Podcasts about Simone Weil

This episode uses the thought of a “last day” to test the distance between our values and our actions.Montaigne, Seneca, and Lucretius show how reflecting on death can sharpen our sense of what matters now, not later. Simone Weil then offers a modern example of philosophy lived with unusual seriousness and conviction.The question is simple but demanding: are we merely admiring good ideas, or are we becoming the kind of person who lives them?

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For twenty years, Christian Wiman has lived with a rare, incurable cancer. In the fall of 2022, during a stretch when the illness was especially bad, he wrote to his friend and Yale colleague Miroslav Volf: “I don't know what faith means anymore. I'm a 56-year-old with a pile of books behind me and an experimental bone marrow transplant ahead of me, and I don't know what faith means.” That letter became the seed of an extended correspondence between the poet and the theologian, now published as Glimmerings: Letters on Faith between a Poet and a Theologian. In this special collaboration with Arc Magazine, editor Mark Oppenheimer sits down with Volf and Wiman to unpack the letters that grew out of their long friendship and years of walking together through New Haven. They discuss what it means to love God, why doubt and absence might be constitutive elements of faith and presence rather than its opposite, and how a terminal diagnosis changed what each of them was willing to say and how freely they said it. They also trace the thinkers who shaped their thinking along the way, from Simone Weil's account of attention to Etty Hillesum's wartime writing, to Abraham Joshua Heschel's theology of the prophets, and they wrestle openly with where their understandings of Jesus Christ converge and diverge. Along the way, Wiman reflects on writing from a hospital room at Massachusetts General, on discovering that his fear was never death itself but the fear of dying without God, and on why grief, not fear, is what remains even after that fear falls away. Episode Highlights I don't know what faith means anymore. I'm a 56-year-old with a pile of books behind me and an experimental bone marrow transplant ahead of me, and I don't know what faith means. I sometimes find it hard to think what it means to love God. I don't know how to love God. Faith is what matters. Belief seems to me a matter of the institution and ascending to creeds and things like that. I think most of my theological thinking is existentially motivated. It's motivated by the kind of inner logic of the trust in which I'm involved. Most of the books that I wrote, I've written for myself. I'm one of those writers who doesn't have an audience. There is grace in my life if I can just keep my eyes open enough to see it. His mistake in some ways lets him see that the world is right, that there's a rightness to the world. What becomes clear is one's longing for God. Everything is stripped away and very little else seems to matter. What I want most in my life is the presence of God. And I fear dying without that. Just being alone at the moment of death. I was worried that he won't have God in that situation of need because attention might be lacking. About Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and founding director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. He is the author of Exclusion and Embrace, the NYT bestseller Life Worth Living (with Ryan McAnnally-Linz and Matt Croasmun), The Cost of Ambition, and more than twenty other books. Christian Wiman is the Clement-Muehl Professor of Communication Arts at Yale Divinity School. He has written and edited numerous volumes of poetry. He has lived with a rare blood cancer, Waldenström macroglobulinemia, for more than twenty years, an experience he wrote about in his memoirs My Bright Abyss and Zero at the Bone. Helpful Links and Resources Glimmerings: Letters on Faith between a Poet and a Theologian, the book discussed in this episode: https://bookshop.org/p/books/glimmerings-letters-on-faith-between-a-poet-and-a-theologian-christian-wiman/1a13ad79a59080d1 Miroslav Volf, faculty bio at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture: https://faith.yale.edu/people/miroslav-volf Christian Wiman, faculty bio at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture: https://faith.yale.edu/people/christian-wiman Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera, the magazine that co-produced this episode: https://arcmag.org/ John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis: https://rap.wustl.edu/ My Bright Abyss, Christian Wiman's earlier memoir on faith and his cancer diagnosis: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374534370/mybrightabyss/ Miroslav Volf: Disagreeing With You Feels Like Disagreeing With Myself, a Christianity Today profile of the two friends (by Andrew Hendrixson): https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/01/miroslav-volf-disagreeing-with-you-like-disagreeing-with-myself-christian-wiman/ Show Notes Summer break announcement, past-episode recap Special crossover episode with Arc Magazine Mark Oppenheimer, Arc's editor, hosts this conversation Origin story: a brief email exchange in fall 2022 Wiman's diagnosis, Waldenström macroglobulinemia, and a bone marrow transplant Twenty years of friendship, marked by weekly walks in New Haven The letter that started it: not knowing what faith means anymore What does it mean to love God? Faith versus belief: creeds compared to a personal relationship Doubt as a constitutive element of trust, not its opposite Absence and presence, sorrow and joy, held together Theology as existentially motivated rather than academic exercise Writing for an audience of one, and how that shapes honesty Whether a book contract changes how freely you write Simone Weil's idea that attention is what makes God present Disagreement over how central Jesus Christ is to each man's sense of God Volf's Pentecostal upbringing, Wiman's Southern Baptist roots Volf's sense of God as behind and underneath, not face to face Wiman's youthful epiphany and a memory of his grandmother's death A misread wildflower, a Richard Wilbur poem, grace found in error Shai Held's blurb and why Jewish thinkers rarely appear in Christian theology Etty Hillesum, her wartime diaries, her postcard thrown from the train Abraham Joshua Heschel's influence through Sabbath and The Prophets Heschel's idea that faith is fidelity to the moments you once had it A letter written from a hospital room at Massachusetts General Miroslav's fear that his letters carried condescension toward a friend in crisis Whether a cancer diagnosis changes the fear of death itself Grief, not fear, as what remains once the fear of dying is gone How the two friends met: through Volf's wife's poetry class Letter-writing as a lifelong practice for both men beyond this book #Glimmerings #MiroslavVolf #ChristianWiman #Faith #Doubt #Theology #YaleDivinitySchool #ArcMagazine Production Notes This podcast featured Christian Wiman and Miroslav Volf with Mark Oppenheimer Special thanks to David Sugarman and Arc Magazine Edited and Produced by Evan Rosa Hosted by Evan Rosa Production Assistance by Noah Senthil A Production of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School https://faith.yale.edu/about Support For the Life of the World podcast by giving to the Yale Center for Faith & Culture: https://faith.yale.edu/give

