20 years of throwing this party for San Francisco, and we are so grateful for the communities continuing support for the Space Cowboys “shaking your business”. I pulled in a bunch of old school vibes and samples into this years BOC set and it was so much fun grooving with the dance floor in the sunshine. What a way to start 2020!" More from Brad Robinson: Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/djbradrobinson Facebook: www.facebook.com/djbradrobinson.spacecowboys www.djbradrobinson.com

It's the final installment of our It's a New Day + Breakfast of Champions live recordings. From the Dusty Rhino stage closing out the party, we bring you our very own Space Cowboy kev/null's set. Here's what he had to say: "Well I must say it's weird to look at an event photo with all these happy dancers crammed together during this time of shelter-in-place! I'm looking forward to those moments when we can all come together again, smile at each other, feel the highs of the music and the lows of the bass and the energy and love of each other. Stay safe out (in) there." More from kev/null: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/kevnull Facebook: facebook.com/djkevnull Instagram: instagram.com/kevnull

https://youtu.be/5W5i2X2Nq7o Lights Camera Action                                                                                                                          Acts 26:9-18 Recap Paul is still being held under false accusation He is now before King Agrippa who will hear him (again)Pastor Crystal spoke about the hope Paul spoke about even in chainsHe gives an account of how he persecuted Christians and how as he Journeyed to Damascus, and how he met Jesus Christ This was the beginning of him receiving the assignment to carry the Gospel to the Jews and the Gentile Gods Plans: Every kid has a dream and growing up in Kenya was no different.I wanted to be successful, I wanted a castle like every some of you kid, didn't even think about how much the electric bill would be ...leave alone the maintenance cost I wanted to be a lot of things – some really good, like be responsible, have a wife and kids, own a business, own a farm and have lots of animals – Some not so good like being a movie producer in Hollywood e.t.cEven today, there are things that I wanted to do – Most of those plans are about me and my desires, my comfort, my drive But God usually has a different planI have come to a point in my life, where I have realized that the moment that I gave my life to Christ, my say – my plans, my desires are only secondary to what God's will is for my family and IAnd that's what's Paul is saying: Acts 26:9 (AMPC) - I myself indeed was [once] persuaded that it was my duty to do many things contrary to and in defiance of the name of Jesus of Nazareth. Translated – I had a plan for my life and that plan was a great plan, a plan that was against Jesus and his peopleBut **Proverbs 16:9 - A man's heart plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps.Paul, educated in the best school, had a great mentor, had high ranking career. He was devoted to his job, regardless of the moral implication, he was dedicated. In todays standard- Paul was successful Paul was already obedient, hardworking – though in the wrong endeavors, the fact is that, he put his all in the things that he did And when that moment came, all that was required was a redirection It's easier to redirect a moving train Are you moving …? or you stagnant. Waiting to be moved Moses – Came to the red see and God “Exodus 14 - And the Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward. Same case with David, Anointed King as a teenager – Yet he didn't just sit around and wait. He was a shepherd and a good on that would defend his dad's flocksGod is looking for a willing heart, a hard-working person whom He can useProverbs 16:1 - The preparations[a] of the heart belong to man, But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.We humans make plans, but the LORD has the final word.Matthew 12:35-37 - A good man out of the good treasure [a]of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. 36 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”Even though God has the final answer, we are still accountable to the plans we make Our lives are being recorded – every moment and we will be accountable to for those decisionsI got good news though, we have a God that loves us, who is willing to redirect us from our foolishness. From death.There comes a time in one's life when you see the Light, and once you have,  you can't be the same Paul was transformed. All his plans were tabled and found useless and at the moment, the past was just that, a picture of the Past.I love photography- I love to look at old pictures – Q missions' headquarters was a bookstore Pictures capture a moment in time …and truly a picture is worth a thousand words. (I love to guess- what was going on in their lives at that time?

https://youtu.be/5W5i2X2Nq7o Lights Camera Action                                                                                                                          Acts 26:9-18 Recap Paul is still being held under false accusation He is now before King Agrippa who will hear him (again)Pastor Crystal spoke about the hope Paul spoke about even in chainsHe gives an account of how he persecuted Christians and how as he Journeyed to Damascus, and how he met Jesus Christ This was the beginning of him receiving the assignment to carry the Gospel to the Jews and the Gentile Gods Plans: Every kid has a dream and growing up in Kenya was no different.I wanted to be successful, I wanted a castle like every some of you kid, didn’t even think about how much the electric bill would be ...leave alone the maintenance cost I wanted to be a lot of things – some really good, like be responsible, have a wife and kids, own a business, own a farm and have lots of animals – Some not so good like being a movie producer in Hollywood e.t.cEven today, there are things that I wanted to do – Most of those plans are about me and my desires, my comfort, my drive But God usually has a different planI have come to a point in my life, where I have realized that the moment that I gave my life to Christ, my say – my plans, my desires are only secondary to what God’s will is for my family and IAnd that’s what’s Paul is saying: Acts 26:9 (AMPC) - I myself indeed was [once] persuaded that it was my duty to do many things contrary to and in defiance of the name of Jesus of Nazareth. Translated – I had a plan for my life and that plan was a great plan, a plan that was against Jesus and his peopleBut **Proverbs 16:9 - A man’s heart plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps.Paul, educated in the best school, had a great mentor, had high ranking career. He was devoted to his job, regardless of the moral implication, he was dedicated. In todays standard- Paul was successful Paul was already obedient, hardworking – though in the wrong endeavors, the fact is that, he put his all in the things that he did And when that moment came, all that was required was a redirection It’s easier to redirect a moving train Are you moving …? or you stagnant. Waiting to be moved Moses – Came to the red see and God “Exodus 14 - And the Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward. Same case with David, Anointed King as a teenager – Yet he didn’t just sit around and wait. He was a shepherd and a good on that would defend his dad’s flocksGod is looking for a willing heart, a hard-working person whom He can useProverbs 16:1 - The preparations[a] of the heart belong to man, But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.We humans make plans, but the LORD has the final word.Matthew 12:35-37 - A good man out of the good treasure [a]of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. 36 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”Even though God has the final answer, we are still accountable to the plans we make Our lives are being recorded – every moment and we will be accountable to for those decisionsI got good news though, we have a God that loves us, who is willing to redirect us from our foolishness. From death.There comes a time in one’s life when you see the Light, and once you have,  you can’t be the same Paul was transformed. All his plans were tabled and found useless and at the moment, the past was just that, a picture of the Past.I love photography- I love to look at old pictures – Q missions’ headquarters was a bookstore Pictures capture a moment in time …and truly a picture is worth a thousand words. (I love to guess- what was going on in their lives at that time?

If you're finding yourself working from home a lot or otherwise lacking those beats, we've got you covered because we still have mixes from Breakfast of Champions and It's A New Day to share. This one is from Space Cowboy WorkR (@workr-us). Here's what he had to say: "I knew people were going to be loose and ready to party for my 4 o’clock set this year so I planned to bring it with some hot and heavy House. But, between actual sex happening on the dancefloor and a false fire alarm, this was my most bonkers Breakfast of Champions yet. Listen to the soundtrack to all that craziness." More from WorkR: https://soundcloud.com/workr-us

We've got another prime time Space Cowboys stage live recording from It's a New Day + Breakfast of Champions 2020. This one is a special tag team between our own Space Cowboy @bassben and our friend @kem_sf from Friends 'n' Family. It's a rocking set that just doesn't give up! Here's what bassben had to say: "Breakfast of Champions 2020 was legendary! Kem and I had a blast delivering this high energy tech house set to an enthusiastic crowd of thousands of New Year’s Day revelers. The LED arrays framing the stage were amazing, and sound was on point. People were going nuts! Enjoy the mix." More from bassben: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/bassben More from kem: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/kem_sf

We've still got a few more It's a New Day + Breakfast of Champions live recordings up our sleeves. This week it's from our very own Leyl Master Black on the main Space Cowboys stage. Here's what Leyl had to say: "This year’s It's A New Day + Breakfast Of Champions was one for the record books! What a joy to play my favorite funky house music in the sunshine for such a massive crowd of beautiful people. Thanks to everyone who came out to dance and gave it large!" Enjoy the mix! More from Leyl Master Black: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/leylmaster Facebook: facebook.com/leylmasterblack

Live from the Cowboys Main Stage at It's a New Day + Breakfast of Champions 2020, it's our very own Space Cowgirl and Angel of bAss j9! Enjoy the mix! "I’ve had the time of my life at too many BOC parties to remember but this one seriously topped them all. The vibe was amazing, and our headliners rocked! This set was a bit of a departure from my usual breakbeat style but still full of BASS. It was my first time gracing the decks on the main stage and every minute felt magical. Hope you feel that when you listen to the live mix. Enjoy!! " More from J9: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/j9er Facebook: facebook.com/j9theangel/

Continuing our incredible run of live recordings from It's a New Day + Breakfast of Champions 2020, we give you veteran Space Cowboy Brad Robinson, recorded from the main Space Cowboys stage. Enjoy the mix! "It was another epic year at Breakfast of Champions. We celebrated 20 years of throwing this party for San Francisco, and we are so grateful for the communities continuing support for the Space Cowboys “shaking your business”. I pulled in a bunch of old school vibes and samples into this years BOC set and it was so much fun grooving with the dance floor in the sunshine. What a way to start 2020!" More from Brad Robinson: Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/djbradrobinson Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/djbradrobinson.spacecowboys www.djbradrobinson.com

This week, we are featuring veteran Space Cowboy, Ben Anderson and his set at It's a New Day + Breakfast of Champions. Here's what Ben had to say: "My set time was 8am on New Years Day, and I can’t believe how many heads came out to hear some beats just after sunrise! This session was the inside primer for a party that eventually blew up with 5 more outdoor stages a couple of hours later. As usual, Breakfast of Champions was off the chain, but it seemed like the 20th had a little extra. We don’t squeeze in a party before the year ends. We start the year right." More from Ben Anderson: soundcloud.com/idubwisesf

We continue our live recordings this week with our very own Space Cowboy, 8ball—live from the main room in Great Northern at It's a New Day + Breakfast of Champions 2020. Here's what 8ball had to say: "Honestly, I don't remember a lot about that first Breakfast of Champions. But the vibe is easy to remember because it's that same fantastic BoC vibe we've had each year since—the vibe that's kept the party going strong for two decades now. I played my usual mix of new and old sounds with a few home-brewed mashups to keep it fresh. Hope you enjoy it, hope to see you next year! - xo, 8b" Check out more from 8Ball here: soundcloud.com/joshdamon soundcloud.com/spacecowboys/sets/8ball-mixography www.facebook.com/8ballxjoshdamon/

We are continuing our releases of live mixes from our 20th Breakfast of Champions in collaboration with It's a New Day with a recording from legendary DJ and producer of Guesthouse Music, DJ Mes! More about DJ Mes: DJ Mes | Guesthouse Music | Oakland, CA 
 
Bay-Area bred DJ Mes (Jason Sutton) rarely slows his groove. Since the 2004 inception of his Oakland-based label, Guesthouse Music, Mes has produced a prolific catalogue of bass-heavy tracks that have scorched dance floors amid the ebb and flow of electronic music. As a DJ, his sets have inspired; as a producer, his montage of disco-dredged beats meld bump with rhythm and bass to create hot buzz in front of and beyond the speakers. In 2011, Traxsource honored Mes with the top spot on a list of 100 best house tracks of 2011 following the release of the bumpy Chicago-sound behind "Fools Gold" (Cajual Recordings).  Mes· career dates back to the mid-1990s, when the future producer took early influence from the likes of DJ Dan (Funky Tech no Tribe) and Tony Hewitt (Tango Recordings). Some two decades later, it would be DJ Dan who would join the talent ranks of Guesthouse Music, Mes' genre-defying imprint that earned him notoriety beyond numerous festival appearances, club residencies, and as co-founder of Daddy's Records (1996). Unlike previous endeavors, Guesthouse bloomed as a personal and creative project inspired by the underground house community that embraced the sound in the U.S. and overseas. While Mes continued releasing tracks on acclaimed labels such as Casual, Relief, Glasgow Underground and Salted, it is his own Guesthouse Music that set the pace, approaching 600 releases-including 50 vinyl releases-since its inception. 
 Mes' ear for talent led to the unveiling of some of the most successful names in underground house, including breakout artists of 2011, J Paul Getto, who scaled the charts of Traxsource with "Need More Music" and "Paris Fried Chicken" Boundary-bending producers, such as Gramphonedzie, and classic acts, such as Cosy Creatures and The Sound Republic, exploded onto the scene under Mes· own A&R moxie. Even while he introduced new DJs and producers to audiences, he continued creating his own body of boompty sounds.  While Mes looks ahead for talent, he creatively nods to sounds that inspired him to slide behind the decks more than 16 years ago. In 2011, Mes followed up his seminal "Fools Gold" release (Cajual Recordings) with a second EP, "Town Business." "Lonley Nights," a rework of Isaac Hayes classic "I Can't Turn Around," climbed the underground charts alongside a remix of The Magi classic, "C'mon Clap Your Hands." Even while maintaining a regular touring schedule throughout the U.S. and Europe, Mes continues partnering with the some of the scene's most lauded producers, such as DJ Sneak and his own greatest influence, DJ Dan.  In December 2011, Mes and Guesthouse created another piece of house music history by releasing their 100th track, "3000" (J Paul Getto). For Mes, it marks the beginning of another phase of underground house evolution.  Adds Mes: "I'm always working to sign new or undiscovered music and talent to the label, and maybe even throw a curve ball to startle people with a new, unexpected style or sound. It's what it's all about."  Bass. Beats. Funk. That's what Mes is all about! Check our more from DJ Mes here: soundcloud.com/dj-mes soundcloud.com/guesthousemusic www.facebook.com/DJMesOfficial/ www.facebook.com/GuesthouseMusicOffical/ www.traxsource.com/artist/9811/dj-mes

Do you just feel... low battery? Like you have barely enough energy to do everyday things? Everything seems to be just different shades of grey?With a few sprinkles of color here and there?Does your favorite food doesn't taste anymore like it did? The games you once loved to play are just not really fun anymore? Or the book you liked to read?Do you find it hard to motivate yourself doing... anything really?If those question somehow ring a bell within you, then it is likely you have depression.So let us talk about it.The owl poster I mentioned in the podcast is from Boggle! the owl.https://boggletheowl.tumblr.com/post/41509206591/ive-been-getting-a-lot-of-these-lately-and-iAnd another one I found while looking for it: https://boggletheowl.tumblr.com/image/60014554946Transcript: https://www.johannadraconis.com/podcast/episode-31-35/episode-33Contact: contactme@johannadraconis.com

