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Shaun Attwood is a former stock-market millionaire and Ecstasy trafficker turned YouTuber extraordinaire, public speaker, author and activist, who is banned from America for life. His story was featured worldwide on the National Geographic Channel as an episode of Locked Up/Banged Up Abroad called Raving Arizona. Shaun's writing – smuggled out of the jail with the highest death rate in America run by Sheriff Joe Arpaio – attracted international media attention to the human rights violations: murders by guards and gang members, dead rats in the food, cockroach infestations… Shaun was released in December 2007. In July 2008, he won a Koestler award for a short story, which he read to an audience at the Royal Festival Hall. Shaun presently lives near London, and talks to audiences of young people across the UK and Europe about his experiences and the consequences of getting involved in drugs and crime. As a best-selling true-crime author, Shaun is writing a series of action-packed books exposing the "War on Drugs." for two extra episodes a month and exclusive content please visit patreon.com/thenickbryantpodcast nickbryantnyc.com epsteinjustice.com
Az 1936 és 1939 között zajló spanyolországi fegyveres konfliktus a nemzetközi antifasizmus alapító eseményei közé tartozik. Nem véletlenül. A Köztársaság mellett harcolók és nemzetközi támogatóik a fasizmus és antifasizmus harcaként fogták fel a küzdelmet. Ráadásul a “spanyol kérdés” túlterjedt az Ibériai félszigeten, és az egész nemzetközi világot mozgósította. Így több tízezer önkéntest, akik a világ 65 országából utaztak Spanyolországba, hogy fegyvert fogjanak a fasizmus ellen. De mi mellett, voltaképpen? A népfrontos köztársaságért álltak ki vagy a társadalmi forradalmat igyekeztek elősegíteni?Ebben az adásban történész vendégünkkel, Varga Krisztiánnal a szokványosan csak spanyol polgárháborúként emlegetett konfliktusról, és annak nemzetközi jelentőségéről beszélgetünk. Milyen érdekek mentén folyt a harc és kik között? Milyen sokszínű ideológiai tájkép rajzolódott ki a konfliktusban az “oldalakon” belül? Mi tette nemzetközivé a konfliktust? Külön figyelmet szentelünk az antifasiszta önkéntesek szerepének. Mi vagy ki vezette őket Spanyolországba? Szó esik a Nemzetközi Brigádokról, a Kommunista Internacionálé (Komintern) szerepéről, de az anarchista önkéntesekről is, akikről jóval kevesebbet tud az utókor. Beszélünk a magyar önkéntesekről, és arról, hogy a Horthy-rendszer hogyan viszonyult hozzájuk. A spanyolországi konfliktussal az antifasizmus végérvényesen megváltozott: globális elköteleződés vált belőle. Ezzel kapcsolatban kitérünk a népfrontpolitika kérdésére, és a nemzetközi kommunizmus stratégiaváltásának jelentőségére, a “szociálfasizmus” eszméjének feladására. A műsort kulturális ajánlóval zárjuk.A No pasarán! podcastban Bódi Lóránt, Fenyvesi Balázs és Zombory Máté válogat az antifasizmus első száz évének történeteiből.Szépirodalmi alkotások:-Hemingway, Ernest (1940): Akiért a harang szól (For Whom the Bell Tolls). Magyarul először Sőtér István fordításában jelent meg 1945-ben a budapesti Révai Kiadógondozásában.-Koestler, Arthur (1954): A láthatatlan írás (The Invisible Writing). Az első magyar nyelvű kiadás 1997-ben jelent meg Makovecz Benjámin fordításában abudapesti Osiris Kiadónál.-Orwell, George (1938): Hódolat Katalóniának (Homage to Catalonia). Első magyar kiadás 1986-ban szamizdatban (AB Független) jelent meg. Az első hivataloskiadás 1989-ben az Interart gondozásában látott napvilágot Bethlen János és Tóth Lászlófordításában.-Voros, Sandor (1961): Egy amerikai komisszár (American Commissar). A műnek (egyelőre) nincs magyar fordítása.Említett cikk(ek):-Varga Krisztián (2022): Zsoldosok vagy önkéntesek az orosz-ukrán háborúba beszállókülföldiek? Mérce.hu Link: https://merce.hu/2022/05/01/zsoldosok-vagy-onkentesek-az-orosz-ukran-haboruba-beszallo-kulfoldiek/Tudományos művek:-Varga Krisztián (2023A): Magyar anarchisták a spanyol polgárháborúban, 1936–1939. 1. rész. Betekintő. 17. 7-33.-Varga Krisztián (2023B): Magyar anarchisták a spanyol polgárháborúban, 1936–1939. 2. rész. Betekintő. 18. 7-31.Filmek:-del Toro, Guillermo (2006): A faun labirintusa (El laberinto del fauno).-Loach, Ken (1995): Haza és szabadság (Land and Freedom).-Sauras, Carlos (1990): Jaj, Carmela (¡Ay Carmela!).
Learning to teach math teachers better with Dr. Kate Johnson, Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at Brigham Young University, as we discuss her experiences and advice as a mathematics teacher educator, as an associate editor of the Mathematics Teacher Educator journal, and as a co-author of the article, Ungrievable: Theorizing white Christian nationalist rhetorical practices in education in the Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies journal. Links from the episode Johnson, K. R., Hadley, H. L., Schoonbeck, A., & Benson, S. E. (2024) Ungrievable: Theorizing white Christian nationalist rhetorical practices in education. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2024.2388913 Johnson, K. R., Holdaway, E., & Ross, A. S. (2021). “We are children of God”: White Christian teachers discussing racism. Linguistics and Education, 64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2021.100936 Johnson, K. R. (2016). Enduring positions: Religious identity in discussions about critical mathematics education. Religion and Education, 43(2), 230-245. https://doi.org/10.1080/15507394.2016.1147916 Johnson, K. R. (accepted for 2024). The road to find: Poetry as a tool for developing a productive community. In C. Koestler & E. Thanheiser (Eds.), Building Community to Center Equity and Justice in Mathematics Teacher Education. Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators. Johnson, K. R. (2016). Reconceptualizing “activism”: Developing a socially conscious practice with prospective White mathematics teachers. In N. M. Joseph, C. M. Haynes, & F. Cobb (Eds.), Interrogating Whiteness and Relinquishing Power: White Faculty's Commitment to Racial Consciousness in STEM Classrooms (pp. 171-187). Peter Lang Publishing. Special Call from the MTE Journal for Supporting Teachers to Engage Traditionally Marginalized Learners. Due 10/15/24 (https://www.amte.net/connections/2024/09/special-call-mte-journal) Mathematics Teacher Educator Commentaries to help authors of MTE manuscripts Vol. 5, Issue 2, March 2017 which describes a writing tool for preparing a MTE manuscript https://doi.org/10.5951/mathteaceduc.5.2.0085 6(1), Sept 2017 which talks about articulating of a problem of practice; https://doi.org/10.5951/mathteaceduc.6.1.0003 6(2), March 2018 which describes the relationship between claims and evidence in MTE https://doi.org/10.5951/mathteaceduc.6.2.0004 11(3), June 2023 on positionality in your pedagogy and writing for MTE: https://doi.org/10.5951/MTE.2023.0007 Mathematics Teacher Educator podcast (https://mtepodcast.amte.net/) Special Guest: Kate Johnson.
Docta Bionix is a rising rap artist from the U.K. who brings a redemptive message of overcoming trails and bringing inspiration into one of the hardest hitting, most oppositional rap genres: drill. I was fascinated to interview Docta Bionix because of the unusual depth of his message. I became aware of his rise early on because of his deep collaboration with producer and engineer Badio in Bournemouth, U.K. (prodbybadio) who was also instrumental in my musical start. We dive into the impact of music on culture and the responsibility of artists. Docta Bionix background stems from hiphop and rap which later led to his involvement in pirate radio stations as an MC. Since his journey began in 2022 He became the platinum and gold award winner for the Koestler awards. Prior to this he continued on his path releasing his first single in May 2023 on GRM daily and other releases also on link up tv. Later that year he participated in the BBC introducing / BBC 1xtra cypher held at the prestigious Maida Vale studios and has numerous spins on stations such as BBC 1xtra, Kiss Fresh and BBC Introducing / Radio Solent. Genres - Hip Hop, Rap, Drill music, Afrobeats, Amapiano Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DoctaBionix Instagram https://www.instagram.com/Doctabionix TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@DoctaBionix Snapchat https://www.snapchat.com/add/doctabionix Music: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/Doctabionix Apple Music https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/docta-bionix
On this episode of the Bench to Bedside podcast, Dr. Roy Jensen, vice chancellor and director of The University of Kansas Cancer Center, sits down for a conversation with Drs. Byron Gajewski and Devin Koestler, co-leaders of the Biostatistics and Informatics Shared Resource at KU Cancer Center. Just as a coach uses a playbook to strategize and make informed decisions during a game, researchers use biostatistics to analyze data and draw meaningful conclusions in their studies. On today's episode, Drs. Gajewski and Koestler share more about how the Biostatistics and Informatics Shared Resource supports KU Cancer Center's researchers by using examples from different sports teams. In addition, they discuss their career journeys and give their advice and tips for anyone who may want to pursue a career in mathematics. Links from this Episode: - Learn more about the Shared Resources at KU Cancer Center - Read about the Biostatistics and Informatics Shared Resource at KU Cancer Center - Learn about our Clinical Trials Finder App - Learn more about Dr. Gajewski - Learn more about Dr. Koestler
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Subscribe to the PPM Patreon to access the complete catalog of unabridged #1 critically paranoid hits, including the full 2 & half hours of HANUSSEN (IV): patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping Thanks again to Luke from "Things Observed" for collaborating w/ me on this whirlwind, 4 part exhumation of the Nazi Nostradamus, Brit intel asset, & Z*onist spy Erik Jan Hanussen. Make sure to give him a follow on Twitter at @thingobserver & check out his Patreon, as well. **The time has come to put Hanussen's body back in the earth. Luke & I conclude our exhumation & critically paranoid examination of the life & espionage times of the Nazi Nostradamus & sexual blackmailer. We break down the symmetries b/w Hanussen & his likely fellow anti-communist, Austro-Hungarian Zionist agent/ asset named Arthur Koestler (and the incredibly sus, See-Eye-Aye nexus that he was enmeshed in... Including connections to McCarthy, Nixon, Orwell, Langston Hughes, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Timothy Leary, voluntary euthenasia societies, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a parapsychology department at the University of Edinburgh, the list goes on)... We get to Koestler via his autobiographical account of visiting Hanussen at his lavish Capone-cum-geisha apartment in Berlin—Koestler & a German occult journalist were on assignment & arrived to test their respective susceptibility to Hanussen's "clairvoyant" abilities. The article was never published. So yeah, a Hanussen & Koestler spying for Zion hypothesis is considered. We then turn our attention to Hanussen's Reichstag Fire prophecy & his possible role in the cover-up (realizing I may have forgot to mention this, but Hanussen spoke to the media & helped the Nazis to set the tone for their constructed narrative immediately following the fiery false flag). We conclude w/ a discussion of varying motivations for the Nazis to off him (especially his betrayal during the Mosse publishing empire purchase), the particulars of his unceremonious death, & the discovery of his body in a wooded glade, half gnawed by wild animals. And finally, Luke & I put guns to each others heads to force each other to make a final, fatal assessment re: Hanussen's motivations & allegiance(s).** Songs: | The Prodigy - "Firestarter" | | Rammstein - "Benzin" |
Antonio Di Grado"La brigata delle ombre"Scrittori e artisti nella guerra di SpagnaLa nave di Teseohttps://lanavediteseo.euHemingway, Orwell, Malraux, Koestler, Spender, Kol'cov, Saint Exupéry, Dos Passos, Klaus Mann, Max Aub, Federico García Lorca, Antonio Machado e tanti altri scrittori e artisti parteciparono, da combattenti, da inviati o da accorati testimoni, alla guerra di Spagna che dal 1936 al 1939 oppose la legittima repubblica popolare all'esercito golpista di Franco e ai suoi alleati nazifascisti, e ne scrissero in romanzi, liriche, memoriali. C'erano anche donne straordinarie come Simone Weil, Maria Zambrano, Mercè Rodoreda e meno note come Mika Etchebéhère o Constancia de la Mora, a vivere e scrivere di quegli eventi. Altri, contemporanei o delle generazioni successive, da Bernanos a Sartre e a Camus, da Vittorini a Sciascia, da Picasso a Buñuel, impararono da quel conflitto una lezione civile che influenzò la loro vita e le loro scelte, e anche per questo evocarono fasti e nefasti di quel triennio, mentre una nutrita schiera di autori spagnoli oggi fa finalmente i conti con quei traumi a lungo rimossi.Dal popolato e combattivo mondo dei no pasarán della letteratura e delle arti questo libro ricava profili, idee, scritture e visioni da animare come in un teatro della memoria.Antonio Di Grado ha concluso da professore ordinario di Letteratura italiana un'attività accademica nell'ateneo catanese durata quasi mezzo secolo. Da trent'anni dirige, per volontà di Leonardo Sciascia, la Fondazione intitolata allo scrittore a Racalmuto. Ha pubblicato numerosi volumi su diversi momenti e autori della storia letteraria, dalle origini ai contemporanei; nei suoi libri più recenti si è occupato dei romanzi sull'anarchia (L'idea che uccide, 2018), delle mistiche medievali (Le amanti del Loin-Près, 2019), delle congetture letterarie sull'Oltre (Al di là. Soglie, transiti, rinascite, 2020), degli scrittori del “ventennio nero” (Scrivere a destra, 2021).IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.itQuesto show fa parte del network Spreaker Prime. Se sei interessato a fare pubblicità in questo podcast, contattaci su https://www.spreaker.com/show/1487855/advertisement
Cette Semaine LTDJ reçoit Maze Le Patron & Koestler Le TeckÀ chaque épisode Dj Crowd et Jay Seven reçoivent des invités pour le temps d'un jujube! Suivez les émissions pour les conversations les plus comiques, informatives et absurdes du Québec!Dans cet épisode du LTDJ @djcrowd et @j7official reçoivent @maze.le.patron et @koestler_le_teck .Les conversations vont dans toutes les directions incluant leur parcours, la connection avec le Roi Heenok et ce qui s'en viens pour Les Vrais Associés. Bonne écoute!Salutations aux commanditaires:Le Green Room Oka, Le Kampus, et La PriseInfographie par : Dj Crowd pour Muliani GfxMusique par : @BeatsbyGallo pour MajorWayStudio: KampusSuivez-nous sur les médias sociauxPour écouter l'after-Show :https://www.patreon.com/letempsdunjujubeDj Crowd :https://www.instagram.com/djcrowd/https://www.facebook.com/worldfamousdjcrowdTiktok, Snapchat, Twitter : Dj CrowdJaySeven :https://www.instagram.com/j7official/LTDJ : https://www.instagram.com/letempsdunjujube/https://www.facebook.com/letempsdunjujube/Merci !!!!!!! Suivez-nous sur les médias sociauxPour écouter l'after-Show :https://www.patreon.com/letempsdunjujubeDj Crowd :https://www.instagram.com/djcrowd/https://www.facebook.com/worldfamousdjcrowdTiktok, Snapchat, Twitter : Dj CrowdJaySeven :https://www.instagram.com/j7official/LTDJ : https://www.instagram.com/letempsdunjujube/https://www.facebook.com/letempsdunjujube/Merci !!!!!!!
In the episode of Open Secrets Dr. Dan discusses Arthur Koestler's The Ghost in the Machine. The story of Koestler's predicament of Mankind is built using novel philosophical principles and resolves in a sinister conclusion; nonetheless, important understandings are highlighted. Show is recorded at Grand Forks Best Source. For studio information, visit www.gfbestsource.com #Koestler #Holon #MindControl #Biochemistry #Association #Bisociation #gfbs #gfbestsource.com #grandforksnd #grandforksbestsource #open secrets
Pierre-Édouard Deldique reçoit dans Une semaine d'actualité : Olivier Weber, journaliste, grand reporter, écrivain, romancier, auteur de « Dans l'œil de l'archange » chez Calmann Levy. « 1937, dans la fureur des combats de la guerre civile d'Espagne, Gerda Taro meurt, écrasée par un char républicain. Elle a vingt-six ans.Militante antinazie, Gerda a fui l'Allemagne hitlérienne pour Paris, où elle croise la route, entre autres, d'Aragon, Koestler, Nizan, Man Ray, ainsi que de Robert Capa, qui devient son compagnon. Gerda Taro veut rejoindre le front espagnol, elle pressent que le destin de l'Europe se joue là-bas. Femme libre à la destinée de météore, elle comprend peu à peu, entre espoir et trahisons, que les staliniens profitent des combats pour purger les rangs des républicains.Grande fresque sur la guerre civile espagnole, Dans l'oeil de l'archange rend un brillant hommage à une profession fascinante, celle de reporter de guerre, et à une icône du XXè siècle, une femme courageuse et passionnée, pour qui l'engagement primait sur tout ».
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John Yoo is away traveling this weekend, so the 3WHH reverts to its old form, with Lucretia pummeling Steve like a chiropractor working on a stiff neck for his conventional thinking about the debt ceiling deal. But otherwise we're in a jolly mood this week, as we see signs that a "Revolt of the Normies"—that is sensible middle class Americans—against gender wokery is finally underway. Just ask the sales manager for Bud Light, or shareholders of Target. (We could have alternately called this episode "Pride Month Goeth Before the Fall.")Then, in response to some listener requests, we begin a preliminary excursion into a "Best Books" list, though we want to await John's return for an orderly treatment of this question. For this episode Steve and Lucretia talk about political novels, and why some are enduring, like Orwell's 1984 or Koestler's Darkness at Noon, and why others have been forgotten, like Andre Malraux's Man's Fate, or Wyndham Lewis's Revenge for Love (which Steve is reading right now). As usual Steve and Lucretia come at this subject from different directions, and finally settle together on . . . Shakespeare.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5816484/advertisement
durée : 01:01:51 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - Publié en 1945 en France, “Le Zéro et l'Infini” est considéré comme un classique de l'antitotalitarisme stalinien. Son auteur, Arthur Koestler, y dénonce par la fiction les grands procès de Moscou. Au micro de France Culture en 1973, il racontait son incroyable parcours d'engagement politique.
Bo and Blake talk to David Johnson and welcome in Koestler Prime in the third hour of the show live in the BankPlus Studio. Ole Miss insider David Johnson joins the show on the Yuengling Lager guest line to talk about Ole Miss working the transfer portal. David discusses who he believes Rebels head coach Lane Kiffin will look to recruit in the portal. David shares his concerns about certain players who may enter the portal and leave Oxford. David discusses the Texas Bowl and if star running back Zach Evans will play against Texas Tech. Dr. Larry Field with Mississippi Sports Medicine and Orthopedics joins the show talking sports injuries live in the BankPlus Studio. Dr. Field shares some interesting insight on injuries in sports. Chris, Kevin, and Caroline with Koestler Prime join the show live in the BankPlus studio for some holiday cocktails. Chris and Bo discuss Koestler Prime's holiday set up while Kevin and Caroline make holiday cocktails wit Russell's Reserve, Patron, and Tito's Vodka. Bo enjoys a few cocktails while discussing the busy holiday season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chris, Kevin, and Caroline with Koestler Prime join the show live in the BankPlus studio for some holiday cocktails. Chris and Bo discuss Koestler Prime's holiday set up while Kevin and Caroline make holiday cocktails wit Russell's Reserve, Patron, and Tito's Vodka. Bo enjoys a few cocktails while discussing the busy holiday season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Search Amazon for the word ‘innovation' in its ‘Business, Finance & Accounting' book section, and you will find more than 60,000 volumes. The trick is finding stuff worth reading in this deep and wide ocean of material. The new book, Ideaflow: Why Creative Businesses Win, by Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn is just such a book. I welcomed Jeremy to this episode of TRIUM Connects to discuss the book as well as his general views on creativity and innovation. In the book, Jeremy and Perry argue that we shouldn't think of innovation as an event, a workshop, a sprint or a hackathon…but rather as a more general capability that can be learnt and is relevant to everyone. Their core principle is that you need ideas to solve problems – in contrast to completing tasks where you just need to get on with the work. But, instead of obsessing over quality, successful innovators focus on the generation of many ideas. Volume is key. Once you have a sufficient volume, then you run quick and cheap experiments to gather more information, revise and test again. Jeremy knows what he is talking about. He is one of the world's leading experts in innovation. As the Director of Executive Education at Stanford's renowned Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (aka "the d.school"). His courses [K1] have been experienced by nearly a million students of innovation worldwide. He advises corporate leaders on how to embed[K2] the methods and mindsets of design thinking into their organizations, and works with professionals to cultivate a robust personal creative practice. He also co-hosts the "Stanford Masters of Creativity," program where Jeremy shines the spotlight on exemplars of creative practice across disciplinary boundaries.What makes Ideaflow a great book, and what I really enjoyed in my conversation with Jeremy, is the concrete, actionable innovation practices described and the fact that they are backed up by solid research and evidence. I hope you enjoy the conversation!Cited WorkMcKeown, Greg (2015) Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. Virgin Books.Koestler, A. (2014) The Act of Creation. One 70 Press.Lotto, B. (2017) Deviate: The Creative Power of Transforming your Perception. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.Lucas, B.J. & Nordgren, L.F. (2020) ‘The creative cliff illusion,' Psychological and Cognitive Sciences: Volume 117 (33), pp 19830-19836.Mackinnon, D. W. (1962). The personality correlates of creativity: A study of American architects. In G. Nielson (Ed.), Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Applied Psychology. Vol. 2. Personality research (pp. 11–39). Munksgaard.Randolph, M. (2021) That will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life on an Idea. Endeavour. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
ADÓVILÁG: A brazil választások adójogi hatásai - Gerendy Zoltán, a BDO Magyarország ügyvezetője, adótanácsadó ADÓVILÁG: A brazil választások politikai vonzatai - Feledy Botond, külpolitikai szakértő ARANYKÖPÉS: Arthur Koestler PIACI HOTSPOT: USA Labour Day kereskedési szünet, szerdán jön a Fed “Bézs könyv” amiből a kamatdöntésre lehet következtetni, Apple és iPhone 14, új okosóra ill., fülhallgató jön, az NFL és a Nemzeti mozinap hatása a tőzsdére, Gamestop jelentés jön a héten - Bodnár Martin, az Erste Befektetési Zrt. USA Desk üzletkötője
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Learning to teach math teachers better with Courtney Koestler and Eva Thanheiser as they share their experiences and advice on being mathematics teacher educators and an opportunity to share how colleagues build community to center equity and justice in their teaching of math teachers. Links from the episode Call for Proposals: AMTE Professional Book Series, Vol 6 - Building Community to Center Equity and Justice in Mathematics Teacher Education (https://amte.net/content/call-proposals-amte-professional-book-series-vol-6) High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice (https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/high-school-mathematics-lessons-to-explore-understand-and-respond-to-social-injustice/book262378#description) July Summer Book Club - High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice with Berry, Conway, Lawler, and Staley (https://www.teachingmathteachingpodcast.com/21) Middle School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice (https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/middle-school-mathematics-lessons-to-explore-understand-and-respond-to-social-injustice/book276346) Upper Elementary Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice (https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/upper-elementary-mathematics-lessons-to-explore-understand-and-respond-to-social-injustice) Early Elementary Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice (https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/early-elementary-mathematics-lessons-to-explore-understand-and-respond-to-social-injustice) Data In Your World: Exploring Our Schools by Courtney Koestler and Mathew Felton-Koestler (https://rourkeeducationalmedia.com/products/exploring-our-schools-paperback?_pos=2&_sid=4a5c99b85&_ss=r?view=library) Data In Your World: Communities Near and Far by Mathew Felton-Koestler and Courtney Koestler (https://rourkeeducationalmedia.com/products/) MTE Podcast (https://mtepodcast.amte.net/) TMT Virtual Suggestion Box (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflSk_-4AvHf0K5Zr9inSynd0pHdF86kx90OLFpl03RvEUaow/viewform) Special Guest: Courtney Koestler.