O movimento que se originou sob o pretexto de proteger e libertar as mulheres acabou por decretar o fim da própria categoria feminina? No episódio de hoje do Conversa Paralela, recebemos Débora Luciano, ensaísta, pesquisadora e autora do recém-lançado livro "Autópsia do Feminismo" (Editora Caravelas, 2025). A partir de uma investigação histórica e filosófica, Débora analisa a metafísica da revolta que pautou os últimos 300 anos do feminismo e explica como as raízes do movimento contribuíram para a sua própria autodestruição. O debate mergulha no surgimento da ideologia de gênero pós-moderna, na instrumentalização política do sofrimento materno — impulsionada por figuras como Margaret Sanger e Simone Weil — e no dilema existencial enfrentado pelas poucas feministas radicais que restaram na modernidade.

Against persistent fear of death, mortality avoidance, and the vices that emerge from terror management, this episode offers a personal testimony of a Christian experience of dying. With scientific precision, disarming honesty, and immense gratitude for life, biologist Jeff Schloss offers an intimate, firsthand account of his recent diagnosis of an extremely rare terminal neurological disease: multiple system atrophy (MSA). His doctors put the prognosis plainly: "It is terminal, it is incurable, and it's rapidly progressive." A longtime and beloved Westmont College biology professor and senior scholar at BioLogos, Schloss offers speaks directly to the experience of dying—as he encounters each new week of this rapidly progressive disease. He reconsiders the meaning of a "good death": increased gratitude and awareness of gift, the reality of pain, the loss of surfing and guitar-playing, the sacredness of family, and the surprising nearness of Christ as everything else falls away. A profound witness to Christian attitudes about life and death, Schloss seeks not a hero's death, but a daily, humble life-giving commerce with Christ. Schloss revisits a life that began in a nonreligious Jewish refugee family and pivoted through a dramatic conversion as a college-dropout surf bum in Hawaii. He traces what has changed, and what hasn't, now that death is no longer an abstraction but a daily fact in his body. With pastoral care and hope, Mark Labberton explores with Schloss what it means to experience dying rather than simply anticipate it, the grief of losing fifty years of surfing and guitar-playing to pain and paralysis, the gift of Simone Weil's writing on suffering, the Heidelberg Catechism's opening words on "our only comfort in life and in death," and the difference between the thrill of surfing and the sacredness of family and commerce with Christ. Episode Highlights I knew from the second grade that I wanted to be a scientist. I was out collecting butterflies and dragonflies and looking through microscopes at all sorts of things that I couldn't believe were there. As we were talking, it just occurred to me ... he either had what I wanted, or he was clinically crazy. It is terminal, it is incurable, and it's rapidly progressive ... the process of dying I find it fascinating ... It's not fun, but it is fascinating. She wasn't sad just for herself, I'm gonna lose you. And she wasn't sad empathetically just for me, so sorry for you. It was a joint sadness that the life we had hoped to share together, we are not gonna have. The things that are most life giving are out of reach ... I've come to see it's actually not true. The things that have been delightful are out of reach ... the thing that is most life giving, and that is commerce with Christ. I think it was the single most thrilling day of my entire life ... I said, no, those weren't thrilling, those were sacred. I don't want to market this season. I'm not looking for a hero's death, or any kind of publicly attended death. I would have never guessed that in this home stretch, my son and wife could carry me up the slopes of Yosemite Valley. About Jeff Schloss Jeff Schloss has spent four decades at the intersection of evolutionary biology and Christian theology. Now retired as Distinguished Professor of Biology at Westmont College, he continues as senior scholar at BioLogos, working alongside Francis Collins for more than fifteen years. He co-edited "The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion" and "Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective," a Templeton Science-Religion Book of Distinction winner. He has lectured at Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard. Helpful Links and Resources Jeff Schloss's page at BioLogos, where he serves as senior scholar: https://biologos.org/people/jeffrey-schloss Finding Faith: An Evolutionary Biologist Shares His Story, Schloss's own video testimony for BioLogos: https://biologos.org/resources/finding-faith-an-evolutionary-biologist-shares-his-story Tackling the Divide Between Science and Faith, Westmont Magazine's profile of Schloss's career: https://www.westmont.edu/magazine/spring-2025/tackling-divide-between-science-and-faith The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion, Schloss's co-edited volume: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-believing-primate-9780199597086 Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective, Schloss's Templeton Award-winning co-edited volume: https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802826954/evolution-and-ethics/ Alvin Plantinga, Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism, source of the Augustinian science concept Schloss references: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/where-the-conflict-really-lies-9780199812097 Heidelberg Catechism, Lord's Day 1, the confession Labberton reads to close the episode: https://www.heidelberg-catechism.com/en/lords-days/1.html Multiple System Atrophy overview, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/multiple-system-atrophy Show Notes Childhood in a nonreligious German Jewish refugee family Grandfather taken by the Gestapo, relatives lost in the Holocaust Early love of butterflies, dragonflies, and microscopes A sixth-grade encounter with Confucius sparks a love of philosophy College philosophy major searching for purpose and for God Dropping out, becoming a surf bum in Hawaii A stranger's dinner invitation becomes a turning point A late-night prayer of surrender met by an unmistakable presence Grad school pairing biology, philosophy, and the study of altruism Alvin Plantinga's Augustinian science and reading creation with a map Decades as senior scholar at BioLogos alongside Francis Collins Why church and science drifted apart over vaccines and politics Science as a reliable path to facts, not truth itself A new diagnosis: rare, terminal, rapidly progressive neurological disease—multiple systems atrophy (MSA) Doctors estimate an average of three years, with wide variation The difference between studying death as a biologist versus the real-time experience of dying A spouse's grief for a shared future that will not happen Losing surfing and guitar-playing as an unplanned kind of fasting Pain described as systemic, exhausting, disorienting Cognitive decline and dark humor about it Distinguishing what is thrilling from what is truly sacred The ache of no longer being able to research and create A flicker of despair met by a choice not to despair Wanting a real death, not a hero's death A wish to thank former students and colleagues before the end Not wanting to become a burden to family Giving God all of one's heart, without earning salvation by it Bonhoeffer's costly grace versus cheap grace Gratitude over entitlement as the ground of faith Simone Weil on suffering as a place grace can work A closing blessing and the Heidelberg Catechism's opening words Carried up the slopes of Yosemite by a son and a wife #ConversingPodcast #MarkLabberton #JeffSchloss #FaithAndScience #BioLogos #MultipleSystemAtrophy #Mortality #ChristianFaith #Westmont #Gratitude Production Credits Conversing is produced and distributed in partnership with Comment Magazine and Fuller Seminary.