We're kicking off our releases of our 20th Breakfast of Champions in collaboration with It's a New Day with a recording from our very own Deckard. Here's what Deckard has to say: "20 years of Breakfast of Champions for Space Cowboys and my 10th may have topped them all. It was off the hook all day and getting to rock it in front of so many friends old and new, a cracking lineup, and that sound and video wall (!!!) will go down as one for the ages so I had to throw down Space Cowboy style. Please enjoy Party People 16 - Breakfast of Champions 2020. " Check out more from Deckard here: @deckard-dj soundcloud.com/spacecowboys/sets/deckard-mixography www.facebook.com/djdeckard/

On this weeks episode of the Space Cowboys RIPEcast, we have a special Breakfast of Champions mini mix from Punks, Dirtybird, and Mau5trap recording artist, LEFT/RIGHT. You won’t want to miss his live performance at the 20th anniversary of Breakfast of Champions on New Years Day in San Francisco. Enjoy the mix! Event info and tickets to the BOC+IAND 2020 in San Francisco here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2509907099290212/ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/its-a-new-day-breakfast-of-champions-block-party-2020-tickets-75027436081?aff=ebdssbeac Check out more from Left/Right here: https://soundcloud.com/leftrightmusic https://www.facebook.com/LeftRightMusicOfficial/ https://www.instagram.com/leftrightmusic/ https://www.youtube.com/user/leftrightmusic https://open.spotify.com/artist/51CYFAd4sqtPffWlLpAVQ4

On this weeks episode of the Space Cowboys RIPEcast, we have a special Breakfast of Champions teaser mix from UK breaks phenom YO SPEED. You won’t want to miss his live performance at the 20th anniversary of Breakfast of Champions on New Years Day in San Francisco. Enjoy the mix! Event info and tickets to the BOC+IAND 2020 in San Francisco here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2509907099290212/ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/its-a-new-day-breakfast-of-champions-block-party-2020-tickets-75027436081?aff=ebdssbeac Check out more from Yo SPEED here: https://soundcloud.com/yospeed https://www.facebook.com/Yo-Speed-988276881267356/?ref=bookmarks https://www.instagram.com/rubenyospeed/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRHhy_uW9HfffJAGABwFMTw https://www.beatport.com/artist/yo-speed/526398 https://open.spotify.com/artist/6QB8XoXvK4HDrrQQ2WD7qr

Listen in as guest Rachel Joy shares her story of generational addiction, trauma, recovery and now transforming lives by helping women monetize their dreams! Your hard does not have to be your skeleton in the closet - they can be your BLESSINGS.  What do you need to say yes to in order to find that transformation?  Today's talk is all about that. IAnd be sure to follow Rachel Joy on instagram at @theracheljoy1 for more amazing inspiration and lessons from this incredible coach!  Want to win a $10 Amazon card? Click here to leave a review Take a screenshot of your review Email your screenshot to behealthywithjoy@gmail.com

In this exciting episode Michael talks about growing pumpkins in Florida. His daughter Cassie is now living here and has decided that she wanted to grow pumpkins for her three children. What you must understand about Cassie is it if you tell her she can't do something she figures out a way to do it so we explore just how to grow pumpkins and bananas and baking and all kinds of other stuff.