This week on the podcast, 2nd Gig has started to try to bring in more of the case-of-the-week format, but some of the skill and magic of the first season is gone. We dig into the incongruence of the few case-of-the-week episodes; 2nd Gig's growing fascination with creating backstories for characters; the geopolitical allegory of 2nd Gig and specifically Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution and its connection to Japanese nationalism and fascism; the show finally developing the Tachikoma some more; podcasting is synchronizing your consciousnesses; the quality of the animation in 2nd Gig; more backstory on Kuze and how it relates to Noh theater and themes around death; Koestler's theories in The Ghost in the Machine; the difficulties and problems of even the good-faith reading of what happens between the Major and the boy Chai; Niamh's apparently inexplicable love of 2nd Gig's Wings of Desire episode; themes around the failures of heroism and leadership, and the beginning of the end… Write into our Question Bucket at ghostdiverspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter! The Show: @ghostdiverspod Niamh: @FoxmomNia Connor: @rabbleais Niamh's mediamh pile: @mediamh_pile (Oh I did kill GarfReadAloud shortly after this, sowwy) Export Audio Network: exportaud.io Ghost Divers: exportaud.io/ghostdivers Ornate Stairwells: exportaud.io/ornatestairwells Check out our official schedule at exportaud.io/divingschedule! Works Cited in this Discussion The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler “The Major's Body (10): Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig” by Claire Napier (full series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) Content Warnings for this Discussion Sexual harassment, abuse, and rape Pedophilia and child sexual abuse Sex, sexuality, and sexism Body hacking & possession Food & alcohol Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co
Bo and Blake talk NFL quarterbacks and Mike Bianco on the third hour of the show live in the BankPlus Studio. The guys begin talking about NFL quarterbacks and the draft quickly approaches. the guys discuss if some quarterbacks could move up in the draft. The guys discuss the downfall of Mike Bianco and if he could end up at another SEC school. Chris Robertson and Kevin Tiner from Koestler Prime stop by the show for some stories and drinks. Kevin mixes the drinks while Bo and Chris taste and talk some bourbon. Chris talks the science and history of bourbon as he and Bo share a drink. Chris and Bo talk steaks and what seasoning makes for the best taste Chris spins the prize wheel and gives away some awesome prizes to our listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chris Robertson and Kevin Tiner from Koestler Prime stop by the show for some stories and drinks live in the BankPlus Studio. Kevin mixes the drinks while Bo and Chris taste and talk some bourbon. Chris talks the science and history of bourbon as he and Bo share a drink. Chris and Bo talk steaks and what seasoning makes for the best taste Chris spins the prize wheel and gives away some awesome prizes to our listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today I am speaking with Tony Gammidge about art therapy and the power of creativity in healing trauma. We also take some time to talk about his own boarding school experiences and the work that he does in prison and secure units.---Tony Gammidge is an Artist, Filmmaker/Animator, trainer and HCPC registered Art Therapist.He has a particular interest in stories, and personal narrative and in the idea of embodied storymaking (stories that are made by hand as well as told). This is reflected in his own work, films, artist books and installations but also in his participatory work in prisons, secure units, mental health settings and centres for asylum seekers. He has made over 30 films with participants in this time. Many of these films have won Koestler awards and been screened in conferences, symposiums and in galleries and museums.Questions to ask:I would love to start my interview with a little more about you. What drew you into the work that you now do?Could you talk about art therapy please? I found art and creativity to be so healing in my own therapeutic journey. What is it? How has it helped you and your clients?In working in groups of ex-boarding school men I have seen the transformation that story-telling has on the individual and the group. In your opinion, what is the importance of story-telling? What happens when we tell our stories? And what happens to those who hear us speak or perform our personal journeys?Could you please speak about the idea of ‘home' or its loss (or ambiguous loss), also in contrast the ‘Hostile environment' (eg Home Office's attitude to refugees)?Could you also please talk about embodied narrative, stories told through the hands and the body. Could you give an example? How does this process of embodied narrative work?How do our early experiences often shape our careers (for you in prisons and with refugees)?I would love you to speak about your animations and the work that you do in secure units and prisons. Would you be able to share a little about Norton Grim? Where did this character come from and how did making the film about him feel?What were your experiences of boarding school like?Could you share some of the healing that has happened in these environments as people have had permission to share their stories?How do people find out more about you?#tonygammidge #arttherapy #traumaarttherapyFor more information about Tony and the work he does please visit: https://www.tonygammidge.com/He mentions an interview with Dr Pauline Boss on Ambiguous Loss on the ‘On Being' website:https://onbeing.org/programs/pauline-boss-navigating-loss-without-closure/https://www.youtube.com/user/tonygammidge
On this week's episode of Red Pill Revolution, we take you on a complete deep dive into Hunter Bidens Laptop including "alleged" cocaine-fueled sexual relations with Barack Obamas Daughter, his inappropriate relationship with his 14-year-old niece, the incestuous relationship with her mother (Beaus Wife), and all the shady business deals in between; as the main stream media has finally acknowledged its legitimacy. We also discuss Madison Cawthorn's recent comments surrounding being invited to an orgy by 70-year-old Washington politicians, Elon Musk exploring the option of starting his own social media company, Will Smith pulling out of the Oscar Academy, Psaski leaving the White House & more! ----more---- On this week's Patreon-only bonus content, we discuss the contents of Ashley Bidens Diary which includes comments about alleged inappropriate showers with her father and the difficult life of addiction she has led since. Click the link below to subscribe! 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Donate https://givesendgo.com/redpillrevolution Full Transcription: Welcome to red Hill revolution my name is Austin Adams Red Hill revolution started out with me realizing every thing that I knew everything that I believe everything I interpret about my life is through the lens of the information I was spoonfed as a child religion politics history conspiracy Hollywood medicine money food all of everything we know was tactfully written to influence your decisions and your view on reality by those in power now I'm on a mission a mission to retrain and reeducate myself to find the true reality of what is behind that number and I'm taken duress welcome to the revolution hello and welcome to red Hill revolution my name is Austin Adams and thank you so much for listening this is episode number 23 of the red pill revolution podcast again can't you so much we have had a crazy week to say the least and the really looking forward to this conversation around it to some of the topics that were the talk about I will highlight briefly so you know what you're getting yourself into because if you're not in the car you gotta find some way to buckle up because this week was crazy really looking forward there so just highlight high level of organ to talk about today John Zach Psaki some you may find me in the in the simple reviews for not saying her name right so the PSakae PSasaki at the government calling her process is asking him however you say her stupid name she is going to leave the White House for low and behold a position with an MSNBC who would've thought that there was somehow collusion between corporate news companies and you know politics rushing to touch him briefly some pop culture again briefly to his Will Smith resigning from the film Academy as a result of his lap controversy which there is an interesting conspiracy around having to do with a company called Pfizer and their new alopecia medication which was actually one of the sponsors of the Oscars he didn't see that Pfizer was actually a sponsor of the Oscar show they put it right up there beautifully on the board during their broadcast of this that they were sponsors of the Oscars and they just so happen to be coming out with an LP should medication whom interesting next thing to discuss is going to be found she himself having a video resurface of him basically explaining that you shouldn't got vaccinated next they were to touch on is Elon musk potentially coming out with his own social media platform were also go into detail some of the discussions on recently Madison Cawthorn came out during a podcast and you been listening to show you know medicine Cawthorn is the man has had several conversations with him myself is a great guy and has brought some really interesting topics up to the modern political arena so he basically said something about somebody offering him to become a part of their political teams orgy for theft in the also seeing somebody basically doing cocaine in front of him that was part of the GOP annexing ring to discuss is going to be a deep deep dive into Hunter Biden's laptop which is resurfaced recently with believers the New York Times and a few other media entities which came out and finally you know maybe a year into the presidency interesting how they waited that long to basically say yeah I guess this is true you know after social media band you if you said anything about the laptop for how long nobody's discussing that you were going to dive completely into that laptop what was in that if you don't recall these things will retouch on them if you never heard about what was in this laptop you know some crazy crazy things crazy things including him him basically sleeping it were doing an appropriate social things this 14-year-old niece you know the daughter of the late Bo Biden some of the other things are including him potentially having sex with Malia Obama that the child of Barack Obama and doing cocaine be as shown by her credit card wild wild stuff and then the White House coming out and saying that they will not rule out Biden pardoning Hunter for these actions which seems completely on the wrong soap anyways that was a foreman and introduction on all the crazy shirt that were to talk about today I hope you're on board because can be an awesome conversation now if you hear this next noise that is because this can be such a great show you will hear me opening up a beautiful fear to go through this conversation with you ready if you got one the time it together right next year grab it and there we go all right looking for this conversation and we are going to start off right here with Jen for the sake biggest the sake basically leaving her job and I see this is gonna have to do with radix right is all do with numbers and they know that she is been a horrible in a horrible face for Biden nobody believes her ship any more than they believe his ship and so they basically decided to get rid of her and she somehow landed a job at MSNBC so let's go ahead and watch this clip which is from the help are sorry for the terrible 70s porn music but go ahead and see if we can find the actual clip because that was the hill doing some overlays and typing stuff instead of you know making an actual video about it so let's find the very first video that comes up for her leaving the White House which we will watch right here all right here we go this is by ABC seven let's watch this video and see if they actually tell us what's going on conference at Sec. 10 sake appears to be on the verge of a big career move the 43-year-old will initially said she would stay in a position for a year is reportedly in advance contract talks to join MSNBC access first broke the news onetime political commentator will serve as a host and an honor expert with the move expected to come next month sake will join a cable news landscape that is clad with alumni of high-level Washington politics that's the coach for 30 seconds of them telling you exactly what I told you which of the fact that she's leaving the White House after one year of lying to the American people and to be replaced by some of the outs and she's going to lie to us more only under the guise of people who we know are liars which is in the mainstream media so I don't know whether to feel good or bad about this we'll see I saw some the else some woman that stepped into her position answering questions recently and didn't seem any more reliable than she was and but it's been a fun year clown show of watching this female Pinocchio tell lies to us over and over and over again is almost insulting at this point to see that with the way that they rub it in your face because how many times that you know how many times she been asked a question as she other dances around it is completely lysed completely lies right to your face about it you know it's it to me it's telling of were white houses right now right it you know if if they can even tell that you should at least be able to find a way to tell me something that doesn't make you look like a 100% liar the second you may be able to pull up any of the facts around the situation so just always mention that finally you know the witch is dead Zaki is leaving the White House and going on to continue her lying career with MSNBC now annexing to touch on briefly is what I talked about earlier which is will Smith resigning from the film Academy over the Oscars slap controversy which we have a video here for you a week and what a week it has been sent to Wilson a slapped comedian Chris rock on my TV at the Oscars that aftershocks of that movement continues to reverberate around the world snap snap comedian over a calculated that's next wife Jadda Pinkett Smith now the actor has announced he's resigning from his membership and be a timely statement to the actor says he will fully accept any and all consequences for his conduct calling his actions shocking painful and inexcusable and that is where we begin this edition how we can have you joining us to discuss on your hammy house displacement content so will leave it there would only listen like I could you can listen to me so Will Smith decided he was no longer going to be part of the Academy know if you're familiar with that little conspiracy that I told you about earlier the conspiracy is that Pfizer basically funded the Oscars which if we have been paying attention all of the last two years you've seen celebrities everywhere basically be pro Pfizer in every single potential way you could possibly imagine looking at every turn for pushing the American people along with the agenda of Pfizer to get vaccinated right that your kids accident to get your pregnant mom vaccinated get your wife actually to get your dog vaccinated all coming from celebrities which have no fundamental reason to be talking about science now we come to see why they were doing that right of course if the Oscars is funded by Pfizer the Oscars is the you know Pfizer is now going to have as much political push and play because otherwise why would they buy would they fund the Oscars why would they push money towards celebrity academies because they know that the academies control the individuals you have to be a part of the Academy so if you're part of the Oscars you know the Academy at the Oscars Academy when you're going to push the fundamentally systems and in in the things that you're told to push by the biggest single sponsor of an organization which in this case happen to be Pfizer right so interesting enough there's been full blowing articles around the inter-web of the world wide web I may say the basically that Pfizer was coming out with a brand-new elocution medication and that the potential for this controversy happening at the very same time after coming out of this alopecia medic of medicine is quite low right why was a hell how weird if you know how many times he heard the word alopecia in the last item a decade let's talk about that was less time heard alopecia well you heard it the second that will Smith smacked the ship out of Chris rock for saying anything about his wife in the what a lot of people believe was fake interesting now that's the case right it just so happens that the guy who went up there and slapped the ship out of Chris rock for saying something about his wife who had alopecia then one the single highest honor at the Oscars of the best after and then now he says his goodbye piece from leaving now that I've got best actor and probably made tens of millions of dollars from Pfizer if not more for smacking somebody on stage so if you're in that conspiracy world that is an interesting thought right did he go up there and did this event happen this acting event happened to raise awareness about this I do know autoimmune disorder which Pfizer then just so happens to sponsor the authors for which then just so happens to be the biggest talk of the night for the Oscars last 10 years and just so happens to be run the same time that the releasing and outpatient medication in an efficient southland whoever's doing this is obviously quite good at it whoever is on their Pfizer marketing team that that should should be the one winning actor of the year because all all of the things that they've done over the last couple years to make these things happen is from an outside perspective beside looking at it for the negative terrible things that they've done and all the people that they killed is quite the feat to get to know whatever percentage of the American public vaccinated with something for no specific reason at all and then to go on and sway the Oscars to get Will Smith to go smack the ship out of Chris Russia for an alopecia medic's medicine if this is all true it's almost impressive and obviously in the worst way right you know the things that Hitler did were impressive in a terrible horrible unbelievable way were how the hell did you get that many people to go along with your ship in this case same thing what in the world who is running the show it it because I receive the things that they're doing it is impressive in the worst way if the all of these things are true now I don't know not saying that it was but it seems pretty where that is alopecia medicines coming out right along the same time as will Smith smacking Chris rock over this alopecia joke the biggest platform ever right so now speaking of Pfizer and speaking of vaccinations let's go ahead and listen to Dr. Fauci who had a clip resurface recently of him basically saying there is absolutely no reason that anybody who has had the flu should get a flu vaccination because that's the best thing you could ever have is the flu the best vaccine he says you could have is actually getting the virus so let's go ahead and listen to his own words here generally that appears to be the case with you of the cheese of the flu for 14 days should she get a flu shut will know if she got the flu for 14 days Jesus protected his anybody can because the best vaccination is the get infected yourself and so should not get it if she really has the flu if she really has the flu she definitely doesn't need a flu vaccine yes she really has the flu she should not get it again that she doesn't need it because there it's the best is the most potent vaccination is getting infected yourself Henderson North Carolina okay now could you imagine if somebody said that on national television about Kovic you if you got COBIT have absolutely no reason at all vaccinated flagged misinformation hate speech racism sexism misogynistic trans phobia which put his will have to be careful in effect for a book on social media if you said that ship right now or two days ago or two years ago when this coven 19 thing came out if you said that you have no reason to get it at all if you said Word for Word what he just said on national television about coven you would literally have been removed reamed out now don't mistake it this same principle exactly translates in science has not changed guys no matter how much gas lighting the American political system tries to push in your face with or their corporations or the Hollywood Oscars science is not changed Yankovic is no reason you should be vaccinated because the most powerful vaccination according to Dr. Anthony Fauci is to have gotten the flu if you got the flu and you know you got the flu there's no reason to get the flu shot Dr. Anthony Fauci now replace the word fluke for culvert and we know how much of a flocking hypocrite that this man is just pushing the narrative of the companies that fund him like he has done for a very very very long time all the way back to the AIDS epidemic and what was the medication and ZT I am pretty sure it sends easy now that could either be the limitless drug from opposite Bradley Cooper cookbook for half her is either AZT or NZD am pretty sure the the fifth pretty sure it's AZT yeah NDT was the one from limitless alleyways agency was a drug if you know that was a cancer drug that was repurposed for the AIDS epidemic by fudging himself and end up killing tons and tons and tons of people that was completely ineffective and did nothing but they were basically repurposed it because they had no reason to be able to use it for cancer treatments and they made so much money off of repurchasing it for the AIDS epidemic which some people don't even think was real interesting so from the words of Dr. Anthony Fauci if you get the flu Nova Scotia a covert don't the Cova Chuck over the vaccine is your have the most powerful vaccine that you could ever get according to Dr. Fauci do that information which please know I don't know if anybody still getting vaccinated at this point like if you'd be if you gone this long without getting vaccinated this probably very few people were going to the local CVS or McDonald's drive through like that you were doing for a while is a crazy lie, it's quite only crazy things that happened over the last couple years were those like you know from from the guy that was eating you know it was like the New Jersey congressmen are governor who is eating a cheeseburger like sloppily wholesome mom now love this love this burger and his French fries know you can only get a free one Nephi a bold bit of vaccine in all you flat people out there that want a burger on the go get your vaccinations out to cadets was gonna make you healthy maybe just skip the burger lose the weight and you'll probably live longer Ellen probably don't get vaccinated either because now we know if he does get COBIT yet the basically the flu and for some people even less than what the flu was you have the strongest vaccination possible quote unquote Dr. Anthony Felty not my rent on codes over not wearing a look at a quick video about Elon musk teasing the idea that he may put out a new social media platform nose on the back of true social right now if you don't know my Instagram has been shadow band I only when they got talked about this yes my Instagram is been shadow band of beyond oblivion you cannot even look my name up in the search bar right now and find rental revolt if you look for my name and you'll follow me he did for type in the name exactly red Hill revolt you will not see it in the search bar you will see my backup count account with 400 people who follow it if you fall back up to follow it reparable to but look up her adorable and Instagram and you will no longer find their account we have been shut up and be on oblivion for reposting that Senate hearing about the bio weapons labs that's it that was what it was and now I lost basically my entire platform and I've built with hundreds and hundreds of hours of work over the last several several months and and having to find new channels to market this podcast and builder audience so if you know any ways around that complete Alabama let a brother know because my videos dropped in my story Japanese to get lean on 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Eli lost his difficult serious thought to building a new social media platform which he announced in a post last weekend according to Reuters bus was responding to a Twitter users question on whether he would consider building a social media platform with an open source algorithm and one that would prioritize free speech and what propaganda was minimal must've been critical of twitter and its recent policies his announcement comes a day after he put out a Twitter poll asking users that they believed to twitter it here is to the principle of free speech over 70% voted no I'm surprised that there's 30%… At Chevrolet twitter doesn't care to eat twitters better than the rest the right sliding scale I don't know if Twitter is better or worse than Facebook yeah kind of debatable item there are things I like about Twitter better I like there sort of bird watch fact checking saying is better than Facebook's third-party fact checkers which are atrocious twitter just twitter let's you and it doesn't block the whole article though they let you like put a comment on that and then you can count on that comment and it's a better program than Facebook's like just utterly awful that checking but I do know it I guess I don't know which is worse overall.Dorsey was kind of committed to free speech in some ways he was the Noah Zuckerberg so so Zachary Zuckerberg still in a still there any but were at that me but I have both platform sensor data center slightly different content same thing right tape that's really challenging navigating all of these big tech platforms for you know if you like right for example because it were posting clips on twitter and on YouTube on Facebook you have to kind of know okay let's platform have its own rules and regulations and are not all the same and so what is it can it be but it was interesting to think about a platform that would prioritize free speech I'm not really sure what that would look like my guess at Elon built that I did I don't know if it would be one of those things would like to let you know where he goes full throttle with it and says okay let's do this like twitter and bagging alternative or if it would just be something he kinda builds commands like twitter and then change its policies that formula but why start networking via twitter and just fix it up a little bit in the richest man in the world why not yeah and in the hole having it be free speech it is so okay so it's it's a private organization so doesn't have to follow the First Amendment none of these you platforms do and I don't think anyone people say they were they just want to be free speech platform usually what they mean they still want some level of moderation like we don't just wanted to be you know porn and death threats and right now there's going on twitter there is talk on twitter to visit regularly on Twitter it's been most discordant social media policy there is porn allowed on twitter not on any other platforms but that but all this via some amount of harassment and in the policing of that kind of stuff pretty much everybody at the end of the day is going to think is appropriating the question is where you draw the line and you know different people would dry differently but not know any platform that sets out to say no whenever to draw that line just a line is not heavy as a platform that said it could definitely be more allowing of open in a discussion and debate of legitimate issues like the things we talk about in the shower try to talk about the extent to let's us that could certainly be a better and improve note in Norman on a platform like Twitter for me the line is the loss so if something is breaking the law and that would be where I buy I think that you build the law is aligned but that would be more like like technically that is I don't think it's illegal to you know to do it just to just say where someone lives or what their phone number is right that you can't Go to jail for sharing that information on twitter I think of you post someone's phone number or or or address physical address I think they should take it down II would support a social media policy against that kind of behavior even though that behavior is fine under the First Amendment rights really you now yeah that's it's totally legal to dock somebody yeah everywhere absolutely yeah the 10th shut down Nexus now that I think about it I guess they do it all the time like here in LA you can do a tour of the Hollywood homes write a check and go see the celebrities nozzle drive you buy them yeah AI I suppose yeah there there are some things that should be different on social media that right they would not complete First Amendment I think it's my opinion that is patient they should prohibit right that the meeting is to be genuine community guidelines like for example if they collectively put it out there and asked the people would you be okay with docs and should we allow that on a platform and people would overwhelmingly say no anything okay that's part of the community guidelines one of the issues of these big tech platforms are not even really asking the community what the community wants or doesn't want right or just telling us these are our identity guidelines whether you like them or not but maybe if something was more inclusive right and said as a community what it really