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In the future near-peer and peer fight, salvo competition and missiles will be the preeminent means by which one country will kinetically overwhelm the other in a fight. I discuss the way the US Navy is in an existential hazard of being woefully under-prepared to meet the threat if Western forces go toe toe with regional hegemons in the East or West. Let's anticipate the disasters now that are the Spanish in the English Channel in 1588, the British Royal Navy at Jutland in 1916, and the discovery in WWII all these battleships were not really capital ships, or had adequate armaments, yet their political dimensions compel not only their continuous construction but are the most devastating when lost. The aircraft carrier has been a signature component of US naval power and prestige for more than a century. The utility has continued to diminish since the end of WWII. The tremendous disadvantage of putting so much manpower and treasure into these single use leviathan systems in the modern world of distributed missile and PGM systems, emerging near-peer & peer adversaries and concentration of power in vulnerable systems is a recipe for future disaster. The US Navy surface fleet is in tatters and shattered by readiness, maintenance and armament issues that are critical indicators of a navy totally unprepared. It's time to clean house and fire the admirals and SES personnel. More on the carrier dilemma in Chasing Ghosts Episode #034 and Dispatch #006. References: Pro Publica: The Navy Accused Him of Arson. Its Own Investigation Showed Widespread Safety Failures. 2017 USN Ship Collisions Gregory Vistica Fall from Glory: The Men Who Sank the U.S. Navy Michael Junge Crimes of Command: in the United States Navy, 1945-2015 Gerry Doyle Carrier Killer: China's Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles and Theater of Operations in the early 21st Century David Lee Russell Early U.S. Navy Carrier Raids, February-April 1942: Five Operations That Tested a New Dimension of American Air Power Jeff Vandenengel Questioning the Carrier: Opportunities in Fleet Design for the U.S. Navy Jeff Vandenengel interview on Midrats with CDR Salamander Ivan Gogin Fighting ships of the PEOPLE LIBERATION ARMY NAVY 1949 - 2023 Jerry Hendrix Retreat From Range: The Rise and Fall of Carrier Aviation Pacific War in WWII James D. Hornfischer Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal James D. Hornfischer The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 Ian W. Toll Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 Ian W. Toll The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 Ian W. Toll Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 Jeffry R. Cox Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II Jeffrey R. Cox Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August–October 1942 Jeffrey R. Cox Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943 Jeffrey R. Cox Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943 Samuel Eliot Morrison The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War My Substack Write me at cgpodcast@pm.me

11:11 Portal, New Dimensions, New Rules, New Lawss ... This and Much Much More! Watch the full episode here:
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The story of the dimensionally-displaced reality stars from First Camp is over, at least for now, and we delve into some of the questions that the players had for GM John, reveal some background info, and talk about some things that ended up getting scrapped as the time projected for this game went way, way longer than anticipated!Episode 11/11Content Warnings: Adult Language, ProfanityRocco Larga is PJNora Nickels is HarmWren Muller is AmesGene Campbell is ObieDead Reign®, Phase World®, Megaverse® and RIFTs® are © Copyright and Registered Trademarks owned by Palladium Books.  Used with permission.  If you want to know more about Dead Reign®.  Used with permission. You can find out more about Dead Reign®, Phase World®, and the rest of Palladium's amazing RPG offerings in both print and PDF forms at www.palladiumbooks.com Our theme song, Adventure's Kindness (8 Bits Retro Chiptunes)(Main) by GonzaloEM is used under a commercial license which includes synch licensing.If you want to reach out to the Real Play Games Podcast, feel free to email us at realplaygamespodcast@gmail.com or reach us on Tumblr under RealPlayGamesPodcast or on Bluesky @realplaygamespod.bsky.social.  If you'd like to help support the show, as well as get early access to episodes, exclusive episodes, and behind-the-scenes looks at how we make our adventures, head on over to www.patreon.com/realplaygamespod and become a Patron today!Support the show

11:11 Portal, New Dimensions, New Rules, New Lawss ... This and Much Much More! Watch the full episode here:
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We delay having to have a conversation about Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time by positing a new hypothetical nobody else in the world has ever considered: what if goatse was a portal to another dimension?    Subscribe to the Patreon to hear us struggle through as really bad video game movie before we say fuck it and talk about the pleasures of crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and listening to lamentations of their women (but in a woke way).

In this episode of the Conscious Fertility Podcast, Lorne Brown welcomes back Garnet Dupuis, a wellness innovator and co-founder of Lucid Studios in Thailand. Garnet dives deep into the science of neuroplasticity and how light and sound technologies like the NeuroVizr® can support brain flexibility, better sleep, reduced stress, and enhanced creativity. They explore how modern technology can fast-track ancient wisdom and bring balance back to our overstimulated, fast-paced lives.Key takeaways:Modern Tools for Ancient Wisdom: Technologies like the NeuroVizr® help access deep states of consciousness in a way that fits our busy modern lifestyles.Neuroplasticity is Trainable: The brain can adapt and grow at any age—if it's given the right stimulation.Circadian Rhythms Matter: Using light therapy strategically throughout the day can reset sleep patterns and improve well-being.Disrupting Habituated Brain States: Specialized light and sound sessions can “unstick” the brain from fixed patterns that contribute to stress or cognitive fog.Integration is Key: Real transformation happens not only during expansive states (like psychedelics or NeuroVizr® sessions), but in how you reintegrate those insights into daily life.Garnet Dupuis ‘ Bio: Garnet Dupuis is an Integrative and Complementary Wellness professional with a career spanning several decades. Inspired by the Human Potential Movement in the 1970s, he has explored light, sound, and consciousness as tools for transformation. He is the Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder of Lucid Studios in Thailand, where he develops VIZR™️ instruments to promote positive neuroplasticity.Beyond his work in wellness and technology, Garnet is dedicated to wildlife rescue and conservation, managing a Gibbon Sanctuary in Chiang Mai, Thailand. His academic background includes studies in Classical and Clinical Homeopathy, Oriental Medicine, and Psychology, and he has shared his insights globally through lectures, podcasts, and writing for Biohackers Magazine. Garnet believes that mental health breakthroughs, like NeuroVIZR, can help people access extraordinary mental states, integrating their benefits into daily life for personal awakening and well-being.Experience the NeuroVIZR at Acubalance in Vancouver and our blogs to learn more:https://acubalance.ca/nervous-system-reset/How to Unstick a Stuck Brain : https://acubalance.ca/blog/how-to-unstick-a-stuck-brain-unlocking-mental-flexibility-with-neurovizr-in-vancouver/Discover a New Dimension of Healing with the NeuroVIZR : https://acubalance.ca/blog/discover-a-new-dimension-of-healing-with-the-neurovizr/Where...

On "Inside the Tape" with Greg Cosell, Greg breaks down the tape of the Eagles' offense against the Minnesota Vikings from Week 7, with observations and more insight on how the Eagles got the pass game going and lured the Vikings into some traps.Note: Be sure to check out Greg's offensive and defensive notes that have been posted and feel free to ask him about them during the live stream.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON CHANNEL FOR EXCLUSIVE, BONUS CONTENT: https://www.patreon.com/insidethebirds► Sign up for our newsletter! • Visit http://eepurl.com/hZU4_n.► My Bookie Promo Code link!: https://bit.ly/joinwithTHEBIRDS► Fast Growing Trees: https://www.fastgrowingtrees.com. Promo Code: BIRDS► Camden Apothecary: https://camdenapothecary.com/► Sky Motor Cars: https://www.skymotorcars.com/Follow the Hosts!► Follow our Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/InsideBirds► Follow Geoff Mosher on Twitter: https://twitter.com/geoffpmosher► Follow Adam Caplan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/caplannfl► Follow Greg Cosell on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregcosell

A busy pod sees plenty talk about United's big win over Aberdeen plus a preview of the weekend clash with Kilmarnock. How good were the Tangerines at Tannadice? And can they keep it going? Plus it is still cheery on the other side of the road as Dundee aim to keep the feelgood factor going when they head to St Mirren. Can they keep up their impressive record against the Buddies? Talking everything dark blue and tangerine are Courier Sport writers George Cran and Alan Temple alongside ex-Tele Sport editor Graeme Finnan. Twa Teams, One Street is proud to be supported by SPAR Scotland. You can also see us on YouTube at youtube.com/@TheCourierUK/videos Interested in local sport news, you can save now with The Courier Sport Pack. Keep up with the latest on your local team or sport with the latest news, opinion, match reports and so much more. Subscribe today for only £3 per month. Available exclusively on The Courier. Pay only for the sports you love with this special offer. Sign up today at https://www.thecourier.co.uk/subscribe/?tpcc=twateams

FaceTec is so confident in its face verification technology that it launched a Spoof Bounty Program to challenge anyone to bypass its system with a Spoof artifact or deepfake video. Bounties are a practice common among top security firms but unique in the biometric industry. Jay Meier, Chief Identity Technology Strategist, notes that the program attracted 150,000 attack attempts, with only two minor successes in the first six months, both quickly resolved.In our video interview with Meier, he explains FaceTec's advanced face-matching system, highlighting its precision and critical role in industries like healthcare. Applications include verifying clinicians' identities for login, UR Codes for local, decentralized patient ID Verification authorizing prescriptions, and ensuring the correct patient receives medication.Learn more about FaceTec: https://www.facetec.com/Healthcare IT Community: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/