"Think Carefully" by Pete Sanga #28Tagline: "How cancer and thoughts can change your world for the better"It is almost like we wait for something bad to happen to wake us up. For us to really take life serious and realise each day we lose, we will never gain again. Each second we spend not being grateful, happy or fulfilled is a second wasted. Yet when something bad happens, we can sometimes have a realisation that life is important, precious and beautiful.Pete Sanga shares his story of how cancer and controlling his thoughts has massively changed his life and future. He speaks of tangible tips we can all use and incorporate to live a life of happiness, gratitude and fulfilment without having to go through cancer like he did.A truly remarkable individual who gave off a beautiful energy and had an infectious aura about him. Someone much wiser than me with experience I was grateful to have received.Some key discussion points:Cancer being a giftThe importance of your thoughts.How to change your thoughts.Practical positive daily routines.Understanding that we control more of our life than we think.Age is nothing but a number.I urge you to listen to this all the way through and implement some practical steps and tips that you can do for FREE in 10 minutes or less a day to really help you move forward in your life. These tips and tricks aren't just for cancer survivors, or people who have overcome adversity. They can and should be important practices we all take on in our life to truly make the most of this short amount of time we have on this earth.Let's all start to find our voice today and write our own stories.Let's leave our mark on this earth before it's too late.Remember tomorrow never comes.Thanks for listeningFree Audible book sign up:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?actionCode=AMN30DFT1Bk06604291990WX&tag=are86-21Best book on Mindset by Carol Dweck: Mindset https://amzn.to/2QajMvZSupport the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/findyourvoiceLinks to me:Website: https://www.arendeu.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/aren.deu/Twitter: https://twitter.com/arendeuFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/aren.singhLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aren-deu-65443a4b/Podcast: https://www.findyourvoicepodcast.com YouTube: http://tiny.cc/51lx6yLinks to Pete Sanga:Amazon business Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Sanga-Aromatherapy-oils-2383077878401459/Amazon businesss link: https://amzn.to/2xkLdXEFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/pete.sanga YouTube transcript[Music]welcome to an episode of find your voicea movement led by yours trulyAren Deu a guy who has overcomecrippling anxiety adversity anddifficulty like so many of you in lifewhose main goal now is to help youcombat your excuses take control of yourlife write your own story and mostimportantly find your voice so nowwithout further ado I welcome the hostof the show himself mr. Aren Deu what'sgoing on people thank you for tuning into another episode of fine your voice myname is Aaron and as always I am thehost of the show so sitting herethinking before I released this podcastwhy is it that we always need somethingbad to happen in our lives for us toappreciate the good things or even thesmaller things the more beautiful thingsthat we often take for granted and maybethis is just a human trait but it'ssomething that I'm trying to get throughin this movement I find your voice isthat I want you guys to start livingright now and I want you to findsomething that fulfills you I want youto be happy I want to live in gratitudeyou see I put these stories out here foryou guys to listen to not to make youfeel miserable or to feel sad or startto cry I put these stories out there toshow you how lucky you are you see weare all very blessed and we're all verylucky if we choose to see it that wayyou see living in a moment of gratitudeis fantastic but living a day a week amonth a year in fact your whole life ingratitude that's just so much better andwhat I want you guys to do is to startto take on these tips that we'vementioned in this episode coming forwardbut then go back and listen to thepeople on this show who have sharedtheir story so bravely and so openly andhonestly and think about how your lifeis maybe better than their life in termsof you haven't had to suffer with canceryou haven't had to suffer with blindnessyou haven't had to be homeless forexample and then really start to look inyour own life and start to live withgratitude because that is the key yousee we're all chasing happinesshappiness is a numberone goal and it should be the number onegoal for all of us and through that wechase fulfilment as well and if you canget those two in line then you're gonnahave a fantastic life but what I don'twant you to do is to wait untilsomething bad happens I don't want youto have to experience cancer like ourguest today shares his experience and itwas actually cancer that actually gavehim his life back in almost now youcould see it he's loving his life and heopenly admits it as wellin this episode that it was cancer thatreally made him start to live again butI don't want none of us listening tothis show to have to go through cancerin order to start living because we cando it right now we can all go out thereand find our voice and really try andstart to write our own story sohopefully you guys enjoyed this episodeit was fantastic for me because it didexceed my expectations and if you do geta chance please do hit us up on socialmedia as well we are quite active anddon't forget if you get a chance as wellplease do share it with somebody else aswellto maybe inspire and motivate them to goout there and find their voice sowithout further ado let's get thisinterview on the way I'd like to startthis show by welcoming Pete to the showand I want to thank Pete for taking timeout of his day today to come and sharehis story so Pete thank you for comingon to the show you know I'll come takeyou things like him and you're verywelcome and really appreciate it I thinkit's going to be useful for theiraudience to get to know a bit aboutyourselfso if you wouldn't mind if you can kindof give us like a summary take as longas you need in relation to the life ofPete for example tell us some of yourups tell us some of your dance and thenbasically what brings you here todayperfect no problem and hi audienceI'm glad you listen it is and well whyyou sort of story is I'm not amulti-millionaire or anything like thatfar from it but I live a verycomfortable life and it hasn't alwaysbeen like thatI mean I'm 53 years old so you canimagine when my upbringing from myparents how that was in a very strictupbringing we was always sort ofmonitored by our pens back in game dayswith the early days of very few Asiancommunity in the UK and they had to sortof build their reputation so we resortedvery close communitywe have been declawed close communityparents always took hold of what you hadto do days basically sort of had yourlife for yourselves in mahjong days andI was kind of rebellious with my dadbecause always always one that wanted todo my own thing the way I want to butcourse you have to have respect for yourparents and sort of listen to them aswellso I as I said Oh print being invadeit's a tight community Asian communityand as a site to sort of get older andgoing to school into sort of sixteenseventeen this is where I sort ofstarted to understand that you know Idon't want to follow the footsteps of myparents and Adorno follow the footstepsof my brothers and sisters and GauravUniversity or anything like that Ididn't want to be stuck behind a deskwhen that's what my parents wanted to beI was more inclined to sort of lookingto I used to see it market and I thinkwow I want to do that I don't want to dothat and you know that's how my thoughtswere and so as I got to about 16 17 Istarted kind of rebelled against what myparents wanted and but again same thingyou know you have to have some elementof respect for your pen so I stillfollowed them and I'll put till the agessort of 21 ish when I got married andand we then brought her family businessand and again we started working in thefamily business but it's not somethingthat I wanted it wasn't for me so eventhough I worked in there and putting thehours as long with my with my brothersand it's not something that I wanted todo and what really changed my mindor changed me was when I became ill whenit was about round about 25 and at thattime I had two children and one of themhere and well two boys and I had contactand sort of that's where that's whatreally changed my perspective about lifeand because when you fall into I mean ohno people about cancer and they've curedand they've come every but the initialshock of that was like wow you know Imean I remember sitting on the stagewith my wife and I'm telling my wife andI'm sitting there crying my eyes outthinking and your whole life goes byhere and especially when things likethat I mean nowadays you know they somany curious for so many diseases butwhen you're looking when you're goingback 20 odd years there was there wasn'tas many curious so you know you havethis flashback of your life and youthink wow I'm not gonna be here what'smy kids gonna do and all these thoughtsstart to run through your head and youknow and I remember sitting under stairsand said crying I like that and what dadcame in and he looked at this and hewent there what's the matter what youcrying for and at all my dad okay my hogand even though and he was sort ofstrong I could see sense that he it wasone of them things like wow you knowthis is happening to my son and sayingyou ever went through a treatment andchemotherapy and he was in and out ofhospital I lost a lot of weight and Iyou know sort of kind of lost confidenceas well because I was what I would saywas a greatly confident person but I wasquite confident in myself and I've lostall my confidence as well and my sistershe gave me a book which was there yourguardian angels and as a while I was inhospital I started to read this guide inangels thinking what's this about youknow guardian angels and you justtotally changed my life in the sense ofwe've just read good just reading thebook I thought wow this is there suchthing as this guardian angel is theresuch thing as a spiritual world andthat's why where my spirituality cameout and from there you should have sortof started to progress and as I cameonce I was out of hospital and had donemy chemotherapy and fetal healthy I knewthat I had to do my own thing my own wayand I wanted to be and how I canprogress it wasn't always easy becauseyou always you have this and how prettyyou have this education or you have thisyour your upbringing embedded into youyou see so then they're deep into yoursubconscious mind so they alwaysflop back out and you start to thinkwell should I should I or shouldn't Ibut I know I wanted to move away fromthe family and do my own thing and whichis sort of what I started to do gonnajust pause for a bit or we can jump inthere so there are a couple of things inrelation to that so you always knew froma very young age you mentioned like from1617 you were you're probably differentto your siblings yeah you want to dosomething different and I kind of Icould resonate with that myself so I wasforced in inverted commas to kind of gothrough the academic route because I wasvery I could pick up things very quicklyyeah I didn't want to do any of thatit was never my interest I always wantto kind of go against the grain I wantto be a boxer I wanted to do you cry Iwant to do all the stuff I said ontelevision but he has different stuffand there was an element that I supposesomewhere along the line I kind ofresented the decisions and I was havingto like make my parents happy rathermake myself happy fortunately for me Ididn't have to experience kind sir inorder to really be like okay now I needto just do what's done for me and itkind of seems like cancer was your kindof wake-up call a mass of thingdo you know what I have to look aftermyself yeah and put myself first and itwas it's quite emotional for me justthinking about that moment when you'resitting on the stairs and you and you'retelling your family is stuff I justthought this is just giving you a bookabout the guardian angel and stuff Ithink that's come probably a good timebecause I absolutely did you agree thatif that come it should give you thatbook yeah we'll probably thought once itchanges your perception of do you knowchange started to change the way I'llthink and I need all honesty when Istart to read the book and I started tosort of understand each chapter one at atime I thought wow you know this isamazing can this really be possiblecould you elaborate on something fromthat or something that you maybe do nowyeah of course yeah and so what I'velearnt from that book was of course itstarted to open other doors and otheravenues in Lord of Attraction as aspeople know it I don't know there's alot of it back now whereas when we wasyounger it was it wasn't it wasn't aboutwhat he's still about but we wasn'taware of him but he's a lot more aboutof it often now so and then you know Idon't know thousands if not millions ofpeople's heard of the secret and so thenthatbook came into my hands and it was itjust happened to be that I went onto acourse and which is an angel course andhis spiritual core so as I went thereand this is the lady that was conductingit her name was Angela so and she toldus about this secret and the secretwebsite so I wrote it downsuza go home was sort of jumped on thewebsite got the thing he got the DVDbecause there's gotta be somethingindecent what's what's so good aboutthis or anyway are played it and thenwhat made my two boys what it sat therewatching me and I was totally sort ofenclosed in this secret because thatwhat they were saying is your thoughtsbecome your reality this was for me itwas like a turning point because Ithought wow if that was the case and wowI can create anything the one was withthe kids they were still young therewasn't sort of so much interested in itand so that's where he progressed fromso now you know I have a special routinein the morning and a follow every dayand it's all due to this I guess I cancall it positive thing times Olivia andit's all due to these positive thinkingand you know when you start to think ina certain way certain doors will startto open for youbut you have to trust in your way ofthinking and you have to trust inyourself even though all throughout lifeand even in today's day and age and howfast forward we have become even todayyou still have their thoughts you stillhave to battle with your own mindbelieve it or not and with your negativethought you know you're constantlyfighting against them and like I said toyou know before we started you know youhave a thought you sort of you sort ofhave a negative thought if you like andbefore you know it your negativethoughts your your conscious mindstarting tell you something and beforeyou know you're not that's spiraled intoyour hair before blonde conversationswith yourself you know you're sitting inyour car and you're home or whatever andyou're talking to yourself and you'rehaving this complex it's conversationwith yourself and you're sort offighting with yourself you know onevoice against another and I don't knowif that makes sense you know you sort offighting with yourself and you reallyhave to start to understand your thoughtand that's one of the thingslearn to do is understand my thoughtsand when I'm having a thought like thatI instantly think to myself okay this isthis is the right thought no it's notand I'll stop put a stop to the Thorntonright away because you are in control ofyour own thinking nobody else controlsit for you so you know what you arethinking so if you start to realize thatyou was thinking something that's hasn'teven happened you can stop that thoughtright away when you stop it do youreplace it with something or replace ityeah you have to replace it withsomething positive say for example ifyou're having an emotional thought let'sjust say something bad happened you knowyou you're on your way you've got aparking ticket or you or something likethat you don that's a negative thing andthe first thing you do when you get aparking tickets in your effing andblinding station and and you know andyou know then that you know be from thatanger anything of blinding thinking thatyou know it starts to escalate so if youright away realize all and this is thisis not right it you know what's whatcould be good about there having aparking ticket and then think ofsomething that these positive factorsare negative so when you start to thinkof something positive I'm an 18 it couldwell be this you might have had aparking ticket you might have grabbed aparking ticket God to speak todayconductor or whatever I'm bumped intosomebody who you spontaneously you knowbumped into somebody who is we put yourright you know you and you might haveyou know anything could have happenedwith those gratitude in having a carabsolutely yeah yeah anything you knowanything but as long as you sort ofrealize that you're having this negativethought and without letting this spunout of control with hundreds of otherthoughts stop it right away stop it andchange you to find a positive in thatnegative like I said it could be thatyou've got you could be grateful to youyou've got him you come to meet make ameeting absolutely if that you know hewas worried about your parking ticketthen you might not have gone on to thatmeeting and gain somethingokay knowledge or whatever it is youknow so if there's always a positive ina negative and that's what you have tosort of learn to do it's not the easiestthing in the world who is there but withpractice it becomes perfect that'sinteresting because this is justmeanness or cancers effectivemy family is taking members of my familyaways it's affecting my family some ofthem now so a very negative connotationtowards cancer I sometimes put myself ina position and think if I was to everget cancer or something but a particularpoint I just can't help but think that Iwill feel sorry for myself at some stagehave you ever felt that yeah you do as Isaid that you know it's it's it's notyour normal yeah absolute normal youknow you can't control your thoughts toa degree well you can you can't becausewhen something as severe as cancer orother illness hit you you can't see anyway out so of course it's not so foranybody to think you know how would Ifeelbut as I said earlier on you know you weare you are in control of your thoughtsas long as you don't put emotion intosomething it can never happen it's onlyemotion that creates your reality whenyou paint a picture of what you want andhow you want your life to be yourconscious and your subconscious minddoesn't know the difference betweenright and wrongit just doesn't know the difference itonly responds to what your want pictureyou're painting it so when you're youngas I said you know your pet your parentshave painted how your picture is goingto be so your subconscious mind thenwhen your conscious mind then has tobuild your life around your parentspicture or the picture that you'vecreated or they're created not just yourparent it's society its schooleverything and anything after the sortof ages 10 when you develop fullydevelop your conscious mind after theage of 10 anything after that is whatyour picture has been built on based onyour school your parenting or andsociety itself you know you have to sortof try to understand your thoughts youthink there's a lot and as long as youcan control or though what you'rethinking you can always change it thehardest part of changing something isthat you have to change all your softconscious if people understand what thatmeans if they don't then I went tohighly recommendlooking into that because it's a veryvery powerful part of us it's a part ofour mind and can create reality for youso if you don't understand whatsubconscious is then I so stronglysuggest that you go out and listen to oreven you know we books on that if youdon't like reading like me listen toaudiobooks I love listening yeahmotivation you see and you can learn alot from it so that's what you reallyhave to do you have to sort of thinkabout what you're thinking about thinkabout what you're thinking about all thetime and then stop when you start itwhen you start having it sort of anegative thoughts stop that and thenthink of a positive what could be thepositive thing what is it that you wantin life to change the picture that yourparents have built or society is builtfor you changing that jigsaw yourconscious mind doesn't want to change ajigsaw because you imagine you've made agreat massive jigsaw puzzle here andyou're trying to take the middle of thatjigsaw puzzle add and change it and howhard would it be to change that jigsawpuzzle so that's why your conscious mindis constantly fighting with you to stopyou doing that any fight with you bysending yeah but what if this happensthis is gonna happen this is gonnahappen and reality is just all you'redoing it fighting with you know elseisn't it yeah yeah so that's how yousort of change you know reality that'sbrilliant that's that's powerfulthat's something actually that's foranyone that is this and there's a bookcalled the chip paradox and he actuallyexplains it so it's quadratures paradoxof what he says is you have the chimpwhich is your like your subconsciousthrough then you have a computer whichis kind of the logical side of you butwhat he says is the chimp is morepowerful yeah and it's unless we controlthis chimp whether it's through changingour thought processes and the thingsthat we were taught to believeabsolutely absolutely then the chainsgoing to take over runs on it and that'sexactly what happens we do 95 90 95percent of our societyand yeah yeah you like absolutely yourchip will always try to control what itwants you to do but deep down if youstart to understand it anything ispossible but even having said that it'snot just his thoughts it's it's agratitude you have to put into thingyou know I mean I once all grateful forI mean I can explain sort of you knowwhat my routine isn't when I get a bunchof virtually the next thing so yeah yeahthe routine yeah so for myself what I dowhen I get up in the morning my generalroutine I mean on the early riser somore put three o'clock in the morningand one of the things I've learned andI'll never ever do is put the snoozebutton on now that I ever put snoozebutton or people do that but that's nota really a positive thing to do you knowyou as soon as oh yeah my alarm goes offI'm out of bed my feet hit the floor andthe first thing I do is I put my headtogether and then I go thank you so muchfor another day ahead of me and he'sfeeling that gratitude of another daywhether that day is gonna be the same asyesterday or not matters not it'sanother day I listen to a lot ofaffirmations in the morning as well sowhen you get up in the morning what Ilearned is that your subconscious mindyour conscious mind hasn't quite kickedin so you're still in your subconsciousand state so when you start to feed yoursubconscious state with positiveaffirmations your day will flowperfectly so first thing I'll do is ofgovernment phone I'll put my headphoneson I'll get dressed and I start to playaffirmations positive affirmations oreven relaxing music just to calm I'mlike that and so while I'm goingtesticle have a yeah you know I meanI'll have a shower in the night in caseyou think I think I've had a shower inthe night and so while I'm brushing myteeth I'll still got this headset on soI'll put 20 minutes or so I've got thisheadset on listening to affirmations andwhile I'm having breakfast on listen toaffirmations and I Drive to worklistening to an audiobook and um howyour mind works there's some great booksout there no doubt you've heard of manyof them I love listening to if you don'tmind the answer yeah actually you knowsomeone a box I mean I love listening toThink and Grow Rich by Napoleon HaydenI'm sure millions of poverty read a bookand the other book I think is fantasticand people should really haven'tis the science of getting rich by whatis what'll again it's it's it's heexplained it's a science of game richand it's a great book to if you I meanyou can buy it but if you don't want tobuy it you can get on YouTube and inlisten to it so for forty minutes fromall the way to work on listening to D soI'm always trying to feed my mind withpositive affirmations positive vibes allthe way to work and obviously onceyou've done your work come back home onmy way back home I'm genuinely back onfor about seven in the morning so I'mone ear out at the house for a few hoursand when I'm back home I take the dogfor a walkanother relaxing way to do that and thenI get when I'm when I'm home obviously aboo gone to work by then and then I domy meditation and we solved for the nexthour and so I sit there and I focus whatI want out of life and how I want mylife to be and so I do a meditation thenlisten to some great meditation musicagain you can get on YouTube if youdon't I use one called calm on iTunes itis one that you have to pay for whatyeah it's absolutely fantastic I sawmany on there it's great but as I saidthere's lots of free ones you know youjust have to find one that resonateswith you so once of a sort of listenedand once I've done my own meditation Igenerally fall asleep for an hour songtwo hours and so it's in a sort of fallasleep for about a couple of hours andthen back up to ten o'clock I've startedto do exercises now when I hadn't beforeeven though when I was younger I spent alot of time exercising but when I gothere I sort of lost confidence inxdesign so i starting to sort of carryback into exercising nothing bank am buti have so for ten o'clock consider do 20minutes of sort of general exercise andand and ice get on go about Monday I'llstart work about two o'clock again tohave two and once again I'll start Ionly listen or try to listen toaudiobooks you know any kind of audioBob Proctor is another fantastic I meanhe's amazing you know I know he's on thesecret but he's so he's been doing thisfor 50 years and he's somebody knowswhat they're talking abouthe is a man that knows what he's talkingabout and so I listen to a lot and a lotof his and audio books I listen to a lotof time Roberts and again and does agreat motivator so I'm always listeningto these books and that awesomewhilst I'm at work I generally come homearound 1:00 to finished up getting homefor seven have a meal I try to relax bywatching not so much TV programs butmore very old-fashioned God programs ifyou like and and the reason of watchthem is because it's it's it explains toyou that what we have now has alwaysbeen there but we just we just didn'trealize it so it's in resonates back toyou how you can move forward with whatwe have well I've always had and thegenerally don't got a bed and again onceagain I've always got to sleep at nightand before I go to sleep I just bethankful for my whole day you know Ithink about all the the thing I've donetoday even though my day routine isgenerally the same and I might have metsomebody new there so I always sort ofgratitude to everything I have even mymeals or sit down and I'm you know youwhen I say gratitude because he'sgratitude is part of development so ifyou're not grateful for something thenhow can you be grateful for what youwant to something so you really have tobe grateful for and I know there's lotsof people there's a wall I can't begrateful until I get this box if that'sthe way you're thinking as we spokeearlier on you're only gonna get more ofwhat you're putting out so if you'rethinking I'm not grateful for somethingyour only your your subconscious mindonly sees that you're not grateful forsomething and you know you're feelingsad about something so he thinks ah okayoh yeah it's not about this I'll giveyou more of that so that's how yourcontent works and fall asleep againlistening to youmusic until the next day I don't knowfalling asleep so in the middle of thenight when this thing he's office stillgot my head said oh we should take offpretty so and then you know so that's mydaily routine every day yes it's almostlike the curse of cancer that came intoyour life has always made your lifebetter totally think shame because itthat's it for me it took for me to getill to get where I am I mean you know Ihad a business which and was almost gonealmost bankrupt me because I reallystruggled but had it not been for whatI'd learned over the years I think thatI would have really got into itdepression but because of what I learnedover the years when I did have mybusiness and that didn't work as well asI expected it to and it's just one ofthem things and yes I worried a lotabout it and opera and Laura's worryingin the family put up trying to keep itaway from them as well because I didn'twant them to feel under pressure to helpand there was absolutely fantastic youknow hats off to my family then theystepped in and they sort of we workedtogether and you know and it's anotherthing that I think I should point out isthat when you have when you when you'reworried about something and even worriedabout not telling your parents ortelling your family it's a wrong thingto do because if your family is alwaysthere to understand and support you andjust it's surprising how much taken justjust by taking or talking to somebodyhow much of a burden you can take offyour shoulders and that's what I did yousee but just boy even though they didn'tsort of okay here we'll do this withthis but just talking to them took awayso much of my worries and but as I saidif it wasn't for what I've learned overthe previous year is about beingpositive I wouldn't have come out ofthat business feeling better for myselfand you know going on six or seven yearsnow more than that now here 10 years orso moving forward 10 years you know I'vecreated another great business you knowII'm really happy within them andprogress it's always because you have toprove you have to think of yourself andyour family and move forward with themabsolutely so a couple of good pointsday is born obviously it's easier saidthan done but we shouldn't have to waitfor a cancer or death or something youknow like these are simple things thatevery single one of us on a daily basisand so I ask this question can start todo it's not gonna take us long to justsit there for best part of two threeminutes and just think of all the thingswe're grateful for every single morningand it slowly become easier thenobviously throughout the day we'llnotice more and more things yeah andthen listening to positive stuff sohopefully people listening to this canjust take on this now yeah rather thanhave to wait for something bad in partand then just live in this on what it'salmost like a bliss because you justappreciate every single momentabsolutely right sometimes we will gothrough life and six months tormentsurpassed and you've never really livedin the moment because you've won binanxious about the past and to you I sawyou anxious about the future untilyou've been depressed about the past soit's a dangerous place to be absolutelyit's almost like living in today youalso said talking to people so this issomething that I actually mentioned on aprevious podcast so I struggled withanxiety struggled a lot with overwhelmand similar to yourself I'm trying ityou look after my family I'm trying tocomfort my wife and my siblings and Idon't want to put the burden on them mymom suffered in depression so she'sloved a best friend by the same time Idon't want to have any stress there aswell but then sometimes if it's too muchand I do speak to her yeah she doesn'tsolve the problem but I felt so muchbetter which she feels better that Icould buy dinner yeah same with myfriends or my wife whoever I speak to ittalking is so powerful it's a massivemassive thing but as humans what I meanconnection speaking is it's part of usand because the song takes a turn thatfollows 24 so absolutely we will lose aconnectionabsolutely I think you know that's againlike you said you know is you when youtalk into somebody somebody when youhold it in yourself you're creatingnothing but bad feelings for yourselfbut when you're let that energy outyou've it's almost as if you've left letout and a massive ball of negativeenergy you know that's how you gotacidity is a and you know and it's hardsometimes understand you know certain 16certain things in such a situation yousometimes find it hard totalk to somebody but the best wayforward and I've always found is thatyou know if you can't talk to yourfamily then talk to somebody who'sconfused you're close with you know justtake that off your chest and it makesyou feel so much better and your mindwill always fight you against it becausethey want you to hold and I know itsounds bad do you thinking to yourselfwell why wouldn't my mind want to dothat for me and it's always one see italways sort of and give you a picture ofoh yeah but if you if you told decentI'm gonna do this ad singly and you knowyou but you're creating something hasn'teven happened creating scenario you knowwe're going back again you know creatinga picture of what you want if you wantif you want to if you finally difficultto talk to somebody then imagine it inyour head and I know those who have readand Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hillof one of the things he used to do washe used to have a board meeting and withsome of the richest people in the worldin his head not physically with in yourhead and I mean he could if you canimagine something like that so and it'seasy to imagine thing you know you couldyou can imagine something like like justlike that if I said to you now think ofa pink elephant instantly you'll bethinking of a pink elephant if you'resaying stick your face in the kitchenyou'll be thinking of that so you cancreate emotion to that yeah absolutelyabsolutely without emotion there's lotsof elements that you have to puttogether for the law of attraction towork emotion is one of them gratitude isanother one the positive thinking isanother one and individually you knowimage in your head and what you wantyour life to be is another one