made it legible for all we know that the community on Twitter in particular might be totally for absolute censorship of dissenting views right eyes and that's real nice certificate not on Facebook now on Facebook I think the commute Re: so getting mixed reviews or temperature taxing in some ways this is illegal it can be us to consider the form of harassment however anyways Eli must coming out with his own the platform potentially at least he uses it now if he does decide to do that like I said appropriate and probably happen faster than I'm even let into true social know what would I have a problem with is all of these you know secondary tertiary social media outlets all tend to be like a Twitter reproduced twitter basically were just gives you a certain my letters and if you posted it goes on the civil feed and you can find people to follow based on who people share their feeds of and like I do hate that like short form you know I'd much rather talk to guys through video and discuss things that way and in get organic outreach that you know it's like much more I do know I just don't like the Twitter I've never really use Twitter's and cyclic 2012 so that I don't know if true socials like that it seems like it might be but I do know we'll have to see it and I hope you know somebody eventually comes out with a differentiation between tick-tock and Instagram is interesting finding like what they just said is that you know you have to walk that line and I'm sure the hell does but you know what I do even more with content that I talk about is that you have to find the line with each individual social media late and I'm pretty sure tick-tock will give anybody flexor stuff it just immediately is taken down the post of the video about the cat situation from you know what an episode or two ago where the cats got banned from the international Federation for Russian And that got flagged for hate speech on on talk but it's the most effective way to get your podcast or you know is the most effective marketing tools if you can put out solid video content in the the amount of reach that you can get where people just don't put very much time into video editing and if you do it well and in the things you're talking about are interesting and you are tend to be an interesting person who is talking about them they can circulate quite well on those platforms so I hope that eventually tick-tock Instagram reels get replaced with something that is speech based because I would be really good for the revolution rental revolution the show they are listening to rhino but it will be interesting to see if that plays out and haven't heard much more about it other than that now were going to jump right into our last topic before going into the Hunter Biden laptop which is a nice segue medicine Koestler went on to a podcast over the last week and discussed how he was approached by people within the political sphere about joining them in an orgy FS you heard that right and then he went on about how he seen people snorting cocaine and things like that all while in the political sphere so as much as video and then we will discuss it and is a quick little video about a new source and some people would been going after Madison Cawthorn for speaking about these things so let's go ahead and watch this clip here does revealing it was a show called house of cards number for my head around… Are you familiar with how you are seriously as I am with Kevin Spacey and I forget who else was in it, but AMI will not ship very well done aerial gunship but it was so dirty and it was about this Congressman who was Kevin Spacey who is an ethic was minority or majority whip yet what was yeah and so anyway very very powerful guy and it was just kind of like his secret life of all this corruption in power and money and perversion and was just purity how much in your opinion because your you been behind the veil is this fictitious show or is this more closer like a documentary it isn't that bad so I heard a former president that we had the 90s asked the question about this hand he gave an answer that I thought was so true and he said the only thing is not accurate in that show is that you could never get a piece of legislation about about education past that quickly and everything else is, aside from that I mean the sexual perversion that goes on washing I mean it being kind a young guy watching norm of the average age probably 60 or 70 and I literally feel a lot of that I have looked up to the my life always paid attention to politics guys that you Allison you get invited to hang with sexual get together at one of our homes you should turn them what what what you deserve some kind that and the is asking to come to an orgy or the fact that you list some of the people that are leading on the movement to try and remove addiction in our country and that you want him doing a keep on cocaine like Bernie and it's this is this is why and then there's also, the whole espionage aspect of what goes on washing of so many people trained in secrets and there there's a currency of secrets and so a it's wild and then yelled there's members of the of the the media the journalist you kinda will keep nasty stories about you or about other people on a shelf and then we fear about, speak out against him then once you will come out safe or about to drop the story of when it was 17 years ago you did X, Y, and Z you don't want us to drop that story to you sort were in a bully back in this position practically let's say that all of a sudden I was going in the office by the way I have no political aspirations zero and in people are always like children for office will by no absolutely not like sport people are have that colic have no desire to do that… Is a little thought experiment I am just elected Congress Senate whatever and I get in there and I go through my orientation and I have my good values and stuff and I stand for something like many others before how does that slippery slope actually get in front of our current president in always been in public service for 50 years at a certain salary which is kinda like good but it's not great you can't become a lavish multi-multi-multimillionaire with all these different houses in it the math doesn't work like the battery example that there was a real example of a real exam yet not good right before we added of a Nancy Reagan at about 700,000 electric vehicles to our federal fleet I noticed because if you go to that uniting its CEO watchlist.work you can see the trades that public traded company CEOs in a bind the C suite are making or ought what all trade members of Congress making is a will, monitor that justice was going on and I notice a lot of people in the majority party were buying stocks that had to do with some kind of bad racing technology for electric vehicles and then what you know it about a month or two later it would then announce right 700,000 electric vehicles Julia visit to the to the fleet and that while so let's let's address that in parts so is ask about house of cards great show unfortunate that it's Kevin Spacey because they don't think both left the difficult path for now but speaking on sexual perversion he get it he gets asked you know it he gets basically it starts the sentence with the fact that you know most of Congress and Senate and these people that I look up to for a long time and are in their 60s in their 70s and they came to me asking me to come to this sexual party after house and then he refers to them talking about an orgy this but if there is anybody that Madison Cawthorn is interested in you know how the 22nd 26 decent looking guy you know is interested in having an orgy with its probably not any single person that's also so happens to be in politics unless it was some sort of like you know despite sex with AOC which you know if they decide to do that you know I'm sure some people would do with pay a for a paper before but anyways if there's anybody that he can have an orgy with is probably not anybody that there's you know he's alongside in politics and in the enough audience to the see how many heart attacks happen if this political orgy especially because they all have to have the vaccine in those so it's in the he got like work for this after he talked about it is in and that second thing he goes on to say is basically that the same people were going on to push the policies around American drug addiction are also sitting in front of them taking a key bump of cocaine right in front of him and so he got so much pushback from his own party right for talking about these things and they don't have update they never refuted them right they said no we'll have you know 70-year-old orgies at the GOP convention that convicted but you shouldn't be talking about them is basically what they said about this in the same thing with the regular cocaine situation nobody said he wasn't telling the truth and so will go on to the next clipper they kind of comment on this right were they say you know he should've talked about this it's immature we hope to have him replaced by several other people who would never have brought the situation up but nobody's going on here to say that no that never happens in the political sphere were all great people and don't have the sexual perversions and you know so it is puzzling to me that anybody who tells the truth in politics is vilified immediately in Madison co-authored just tells the truth too much for these people when it comes to their perversions whether it's drugs whether it's sexual perversions whether it's you know they're back back and investments in companies they shouldn't be investing and based on insider-trading knowledge like Nancy Pelosi so he said the things that you're not supposed to say why should you say that the true right there is there somebody here legit a legitimate person in our political sphere who is speaking the truth about these situations is being vilified for so there's a quick clipper here were they we actually see this vilification of him talking about that for for talking about these things by his own political party saying that he should be out of the party because of him discussing these things now that they were wrong but that he should just have nothing to do with politics because he speaking the truth here's that forgings and cocaine those claims are drawing a lot of disbelief after North Carolina Congressman made them good evening everyone abroad, I'm Angela Taylor Martin Cawthorns comment had drawn criticism from his own party before the attendings rice bowl and join that the wrath who was he referring detailed well his colleagues in Congress he didn't name names but even so it's enough to draw fire from the people who work alongside two implicate your colleagues in orgies and not just cocaine but key box of cocaine phrase it frankly I had to Google before you really do what it bit so this was a new and even for medicine got what political scientist Chris Cooper who lives in Madison call thorns congressional district is referring to is a podcast and video work Hawthorne was asked whether the Netflix show house of cards is closer to a document Rick Hawthorne went on to claim he been invited by fellow lawmakers to orgies and watch them use cocaine both North Carolina Senators Tom Tillis and Richard Berger have criticized the comments has have other Republican lawmakers who typically remain silent like Arkansas Congressman Steve Womack I think it goes without saying that no one thanks this was a good thing to say to today I can even believe that Madison caught the work with think this is a good thing to say it sounds like you got dressed down by Bob McCarthy and don't really say this but in this case I think it was well-deserved that dress down comes less than a week after minority leader Kevin McCarthy responded to call for calling Ukrainian Pres. Zelinski fog Madison is wrong if there's any thug in this world it's and his video is been released of one of several times that call for his been pulled over for speeding and cited for driving while his license was revoked what you do with this which is really interesting right so he comes out and says and if you listen to that they didn't say anything about him not being correct didn't say anything about these orgies being fictitious or that these people doing drugs and cocaine in front of him being wrong then say that they said there was not to provide whatever like I said not appropriate we shouldn't even have talked about it and do it if you got right fully dressed down by this other old ass is 75-year-old Sen. for speaking about these things what what nothing he said was wrong nobody's refuted these things yet they're going to now release which is exactly what he said they would do Word for Word so that they keep these things on the shelf and literally the only thing they can find with him is him getting pulled over her for speeding or driving without a license or something on top of that so and he says that's well deserved because he talked about that that the unspeakable orgies and cocaine usage in our political spectrum he literally just proved him right he said that they're going to shelf something about me and then use it when I say something that they don't like so he says only they don't like you old people to gross people want me to join your orgy and you also do cocaine while also trying to save the world from drug addiction and then when I say something about it you're gonna shelf something like a video of me getting holdover that's the worst thing you can find of medicine co-author in doing, and release it at the same time so it tries to overshadow the statements that I said about you asking me 26-year-old to have an orgy with you 70 weirdos and then things only about your cocaine usage right and again this guy this political scientist is standing next to the sky in this interview says nothing about the him being wrong he says is not a good idea to talk about those things whom may be because their true May because there is sexual perversion within our our political sphere maybe because they are doing drugs there as we saw with Nancy Pelosi is inability to keep her dentures in her mouth or did not look like a lizard weirdo standing up in the metal cup of Joe Biden's no speech but few months a couple months ago or a month ago solicitors out theirs and theirs 40 seconds left with zero at the rest they have to say about this if you're one of the other candidates whether you're on a daily or and all are in the 11th district running in his primary there are seven people been running into medicine called Lawrence show a total in the primary and all seven are trying to portray themselves as more mature more grown-up better decision-makers in Madison called work clearly this is going to make that an easier proposition and without a doubt guys I imagine were innocents some of this and some of those ads that have reached all across the state at this point for his part so far Madison Coulter and has not, got the wild very interesting stuff they're not every day those two words out first out your mouth that's exactly on the news all right thinking of us that so can nobody saying he's wrong and he says that older more mature and older than them so they're trying to do depict themselves that way within the seven district so that they can get elected above medicine Cawthorn because you know when they get invited to our orgies hopefully they'll both say yes this and that will speak about it on the podcast you know like that it's so funny that these people can sit here and try to justify note the quote unquote dressing down of Madison Cawthorn on which again they didn't post anything that showed any venom or anything that he said being wrong they support that but they don't support him speaking the truth about politics and speaking the truth about what's behind that veil that they talked about right they just want to diminish what he says throw a video of him getting pulled over and let it fizzle off into the distance and think that he's gonna get outshined by these other people because you know Bill will actually go to the orgies and do the cocaine with the other politicians who do you want in politics the guy calling out these weirdos or the person who's it's partaking in these 70-year-old orgies while doing cocaine is just so weird to me that were in a place where it's the person speaking out about the orgies and cocaine in politics who's wrong who's being in note Guzy was having the news media go after him for saying something about it not a bunch of like news articles like who is he talking about whose heavenly orgies and if them for the in politics who's doing the cocaine bump in the bathroom will probably Nancy Pelosi was but the conversation is not that the drama around who is doing these things are why he said these things the drama is around the fact that he spoke the truth medicine Cawthorn spoke the truth about politics spoke the truth about the sexual perversion within the political spectrum in the political sphere and spoke the truth about the drug usage of the senators that are pushing for addiction correction in the United States while also doing a bump of cocaine but you know medicine cost thorns in the wrong for mentioning the truth not the you know that that the normal conversation that should come of this of like who is who are these people whose doing drugs in the bathroom of the Senate right who is who is calling Madison Cawthorn to see if he wants to come to an orgy neglect that should be the conversation can we be talking about that not the fact that he actually talked about the truth it's crazy like literally anything that you look up right now about this co-author in the a medicine conference talking about these things is a negative connotation about him speaking the truth right like other all in the group of the orgy group like their all in this group chat together talking about all ship medicine because her and spoke about our Sunday night orgies in Washington and thought that the fact that he actually talked about these things try to figure out who did it like the right news media would be going after who is the person who's doing cocaine in the bathroom of Senate or Congress that's the big story the big story is not the congressman who's talking about these people and speaking the truth about these things the big story is they are in the bathroom and that no bump of cocaine or at that person's house was a bunch of seven-year-olds have an orgy and having a heart attack when it happens like that's the story into it to see that there diminishing the truth to see that they can even combat the things that he says but yet they go after him like he's the villain for speaking the truth is disgusting absolutely disgusting so again like you've heard me say before kudos to you Madison Cawthorn first of all for not going to the seven-year-old orgy right entry can do better buddy if in fact the second of all for speaking out about these things against them shelving that video of you getting pulled over which they felt was great timing proving every statement that you said right by the way anyways so where you're going to now move on to the Hunter Biden story about the laptop now again this is resurfacing this is resurfacing again and this was like crazy crazy news coverage right this was this was the story of the year released in 2020 at the very last week of the election cycle got diminished got shadow band got eliminated off of all social media platforms became a part of their fact checker narratives that do Hunter Biden laptop was a rush of collusion right so now comes back up again now that they are did the same news media companies that were diminishing this is false information the same news media companies that were saying there was Russia in collusion that this this laptop is fake news right now the coming out because they know that it's coming to a point where this can be a legal battle hundred Biden has now been subpoenaed for this laptop finally a year after the presidency because they knew that it can be overturned at this point potentially over this collusion or maybe it's all part of the plan and now they know there to be able to put someone else in power right who knows what let's go ahead and see what Tucker Carlson has to say about this the start of this video says Tucker shreds media over HUD and Hunter Biden coverage three minutes long let's go ahead and list with them will talk about systems going on with Joe Biden's poll numbers are absolutely tanking but it seems like elements within the Democratic Party or turning on them record 10 we understand exactly what's going on here something definitely is here's an example new members very well just for the last election your post ran the story of what the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop the human story with big tech censored it immediately seen and in dozens of other former Intel officials told us that laptop was Russian disinformation there are fears that what Giuliani is now pushing here in the United States could actually be part of Russia's latest and very massive disinformation campaigns in the US presidential election so you have a president who is asking to obtain Russian disinformation knowing that that is what it is he is accepting that same information and he is then turning it and using it on the campaign trail against his his opponent and that's the mind blowing it's sort of a crazy quilt at this point which has all the hallmarks of of of Russian disinformation that said it wouldn't for lack of try CNN reported on Friday that US authorities are seeking if those emails we just talked about are connected to an ongoing Russian the disinformation effort so it turns out when the accused people of Russian disinformation are not always sincere course the wires will say where they need to say that was before you actually need to get by elected they did it but others are usually very different now telling in fact the laptop is real piercing and yesterday this is very very bad for the president signs it is an Internet station as you pointed out going back to 2018 and and right now prosecutors in Delaware where you are focusing on a number of things including whether Hunter Biden and some of his business associates violated laws including tax and money laundering laws and the foreign lobbying laws are now gaining steam and they need to make a decision I think in the at least intermediate future in this case is been going on for four years and there is a realistic chance this could result in federal charges of course then we be an unprecedented political territory not legal territory but a situation of having potentially the Justice Department prosecuting and trying to imprison the son of the president what a freak show the channel is to look to other new subscription service but now telling yeah it's all true actually and that's not the only story about Russian disinformation has fallen apart this week the Federal election commission just find the DNC and Hillary Clinton or campaign $100,000 if she determined that the Clinton campaign should hide its role in funding the steel dossier Phil dossier is the false document that claimed among many other things that President Trump elected turns out the disinformation was in fact paid for by the campaign was coming from the D&C subscribe to the fact so exactly what he just talked about there is CNN and you know all these companies that are were formally talking about being Russian disinformation about this laptop and now they're coming out and saying that although maybe it could be true now that they're going in it with you see this all the time like they they come out and say that ship though I got everything's wrong and that what what you're saying is untrue and then eventually went they know that they been backed in a corner enough that they try to salvage whatever amount of respect that they could even with the spec of respect that and they could find on the grounds of themselves left both before they lose all of their I don't know how they still have anybody who listens to them at all but they try to salvage what reputation have left with the people that they've brainwashed enough to continue to listen to them but I do and I hear right this all coming to a legal had and there is now the steel dossier and the Hillary Clinton campaign is now being find 100 and something thousand dollars over there real Russian is no disinformation campaigns they try to go against trump it in our seeing that the truth is coming out in there trying to backpedal enough to try to salvage whatever reputation they have with the brainwashed people that continue to listen to them so now we're going to look at is it rockers news and they talked about how the White House won't rule out Bidens party her pardon contact his party probably has a lot of parties I would death us judging by his laptop but trying to rule out it will not rule out Biden's pardon for son or his brother so says presidential spokesperson dodges questions about hundred Biden probe after laptop info resurfaces does the White House repeatedly refused on Friday to rule out the possibility that Pres. Joe Biden could pardon his son Hunter Biden or Brother James Barton if suspected financial crimes related to business dealings in China are proven in court despite questions from multiple journalists in the growing volume of articles on the subject it says quote that's not a hypothetical I'm going to entertain said White House news communication director Kate Bedingfield who she told a room full of journalists after she was asked whether the president had considered a pardon for his son Hunter or brother James both of whom are being investigated for financial and property impropriety put regarding a business deal with Chinese energy firm at CFC China energy which is even mentioned the Prisma situation asked about the president's continued insistence that there was nothing unethical and that joke Hunter Biden had made no money from this thing about what you are talking about China Bedingfield double down on the elder brother Biden's denial which was made over a year earlier that his son was guilty of any wrongdoing we absolutely stand by the president, and she said insisting that she did not have anything to add from this podium when the question was phrased another way Hunter Biden is currently being investigated by the Justice Department regarding a business deal he was involved in with China proof of which surfaced almost 2 years ago on the infamous laptop from hell left by back by him and the laptop repair shop in Delaware the younger Biden appeared to have raked in millions of dollars for a consulting role despite insisting the deal itself fell through in his Chinese partner in the affair was later detained in China while a handful of media outlets initially reported on the content of the laptop which included not only incriminating financial documents also more siliceous materials including images of Hunter engaged in sexual acts and drug use most major press Alex gave the pass either dismissing it as Russian propaganda without any evidence or refusing to comment on the the president in famously infamously laughed when asked about the laptop again after the election however with Biden safely in the White House mainstream outlets at from the New York Times to CNN have begun to nibble at the story acknowledging not only that the laptop along hundred by whether there are some serious problems with the business skills discussed in emails contained so will not rule out his pardon for his son's know-how in the in the world can the president pardon his own children for doing back deal shady deals with China or Russia or Ukraine which were all included in their when he was elected under the guise it in that the money came for him right he was the one that is he if he has to pardon the sons he can have to pardon his damn self because he was the reason that they even had access to these situations to begin with right the only reason that Hunter Biden and James Biden which of them heard that name really before had access to China had access to Ukraine was because they were pushing and peddling his their father's influence the vice president I stay to the time and knowingly at a strong political proponent in the United States who could get things done within the political spectrum SMEs and a lot of political spectrum political sphere political arena whatever it is right we know that the only reason they had the opportunity to to give these deals into make this money was because of their father who was elected based on this being Russian disinformation right is like two thirds of people said that it would've sway their vote on the Democratic side if the laptop was deemed true how in the world he that's the part of himself he can just pardon his sons E the department not only Hunter not only James but you thought also have to pardon himself and if he has to do that than he is not fit to be president he was being utilized by China and Ukraine and for business dealings and in that little if he recalled Ukraine's intuition but were about to dive into a little bit more of why this laptop even has a conversation around Ukraine on which even there's an article right here this is Hunter Biden emails backup Ukraine BioLab claims we know that Biden was that the only reason that they had these business deals with it in the in the in shows in Bidens herb Hunter Biden's laptop where he says that 50% of all money he makes goes to Joe goes to the big guy he talks about right we know these things and the only reason he can pardon them is because he became present and became present because of these back and shady deals that he was doing on behalf of his sons which are going to have to be pardoned because her to go to jail for peddling their father's influence was now the most influential man in the world so on that note let's go into a deep deep dive of what was actually on that laptop right no I'm to be reading