What if one of the greatest acts of love is simply paying attention?In this reflection on Psalm 8, John Ortberg and Laura Turner explore wonder, attentiveness, and the surprising connection between love and noticing.Drawing on insights from Marilynne Robinson, the film Lady Bird, and the writings of Simone Weil, they invite us to slow down and rediscover God's presence in the ordinary.This episode explores:- Psalm 8 and the wonder of creation- Why attention is an expression of love- Learning to pray with a wandering mind- The beauty hidden in everyday life- Seeing people as image-bearers of God- Waking up to God's presenceScriptures:- Psalm 8#Psalm8 #JohnOrtberg #Prayer #Attention #Wonder #SpiritualFormation #ChristianFaith #BibleStudy #MarilynneRobinson #SimoneWeil

Depuis le 12 juin le Pavillon Simone Weil n'est plus. Après 74 jours de « présence et production », l'œuvre évolutive de Thomas Hirschhorn dédiée à la philosophe a déserté le Pavillon Sicli, quelques jours avant la fin officielle du projet en raison des mesures liées au G7. Deux mois […] The post Pavillon Simone Weil : Premier bilan pour la Fondation Sicli first appeared on Radio Vostok.

A poet who has lived two decades with incurable cancer on what faith sounds like when God feels more absent than present. Christian Wiman joins Mark Labberton to talk poetry, suffering, and friendship. "The presence of God, less so. I experience the absence more than the presence." In this episode with Mark Labberton, Wiman reflects on writing "Every Riven Thing" after a single church service, surviving a last-resort clinical trial, and the friendship behind his new book with Miroslav Volf. Together they discuss the paradox at the heart of poetry, grief that explodes into joy, and why joy asks something of us. They also weigh Heschel and Lewis's clarity, the friendless American male, and chance turned into destiny by constant choice. Episode Highlights "The presence of God, less so. I experience the absence more than the presence." "I would not let go of my despair, even though the poems were showing me something else." "Joy asks something of us on the other side." "The relief came from the communion between people." "I think that that was quite a shock to me to realize that we were each envying what the other had." About Christian Wiman Christian Wiman is a poet, essayist, editor, and translator, and the Clement-Muehl Professor of Communication Arts at Yale Divinity School, where he teaches religion and literature with the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. From 2003 to 2013 he edited Poetry, the oldest magazine of verse in the English-speaking world, tripling its circulation and earning two National Magazine Awards. He is the author, editor, or translator of more than a dozen books, including Every Riven Thing, the memoirs My Bright Abyss and He Held Radical Light, and the genre-blending Zero at the Bone. A former Guggenheim Fellow with two honorary doctorates, he has written candidly about faith and a long struggle with incurable cancer. Helpful Links and Resources Glimmerings: Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian https://bookshop.org/p/books/glimmerings-letters-on-faith-between-a-poet-and-a-theologian-christian-wiman/1a13ad79a59080d1 My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer https://bookshop.org/p/books/my-bright-abyss-meditation-of-a-modern-believer-christian-wiman/dcebbe4f049250d8 Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair https://penguinbookshop.com/book/9780374603458 Show Notes Author, editor, translator of a dozen-plus books Twenty years living with an incurable cancer diagnosis Editing Poetry magazine amid Ruth Lilly's $200 million gift From editor to Yale Divinity School on one bold letter A last-resort clinical trial: "I definitely thought it was over" "Every Riven Thing" written in under an hour after a first church service Inventing a new poetic form on the spot Compression and paradox: "a great poem is irreducible" "Bittersweet": "all my sour sweet days I will lament and love" Simone Weil's Gravity and Grace and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping Absence and presence: "I experience the absence more than the presence" My Bright Abyss and the chapter "God's Truth is Life" "From a Window": grief that suddenly explodes into birds and joy "I would not let go of my despair, even though the poems were showing me something else" Zadie Smith and C.S. Lewis on joy too destabilizing to want "joy asks something of us on the other side" The rare clarity of Heschel and Lewis, marrying reason and imagination Glimmerings: eighteen months of letters with Miroslav Volf "After angels" and a transforming walk near the Div School "the relief came from the communion between people" Friendship and the friendless American male "we were each envying what the other had" West Texas: an expanse "wide open and annihilating, crushing" Ricoeur: chance turned into a destiny by virtue of a constant choice #ChristianWiman #MarkLabberton #Conversing #PoetryAndFaith #Glimmerings #MyBrightAbyss #FaithAndDoubt #MiroslavVolf Production Credits Conversing is produced and distributed in partnership with Comment Magazine and Fuller Seminary.