when youstart to combine these things togetherthat's when your life starts to changeof people using this Lord of Attractionhas changed in life totally change yourlife around within 12 months just by Imean it takes 30 days to create thething is with life itself which we'vecreated habits and hobbies can bechanged it takes time to change habitsbut habits can be changedI love that and the final point I justwant to add to that is you mentioned abusiness that you've just started thatyou're very happy with we have anotherbusiness because we've got the productson there it's probably packed in one ofthese boxes now because we're movinghouse not okayjoining just share that briefly justwith the ordinance a lot when I firstheard about it I was like that's quitean innovative is quite interesting okaystraight away can you just starting fromscratch sure yeah yeah and others heredo I do my full time I guess it's a jobbut it's not job because he's stillself-employed and do my parcel businessbut always wanted to be sort of anonline trader so what I started to dowas I looked at ways I can make moneyonline Amazon was a biggest platform soI was learned how to sort of startedlooking more into how Amazon works andso I learned how to through theirlearning program and he can learn Lee toAmazon sort of learned how to sellproducts on Amazon and that's what I'mmoving forward with and I've got aproduct on there now which and which isaromatherapy oils but he's one of themthings that sort of well it's a bit of arisk to take but again if you wantsomething to happen you have to have apositive outcome of it and so I startedto understand and learn a lot aboutAmazon and how they were what what to doand learnt the coursethey've had to promote the product howwhere to find a product had to getproduct once I understood all that I'mstill learning from it's not somethingthat yeah fully understood I'm stilllearning from them I started as I said Iimported my first product and it's beengreat you know really has my wife usesit I think that's actually okay yeah itis a great product done yeah just onthat as well so soft and you hear peoplethinking they can't do nothing we haveall these limiting beliefs and they seewhat we can do in life and yeah you justthought okay I wanted to start abusiness and you probably wouldn't youprobably just figured it out along theway yeah you are not selling a productunless that's a lesson to anyone like ifthis is something you want with theright mindset and then obviously theaction nothing impossible without actionyou know you it's no good having theoldest mindset yeah positive thinkingwhen you take no action you you know youhave to take action if it's somethingthere's somelooking to do you know sell online itdoesn't have to be Amazon there's lotsof other platforms on thereI chose Amazon because I was on is deepBiggie's platform to sell and I choseAmazon because I found it you can I canI don't have to store the product at allI'll send it to their warehouseeverything they deal with a moment yeahabsolutely and their fulfillment centerthat deal with the customers they dealwith the returns of course anything thatis returned luckily for me I finally hadone product returned in all the onesthat have sold and then they theycontact you so you have nothing you knowthat this is the biggest fear withpeople they think well how can I startoh I'm Christie what about customerseries what about this but this withAmazon they deal with all that with youyeah of course they target fee which isunderstandable but you have to find aproduct then you can now incorporate allthat and you can make and still make aprofit out of it you know you you knowyou could there's lots of people onAmazon that making great massive massivemonthly incomes and it's it is possibleand you just have to trust in yourselfto do it and that's the hardest thingtrusting yourselfif it's something that you know it's forthe listeners if something that you'repassionate about then use that productuse that as a product absolutely I wantyou to put that in there because I'veseen you use the product as well yeah soit's not like a shameless plug or anyyeah yeah it's inspiring because if Iask someone say for instance my dad ormy own course or something do that thefirst thing that says all are configuredI don't know about the internet and wehave a lot of people in the audience wejust automatically have exclusivestraightaway absolute is always it'sjust refreshing to hear somebody justsay you know what what it actually showsthat everything you're putting inpractice in your daily routines like theaffirmation is opposed to thinking yeahyou put it into practice any practice oryou foods I think that's the thing withall the community because I mean I'm 53and if I can make changes at 53 peopleat that age if not youngerI mean exactly majority to preparepeople you know once they get past fortyforty five to think that's it I thinkthe life is overyou can't progress you can't learn youthe game started yeah it's just startingand I just gain started don't letthings top of you because when you'reyoung you have a whole you could you gotyour whole life in front of you whenyou're 40 your passport you're gettingclose to 50 you think that you've onlygot a few years but just in a few yearsif you with the right mindset it justwithin a few years you can change thewhole life around if that's what youwant being all free absolutely peopleare living longer now resolve of courseyeah yeah definitely Brit okay thank youfor that so we spoke about diversityquite a bit and we spoke obviously thebusiness stuff we spoke about thepersonal health problems as well if youcould just choose one of your biggestlessons that you've learned from thatexperience so I'm going that you had themindset of something but if you can justsay to somebody maybe who's experiencedin it now or going through term orwhether it's cancer or any other illnessif you can just give them one lessonthat you've taken from that situation Iwould say that you know just as hardwhen giving that situation but just tryto see things as I say just try and lookat the light at the end of the tunnelyou know just try to focus on yougetting better you moving forward youwanting the thing that you want insteadof focusing on something and Iunderstand that it's hard because I'vebeen there and but just try to listenand the best way did it one of the otherthings I absolutely love doing is I lovelistening to music that I love becausehe just makes you feel so much betterso if you are going through a tough timelisten to your favorite song don't losesight of you joy yeah something that youenjoy listening to listen to a rock soyou know not so much a rock song in thesense of rock song I mean something thathas a fantastic you know I always findthat that helps me to feel better so andyeah you know just just try to staypositive really you know it's a toughsituation to be more you just have tolearn to stay positiveyeah that's brilliant thank you for thatI'm in this particular moment right thissecond what is your biggest fear andfear is another to say this now becausefear is just a thought it's just thoughtthat can be told controlled when youhave a fear you can always change yourfeeling too and onso I try to avoid having a fear becauseI'm not saying don't not worried aboutanything I'm always worried about thefuture and have I done enough too butwhen I pass how I done enough on thisearth for those were living here now forwhen I pass that means my biggestconcern blooded and I fear because Ithink when you use the word fear I don'tknow a lot of people do but I from whatI've learned one of the things Iunderstand these learn to understandthese fear it's just a word it's a wordthat's used by everybodyso when somebody uses the word fear youinstantly think the worst of somethingso no no that's not what you wanted tohear but I think that they when you usethe word fear you sort of think of theworst but to me don't think of the wayfear and it's hard not to but don'tthink of me think of something think ofit as a unless fear forward if you likebut yeah well my biggest concern is howabout done enough on earth and for thosecoming okay that's one of my biggestinterested and has that purpose of yoursthat why without motivation to leave theworld given as much as usually has thatonly stemmed since again that I don'twant to keep touching on it but theyHansard incident absolutely yeah yeahyeah and that's interesting because alot of people I find that go throughadversity in life or have been throughhardship they almost become selfless andthey just want it almost in that momentwhen they're so great for this stuffthey want to give back more yeah yeah Ithink before that we kind of do live aselfish life yeah absolutely because I Iwas kind of selfish I only reallythought about myself I didn't eventhough I've respected what my pen said Iwould kind of well my life I could dowhat I like or no and even you knowgoing back down I remember my fathersitting me down once and he went and hesaid you know you're going down thewrong path because I started gettinginvolved with the wrong people he saidyou're gonna shame us and he was likethat backing when I was growing up hesaid you're gonna put shame on us andyou're gonna end up in prison because hethought I was gonna end up in prison andbut I you know I was not but I wanted todo what I want to docare about that I just want to do what Iwant to do for what I dye my hair with adime appears like yeah you can't stop meeven though respecting him when I didn'tdo a pop it was one of the thoughts ofhim that was going through her head andso ya can say for me cancer was thebiggest biggest thing that changed andmaybe that's what I neededyou know things they were say the thingscome for a reason maybe that is what Ineededthat's a wake-up call this is why Iactually love like I love dis as part ofmy job because I get to meet people atyou and without having to go through thepain and that you've been through yeahit inspires me so much like this isinspiring but I have sometimes will betalking and I'll be like episode 4so-and-so said this how dare I feelsorry for myselfyeah I'm it doesn't get me through theday and I'll always think I'm blessedbecause when I'm gonna have him speak tosomebody I always get to meet a newfriend and a new person that I form arelationship and then it just changed myperspective because I'm like I'm so muchmore grateful even now just for likehealth see you perfectly because he'sjust pointed it out you know you washaving there we're gonna use the wordnegative again we're having dailythought about something and yet youinstantly realized you was and thenchange it into something positive bysaying about somebody such as 50 centsor how dare Iand it's absolutely like you know thisthere's so many people in this worldthat are worse off than you yeah youknow you other than those who arehomeless and you know this is one of thethings I want to do and as I get betterand better and you know be able to do itis to help the homeless because unlessyou're homeless and God not you if along as you go roof of your hand yesit's always tough if you haven't got ajob and I know it's a big thing and abig concern but yeah if you got a roofover you should be gratefulalways be playing with without gratitudeabsolutely can't move forward and Ithink I think that's that's a brilliantpoint I think it's something though wedo have to do every day because againadversity everything he goes foreveryone's life and I've had momentswhen but death happens all of a suddenfor that month but you're you you'regrateful for everything and you knowlife's too short please share everythingbut then you get very quickly back intotheir old habits happy so that's why Ialways readit should be like a day absolutely youtouch on the homeless thing so I'm I'mvery fortunate my parents are very likeloving people so we foster children andit's laughs okay well you're my sisterthen we adopted and my mom tried toadopt every single kid that coming tothe house and laughs there's no room inthe house so I've got like three whitesiblings and we've got Asian sister aswell was adopted and seeing them andseeing like their issues in terms oflike disabilities there weremalnutrition when they first came thereTestament disorders it made me sograteful like it changed my whole lifeso I gave good-paying jobs to becomelike a social worker to effectivelychange the world and it changed but thenwhat happened was when I got married andI moved into my house here we're sittingtoday yeahdon't my siblings I think about themevery single day but I don't live withthem every day to end that feeling ofgratitude every single day okaywhereas before I never had to remindmyself please job like this a nice thingpoor Kyle he might never be able todrive a car he'll never be able to dothis yeah and he used to make me feelgrateful yeah so it is something I thinklike anything like if you don't lookafter your health every single day it'sgonna deteriorate absolutely I think weshould always try and I think that's thebiggest issue and you get to a certainstage and when you're happy with yourlife you tend to start to forget aboutthat is you know just another quickpoint is you know it's not a religiousthing or I don't want to win anybodyhere but when when something bad younever think about God you go about yourday to day business but when somethingbad happens you straight away you'regoing and pray to God you know God isthere every single day yet you forgetand I know most people don't but themajority do you know they forget thathe's there every day and I even thoughI'm not a I'm a spiritual person and youknow it doesn't matter what you are deepdown with all the same so when you haveto pray to somebody then pray to themevery day if you want to if you feelthat God is your way forward and thenpray to God every day be thankful to himthat you got me walk every day not justa day that you're feeling down or youfind a bad day or you've lost your catyou lost your dog or anything else youknow every single day should be a daywhere you grateful with gratitude 100%you alcohol I think that's beautifulmessage I think it's something that I'mprobably cure you have I remember as akid man if I thought was gonna get introuble bug my parentslike God please get me through this daynever do it again I'm sure we've allkind of done yeah I thought okaybrilliant so we're actually at the funpart of the show is what I called it soit's again quickfire round of 60 to 90seconds depending when I apply you outbasically I just random questions okayare we all ready yeah okay we're gonnago in three two oneif you could abolish one thing in theworld what would it be oh yeah yourfavorite beer butter oh yeah yourbiggest role model Oh baby what wouldyou like to be remembered for the good Idid your biggest goal this year to besuccessful and help us your worstmistake not doing Eternia if you couldrelive one day again what day would itbe the very first day I was bornthe ability to fly or be invisibleinvisible the number one thing thatannoys you but habits and when your fameneither your proudest moment my childrenyour favorite foodgot a visual icing chicken would yourather speak or languages or speak toanimals what's your favorite song at theclub by the Drifters and if you had anextra hour a day how would you spend itmeditating Netflix or YouTube Netflixand the final question is the number onepiece of advice you would give to yourchildren just be yourself okay brilliantso we're approaching towards the end ofthe show now and just two more questionsthat I always like to ask my guest thenext one's about reflection I saw thisis in hindsight obviously we learn wayswhere we can get to places quicker withless heartache or by saving money forexample so if you could go back knowingeverything that you know now and allyour words of wisdom and everything thatwe've spoken about in the show to ayounger time when maybe you wereconfused or going through a time whereyou had no clarity in your life yeah andyou can just whisper something in theyounger piece yeah yeah did you say goneback if I had and I think that this mayyou know I was thinking these yes noweven though I would tell myself that thefuture is what you create the Tippie soif you want your future to be betterpaint that picture in your head andthat's what I would whisper to myselfpaint the picture of how you want yourlife to be and it will create itthat's Brittany I think the more watersthe develop my dream and stuff as wellthat's more what I try and do is I likevision board and stuff and I think Ithink maybe as children as well we dothat but there's somewhere betweenchildhood when you've got that innocenceto growing up yeah we tend to lose it Ithink the vision boards are fantasticand I think that a great thing to havebecause it gives you a idea of how youwant your life to be but the whole timeto that to that is when somebody makes avision board they forget that they canchange that vision board and once you'velooked at it a few times it's just theresitting on the wall of what I tend to dois I've read my goals every morning I'llhave a book written in there what I wantmy average day to be like and I read thebook everything is pretty detailed ofhow I would like to be and I sit downand read it and if there's something alot I don't like in it I always draw itout and change it and I think withthings like vision boards and eventhough I did a great thing like I saidbut vision boards is a massive pictureof you know I feel Bree wants to bemulti millionaire and they know we'renear there it's it's an image where youthink well I'm not gonna get there butif you take small steps because visionboards can be expanded it can be changedbut I think people when who make visionboards are I'm not sure about yourselfof people who make vision boards tendnot to change it so then look at it onceor twiceliterally for a month or so after that -forget the vision boards he's there butyou know going forward it's not it's nota bad thing I'm not saying would yourecommend them having a two year goalit's about building confidence so ifyou're gonna like your goal down foryourself or goals down for yourself andyou've written a goal to say let's justsay for argument's say you're gonna havea million pound in a year and people dolike gods like now because the thing -what if I could create anything oragreat that create that I'm not sayingit can't be created but if y'all haven'tbut if you're not if you're not in linewith your positive thinking creatingthat video path is going to be difficultbut if you say to yourself I want tocreate a slightly similar goal so say afew sectors up I want to10,000 pounds a month 10,000 pound amonth is far achievable easilyachievable because your work hard racketabsolutely once you achieve your 10,000pounds a month you've put it and have abooster then draw your goal pika make ittwenty thousand their next month and youknow no no there's lots of people outthere don't think well I want to be amillionaire and I want to beat in a yearand but you didn't learn to speak andyou didn't know how long did it take youto learn to walk how long did it takeyou to do things now you know justgenerally to do things it takes 12 yearsfor you to go through school and learnall the things in school you're notgoing to become successful in a yearwell I'm not so don't get me wrong sorryI apologize for that it's not you're notgoing to be your mindset isn't brightguitar pitch there won't be a nomineesthat will obviously do it for the vastmajority of us we have to develop one asphere is changing one our mindset one Ihelp everything needs a line is haveyeah and we need to increase theconfidence and our skill set in all ofthose yeah and one of the things that II suppose I've suffered with I saw Idon't do vision boards myself is that nopeople do is when I used to have thesebig goalssomewhere along their journey if you'retrying to be like an entrepreneur tryingto find your way life yeah when yourealize how far you are from you goesyou become very dissatisfied to me andtrying to think of the right words forit be they the lack of motivation yeahbecause you think I'm just so far awayfrom it and even though you might havecome so far the J yank yeah you forgethow far you've come because you'relooking to have my uni heroso this is what I'm saying about visionboards you see becausevision boards are a great thing but ifyou're making a vision board and yourjourney is to be you know a supersuccessful entrepreneur but you're onlyhere you're not seeing absolutely howyou come you you're looking at that andyou you kind of can't get demotivatedbecause you know with anything it can'tbe change but if you're making a goalthat stopped being absolute but you'rehere so that's why that's my adviceno I think that's great advice is so ifwe use the analogy that IowaI can relate to very quickly is healthand fitness so everyone wants a six-packin just absolutely the number onequestion I always get a song that'sabsolutely fine we can get you asix-pack we can help you but it startswith one rep in the gymyeah starts with you going to the gymthat one day yeah and you can't ever getthere any quicker no matter how much youwould have to do that ripyeah then unfortunately you have to do alot of them reps and yeah you can't justdo one on one day you can't just sithere for 24 hours or let's do sit-upsanother city like the world it's aprocess and it's about understandingthat so yeah I think that's it it's apretty answer good answer and thatcertainly actually brings us to the lastquestion and the last question is if in150 years science fails to save us andnone of us are here and it's justhopefully my podcasts by then all thatremains is a book and this book is aboutyou everything in your life or the goodthings you've done or the wonderfulthings and all the people's lives you'vetouched and everything yeah what wouldthe back of the book tell us to makesomebody want to pick it up about youand also what would the title be well Ithink if I was who write a book thetitle of my book would have to be a caryou say Think and Grow Rich butsomething along the lines you knowthoughts I would say I would say it'shard to sort of define them an actualname for the Papa I would say somethingalong the lines of use your thoughtswell think carefully and think aboutwhat you want you know it's hard todefine a name think carefully that'sthat's quite interesting yeah it's sortof something along them lines and withthe back of the book create the lifethat you want by thinking history youknow think about how you painted apicture painting an image on your lifecreate an image of how you want what youlike to be it's hard to sort of it'sfine to be honest I think everythingthat you've said in this episode haskind of told us about the nerve of ityeah and I think the probably the mostimportant thing like you said it's thinkcarefully yeah because you realizedthrough your trials in tribulations isthat if your thought processes thatmanifesto LSU and make your existenceand everything but yeah I think that'sthe biggest thing really you know whenyou're somebody's gonna pick somethingup they're gonna think about what theyare doing what about you as a person howwould you how would you want to beremembered I would like to be rememberedas somebody who diddividing therefore everybody you knowdid the right thing for those who areless fortunate or try to do the wrongthing I think yeah that's brilliantthank you I think that's a great answerand I'm just a final note so we aregonna put your Amazon link in for yourvisit I think you definitely shoulddefinitely if people are interested inthemso it's it's an oil it's a variation allRoma therapy oils basically they're thenatural products there there's noartificial cooling or the fieldadditives in it and they can be used foryour health purposes there's cárdenas aswell and he tells you what you can whatthe purpose of these are and so each oilcan be used for various things I mean Iuse the head of tose so there's a andthere's an oil in there kiddo and Ithink it is that same as witch witchhazel if you're cruising if thought itactually takes your pain away but Idon't have anything okay so and againI'll use the oils to put in the SteamMop just a few tops fantastic you coulduse them in diffuser so there's manyuses for them yeah I got my wife as wellyeah and alongside that are you onsocial media as well is there a way orwould you be open 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Marcus and Andrew talk about what it means to really deeply connect with the land or space where you live. They explore their experiences with plants, spirits, and magic. Going further they talk about how you might grow beyond your limits through exploring this kind of magic  Think about how much you've enjoyed the podcast and how many episodes you listened to, and consider if it is time to support the Patreon You can do so here. If you want more of this in your life you can subscribe by RSS , iTunes, Stitcher, or email. Marcus is at these spots online Facebook, House of Orpheus.com, and Instagram. And their great conference is found here VeridisGenii.com. As always I am at thehermitslamp.com Thanks for joining the conversation. Please share the podcast to help us grow and change the world.  Andrew You can book time with Andrew through his site here.    ANDREW: [00:00:00] Welcome to another installment of The Hermit's Lamp podcast. I'm here today with Marcus McCoy, and I would say that Marcus is a Renaissance person, in a way. You [00:00:15] know, I was thinking about how I would introduce them and I'm like, well, they're, they're into magic, and they're into plants, and they're into perfumes, and they're …. And I just started thinking, you know, they're kind of into everything as far as I know, you know, there's not a lot that [00:00:30] falls outside of the scope of their interests and so on. And I had the pleasure of meeting Marcus a few years back at the Northwest Tarot Symposium, and we had a great time hanging out and making ridiculous esoteric jokes, and a little bit of serious conversation [00:00:45] too. But yeah, but for people who don't know you, Marcus, give us the, give us a quick down low. MARCUS: Renaissance man is pretty good. That's a pretty good aspiration. When I was younger, I would try [00:01:00] my hand at pretty much any art form. I could, I just had to be creative and I'd get really bored [laughs] or hit like a [garbled at 1:11] and have to like pursue some other art form. And yeah, that's pretty accurate for me. Yeah, [00:01:15] I I own two different businesses. I have the House of Orpheus and Troll Cunning Forge. Troll Cunning Forge is a artisan blacksmithing [00:01:30] talisman-making project that I've started a couple years ago, when I started blacksmithing, I've only been doing that for a couple years now. I really love it, I'm really passionate about it. And House [00:01:45] of Orpheus is my perfume company. I've always had a passion for perfumes, I'm . . . not the typical passion for perfumes, but it's something that's really interested me for a [00:02:00] very long time. So that project, those are my two businesses and then we run the Veridas Genii Symposium, my partner and I and, what else? Yeah, I've [00:02:15] got my, we have a lot of different projects that we're working on.   ANDREW: For sure.   MARCUS: We're also going to be starting [garbled at 2:23] and a lot of different things ….   ANDREW: Very cool. So I guess one of the things that stands out for me, and [00:02:30] one of the reasons why I wanted to have you on the podcast, was to talk about, kind of, kind of what you do, for sure, but also the way in which you approach it, because you know my experience of kind of both [00:02:45] talking with you and seeing your stuff online, is that there is a different sense of relationship to plants and spirit and materials then, then maybe I run into in a lot of places, [00:03:00] you know? And I've seen a lot of talk over the last couple years as the word animism returns to favor in the, you know, in the Western magical circles and it seems to me [00:03:15] that you've been an animist since before animism was cool. If that makes any sense, you know, but….   MARCUS: I've been making animism cool, actually.    ANDREW: Yeah.    MARCUS: Yeah, the Bioregional Animism Project, bioregional animism [00:03:30] was something that I had coined. I started that many years ago and started an online community, back when tribes dot net was a thing?    ANDREW: Okay.   MARCUS: And, and had a, the [00:03:45] first blog on bioregional animism, called Bioregional Animism. That sadly got taken offline when Blogger got [00:04:00] bought up or absorbed into Google and they made it impossible for you to like maintain your, or renew your account with them. So, yeah, I got [00:04:15] absorbed but I still have all the information. It's still in Blogger. I just can't have the Bioregional Animism.com anymore. It got logged. Yeah.   ANDREW: So, tell me about how you came to that. Like, how did you come to bioregional animism?   MARCUS: [00:04:31] I was working with a South American shaman doing a particular set of ceremonies every year. The ceremony, the [00:04:46] particular ceremony was called the Long Dance Ceremony, and he would incorporate South American shamanic practices with this North American dance that he had learned from his teacher and a beautiful [00:05:01] painted arrow. And a lot of the insight that you got from the Long Dance Ceremony was that you are the land dancing, you are place. And so as [00:05:17] an extension of place, the spirit of place moves through you and creates the prayers it dances. And through that insight, I started recognizing that animism [00:05:32] as a whole was the genus loci or the spirit of place moving through us, creating new traditions, establishing relationships to maintain an equilibrium within [00:05:47] the bioregion, in the larger ecological whole, which includes human beings. But the problem is that most people think of themselves as being separate from that . . .   ANDREW: Sure.   MARCUS: Ceremonies like that [00:06:04] allowed us to or assist us in recognizing that we are the spirit of place and we are an expression of place and that the traditions that we think that we are creating: We're actually [00:06:19] just also an expression of that place experiencing itself as us. And so, I think that that was the, that's what I experienced, and wanted to share with other people and [00:06:34] so Bioregional Animism became a way of communicating that to other people. Now keep in mind, animism at that time . . . I had an anthropology background. I was, I had my degree in transpersonal [00:06:49] anthropology. So I was, I was young when this started, in my 20s, when I first started writing about bioregional animism, and I was incorporating a lot of words that I [00:07:04] felt could articulate it carefully. And so I went against the old animist anthropological structure of what animism meant and were the new research [00:07:19] and the new academic perspectives on animism, which were highlighted by religious scholars like Graham Harvey. So he's . . . what he did there was basically redefine animism in a way [00:07:34] that was more akin to global populations of animist people, how they actually perceive it. The previous model, the Western anthropological model, or perceived perception of what animism [00:07:49] was, was a projection of neoPlatonism onto indigenous world views where they . . . Which, I mean, that's kind of what the colonists have always done, you know? [laughs]   ANDREW: Sure.   MARCUS: from what . . . doesn't everyone think of things in terms of spirits? [00:08:04] And you know, like, the mind-body split and all these neo-Platonic ideas. We just project them everywhere or see them everywhere. But the reality is, is that once you get involved with a indigenous [00:08:19] world view and start to learn their perspective, you start seeing that it's not, you know, there's more than one ontological system in the world. [laughs] IAnd it's not all neoPlatonism and they don't all view the world in the same way that we do in terms of, [00:08:34] like, there being a body and a spirit and when the body dies the spirit goes into the spiritual plane, and that's not how all the, all the world sees it.    So instead of thinking of [00:08:49] animism as things having an animating spirit, we move over to a new way of looking at it, which is a relational ontology. And I think that's the thing that a lot of people, now that animism is really popular, a lot of people are [00:09:04] really missing that. They're still thinking from this old colonial projection of animism onto animist people, indigenous people, but they, they're doing themselves a [00:09:19] great disservice, to not thinking about it further and actually looking at what indigenous people did and instead they're just maintaining, they're not animist, they're still there, they're still neo-Platonist, but they're now just allowing [00:09:34] other things to have a spirit.    ANDREW: Right.   MARCUS: Right.   ANDREW: So, so that distinction between sort of projecting a human experience as a spirit in a body, right? [00:09:50] being extended to everything else, which is the sort of Platonic model right? And, and then in the other model, can you say more for people about what that's, what that difference is? How is that difference [00:10:06] seen, you know, and I understand there's no universal difference there. But like what are, what are some other ideas or other ways of thinking about that that, you know, that use smaller words, maybe.   MARCUS: [laughs] So. [sigh] You [00:10:21] want me to use smaller words? Damn it. Okay! I used to do that in the psych ward all the time and I led student groups . . . [laughs] So maybe, so [00:10:36] we are lending, we are. We are accepting that there, the world has many different viewpoints as to how it may work.   ANDREW: Mm-hmm.   MARCUS: Right? And that not one is superior to another.   ANDREW: Mm-hmm.   MARCUS: And [00:10:52] that it is very mysterious.   ANDREW: Mm-hmm.   MARCUS: And that that mystery may never be solved.    ANDREW: Yes.    