this from a subsector in the sub stack is Jessica Reed Krause Jessica REE D KR AUS her sub stack she goes into a great number of detail on all of us which includes evidence of addictions affairs incest over seals overseas dealings and corrupt media coverups within under Biden's laptop so it says the Hunter Biden email cover up may not only be the most contemptible example of the modern political media's corruption but it is most probably the most demonstratably which is by the New York Post the lack of curiosity for most of the media is repellent and really corrupt I think the dam is about to burst that was by Miranda the Wien so this says in late 2020 just as the presidential election was coming to a head news of Hunter Biden's discarded laptop broke only to be quickly dismissed as a Russian hoax by nearly every major outlet in mainstream media the laptop was said to contain evidence of extreme depravity as well as emails text messages photos financial documents detailing how Hunter uses political leverage to help him and his father profit overseas and corrupt secret dealings waged with companies in Ukraine and China the extent of the scorn of the shut down by media was of course aided by big tech particularly Facebook and Twitter whose combined efforts to silence block and censor the story helps quash it as soon as it started to gain the kind of momentum that could possibly sway an election across the board was deemed dangerous misinformation TicTac going so far as to punish anyone who tried to share the news of it on Twitter by locking them out of their accounts for extended periods of time with others across the board Facebook Instagram twitter everywhere every media outlet echoed the same dismissive statements Jen Sasaki even tweeted the political story titled Hunter Biden story is Russian this info thousands of formal Intel official say in nearly every mainstream media outlet talk to the political story and ran with it now it shows the tweet says why have you seen any stories from NPR about the Newark posts Hunter by the story read more in this week's newsletter we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories assessed by NPR and we don't want to waste the listeners and readers time on stories that are just pure distractions okay and downsize the Senate and Sen. Marsha Blackburn which was the same Sen. who really grilled Canton conducted what is it Ketanji Brown Jackson and the new Supreme Court justice about what is a woman if you recall that name was Senator Blackburn who tweeted Hunter Biden's laptop was always real the mainstream media and big tax silenced you for talking about it anyways the article goes on to say when I saw back then when I was allowed to see back then was the least troublesome contents of the laptop mostly images of Hunter partying in hotel with hotel Hooker slumped in the bathtub smoking a cigarette passed out in bed with a crack piping out of his mouth they were gross improve the sad state of his addiction but I didn't see anything criminal while I'm in smoking crack pits is criminal but 7.3 extent of my political allegiance by this time is lymphoid is all but anyone who is half a brain knew that this has been one of Trump's kids caught with the crack pipe the media would have pounced on it flooding us with headlines in the blue it wouldn't of been able to escape if we try why I wondered header coverage become so unbalanced and why didn't anyone I know seem to really care I spent the majority of trumps presidency listening and believing in all of the Russian collusion accusations assuming they were true because it's all we heard from reputable news sources nearly 4 years later however it was proven false I heard it was nothing for media retractions curing them of his charges charges many today still believe is true 18 months later the laptop is in the first confirmed by the same news outlets who helped Chavarria exposing the real purveyors of this information all those who failed to do their journalistic duty and investigate it any further the fact that the story was not followed up on during 2020 will go down as one of the most glaring examples of criminal tendencies embraced by modern journalists who continue to choose party ties over the quest for truth that previously defines the role in society was interesting to me because you like you hear about the way the journalist or look at surveys like you know it's looked at like this like Crimea gross job now as it should be like in it in the way that our mainstream media has looked at you know we we look at journalist and if you look back click towards the 70s and 80s like think about comic books rightly think about Marvel think about like the way that journalists were looked at like hard-nosed cigarette smoking truth defining journalists who would like go after people mortised afraid of anything and wouldn't you know chase you down in the parking lot like real James O'Keefe project Veritas style OG journalists were like where was a cool job right like boots on the ground in in a different country at figuring out the truth sit down with you know the tally band like hearing them in like putting your life on the line and now Genoa services like little sissies and Twitter saying whatever the hell you know George Soros puts down the domain streamlined effort for what they should be saying about things that's not journalism right in journalism should be about the truth like if you are a good journalist in today's society should be easily rising to the top right through sub stack through whatever it is like there there are many many different ways for you to get your messages out there in the right way and in you will eventually build an audience based on truth based on facts based on you know your personality based on the things that you say based on everything you can you can build an audience around the truth and in that's what people are hungry for people are so sick of listening to journalists who who can barely you know say anything other than the script that put in front of them in front of the TV like ever every news commentator and that's kind of why like the hill was because is not fully scripted you can see in the way that their discussions and panels ours is not scripted is not that the reading from a Teleprompter but every word literally did this by drives me nuts sometimes but that's because you know if it is just they don't have the best takes on everything all the time but their truthful takes and you can tell it from the dialogue in the way that they have these conversations so I appreciate that so it's it's decent journalism but but the way that journalists are looked at today is like they are the purveyors of disinformation they are the minister of truth right of the 1984 George Orwellian perspective they are the the Ministry of truth in everything that they say is actually a lie and so there needs to be a new wave of journalism through these like disassociated individuals on you know whether it's tick-tock platform sub stack whatever it is who come out with the truth on these things you know what there's a few that I really like to follow like somebody asked me what are what are my platforms I follow there's a few like Atlas news generally is a good one real news nobles to rebel news I follow if you like that that are really in group good boots on the ground smaller entities that tell the truth about things and incorrect themselves when the wrong because they are interested in the
Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Arthur Koestler, (born Sept. 5, 1905, Budapest, Hung. —found dead March 3, 1983, London, Eng.), was a Hungarian-born British novelist, journalist, and critic, best known for his novel Darkness at Noon (1940). Koestler attended the University of Vienna before entering journalism. Serving as a war correspondent for the British newspaper News Chronicle during the Spanish Civil War, Koestler was imprisoned by the fascists, an experience he recounted in Spanish Testament (1937). This experience and those leading to his break with the Communist Party are reflected in Darkness at Noon. Published in 30 languages, it is the penetrating story of an old-guard Bolshevik who, during Stalin's purge trials of the 1930s, first denies, then confesses to, crimes that he has not committed. Specifically dealing with the plight of an aging revolutionary who can no longer condone the excesses of the government he helped put in power, the novel is an examination of the moral danger inherent in a system that sacrifices means to an end. Koestler's other works of this period, during which he wrote most of his fiction, include The Gladiators (1939), a novel about the revolt against Rome led by the gladiator Spartacus; and Arrival and Departure (1943). These books deal with similar questions of morality and political responsibility.Koestler's essays are collected in The Yogi and the Commissar and Other Essays (1945) and in The God That Failed (1949; ed. R. Crossman), in which he wrote of his disillusionment with communism. From 1940 Koestler wrote in English. He became a British citizen in 1948. His last political novel, The Age of Longing (1951), examined the dilemma of Europe after World War II. Koestler took stock of his early life in the memoirs Arrow in the Blue (1952) and The Invisible Writing (1954). His later works were concerned with science, creativity, and mysticism. The Act of Creation (1964), perhaps the best-known book of his scientific and philosophical period, attempts to explain the processes underlying creativity in science and art. Other works of this period include The Lotus and the Robot (1960), an examination of Eastern mysticism; The Ghost in the Machine (1967), which discusses the effect of evolution on the structure of the human brain; and The Thirteenth Tribe (1976), a controversial study of the origins of the Jewish people. Bricks to Babel, a collection of his writings with new commentary by the author, appeared in 1981. In his later years, Koestler suffered from leukemia and Parkinson's disease. Believers in voluntary euthanasia, he and his wife Cynthia took their own lives.From https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arthur-Koestler. For more information about Arthur Koestler:“Arthur Koestler, the Art of Fiction No. 80”: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2976/the-art-of-fiction-no-80-arthur-koestler“Road Warrior: Arthur Koestler and His Century”: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/12/21/road-warrior
Paolo Macry"Storie di fuoco"Patrioti, militanti, terroristiIl Mulino Editorehttps://www.mulino.it/«Questo mettere continuamente in gioco la propria vita ha di per sé un grande fascino»Ernst Jünger«Le granate ci sorvolano fischiando. Sono di buon umore, quasi inebriato dal rombo dei cannoni»Ludwig WittgensteinPer oltre due secoli la politica è stata una passione che ha indirizzato le scelte di vita delle persone. Un fuoco dentro. Per la politica uomini e donne hanno abbandonato affetti e interessi, si sono gettati nella mischia, hanno dato la vita: nelle lotte per l'indipendenza nazionale, nelle guerre, nelle rivoluzioni e controrivoluzioni. Paolo Macry racconta con partecipazione le storie di questi volontari, dal filoellenico Santorre di Santarosa ai mazziniani di Belfiore, dai giovani accorsi nel carnaio del '14-18, Jünger, Stuparich, Wittgenstein, Gadda, alle gesta di Orwell e Koestler nella guerra di Spagna, dalla resistenza di Marc Bloch, della Rosa Bianca, di Ada Gobetti ai repubblichini Vivarelli e Mazzantini. Fino agli anni di piombo di Moretti, Mambro, Fioravanti. Ragioni pubbliche e inquietudini esistenziali, furori ideologici e narcisismi, senso d'onnipotenza e d'impotenza s'intrecciano nella loro scelta, spesso fatale, di andare fino in fondo con le armi in pugno.Paolo Macry, storico dell'età contemporanea e commentatore politico, con il Mulino ha pubblicato «La società contemporanea» (1995), «Ottocento» (2002), «Unità a Mezzogiorno» (2012), «Napoli» (2018) e «Gli ultimi giorni. Stati che crollano nell'Europa del Novecento» (nuova ed. 2019).IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/
# We are continuing reading the book, The Unseen Minority: A Social History of Blindness In the United States, by Frances A. Koestler, copyright 1976 and 2004 by the American Foundation for the Blind. This week, chapters 8 through 11 will be covered. We will have time during the first part of the discussion to address chapters 1 through 7. Everyone is welcome
We will continue reading and discussing chapters 1-7 in Frances A. Koestler's The Unseen Minority: A Social History of Blindness in the United States, copyright 1976 and 2004 by the American Foundation for the Blind. Come and share your thoughts and feelings as we talk about insights we glean from this important piece of literature.
We will be reading the book, The Unseen Minority: A Social History of the Blind in the United States, by Frances A. Koestler, copyright 1973 and 2004 by the American Foundation for the Blind. It is available on BARD and BookShare. Please read through chapter seven including the foreword.Episode Notes Notes go here
Poemarium en su sección ensayos notables: De Arthur Koestler. (5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) He was a Hungarian British Jewish author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. In 1931, Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany, but he resigned in 1938 because Stalinism disillusioned him. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/john-kennedy98/message
Hello, ACB history buffs. We have completed our ACB history and are embarking on a new adventure! We will be reading the book, The Unseen Minority: A Social History of the Blind in the United States, by Frances A. Koestler, copyright 1973 and 1994 by the American Foundation for the Blind. It is available on BARD and BookShare. Before we begin the reading discussion, let's talk about other books we may wish to read and discuss our thoughts and feelings regarding the awesome event we held with our current ACB president, Dan Spoone, and our past ACB presidents, Paul Edwards, Chris Gray, Mitch Pomerantz, and Kim Charlson. We revere and send our warmest regards to Oral Miller, who was not on the call but is certainly not forgotten.
# ACB history buffs, we have completed the book, People of Vision: A History of the American Council of the Blind, by James J. Megivern and Marjorie L. Megivern. ACB presidents, both past and present, will share their stories and experiences. Bring your questions. The next proposed book to read and discuss is The Unseen Minority: A Social History of Blindness in the United States, by Frances A. Koestler.
Stook Nation brings on special guest Willie Logan to join the boys! This week's episode consists of a horrible experience at a five star restaruant and how far we can take our dark sense of humor.
Chris Robertson and Kevin Tiner with Koestler Prime join the show live in the Whiskey 61 Lounge in the Bank Plus Studio mixing up a pair of Summer cocktails. Kevin whips up a Tito's Vodka and Four Roses Bourbon cocktail that will make your mouth water while Chris talks us through the ins and outs of great steak. Chris and Bo talk a little about what's going on at Koestler Prime and what differentiates a good drink from a great cocktail.
In my experience, mathematics is an extremely objective subject. You figure out a certain equation and the answer is either correct, or it’s not… so how on earth does that create any sort of ethical dilemma worth exploring?Well, luckily in this conversation with Courtney, Naomi, and Eva, we learn that the ethics are not in the problems themselves, but how they are framed. We discuss how multiple choice test might not be as good as you think, how bringing the real world to mathematical problems is a crucial part of getting students to buy into math, and why our choice to include or not include material does in fact mean that teaching can never be neutral.Tune in!
Philip Boehm, who has translated over thirty books from German and Polish into English, has translated a recently discovered German manuscript Darkness at Noon (Scribner, 2019) by the late Arthur Koestler. Originally published in 1940, Koestler’s book eventually became an international bestseller. He told in fictional form the realistic story of a former Soviet Communist Party leader who became a victim of Stalin’s purges in the 1930s. The story is loosely modeled on Nikolai Bukharin’s show trial in 1938. Koestler’s book was originally translated into English by his girlfriend and the original was thought to have been lost during World War II. However, in 2015, a graduate student in Switzerland discovered a copy of the original German manuscript and this was the work Boehm translated into English for this recent edition. During this interview we discuss the plot, its relevance to real Soviet purges, and the translation process. Ian J. Drake is Associate Professor of Jurisprudence, Montclair State University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature
Philip Boehm, who has translated over thirty books from German and Polish into English, has translated a recently discovered German manuscript Darkness at Noon (Scribner, 2019) by the late Arthur Koestler. Originally published in 1940, Koestler’s book eventually became an international bestseller. He told in fictional form the realistic story of a former Soviet Communist Party leader who became a victim of Stalin’s purges in the 1930s. The story is loosely modeled on Nikolai Bukharin’s show trial in 1938. Koestler’s book was originally translated into English by his girlfriend and the original was thought to have been lost during World War II. However, in 2015, a graduate student in Switzerland discovered a copy of the original German manuscript and this was the work Boehm translated into English for this recent edition. During this interview we discuss the plot, its relevance to real Soviet purges, and the translation process. Ian J. Drake is Associate Professor of Jurisprudence, Montclair State University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Philip Boehm, who has translated over thirty books from German and Polish into English, has translated a recently discovered German manuscript Darkness at Noon (Scribner, 2019) by the late Arthur Koestler. Originally published in 1940, Koestler's book eventually became an international bestseller. He told in fictional form the realistic story of a former Soviet Communist Party leader who became a victim of Stalin's purges in the 1930s. The story is loosely modeled on Nikolai Bukharin's show trial in 1938. Koestler's book was originally translated into English by his girlfriend and the original was thought to have been lost during World War II. However, in 2015, a graduate student in Switzerland discovered a copy of the original German manuscript and this was the work Boehm translated into English for this recent edition. During this interview we discuss the plot, its relevance to real Soviet purges, and the translation process. Ian J. Drake is Associate Professor of Jurisprudence, Montclair State University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day
Philip Boehm, who has translated over thirty books from German and Polish into English, has translated a recently discovered German manuscript Darkness at Noon (Scribner, 2019) by the late Arthur Koestler. Originally published in 1940, Koestler’s book eventually became an international bestseller. He told in fictional form the realistic story of a former Soviet Communist Party leader who became a victim of Stalin’s purges in the 1930s. The story is loosely modeled on Nikolai Bukharin’s show trial in 1938. Koestler’s book was originally translated into English by his girlfriend and the original was thought to have been lost during World War II. However, in 2015, a graduate student in Switzerland discovered a copy of the original German manuscript and this was the work Boehm translated into English for this recent edition. During this interview we discuss the plot, its relevance to real Soviet purges, and the translation process. Ian J. Drake is Associate Professor of Jurisprudence, Montclair State University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies
Philip Boehm, who has translated over thirty books from German and Polish into English, has translated a recently discovered German manuscript Darkness at Noon (Scribner, 2019) by the late Arthur Koestler. Originally published in 1940, Koestler’s book eventually became an international bestseller. He told in fictional form the realistic story of a former Soviet Communist Party leader who became a victim of Stalin’s purges in the 1930s. The story is loosely modeled on Nikolai Bukharin’s show trial in 1938. Koestler’s book was originally translated into English by his girlfriend and the original was thought to have been lost during World War II. However, in 2015, a graduate student in Switzerland discovered a copy of the original German manuscript and this was the work Boehm translated into English for this recent edition. During this interview we discuss the plot, its relevance to real Soviet purges, and the translation process. Ian J. Drake is Associate Professor of Jurisprudence, Montclair State University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/russian-studies
Philip Boehm, who has translated over thirty books from German and Polish into English, has translated a recently discovered German manuscript Darkness at Noon (Scribner, 2019) by the late Arthur Koestler. Originally published in 1940, Koestler’s book eventually became an international bestseller. He told in fictional form the realistic story of a former Soviet Communist Party leader who became a victim of Stalin’s purges in the 1930s. The story is loosely modeled on Nikolai Bukharin’s show trial in 1938. Koestler’s book was originally translated into English by his girlfriend and the original was thought to have been lost during World War II. However, in 2015, a graduate student in Switzerland discovered a copy of the original German manuscript and this was the work Boehm translated into English for this recent edition. During this interview we discuss the plot, its relevance to real Soviet purges, and the translation process. Ian J. Drake is Associate Professor of Jurisprudence, Montclair State University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies
Saatekülalised Mihkel Kunnus ja Andres Kurismaa. Saatejuht Hardo Pajula. "Köidikkonna kaasus" 1926. aasta septembris leidis pensionil raudteetööline Schneebergi äärselt vaateplatvormilt härrasmehe enesetaputunnustega laiba. Surnud mehe taskus oli hüvastijätukiri milles dr Kammerer palus et tema surnukeha ei viidaks koju vaid otseteed lahkamisele. Sel kombel saaks veel lahkununagi teadusele kasulik olla.Nii lõppes 20. sajandi ühe silmapaistvama lamarkistliku bioloogi Paul Kammereri elu nii algab Arthur Koestleri raamat "The Case of the Midwife Toad" [1]. "Köidikkonna juhtum" on suurepärane intellektuaalne põnevusromaan kaasaegse evolutsiooniteooria sünniloost kus seisid vastamisi lamarkistid ja neodarvinistid. Esimesed väitsid et organismide eluajal omandatud tunnused on pärandatavad teiste arvates olid evolutsiooni kaheks sambaks juhuslikud geenimutatsioonid ja looduslik valik. Kammereri kuulsad eksperimendid salamandrite ja sellesama köidikkonnaga valmistasid neodarvinistidele palju peavalu ning lõpuks süüdistati teda katsetulemuste võltsimises. Mõned nädalad peale kõnealuseid süüdistusi võttis Kammerer endalt elu.4. märtsil Tartus salvestatud saates vestlesin ma Mihkel Kunnuse ja Andres Kurismaaga Koestleri raamatust lamarkismist neodarvinismist ja paljudest muudest asjadest. See vestlus on orgaaniliselt seotud Tähenduse teejuhtide 83. vestlusringiga "Bioloogia armuke" [2] kus mu vestluskaaslasteks olid Kalevi Kull ja Toivo Maimets ning me rääkisime lamarkismi tagastulekust epigeneetika sildi all.Minu arvates on mõlemad vestlused tõesti väga põnevad. H. ——————————— [1] https://www.amazon.com/Case-Midwife-Toad-Arthur-Koestler/dp/1939438454/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Koestler+midwife+toad&qid=1615020112&sr=8-1 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6yOUzoHIUk&list=PLhpEK-_b7mfHDxAx9Oncmkc556IRanB9n&index=84
1926. aasta septembris leidis pensionil raudteetööline Schneebergi äärselt vaateplatvormilt härrasmehe enesetaputunnustega laiba. Surnud mehe taskus oli hüvastijätukiri, milles dr Kammerer palus, et tema surnukeha ei viidaks koju, vaid otseteed lahkamisele. Sel kombel saaks veel lahkununagi teadusele kasulik olla.Nii lõppes 20. sajandi ühe silmapaistvama lamarkistliku bioloogi Paul Kammereri elu, nii algab Arthur Koestleri raamat "The Case of the Midwife Toad" [1]. "Köidikkonna juhtum" on suurepärane intellektuaalne põnevusromaan kaasaegse evolutsiooniteooria sünniloost, kus seisid vastamisi lamarkistid ja neodarvinistid. Esimesed väitsid, et organismide eluajal omandatud tunnused on pärandatavad, teiste arvates olid evolutsiooni kaheks sambaks juhuslikud geenimutatsioonid ja looduslik valik. Kammereri kuulsad eksperimendid salamandrite ja sellesama köidikkonnaga valmistasid neodarvinistidele palju peavalu ning lõpuks süüdistati teda katsetulemuste võltsimises. Mõned nädalad peale kõnealuseid süüdistusi võttis Kammerer endalt elu.4. märtsil Tartus salvestatud saates vestlesin ma Mihkel Kunnuse ja Andres Kurismaaga Koestleri raamatust, lamarkismist, neodarvinismist ja paljudest muudest asjadest. See vestlus on orgaaniliselt seotud Tähenduse teejuhtide 83. vestlusringiga "Bioloogia armuke", [2] kus mu vestluskaaslasteks olid Kalevi Kull ja Toivo Maimets ning me rääkisime lamarkismi tagastulekust epigeneetika sildi all.Minu arvates on mõlemad vestlused tõesti väga põnevad.Head nädalavahetust!H.———————————[1] https://www.amazon.com/Case-Midwife-Toad-Arthur-Koestler/dp/1939438454/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Koestler+midwife+toad&qid=1615020112&sr=8-1[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6yOUzoHIUk&list=PLhpEK-_b7mfHDxAx9Oncmkc556IRanB9n&index=84 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Episode Notes It's time to finish out our episode discussions with our breakdown of episodes 20 through 26. We get right into this with high energy because we recorded [S0E1] Welcome to Ghost Divers immediately prior to this recording, so Niamh is already fully on one. Thankfully Connor is here to rein fem in. We start the discussion by trying to put a bow on Niamh's theory bullshit with Benjamin and Bazin while Connor gets on his own theory bullshit train with Koestler's The Ghost in the Machine. Throughout the episode, we cover the tension between individual and society, Aoi the individual as distinct from the Laughing Man, Aoi's reverence to the original and the truth, the Major's rage as she fights for her body and her need for control, demedicalization and bodily autonomy as part of trans liberationism, the value of the individual vs. the value of the team, the theoretical origins of the ghost in the shell, the similarities and distinctions between Aoi and the Major, the culpability of individuals in institutions and the need for individuals to break with the institutional imperative in order to create change, the tension between individualism and collectivism, the conversations between Batou and the Major relating to her body and why she chose it, the final act of self sacrifice by the Tachikomas, Batou's own struggles with gender and oppressive systems, and ultimate finish by teasing out some of the quotes provided by the Major and Aoi in the show's own version of a Works Cited. Also sorry, we had a few audio issues again but Niamh thinks fae figured out the main issues so it should be better going forward. Lastly, don't forget that we will be recording the Question Bucket soon. The deadline to write into our Question Bucket for this series is January 30, 2020. You can write into ghostdiverspod[at]gmail and follow us on Twitter! @ghostdiverspod @foxmomnia @rabbleais Works Cited in this Discussion “The Ontology of the Photographic Image” from What is Cinema?, vol. 1 by André Bazin “Beyond the Image in Benjamin and Bazin: The Aura of the Event” by Monica Dall'Asta, published in Opening Bazin: Postwar Film Theory and Its Afterlife “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility” by Walter Benjamin The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler Kino-Eye by Dziga Vertov The Political Unconscious by Fredric Jameson Content Warnings for this Discussion Sexism Intense Violence / Gore / Head Trauma / Suffocation Drugs Sexual Harassment / Abuse / Rape in a Medical Context (40:36-41:38) Threats to Autonomy Transphobia / Having Conversation With Cis People As A Trans Person Self Sacrifice Alcohol Find out more at https://ghost-divers.pinecast.co
The guys are joined by Chris, Kevin and Gian from Koestler Prime as they feature a fantastic Christmas cocktail live in the Whiskey 61 Lounge. Gian breaks out his version of a flip cocktail featuring Tito's Vodka and egg whites that will blow your mind. General Manager Chris Robertson joins Bo talking cocktails, steaks and the actors he resembles in an eventful Y'all Lifestyle segment.
The guys are joined by Chris, Kevin and Gian from Koestler Prime as they feature two fantastic Christmas cocktails live in the Whiskey 61 Lounge. Kevin whips up a unique spin on the traditional Old Fashioned featuring Four Roses Bourbon, and Gian breaks out his version of a flip cocktail featuring Tito's Vodka and egg whites. General Manager Chris Robertson joins Bo talking cocktails, steaks and the actors he resembles in an eventful Y'all Lifestyle segment.
The guys are joined by Chris, Kevin and Gian from Koestler Prime as they feature a fantastic Christmas cocktails live in the Whiskey 61 Lounge. Kevin whips up a unique spin on the traditional Old Fashioned featuring Four Roses Bourbon. General Manager Chris Robertson joins Bo talking cocktails, steaks and the actors he resembles in an eventful Y'all Lifestyle segment.