About this Episode Passion and intimacy are at the heart of every thriving relationship—yet even the healthiest couples can find these sparks fading over time, or wonder if their desires are truly “normal.” For so many couples, sexual connection can become routine, tangled up in old beliefs, busy schedules, and silent worries about whether you're truly satisfied or doing it right. The search for authentic sexual fulfillment often brings up more questions than answers, leaving many people longing for deeper, more meaningful connection but uncertain about how to find it. In this episode, you'll discover a fresh perspective on intimacy, focusing on how to move beyond comparison, shame, and routine to create a vibrant, personalized sexual connection. Guided by expert insights and the latest research, you'll learn practical strategies for accessing flow state during intimacy, embracing your unique sexuality, and rekindling sensuality throughout all stages of your relationship. From breaking free of social norms to simple rituals for everyday connection, this conversation is packed with actionable steps and empowering ideas designed to help you cultivate lasting passion and deeper joy with your partner. Dr. Emily Jamea is an award-winning sex and relationship therapist and the USA Today best-selling author of Anatomy of Desire: Five Secrets to Create Connection and Cultivate Passion. Emily speaks nationally and internationally to a diverse range of audiences. Her expertise has been featured in Oprah Magazine, CNN, USA Today, NBC, and more. Dr. Jamea is an award-winning columnist for Healthy Women. She hosts the Love and Libido podcast and writes for Psychology Today. Check out the transcript of this episode on Dr. Jessica Higgin's website. Episode Highlights  06:09 How Emily Jamia's unique upbringing in a sex-positive home within a conservative town sparked her early interest in sexuality. 10:41 Defining "Normal" in sexuality. 14:07 The emotional and psychological dimensions of sex. 20:38 Building sensuality through everyday moments. 23:14 The science and benefits of affectionate touch. 27:02 Going beyond just resolving disconnects to proactively cultivating passionate connections. 28:01 The role of flow state in sexual satisfaction. 34:05 The five keys to deep sexual connection. 36:18 Simple practices for returning to presence and embodiment. 40:33 How small changes and novelty spark lasting desire. Mentioned Transcendent Sex Anatomy of Desire: Five Secrets to Create Connection and Cultivate Passion (*Amazon Affiliate link) (book) ERP 362: Understanding & Increasing Sexual Desire — An Interview with Dr. Lori Brotto Shifting Criticism For Connected Communication Connect with Emily Jamea Websites: emilyjamea.com Facebook: facebook.com/dremilyjamea Instagram: instagram.com/dremilyjamea LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dremilyjamea Podcast: emilyjamea.com/love-libido-podcast | podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-and-libido/id1572696112 Connect with Dr. Jessica Higgins Facebook: facebook.com/EmpoweredRelationship  Instagram: instagram.com/drjessicahiggins  Podcast: drjessicahiggins.com/podcasts/ Pinterest: pinterest.com/EmpowerRelation  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drjessicahiggins  Twitter: @DrJessHiggins  Website: drjessicahiggins.com   Email: jessica@drjessicahiggins.com If you have a topic you would like it to be discussed, please contact us by clicking on the “Ask Dr. Jessica Higgins” button here.  Thank you so much for your interest in improving your relationship.  Also, I would so appreciate your honest rating and review. Please leave a review by clicking here.  Thank you!   *With Amazon Affiliate Links, I may earn a few cents from Amazon, if you purchase the book from this link.

I was looking forward to connecting with this Gemini New Moon and I can see why as the journey started. On one hand I felt weightless and expanding and on the other hand slow, deep and grounded. An unusual but lovely feeling. To connect with this strong energy, we get help to harmonize your path and vibration, to move you further into this new dimension. Here ready for you to align with. I hope you will enjoy it! In these channeled meditations, I connect with different energies to guide you beyond your old beliefs and history. To connect you to your inner wisdom, intuition, and life force through a relaxing journey. The energy is timeless and finds you where you are right now on your path. Embrace the change, embrace your purpose. New Moon Love Maria Music by Moby LA5 MARIA RINNÉ – ACTIVATE AND IGNITE YOUR HEART – Life Force Energy Guide Good vibes donation - www.paypal.me/PureHeartSweden www.mariarinne.com www.facebook.com/mariarinneenergy www.instagram.com/mariarinneenergy https://insighttimer.com/mariarinne https://substack.com/@mariarinne Meditation Jam with Maria Rinné – Podcast Pure, Raw and Happy – How to navigate a more joyful way of life – My first book – released 12 of June – pre-order it already today at Amazon

Valerie Sneed teaches the power of prayer and continues to share and illustrate the dire need for us to strengthen this ability. Join Valerie on her Prayer line at 877.804.6333 at 6:30 AM Monday through Friday. Valerie Sneed also creates the appropriate materials and teaching tools to mobilize the Christian community to intercede for those in need, and even elevate their own connection with God. For more information go to https://www.prayersheardinheaven.org/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Marathon Machines: Mechanical Marvels Make Their Move in Beijing.  Case Closed? The Naked Truth About Ditching Your Phone Cover.  Drone Domination: DJI, Design, and Dazzling Deals.  Playlist with a Purpose: Public Safety's Pop Strategy.  Dolphin Dialogues: Decoding Deep-Sea Discourse with AI.  Apple Maps Monumental Move.  Bridge Bravado in the Beipan: China Builds Big Above the Clouds.  Laser Light Leads to 'Olo': A Dazzling Dive into a New Dimension of Colour.  Magnetic Milestone: Mapping the Skies with Quantum Compass. 

Welcome back to Beyond Limits! In this solo episode, Liv talks all about letting yourself evolve into a new dimension of yourself.Key Takeaways:

Light sensors, lasers and hand signals are just a few unusual elements that the German-Austrian composer Brigitta Muntendorf includes in her compositions. On April 12, 'Weight & Load', the world premiere of her latest work, will be performed in Sydney. Brigitta explains what it all means in a telephone conversation from the early morning ICE to Berlin. - Lichtsensoren, Laser und Handzeichen, das sind nur einige ungewöhnlichen Elemente, die die deutsch-österreichische Komponistin Brigitta Muntendorf in ihre Kompositionen aufnimmt. Am 12. April kommt ‘Weight & Load‘, die Weltpremiere ihres neusten Werks, in Sydney zur Aufführung. Was das alles bedeutet, erklärt Brigitta in einem Telefongespräch aus dem morgendlichen ICE nach Berlin.

Send us a text To celebrate 20 years since the broadcast of Rose, Ben and Mark hosted a live YouTube stream featuring commentaries on A New Dimension, Rose and Doctor Who Confidential. This podcast is the audio commentary for the "primer" documentary, Doctor Who: A New Dimension, which aired at 17:25 on BBC1 on 26th March 2005, narrated by up and coming star David Tennant. Support the showFollow us on TwitterLike us on FacebookBuy us a pint

Send us a textTo celebrate 20 years since the broadcast of Rose, Ben and Mark hosted a live YouTube stream featuring commentaries on A New Dimension, Rose and Doctor Who Confidential. In this podcast, Ben and Mark are joined by Lee McMenemy from The Polis Box and JR Southall from Strangers in Space for the audio commentary for "Rose", written by Russell T Davies and directed by Keith Boak.Support the showFollow us on TwitterLike us on FacebookBuy us a pint

Send us a text To celebrate 20 years since the broadcast of Rose, Ben and Mark hosted a live YouTube stream featuring commentaries on A New Dimension, Rose and Doctor Who Confidential. In this podcast, Ben and Mark are joined by Lee McMenemy from The Polis Box and JR Southall from Strangers in Space for the audio commentary on the very first episode of Doctor Who Confidential; "Bringing Back the Doctor"Support the showFollow us on TwitterLike us on FacebookBuy us a pint

Greetings ​from ​a ​new ​timeline ​in ​a ​new ​dimension!It's like we migrated to a new console overnight, with WAY higher functionality and capabilities. It's more important than EVER to let go of the old version of you and be SUPER intentional about the story you're telling about yourself and your life. We are being given a new, fresh, clean Timeline… you're literally creating it in real time.The door has opened and we are in a whole different room.It feels like I've entered a whole new timeline and it's very different. There's a strong sense that things are about to change significantly.In this solo episode of the Third Eye Awakening podcast, I'm diving into:-waking up in a new timeline-5th Dimensional consciousness-the shift in frequency and ego awareness-the challenges of shifting into this new timeline-transitioning into this new timeline on the collective level-figuring out how to move within this new timeline on an individual level… and so much more!LINKS MENTIONEDGet on the waitlist for my Final 25 Akashic 1:1 Sessions

Unlock the potential of your brain with Garnet Dupuis, a pioneer in neuroplasticity, consciousness, and wellness technology. In this episode, he explores how light and sound stimulation can train the brain to be more adaptable, resilient, and creative. He introduces the NeuroVIZR, a tool designed to engage rather than entrain the brain, promoting flexibility instead of rigid patterns.We dive into the science of change, the role of marginal demand in strengthening neural pathways, and why the real transformation happens after the stimulation ends. Garnet shares how neuroplasticity can enhance focus, relaxation, and emotional regulation, making extraordinary mental states more accessible. Whether you're curious about wellness technology or ways to improve mindfulness, this conversation offers valuable insights into training the brain for greater well-being.Key takeaways:A healthy brain is an adaptable brain—the ability to change is key.Neuroplasticity is like fitness training for the mind—small challenges lead to long-term growth.Brain engagement vs. entrainment—NeuroVIZR promotes fluid states instead of rigid patterns."Brain prime" vs. "brain time"—the real transformation happens after the light and sound session.Embracing change—flexibility in thought and emotion leads to a richer, more resilient life.Garnet Dupuis ‘ Bio: Garnet Dupuis is an Integrative and Complementary Wellness professional with a career spanning several decades. Inspired by the Human Potential Movement in the 1970s, he has explored light, sound, and consciousness as tools for transformation. He is the Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder of Lucid Studios in Thailand, where he develops VIZR™️ instruments to promote positive neuroplasticity.Beyond his work in wellness and technology, Garnet is dedicated to wildlife rescue and conservation, managing a Gibbon Sanctuary in Chiang Mai, Thailand. His academic background includes studies in Classical and Clinical Homeopathy, Oriental Medicine, and Psychology, and he has shared his insights globally through lectures, podcasts, and writing for Biohackers Magazine. Garnet believes that mental health breakthroughs, like NeuroVIZR, can help people access extraordinary mental states, integrating their benefits into daily life for personal awakening and well-being.Experience the NeuroVIZR at Acubalance in Vancouver and our blogs to learn more:https://acubalance.ca/nervous-system-reset/How to Unstick a Stuck BrainDiscover a New Dimension of Healing with the NeuroVIZRWhere To Find Garnet Dupuis: Website: https://neurovizr.com/For additional background, please feel free to explore more about Garnet's work and expertise at https://neurovizr.com/our-story/Instagram:

Paul Lee, founder and CEO of Mind AI, based in Seoul, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his company's development of an AI technology that can explain its reasoning process. "We want everyone to trust AI technology more without worrying about hallucinations," he said.