MARCUS: Okay? So that, that's, that's, that's how we can get our foundation of what may be an ontology.    ANDREW: Yeah!   MARCUS: From [00:11:08] a simple standpoint. But then, so from a relational ontology standpoint, we're run understanding that it's our relationships and how we relate with the world around us that helped create the way we perceive the universe. [00:11:23]   ANDREW: Mm-hmm.   MARCUS: And so in that, what makes animism a relational ontology is that we accept and lend our own personhood to others. And [00:11:38] we acknowledge others as being persons . . .   ANDREW: Mm-hmm.   MARCUS: That have the ability to communicate with us, just as we do, because that's a trait that persons have.   ANDREW: Mm-hmm.   MARCUS: They can communicate, right?   ANDREW: Yeah.   MARCUS: And so [00:11:54] now we've gone and we've taken animism and we've removed it from this idea that it has to revolve around an animating spirit.   ANDREW: Mm-hmm.   MARCUS: Because having an animating spirit revolves around one particular ontological [00:12:10] system.    ANDREW: Yeah.   MARCUS: And we defined that as being neoPlatonism, right? That we're projecting onto all worlds' ontological systems. So we stopped doing that and now we can open up and acknowledge that there may be other ways of relating [00:12:25] to persons.    ANDREW: Mm-hmm.   MARCUS: Right?    ANDREW: Yup.   MARCUS: That are still animist because of the relation aspect. So that means that there's a whole lot of different ways that we can relate. And I [00:12:40] think that's really interesting from a, and that's where I really got into the bioregional aspect was that when I was writing about it, I never wanted anyone to identify as a bioregional animist, and that's kind of against the point [laughs], was, is to [00:12:55] relate to place as self and to allow place to express itself as you.    ANDREW: Mm-hmm.   MARCUS: And so you would, as, in doing so, you would get to know yourself as place and, and [00:13:10] new traditions, new ways of being, new practices would become like an expression just like a plant evolving in a place and, and, and now taking on new traits as it evolved [00:13:25] surroundings. And so, unfortunately, a lot of people like these catchphrases and they want identity and so they don't want to go deep with that. And so they just identified bioregional [00:13:40] animist and they still are working with these old ideas of what animism means and they weren't really paying attention when I was talking in the first place, apparently. [laughs]   ANDREW: Well, and I think that, you know, having having relationships [00:13:55] to, to spirit and to place, you know, so often people are, at least from what I see and hear, a lot of it is very identity-driven, is very narrow [00:14:10] in its perspective. Right? And I think that there's .  . . and what I hear you talking about, there is a multitude of possibilities that continue to be present all the time, you know? And I think [00:14:25] about it like, you know, I mean I'm practicing, you know, the Lukumí tradition, right, you know? There there are things that have aché, right? They have energy and they have a certain kind of energy that, that [00:14:41] might be seen to be inherent in them. But those things are modified and that energy is changed or different depending on the relationship, and what's going on in the time and place, and [00:14:56] where it's active, and it's different depending on the presence of the spirits and whether the Orishas are present and whether they are embodying those elements, or using those elements in a certain way, at which point that thing [00:15:11] becomes something different than it was before. And, in amongst all of that, it's continuously shifting and able to sort of hold a variety of energies, relationships, [00:15:26] or, or spirit for that matter, and, but it's not easily definable in terms of: this is the thing that it is, right? Does that make sense? Is that kind of some of what you're [00:15:41] talking about?   MARCUS: Totally, and Lukumí is really an interesting example because it's something that spread from Africa to the New World and in every place that adapted [00:16:00] to or recreated itself in, whether it was, I guess, Cuba and Brazil being the primary places. And some people could argue, I guess, that [00:16:15] there was influences, of course, too, like Haiti, but you can see. And I may be wrong there, but I'm no expert . . . [crosstalking at 16:22)   ANDREW: That too, for sure.   MARCUS: Yeah sure. So it really is fascinating to see the differences in the way that they express themselves [00:16:30] and how they adapted to place and how they had to adapt to different plants and wildlife and nature itself, you know, and those are . . .  It's nature religion in a sense. Yeah.    ANDREW: Yeah. So [00:16:45] how do people, how do people start to, to find this kind of deeper connection? Like what, what do people, you know, now that your blogger group is gone. How do people, how do people approach this? What, you [00:17:00] know for people looking to, you know, go beyond sort of the kind of more direct or limited perspective we started off talking about and looking to kind of dig deeper into how do we, how do we live in relationship [00:17:15] to space and to the things that are there? What do you suggest people do?   MARCUS: Well, I think, I mean, it's difficult because we're not born with that. You know, like the, the language of speaking [00:17:30] place isn't our first language, you know? We're taught a consumer-based language, you know, a trade language, you know, at least in North America, you know, it's a what is it, a Creole or a English is a considered a Creole or a trade [00:17:45] language, which is interesting. But we need to change, we need to learn the language of the land itself. We need to go out and start deconstructing [00:18:00] the identity that we've been taught that excludes place from being self.   ANDREW: Right.   MARCUS: But we got to discover why that is, within ourselves, and all these different things that the ego is clung [00:18:16] onto to create that structure that we identify as, as, as you are I. And that's a process that's individual, but it needs to include place and the spirits of place in that process. [00:18:31] Humbly. And I also believe that one of the greatest ways of accomplishing that is through the venue of humble service. I think finding a way to integrate [00:18:47] your motivations and your spiritual path in that process of discovering and deconstructing the ego and replacing it with a sense of self as, as, as one with place, [00:19:02] is best done through the lens of a path of servitude, humble servitude.   ANDREW: Yeah. I think, I think it's easy to, you know, it's just come up on many podcasts that I've done over the past few [00:19:17] years. It's easy to have a very transactional relationship with spirit. Or to try and have a transactional relationship with spirit. You know, I mean, I think about how people approach the goetia and other things right? Listen, here, you do this. I'll do this. Let's [00:19:32] get it done, you know, it's . . . But you know, it's not necessarily, it doesn't, it doesn't necessarily work that way, or I mean, it can work that way, but it's not, it can't be . . . like connecting to place can't be centered around that [00:19:47] as the practice.   MARCUS: I think that what I learned from Peruvian practices is the idea of like sacred reciprocity, where there's a, there's a, an experience of life force always [00:20:02] going on and that it's not transactional per se, it's more of a respect and honor and gratitude and there are these things that make animism, that are kind of like, [00:20:17] that, you can see between all animist societies that become like a, sort of, what you, we, consider spiritual where it's a, it's living from the heart and the will, you know, like where you're, [00:20:33] you're honoring everything.    ANDREW: Yeah.   MARCUS: All the time. [laughs] And your respect to everything all the time and you're in such deep gratitude to everything all [00:20:48] the time, you know? Like a good friend of mine in a ceremony once told me, you know, when we were talking about, you know, and and trying to deconstruct those, those ego constructs that, that prevent [00:21:03] us from, from feeling and allowing the the spirit of land to be us and he looked at me and he's like, you know, the more I'm grateful for, the more I have to be grateful for. And [00:21:18] it was just these little, these little things, these little insights that come throughout life, you know? When you're dedicated to working on that, that path, that you remember they are [00:21:33] so simple, but they keep, they keep your feet on the ground.    ANDREW: Yeah. For sure.   MARCUS: For making [garbled at 21:42] process.    ANDREW:  Yeah, and I think that there's a quality to the way in which we [00:21:48] pay attention that changes with these kinds of approaches too? You know it's not about . . . It's about noticing what happens and noticing those things as as the dialogue, you know, [00:22:03] and being part of that conversation, you know? I think about, you know, the birds that visit my backyard, I think about the surprising plants that emerged this spring, new, that I have never had my yard before. I [00:22:18] don't know where they came from, you know, I'm like, excellent, wonderful, welcome, new friends, what's, you know? And, and that will be a thing that I will mull over for months to come, you know, and sort of get a sense of what those, what those are, and what they want, and why [00:22:33] they, you know, why they're here. And I understand that on one level, we could say, “Well, probably the squirrels dug them up or the birds spread the seeds,” but but that's not really what it's about. Right? It's about understanding what that relationship means and what that shifting [00:22:48] relationship means as an extension of, as you say, ourselves, and as our sort of very very extended sense of self within a space.   MARCUS: Yeah, and you know, it's interesting as an herbalist, I get really excited because there's [00:23:03] this idea called, like, volunteer plants, where like a plant will volunteer itself or introduce itself. And it's literally like discovering a new part of yourself, right? [laughs] Like, I didn't [00:23:18] know that I was really like that or or this is something about me that I never realized before, you know, that's similar. It's a similar sense, or, like feeling, but you get really excited when this, this new plant introduces itself, or a new animal. Any time I see a new life-form that [00:23:33] I've never seen before, you can ask my partner. I'm just like, [laughs] “oh my God.” [sighs]   ANDREW: What is it? What's going on? What do you mean? What do you got to say? Sure, yeah.    MARCUS: [laughing] Yeah, I get just entranced and I just fall in love with [00:23:48] all these new plants that I discover, I remember when I first discovered, talking more about plants now, but there's a plant called the ground ivy. And this plant [00:24:03] just kept appearing. I just kept seeing it here and there and it kept showing up, kept showing up, kept showing up and I was really fascinated by it, and it just caught my eye, and it was such a subtle plant where you really would, you would just glance over at, [00:24:18] you wouldn't even notice it. It just has, it grows like in the grass. You can't even see it sometimes. And sometimes you'll see like entire outcroppings of it. But it's really inconspicuous and doesn't really show itself and [00:24:33] it's got these little green kidney-shaped leaves and these little tiny, every once in a while, it'll have these little tiny purple flowers. And you really don't notice it and when you pick it and you . . . Its aromatic properties are kind of [00:24:49] maybe a little like on the mint level but a little bit more pungent like a geranium kind of like in this place in between the two, but like, more, little bit more like leaning towards like the stinking geranium side. And, and [00:25:04] so you're like, “Okay, well, maybe it's kind of a bitter,” and then I did some, you know, I tried finding out what it was, trying to identify a plant that you've never heard of before, just found, it's kind of challenging.   ANDREW: Sure.   MARCUS: But I was, I was able to find some some people that were like, “Oh [00:25:19] it's this,” you know, and I posted a picture and and found some, talked to some other plant geeks and figured out that it was what it was and started doing more research looking at folklore stuff with it. And lo and behold this [00:25:34] plant is used to help you identify who's a witch.   ANDREW: Okay.   MARCUS: And that it will help you identify who's done witchcraft on you. But that's just in the folklore, you know, like you read [00:25:49] this and I was like, “okay.” Well, there's no, no one tells you about like how they used it or what the folklore was, other than that. It's just that's what it was used for or that's what its purpose was. Its other purpose was as [00:26:04] a gruit, so adding it to beers, as a flavoring for beers, which is also kind of interesting.    So, I get to know this plant and I'm getting to know this plant now over years. It's like three or four years of me [00:26:19] having this, like this courtship with this plant, getting to know it better and better and better and better, and there are other ways that I've learned to get to know a plant really well, if I really need to. Working [00:26:34] with different visionary plants, you can, like Ayahuasca, for example, you can get to know a plant spirit really easily. And also, if you start practicing any of the work from the Grimoire Sympathia, Charubel's work [00:26:49] that's incredible. It's very much akin to South American plant shamanry.    But, at any rate, I wasn't taking the relationship that intensely with this plant and I just wanted to get to know it the long way, but through [00:27:04] just attuning myself to it and working with it, I started getting this idea that I should. take the vine, wrap it into a kind of a wreath, [00:27:19] a small wreath like about the size that could go up your wrist, and look at through it like a monocle just symbolically and then place it into your pocket and carry it around with you. And when I did that, [00:27:35] all of the subtle witchcrafts that people do . . . And when I say subtle witchcrafts, I talk about, you know, like glamour, making yourself look like you're someone that you're not, or envidia, you know, or envy, [00:27:50] the evil eye, these little things that everyone's capable of that happen all the time to people, and that are also magical, and I started seeing [00:28:05] these things happen and people's glamours especially started to fade away and I started seeing people that were in my life for who they really were, which was really startling. [laughs] And [00:28:21] I was really just blown away by this plant's ability to do that. And yeah, I grow it now. It's been very helpful. It's very helpful.   ANDREW: Well and I think that, it's [00:28:36] one of the things that's fascinating. If you spend that time listening and relating, then the plants will show their mysteries, right? You know, and it's so different than, than, [00:28:51] the idea that we'll just, you know: “Marcus, tell me, what's the way what's the thing I do? How do I, you know, what's the spell? What's the, whatever, right?” And I mean, that stuff's great too, like it's fine. But, but I think that becoming [00:29:06] curious about it, and being open through curiosity to get to know it, I think often reveals something different. And to me, I think it's also, it's sort of like the idea [00:29:21] of like having a license from the plant to work with it. You know? If it reveals its mystery to you through whatever means, to me, that's often going to be way more effective or [00:29:36] powerful or fruitful than maybe the stuff where you just went and read some stuff in a book and were like, “oh, okay,” and it's also going to be back to that idea of place. It's going to be, you know, where you are and [00:29:51] what's available to you, right? As opposed to, you know, like, as I practice Lukumí in Canada, right? It's like, it's hard because there's not a lot of stuff here that grows in the Caribbean, right? Some.    MARCUS: You know, I'm here in Seattle, you know in the [00:30:06] Washington area. Yeah, my friends that practice Lukumí, you know, up in Seattle and Renton. Yeah, they have to do the same problems, you know, like with different trees or plants and things and having to order them. And, yeah, it's interesting, that [00:30:21] tradition and its adaptations to place, working with the local plants. I don't . . . a lot of it. I've seen, I've heard some people trying to work with local plants. But yeah, I haven't seen too much success [00:30:36] with it yet. But once again, you know, like you were saying, we're, we're treating the plant as a person. Not an object.   ANDREW: Mm-hmm.   MARCUS: Or [00:30:52] a tool. And I think a lot of times, the Western perspective is to treat things as objects and tools and to have a very utilitarian relationship with it. You know, A more [00:31:07] of a new anim-, we'll call it a new animism approach, would be to relate to the plant as a person and to, like you were saying, you know, like establish a relationship with it. Let the plant teach you its, its, its [00:31:22] secrets, you know, instead of trying to pry the secrets from the plant. We're getting to know it and a lot of plants really want to help, they [00:31:37] want to introduce themselves to you. They want to, just like I was saying with the volunteer plants. It's amazing. Motherwort is a classic plant for new moms. And [00:31:52] it will, it's, historically, it's been known to to just start growing at a new mother's house, start growing there and that just helps, you know, if you know motherwort, it's a bit of an anti-anxiety, [00:32:07] and I'm, I'm sure that your nerves are frazzled when you're a new parent. [laughs]   ANDREW: Definitely, I can attest to that for sure. Well, there's something too about being in relationship to those plants over time. You know, I, I used to do this ceremony [00:32:22] at this particular sort of woodland on a, on a farm just north of Toronto, and we did ceremony every month for two years there, basically, and one of the, one [00:32:37] of the highlights was, I spent 10 days there by myself fasting and doing ceremonies and stuff. And during that time, my connection to that place grew tremendously, you know, because [00:32:52] I was there, because I was around it, because I had seen it through seasons, you know?   MARCUS: Mm-hmm.   ANDREW: And the culmination of that particular retreat, there was a tree, a large cherry tree that [00:33:07] there was, in sort of west of where that the west edge of the, the space we did ritual at, and at the time that I was there, when I was doing my, my evening sun salutations, I [00:33:22] realized that the cherry sap was oozing out of the tree because as the sun set behind it, it became like little stained glass, you know, gems, you know?   MARCUS: I know. Yeah, yeah.   ANDREW: And there are those moments where [00:33:37] you know, that's, that's a 15-minute window in the day at one part of the year, you know, but being there for that, it, opens you up to, to different things until you know different ways of relating to it, you [00:33:52] know, collecting with that resin and working with it and doing other things and you know, and so on, right? It's just, it's like, it's like, it opens a road for you to start traveling down.   MARCUS: Mm-hmm. Indeed. And it's even more, it's [00:34:07] even more interesting. They, so a lot of different animist societies believed, because it was, once again, they didn't necessarily all have this idea of like a spirit or a spirit world. A lot of things were just supernatural, right? [00:34:22] And another trait that persons had was the trait of being able to shapechange or become invisible. So we have invisibility and shapechanging as being traits [00:34:37] that persons have, especially supernaturally powerful persons. And plants and animals were considered some of the most supernaturally powerful beings around, other than huge aspects of nature, you know, lightning, thunder, mountains, [00:34:52] rivers, lakes, things like that, the ocean.    And so, when you meet a plant and it has shapechanged into human form and it talks to you and [00:35:07] you get to relate to it as a, as an other than human person that is taking on the shape of a human person so that it can relate to you. [00:35:23] You . . . The level of intimacy and the way that you can relate to that plant changes all of a sudden, because we now see that, we no longer see that plant as other, we see it as as human. Oh, wow, [00:35:38] it's got a human face. It's got, it's a person, you know, like because we're still so indoctrinated especially to only see persons as human persons.    ANDREW: Yeah.    MARCUS: It's very hard for us, still, [00:35:53] especially, I think, in Western society to, to lend over personhood to other than human persons or to things that we perceive as being other. We, even within animist societies, that there were things that they didn't [00:36:08] think of as being a person, and that's something that's important to like discuss on the table when we're looking at animism, is that not all things were considered persons, not all rocks were rock people. Certain rocks were! [00:36:23]    ANDREW: Yeah.   MARCUS: There were specific rocks sometimes and then sometimes all rocks were considered rock persons, but for the most part, not all rocks were considered rock persons, and that's, that's something to consider and to bring into the conversation, but it's [00:36:39] really interesting when you do have that experience and say, like with the cherry tree that you saw, or the, you experience that you have this really beautiful experience with. You imagine meeting that being, that [00:36:54] cherry tree as it shapechanged itself into a human being and spoke with human words in a way that you could understand and it had a conversation with you, or it taught you something or gave you a song, or it taught you a particular type of magic, [00:37:09] or it taught you a particular type of magic that you could do with its body.    ANDREW: Mm-hmm.   MARCUS: Right? Or it taught you lessons and related its own personal virtues. You know, the virtues of the cherry [00:37:24] are renowned throughout poetic history. [laughing]    ANDREW: For sure. Yeah.   MARCUS: And so, and its use in medicine and culinary things, you know, like I [00:37:39] once met strawberry and had, received a powerful lesson from strawberry on sex magic or how to attract and allure and to use glamour to attract people to you. Strawberries [00:37:55] most definitely are very skilled at that. [laughing]   ANDREW: Our emails are gonna be full after this comes out now, right?   MARCUS: Now everybody's gonna want to know how to talk to strawberries. [laughing] But, but, it's really, [00:38:10] it changes when you allow that to happen and I believe that the work, like I said, once again, really want to introduce more people to Charubel's work and the book, The Grimoire Sympathia. [00:38:25] He was a Welsh, a Welsh wizard from the 1800s, who was able to basically accomplish much of the same thing that we acknowledge that like South American [00:38:40] Ayahuasceros are doing, or [badgatalistas?] are doing with with Ayahuasca, but through just honing his psychic abilities to communicate with plants . . . And he did it from a very Western esoteric model, [00:38:55] which I think is really important for Western people to recognize, like here we have this Welsh, you know, if we want to call him a shaman or a sorcerer or a magician, whatever, you have him doing this thing that we exoticize down in South America [00:39:10] and within indigenous communities, and here, this is someone from, you know, like a Western European standpoint. We don't need to go and and you know, info mine and culturally appropriate from these other cultures in order to like have [00:39:25] communications and have relationships with plants and we don't have to borrow indigenous traditions that we don't understand either. The . . . Here this guy has given us, through this book that he wrote, an ability [00:39:40] to do that. And so I'd like to encourage more and more people to do it. The book is available via PDF only at this point, it's a very rare book. But yeah, the Grimoire Sympathia is great. ANDREW: Well, and I [00:39:55] think that that's, people should definitely check that out. I haven't read it. So I'm going to go check it out and I think it's back to that idea of like, what's, what's, where you are, right, you know? What's the, what's growing where [00:40:10] you live, what you know, what's growing in the parks and ravines and forests or whatever depending on where you are. And how do you, how do you, how can you relate to that? You know? Because I think that there's so many wonderful [00:40:25] and powerful plants. You know, like people, you know, there's a lot of discussion about sage and smudging and fumigation and stuff like that. And you know, if you want to clean something spiritually, you know, like [00:40:40] one of my favorite things to go to is, you know, I have a very deep and long term relationship with the burdock plant, you know. And you go dig up some of those roots and, you know, cook them up and use that to spray around your place, does a really [00:40:55] good job of getting rid of a lot of stuff, you know? And it's not . . .    MARCUS: Yeah.   ANDREW: You know, and it's not exotic or fancy or glamorous or whatever. In fact, it's a lot of work of trying to get those roots out of the ground, but it's worth it. You know?   MARCUS: Yeah. [00:41:10] Yeah. Yeah. I mean there's a lot, there's a lot of different things that you can do too, I mean whether it's in just paying attention to your surroundings and I mean around here, we have Western red cedar and Western red cedar's always been worked with for, for [00:41:25] cleansing amongst the indigenous people up here. But if you just start paying attention to the plant, you know, you don't have to go through and like adopt their, their beliefs, you know, or imitate their behaviors. [00:41:40] You can actually just look at the plant and to go, “Well, this plant doesn't allow anything to grow underneath of it.”    ANDREW: Yeah.   MARCUS: Nothing grows underneath of a red cedar. And if you stand underneath of a red cedar in the middle of summertime [00:41:55] peak heat you can actually feel the essential oils dripping out of it in a vaporing form and falling on you and then those get into the, they saturate the soil as well as, [00:42:10] you know, the branches falling down, but within that, within the essential oils, volatile oils that are within the plant, you've got insecticides and herbicides and all these different like things that prevent other things from living underneath [00:42:25] of it.   ANDREW: Sure.   MARCUS: And so it cleanses, it creates a protective circle around itself because trees grow in the circle [laughing] and so they naturally protect themselves and so, [00:42:40] you look at the relationship. It has with water. You, what you do, you sit underneath of a cedar tree in the rain and you, you pay attention to like, well, you know, through the the branches, the water are taking those [00:42:55] same volatile oils and they're driving it deeper into the, into the soil, right? So there's a relationship between the rain and the cedar. And when I saw that and experienced that I was given a gift. [00:43:11] Of taking branches from the cedar, you know, like giving some of my hair in return, you know, and like, like taking a branch or tobacco and, and, and taking the cedar branch [00:43:26] and dipping it in water and then using that to, to spurge . . .   ANDREW: Sure.   MARCUS: Or to cleanse myself and that's not imitating anybody, that's not culturally appropriating anything. That's me sitting [00:43:41] underneath of a cedar tree paying attention to how it grows and what its place is amongst all the other life forms and the forces of nature that helped create it. And we can do that. We [00:43:56] can take the time to pay attention and to learn. And like I said, if you really go deep and you can allow yourself to even allow the the land to move you physically, it can move your mind, it can move your, your voice. [00:44:11] It can speak through you and to actually have that experience and to allow the spirit of place, the spirit of the land, the intelligence of the land, the genii of the land to move you physically [00:44:27] in a dance or in a trance state is powerful.  And to allow a plant, certain plants are more prone to doing that than others, like teacher plants or tutelary plants. They can come [00:44:42] in and they can move you and they can physically teach you and share your body and when that happens, it's pretty incredible. And it's a pretty cool thing. And [00:44:57] that's when you start, it's through having those experiences repeatedly that you start, that that level of reverence intensifies, and that level of gratefulness [00:45:12] intensifies, and that level of respect intensifies, and the way you live your life becomes shaped by those things, and they become that, and the way you relate to the world around you starts to change, and [00:45:27] that's what we would call spiritual but that's once again . . . [laughing] Spirit is a word that's kind of constructed by the Western, you know, philosophical language base and it's not necessarily . . . We have to kind of find our own way of relating [00:45:42] to it and it's . . . the word spiritual might not really even apply anymore.   ANDREW: Well, and I think one of the things that happens too, is that when you're, when you're working to be present in that way, whether we want to think of it as the [00:45:57] Earth reveals more things to you or perhaps the plants and other things that are there, you know, encourage their friends to reveal more to you, you know, but it becomes this process of expanding [00:46:12] and sort of opening towards, you know, deeper access, deeper knowledge, you know, more mystery . . . because I think that mystery is always a part of it and I've found personally that you [00:46:27] know, the longer, the longer I try and hold this approach to working and being in the world, the more often something emerges even in advance of when I actually need it or [00:46:42] before I know that I need it too, you know, there's this kind of fascinating thing where something will start to show up and then, you know, a month later, I'll be like, “oh, hey, I'm glad, I'm glad I saw you, and now that, now that this thing came up, what [00:46:57] do you think about helping me with that?” And it's, you know, it's like it was already, it was aware of it before I was, right? You know? Which I think, Which I think is fascinating, and you know, some of the, yeah, what's the right word, [00:47:12] deeper magic, more wondrous happenings, around this kind of stuff, you know. Yeah.   MARCUS: Yeah, those wondrous happenings that kind of maintain and create that sense of of awe, you [00:47:27] know, having that being a source of humility for yourself. Is beautiful, having more of those awe experiences. [laughs] I mean to me, I mean, that's, that's a motivating [00:47:42] factor into the exploration of magic itself, you know, like having more of those awe, like, awe-dropping sort of experiences. It's amazing. Yeah. That's where it's at.    ANDREW: It's [00:47:57] definitely where it's at. Well, maybe we should wrap it up on that point: go out, and find the mystery and engage the . . .   MARCUS: As I learned in a ceremony once, it's that we must perpetuate the mystery at all costs.   ANDREW: [00:48:12] Mm-hmm. I like it.   MARCUS: Me too.   ANDREW: So for folks who want to find out more about you or follow along on your great creations and shenanigans on the [00:48:27] Internets. Where should they come and look for you? Where's good places for your stuff and for where you're hanging out?   MARCUS: Okay, so I have House of Orpheus.com that you can find pretty [00:48:43] easily on Facebook as well as just House of Orpheus.com. And we're also on Instagram. I post on Instagram multiple times a day for each one of the projects that I work on, just to keep [00:48:58] people informed. Then there's also my metal work, working with talismans and blacksmithing, and that's at Troll Cunning Forge and we're mostly on Instagram and Etsy. I [00:49:13] post a lot of my one-off stuff on Instagram though. And so, just keep updated with the Instagram profile. And then the Veridis Genii Symposium, which is VeridisGenii.com. [00:49:28] So that's V I R I D I S . . .   ANDREW: We'll put a link in the notes.    MARCUS: Yeah, if I was writing it down easy, no, and [00:49:43] then we, so we have a Instagram for that as well as a Facebook profile and website. That's going to be coming up really soon, people that are really interested in plant magic. I highly recommend checking it out. We've got Daniel Schuelke and [00:49:58] Corinne Boyer and there's a whole bunch of really just amazing people speaking this year and it's, really looking forward to it. It's going to be a great event.   ANDREW: And also there's a publication in the same name which we . . .   MARCUS: Yeah.   ANDREW: Which [00:50:13] we carry in the shop, when we're back up and running, but you know, yeah, it's around, you can definitely get that as well. And there's a lot of great stuff in there that's worth checking out.   MARCUS: Yeah, we just edited . . . This is our fifth year. So the fifth edition, it's [00:50:28] going to be amazing. So yeah, really looking forward to it being published, and we publish that when it comes out during the, the event so it's available at the event for people.   ANDREW: That's awesome. Well, thanks for hanging out with me today, Marcus. It's been a pleasure.   MARCUS: Yeah, [00:50:43] likewise. It's been great. Any time.