Ep.94 Koestler Arts 2020 - Ministry of Arts Podcast This week Gary Mansfield speaks to Koestler Arts (@KoestlerArts) Koestler Arts is the UK’s best-known prison arts charity. They encourage people in the criminal justice system to change their lives by participating in the arts. They share those artworks with the public, so people can witness this diverse range of voices, stories and talent. Koestler Artsinspire participation in the arts in the criminal justice system through Awards and Feedback, Mentoring, Sales, Exhibitions and Events. They increase public awareness of the potential of people in the criminal justice system through Exhibitions and Events, Publications and contributing to research. Their small team is based just outside HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs in west London. They partner with organisations across the UK to develop ambitious, innovative programmes that maximise resources and expertise. For more information on Koestler Arts and his work go to www.koestlerarts.org.uk For full line up of confirmed artists go to https://www.ministryofarts.org Email: ministryofartsorg@gmail.com Social Media: @ministryofartsorg
(NOTAS COMPLETAS DEL CAPÍTULO AQUÍ: https://www.jaimerodriguezdesantiago.com/kaizen/68-el-viaje-intimo-de-nuestra-locura/)El capítulo de hoy va a ser raro... ¡Y dirás tú que menuda novedad! Pero seguramente sea más raro aún que otras veces, o raro de una forma diferente. El tono seguro que va a ser inevitablemente sombrío. Así que, si no te apetece escuchar cosas tristes o poco optimistas, te aconsejo que te lo saltes. Sin más. La semana que viene volveremos al tono habitual. Aunque, en el fondo, de saltarnos cosas poco optimistas es de lo que va el capítulo de hoy. En las últimas semanas he escuchado un par de cosas que se me han quedado pegadas al cerebro. Siguen pasando los días y no consigo dejar de pensar en ellas. Conectan entre sí y al menos en parte, encajan muy bien con este podcast. Porque, en el fondo, una de las ideas más recurrentes de kaizen es que nuestra percepción de la realidad es, como poco, imprecisa. Y muchas veces, directamente falsa. Nos hacemos constantemente trampas a nosotros mismos. Y esas trampas nos las hacemos también como sociedad. Todo empezó cuando escuché un capítulo de un podcast americano del que te he hablado en alguna ocasión. Se llama The Portal y su autor es Eric Weinstein. Y aunque a veces tiene un aire intelectual y reivindicativo que no suele resonar conmigo, Weinstein decidió que en el último capítulo de la temporada quería compartir un ensayo que le había marcado de por vida hace muchos años. Lo leyó entero durante el capítulo y contó sus reflexiones. Y tras escucharlo, a mí también me dejó marcado. Tanto que me gustaría hacer algo parecido: compartirlo contigo y después contarte mis propias reflexiones. Y, sinceramente, no sé dónde nos va a llevar este camino. Eso sí, debo advertirte de que la traducción al castellano no es ni de lejos perfecta, entre otras cosas porque la he hecho yo. Por lo que si te manejas bien en inglés, te recomiendo ir a escucharlo directamente al original. Lo que yo pueda hacer es, seguro, una versión mucho más pobre de la lectura y de la interpretación que hace Weinstein. Pero bueno, lo voy a intentar.El autor del ensayo en cuestión fue Arthur Koestler, un tipo con una vida fascinante, que es simplemente imposible de resumir aquí. Diremos solamente que nació en Hungría en 1905 y murió en Londres en 1983 y que, entre esas dos fechas, fue testigo directo de muchos de los grandes momentos de la historia del siglo XX: fue primero un ferviente militante del partido comunista y acabaría cambiando de postura y alentando las protestas anti-comunistas en los años 50 y 60, fue corresponsal en la Guerra Civil Española, huyó de Francia con la invasión Nazi, trabajó para el gobierno británico durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, intentó mediar en el conflicto entre Palestina e Israel... Fue encarcelado en varios países y estuvo involucrado en varias tramas dignas de los mejores libros de espías. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Koestler trabajó con los aliados. En marzo de 1942 fue asignado al Ministerio de Información del gobierno británico, donde trabajó como guionista para transmisiones de propaganda y películas. Y uno de los ensayos que escribió en aquella época es, precisamente, el motivo de este capítulo de hoy. Es un poco denso y tiene en algunas cosas el lenguaje propio de otra época y de otro lugar, pero al menos a mí me ha impactado. Fue publicado originalmente en 1944, con el título: “On Disbelieving Atrocities”, que en castellano sería algo así como: "Sobre la incapacidad de creer en las atrocidades". Photo by Joshua Fuller on UnsplashMusic: Chad Crouch - American Crow
If you have ever wondered whether you were crazy when everyone else claims to see things differently than you do, this is the episode for you. Book clubs are everywhere and we are always asked for book recommendations. But what about the great Essays, Interviews, Conversations, Aphorisms, Shaggy Dog Stories, Lyrics, Courtroom Testimonies, Poems, Movie Scenes, Jokes and the like? Sadly, there is almost never a club in which to discuss them. Yet there are Essays and offerings in other intellectual formats that are just as profound and meaningful as any book while having the advantage of being much more in keeping with modern attention spans. The Portal seeks to fill this obvious lacuna. We thus finish out the regular first year of the Portal Podcast with an inaugural episode of an experiment: The Portal Essay Club. In this episode Eric reads aloud an astonishing essay from 1944 by Arthur Koestler which changed his world. In the essay, Koestler wrestles with a difficult question that has plagued independent thinkers for ages: what if everyone who is supposedly 'normal' is actually a maniac living in a dream world? What if the only sane ones appear crazy just as the crazy appear sane? During the episode, Eric first reads aloud the essay "The Nightmare That Is A Reality." and then discusses paragraph by paragraph what makes this one of the most profound yet often forgotten essays to have appeared within the twilight of living memory (1944 as it happens). We hope you will enjoy this experiment and let us know what you would like to see appear next in this series. Thanks for a great first year. Thank You From Our Sponsors Mack Weldon: For 20% off your first order visit www.mackweldon.com AND ENTER PROMO CODE: PORTAL ExpressVPN: Protect your online activity today at www.expressvpn.com/PORTAL and get an extra 3 months FREE on a one-year package. NetSuite: Receive your FREE guide – “Seven Actions Businesses Need to Take Now” and schedule your FREE Product Tour at www.netsuite.com/PORTAL Unagi Scooters: Get $150 off your own Unagi E500 electric scooter while supplies last at www.unagiscooters.com PROMO CODE PORTAL See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
durée : 00:55:00 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Philippe Garbit, Albane Penaranda, Mathilde Wagman - Le 25 juin 2005, dans "Répliques", Alain Finkielkraut invitait Michel Laval, l’auteur d’une biographie de Koestler, à dialoguer avec Pierre Daix, l’ancien rédacteur en chef des Lettres Françaises sur le thème : "Arthur Koestler, un intellectuel dans le siècle" (1ère diffusion : 25/06/2005). - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé - invités : Pierre Daix journaliste, critique d'art, écrivain, biographe et ami de Picasso; Michel Laval Avocat, auteur
Salon Kapitola sætter fokus på en af verdenslitteraturens klassikere, som sætter sig spor i sjælen. For 80 år siden skrev Arthur Koestler romanen Mørke midt på dagen. Bogen åbnede Vestens forfærdede øjne for Stalintidens terrorregime i Sovjetunionen. Det er måske den vigtigste politiske roman i det 20. århundrede, og den minder os om, at diktaturets første offer er sandheden og moralen. Bogen begynder i 1938, hvor kommunisten Nicolas Salmanovitch Rubashov arresteres og anklages for forræderi mod kommunistpartiets officielle linje. Vi følger ham gennem nogle få uger, til han henrettes med et nakkeskud i en mørk kælder. Rubashov er en figur, som Koestler har skabt ved at lave en syntese af flere virkelige personer, der blev henrettet. Historien foregår i Sovjetunionen, selv om vi aldrig hører navnet på hverken landet eller på den diktator, der står bag anklager, udrensninger og henrettelser. Stalin omtales kun som nr. 1. Revolutionshelten Rubashov har brugt hele sit voksne liv, 40 år, på partiet og på at bygge et utopisk kommunistisk samfund op. Han er medlem af partiets centralkomité og har haft vigtige ministerposter. Mange af hans gamle venner er allerede blevet udrenset, og Rubashov har ikke længere illusioner om, at han selv vil gå fri I dag betragter vi almindeligvis begreber som skyld og uskyld, menneskelig værdighed og retfærdighed som umiddelbare sandheder. Rubashov og kommunismen har imidlertid for længst ofret sådanne moralske og etiske overvejelser for revolutionens sag. Det er borgerlige begreber, som man ikke kan tillade sig i en overordnet kamp for den fremtid, hvor menneskenes lykke på jord vil blive virkeliggjort. Bogen sætter fokus på, hvad værdien er af et menneskes liv. Vært er kulturgeograf Claus Agø Hansen, som har publiceret flere artikler om romanen.
This episode kicks off with a round-up of the latest mind-body-spirit news -- from plant-based medicines and virtual reality curbing pain to the Global Wellness Summit's trends for 2020 and beyond -- and continues with a conversation between Mindstream editor Liza Horan and Dr. Caroline Watt, who heads parapsychology research at the University of Edinburgh. Listeners will learn how psi overlaps with psychology and physics, the challenges of testing for mental phenomena, psychic tradition in Scotland, how to join the research panel, and much more.
In this episode, I talk about the book Cold Warriors by Duncan White. The book takes a look at the Cold War through the lives of the greatest novelists on both sides of the Iron Curtain. White details critical moments in the lives of Orwell, Koestler, McCarthy, Pasternak and others. It was a time when books were weapons of war and authors wielded them for and against both sides of the conflict. The episode also gets into typewriters, particularly my Royal 260, which plays AM radio and, for the most part, can still type. This is the thirty-eighth episode of Thrill is Gone: A podcast about thrillers. If you like what you hear, subscribe to the channel and leave a pleasant sounding comment. Check out the website: www.thrillisgonepodcast.com Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/keenanwords Follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/thrillisgonepod
In this week’s episode, Edwina and the One Small Thing team are on location at Southbank Centre in London for a tour of Another Me, the Koestler Arts Annual Exhibition curated by Mercury-nominated and MOBO-winning jazz and hip hop musician Soweto Kinch. Edwina tours the show which features work by artists from across UK prisons and other secure settings with Koestler’s Director of Arts, Fiona Curran. Fiona leads on the charity’s annual awards programme, exhibitions, sales and events and has worked for the charity for over ten years. We are grateful for permission to feature the original Another Me music compositions by Soweto Kinch in this episode.Koestler Arts is a leading prison arts charity: https://www.koestlerarts.org.uk/Another Me is at Southbank Centre until November 3rd. https://www.koestlerarts.org.uk/exhibitions/another-me/For information about the events, musical performances and tours accompanying the show: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/another-meRead more about the One Small Thing charity here.Twitter - @OSTCharityThis podcast is created and produced by The London Podcast Company and Pencil Agency. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
A little-known book called “The Act of Creation” by Arthur Koestler says that there are three states of mind all creative people use in the process of coming up with new ideas. Broadly stated, these three states are: 1. Humor 2. Scientific Thinking 3. Art While knowing about these is somewhat useful for the process of writing copy, being able to write copy that inspires these different states of mind in prospects while they are READING your copy is even more valuable. I’ve never seen anyone talk about them the way Koestler does, or even mention this book except one of the world’s greatest living creative geniuses, whose identity I reveal on the show. Then we go through each state, one-by-one, giving specific techniques and examples for each state. Variety is the spice of life, and variety in your copy is the key to more conversions. We pay particular attention to the high-wire act of using humor in copy. It’s generally not a good idea. But there are ways to adapt the principles of humor so rather than coming up with comedy, you come up with brain-jostling ideas and phrases that add extra go-power to your copy. After you have finished listening to today’s show, you’ll have a new toolkit of techniques to make your copy more interesting, and make it convert better.Download.
A little-known book called “The Act of Creation” by Arthur Koestler says that there are three states of mind all creative people use in the process of coming up with new ideas. Broadly stated, these three states are: 1. Humor 2. Scientific Thinking 3. Art While knowing about these is somewhat useful for the process of writing copy, being able to write copy that inspires these different states of mind in prospects while they are READING your copy is even more valuable. I’ve never seen anyone talk about them the way Koestler does, or even mention this book except one of the world’s greatest living creative geniuses, whose identity I reveal on the show. Then we go through each state, one-by-one, giving specific techniques and examples for each state. Variety is the spice of life, and variety in your copy is the key to more conversions. We pay particular attention to the high-wire act of using humor in copy. It’s generally not a good idea. But there are ways to adapt the principles of humor so rather than coming up with comedy, you come up with brain-jostling ideas and phrases that add extra go-power to your copy. After you have finished listening to today’s show, you’ll have a new toolkit of techniques to make your copy more interesting, and make it convert better.Download.
Have you registered for the conference yet? If you haven't, you should! Why? Because you'll hear more from this episode's freaky smart guest, Piotr Pluta. The annual AATH conference is the 7th through 9th of April, 2019 in Chicago! If you're serious about humor, you won't want to miss it. Go here to get more info and to register! On this episode, we're digging deep and talking about the psychology of humor. My guest, Piotr Pluta, shares some of the research he has been doing in the area of humor profiles and gives us a "teaser" of what he'll be sharing at the conference. Grab something to write with...you're going to want to take notes! Enjoy! More on Piotr Pluta.. Piotr Pluta is the author and administrator of the Psychology of Humor Blog. He has an MSc in psychology from the University of Wroclaw, Poland; he also studied at the University of Valencia, Spain, and the East Carolina University in Greenville, USA. Piotr is currently the Managing Director responsible for consultancy at Human Factors AS in Oslo, Norway. As many other psychology students at the end of his junior year, Piotr had a life-changing decision to make: chose a research problem for his master thesis. At that time he had been wondering for a while already, why is it that although people laugh and try to make others laugh so much and so often; close to none systematic thought was being given to it in any of the psychology classes. No humor-theories or studies were being mentioned in any textbooks, not even an attempt at defining humor was made. Humor was everywhere – it seemed – but nobody was taking it seriously! In the course of doing research for his master thesis, he discovered otherwise – there were a lot of serious psychologists researching humor, who in addition have produced a great deal of work. Leave alone Freud, Koestler and Apter, Piotr has read much more than required for his thesis (which discussed the role of humor in persuasion) and got acquainted with the field fairly well. He continues to take humor seriously: Piotr is a member of the International Society for Humor Studies; is involved in a research project investigating the strategic role humor plays in one of the popular HR training tools, participates and presents on international conferences, and has developed a humor-workshop he delivers as an organizational consultant. Piotr is primarily interested in the following areas of humor research: organizational psychology studies of humor, advancement in the cognitive theories of humor, humor in cross-cultural encounters, and the pedagogical use of humor in presentations and training. Connect with him on his website: http://www.psychologyofhumor.com/
John Gray, kellele oli pühendatud meie kevadhooaja 14. saade*, on kirjutanud nii: "Milliseid õudusi Orwell ja Koestler ka parajasti ei kirjeldanud, ei jätnud nad kunagi lootust, et inimkonda ootab ees parem tulevik. Neile ei tulnud pähe, et ajalugu võib olla tsükliline, mitte progressiivne, nii et varasemate ajastute suuri heitlusi peetakse kasvanud teadussaavutuste ja tehnoloogilise võimekuse taustal üha ja uuesti ja uuesti... Conrad suhtus seevastu põlglikult 19. ja 20. sajandile iseloomulikku usku revolutsioonilistesse poliitilistesse muutustesse. Ja just seetõttu, et ta ei uskunud võimalusse, et kollektiivsed jõupingutused inimese olukorda põhimõtteliselt muuta suudaksid, suutis ta paremini kui ükskõik milline teine 20. sajandi kirjanik näha ette meie ees täna seisvaid ränki valikuid. Teda võib lugeda kui esimest suurt 21. sajandi poliitilist romaanikirjanikku." "Tähenduse teejuhtide" järjekordses vestlusringis olid mul külas (:)kivisildnik ja Leo Kunnas ning me rääkisime Joseph Conradist – meie kaasaegsest. *https://youtu.be/fncj_eHb9UU See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this episode Gary Mansfield meets up with Sarah Mathave from the Koestler Trust, the UK's largest arts for offenders Charity. The Koestler Trust hold their annual exhibition at the Southbank's Royal Festival Hall. For more info go to: www.mizogart.com For More info on Gary Mansfield go to: www.garymansfield.com
Titus & Flagg Taylor discuss Never let me go, the 2010 movie made from Nobel Prize Winner Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel about a dystopia where clones are exploited for organs & have to discover their humanity. Flagg is a poli.sci professor & has taught the novel in a course on dystopias, along with Orwell, Huxley, C.S. Lewis, & Koestler. We talk about the troubling realism of the story & the way a scientific take over of human lives reflects our society.
Math and Science education poses challenges for teachers as they confront phobias, anxieties and perceived differential abilities among students. Dr. Courtney Koestler, Director of the OHIO Center for Equity in Math and Science in the Patton College of Education at Ohio University, discusses the political dimensions of math and science education as well as the role played by the center in promoting educational equity with improved learning outcomes for students.
My Site: https://jaysanalysis.comMy Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JayDyerMy Book: https://jaysanalysis.com/jays-book/My TV Show: https://www.gaia.com/series/hollywood-decodedGhost in the Machine is a forgotten and overlooked globalist book by Arthur Koestler. In the book Koestler lays out new angles of the diabolical plan to alter and genocide man - through manipulation of RNA, food and water.
The Expats Career Podcast Raisin GmbH is hiring. The startup from Berlin is looking for just the right people. Are you one of them? Find out in our podcast with CTO Dr. Gerhard Koestler and Head of HR Dr. Lea Dirkwinkel. Use this opportunity to learn what Gerhard & Lea really care about in a candidate – and use that knowledge to write the perfect job application. Here you find current job offers from Raisin GmbH. To get invited to join LIVE podcasts with German employers who hire in English: Sign up at www.immigrantspirit.com PS: Read Chris Pyak's new book "How To Win Jobs & Influence Germans" for a step by step guide into the German job market. Get it at Amazon: http://www.pyak.com/paperback
Il Classico di Saverio con Arthur Koestler e I GladiatoriGianni Penzo Doria e il Cybernotariato tra diplomatica e archivisticaCarlo Rombolà con Sostiene Pereira di Antonio TabucchiIl libro del giorno: Per uno Stato democratico-repubblicano, di Massimo Severo Giannini (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura)
We're back! And we'll be rolling out more episodes in the coming weeks, thanks for sticking with us. We see you out there and haven't forgotten about you. We've got plenty of episodes with artists, curators, creators, makers, and more on the way. This episode features two prolific artists, Anna Tararova & Jacob Koestler, who had a show at Kitchen Table Gallery back in January. Anna's background in printmaking and drawing has led her to exploring a variety of themes we discuss in this episode. Jacob talks about creating music as Rural Carrier, photography, video and multimedia installation and the art/music archive My Idea of Fun. If you'd like to support the gallery you can do these things: 1. Share! Share! Share! Tell your friends, share with your family, let people know about us! 2. Write a review, ask us for an interview, or rate us on iTunes. 3. Click on our ads on www.kitchentablegallery.com 4. Donate. If you'd like to make a donation to the show go to our website and click on the "SUPPORT" badge or go here: SUPPORT US! 5. Paypal donations: https://www.paypal.me/ktgtalks 6. Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ktgtalks Jacob's Home: http://www.jacobkoestler.com/ Anna's Home: http://annatararova.com/home.html My Idea of Fun: http://www.myideaoffun.org Rural Carrier: http://www.myideaoffun.org/ruralcarrier/ Submit a Sex Dream: https://goo.gl/LUmNye Music: intro: field study by corwin trails: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Corwin_Trails/93_EP/08_Field_Study outro: generic song by transient: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Transient/songs/transient-nvr031-04-generic_song Our site: http://www.kitchentablegallery.com/ Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ktgtalks Producer: Louise ORourke *** Today's podcast is brought to you by audible.com - get a FREE audiobook download and 30 day free trial at audibletrial.com/ktgtalks. Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. The Hobbit (Unabridged) by J.R.R. Tolkien Divergent by Veronica Roth Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk To download your free audiobook today go to audibletrial.com/ktgtalks.