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In the future near-peer and peer fight, salvo competition and missiles will be the preeminent means by which one country will kinetically overwhelm the other in a fight. I discuss the way the US Navy is in an existential hazard of being woefully under-prepared to meet the threat if Western forces go toe toe with regional hegemons in the East or West. Let's anticipate the disasters now that are the Spanish in the English Channel in 1588, the British Royal Navy at Jutland in 1916, and the discovery in WWII all these battleships were not really capital ships, or had adequate armaments, yet their political dimensions compel not only their continuous construction but are the most devastating when lost. The aircraft carrier has been a signature component of US naval power and prestige for more than a century. The utility has continued to diminish since the end of WWII. The tremendous disadvantage of putting so much manpower and treasure into these single use leviathan systems in the modern world of distributed missile and PGM systems, emerging near-peer & peer adversaries and concentration of power in vulnerable systems is a recipe for future disaster. The US Navy surface fleet is in tatters and shattered by readiness, maintenance and armament issues that are critical indicators of a navy totally unprepared. It's time to clean house and fire the admirals and SES personnel. More on the carrier dilemma in Chasing Ghosts Episode #034 and Dispatch #006. References: Gregory Vistica Fall from Glory: The Men Who Sank the U.S. Navy Michael Junge Crimes of Command: in the United States Navy, 1945-2015 Gerry Doyle Carrier Killer: China's Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles and Theater of Operations in the early 21st Century David Lee Russell Early U.S. Navy Carrier Raids, February-April 1942: Five Operations That Tested a New Dimension of American Air Power Jeff Vandenengel Questioning the Carrier: Opportunities in Fleet Design for the U.S. Navy Jeff Vandenengel interview on Midrats with CDR Salamander Ivan Gogin Fighting ships of the PEOPLE LIBERATION ARMY NAVY 1949 - 2023 Jerry Hendrix Retreat From Range: The Rise and Fall of Carrier Aviation Pacific War in WWII James D. Hornfischer Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal James D. Hornfischer The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 Ian W. Toll Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 Ian W. Toll The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 Ian W. Toll Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 Jeffry R. Cox Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II Jeffrey R. Cox Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August–October 1942 Jeffrey R. Cox Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943 Jeffrey R. Cox Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943 Samuel Eliot Morrison The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War My Substack Write me at cgpodcast@pm.me

“Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.  For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” Luke 2:10-11 NKJV   ————    The birth of Jesus was not the beginning of God. It was the beginning of a new dimension.  Before Jesus was born on earth, man was trying to have a relationship with God with all they could do, but when Jesus was born in the flesh it was God coming into man.  A human vessel could now host God.    Christmas is a celebration of the spirit world of God entering the flesh dimension.  Think about the impossible things that are now possible with God.     When you say “Merry Christmas”, you are saying “Nothing is impossible with God”!! . . #onroute2025 #merrychristmas#hisnearnesschicago #revivenations #prophetChethanHenry #prophetShyju#revivalgrace #revival #chicagochurch #propheticvoice #prophets #wordofGod #instachurch #instasermon #saviourisborn

Did you know that there is more to Batuu than just Black Spire Outpost?ILM Immersive - formerly ILMxLAB - has created Virtual Reality experience called 'Tales from the Galaxy's Edge' and it is absolutely the most immersive way to plant yourself in Batuu (outside of Orlando or Anaheim!) Meet and go on missions with both new and beloved existing characters such as Mubo from Mubo's Droid Depot, Dok Ondar from his famous Den of Antiquities, and of course everyone's favorite droids C-3PO and R2-D2!Find out more about Tales from Galaxy's Edge on the Star Wars site.The standard version of the game is available on Meta Quest | Quest VR Games.Tales from the Galaxy's Edge (Enhanced Edition) is now available for free for PlayStation PSVR 2 owners who are also members of PlayStation Plus Premium or can be purchased on the PlayStation store. This episode, Martin regales us with tales of the glories, new lore and incredible fun of this amazing VR experience. Heroes of the Halcyon on InstagramTheme Music ("Digital Discourse") by Yellow BarrelSend your email to heroesofthehalcyon@gmail.com - we'd love to hear from you about your journeys, episode suggestions, or just to say hi!

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Send us a textWhat if choosing love over anger could truly transform your life? Join us as we sit down with Matt O'Neill, the visionary author behind "Good Mood Revolution," to explore this profound question. Matt takes us on his personal journey of writing his book, a four-year commitment driven by his passion for sustainable happiness. Our conversation touches on spirituality, self-awareness, and the courage it takes to pursue a life filled with genuine joy and peace. We encourage you to re-examine your own emotional programming and embrace authenticity, as Matt shares his insights on cultivating positive experiences.Matt and I discuss the transformative power of emotional awareness, particularly how anger often conceals deeper vulnerabilities and fears. By choosing love first, even in moments of frustration, we open the door to positive change. Our chat delves into the intriguing idea of "jumping timelines" by raising our emotional frequency, moving from a love of power to the power of love. Together, we reflect on how recognizing and understanding our emotions, especially anger, can lead to profound personal shifts and ultimately, a more fulfilling life.As we navigate the often turbulent waters of political division and media-fueled discord, Matt and I emphasize the importance of self-responsibility and personal growth. By withholding judgment and practicing empathy, we can transcend political differences and focus on what truly matters—our values and personal success. Listen as we share stories and strategies for fostering a more harmonious existence, offering insights from Matt's book and his happiness coaching offerings. Whether you're seeking personal transformation or simply longing for a refreshing perspective, this episode promises to inspire and uplift.Link to Order Matt's Book!  https://amzn.to/4h94EaOSupport the showLink to Support this Channel: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2153284/supporters/newJulie's Book: https://amzn.to/3K2ZS05Julie's Website for more information, comments or requests: https://lifeofloveandjoy.comI receive a small commission when you purchase from these links. Thank you for your support! Promo Code for Free Audio Book on Audible: https://amzn.to/45YUMdH

Here are the topics covered in this episode, and the time in the file for each. Welcome to 305 0:00 comments from theCTO of NV Access, makers of NVDA 2:33 Audio description in cinemas 7:28 Self-driving cars 10:24 Jerred Mace discusses Onecourt, a tactile way for blind people to enjoy sport Legendary BBC broadcaster, PeterWhite 45:27 Hannah Mae Aldeza and DerekLane say farewell 1:33:42 The Bonnie Bye Bye 1:48:38 Final thoughts and farewell 1:54:58 Thank you for listening to Living Blindfully. As we sign off, a reminder that you can keep in touch with Jonathan on Mastodon, @JonathanMosen@CaneAndAble.social. If you are not on Mastodon and would like to be, you can also apply for an account at https://CaneAndAble.social. Be sure to read the rules carefully.

The Spatial Web: A New Dimension of the Internet and a Technological Awakening for AI | Exclusive Interview with Denise Holt on August 22, 2024  #SpatialWeb #ActiveInferenceAI #HSML In this exclusive interview and presentation, Denise Holt, founder of AIX Global Media, and leading educator in Active Inference AI and Spatial Web Technologies, discusses the groundbreaking evolution of the Internet into the Spatial Web and the transformative power of Active Inference AI. Hosted by the Gigabit Libraries Network, in association with the International Federation of Libraries Associations and Institutions (IFLA), headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, this conversation explores how new technologies like HSML (Hyperspace Modeling Language) and HSTP (Hyperspace Transaction Protocol) will enable decentralized AI, ushering in and enabling an entirely new kind of intelligent agent, while bridging all emerging technologies across the internet with a unified common language. Denise explains how VERSES AI and the Spatial Web Foundation is leading the charge in this paradigm shift by developing and donating the protocol and IP for the Spatial Web to the IEEE, setting the stage for global adoption. This new AI, based on world-renowned neuroscientist, Dr. Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle, mimics biological intelligence, offering sustainable, explainable, and human-governed AI systems. Learn about the potential of the Spatial Web to power Smart Cities, decentralized AI, and autonomous intelligent agents, transforming everything from data privacy to real-time AI decision-making. ---------------------- Find Denise Holt's articles on her blog, and join our monthly Learning Lab LIVE:  https://deniseholt.us/ Join the waitlist for our all new E-Learning courses for Active Inference AI and Spatial Web Technologies:  https://emmersionpublishing.com/course-pre-launch-waitlist/ https://aixglobalmedia.com/   #SpatialWeb #ActiveInferenceAI #HSML #DecentralizedAI #SpatialComputing