After my journey in Brazil, I sit down with shaman Rudá Iandê to hear his story, learn from his wisdom, and laugh a bit at this magical mystery ride we call life.

On this weeks episode of the RIPEcast we are bringing you more live sets from this years amazing Breakfast of Champions New Years Day Block party collaboration with It’s A New Day. This one is is from Justin Johnson of the Faultline Breaks Crew. Thanks to everyone who attended the event and helped to make this year the biggest and best BOC to date!!! Track Listing: 01 Doii - Disco Samurai [Disco Balls Records] 02 Styline - Move [InStereo Recordings] 03 JedX - Love Saver [InStereo Recordings] 04 Tommyboy - The Beginning (SF Mix) [PornoStar Records (US)] 05 Block & Crown - Kiss the Underground [Club Session] 06 Block & Crown - We Knock It Harder (Club Mix) [Jango Music] 07 Sammy Porter - A Bit Patchy (FooR Remix) [Speakerbox Recordings] 08 Si-Dog - Move Your Body [DogEatDog Records] 09 Cuncic, Malcevic - Superstar (FM-3 Remix) [Elektroshok Records] 10 Code Blue - Specialize In Love [Breaks Yo!] 11 Ed Breaks - Wicked Babylon (Disperto Certain Remix) [Reactive Records Label] 12 Blakjak, United States Beat Squad - Bassbins [Kaleidoscope Music] 13 Pyramid - London Feels [InBeatWeTrust Music] 14 Wes Smith - 8-Track [Juice Recordings (USA)] 15 Baymont Bross - Rock The House (Big Bass Album Mix) [Ravesta Records] 16 Toddy Tee - Liquor Store [Dunk Yer Funk] 17 Bradley Drop, DJ Lantern, Proxxy - Music Takes Control [Hot Cakes]