Text us your questions!We continue our conversation with pastor and author Matt Erickson of Eastbrook Church in Milwaukee. The job of many pastors feels like that of a CEO, with a focus on leadership strategy and the "three Bs": buildings, budgets, and butts in seats. This conversation offers a slower, deeper, and more hopeful way to think about church health, discipleship, and long-term spiritual formation.We dig into the sequoia metaphor: doing work you may never see mature, trusting God with fruit you can't control, and learning to “know the soil” of a local congregation. That leads into the daily practices that make this possible, from deep roots in a pastor's own life with God to the courage to let certain ministries die and become compost for what comes next. Then we take a hard turn into prayer, including Simone Weil's claim that “unmixed attention is prayer,” and why contemplative attention can be a distinctly Christian practice rather than mere mindfulness.From there, Matt helps us frame pastoral work inside Charles Taylor's “secular age,” where belief is an option and we all live under cross-pressure from competing ideas and value sets within a larger secular frame. We talk about the constant temptation to become a religious salesperson in a spiritual marketplace and why “bearing witness” could be a better model. We also wrestle with orthodoxy, the role of the creeds as family story, and the difference between right belief and lived faithfulness. Finally, we go straight at the question many pastors dread: how to pastor through Trumpism, political idolatry, and public Christian compromises, with the Black church and voices like Howard Thurman and Bonhoeffer shaping the horizon.Catch Part 1 of this conversation here.=====Want to support us?The best way is to subscribe to our Patreon. Annual memberships are available for a 10% discount.If you'd rather make a one-time donation, you can contribute through our PayPal.Other important info:Rate & review us on Apple & SpotifyFollow us on social media at @PPWBPodcastWatch & comment on YouTubeEmail us at pastorandphilosopher@gmail.comCheers!

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Hoe blijf je werkelijk mens in een tijd waarin technologie steeds verder binnendringt in ons leven en denken? De Engelse schrijver en denker Paul Kingsnorth laat in zijn boek Tegen de machine zien hoe de Machine, onder de vlag van vooruitgang, de westerse beschaving heeft afgebroken en de aarde vernietigt. In de traditie van denkers als Wendell Berry, Jacques Ellul en Simone Weil houdt Kingsnorth een vurig pleidooi voor een menselijker bestaan. Voor wantrouwen tegenover macht, voor hernieuwde verbondenheid met land, natuur en erfgoed, en voor een leven met zorg voor de ziel. In deze aflevering gaat Tom Mikkers in gesprek met Frank Mulder die Paul Kingsnorth persoonlijk kent en het voorwoord schreef in Tegen de machine.

Aujourd'hui au pavillon Simone Weil, à Sicli, on parle sport et plus précisément de Roller Derby. Notre invitée, Jennifer Renaud, nous parle de ce sport de contact féminin, qui se pratique en patins à roulettes et casquées. – Invitée : Jennifer Renaud Animation : Judith Réalisation : Samuel Communication, crédit […] The post Sport féminin qui envoie: le roller derby first appeared on Radio Vostok.

Are you paying attention when you scroll online? In episode 176 of Overthink, Ellie and David draw your attention to attention. They explain why attention is so hard to define and debate the extent to which it should be equated with consciousness. Is attention the same thing as consciousness? Or are there important differences between these concepts? They consider different ways that attention has been classified, from “overt vs. covert” to “effortful vs. effortless” to “voluntary vs. involuntary.” Ellie and David then discuss the commodification of attention and how it has been intensified by the digital era, or what Chris Hayes calls “the age of attention.” How has social media changed the way we attend to the world, to ourselves, and to others? Is our attention still our own? Or has it become alienated? In the Substack Bonus Segment, Ellie and David talk about Simone Weil's and Iris Murdoch's ethical approaches to attention.Works Discussed:Jelle Bruineberg, “Rethinking the cognitive foundations of the attention economy”Chris Hayes, The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered ResourceWilliam James, The Principles of PsychologyCarlos Montemayor and Harry Haroutioun Haladjian, Consciousness, Attention, and Conscious AttentionThe Friends of Attention, Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation MovementEnjoy our work? Support Overthink via tax-deductible donation: https://www.givecampus.com/fj0w3v Subscribe to our Substack for ad-free versions of both audio and video episodes, extended episodes, exclusive live chats, and more: https://overthinkpod.substack.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Samedi 18 avril, jour 19. On peut, si on veut, ramener tout l'art de vivre à un bon usage du langage. Simone Weil À peine ai-je déposé mon vélo sur mon poteau habituel entre MediaMarkt et le Pavillon qu'une vague de chaleur m'envahit. Je parlais de western hier, on peut […] The post Journal de Bord du Pavillon #19 first appeared on Radio Vostok.

Aujourd'hui, le ciel fait son cinéma: il cligne, il fronce, il hésite sur son filtre Instagram. Une carte céleste comme les aimait Simone Weil: tendue, vibrante, un peu comme ces ondes étranges que notre antenne capte entre le Salève et une galaxie discrète où les habitants ont la peau verte, […] The post Malt en Nova du 22 mai 2026 first appeared on Radio Vostok.

Aujourd'hui, le ciel ressemble à un vieux vinyle qu'on aurait retrouvé dans une brocante de Carouge: un peu rayé, un peu capricieux, mais quand l'aiguille se pose… ça groove. Un ciel bleu qui aurait plu à Simone Weil les jours où elle cherchait la vérité dans les détails minuscules, tels […] The post Malt en Nova du 29 mai 2026 first appeared on Radio Vostok.