Listen to Dr. Arnn and Hugh Hewitt finish their discussion of Arthur Koestler's dystopian novel "Darkness at Noon."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Continuing their series on totalitarianism, Dr. Arnn and Hugh Hewitt discuss Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, which serves as an allegory for the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Continuing their series on totalitarianism, Dr. Arnn and Hugh Hewitt discuss Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, which serves as an allegory for the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Eric R. Weinstein is a managing director of Thiel Capital in San Francisco. He is also a research fellow at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University. Weinstein speaks and publishes on a variety of topics including, gauge theory, immigration, the market for elite labor, management of financial risk and the incentivizing of risk taking in science. He can be contacted on Twitter: @EricRWeinstein. Articles mentioned in this podcast:A. Koestler. “The Nightmare That Is a Reality” The New York Times Magazine. January 9, 1944. S. Harris. “Islam and the Misuses of Ecstasy” Visual aid:
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New York Times bestselling author and co-founder of Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly, stopped by the show to chat with me about his journey from travel journalist to famed futurist. Mr. Kelly’s storied and winding career has taken him around the world in search of visions of the new digital frontier. Kevin is a renowned TED speaker and author of multiple bestsellers including his latest, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, a title that offers an optimistic roadmap of how new technologies will shape humanity. Dubbed “the Most Interesting Man in the World” by Tim Ferris, Mr. Kelly began writing on the internet near its inception and never looked back. He has taken gigs including Editor for the Whole Earth Review, and presently Senior Maverick at Wired magazine, a magazine he co-founded in 1993, and where he served as Executive Editor until 1999. Join us for this two-part interview, and if you’re a fan of the show, please click “subscribe” to automatically see new interviews, and help other writers find us. If you missed the first half you can find it right here. In Part Two of the file Kevin Kelly and I discuss: Why the Author Can’t Write on the Road The Importance of Delegation as a Writer The Cool Tools Kevin Kelly Uses to Get Words on the Page A Futurist’s Expansive Definition of Creativity How Lateral Thinking Can Improve Your Writing Why Steven Spielberg Asked Mr. Kelly to Predict the Future Listen to The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience below ... Download MP3 Subscribe by RSS Subscribe in iTunes The Show Notes Kevin Kelly’s Personal Website The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future – Kevin Kelly 1,000 True Fans The Act of Creation – Arthur Koestler Oblique Strategies Writer Emergency Pack – John August Kevin Kelly on Google+ Kevin Kelly on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter The Transcript How Wired Magazine’s Senior Maverick Kevin Kelly Writes: Part Two Jerod Morris: Hey, Jerod Morris here. If you know anything about Rainmaker Digital and Copyblogger, you may know that we produce incredible live events. Some would say that we produce incredible live events as an excuse to throw great parties, but that’s another story. We’ve got another one coming up this October in Denver. It’s called Digital Commerce Summit and it is entirely focused on giving you the smartest ways to create and sell digital products and services. You can find out more at Rainmaker.FM/summit. That’s Rainmaker.FM/summit. We’ll be talking about Digital Commerce Summit in more detail as it gets closer, but for now I’d like to let a few attendees from our past events speak for us. Attendee 1: For me, it’s just hearing from the experts. This is my first industry event, so it’s awesome to learn new stuff and also get confirmation that we’re not doing it completely wrong where I work. Attendee 2: The best part of the conference, for me, is being able to mingle with people and realize that you have connections with everyone here. It feels like LinkedIn live. I also love the parties after each day, being able to talk to the speakers, talk to other people who are here for the first time, people who have been here before. Attendee 3: I think the best part of the conference, for me, is understanding how I can service my customers a little more easily. Seeing all the different facets and components of various enterprises then helps me pick the best tools. Jerod Morris: Hey, we agree. One of the biggest reasons we host the conference every year is so that we can learn how to service our customers — people like you — more easily. Here are just a few more words from folks who have come to our past live events. Attendee 4: It’s really fun. I think it’s a great mix of beginner information and advanced information. I’m really learning a lot and having a lot of fun. Attendee 5: The conference is great, especially because it’s a single-track conference where you don’t get distracted by “Which session should I go to?” And, “Am I missing something?” Attendee 6: The training and everything — the speakers have been awesome — but I think the coolest aspect for me has been connecting with those people who are putting it on and the other attendees. Jerod Morris: That’s it for now. There’s a lot more to come on Digital Commerce Summit. I really hope to see you there in October. Again, to get all the details and the very best deal on tickets, head over to Rainmaker.FM/summit. That’s Rainmaker.FM/summit. Kelton Reid: These are The Writer Files, a tour of the habits, habitats, and brains of working writers from online content creators to fictionists, journalists, entrepreneurs, then beyond. I’m your host, Kelton Reid, writer, podcaster, and mediaphile. Each week we’ll discover how great writers keep the ink flowing, the cursor moving, and avoid writer’s block. New York Times best-selling author and co-founder of Wired Magazine, Kevin Kelly, stopped by the show this week and chatted with me about his journey from travel journalist to famed futurist. Mr. Kelly’s storied and winding career has taken him around the world in search of visions of the new digital frontier. He’s a renowned TED speaker and author of multiple best-sellers, including his latest, at The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, a title that offers an optimistic roadmap of how new technologies will shape humanity. Dubbed, “The Most Interesting Man in The World” by Tim Ferriss, Mr. Kelly began writing on the Internet near its inception and never looked back, taking gigs including editor for The Whole Earth Review and, presently, Senior Maverick at Wired Magazine, a magazine he co-founded in 1993 where he served as executive editor until 1999. Join us for this two-part interview. If you are a fan of the show, please click “subscribe” to automatically see new interviews with your favorite authors and help other writers to find us. If you missed the first half of this show, you can find it at Writerfiles.FM in the show notes. In part two of the file, Kevin and I discuss why the author can’t write on the road, the importance of delegation as a writer, the Cool Tools Kevin Kelly uses to get words onto the page, a futurist’s expansive definition of creativity, how lateral thinking can improve your writing, and the day Steven Spielberg asked Mr. Kelly to predict the future. Why the Author Can’t Write on the Road Kelton Reid: Do you have an office? Once you’ve traveled the world and gotten all the stuff you need — researched all the stuff — do you go back to the office then, or do you feel like you can write on the road? Kevin Kelly: I cannot write on the road at all. I can’t even write on planes. I can’t even write in hotel rooms. I do all my writing here. I have this magnificent studio. I call it a studio, it’s two stories. It’s in California. It’s all white. It’s got a huge ceiling. There are two stories of books. I have all my toys — my Lego wall here. I have a Styro Bot. I built it for me and my way of working. Camille’s just right over there. I have another assistant too, who does the website stuff. I have my big, huge whiteboard. I’ve got everything. I have a standing — and a ball, so I can move from standing to sitting within seconds. I need to be here to get my writing done, and I have the privilege of being able to control my time that way. I don’t know if I need to, but that’s how I choose to. That works for me. You’re right about the travel. When I’m traveling there’s two kinds — there’s the traveling for doing talks … My livelihood is basically giving talks in China. Most of my fans are in China. I have 20 times the number of fans in China than I do in the U.S., so I go to China to do talks. Because I have this obsession with Asia, I usually will piggyback other trips either in China or elsewhere around Asia when I go because I’m photographing the disappearing Asia. When I’m in photograph mode I can do nothing else. It’s really weird, but I become totally a camera. I’m just a camera. I’m a walking camera. I started off in the 1970s doing that. That’s what my first thing was. Instead of going to college, I went to Asia as a photographer and I was photographing the stuff. I was a camera. I worked from the beginning of daylight to the end of daylight as a camera. Still when I go to Asia — the same thing, I am just there. Then, when I’m in the hotel, I’m downloading, backing up all my stuff. Doing the minimum amount of e-mail that I need to do. Then I’m in bed. Then the next day, I’m just a camera. I find it really hard to — I’m happy if I can do my e-mail. I can’t write then. When I come back, then I can shift. I’ll leave the camera off to the side and then I can try and write. Kelton Reid: That sounds cool. It sounds like you’ve got these processes in place that help you to process, crunch all the information you see and then you get back to the designated writing space to get into the flow. The Importance of Delegation as a Writer Kevin Kelly: The other thing that I learned to do at Wired, working through the magazine, was delegate and hire. For 10 years I did Cool Tools myself. Five days a week, I was editing. I wasn’t writing all those reviews, but I was soliciting, getting them in, editing everybody, sending it back, going rounds of approval, posting it and finding the pictures, and doing the access information. At some point — it made money from the very beginning. “Okay, so I’m going to hire editors to do this.” I was overseeing a publisher, but they were doing the work. That’s the other thing that I have learned to do, is to hire out. That’s the one thing I wish I’d learned earlier in life, to hire people better than yourself as a way of extending your reach. Cool Tools — Marcus is running that, basically. Silver Cord — my partner in that is running that. I don’t have a partner yet in True Films, but Claudia — who is here — is helping me now. That’s the idea. The way that I found to leverage my ideas and perspective is to hire whenever I can. The Cool Tools Kevin Kelly Uses to Get Words on the Page Kelton Reid: That’s cool. For scaling and probably peace of mind too. To harness your skills and your creativity. Speaking of Cool Tools, let’s talk a little bit about the Cool Tools that you use to actually get words onto the page, if you don’t mind. I’d love to know. I know you’ve got some organizational hacks in place, it sounds like, but are you a Mac guy or are you a PC guy? When you’re actually sitting down to get words onto the page, what are you using there? Kevin Kelly: There’s a joke. I’ll actually just show you a picture of my — I have a beige, boring minivan, but the back window is covered with little white apples, like a million of them. I have been an Apple user from the Apple 2e. We did a famous Wired cover about praying for Apple because there was a brief spell before Jobs came back that I thought I was going to have to actually make the big switch to Windows. I was within two months of doing that, but he came back in time and saved the day. Yeah, I’m a total Mac — we’re a Mac household. I have an iPhone. I work on a Mac — they call it a Mac Tower. It’s a behemoth machine that sits below me. I have two cinema screens: one at sitting height and one at standing height. I can just toggle between them. I have a little, tiny, 11-inch Mac Air that I take with me when I travel. It’s big enough just to do e-mail and primitive web. I have my PowerPoint speeches mounted, and that’s it. I’m not a very mobile person, the first smart phone I had was Apple 6. I’m old-school in that sense. E-mail’s the best way to reach me. I work on a desktop. I’m not mobile. When I take pictures I have to process them. I use Lightroom, which I think is fantastic. I don’t even need Photoshop. I just use Lightroom for managing my gazillion … By the way, I have them all backed up to not only Google, but I’m a insane, radical, extreme backer-upper. My photos are backed up on three clouds and three different hard disks beyond the cards that I have. I also have them backed up in three different places while I travel. Needless to say, I have never lost an image. Kelton Reid: Is that known as RAID? Kevin Kelly: Yeah, exactly. I have my own version of RAID. Right, exactly. The tools I use for writing — eventually I get into Microsoft Word. I don’t always start there. Believe it or not, I sometimes start writing in my e-mail because it’s so simple and I’m not going to lose it. I can keep it up. I used to mail it to myself as a backup. That was long before I had Time Machine. Sometimes the first notes will be in all kinds of things. Sometimes it’ll be in Google Docs. Sometimes it’ll be in my e-mail. Sometimes it’ll be in Notes. Eventually it gets to Microsoft. When I’m writing a bigger piece I actually will move things, at some point, into Scrivener. Scrivener is this really cool software that’s used by people doing long-form writing, whether it be fiction or nonfiction, or sometimes screenplays. It’s a card-based organizing metaphor, so things have cards and you can move these cards around. The cards can have an indefinite amount of text in them, and you can put them in hierarchies or you can keep them flat, but the idea is that you can move all this stuff around. It takes the place of the old way where we actually did cut and paste. Had things in piles and moved piles around on the floor, or index cards on your desktop. It does that. And it’s really good for organizing lots of things in lots of parts. I’ve used that for the last two books, and I would definitely use it again for any other book I did. I think that’s on both Mac and Windows. I’m using Scrivener, but at some point it’ll make its way into a Word doc in the final form. That’s just because, in my experience working with magazines and book publishers, this is the universal format. It just has to reach there at some point. Kelton Reid: The track changes and traditional publishing. Kevin Kelly: Yeah, exactly. Kelton Reid: I skipped over a big one, but here is one for you. You probably are rubbing elbows with writers — and you have been for much of your career — do you believe in writer’s block? Kevin Kelly: I don’t. If you mean do I experience writer blocks, that’s all I can say. I’ve never really talked to the other writers about writer’s block, so I can’t say whether they have it or not. I have never had them volunteer conversation about it. I was just hanging out last week with all these science fiction authors — very published successes — and this never came up. I have not experienced it myself. In talking to them about their work habits and stuff, some of them have pretty regular, “write every day” kind of things where they’ll write about something every day. Maybe it’s not about what their book is, but they’ll do something. It has not been an issue in my experience. Kelton Reid: Cool. That’s good. Knock on wood. Kevin Kelly: Yeah. A Futurist’s Expansive Definition of Creativity Kelton Reid: All right. Let’s get into creativity a little bit. I know we’ve got a few more minutes here. I think creativity is probably inherent to a lot of what you do, but it might not be labeled as creativity when you’re getting into technology and looking to the future. Do you think that you could define creativity for us? Kevin Kelly: My image of creativity is a diagram in a book called The Act of Creation by Koestler. It’s an old book. It was his attempt to try and figure out what creativity is. His diagram was very simple: take two index cards that are inserted into each other so they form — from the end — a profile of a cross. So there are two planes that are intersecting, you have a flat plane and a vertical plane. You have two planes that are intersecting. His idea was that all creativity is basically taking two unrelated planes and making them intersect. That’s the visual image that I have of creativity, which is you are making a connection, an intersection between things that have not intersected before. Jokes are kind of like that. A joke is when you take two things that don’t seem to be related and you bring them together in some way that’s plausible and it’s funny. New ideas, new innovations are the same kind of thing where you recombine existing mechanisms in a way that haven’t been combined before. Brian Arthur’s and Paul Romer — two separate guys with two separate theories, but they’re both the same, which is that the fountain of all innovation is just a recombination. In fact, the origin of all wealth is actually recombination. You’re just recombining things. This idea of intersecting things that had not intersected before is my definition of creativity. There are, of course, rules. You can’t just take any random thing, the new intersection has to work in some way. It has to be plausible, interesting, whatever — but fundamentally, that’s the act. When I see something creative, it’s usually because someone has — we talked about the other metaphor of a leap somewhere. They have stepped off something and they’re stepping somewhere else, but there are actually two legs. They actually have a leg in the departure point and a leg in the arrival point. Those two things have not been bridged before. That’s my image of an intersection of two unrelated ideas. Kelton Reid: I like it. I like it a lot. I think that we’re getting close here. I have a couple of other questions for you, but — Kevin Kelly: Let me just say one thing about the creativity. Kelton Reid: Oh, I’m sorry. How Lateral Thinking Can Improve Your Writing Kevin Kelly: No, because I’ve gotten to work with many of what I would consider some of the most creative people working today, alive today. People who are technically geniuses like Danny Hillis, artistically genius like Brian Eno, and cultural genius like Stewart Brand. It’s really been interesting to watch them operate. I think they have trained their minds to do this. They’re doing the thing I’m saying with these unrelated planes intersecting, but they do them in different ways. Brian Eno, he’s the most lateral thinker I know. Lateral meaning that he’s associating ideas coming from off to the side. We have a tendency to proceed in a linear way, or a way in which there’s the obvious things in front of you that you may want to combine. He has an ability to reach off to the side into something that is unexpected, trying to make that association that will work. He’s particularly good at reaching behind his back or off to the side — that’s what I meant by laterally — to bring something in. That ability to, in some senses, dismiss or ignore the obvious ones and to reach for the unobvious but yet still works, is something that I think actually they train. Brian Eno has a famous set of cards called Oblique Strategies that he and a partner use to make music. These were prompts that they would pick up at random to force themselves to do this lateral thinking. They were prompts like, “Take the most obvious thing and ignore it,” or “What about the middle? Emphasize the middle.” They were almost random things. Often, that action would not be the thing that worked, but that would lead them to this other unobvious next step that would work. That’s one way. Those cards are actually very valuable and useful for anything. I have a deck right here. I have my own internal ones of when you’re in a situation — say when you’re stuck, you use these things as prompts, exercises to force yourself to think about these other approaches. It’s very handy. I think, internally, that’s what Brian and other are doing, is actually have a set of little things that they’re running through, sometimes unconsciously, as they try and prompt themselves to take this lateral approach. Then there are others like Marvin Minsky and Danny Hillis who are very technical. I think they do something very similar, particularly Marvin, which is pretend that they’re not human. They try to approach this as if they were seeing it for the first time, as if they were coming from another planet, as if they were pretending they were, often, a robot. “How would a robot do this?” To try and do the same thing of looking at it with fresh eyes, looking at it in a way that no ordinary human would look at it, not as a way an ordinary human would look at it. Then Stuart Brand, who also has this ability, I think his little heuristic that he also trained himself to do was to force himself — each time he approached something he would force himself to try and find a different perspective on it, including using the words that he used to describe something. He would never, ever repeat himself. If he was talking about something he knew, he would require that he use different words when talking about it this time to this person, even though he’d been talking about it for a thousand times before. That constraint would require him — because of the new words — to see it differently. Then he would have an insight just because he forced himself to use different words. Those are some of the ways that I’ve seen some of the most creative people I know use this on a daily basis. They have trained themselves to be better at this on an ongoing basis — not just when they’re sitting down, but as a habit. Kelton Reid: For sure. Yeah, I know screenwriter John August has a similar set of prompts like the Oblique Strategies that he uses for screenwriters which has proven to be very helpful. I think writers can use that in whatever way they think to kick-start their writing for sure. Side note, I love Brian Eno’s Music for Airports. I actually listen to it while I’m writing. I find that it helps because it’s kind of meandering and ambient, of course. I’ve got to slip this one in here. I know that in The Inevitable and Understanding the Technological Forces That Will Shape Our World, you’ve talked about VR quite a bit. I heard you say you were reading Ready Player One, which is Ernie Cline’s journey into VR. What is it? The OASIS? Kevin Kelly: Correct. Kelton Reid: Interesting intersection there. I think you’ve worked with Steven Spielberg in the past, and he is adapting that book into a movie. Have you heard anything about that? Kevin Kelly: I have not heard — either from Ernie or elsewhere — about what state the Spielberg Ready Player One is in. I’ve heard different rumors about whether it’s actually going to be in VR or not. I think there is likely to be some VR component, probably a VR game version. But no, I don’t know anything more about it other than what has been published. I think that it’s an ideal Spielberg movie for many reasons, not the least of all the references to the seventies and eighties that I’m sure he’d be very good at. Kelton Reid: Right. I thought it was interesting that it takes place in 2044 and he actually tapped you to help him predict 2054 in Minority Report. Why Steven Spielberg Asked Mr. Kelly to Predict the Future Kevin Kelly: Right, yeah. Kelton Reid: I thought maybe he had tapped you again. Kevin Kelly: No. It was just not me, it was a group of us, and as far as I know he hasn’t reached out in that sense to do that — which was a very amazing experience. There was a set of people, including the people I just mentioned, except I don’t think Brian was there. Doug Copeland and some other — Jaron Lanier — were present, and our job was to make this world comprehensive. It was really interesting because we did a lot of arm waving about these things. Spielberg is sitting in the room and he’s there with his little pencil and pad. He says, “Okay, what are people sleeping on? What do the beds look like? How about for breakfast, what are people having for breakfast?” That requirement to be that specific was very galvanizing because you couldn’t just talk about general things. He wanted to know what the beds looked like. So you began to think, “What do they look like? Are they any different? The same? Are they waterbeds?” That was so profound for me, because that really changed how I try to think about the future now. Kelton Reid: How cool. I really appreciate you taking time out to chat with us about your process. The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our World, a very optimistic roadmap of the future. Really cool stuff. It’s out now and we can find it out there. You link to it at kk.org and it’s on Amazon. I’ll link to your Google Plus Page as well and your Twitter handle. Is there any other sign-offs for writers you want to drop on us before you go to the next interview? Kevin Kelly: No, other than I do suggest that you look at the Cool Tools book that I did, which was self published. It’s this huge, oversized, thick, heavy, five pound, massive catalog of possibilities. There are some good writer tools besides Scrivener. There are some other resources for people making things and being creative — tools not just like the wrenches and pipes, but things like Elance, or what they would call Upwork these days. How to hire someone for help. Where to get a logo or book cover done. Check out that, that’s available on Amazon as well. Kelton Reid: Mr. Kelly, thank you so much. We really appreciate it. Best of luck with all of your press rounds, and hopefully you’ll come back and talk to us again another time. Kevin Kelly: Sure thing. Thanks for the attention. Appreciate it. Kelton Reid: Thank you. Thanks so much for joining me for this half of A Tour Through The Writer’s Process. 