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From 8-9 June, Into the Paint set up shop at the inaugural Inventory Art Book Fair at Cromwell Place in London. During those two days Anthony spoke to exhibitors, curators, and publishers about their work and interests. Inventory Art Book Fair described itself as "a book market, reading room and programme of events, Inventory foregrounds interdisciplinary, collaborative and non-profit forms of publishing...instigating research into the agency of the artists publication and the capacities of the artist-led press."This episode is the second of two volumes, including interviews with Mini Mart Press (Maeve Miro Bowman), Taco! (Gina Prat Lilly), Pagemasters (Jordan Taylor), and fair organisers Ben Goulder and Lillian Wilkie. Special thanks to the New Dimension and fair team including Ollie Plumb, Ben Murphy and Molly Maltman. Some notes on interviews below.Maeve Miro Bowman of Mini Mart Presshttps://minimartpress.comTERRY REID/SUPER LUNGS'Yoko is my favourite Beatle' bumper sticker Gina Prat Lilly of Taco!https://taco.org.ukIG: @tracey_aint_coming_outMentions‘Got Damp' by Avril Corroon‘Notes on the anxiety of a record running out' by Benedict DrewJordan Taylor of PageMastershttps://www.pagemasters.coIG: @pagemasters.coMentions‘Things My Dad Saw (But Never Bothered Mentioning)' by Gordon Gibbens‘St Monday' by Esther McManus‘Tranny Central' by TGirlsonFilm‘Twenty Indonesian Ghosts' by Ferry Gouw‘In Order to Smile in a Tim Box' by Jesse GlazzardBen Goulder & Lillian Wilkie Inventory ProjectsIG: @inventory_projectsTheme music by Harry Bix Support Into the Paint on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/in-the-paint-1. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sermon: A New Dimension of the Power of Love Scripture: Galatians 6:1-10Series: Galatians Teacher: Rev. Paul LawlerIn the final chapter of Galatians, the Apostle Paul reveals that a truly spiritual church is defined not just by signs and wonders but by how believers live out their faith within a biblical community. The passage emphasizes the responsibility of Spirit-filled believers to support and restore one another in a spirit of gentleness, bearing each other's burdens and fulfilling the law of Christ.The Apostle Paul contrasts the Spirit-led believer with the legalist, stressing that the former will approach others with love and meekness, while the latter adds burdens and judges harshly. He also explores the principle of sowing and reaping, showing how our actions have spiritual consequences, and encourages us to live by the Spirit, promising eternal life.Join us as we reflect on how we can embody this new dimension of love and responsibility in our Christian walk. 

★ Join the AUGUST 2024 Unlock God Mode Experience ★  Unlock God Mode is a unique 30-day course that invites you on a powerful journey of reality creation, intention, manifestation, and personal growth. Learn more at unlockgodmode.orgFollow the podcast for daily lectures from the mystic Neville Goddard ~ ★ Join the FREE Neville Goddard newsletter ★★ Join The God Mode Mastermind, a community of like-minded souls ~RESOURCES:• Neville Goddard Newsletter• Join the FREE Telegram Channel• Get the Unlock God Mode CourseMORE RESOURCES:• The Infinite Spirit Guided Meditation• 1:1 Neville Goddard Guidance Call• Feeling is the Secret • Full Audiobook• James Xander: Neville Goddard episode• The James Xander Trip • Spotify• The James Xander Trip • AppleWho Is Neville Goddard?Neville Goddard (1905-1972), was an English writer, speaker and mystic. He grew up in Barbados and moved to the United States of America as a young adult. Neville Goddard was perhaps the last century's most intellectually substantive and charismatic purveyor of the philosophy generally called New Thought. He wrote more than ten books under the solitary pen name Neville, and was a popular speaker on metaphysical themes from the late 1930s until his death in 1972.Possessed of a self-educated and uncommonly sharp intellect, Neville espoused a spiritual vision that was bold and total: Everything you see and experience, including other people, is the result of your own thoughts and emotional states. Each of us dreams into existence an infinitude of realities and outcomes. When you realize this, Neville taught, you will discover yourself to be a slumbering branch of the Creator clothed in human form, and at the helm of limitless possibilities.Neville's thought system influenced a wide range of spiritual thinkers and writers, from bestselling author Dr. Joseph Murphy to Rhonda Byrne and Wayne Dyer.He has inspired and continues to inspire millions of readers around the world.RESOURCES:• Learn more about Unlock God Mode »• The Infinite Spirit Guided Meditation » • Join the FREE Reality Creation Tribe » SOCIALS:• Neville Goddard Newsletter• Neville Goddard Telegram• Neville Goddard Instagram• Neville Goddard Threads• Neville Goddard Twitter• Neville Goddard YouTubeBOOKS:• Feeling is the Secret by Neville Goddard• Out of this World by Neville Goddard• Freedom for All by Neville Goddard• Fundamentals by Neville GoddardLECTURES:• Fundamentals• Live the Answer Now• The Pruning Shears of Revision• An Inner Conviction• The First Principle• Brazen Impudence• Believe It InLINKS:• Join my bestselling course, Unlock God Mode• Download the FREE manifestation PDF guide• Download the Florence Scovel Shinn meditation• Book a free 1:1 call with meUnlock God Mode: The Chapter Two Method – get the full course at unlockgodmode.org * * *Neville Goddard was a mystic and writer who explored the power of the mind and whose books left an indelible mark on the world.In Neville's own words:"You cannot serve two masters. Burn your bridges and completely abandon yourself to the person you want to be.""All things express their nature. As you wear a feeling, it becomes your nature.""Man must believe the unbelievable to fully express the greatness that he is."If you're ready to integrate Neville's teachings into your life and unlock the next level of the game of consciousness, begin with our bestselling course, Unlock God Mode.* * *Unlock God Mode is a transformative 30-day course designed to accelerate your journey towards greater wealth, love, and success through a deeper understanding and manipulation of your reality.  Comprising of 30 audio lessons, this course unfolds as a self-paced, introspective expedition into reality creation, aiding you in elevating your consciousness to what's referred to as the God Mode. Throughout this journey, practical tools will be provided daily to help enrich your life with more love, money, and success by altering your mental models and perceptions. This course combines theory and hands-on experience to create a unique deep dive into manifestation, consciousness, and reality creation. Join me on an extraordinary, 30-day adventure (1 lesson per day) and watch your reality transform. Begin the Unlock God Mode experience today »* * *Follow Neville Goddard on Telegram, Instagram, T...

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★ Join Unlock God Mode ★Unlock God Mode is a unique 30-day course that invites you on a powerful journey of reality creation, intention, manifestation, and personal growth. Learn more at unlockgodmode.orgABOUT THE COURSEUnlock God Mode is a transformative 30-day course designed to accelerate your journey towards greater wealth, love, and success through a deeper understanding and manipulation of your reality.  Comprising of 30 audio lessons, this course unfolds as a self-paced, introspective expedition into reality creation, aiding you in elevating your consciousness to what's referred to as the God Mode. Throughout this journey, practical tools will be provided daily to help enrich your life with more love, money, and success by altering your mental models and perceptions. This course combines theory and hands-on experience to create a unique deep dive into manifestation, consciousness, and reality creation. Join me on an extraordinary, 30-day adventure (1 lesson per day) and watch your reality transform. » Begin the Unlock God Mode experience today « ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This episode is a combination of one of the funniest things I've ever found on the internet combined with each of us being the most debilitated we've ever been on the show. It's a guy from Atlanta who has a website where he talks about eating pussy. It is also written like Dark Souls somehow.   For the full episode go to patreon.com/mostcontroversial

In January 2024, Ahonu, alongside co-host Aingeal Rose, interviewed Teon Lucas in an episode titled "Your Heart is a Portal," which explored the mysteries of manifestation. During that session, Teon shared his journey of adapting to the energies of Sedona and manifesting his dream home. Building on this enlightening discussion, they discuss the new Earth, answering frequent questions about its meaning, implications, and readiness. Ahonu, Aingeal Rose and Teon are deeply committed to helping listeners understand and navigate these transformative concepts.

From 8-9 June, Into the Paint set up shop at the inaugural Inventory Art Book Fair at Cromwell Place in London. During those two days Anthony spoke to exhibitors, curators, and publishers about their work and interests. Inventory Art Book Fair described itself as "a book market, reading room and programme of events, Inventory foregrounds interdisciplinary, collaborative and non-profit forms of publishing...instigating research into the agency of the artists publication and the capacities of the artist-led press."This episode is the first of two volumes, including interviews with Matt Martin, Dinara Asadulina, Molly Maltman, and Gisela Torres. Special thanks to fair organisers Ben Goulder and Lillian Wilkie and New Dimension team, Ollie Plumb, Ben Murphy and Molly Maltman. Vol 2 out soon! Some notes on interviews below.Matt MartinThe Photocopy ClubPhotobook CafeIG: @luckygoldteethDinara AsadulinaMorley HouseIG: @morley.houseMolly MaltmanIG: @mollyemmaaaGisela TorresArtist websiteIG: @giselafotoTheme music by Harry Bix Support Into the Paint on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/in-the-paint-1. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2425 Bringing a New Dimension to Audio Description (Jun. 19, 2024) Show Notes The Miners Alley Performing Arts Center offers audio described performances with a twist: a tactile tour backstage before each described show! Hosts Nancy and Peter Torpey talk with Executive Director Lisa DeCaro and Patron Services Manager Amy Arpan about their audio description … Continue reading 2425 Bringing a New Dimension to Audio Description (Jun. 19, 2024) →

Speaking from Isaiah 6, Alan shows us that seeing the Lord turns our existence upside down, transitioning us from a moral people to pursuers of His glory. There is an invitation to discover a new dimension of His glory.