Text us your questions!Randy and Kyle sit down with Milwaukee pastor and author Matt Erickson to explore a different vision of pastoral ministry: not the pastor as CEO, brand manager, or religious expert, but the pastor as gardener. Matt's book, The Pastor as Gardener: A Renewed Vision for Ministry, grows out of real ministry pressure, including moral failures, church decline, the pandemic, and the strain of navigating racial justice and polarization in a multiracial congregation.We dig into why agrarian imagery in Scripture still has bite for modern life, even in an urban church context. The gardener metaphor reframes leadership around cultivation instead of control: planting and watering while admitting we can't manufacture growth. That shift changes what we celebrate, what we fear, and what we measure, especially when the visible “fruit” of ministry looks strong but the hidden “roots” of prayer, integrity, and interior life are neglected.From there, we talk about what shepherding can still mean today, why care for the sick and grieving often gets delegated away, and why pastors need space to evolve without being treated like they've failed. Along the way we touch Gregory of Nyssa, Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, and the pressure for pastors to project certainty in a world where nobody can be an expert at everything.Look for Part 2 of this conversation in a couple weeks.=====Want to support us?The best way is to subscribe to our Patreon. Annual memberships are available for a 10% discount.If you'd rather make a one-time donation, you can contribute through our PayPal.Other important info:Rate & review us on Apple & SpotifyFollow us on social media at @PPWBPodcastWatch & comment on YouTubeEmail us at pastorandphilosopher@gmail.comCheers!

We all know our attention is being competed for — but historian of science D. Graham Burnett calls it something more alarming: a "civilizational biohack." In this episode, we talk with Burnett, a Princeton historian of science and co-founder of "The Friends of Attention," about the movement to liberate our minds from the 17-trillion-dollar attention economy. He draws on surprising sources — the German Romantics, St. Augustine, Simone Weil, Henry James — to argue that we've lost touch with older, richer forms of attention. And he makes the case that reclaiming it will require more than screentime apps or digital detox – it'll take collective resistance. Plus: why your Pilates class, your evening needlework, or your walk with the dog might already be forms of radical attention — and how reframing everyday activities can make ordinary life feel richer, more mysterious and more full of wonder.– “Attensity: A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement” The Friends of Attention The Strother School of Radical Attention D. Graham Burnett website   –0:00 Introduction3:00 Human Fracking27:30 Attention as Generosity30:55 Wonder and Disenchantment Wonder Cabinet is hosted by Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson. Find out more about the show at https://wondercabinetproductions.com, where you can subscribe to the podcast and our newsletter.

durée : 00:03:25 - Avec philosophie - Et si lutter contre l'injustice commençait par un acte simple mais exigeant : l'attention aux autres ? Avec Laurence Devillairs, découvrez pourquoi Simone Weil voit dans l'inattention une forme de lâcheté et dans l'attention à autrui un refus de la passivité ordinaire. - réalisation : Laurence Devillairs, Camille Renard, Virginie Le Duault, Anna Holveck Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

Willpower is fundamentally the wrong tool for inner transformation. French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil argued that attention — not discipline or force of will — is the true engine of inner change. Raghunath and Kaustubha bring this insight into conversation with the Gopīs of Vṛndāvana, whose loving meditation on Kṛṣṇa accomplished what no effort of will could. The Bhagavad-gītā's method of inner transformation is simple: turn your attention toward Kṛṣṇa. And the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam promises that faithfully hearing about the Gopīs' love for Him is itself enough to conquer material lust, the deepest disease of the heart. Srimad Bhagavatam 10.29.9-11 ******************************************************************** LOVE THE PODCAST? WE ARE COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AND WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO JOIN! Go to https://www.wisdomofthesages.com WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/@WisdomoftheSages LISTEN ON ITUNES: https://podcasts/apple.com/us/podcast/wisdom-of-the-sages/id1493055485 CONNECT ON FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/wisdomofthesages108 *********************************************************************

Willpower is fundamentally the wrong tool for inner transformation. French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil argued that attention — not discipline or force of will — is the true engine of inner change. Raghunath and Kaustubha bring this insight into conversation with the Gopīs of Vṛndāvana, whose loving meditation on Kṛṣṇa accomplished what no effort of will could. The Bhagavad-gītā's method of inner transformation is simple: turn your attention toward Kṛṣṇa. And the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam promises that faithfully hearing about the Gopīs' love for Him is itself enough to conquer material lust, the deepest disease of the heart. Srimad Bhagavatam 10.29.9-11 ******************************************************************** LOVE THE PODCAST? WE ARE COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AND WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO JOIN! Go to https://www.wisdomofthesages.com WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/@WisdomoftheSages LISTEN ON ITUNES: https://podcasts/apple.com/us/podcast/wisdom-of-the-sages/id1493055485 CONNECT ON FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/wisdomofthesages108 *********************************************************************

In this episode Barry and Mike conclude their discussion of Althusser's seminal essay, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”. They focus on Althusser's concept of interpellation and discuss whether he believes it's possible to get outside of ideology. The conclusion of the discussion asks how Simone Weil, who served as the genesis of this series, conceives of an outside to propaganda and politics.

We are a culture well acquainted with anxiety. Recent years have shown it rising dramatically, particularly among Generation Z and Millennials, but affecting all of us. In the Sermon on the Mount, however, Jesus urges us not to be anxious. We wonder: is that actually possible today?Author Alan Fadling joined us for a recent online conversation, where we explored these questions for a live audience:"Maybe Peace, and its friends like Hope and Joy, maybe that's a better engine, maybe that's a better source of energy and motivation than my anxiety ever has been. And if my anxiety is fuel, then it's fuel that burns dirty."This episode is from a conversation from February 2026. You can view the transcript and other resources here.Recommended Trinity Forum Readings: Confessions; AugustineBrave New World; Aldous HuxleyThe Long Loneliness; Dorothy DayWrestling With God; Simone Weil

This is the first of a two part discussion. In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Louis Althusser's Essay “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” in relation to Simone Weil. Here, they discuss the state apparatuses and place them in dialogue with Weil's discussion of party politics and attention. They close this episode by investigating the tension between the individual's imagined and real relation to existence.

Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protections, as if they were individuals. The right to life or freedom has been claimed on behalf of fetuses, trees, and elephants. The fund of human rights is spilling over into the nonhuman.Lisa Siraganian's The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots (Verso, 2026) reveals the unsettling consequences of granting rights to imagined persons, such as Sophia the robot citizen or New Zealand's Whanganui River. Synthesizing the political and phil­osophical debates on personhood and drawing on a varied cast of thinkers that includes Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, and Dr. Seuss, Siraganian un­covers the disturbing impact of this contemporary development. Awarding rights to robots and rivers all too easily becomes a legal tool to turn people into capital. When robot Sophia is made a citizen, “she” is transformed into a subject in the law without the corre­sponding legal duties that protect us from her.At the root of this trend is the US Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that grants First Amendment rights to corporations as if they were individuals. The result has not been the transformation of things into humans so much as humans into things, when animals and the environment would be better protected with reference to our humanity rather than to theirs. Lisa Siraganian is the J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities and Professor in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland, USA). Her work has won multiple awards and has been supported by fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Siraganian has written award-winning scholarly monographs that bridge literary criticism, art criticism, and legal and philosophical scholarship. More recently, she was the Editor of the Norton Anthology of American Literature, 10th edition, Volume D (1914-1945) (2022). Tim Wyman-McCarthy is a Lecturer in the discipline of Human Rights and Associate Director of Graduate Studies at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He can be reached at tw2468@columbia.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fabrice Midal, philosophe, fondateur de l'École Occidentale de Méditation et auteur d'une vingtaine de livres dont le dernier, Empêcher que le monde ne se défasse, paru récemment. C'est aussi l'auteur d'un podcast génial.Je le connaissais de loin. J'avais tort de ne pas l'avoir lu plus tôt. Dès qu'on s'est mis à parler, j'ai réalisé qu'on partageait une même manière de regarder le monde : avec inquiétude, mais sans résignation. Avec lucidité sur ce qui fout le camp, et une conviction tenace que quelque chose reste à faire, là, maintenant, à notre échelle.Dans cet épisode, nous parlons de ce que Fabrice appelle la calculabilité généralisée : cette tendance de notre époque à ne considérer comme réel que ce qui se mesure, se gère, se rentabilise. Et comment cette idéologie invisible, qu'on ne voit même plus parce qu'elle est partout, est à l'origine de beaucoup de nos souffrances, de nos burn-out, de notre sentiment d'impuissance collective.J'ai questionné Fabrice sur la différence entre la haine et la colère, sur ce que résister veut vraiment dire, sur pourquoi la méditation est devenue un outil de barbarie dans la majorité des entreprises, et sur ce que Camus, René Char, Etty Hillesum ont à nous dire aujourd'hui. Nous parlons aussi de la distinction entre le sacrifice et l'amour, entre le militantisme et l'engagement, entre réagir et agir.Ce qui m'a le plus frappé dans cette conversation : Fabrice ne propose pas de grand soir. Il propose un pas. Un seul. Et l'idée que ce pas, même invisible, même non mesurable, pourrait changer tout.3. CITATIONS MARQUANTES« Les gens font un burn-out parce qu'ils veulent trop bien faire. Ils ont tellement intégré ce modèle où il faut s'instrumentaliser, sinon on ne va plus trouver sa place. »« Ce qu'on prétend rationnel est très irrationnel. On est obligé de réduire le réel à des équations extrêmement sommaires. Et donc, on oublie non seulement le sensible, mais le réel lui-même. »« On meurt de chagrin. Personne ne meurt de colère. »« Fais ce que tu dois, advienne que pourra. Nous avons à empêcher, dans nos actions au quotidien, que le monde ne s'effondre. »« Ça ne change rien et ça change tout. Ce n'est pas nous qui pouvons mesurer les choses. »4. IDÉES CENTRALES (BIG IDEAS)1. La calculabilité comme idéologie invisible [00:04:57] Notre époque a redéfini le réel : est réel ce qui est calculable, gérable, rentable. Tout le reste, y compris la qualité d'une présence humaine, a été évacué du champ de ce qui compte. Cette idéologie n'est pas neutre : elle produit de la déshumanisation à grande échelle. Pourquoi c'est important : cela requalifie nos problèmes. Ce ne sont pas des problèmes psychologiques, ce sont des problèmes idéologiques. La responsabilité change de camp.2. Dépsychologiser nos souffrances [00:06:00] Le burn-out n'est pas un problème de gestion émotionnelle individuelle. C'est le symptôme d'un modèle qui demande aux gens de s'instrumentaliser pour garder leur place. Remettre la cause dans le système, pas dans la personne, est un geste philosophique et politique. Pourquoi c'est important : ça libère. Et ça déplace l'action possible.3. Colère vs haine : une distinction vitale [00:18:30 – 00:27:00] La colère est saine, elle dit non à l'injustice. Elle est une force de vie, confirmée par l'éthologie, la physiologie, et Descartes lui-même. La haine, elle, veut détruire et jouir de la destruction. Toute résistance qui glisse de la colère vers la haine finit par devenir ce qu'elle combat. Pourquoi c'est important : savoir réussir sa colère, lui donner forme sans la transformer en haine, c'est la condition d'une résistance qui reste humaine.4. Agir sans garantie de résultat [00:15:17 – 00:18:00] Toutes les grandes révolutions, toutes les résistances historiques, ont été faites par des gens qui ne calculaient pas leur impact. Les résistants disaient "je ne pouvais pas faire autrement", pas "j'ai optimisé ma stratégie". Attendre la certitude d'impact avant d'agir, c'est rester prisonnier du système même qu'on veut changer. Pourquoi c'est important : ça autorise à agir maintenant, à sa propre échelle, sans diplôme de héros.5. L'excellence comme acte de résistance ordinaire [00:45:10 – 00:48:00] Sauver le monde n'est pas réservé aux militants. Un médecin qui prend le temps de parler, un cuisinier qui fait à manger avec du cœur : chaque acte fait avec présence empêche que le monde ne se défasse. L'excellence n'est pas la performance calculée, c'est l'humanité mise dans ce qu'on