On this weeks episode of the RIPEcast we are bringing you more live sets from this years amazing Breakfast of Champions New Years Day Block party collaboration with It’s A New Day. This one is is from none other than Space Cowboy WorkR. Thanks to everyone who attended the event and helped to make this year the biggest and best BOC to date!!! Check out more from WorkR here: https://soundcloud.com/davidmcgrath Track list: 1. Voices (Kid Keobi remix) - Steve Hart, J. Cannons 2. Jumpin - Rico Tubbs 3. Lady Black - Teddy Leon 4. City Lights (Entheogen remix) - Alt-A 5. Ah Yah Yah - Jahmaikl, Austin Digo 6. Lose Control (Detach remix) - Stonewash, Vanilla Skillz 7. Don’t Move (Shockillaz remix) - Audio Dropout 8. Evolution (Kuplay remix) - SevenG 9. Bumble Bee - Sporty-O, BBK, Kid Panel 10. Shake It Up (Basstyler remix) - The Push 11. Rock The Disco - Destroyers 12. Old Skool - BumpR StickR 13. Visceras - Under Break 14. Soldier - SevenG 15. Push It To The Limit - Dirty Kicks 16. Hype Ting (FM-3) - Angel, Ragga Twins, Martin Flex 17. Worldwide - Fun & Funk 18. Attack The Speaker - Kid Digital, Rubi Dan 19. 3, 2, 1, Drop it - Basstyler