In this episode with Cedric Youngelman of The Bitcoin Matrix podcast, we discuss my written work “The Number Zero and Bitcoin.”Cedric Youngelman is the host of The Bitcoin Matrix podcast.// HOST //Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@thebitcoinmatrixpodcastTwitter: https://twitter.com/CedYoungelman// SPONSORS // In Wolf's Clothing: https://wolfnyc.com/NetSuite: https://netsuite.com/whatismoneyiCoin Hardware Wallet (use discount code BITCOIN23): https://www.icointechnology.com/Mind Lab Pro: https://mindlabpro.com/breedloveCrowdHealth: https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/breedloveBitcoin Apparel (use discount code BREEDLOVE): https://thebitcoinclothingcompany.com/Feel Free Tonics (use discount code BREEDLOVE): https://botanictonics.comCarnivore Bar (use discount code BREEDLOVE): https://carnivorebar.com/// OUTLINE // 00:00:00 - Coming up 00:00:44 - Intro 00:02:17 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing 00:03:03 - The Number Zero and Bitcoin by Robert Breedlove 00:04:06 - The Inspiration Behind the Writing 00:09:23 - An Unstoppable Idea 00:14:30 - How Zero Outcompeted Roman Numerals 00:23:27 - A New Dimension of Mathematics and Economics 00:27:03 - Run Your Business from Anywhere with NetSuite 00:28:08 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet 00:29:18 - The Significance of Private Property 00:32:27 - The Functions of Zero 00:39:10 - The Metaphors We Live By 00:45:30 - The Objective-Subjective Duality of Experience and Human Action 00:54:11 - The Teachings of Buddhism 00:56:28 - The Riemann Sphere 01:01:10 - The Impact of Zero on Culture 01:07:19 - Controlling the Narratives: The Church and The Fed 01:19:03 - How an Absolute Discovery Undemines False Reality 01:23:14 - Enhance Your Brain Power with Mind Lab Pro 01:24:20 - Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth 01:25:27 - The Value of Zero 01:27:59 - Are We Going Through a Great Awakening with Bitcoin? 01:37:38 - The Hollywood Moment for Bitcoin 01:38:17 - Conclusion 01:42:05 - Where to Find Robert on the Internet// PODCAST // Podcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Bitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7 Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedlove// WRITTEN WORK // Medium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/// SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowRumble: https://rumble.com/c/BreedloveInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/All My Current Work: https://vida.page/breedlove22

This is just a brief announcement. The fact that I've released stuff so inconsistently over the last year, along with the last episode being so long that it actually caused problems for Tilt's editing softwaere has caused me to reconsider how I'm breaking these episodes up. I have had very good reasons for making the episodes longer rather than doing multiple parts -- we would have had episodes titled "White Light/White Heat", "Eight Miles High", and "Good Vibrations" which literally didn't mention at all the bands they were ostensibly about, and people would have got very annoyed at listening to an episode supposedly about the Beach Boys and finding it was entirely about a Soviet inventor in the 1920s. But the balance has tipped the other way now. Things have got a bit ridiculous. So what I'm doing npw is I'm still writing the scripts the same way I always do, as one long narrative, but then once a script is finished I will break it into sections of about 5-10,000 words (somewhere in the 45-minute to ninety minute range) depending on where natural cliffhangers come, and I will release those parts fortnightly. There still might be gaps between the last part of the previous song and the first part of the next, but probably nothing like as long as they have been. The actual content will still be the same -- just for example the Velvet Underground episode would have been split into three or four parts, with the first part ending with John Cale joining the story, and me saying "join us in two weeks time".  But it'll be broken up into more manageable parts which hopefully won't cause Tilt's editing software to explode, and if you like listening to it all in one go you can just wait until the final part of that story and then listen to it all. So today you're going to get, not 'Episode 172, "Hickory Wind" by the Byrds', but 'SONG 172: "Hickory Wind" by the Byrds: Part 1, Ushering in a New Dimension", and then Song 172 part two two weeks later. I want to emphasise that this will still be *exactly the same content* as it would otherwise be. The stories will go on as long as they need to. Some will be a single episode, some will be three or four. But breaking it up like this should mean you get more consistent releases and I can get ahead. Indeed, it *might* mean I could go back to weekly episodes -- I've averaged somewhere in the region of thirty thousand words per month last year on the main podcast, which would be four seven-thousand-word episodes -- but I won't even think about that unless I start to actually build up a backlog. The stories should be getting shorter anyway as we finally move out of the late sixties, so the rate of storytelling *should* get faster, but this way at least you're going to get regular episodes. So listen to today's episode, and then join me again in precisely two weeks as Gram Parsons joins the story.