fait. Pourquoi c'est important : ça restitue à chacun une puissance d'agir concrète, immédiate, sans attendre les conditions idéales.6. L'identité comme prison [00:49:39 – 00:51:30] L'injonction contemporaine à se définir, à s'enfermer dans une identité stable, est une illusion. Nous sommes des êtres relationnels, façonnés par le contexte. Ce qui nous libère n'est pas de savoir qui on est, mais d'être en relation. C'est la relation qui guérit. Pourquoi c'est important : cela remet en cause l'individualisme comme fondement de l'action et de l'identité.5. QUESTIONS POSÉES DANS L'INTERVIEWComment toi, tu regardes et tu observes le monde dans lequel on évolue en ce moment ?Pour la plupart des gens, ce qui est réel, c'est ce qui est calculable. Qu'est-ce que ça veut dire concrètement ?Qu'est-ce qui t'effraie dans ce monde ?Tu penses qu'on est dans l'immonde ?Comment tu redescends dans le concret pour traverser cette période, pour les gens qui sont perdus ?Est-ce que c'est possible de vraiment s'extraire de ce modèle ?Tu fais une différence entre la colère et la haine, et tu dis que la colère est saine. C'est quoi une colère réussie ?La méditation n'est-elle pas devenue, elle aussi, un outil de gestion du stress au service du système ?Comment faire son travail bien, dans ce monde-là, sans se trahir ?Qu'est-ce qui te donne envie du futur, toi ?6. RÉFÉRENCES CITÉESPhilosophes et penseursAlbert Camus, Discours de Stockholm (prix Nobel) — titre du livre de Fabrice, fil rouge de l'épisode [00:02:15]Albert Camus, L'Homme révolté — notion de révolte comme condition humaine [00:39:24]Camus vs Sartre, querelle sur la guerre d'Algérie — "entre la justice et ma mère, je préfère ma mère" [00:18:30]Emmanuel Kant — impossibilité de juger sa propre époque de l'extérieur [00:10:36]René Char, Feuillets d'Hypnose — résister sans haine, capitaine Alexandre [00:36:34]Simone Weil (philosophe), Note sur la suppression générale des partis politiques (1944) — danger de renoncer à penser par soi-même [00:21:31]Spinoza — la joie comme carburant de l'action, évoqué par Greg [00:40:42]Descartes — un être humain qui ne peut pas se mettre en colère n'est plus un être humain [00:25:00]Figures historiques et spirituellesEtty Hillesum — jeune femme déportée pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, figure de résistance intérieure, textes lumineux redécouverts il y a 30 ans [00:34:04]Arnaud Beltrame, lieutenant-colonel mort à Trèbes — distinction sacrifice vs amour [00:43:30]Nelson Mandela — agir sans calcul, tenir debout [00:47:21]Le Bouddha — premier acte : déconstruire les castes et l'exclusion des femmes. Mécompréhension généralisée du bouddhisme [00:28:21]Saint François d'Assise — "Sœur la lune, frère arbre", la création comme fraternité [00:04:57]Références culturelles et littérairesKabale juive — la légende des dix justes qui empêchent le monde d'être détruit [00:57:47]Satish Kumar — "leçon de dépendance", nous sommes des êtres dépendants les uns des autres [00:51:00]Œdipe (Sophocle) — les apparences trompeuses [00:04:57]Livres de Fabrice MidalEmpêcher que le monde ne se défasse — dernier livre, fil conducteur de l'épisodeFoutez-vous la paix — burn-out, auto-instrumentalisation, colère7. TIMESTAMPS CLÉS (YOUTUBE)00:00 — Introduction : se réjouir du futur sans naïveté ni fatalisme 00:01:42 — Entrée en matière : comment Fabrice regarde le monde aujourd'hui 00:02:15 — Le titre du livre : ce que Camus voulait dire par "empêcher que le monde ne se défasse" 00:04:07 — Ce qui effraie vraiment Fabrice : la calculabilité comme nouvelle définition du réel 00:06:00 — Burn-out : ce n'est pas un problème psychologique, c'est un problème idéologique 00:08:05 — Le réel comme construction idéologique : économie vs écologie, même combat 00:13:01 — Ce qu'on prétend rationnel est profondément irrationnel 00:15:17 — Comment agir sans garantie de résultat : la leçon des grands résistants 00:18:30 — Haine vs colère : la distinction la plus importante du livre 00:20:14 — Militantisme vs engagement : être contre vs être pour 00:22:48 — Pourquoi la colère est saine, selon Descartes, l'éthologie et la physiologie 00:28:05 — La méditation instrumentalisée : quand elle devient un outil de l'immonde 00:31:09 — Le capitalisme absorbe tout : du self-care au développement personnel 00:33:06 — S'extraire du système ? Non. Remettre du monde là où il n'y en a plus 00:34:04 — Etty Hillesum : rester debout et digne dans l'effondrement 00:36:07 — René Char, Camus, Frankl : les résistants comme boussole 00:40:42 — Joie vs amour : le désaccord amical entre Greg et Fabrice 00:43:30 — Arnaud Beltrame : la différence entre le sacrifice et l'amour 00:45:10 — Sauver le monde commence par faire son travail bien 00:48:43 — Les contradictions font partie de la vie : personne n'est à la hauteur, et c'est soulageant 00:51:00 — L'identité comme illusion : nous sommes des êtres relationnels 00:54:00 — Ce qui donne de l'élan à Fabrice : l'amour et le goût de l'effort 00:57:47 — La légende des dix justes : on ne sait pas si on sauve le monde, et c'est pour ça qu'on le fait 00:59:03 — Clore et ouvrir : fermer la porte au découragement, ouvrir celle du premier pas Suggestion d'autres épisodes à écouter : #388 Comment cultiver la joie quand tout s'effondre? avec Mai Hua (https://audmns.com/njAMVyL) #335 Trouver du reconfort dans un monde en chaos avec Marie Robert (https://audmns.com/ICuFMra) [SOLO ] Reprendre goût au futur dans un monde en crise (https://audmns.com/fKSFkcw)Hébergé par Audiomeans. 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Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protections, as if they were individuals. The right to life or freedom has been claimed on behalf of fetuses, trees, and elephants. The fund of human rights is spilling over into the nonhuman.Lisa Siraganian's The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots (Verso, 2026) reveals the unsettling consequences of granting rights to imagined persons, such as Sophia the robot citizen or New Zealand's Whanganui River. Synthesizing the political and phil­osophical debates on personhood and drawing on a varied cast of thinkers that includes Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, and Dr. Seuss, Siraganian un­covers the disturbing impact of this contemporary development. Awarding rights to robots and rivers all too easily becomes a legal tool to turn people into capital. When robot Sophia is made a citizen, “she” is transformed into a subject in the law without the corre­sponding legal duties that protect us from her.At the root of this trend is the US Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that