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I once participated in a twenty-three-day wilderness program in the mountains of Colorado. If the purpose of this course was to expose students to dangerous lightning and half the world’s mosquitoes, it was fulfilled on the first day. What was in essence a forced march through hundreds of miles of backcountry culminated in a ritual known as “the solo,” where we were finally permitted to rest—alone, on the outskirts of a gorgeous alpine lake—for three days of fasting and contemplation. I had just turned sixteen, and this was my first taste of true solitude since exiting my mother’s womb. It proved a sufficient provocation. After a long nap and a glance at the icy waters of the lake, the promising young man I imagined myself to be was quickly cut down by loneliness and boredom. I filled the pages of my journal not with the insights of a budding naturalist, philosopher, or mystic but with a list of the foods on which I intended to gorge myself the instant I returned to civilization. Judging from the state of my consciousness at the time, millions of years of hominid evolution had produced nothing more transcendent than a craving for a cheeseburger and a chocolate milkshake. I found the experience of sitting undisturbed for three days amid pristine breezes and starlight, with nothing to do but contemplate the mystery of my existence, to be a source of perfect misery—for which I could see not so much as a glimmer of my own contribution. My letters home, in their plaintiveness and self-pity, rivaled any written at Shiloh or Gallipoli. So I was more than a little surprised when several members of our party, most of whom were a decade older than I, described their days and nights of solitude in positive, even transformational terms. I simply didn’t know what to make of their claims to happiness. How could someone’s happiness increase when all the material sources of pleasure and distraction had been removed? At that age, the nature of my own mind did not interest me—only my life did. And I was utterly oblivious to how different life would be if the quality of my mind were to change. Our minds are all we have. They are all we have ever had. And they are all we can offer others. This might not be obvious, especially when there are aspects of your life that seem in need of improvement—when your goals are unrealized, or you are struggling to find a career, or you have relationships that need repairing. But it’s the truth. Every experience you have ever had has been shaped by your mind. Every relationship is as good or as bad as it is because of the minds involved. If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won’t matter how successful you become or who is in your life—you won’t enjoy any of it. Most of us could easily compile a list of goals we want to achieve or personal problems that need to be solved. But what is the real significance of every item on such a list? Everything we want to accomplish—to paint the house, learn a new language, find a better job—is something that promises that, if done, it would allow us to finally relax and enjoy our lives in the present. Generally speaking, this is a false hope. I’m not denying the importance of achieving one’s goals, maintaining one’s health, or keeping one’s children clothed and fed—but most of us spend our time seeking happiness and security without acknowledging the underlying purpose of our search. Each of us is looking for a path back to the present: We are trying to find good enough reasons to be satisfied now. Acknowledging that this is the structure of the game we are playing allows us to play it differently. How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience and, therefore, the quality of our lives. Mystics and contemplatives have made this claim for ages—but a growing body of scientific research now bears it out. A few years after my first painful encounter with solitude, in the winter of 1987, I took the drug 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine (MDMA), commonly known as Ecstasy, and my sense of the human mind’s potential shifted profoundly. Although MDMA would become ubiquitous at dance clubs and “raves” in the 1990s, at that time I didn’t know anyone of my generation who had tried it. One evening, a few months before my twentieth birthday, a close friend and I decided to take the drug. The setting of our experiment bore little resemblance to the conditions of Dionysian abandon under which MDMA is now often consumed. We were alone in a house, seated across from each other on opposite ends of a couch, and engaged in quiet conversation as the chemical worked its way into our heads. Unlike other drugs with which we were by then familiar (marijuana and alcohol), MDMA produced no feeling of distortion in our senses. Our minds seemed completely clear. In the midst of this ordinariness, however, I was suddenly struck by the knowledge that I loved my friend. This shouldn’t have surprised me—he was, after all, one of my best friends. However, at that age I was not in the habit of dwelling on how much I loved the men in my life. Now I could feel that I loved him, and this feeling had ethical implications that suddenly seemed as profound as they now sound pedestrian on the page: I wanted him to be happy. That conviction came crashing down with such force that something seemed to give way inside me. In fact, the insight appeared to restructure my mind. My capacity for envy, for instance—the sense of being diminished by the happiness or success of another person—seemed like a symptom of mental illness that had vanished without a trace. I could no more have felt envy at that moment than I could have wanted to poke out my own eyes. What did I care if my friend was better looking or a better athlete than I was? If I could have bestowed those gifts on him, I would have. Truly wanting him to be happy made his happiness my own. A certain euphoria was creeping into these reflections, perhaps, but the general feeling remained one of absolute sobriety—and of moral and emotional clarity unlike any I had ever known. It would not be too strong to say that I felt sane for the first time in my life. And yet the change in my consciousness seemed entirely straightforward. I was simply talking to my friend—about what, I don’t recall—and realized that I had ceased to be concerned about myself. I was no longer anxious, self-critical, guarded by irony, in competition, avoiding embarrassment, ruminating about the past and future, or making any other gesture of thought or attention that separated me from him. I was no longer watching myself through another person’s eyes. And then came the insight that irrevocably transformed my sense of how good human life could be. I was feeling boundless love for one of my best friends, and I suddenly realized that if a stranger had walked through the door at that moment, he or she would have been fully included in this love. Love was at bottom impersonal—and deeper than any personal history could justify. Indeed, a transactional form of love—I love you because…—now made no sense at all. The interesting thing about this final shift in perspective was that it was not driven by any change in the way I felt. I was not overwhelmed by a new feeling of love. The insight had more the character of a geometric proof: It was as if, having glimpsed the properties of one set of parallel lines, I suddenly understood what must be common to them all. The moment I could find a voice with which to speak, I discovered that this epiphany about the universality of love could be readily communicated. My friend got the point at once: All I had to do was ask him how he would feel in the presence of a total stranger at that moment, and the same door opened in his mind. It was simply obvious that love, compassion, and joy in the joy of others extended without limit. The experience was not of love growing but of its being no longer obscured. Love was—as advertised by mystics and crackpots through the ages—a state of being. How had we not seen this before? And how could we overlook it ever again? It would take me many years to put this experience into context. Until that moment, I had viewed organized religion as merely a monument to the ignorance and superstition of our ancestors. But I now knew that Jesus, the Buddha, Lao Tzu, and the other saints and sages of history had not all been epileptics, schizophrenics, or frauds. I still considered the world’s religions to be mere intellectual ruins, maintained at enormous economic and social cost, but I now understood that important psychological truths could be found in the rubble. Twenty percent of Americans describe themselves as “spiritual but not religious.” Although the claim seems to annoy believers and atheists equally, separating spirituality from religion is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. It is to assert two important truths simultaneously: Our world is dangerously riven by religious doctrines that all educated people should condemn, and yet there is more to understanding the human condition than science and secular culture generally admit. One purpose of this book is to give both these convictions intellectual and empirical support. Before going any further, I should address the animosity that many readers feel toward the term spiritual. Whenever I use the word, as in referring to meditation as a “spiritual practice,” I hear from fellow skeptics and atheists who think that I have committed a grievous error.The word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus, which is a translation of the Greek pneuma, meaning “breath.” Around the thirteenth century, the term became entangled with beliefs about immaterial souls, supernatural beings, ghosts, and so forth. It acquired other meanings as well: We speak of the spirit of a thing as its most essential principle or of certain volatile substances and liquors as spirits. Nevertheless, many nonbelievers now consider all things “spiritual” to be contaminated by medieval superstition. I do not share their semantic concerns.[1] Yes, to walk the aisles of any “spiritual” bookstore is to confront the yearning and credulity of our species by the yard, but there is no other term—apart from the even more problematic mystical or the more restrictive contemplative—with which to discuss the efforts people make, through meditation, psychedelics, or other means, to fully bring their minds into the present or to induce nonordinary states of consciousness. And no other word links this spectrum of experience to our ethical lives. Throughout this book, I discuss certain classically spiritual phenomena, concepts, and practices in the context of our modern understanding of the human mind—and I cannot do this while restricting myself to the terminology of ordinary experience. So I will use spiritual, mystical, contemplative, and transcendent without further apology. However, I will be precise in describing the experiences and methods that merit these terms. For many years, I have been a vocal critic of religion, and I won’t ride the same hobbyhorse here. I hope that I have been sufficiently energetic on this front that even my most skeptical readers will trust that my bullshit detector remains well calibrated as we advance over this new terrain. Perhaps the following assurance can suffice for the moment: Nothing in this book needs to be accepted on faith. Although my focus is on human subjectivity—I am, after all, talking about the nature of experience itself—all my assertions can be tested in the laboratory of your own life. In fact, my goal is to encourage you to do just that. Authors who attempt to build a bridge between science and spirituality tend to make one of two mistakes: Scientists generally start with an impoverished view of spiritual experience, assuming that it must be a grandiose way of describing ordinary states of mind—parental love, artistic inspiration, awe at the beauty of the night sky. In this vein, one finds Einstein’s amazement at the intelligibility of Nature’s laws described as though it were a kind of mystical insight. New Age thinkers usually enter the ditch on the other side of the road: They idealize altered states of consciousness and draw specious connections between subjective experience and the spookier theories at the frontiers of physics. Here we are told that the Buddha and other contemplatives anticipated modern cosmology or quantum mechanics and that by transcending the sense of self, a person can realize his identity with the One Mind that gave birth to the cosmos. In the end, we are left to choose between pseudo-spirituality and pseudo-science. Few scientists and philosophers have developed strong skills of introspection—in fact, most doubt that such abilities even exist. Conversely, many of the greatest contemplatives know nothing about science. But there is a connection between scientific fact and spiritual wisdom, and it is more direct than most people suppose. Although the insights we can have in meditation tell us nothing about the origins of the universe, they do confirm some well-established truths about the human mind: Our conventional sense of self is an illusion; positive emotions, such as compassion and patience, are teachable skills; and the way we think directly influences our experience of the world. There is now a large literature on the psychological benefits of meditation. Different techniques produce long-lasting changes in attention, emotion, cognition, and pain perception, and these correlate with both structural and functional changes in the brain. This field of research is quickly growing, as is our understanding of self-awareness and related mental phenomena. Given recent advances in neuroimaging technology, we no longer face a practical impediment to investigating spiritual insights in the context of science. Spirituality must be distinguished from religion—because people of every faith, and of none, have had the same sorts of spiritual experiences. While these states of mind are usually interpreted through the lens of one or another religious doctrine, we know that this is a mistake. Nothing that a Christian, a Muslim, and a Hindu can experience—self-transcending love, ecstasy, bliss, inner light—constitutes evidence in support of their traditional beliefs, because their beliefs are logically incompatible with one another. A deeper principle must be at work. That principle is the subject of this book: The feeling that we call “I” is an illusion. There is no discrete self or ego living like a Minotaur in the labyrinth of the brain. And the feeling that there is—the sense of being perched somewhere behind your eyes, looking out at a world that is separate from yourself—can be altered or entirely extinguished. Although such experiences of “self-transcendence” are generally thought about in religious terms, there is nothing, in principle, irrational about them. From both a scientific and a philosophical point of view, they represent a clearer understanding of the way things are. Deepening that understanding, and repeatedly cutting through the illusion of the self, is what is meant by “spirituality” in the context of this book. Confusion and suffering may be our birthright, but wisdom and happiness are available. The landscape of human experience includes deeply transformative insights about the nature of one’s own consciousness, and yet it is obvious that these psychological states must be understood in the context of neuroscience, psychology, and related fields. I am often asked what will replace organized religion. The answer, I believe, is nothing and everything. Nothing need replace its ludicrous and divisive doctrines—such as the idea that Jesus will return to earth and hurl unbelievers into a lake of fire, or that death in defense of Islam is the highest good. These are terrifying and debasing fictions. But what about love, compassion, moral goodness, and self-transcendence? Many people still imagine that religion is the true repository of these virtues. To change this, we must talk about the full range of human experience in a way that is as free of dogma as the best science already is. This book is by turns a seeker’s memoir, an introduction to the brain, a manual of contemplative instruction, and a philosophical unraveling of what most people consider to be the center of their inner lives: the feeling of self we call “I.” I have not set out to describe all the traditional approaches to spirituality and to weigh their strengths and weaknesses. Rather, my goal is to pluck the diamond from the dunghill of esoteric religion. There is a diamond there, and I have devoted a fair amount of my life to contemplating it, but getting it in hand requires that we remain true to the deepest principles of scientific skepticism and make no obeisance to tradition. Where I do discuss specific teachings, such as those of Buddhism or Advaita Vedanta, it isn’t my purpose to provide anything like a comprehensive account. Readers who are loyal to any one spiritual tradition or who specialize in the academic study of religion, may view my approach as the quintessence of arrogance. I consider it, rather, a symptom of impatience. There is barely time enough in a book—or in a life—to get to the point. Just as a modern treatise on weaponry would omit the casting of spells and would very likely ignore the slingshot and the boomerang, I will focus on what I consider the most promising lines of spiritual inquiry. My hope is that my personal experience will help readers to see the nature of their own minds in a new light. A rational approach to spirituality seems to be what is missing from secularism and from the lives of most of the people I meet. The purpose of this book is to offer readers a clear view of the problem, along with some tools to help them solve it for themselves. THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS One day, you will find yourself outside this world which is like a mother’s womb. You will leave this earth to enter, while you are yet in the body, a vast expanse, and know that the words, “God’s earth is vast,” name this region from which the saints have come. Jalal-ud-Din Rumi I share the concern, expressed by many atheists, that the terms spiritual and mystical are often used to make claims not merely about the quality of certain experiences but about reality at large. Far too often, these words are invoked in support of religious beliefs that are morally and intellectually grotesque. Consequently, many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of spirituality to be a sign of mental illness, conscious imposture, or self-deception. This is a problem, because millions of people have had experiences for which spiritual and mystical seem the only terms available. Many of the beliefs people form on the basis of these experiences are false. But the fact that most atheists will view a statement like Rumi’s above as a symptom of the man’s derangement grants a kernel of truth to the rantings of even our least rational opponents. The human mind does, in fact, contain vast expanses that few of us ever discover. And there is something degraded and degrading about many of our habits of attention as we shop, gossip, argue, and ruminate our way to the grave. Perhaps I should speak only for myself here: It seems to me that I spend much of my waking life in a neurotic trance. My experiences in meditation suggest, however, that an alternative exists. It is possible to stand free of the juggernaut of self, if only for moments at a time. Most cultures have produced men and women who have found that certain deliberate uses of attention—meditation, yoga, prayer—can transform their perception of the world. Their efforts generally begin with the realization that even in the best of circumstances, happiness is elusive. We seek pleasant sights, sounds, tastes, sensations, and moods. We satisfy our intellectual curiosity. We surround ourselves with friends and loved ones. We become connoisseurs of art, music, or food. But our pleasures are, by their very nature, fleeting. If we enjoy some great professional success, our feelings of accomplishment remain vivid and intoxicating for an hour, or perhaps a day, but then they subside. And the search goes on. The effort required to keep boredom and other unpleasantness at bay must continue, moment to moment. Ceaseless change is an unreliable basis for lasting fulfillment. Realizing this, many people begin to wonder whether a deeper source of well-being exists. Is there a form of happiness beyond the mere repetition of pleasure and avoidance of pain? Is there a happiness that does not depend upon having one’s favorite foods available, or friends and loved ones within arm’s reach, or good books to read, or something to look forward to on the weekend? Is it possible to be happy before anything happens, before one’s desires are gratified, in spite of life’s difficulties, in the very midst of physical pain, old age, disease, and death? We are all, in some sense, living our answer to this question—and most of us are living as though the answer were “no.” No, nothing is more profound than repeating one’s pleasures and avoiding one’s pains; nothing is more profound than seeking satisfaction—sensory, emotional, and intellectual—moment after moment. Just keep your foot on the gas until you run out of road. Certain people, however, come to suspect that human existence might encompass more than this. Many of them are led to suspect this by religion—by the claims of the Buddha or Jesus or some other celebrated figure. And such people often begin to practice various disciplines of attention as a means of examining their experience closely enough to see whether a deeper source of well-being exists. They may even sequester themselves in caves or monasteries for months or years at a time to facilitate this process. Why would a person do this? No doubt there are many motives for retreating from the world, and some of them are psychologically unhealthy. In its wisest form, however, the exercise amounts to a very simple experiment. Here is its logic: If there exists a source of psychological well-being that does not depend upon merely gratifying one’s desires, then it should be present even when all the usual sources of pleasure have been removed. Such happiness should be available to a person who has declined to marry her high school sweetheart, renounced her career and material possessions, and gone off to a cave or some other spot that is inhospitable to ordinary aspirations. One clue to how daunting most people would find such a project is the fact that solitary confinement—which is essentially what we are talking about—is considered a punishment inside a maximum-security prison. Even when forced to live among murderers and rapists, most people still prefer the company of others to spending any significant amount of time alone in a room. And yet contemplatives in many traditions claim to experience extraordinary depths of psychological well-being while living in isolation for vast stretches of time. How should we interpret this? Either the contemplative literature is a catalogue of religious delusion, psychopathology, and deliberate fraud, or people have been having liberating insights under the name of “spirituality” and “mysticism” for millennia. Unlike many atheists, I have spent much of my life seeking experiences of the kind that gave rise to the world’s religions. Despite the painful results of my first few days alone in the mountains of Colorado, I later studied with a wide range of monks, lamas, yogis, and other contemplatives, some of whom had lived for decades in seclusion doing nothing but meditating. In the process, I spent two years on silent retreat myself (in increments of one week to three months), practicing various techniques of meditation for twelve to eighteen hours a day. I can attest that when one goes into silence and meditates for weeks or months at a time, doing nothing else—not speaking, reading, or writing, just making a moment-to-moment effort to observe the contents of consciousness—one has experiences that are generally unavailable to people who have not undertaken a similar practice. I believe that such states of mind have a lot to say about the nature of consciousness and the possibilities of human well-being. Leaving aside the metaphysics, mythology, and sectarian dogma, what contemplatives throughout history have discovered is that there is an alternative to being continuously spellbound by the conversation we are having with ourselves; there is an alternative to simply identifying with the next thought that pops into consciousness. And glimpsing this alternative dispels the conventional illusion of the self. Most traditions of spirituality also suggest a connection between self-transcendence and living ethically. Not all good feelings have an ethical valence, and pathological forms of ecstasy surely exist. I have no doubt, for instance, that many suicide bombers feel extraordinarily good just before they detonate themselves in a crowd. But there are also forms of mental pleasure that are intrinsically ethical. As I indicated earlier, for some states of consciousness, a phrase like “boundless love” does not seem overblown. It is decidedly inconvenient for the forces of reason and secularism that if someone wakes up tomorrow feeling boundless love for all sentient beings, the only people likely to acknowledge the legitimacy of his experience will be representatives of one or another Iron Age religion or New Age cult. Most of us are far wiser than we may appear to be. We know how to keep our relationships in order, to use our time well, to improve our health, to lose weight, to learn valuable skills, and to solve many other riddles of existence. But following even the straight and open path to happiness is hard. If your best friend were to ask how she could live a better life, you would probably find many useful things to say, and yet you might not live that way yourself. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice. However, there are deeper insights to be had about the nature of our minds. Unfortunately, they have been discussed entirely in the context of religion and, therefore, have been shrouded in fallacy and superstition for all of human history. The problem of finding happiness in this world arrives with our first breath—and our needs and desires seem to multiply by the hour. To spend any time in the presence of a young child is to witness a mind ceaselessly buffeted by joy and sorrow. As we grow older, our laughter and tears become less gratuitous, perhaps, but the same process of change continues: One roiling complex of thought and emotion is followed by the next, like waves in the ocean. Seeking, finding, maintaining, and safeguarding our well-being is the great project to which we all are devoted, whether or not we choose to think in these terms. This is not to say that we want mere pleasure or the easiest possible life. Many things require extraordinary effort to accomplish, and some of us learn to enjoy the struggle. Any athlete knows that certain kinds of pain can be exquisitely pleasurable. The burn of lifting weights, for instance, would be excruciating if it were a symptom of terminal illness. But because it is associated with health and fitness, most people find it enjoyable. Here we see that cognition and emotion are not separate. The way we think about experience can completely determine how we feel about it. And we always face tensions and trade-offs. In some moments we crave excitement and in others rest. We might love the taste of wine and chocolate, but rarely for breakfast. Whatever the context, our minds are perpetually moving—generally toward pleasure (or its imagined source) and away from pain. I am not the first person to have noticed this. Our struggle to navigate the space of possible pains and pleasures produces most of human culture. Medical science attempts to prolong our health and to reduce the suffering associated with illness, aging, and death. All forms of media cater to our thirst for information and entertainment. Political and economic institutions seek to ensure our peaceful collaboration with one another—and the police or the military is summoned when they fail. Beyond ensuring our survival, civilization is a vast machine invented by the human mind to regulate its states. We are ever in the process of creating and repairing a world that our minds want to be in. And wherever we look, we see the evidence of our successes and our failures. Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them. Despite the beauty of our world and the scope of human accomplishment, it is hard not to worry that the forces of chaos will triumph—not merely in the end but in every moment. Our pleasures, however refined or easily acquired, are by their very nature fleeting. They begin to subside the instant they arise, only to be replaced by fresh desires or feelings of discomfort. You can’t get enough of your favorite meal until, in the next moment, you find you are so stuffed as to nearly require the attention of a surgeon—and yet, by some quirk of physics, you still have room for dessert. The pleasure of dessert lasts a few seconds, and then the lingering taste in your mouth must be banished by a drink of water. The warmth of the sun feels wonderful on your skin, but soon it becomes too much of a good thing. A move to the shade brings immediate relief, but after a minute or two, the breeze is just a little too cold. Do you have a sweater in the car? Let’s take a look. Yes, there it is. You’re warm now, but you notice that your sweater has seen better days. Does it make you look carefree or disheveled? Perhaps it is time to go shopping for something new. And so it goes. We seem to do little more than lurch between wanting and not wanting. Thus, the question naturally arises: Is there more to life than this? Might it be possible to feel much better (in every sense of better) than one tends to feel? Is it possible to find lasting fulfillment despite the inevitability of change? Spiritual life begins with a suspicion that the answer to such questions could well be “yes.” And a true spiritual practitioner is someone who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no reason, if only for a few moments at a time, and that such ease is synonymous with transcending the apparent boundaries of the self. Those who have never tasted such peace of mind might view these assertions as highly suspect. Nevertheless, it is a fact that a condition of selfless well-being is there to be glimpsed in each moment. Of course, I’m not claiming to have experienced all such states, but I meet many people who appear to have experienced none of them—and these people often profess to have no interest in spiritual life. This is not surprising. The phenomenon of self-transcendence is generally sought and interpreted in a religious context, and it is precisely the sort of experience that tends to increase a person’s faith. How many Christians, having once felt their hearts grow as wide as the world, will decide to ditch Christianity and proclaim their atheism? Not many, I suspect. How many people who have never felt anything of the kind become atheists? I don’t know, but there is little doubt that these mental states act as a kind of filter: The faithful count them in support of ancient dogma, and their absence gives nonbelievers further reason to reject religion. This is a difficult problem for me to address in the context of a book, because many readers will have no idea what I’m talking about when I describe certain spiritual experiences and might assume that the assertions I’m making must be accepted on faith. Religious readers present a different challenge: They may think they know exactly what I’m describing, but only insofar as it aligns with one or another religious doctrine. It seems to me that both these attitudes present impressive obstacles to understanding spirituality in the way that I intend. I can only hope that, whatever your background, you will approach the exercises presented in this book with an open mind. RELIGION, EAST AND WEST We are often encouraged to believe that all religions are the same: All teach the same ethical principles; all urge their followers to contemplate the same divine reality; all are equally wise, compassionate, and true within their sphere—or equally divisive and false, depending on one’s view. No serious adherents of any faith can believe these things, because most religions make claims about reality that are mutually incompatible. Exceptions to this rule exist, but they provide little relief from what is essentially a zero-sum contest of all against all. The polytheism of Hinduism allows it to digest parts of many other faiths: If Christians insist that Jesus Christ is the son of God, for instance, Hindus can make him yet another avatar of Vishnu without losing any sleep. But this spirit of inclusiveness points in one direction only, and even it has its limits. Hindus are committed to specific metaphysical ideas—the law of karma and rebirth, a multiplicity of gods—that almost every other major religion decries. It is impossible for any faith, no matter how elastic, to fully honor the truth claims of another. Devout Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe that theirs is the one true and complete revelation—because that is what their holy books say of themselves. Only secularists and New Age dabblers can mistake the modern tactic of “interfaith dialogue” for an underlying unity of all religions. I have long argued that confusion about the unity of religions is an artifact of language. Religion is a term like sports: Some sports are peaceful but spectacularly dangerous (“free solo” rock climbing); some are safer but synonymous with violence (mixed martial arts); and some entail little more risk of injury than standing in the shower (bowling). To speak of sports as a generic activity makes it impossible to discuss what athletes actually do or the physical attributes required to do it. What do all sports have in common apart from breathing? Not much. The term religion is hardly more useful. The same could be said of spirituality. The esoteric doctrines found within every religious tradition are not all derived from the same insights. Nor are they equally empirical, logical, parsimonious, or wise. They don’t always point to the same underlying reality—and when they do, they don’t do it equally well. Nor are all these teachings equally suited for export beyond the cultures that first conceived them. Making distinctions of this kind, however, is deeply unfashionable in intellectual circles. In my experience, people do not want to hear that Islam supports violence in a way that Jainism doesn’t, or that Buddhism offers a truly sophisticated, empirical approach to understanding the human mind, whereas Christianity presents an almost perfect impediment to such understanding. In many circles, to make invidious comparisons of this kind is to stand convicted of bigotry. In one sense, all religions and spiritual practices must address the same reality—because people of all faiths have glimpsed many of the same truths. Any view of consciousness and the cosmos that is available to the human mind can, in principle, be appreciated by anyone. It is not surprising, therefore, that individual Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Buddhists have given voice to some of the same insights and intuitions. This merely indicates that human cognition and emotion run deeper than religion. (But we knew that, didn’t we?) It does not suggest that all religions understand our spiritual possibilities equally well. One way of missing this point is to declare that all spiritual teachings are inflections of the same “Perennial Philosophy.” The writer Aldous Huxley brought this idea into prominence by publishing an anthology by that title. Here is how he justified the idea: Philosophia perennis—the phrase was coined by Leibniz; but the thing—the metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds; the psychology that finds in the soul something similar to, or even identical with, divine Reality; the ethic that places man’s final end in the knowledge of the immanent and transcendent Ground of all being—the thing is immemorial and universal. Rudiments of the Perennial Philosophy may be found among the traditionary lore of primitive peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions. A version of this Highest Common Factor in all preceding and subsequent theologies was first committed to writing more than twenty-five centuries ago, and since that time the inexhaustible theme has been treated again and again, from the standpoint of every religious tradition and in all the principal languages of Asia and Europe.