For those who haven't heard the announcement I just posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the first part of a multi-episode look at the Byrds in 1966-69 and the birth of country rock. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a half-hour bonus episode on "My World Fell Down" by Sagittarius. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources No Mixcloud at this time as there are too many Byrds songs in this chunk, but I will try to put together a multi-part Mixcloud when all the episodes for this song are up. My main source for the Byrds is Timeless Flight Revisited by Johnny Rogan, I also used Chris Hillman's autobiography, the 331/3 books on The Notorious Byrd Brothers and The Gilded Palace of Sin, For future parts of this multi-episode story I used Barney Hoskyns' Hotel California and John Einarson's Desperadoes as general background on Californian country-rock, Calling Me Hone, Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock by Bob Kealing for information on Parsons, and Requiem For The Timeless Vol 2 by Johnny Rogan for information about the post-Byrds careers of many members. Information on Gary Usher comes from The California Sound by Stephen McParland. And this three-CD set is a reasonable way of getting most of the Byrds' important recordings. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript When we left the Byrds at the end of the episode on "Eight Miles High", they had just released that single, which combined folk-rock with their new influences from John Coltrane and Ravi Shankar, and which was a group composition but mostly written by the group's lead singer, Gene Clark. And also, as we mentioned right at the end of the episode, Clark had left the group. There had been many, many factors leading to Clark's departure. Clark was writing *far* more material than the other band members, of whom only Roger McGuinn had been a writer when the group started, and as a result was making far more money than them, especially with songs like "She Don't Care About Time", which had been the B-side to their number one single "Turn! Turn! Turn!" [Excerpt: The Byrds, "She Don't Care About Time"] Clark's extra income was making the rest of the group jealous, and they also didn't think his songs were particularly good, though many of his songs on the early Byrds albums are now considered classics. Jim Dickson, the group's co-manager, said "Gene would write fifteen to twenty songs a week and you had to find a good one whenever it came along because there were lots of them that you couldn't make head or tail of.  They didn't mean anything. We all knew that. Gene would write a good one at a rate of just about one per girlfriend." Chris Hillman meanwhile later said more simply "Gene didn't really add that much." That is, frankly, hard to square with the facts. There are ten original songs on the group's first two albums, plus one original non-album B-side. Of those eleven songs, Clark wrote seven on his own and co-wrote two with McGuinn. But as the other band members were starting to realise that they had the possibility of extra royalties -- and at least to some extent were starting to get artistic ambitions as far as writing goes -- they were starting to disparage Clark's work as a result, calling it immature. Clark had, of course, been the principal writer for "Eight Miles High", the group's most experimental record to date: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Eight Miles High"] But there he'd shared co-writing credit with David Crosby and Roger McGuinn, in part because that was the only way he could be sure they would agree to release it as a single. There were also internal rivalries within the band unrelated to songwriting -- as we've touched on, Crosby had already essentially bullied Clark off the guitar and into just playing tambourine (and McGuinn would be dismissive even of Clark's tambourine abilities). Crosby's inability to get on with any other member of any band he was in would later become legendary, but at this point Clark was the major victim of his bullying. According to Dickson "David understood when Gene left that ninety-five percent of why Gene left could be brought back to him." The other five percent, though, came from Clark's fear of flying. Clark had apparently witnessed a plane crash in his youth and been traumatised by it, and he had a general terror of flying and planes -- something McGuinn would mock him for a little, as McGuinn was an aviation buff. Eventually, Clark had a near-breakdown boarding a plane from California to New York for a promotional appearance with Murray the K, and ended up getting off the plane. McGuinn and Michael Clarke almost did the same, but in the end they decided to stay on, and the other four Byrds did the press conference without Gene. When asked where Gene was, they said he'd "broken a wing". He was also increasingly having mental health and substance abuse problems, which were exacerbated by his fear, and in the end he decided he just couldn't be a Byrd any more. Oddly, of all the band members, it was David Crosby who was most concerned about Clark's departure, and who did the most to try to persuade him to stay, but he still didn't do much, and the group decided to carry on as a four-piece and not even make a proper announcement of Clark's departure -- they just started putting out photos with four people instead of five. The main change as far as the group were concerned was that Hillman was now covering Clark's old vocal parts, and so Crosby moved to Clark's old centre mic while Hillman moved from his position at the back of the stage with Michael Clarke to take over Crosby's mic. The group now had three singer-instrumentalists in front, two of whom, Crosby and McGuinn, now thought of themselves as songwriters. So despite the loss of their singer/songwriter/frontman, they moved on to their new single, the guaranteed hit follow-up to "Eight Miles High": [Excerpt: The Byrds, "5D (Fifth Dimension)"] "5D" was written by McGuinn, inspired by a book of cartoons called 1-2-3-4 More More More More by Don Landis, which I haven't been able to track down a copy of, but which seems to have been an attempt to explain the mathematical concept of higher dimensions in cartoon form. McGuinn was inspired by this and by Einstein's theory of relativity -- or at least by his understanding of relativity, which does not seem to have been the most informed take on the topic. McGuinn has said in the past that the single should really have come with a copy of Landis' booklet, so people could understand it. Sadly, without the benefit of the booklet we only have the lyrics plus McGuinn's interviews to go on to try to figure out what he means. As far as I'm able to understand, McGuinn believed -- completely erroneously -- that Einstein had proved that along with the four dimensions of spacetime there is also a fifth dimension which McGuinn refers to as a "mesh", and that "the reason for the speed of light being what it is is because of that mesh." McGuinn then went on to identify this mesh with his own conception of God, influenced by his belief in Subud, and with a Bergsonian idea of a life force. He would talk about how most people are stuck in a materialist scientific paradigm which only admits to  the existence of three dimensions, and how there are people out there advocating for a five-dimensional view of the world. To go along with this mystic view of the universe, McGuinn wanted some music inspired by the greatest composer of sacred music, and he asked Van Dyke Parks, who was brought in to add keyboards on the session, to play something influenced by Bach -- and Parks obliged, having been thinking along the same lines himself: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "5D (Fifth Dimension)"] Unfortunately for the group, McGuinn's lyrical intention wasn't clear enough and the song was assumed to be about drugs, and was banned by many radio stations. That plus the track's basically uncommercial nature meant that it reached no higher than number forty-four in the charts. Jim Dickson, the group's co-manager, pointed to a simpler factor in the record's failure, saying that if the organ outro to the track had instead been the intro, to set a mood for the track rather than starting with a cold vocal open, it would have had more success. The single was followed by an album, called Fifth Dimension, which was not particularly successful. Of the album's eleven songs, two were traditional folk songs, one was an instrumental -- a jam called "Captain Soul" which was a version of Lee Dorsey's "Get Out My Life Woman" credited to the four remaining Byrds, though Gene Clark is very audible on it playing harmonica -- and one more was a jam whose only lyrics were "gonna ride a Lear jet, baby", repeated over and over. There was also "Eight Miles High" and the group's inept and slightly-too-late take on "Hey Joe". It also included a third single, a country track titled "Mr. Spaceman": [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Mr. Spaceman"] McGuinn and, particularly, Hillman, had some country music background, and both were starting to think about incorporating country sounds into the group's style, as after Clark's departure from the group they were moving away from the style that had characterised their first two albums. But the interest in "Mr. Spaceman" was less about the musical style than about the lyrics. McGuinn had written the song in the hopes of contacting extraterrestrial life -- sending them a message in his lyrics so that any aliens listening to Earth radio would come and visit, though he was later disappointed to realise that the inverse-square law means that the signals would be too faint to make out after a relatively short distance: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Mr. Spaceman"] "Mr. Spaceman" did better on the charts than its predecessor, scraping the lower reaches of the top forty, but it hardly set the world alight, and neither did the album -- a typical review was the one by Jon Landau, which said in part "This album then cannot be considered up to the standards set by the Byrds' first two and basically demonstrates that they should be thinking in terms of replacing Gene Clark, instead of just carrying on without him." Fifth Dimension would be the only album that Allen Stanton would produce for the Byrds, and his replacement had actually just produced an album that was a Byrds record by any other name: [Excerpt: Gene Clark, "So You Say You've Lost Your Baby"] We've looked at Gary Usher before, but not for some time, and not in much detail. Usher was one of several people who were involved in the scene loosely centred on the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean, though he never had much time for Jan Berry and he had got his own start in the music business slightly before the Beach Boys. As a songwriter, his first big successes had come with his collaborations with Brian Wilson -- he had co-written "409" for the Beach Boys, and had also collaborated with Wilson on some of his earliest more introspective songs, like "The Lonely Sea" and "In My Room", for which Usher had written the lyrics: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "In My Room"] Usher had built a career as a producer and writer for hire, often in collaboration with Roger Christian, who also wrote with Brian Wilson and Jan Berry. Usher, usually with Christian, and very occasionally Wilson wrote the songs for several of American International Pictures' Beach Party films: [Excerpt: Donna Loren, "Muscle Bustle"] And Usher and Christian had also had bit parts in some of the films, like Bikini Beach, and Usher had produced records for Annette Funicello, the star of the films, often with the Honeys (a group consisting of Brian Wilson's future wife Marilyn plus her sister and cousin) on backing vocals. He had also produced records for the Surfaris, as well as a whole host of studio-only groups like the Four Speeds, the Super Stocks, and Mr. Gasser and the Weirdoes, most of whom were Usher and the same small group of vocalist friends along with various selections of Wrecking Crew musicians making quick themed albums. One of these studio groups, the Hondells, went on to be a real group of sorts, after Usher and the Beach Boys worked together on a film, The Girls on the Beach. Usher liked a song that Wilson and Mike Love had written for the Beach Boys to perform in the film, "Little Honda", and after discovering that the Beach Boys weren't going to release their version as a single, he put together a group to record a soundalike version: [Excerpt: The Hondells, "Little Honda"] "Little Honda" made the top ten, and Usher produced two albums for the Hondells, who had one other minor hit with a cover version of the Lovin' Spoonful's "Younger Girl". Oddly, Usher's friend Terry Melcher, who would shortly produce the Byrds' first few hits, had also latched on to "Little Honda", and produced his own version of the track, sung by Pat Boone of all people, with future Beach Boy Bruce Johnston on backing vocals: [Excerpt: Pat Boone, "Little Honda"] But when Usher had got his version out first, Boone's was relegated to a B-side. When the Byrds had hit, and folk-rock had started to take over from surf rock, Usher had gone with the flow and produced records like the Surfaris' album It Ain't Me Babe, with Usher and his usual gang of backing vocalists augmenting the Surfaris as they covered hits by Dylan, the Turtles, the Beach Boys and the Byrds: [Excerpt: The Surfaris, "All I Really Want to Do"] Usher was also responsible for the Surfaris being the first group to release a version of "Hey Joe" on a major label, as we heard in the episode on that song: [Excerpt: The Surfaris, "Hey Joe"] After moving between Capitol, Mercury, and Decca Records, Usher had left Decca after a round of corporate restructuring and been recommended for a job at Columbia by his friend Melcher, who at that point was producing Paul Revere and the Raiders and the Rip Chords and had just finished his time as the Byrds' producer. Usher's first work at Columbia was actually to prepare new stereo mixes of some Byrds tracks that had up to that point only been issued in mono, but his first interaction with the Byrds themselves came via Gene Clark: [Excerpt: Gene Clark, "So You Say You've Lost Your Baby"] On leaving the Byrds, Clark had briefly tried to make a success of himself as a songwriter-for-hire in much the same mould as Usher, attempting to write and produce a single for two Byrds fans using the group name The Cookie Fairies, while spending much of his time romancing Michelle Phillips, as we talked about in the episode on "San Francisco". When the Cookie Fairies single didn't get picked up by a label, Clark had put together a group with Bill Rinehart from the Leaves, Chip Douglas of the Modern Folk Quartet, and Joel Larson of the Grass Roots. Just called Gene Clark & The Group, they'd played around the clubs in LA and cut about half an album's worth of demos produced by Jim Dickson and Ed Tickner, the Byrds' management team, before Clark had fired first Douglas and then the rest of the group. Clark's association with Douglas did go on to benefit him though -- Douglas went on, as we've seen in other episodes, to produce hits for the Turtles and the Monkees, and he later remembered an old song by Clark and McGuinn that the Byrds had demoed but never released, "You Showed Me", and produced a top ten hit version of it for the Turtles: [Excerpt: The Turtles, "You Showed Me"] Clark had instead started working with two country singers, Vern and Rex Gosdin, who had previously been with Chris Hillman in the country band The Hillmen. When that band had split up, the Gosdin Brothers had started to perform together as a duo, and in 1967 they would have a major country hit with "Hangin' On": [Excerpt: The Gosdin Brothers, "Hangin' On"] At this point though, they were just Gene Clark's backing vocalists, on an album that had been started with producer Larry Marks, who left Columbia half way through the sessions, at which point Usher took over. The album, titled Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers, featured a mix of musicians from different backgrounds. There were Larson and Rinehart from Gene Clark and the Group, there were country musicians -- a guitarist named Clarence White and the banjo player Doug Dillard. Hillman and Michael Clarke, the Byrds' rhythm section, played on much of the album as a way of keeping a united front, Glen Campbell, Jerry Cole, Leon Russell and Jim Gordon of the Wrecking Crew contributed, and Van Dyke Parks played most of the keyboards. The lead-off single for Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers, "Echoes", is one of the tracks produced by Marks, but in truth the real producer of that track is Leon Russell, who wrote the orchestral arrangement that turned Clark's rough demo into a baroque pop masterpiece: [Excerpt: Gene Clark, "Echoes"] Despite Clark having quit the band, relations between him and the rest were still good enough that in September 1966 he temporarily rejoined the band after Crosby lost his voice, though he was gone again as soon as Crosby was well. But that didn't stop the next Byrds album, which Usher went on to produce straight after finishing work on Clark's record, coming out almost simultaneously with Clark's and, according to Clark, killing its commercial potential. Upon starting to work with the group, Usher quickly came to the conclusion that Chris Hillman was in many ways the most important member of the band. According to Usher "There was also quite a divisive element within the band at that stage which often prevented them working well together. Sometimes everything would go smoothly, but other times it was a hard road. McGuinn and Hillman were often more together on musical ideas. This left Crosby to fend for himself, which I might add he did very well." Usher also said "I quickly came to understand that Hillman was a good stabilising force within the Byrds (when he wanted to be). It was around the time that I began working with them that Chris also became more involved in the songwriting. I think part of that was the fact that he realised how much more money was involved if you actually wrote the songs yourself. And he was a good songwriter." The first single to be released from the new sessions was one that was largely Hillman's work. Hillman and Crosby had been invited by the great South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela to play on some demos for another South African jazzer, singer Letta Mbulu. Details are sparse, but one presumes this was for what became her 1967 album Letta Mbulu Sings, produced by David Axelrod: [Excerpt: Letta Mbulu, "Zola (MRA)"] According to Hillman, that session was an epiphany for him, and he went home and started writing his own songs for the first time. He took one of the riffs he came up with to McGuinn, who came up with a bridge inspired by a song by yet another South African musician, Miriam Makeba, who at the time was married to Masekela, and the two wrote a lyric inspired by what they saw as the cynical manipulation of the music industry in creating manufactured bands like the Monkees -- though they have both been very eager to say that they were criticising the industry, not the Monkees themselves, with whom they were friendly. As Hillman says in his autobiography, "Some people interpreted it as a jab at The Monkees. In reality, we had immense respect for all of them as singers and musicians. We weren't skewering the members of the Monkees, but we were taking a shot at the cynical nature of the entertainment business that will try to manufacture a group like The Monkees as a marketing strategy. For us, it was all about the music, and we were commenting on the pitfalls of the industry rather than on any of our fellow musicians." [Excerpt: The Byrds, "So You Want to be a Rock 'n' Roll Star?"] The track continued the experimentation with sound effects that they had started with the Lear jet song on the previous album. That had featured recordings of a Lear jet, and "So You Want to be a Rock 'n' Roll Star?" featured recordings of audience screams. Those screams were, according to most sources, recorded by Derek Taylor at a Byrds gig in Bournemouth in 1965, but given reports of the tepid response the group got on that tour, that doesn't seem to make sense. Other sources say they're recordings of a *Beatles* audience in Bournemouth in *1963*, the shows that had been shown in the first US broadcast of Beatles footage, and the author of a book on links between the Beatles and Bournemouth says on his blog "In the course of researching Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Beatles & Bournemouth I spoke to two people who saw The Byrds at the Gaumont that August and neither recalled any screaming at all, let alone the wall of noise that can be heard on So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star." So it seems likely that screaming isn't for the Byrds, but of course Taylor had also worked for the Beatles. According to Usher "The crowd sound effects were from a live concert that Derek Taylor had taped with a little tape recorder in London. It was some outrageous crowd, something like 20,000 to 30,000 people. He brought the tape in, ran it off onto a big tape, re- EQ'd it, echoed it, cleaned it up and looped it." So my guess is that the audience screams in the Byrds song about the Monkees are for the Beatles, but we'll probably never know for sure: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "So You Want to be a Rock 'n' Roll Star?"] The track also featured an appearance by Hugh Masekela, the jazz trumpeter whose invitation to take part in a session had inspired the song: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "So You Want to be a Rock 'n' Roll Star?"] While Hillman was starting to lean more towards folk and country music -- he had always been the member of the band least interested in rock music -- and McGuinn was most interested in exploring electronic sounds, Crosby was still pushing the band more in the direction of the jazz experimentation they'd tried on "Eight Miles High", and one of the tracks they started working on soon after "So You Want to be a Rock 'n' Roll Star?" was inspired by another jazz trumpet great. Miles Davis had been partly responsible for getting the Byrds signed to Columbia, as we talked about in the episode on "Mr. Tambourine Man", and so the group wanted to pay him tribute, and they started working on a version of his classic instrumental "Milestones": [Excerpt: Miles Davis, "Milestones"] Sadly, while the group worked on their version for several days -- spurred on primarily by Crosby -- they eventually chose to drop the track, and it has never seen release or even been bootlegged, though there is a tiny clip of it that was used in a contemporaneous documentary, with a commentator talking over it: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Milestones (TV)"] It was apparently Crosby who decided to stop work on the track, just as working on it was also apparently his idea. Indeed, while the biggest change on the album that would become Younger Than Yesterday was that for the first time Chris Hillman was writing songs and taking lead vocals, Crosby was also writing more than before. Hillman wrote four of the songs on the album, plus his co-write with McGuinn on "So You Want to be a Rock 'n' Roll Star?", but Crosby also supplied two new solo compositions, plus a cowrite with McGuinn, and Crosby and McGuinn's "Why?", the B-side to "Eight Miles High", was also dug up and rerecorded for the album. Indeed, Gary Usher would later say "The album was probably 60% Crosby. McGuinn was not that involved, nor was Chris; at least as far as performing was concerned." McGuinn's only composition on the album other than the co-writes with Crosby and Hillman was another song about contacting aliens, "CTA-102", a song about a quasar which at the time some people were speculating might have been evidence of alien life. That song sounds to my ears like it's had some influence from Joe Meek's similar records, though I've never seen McGuinn mention Meek as an influence: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "CTA-102"] Crosby's growing dominance in the studio was starting to rankle with the other members. In particular two tracks were the cause of conflict. One was Crosby's song "Mind Gardens", an example of his increasing experimentation, a freeform song that ignores conventional song structure, and which he insisted on including on the album despite the rest of the group's objections: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Mind Gardens"] The other was the track that directly followed "Mind Gardens" on the album. "My Back Pages" was a song from Dylan's album Another Side of Bob Dylan, a song many have seen as Dylan announcing his break with the folk-song and protest movements he'd been associated with up to that point, and his intention to move on in a new direction: [Excerpt: Bob Dylan, "My Back Pages"] Jim Dickson, the Byrds' co-manager, was no longer on speaking terms with the band and wasn't involved in their day-to-day recording as he had been, but he'd encountered McGuinn on the street and rolled down his car window and suggested that the group do the song. Crosby was aghast. They'd already recorded several songs from Another Side of Bob Dylan, and Fifth Dimension had been their first album not to include any Dylan covers. Doing a jangly cover of a Dylan song with a McGuinn lead vocal was something they'd moved on from, and he didn't want to go back to 1964 at the end of 1966. He was overruled, and the group recorded their version, a track that signified something very different for the Byrds than the original had for Dylan: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "My Back Pages"] It was released as the second single from the album, and made number thirty. It was the last Byrds single to make the top forty. While he was working with the Byrds, Usher continued his work in the pop field, though as chart pop moved on so did Usher, who was now making records in a psychedelic sunshine pop style with acts like the Peanut Butter Conspiracy: [Excerpt: The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, "It's a Happening Thing"] and he produced Chad and Jeremy's massive concept album Of Cabbages and Kings, which included a five-song "Progress Suite" illustrating history from the start of creation until the end of the world: [Excerpt: Chad and Jeremy, "Editorial"] But one of the oddest projects he was involved in was indirectly inspired by Roger McGuinn. According to Usher "McGuinn and I had a lot in common. Roger would always say that he was "out of his head," which he thought was good, because he felt you had to go out of your head before you could really find your head! That sums up McGuinn perfectly! He was also one of the first people to introduce me to metaphysics, and from that point on I started reading everything I could get my hands on. His viewpoints on metaphysics were interesting, and, at the time, useful. He was also into Marshall McLuhan; very much into the effects of electronics and the electronic transformation. He was into certain metaphysical concepts before I was, but I was able to turn him onto some abstract concepts as well" These metaphysical discussions led to Usher producing an album titled The Astrology Album, with discussions of the meaning of different star signs over musical backing: [Excerpt: Gary Usher, "Leo"] And with interviews with various of the artists he was working with talking about astrology. He apparently interviewed Art Garfunkel -- Usher was doing some uncredited production work on Simon and Garfunkel's Bookends album at the time -- but Garfunkel declined permission for the interview to be used. But he did get both Chad and Jeremy to talk, along with John Merrill of the Peanut Butter Conspiracy -- and David Crosby: [Excerpt: Gary Usher, "Leo"] One of the tracks from that album, "Libra", became the B-side of a single by a group of studio musicians Usher put together, with Glen Campbell on lead vocals and featuring Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys prominently on backing vocals. "My World Fell Down" was credited to Sagittarius, again a sign of Usher's current interest in astrology, and featured some experimental sound effects that are very similar to the things that McGuinn had been doing on recent Byrds albums: [Excerpt: Sagittarius, "My World Fell Down"] While Usher was continuing with his studio experimentation, the Byrds were back playing live -- and they were not going down well at all. They did a UK tour where they refused to play most of their old hits and went down as poorly as on their previous tour, and they were no longer the kings of LA. In large part this was down to David Crosby, whose ego was by this point known to *everybody*, and who was becoming hugely unpopular on the LA scene even as he was starting to dominate the band. Crosby was now the de facto lead vocalist on stage, with McGuinn being relegated to one or two songs per set, and he was the one who would insist that they not play their older hit singles live. He was dominating the stage, leading to sarcastic comments from the normally placid Hillman like "Ladies and gentlemen, the David Crosby show!", and he was known to do things like start playing a song then stop part way through a verse to spend five minutes tuning up before restarting. After a residency at the Whisky A-Go-Go where the group were blown off the stage by their support act, the Doors, their publicist Derek Taylor quit, and he was soon followed by the group's co-managers Jim Dickson and Eddie Tickner, who were replaced by Crosby's friend Larry Spector, who had no experience in rock management but did represent Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, two young film stars Crosby was hanging round with. The group were particularly annoyed by Crosby when they played the Monterey Pop Festival. Crosby took most lead vocals in that set, and the group didn't go down well, though instrumentally the worst performer was Michael Clarke, who unlike the rest of the band had never become particularly proficient on his instrument: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "So You Want to be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (live at Monterey)"] But Crosby also insisted on making announcements from the stage advocating LSD use and describing conspiracy theories about the Kennedy assassination: [Excerpt: David Crosby on the Warren Commission, from the end of "Hey Joe" Monterey] But even though Crosby was trying to be the Byrds' leader on stage, he was also starting to think that they maybe didn't deserve to have him as their leader. He'd recently been spending a lot of time hanging out with Stephen Stills of the Buffalo Springfield, and McGuinn talks about one occasion where Crosby and Stills were jamming together, Stills played a blues lick and said to McGuinn "Can you play that?" and when McGuinn, who was not a blues musician, said he couldn't, Stills looked at him with contempt. McGuinn was sure that Stills was trying to poach Crosby, and Crosby apparently wanted to be poached. The group had rehearsed intensely for Monterey, aware that they'd been performing poorly and not wanting to show themselves up in front of the new San Francisco bands, but Crosby had told them during rehearsals that they weren't good enough to play with him. McGuinn's suspicions about Stills wanting to poach Crosby seemed to be confirmed during Monterey when Crosby joined Buffalo Springfield on stage, filling in for Neil Young during the period when Young had temporarily quit the group, and performing a song he'd helped Stills write about Grace Slick: [Excerpt: Buffalo Springfield, "Rock 'n' Roll Woman (live at Monterey)"] Crosby was getting tired not only of the Byrds but of the LA scene in general. He saw the new San Francisco bands as being infinitely cooler than the Hollywood plastic scene that was LA -- even though Crosby was possibly the single most Hollywood person on that scene, being the son of an Oscar-winning cinematographer and someone who hung out with film stars. At Monterey, the group had debuted their next single, the first one with an A-side written by Crosby, "Lady Friend": [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Lady Friend"] Crosby had thought of that as a masterpiece, but when it was released as a single, it flopped badly, and the rest of the group weren't even keen on the track being included on the next album. To add insult to injury as far as Crosby was concerned, at the same time as the single was released, a new album came out -- the Byrds' Greatest Hits, full of all those singles he was refusing to play live, and it made the top ten, becoming far and away the group's most successful album. But despite all this, the biggest conflict between band members when they came to start sessions for their next album wasn't over Crosby, but over Michael Clarke. Clarke had never been a particularly good drummer, and while that had been OK at the start of the Byrds' career, when none of them had been very proficient on their instruments, he was barely any better at a time when both McGuinn and Hillman were being regarded as unique stylists, while Crosby was writing metrically and harmonically interesting material. Many Byrds fans appreciate Clarke's drumming nonetheless, saying he was an inventive and distinctive player in much the same way as the similarly unskilled Micky Dolenz, but on any measure of technical ability he was far behind his bandmates. Clarke didn't like the new material and wasn't capable of playing it the way his bandmates wanted. He was popular with the rest of the band as a person, but simply wasn't playing well, and it led to a massive row in the first session: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Universal Mind Decoder (alternate backing track)"] At one point they joke that they'll bring in Hal Blaine instead -- a reference to the recording of "Mr. Tambourine Man", when Clarke and Hillman had been replaced by Blaine and Larry Knechtel -- and Clarke says "Do it. I don't mind, I really don't." And so that ended up happening. Clarke was still a member of the band -- and he would end up playing on half the album's tracks -- but for the next few sessions the group brought in session drummers Hal Blaine and Jim Gordon to play the parts they actually wanted. But that wasn't going to stop the bigger problem in the group, and that problem was David Crosby's relationship with the rest of the band. Crosby was still at this point thinking of himself as having a future in the group, even as he was increasingly convinced that the group themselves were bad, and embarrassed by their live sound. He even, in a show of unity, decided to ask McGuinn and Hillman to collaborate on a couple of songs with him so they would share the royalties equally. But there were two flash-points in the studio. The first was Crosby's song "Triad", a song about what we would now call polyamory, partly inspired by Robert Heinlein's counterculture science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land. The song was meant to portray a progressive, utopian, view of free love, but has dated very badly -- the idea that the *only* reason a woman might be unhappy with her partner sleeping with another woman is because of her mother's disapproval possibly reveals more about the mindset of hippie idealists than was intended. The group recorded Crosby's song, but refused to allow it to be released, and Crosby instead gave it to his friends Jefferson Airplane, whose version, by having Grace Slick sing it, at least reverses the dynamics of the relationship: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "Triad"] The other was a song that Gary Usher had brought to the group and suggested they record, a Goffin and King song released the previous year by Dusty Springfield: [Excerpt: Dusty Springfield, "Goin' Back"] Crosby was incandescent. The group wanted to do this Brill Building pap?! Hell, Gary Usher had originally thought that *Chad and Jeremy* should do it, before deciding to get the Byrds to do it instead. Did they really want to be doing Chad and Jeremy cast-offs when they could be doing his brilliant science-fiction inspired songs about alternative relationship structures? *Really*? They did, and after a first session, where Crosby reluctantly joined in, when they came to recut the track Crosby flat-out refused to take part, leading to a furious row with McGuinn. Since they were already replacing Michael Clarke with session drummers, that meant the only Byrds on "Goin' Back", the group's next single, were McGuinn and Hillman: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Goin' Back"] That came out in late October 1967, and shortly before it came out, McGuinn and Hillman had driven to Crosby's home. They told him they'd had enough. He was out of the band. They were buying him out of his contract. Despite everything, Crosby was astonished. They were a *group*. They fought, but only the way brothers fight. But McGuinn and Hillman were adamant. Crosby ended up begging them, saying "We could make great music together." Their response was just "And we can make great music without you." We'll find out whether they could or not in two weeks' time.