On this weeks episode of the RIPEcast we are bringing you more live sets from this years amazing Breakfast of Champions New Years Day Block party collaboration with It’s A New Day. This one is is from none other than Space Cowboy Ben Anderson. Thanks to everyone who attended the event and helped to make this year the biggest and best BOC to date!!! Check out more from Ben Anderson here: https://soundcloud.com/idubwisesf

On this weeks episode of the RIPEcast we are bringing you more live sets from this years amazing Breakfast of Champions New Years Day Block party collaboration with It’s A New Day. This one is is from none other than Space Cowgirl J9. Thanks to everyone who attended the event and helped to make this year the biggest and best BOC to date!!! You can check out more from J9 here: FB: www.facebook.com/j9-113652575163/ SC: www.soundcloud.com/j9er

In todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte we offer an excerpt from a talk by Vishvapani entitled: Sacred Mindfulness. A talk given at the Triratna Buddhist Order November 2014 Menand#8217;s UK and Ireland Area Order Weekend at Adhisthana on 1 November 2014. The theme of the weekend was Mindfulness. Vishvapani writes: and#8220;Weand#8217;re in the middle of the greatest surge in interest related to Buddhism since the 1960s: the secular mindfulness boom. Iand#8217;ve been deeply involved in Triratna for many years and my current experience as a secular mindfulness trainer has me doing everything from teaching meditation to murderers to helping prepare a report on mindfulness for the UK parliament. In this talk I share my reflections on the strengths and limitations of the secular mindfulness movement and#8211; including how it challenges us to rethink our own teaching and our place in the Buddhist world; and explore the and#8216;sacredand#8217; dimension of mindfulness in Triratna Buddhism.and#8221; From the talk Secular Mindfulness and Sacred Mindfulness.

On this weeks episode of the RIPEcast we are bringing you more live sets from this years amazing Breakfast of Champions New Years Day Block party collaboration with It’s A New Day. This one is is from none other than Space Cowboy Kapt’n Kirk. Thanks to everyone who attended the event and helped to make this year the biggest and best BOC to date!!! Check Out More From Kapt’n Kirk Here: SC: https://soundcloud.com/kaptn-kirk FB: https://www.facebook.com/Kapnkirk

On this weeks episode of the RIPEcast we are bringing you more live sets from this years amazing Breakfast of Champions New Years Day Block party collaboration with It’s A New Day. This one is is from none other than Space Cowboy Bassben. Thanks to everyone who attended the event and helped to make this year the biggest and best BOC to date!!! Check Out More From Bassben Here: https://soundcloud.com/bassben Check out this awesome video from the IAND-BOC 2019 Event: https://youtu.be/Iy4Lz09LPH8 Don't miss the upcoming Space Cowboys event in South Lake Tahoe: https://www.facebook.com/events/990534041136340/ Track Listing: What a Bam - George Privatti, Guille Placencia Loco - Maximono, Marten Horger My Babe (Me and My Toothbrush Remix) - Alex Kenji Can't Get No Love - Croatia Squad, Me and My Toothbrush Feel Galactic - Block and Crown Rock & Roll - Dennis Cruz Smoke Everyday - Gary Caos Push the Tempo - Me and My Toothbrush House Work - Mike Dunn, MNEK, Jax Jones Rock the Disoo - Skapes Can't Help the Way that I Feel (David Penn Remix) - Sneaky Sound System House Down - 219 Boys Fly Kicks (Wax Motif Remix) - AC Slater, Chris Lorenzo I wanna GIve You - Antoine Clamaran, Agua Sin Gas Just One More TIme - Hoxton Whores, HXTN Less Conversation - Julian the Angel Coming From Chicago - Luca Debonaire You Know - Styline Heavyweight Sound - Sinden, AC Slater, Dread MC

On this weeks episode of the RIPEcast we are bringing you more live sets from this years amazing Breakfast of Champions New Years Day Block party collaboration with It’s A New Day. This one is is from none other than Space Cowgirl DJ ShOOey. Thanks to everyone who attended the event and helped to make this year the biggest and best BOC to date!!! Check out more from ShOOey here: ★ FB fan page: facebook.com/djshooey ★ Follow my DJ mixes: soundcloud.com/spacecowboys/sets/shooey ★ Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/djshooey

On this weeks episode of the RIPEcast we are bringing you more live sets from this years amazing Breakfast of Champions New Years Day Block party collaboration with It’s A New Day. This one is is from none other than Space Cowboy Brad Robinson. Thanks to everyone who attended the event and helped to make this year the biggest and best BOC to date!!! Check out more from Brad Robinson here: soundcloud.com/djbradrobinson facebook.com/djbradrobinson.spacecowboys www.djbradrobinson.com

On this weeks episode of the RIPEcast we are bringing you more live sets from this years amazing Breakfast of Champions New Years Day Block party collaboration with It’s A New Day. This one is is from none other than Space Cowboy Mancub. Thanks to everyone who attended the event and helped to make this year the biggest and best BOC to date!!! Check out more from Mancub here: soundcloud.com/spacecowboys/sets/mancub-mixography facebook.com/djmancub

On this weeks episode of the RIPEcast we are bringing you more live sets from this years amazing Breakfast of Champions New Years Day Block party collaboration with It’s A New Day. This one is is from none other than Space Cowgirl Leyl Master Black.. Thanks to everyone who attended the event and helped to make this year the biggest and best BOC to date!!! Check out more from Leyl Master Black here: soundcloud.com/leylmaster soundcloud.com/spacecowboys/sets/leyl-master-black-mixography facebook.com/leylmasterblack

On this weeks episode of the RIPEcast we are bringing you more live sets from this years amazing Breakfast of Champions New Years Day Block party collaboration with It’s A New Day. This one is is from none other than Space Cowboy Deckard. Thanks to everyone who attended the event and helped to make this year the biggest and best BOC to date. Here is a few words from Deckard about this mix: "Breakfast of Champions has always been my favorite party to attend and DJ and this year made it even more special in teaming up with our friends both in front of and behind the stages to unite the crews and make a really special event for 2019. I couldn't be more thrilled and satisfied to play for such a special crowd of Space Cowboy loving fans!" Check out more from Deckard here: https://soundcloud.com/deckard-dj https://soundcloud.com/spacecowboys/sets/deckard-mixography https://www.facebook.com/djdeckard/

On this weeks episode of the RIPEcast we are bringing you the first of many of live sets from this years amazing Breakfast of Champions New Years Day Block party collaboration with It’s A New Day. This one is is from none other than Space Cowboy 8Ball. Thanks to everyone who attended the event and helped to make this year the biggest and best BOC to date. Check out more from 8Ball here: https://soundcloud.com/joshdamon https://soundcloud.com/spacecowboys/sets/8ball-mixography https://www.facebook.com/8ballxjoshdamon/

The advancements made in technology are always on our radar here at PLuGHiTz Live. Whether in communications, environmental engineering or entertainment, we love to see the progress that is made. It is particularly interesting when it happens to be fun gadgets that are being improved upon. Now, let's amp that up a bit - the improved gadget for today's discussion is a drone that is controlled by your mind. Short of something the likes of flying cars, it doesn't get any cooler than that! Dr. Marvin Andujar, with the University of South Florida's Computer Science and Engineering Department, was kind enough to stop by and show off this new technology. He and his team have been working to perfect their Smart Drone in the school's Neuro-Machine Interaction Lab. Flying the drone with your mind is possible, in large part, due to the Brain-Computer Interface device that they created. This is what allows your mind to send commands to the drone. And as cool as this is on its own, one of the real-life applications in which they use this device is to race drones. The goal is to allow people with physical challenges the ability to pilot the drones themselves, using only their brains. This is so exciting because it equals the playing field for those who couldn't normally compete in this type of activity. Thus making it a universal sport where everybody can compete at the same level. The participants are able to imagine the movements and the drone will perform the tasks. To accomplish this, they start off by creating a personal profiler of the pilot, which in turn trains the device to complete certain movements to correlate with specific thoughts. To begin this process, they have the pilot meditate for a few minutes to get the brain to a neutral state. Then they ask them to think of very specific things, like pushing a chair forward or opening your left hand. This creates patterns that they save to their profile, and these patterns are different for each individual. They then decode the iAnd they also have an eSport version with a simulator drone that allows you to fly your drone anywhere through your computer.nformation and send it to the drone through the profile via a software that was also created for the process. Not only can this technology be applied to drone racing, but it also has many other practical real-world applications, as well. It's also good practice to train your attention, especially for those who have ADHD. Other health initiatives could relate to communicating with those who are incapacitated. And just imagine the possibilities in the smart home arena, from opening and closing doors to changing the color of the lighting depending upon your mood. Be sure to watch the full interview to learn more specifics regarding the drones, the races and how Lucas Films was interested in the technology as it relates to "The Force." Sponsored by: Amazon Prime gives you more than just free shipping. Get free music, TV shows, movies, videogames and more. Enjoy your favorite books while you work or travel. Get a free book and a 30 day trial with promo code Try70.

This week the team discusses platforming chameleons, math equations, and space exploration.HOSTS:Ken McKownDrew LeachmanRyan WomboldJae LeeGAMES COVEREDYooka LayleeZero Escape: The Nonary GamesMass Effect AndromedaToukiden 2Troll and Iand more… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

​乡愁 Nostalgia-----by 余光中 When I was a child,Nostalgia seemed a small stamp:"Here am IAnd there my mother."小时候，乡愁是一枚小小的邮票，我在这头，母亲在那头。 Then I was a grown-up,Nostalgia became a traveling ticket:"Here am IAnd there my bride."长大后，乡愁是一张窄窄的船票，我在这头，新娘在那头。 During the later years,Nostalgia turned to be a graveyard:"Here am IAnd yonder my mother."后来啊!乡愁是一方矮矮的坟墓，我在外头，母亲在里头。 And now at present,Nostalgia looms large to be a channel:"Here am IAnd yonder my Continent!"而现在，乡愁是一湾浅浅的海峡，我在这头，大陆在那头。

Vessantara is back from his three year long retreat and has many insights to share. Our FBA Dharmabyte today is a preview for next Saturdayand#8217;s full-length FBA Podcast. In and#8220;The Buddhist View on Rebirthand#8221; Vessantara dives deep as he describes how awareness continues to arise after death and#8211; there is continued experience but no and#8216;Iand#8217; to have that experience. The full talk Karma, Rebirth and the Deep Boundless Dharma was given at the Triratna Buddhist Order UK and Ireland Menand#8217;s Order Weekend at Adhisthana on 1 February 2014.

Todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, and#8220;Tasting Fear,and#8221; by Kulaprabha is an an excerpt from the talk and#8220;Spiritual Death, Fear and Fearlessness.and#8221; Spiritual Death is about death of our fixed, bounded self, the self that is made up of bundled habits and preferences and views and#8211; especially views about existence and non-existence. So donand#8217;t be surprised if, when contemplating the impermanence and unreliability of that small self, you taste fear. Itand#8217;s natural enough in the circumstances. After all, fine to talk loftily about and#8216;dying to oneand#8217;s egoand#8217;, but who will be left after thatand#8217;s done? Where will and#8216;Iand#8217; be?

In this episode, Dr. Ichak Kalderon Adizes, Ph.D. and Mr. Željko Božiand#263; discuss how the Adizes® Methodology has been successfully applied within AlfaTherm; as well as, the impact that AlfaTherm and the Adizes methodology have made within Bosnia.

PeacekeeperKevin Corcoran, Steve Stokes, and Ben "Boots" Grimes came into the studio joined me for an afternoon of great original music.You should see this band live and you can on August 21st at Phyllisand#39; Musical Inn over on Division. Iand#39;ll see you there.Hereand#39;s some pics from the show.

Gathering Moss came to us through the recommendation of CAU alumni and Co-Host for this show, Mr. David Kav.Tom Appling and the boys, inspired by Velvet Underground, one of my favorites from my hippie days, and English bands like the Beatles, played some wonderful music and we had a great time!Below is the information for their next show and I guess Iand#39;m going to have to come up with a costume, cause CAU will be there. ttt tttGathering Moss

OK, so these 3 guys, Tim.Herf, and Neal show up as the band Breakers Broken and Iand#39;m thinking peace of cake. Three guys, easy set up, and should be over in maybe an hour.Setup and sound check took an hour alone. Pedals everywhere, two keyboards, bass, guitar, drums, 2 vocals and me adjusting levels on what seemed to be a 5 piece band.It was all worth the effort. These guys totally blew me away. What a JOY to record this show.

Julia Lucafo, the pride of New Lenox, Illinois is destined to be a Star. She is sixteen years young with a very old soul. Just listen to her lyrics. There is no way I could express the emotions that she does when I was her age, hell Iand#39;m not sure I can now. She came into the studio and took over my heart as I am sure she well yours.