[2] Although Huxley was being reasonably cautious in his wording, this notion of a “highest common factor” uniting all religions begins to break apart the moment one presses for details. For instance, the Abrahamic religions are incorrigibly dualistic and faith-based: In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the human soul is conceived as genuinely separate from the divine reality of God. The appropriate attitude for a creature that finds itself in this circumstance is some combination of terror, shame, and awe. In the best case, notions of God’s love and grace provide some relief—but the central message of these faiths is that each of us is separate from, and in relationship to, a divine authority who will punish anyone who harbors the slightest doubt about His supremacy. The Eastern tradition presents a very different picture of reality. And its highest teachings—found within the various schools of Buddhism and the nominally Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedanta—explicitly transcend dualism. By their lights, consciousness itself is identical to the very reality that one might otherwise mistake for God. While these teachings make metaphysical claims that any serious student of science should find incredible, they center on a range of experiences that the doctrines of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam rule out-of-bounds. Of course, it is true that specific Jewish, Christian, and Muslim mystics have had experiences similar to those that motivate Buddhism and Advaita, but these contemplative insights are not exemplary of their faith. Rather, they are anomalies that Western mystics have always struggled to understand and to honor, often at considerable personal risk. Given their proper weight, these experiences produce heterodoxies for which Jews, Christians, and Muslims have been regularly exiled or killed. Like Huxley, anyone determined to find a happy synthesis among spiritual traditions will notice that the Christian mystic Meister Eckhart (ca. 1260–ca. 1327) often sounded very much like a Buddhist: “The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God, as if He stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.” But he also sounded like a man bound to be excommunicated by his church—as he was. Had Eckhart lived a little longer, it seems certain that he would have been dragged into the street and burned alive for these expansive ideas. That is a telling difference between Christianity and Buddhism. In the same vein, it is misleading to hold up the Sufi mystic Al-Hallaj (858–922) as a representative of Islam. He was a Muslim, yes, but he suffered the most grisly death imaginable at the hands of his coreligionists for presuming to be one with God. Both Eckhart and Al-Hallaj gave voice to an experience of self-transcendence that any human being can, in principle, enjoy. However, their views were not consistent with the central teachings of their faiths. The Indian tradition is comparatively free of problems of this kind. Although the teachings of Buddhism and Advaita are embedded in more or less conventional religions, they contain empirical insights about the nature of consciousness that do not depend upon faith. One can practice most techniques of Buddhist meditation or the method of self-inquiry of Advaita and experience the advertised changes in one’s consciousness without ever believing in the law of karma or in the miracles attributed to Indian mystics. To get started as a Christian, however, one must first accept a dozen implausible things about the life of Jesus and the origins of the Bible—and the same can be said, minus a few unimportant details, about Judaism and Islam. If one should happen to discover that the sense of being an individual soul is an illusion, one will be guilty of blasphemy everywhere west of the Indus. There is no question that many religious disciplines can produce interesting experiences in suitable minds. It should be clear, however, that engaging a faith-based (and probably delusional) practice, whatever its effects, isn’t the same as investigating the nature of one’s mind absent any doctrinal assumptions. Statements of this kind may seem starkly antagonistic toward Abrahamic religions, but they are nonetheless true: One can speak about Buddhism shorn of its miracles and irrational assumptions. The same cannot be said of Christianity or Islam.[3] Western engagement with Eastern spirituality dates back at least as far as Alexander’s campaign in India, where the young conqueror and his pet philosophers encountered naked ascetics whom they called “gymnosophists.” It is often said that the thinking of these yogis greatly influenced the philosopher Pyrrho, the father of Greek skepticism. This seems a credible claim, because Pyrrho’s teachings had much in common with Buddhism. But his contemplative insights and methods never became part of any system of thought in the West. Serious study of Eastern thought by outsiders did not begin until the late eighteenth century. The first translation of a Sanskrit text into a Western language appears to have been Sir Charles Wilkins’s rendering of the Bhagavad Gita, a cornerstone text of Hinduism, in 1785. The Buddhist canon would not attract the attention of Western scholars for another hundred years.[4] The conversation between East and West started in earnest, albeit inauspiciously, with the birth of the Theosophical Society, that golem of spiritual hunger and self-deception brought into this world almost single-handedly by the incomparable Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in 1875. Everything about Blavatsky seemed to defy earthly logic: She was an enormously fat woman who was said to have wandered alone and undetected for seven years in the mountains of Tibet. She was also thought to have survived shipwrecks, gunshot wounds, and sword fights. Even less persuasively, she claimed to be in psychic contact with members of the “Great White Brotherhood” of ascended masters—a collection of immortals responsible for the evolution and maintenance of the entire cosmos. Their leader hailed from the planet Venus but lived in the mythical kingdom of Shambhala, which Blavatsky placed somewhere in the vicinity of the Gobi Desert. With the suspiciously bureaucratic name “the Lord of the World,” he supervised the work of other adepts, including the Buddha, Maitreya, Maha Chohan, and one Koot Hoomi, who appears to have had nothing better to do on behalf of the cosmos than to impart its secrets to Blavatsky. [5] It is always surprising when a person attracts legions of followers and builds a large organization on their largesse while peddling penny-arcade mythology of this kind. But perhaps this was less remarkable in a time when even the best-educated people were still struggling to come to terms with electricity, evolution, and the existence of other planets. We can easily forget how suddenly the world had shrunk and the cosmos expanded as the nineteenth century came to a close. The geographical barriers between distant cultures had been stripped away by trade and conquest (one could now order a gin and tonic almost everywhere on earth), and yet the reality of unseen forces and alien worlds was a daily focus of the most careful scientific research. Inevitably, cross-cultural and scientific discoveries were mingled in the popular imagination with religious dogma and traditional occultism. In fact, this had been happening at the highest level of human thought for more than a century: It is always instructive to recall that the father of modern physics, Isaac Newton, squandered a considerable portion of his genius on the study of theology, biblical prophecy, and alchemy. The inability to distinguish the strange but true from the merely strange was common enough in Blavatsky’s time—as it is in our own. Blavatsky’s contemporary Joseph Smith, a libidinous con man and crackpot, was able to found a new religion on the claim that he had unearthed the final revelations of God in the hallowed precincts of Manchester, New York, written in “reformed Egyptian” on golden plates. He decoded this text with the aid of magical “seer stones,” which, whether by magic or not, allowed Smith to produce an English version of God’s Word that was an embarrassing pastiche of plagiarisms from the Bible and silly lies about Jesus’s life in America. And yet the resulting edifice of nonsense and taboo survives to this day. A more modern cult, Scientology, leverages human credulity to an even greater degree: Adherents believe that human beings are possessed by the souls of extraterrestrials who were condemned to planet Earth 75 million years ago by the galactic overlord Xenu. How was their exile accomplished? The old-fashioned way: These aliens were shuttled by the billions to our humble planet aboard a spacecraft that resembled a DC-8. They were then imprisoned in a volcano and blasted to bits with hydrogen bombs. Their souls survived, however, and disentangling them from our own can be the work of a lifetime. It is also expensive.[6] Despite the imponderables in her philosophy, Blavatsky was among the first people to announce in Western circles that there was such a thing as the “wisdom of the East.” This wisdom began to trickle westward once Swami Vivekananda introduced the teachings of Vedanta at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893. Again, Buddhism lagged behind: A few Western monks living on the island of Sri Lanka were beginning to translate the Pali Canon, which remains the most authoritative record of the teachings of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. However, the practice of Buddhist meditation wouldn’t actually be taught in the West for another half century. It is easy enough to find fault with romantic ideas about Eastern wisdom, and a tradition of such criticism sprang up almost the instant the first Western seeker sat cross-legged and attempted to meditate. In the late 1950s, the author and journalist Arthur Koestler traveled to India and Japan in search of wisdom and summarized his pilgrimage thus: “I started my journey in sackcloth and ashes, and came back rather proud of being a European.”[7] In The Lotus and the Robot, Koestler gives some of his reasons for being less than awed by his journey to the East. Consider, for example, the ancient discipline of hatha yoga. While now generally viewed as a system of physical exercises designed to increase a person’s strength and flexibility, in its traditional context hatha yoga is part of a larger effort to manipulate “subtle” features of the body unknown to anatomists. No doubt much of this subtlety corresponds to experiences that yogis actually have—but many of the beliefs formed on the basis of these experiences are patently absurd, and certain of the associated practices are both silly and injurious. Koestler reports that the aspiring yogi is traditionally encouraged to lengthen his tongue—even going so far as to cut the frenulum (the membrane that anchors the tongue to the floor of the mouth) and stretch the soft palate. What is the purpose of these modifications? They enable our hero to insert his tongue into his nasopharynx, thereby blocking the flow of air through the nostrils. His anatomy thus improved, a yogi can then imbibe subtle liquors believed to emanate directly from his brain. These substances—imagined, by recourse to further subtleties, to be connected to the retention of semen—are said to confer not only spiritual wisdom but immortality. This technique of drinking mucus is known as khechari mudra, and it is thought to be one of the crowning achievements of yoga. I’m more than happy to score a point for Koestler here. Needless to say, no defense of such practices will be found in this book. Criticism of Eastern wisdom can seem especially pertinent when coming from Easterners themselves. There is indeed something preposterous about well-educated Westerners racing East in search of spiritual enlightenment while Easterners make the opposite pilgrimage seeking education and economic opportunities. I have a friend whose own adventures may have marked a high point in this global comedy. He made his first trip to India immediately after graduating from college, having already acquired several yogic affectations: He had the requisite beads and long hair, but he was also in the habit of writing the name of the Hindu god Ram in Devanagari script over and over in a journal. On the flight to the motherland, he had the good fortune to be seated next to an Indian businessman. This weary traveler thought he had witnessed every species of human folly—until he caught sight of my friend’s scribbling. The spectacle of a Western-born Stanford graduate, of working age, holding degrees in both economics and history, devoting himself to the graphomaniacal worship of an imaginary deity in a language he could neither read nor understand was more than this man could abide in a confined space at 30,000 feet. After a testy exchange, the two travelers could only stare at each other in mutual incomprehension and pity—and they had ten hours yet to fly. There really are two sides to such a conversation, but I concede that only one of them can be made to look ridiculous. We can also grant that Eastern wisdom has not produced societies or political institutions that are any better than their Western counterparts; in fact, one could argue that India has survived as the world’s largest democracy only because of institutions that were built under British rule. Nor has the East led the world in scientific discovery. Nevertheless, there is something to the notion of uniquely Eastern wisdom, and most of it has been concentrated in or derived from the tradition of Buddhism. Buddhism has been of special interest to Western scientists for reasons already hinted at. It isn’t primarily a faith-based religion, and its central teachings are entirely empirical. Despite the superstitions that many Buddhists cherish, the doctrine has a practical and logical core that does not require any unwarranted assumptions. Many Westerners have recognized this and have been relieved to find a spiritual alternative to faith-based worship. It is no accident that most of the scientific research now done on meditation focuses primarily on Buddhist techniques. Another reason for Buddhism’s prominence among scientists has been the intellectual engagement of one of its most visible representatives: Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama. Of course, the Dalai Lama is not without his critics. My late friend Christopher Hitchens meted out justice to “his holiness” on several occasions. He also castigated Western students of Buddhism for the “widely and lazily held belief that ‘Oriental’ religion is different from other faiths: less dogmatic, more contemplative, more . . . Transcendental,” and for the “blissful, thoughtless exceptionalism” with which Buddhism is regarded by many.[8] Hitch did have a point. In his capacity as the head of one of the four branches of Tibetan Buddhism and as the former leader of the Tibetan government in exile, the Dalai Lama has made some questionable claims and formed some embarrassing alliances. Although his engagement with science is far-reaching and surely sincere, the man is not above consulting an astrologer or “oracle” when making important decisions. I will have something to say in this book about many of the things that might have justified Hitch’s opprobrium, but the general thrust of his commentary here was all wrong. Several Eastern traditions are exceptionally empirical and exceptionally wise, and therefore merit the exceptionalism claimed by their adherents. Buddhism in particular possesses a literature on the nature of the mind that has no peer in Western religion or Western science. Some of these teachings are cluttered with metaphysical assumptions that should provoke our doubts, but many aren’t. And when engaged as a set of hypotheses by which to investigate the mind and deepen one’s ethical life, Buddhism can be an entirely rational enterprise. Unlike the doctrines of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the teachings of Buddhism are not considered by their adherents to be the product of infallible revelation. They are, rather, empirical instructions: If you do X, you will experience Y. Although many Buddhists have a superstitious and cultic attachment to the historical Buddha, the teachings of Buddhism present him as an ordinary human being who succeeded in understanding the nature of his own mind. Buddha means “awakened one”—and Siddhartha Gautama was merely a man who woke up from the dream of being a separate self. Compare this with the Christian view of Jesus, who is imagined to be the son of the creator of the universe. This is a very different proposition, and it renders Christianity, no matter how fully divested of metaphysical baggage, all but irrelevant to a scientific discussion about the human condition. The teachings of Buddhism, and of Eastern spirituality generally, focus on the primacy of the mind. There are dangers in this way of viewing the world, to be sure. Focusing on training the mind to the exclusion of all else can lead to political quietism and hive-like conformity. The fact that your mind is all you have and that it is possible to be at peace even in difficult circumstances can become an argument for ignoring obvious societal problems. But it is not a compelling one. The world is in desperate need of improvement—in global terms, freedom and prosperity remain the exception—and yet this doesn’t mean we need to be miserable while we work for the common good. In fact, the teachings of Buddhism emphasize a connection between ethical and spiritual life. Making progress in one domain lays a foundation for progress in the other. One can, for instance, spend long periods of time in contemplative solitude for the purpose of becoming a better person in the world—having better relationships, being more honest and compassionate and, therefore, more helpful to one’s fellow human beings. Being wisely selfish and being selfless can amount to very much the same thing. There are centuries of anecdotal testimony on this point—and, as we will see, the scientific study of the mind has begun to bear it out. There is now little question that how one uses one’s attention, moment to moment, largely determines what kind of person one becomes. Our minds—and lives—are largely shaped by how we use them. Although the experience of self-transcendence is, in principle, available to everyone, this possibility is only weakly attested to in the religious and philosophical literature of the West. Only Buddhists and students of Advaita Vedanta (which appears to have been heavily influenced by Buddhism) have been absolutely clear in asserting that spiritual life consists in overcoming the illusion of the self by paying close attention to our experience in the present moment.[9] As I wrote in my first book, The End of Faith, the disparity between Eastern and Western spirituality resembles that found between Eastern and Western medicine—with the arrow of embarrassment pointing in the opposite direction. Humanity did not understand the biology of cancer, develop antibiotics and vaccines, or sequence the human genome under an Eastern sun. Consequently, real medicine is almost entirely a product of Western science. Insofar as specific techniques of Eastern medicine actually work, they must conform, whether by design or by happenstance, to the principles of biology as we have come to know them in the West. This is not to say that Western medicine is complete. In a few decades, many of our current practices will seem barbaric. One need only ponder the list of side effects that accompany most medications to appreciate that these are terribly blunt instruments. Nevertheless, most of our knowledge about the human body—and about the physical universe generally—emerged in the West. The rest is instinct, folklore, bewilderment, and untimely death. An honest comparison of spiritual traditions, Eastern and Western, proves equally invidious. As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never best found there, and it is subverted, time and again, by ancient savagery and superstition. Again, one must deploy the necessary caveats: I am not saying that most Buddhists or Hindus have been sophisticated contemplatives. Their traditions have spawned many of the same pathologies we see elsewhere among the faithful: dogmatism, anti-intellectualism, tribalism, otherworldliness. However, the empirical difference between the central teachings of Buddhism and Advaita and those of Western monotheism is difficult to overstate. One can traverse the Eastern paths simply by becoming interested in the nature of one’s own mind—especially in the immediate causes of psychological suffering—and by paying closer attention to one’s experience in every present moment. There is, in truth, nothing one need believe. The teachings of Buddhism and Advaita are best viewed as lab manuals and explorers’ logs detailing the results of empirical research on the nature of human consciousness. Nearly every geographical or linguistic barrier to the free exchange of ideas has now fallen away. It seems to me, therefore, that educated people no longer have a right to any form of spiritual provincialism. The truths of Eastern spirituality are now no more Eastern than the truths of Western science are Western. We are merely talking about human consciousness and its possible states. My purpose in writing this book is to encourage you to investigate certain contemplative insights for yourself, without accepting the metaphysical ideas that they inspired in ignorant and isolated peoples of the past. A final word of caution: Nothing I say here is intended as a denial of the fact that psychological well-being requires a healthy “sense of self”—with all the capacities that this vague phrase implies. Children need to become autonomous, confident, and self-aware in order to form healthy relationships. And they must acquire a host of other cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal skills in the process of becoming sane and productive adults. Which is to say that there is a time and a place for everything—unless, of course, there isn’t. No doubt there are psychological conditions, such as schizophrenia, for which practices of the sort I recommend in this book might be inappropriate. Some people find the experience of an extended, silent retreat psychologically destabilizing.[10] Again, an analogy to physical training seems apropos: Not everyone is suited to running a six-minute mile or bench-pressing his own body weight. But many quite ordinary people are capable of these feats, and there are better and worse ways to accomplish them. What is more, the same principles of fitness generally apply even to people whose abilities are limited by illness or injury. So I want to make it clear that the instructions in this book are intended for readers who are adults (more or less) and free from any psychological or medical conditions that could be exacerbated by meditation or other techniques of sustained introspection. If paying attention to your breath, to bodily sensations, to the flow of thoughts, or to the nature of consciousness itself seems likely to cause you clinically significant anguish, please check with a psychologist or a psychiatrist before engaging in the practices I describe. MINDFULNESS It is always now. This might sound trite, but it is the truth. It’s not quite true as a matter of neurology, because our minds are built upon layers of inputs whose timing we know must be different. [11] But it is true as a matter of conscious experience. The reality of your life is always now. And to realize this, we will see, is liberating. In fact, I think there is nothing more important to understand if you want to be happy in this world. But we spend most of our lives forgetting this truth—overlooking it, fleeing it, repudiating it. And the horror is that we succeed. We manage to avoid being happy while struggling to become happy, fulfilling one desire after the next, banishing our fears, grasping at pleasure, recoiling from pain—and thinking, interminably, about how best to keep the whole works up and running. As a consequence, we spend our lives being far less content than we might otherwise be. We often fail to appreciate what we have until we have lost it. We crave experiences, objects, relationships, only to grow bored with them. And yet the craving persists. I speak from experience, of course. As a remedy for this predicament, many spiritual teachings ask us to entertain unfounded ideas about the nature of reality—or at the very least to develop a fondness for the iconography and rituals of one or another religion. But not all paths traverse the same rough ground. There are methods of meditation that do not require any artifice or unwarranted assumptions at all. For beginners, I usually recommend a technique called vipassana (Pali for “insight”), which comes from the oldest tradition of Buddhism, the Theravada. One of the advantages of vipassana is that it can be taught in an entirely secular way. Experts in this practice generally acquire their training in a Buddhist context, and most retreat centers in the United States and Europe teach its associated Buddhist philosophy. Nevertheless, this method of introspection can be brought into any secular or scientific context without embarrassment. (The same cannot be said for the practice of chanting to Lord Krishna while banging a drum.) That is why vipassana is now being widely studied and adopted by psychologists and neuroscientists. The quality of mind cultivated in vipassana is almost always referred to as “mindfulness,” and the literature on its psychological benefits is now substantial. There is nothing spooky about mindfulness. It is simply a state of clear, nonjudgmental, and undistracted attention to the contents of consciousness, whether pleasant or unpleasant. Cultivating this quality of mind has been shown to reduce pain, anxiety, and depression; improve cognitive function; and even produce changes in gray matter density in regions of the brain related to learning and memory, emotional regulation, and self-awareness.[12] We will look more closely at the neurophysiology of mindfulness in a later chapter. Mindfulness is a translation of the Pali word sati. The term has several meanings in the Buddhist literature, but for our purposes the most important is “clear awareness.”
The Khazars were a semi-nomadic Turkic people who around the 7th century A.D, occupied Khazaria, a land that lay between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, what today would spread across Georgia and into parts of Russia, Poland and Eastern Europe. At this time there were Jewish communities from the diaspora who had settled in Khazaria and made it their home. It is also a fact that during the middle-ages, some of the Khazar ruling elite and royalty converted to the religion of Judaism. However, it is at this point where the ‘Khazar theory’ dramatically departs from historical fact. The theory sets forth the claim that not only a minority of the Khazars converted to Judaism but in fact the whole Kingdom converted to Judaism!! The theory says that the Khazars were a white race of people who upon conversion to Judaism then migrated to Germany in the middle ages and then to surrounding European countries to become what we know as Ashkenazi Jews which today constitutes the majority of Jews worldwide. Those that hold to this theory therefore say that the majority of Jews worldwide are not real Jews but are in fact of Khazari descent. In this teaching we ask the question, what constitutes a Jew? We put this theory to the test refuting it Biblically, scientifically, culturally and linguistically, demonstrating that the Jews populating Israel today are in fact of true Jewish descent. Download notes (pdf)http://traffic.libsyn.com/bethesdashalom/3_The_Khazar_Theory.pdf
[...] drapeaux au vent, mentons dressés vers un avenir enfin débarrassé de la menace boche, la Salle 101 parle de CosmoZ de Claro et des Somnambules, de Koestler. Autant dire que nous visons le haut de gamme. « Depuis que j’écoute la Salle 101, ça va mieux dans mon corps » nous explique Raoul A.
[…] drapeaux au vent, mentons dressés vers un avenir enfin débarrassé de la menace boche, la Salle 101 parle de CosmoZ de Claro et des Somnambules, de Koestler. Autant dire que nous visons le haut de gamme. « Depuis que j'écoute la Salle 101, ça va mieux dans mon corps » nous explique Raoul A.
Maarja Talgre har läst Simone de Beauvoirs debutroman Den inbjudna. Inte oväntat handlar den i skönlitterär form om den berömda "pakten" mellan Sartre och Beauvoir. Enligt den skulle de två arbeta och leva tillsammans i intimitet och solidaritet, men dom skulle också få ha förhållanden vid sidan av. Bara de berättade allt för varandra och inte smusslade. Oavsett om debutboken är svag eller inte rubbar det inte vår uppfattning om de Beauvoir som en banbrytande tänkare. Hon är skärpt, vacker, och somliga av oss - Maarja Talgre är själv en av dem - tycker synd om henne för att Sartre var en sådan omogen mansgris. Ge gärna Sartre en känga för att han var en så omogen mansgris men säg inte ett ont ord om de Beauvoir! Gör alltså inte som författaren Arthur Koestler gör i sin självbiografi. I tredje delen Främlingen vid torget från 1984. Här finns en elak och rolig skildring av den sura glädjedödaren Simone och hennes, som han kallar det "intellektuella svartsjuka" mot Koestler och hans vänskap med Sartre. Men är det i själva verket de Beauvoirs påstådda stalinism som ligger bakom Koestlers illvilja? Au contraire! Lyssna på Maarja Talgres inslag.
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