A Sermon for The Baptism of Our Lord, during the season of Epiphany.Text: Mark 1:1-11Access Order of Worship here for Saturday, January 13th, along with our coloring sheet for this week.

What really makes us happy? Renowned author Ryan Bush has created a new definition for happiness, one that involves a third dimension. This new theory will help you understand what makes you happy so that you can spend more of your time feeling good, and less of your time feeling bad. This week, you'll hear from Matt and Ryan as they teach you this new theory of what makes us happy. You'll also gain powerful tools to boost your mood by cultivating fulfillment from within.  Here are some power takeaways from today's conversation:  Ryan's three dimensional model of happiness How to identify your unique personal virtues Creating the five core values for your company and your family life The theory of the self-appraisal system [01:11] Ryan's Three Dimensional Model of Happiness Ryan introduces a three-dimensional model comprising pain and pleasure, gain and loss, and virtue or admiration. While the first two dimensions focus on experiences and external accomplishments, the third dimension, virtue, plays a crucial role in our well-being. By embodying virtues like courage, creativity, and compassion, we can cultivate a sense of self-worth and fulfillment even in the face of adversity. Ryan's model emphasizes the importance of maximizing this virtuous dimension and aligning our actions with our strengths, highlighting the influence of self-approval on our overall mood and life satisfaction. [10:36] How to Identify Your Unique Personal Virtues Take the VIA StrengthsFinder survey to uncover your top 5 strengths and ask those who know you well for their perspective. Look to admired individuals, like philosophers and heroes, and identify traits that resonate with you - they may reflect your own virtues. Consider your core values such as integrity, kindness, and creativity, as they often align with your virtues. Once identified, focus on maximizing behaviors, activities, relationships, and environments that allow you to demonstrate your virtues. Embrace self-admiration and fulfillment as a result. [20:18] Ryan's Theory of the Self-Appraisal System When we find evidence of admirable virtues in our daily lives, it produces a deeper sense of happiness and well-being. However, if we are not demonstrating these virtues, it can move us closer to depression. Ryan argues this self-appraisal system is what really influences our satisfaction and moods in life. It evolved to motivate behaviors that are socially adaptive and boost our status, for the purpose of survival and reproduction. Notable quotes: [04:11] We're all going around navigating our lives with a faulty map. We're pursuing happiness without accounting for the factors that actually produce happiness much of the time. [04:21] [10:52] It can often be more useful to double-down on your strengths, rather than focusing on your weaknesses. [10:58] [19:18] There really is a mechanism in your brain that is going to lower your own mood based on your lack of self-approval. [19:25] [20:18] There's no worse prison than being a person you yourself don't approve of. [20:23] Resources Mentioned:  www.designingthemind.org/psychitecture   Become Who You Are by Ryan A. Bush VIA StrengthsFinder Jim Collins books: Good to Great and Built to Last Download this week's free resource instantly when you sign up for The Good Mood Show newsletter here!  Or, reach out on our contact page at GoodMoodShow.com/Contact and we will email you a copy of any free resource you request. About the Guest  Ryan A. Bush is a thinker and designer focused on building better systems, better people, and a better future. As founder of Designing the Mind, Ryan's central purpose is to provide wisdom education and expand human potential beyond the norm.

Lauren Boebert is the Congressional Representative of Colorado's 3rd District. Lauren has fearlessly led an unapologetically Christian and Conservative campaign as she continues to fight for the Judeo Christian values that our country was founded on. She sits down with Sean to discuss her latest Victory in the 2022 Midterms, as well as her hopes for the future of our country's government as well as its spiritual state. Follow Sean:https://www.facebook.com/sean.feuchthttps://twitter.com/seanfeuchthttps://www.instagram.com/seanfeucht/Sign up for Sean's newsletter: https://seanfeucht.com/