grants First Amendment rights to corporations as if they were individuals. The result has not been the transformation of things into humans so much as humans into things, when animals and the environment would be better protected with reference to our humanity rather than to theirs. Lisa Siraganian is the J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities and Professor in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland, USA). Her work has won multiple awards and has been supported by fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Siraganian has written award-winning scholarly monographs that bridge literary criticism, art criticism, and legal and philosophical scholarship. More recently, she was the Editor of the Norton Anthology of American Literature, 10th edition, Volume D (1914-1945) (2022). Tim Wyman-McCarthy is a Lecturer in the discipline of Human Rights and Associate Director of Graduate Studies at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He can be reached at tw2468@columbia.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protections, as if they were individuals. The right to life or freedom has been claimed on behalf of fetuses, trees, and elephants. The fund of human rights is spilling over into the nonhuman.Lisa Siraganian's The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots (Verso, 2026) reveals the unsettling consequences of granting rights to imagined persons, such as Sophia the robot citizen or New Zealand's Whanganui River. Synthesizing the political and phil­osophical debates on personhood and drawing on a varied cast of thinkers that includes Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, and Dr. Seuss, Siraganian un­covers the disturbing impact of this contemporary development. Awarding rights to robots and rivers all too easily becomes a legal tool to turn people into capital. When robot Sophia is made a citizen, “she” is transformed into a subject in the law without the corre­sponding legal duties that protect us from her.At the root of this trend is the US Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that grants First Amendment rights to corporations as if they were individuals. The result has not been the transformation of things into humans so much as humans into things, when animals and the environment would be better protected with reference to our humanity rather than to theirs. Lisa Siraganian is the J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities and Professor in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland, USA). Her work has won multiple awards and has been supported by fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Siraganian has written award-winning scholarly monographs that bridge literary criticism, art criticism, and legal and philosophical scholarship. More recently, she was the Editor of the Norton Anthology of American Literature, 10th edition, Volume D (1914-1945) (2022). Tim Wyman-McCarthy is a Lecturer in the discipline of Human Rights and Associate Director of Graduate Studies at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He can be reached at tw2468@columbia.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protections, as if they were individuals. The right to life or freedom has been claimed on behalf of fetuses, trees, and elephants. The fund of human rights is spilling over into the nonhuman.Lisa Siraganian's The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots (Verso, 2026) reveals the unsettling consequences of granting rights to imagined persons, such as Sophia the robot citizen or New Zealand's Whanganui River. Synthesizing the political and phil­osophical debates on personhood and drawing on a varied cast of thinkers that includes Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, and Dr. Seuss, Siraganian un­covers the disturbing impact of this contemporary development. Awarding rights to robots and rivers all too easily becomes a legal tool to turn people into capital. When robot Sophia is made a citizen, “she” is transformed into a subject in the law without the corre­sponding legal duties that protect us from her.At the root of this trend is the US Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that grants First Amendment rights to corporations as if they were individuals. The result has not been the transformation of things into humans so much as humans into things, when animals and the environment would be better protected with reference to our humanity rather than to theirs. Lisa Siraganian is the J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities and Professor in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland, USA). Her work has won multiple awards and has been supported by fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Siraganian has written award-winning scholarly monographs that bridge literary criticism, art criticism, and legal and philosophical scholarship. More recently, she was the Editor of the Norton Anthology of American Literature, 10th edition, Volume D (1914-1945) (2022). Tim Wyman-McCarthy is a Lecturer in the discipline of Human Rights and Associate Director of Graduate Studies at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He can be reached at tw2468@columbia.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protections, as if they were individuals. The right to life or freedom has been claimed on behalf of fetuses, trees, and elephants. The fund of human rights is spilling over into the nonhuman.Lisa Siraganian's The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots (Verso, 2026) reveals the unsettling consequences of granting rights to imagined persons, such as Sophia the robot citizen or New Zealand's Whanganui River. Synthesizing the political and phil­osophical debates on personhood and drawing on a varied cast of thinkers that includes Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, and Dr. Seuss, Siraganian un­covers the disturbing impact of this contemporary development. Awarding rights to robots and rivers all too easily becomes a legal tool to turn people into capital. When robot Sophia is made a citizen, “she” is transformed into a subject in the law without the corre­sponding legal duties that protect us from her.At the root of this trend is the US Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that grants First Amendment rights to corporations as if they were individuals. The result has not been the transformation of things into humans so much as humans into things, when animals and the environment would be better protected with reference to our humanity rather than to theirs. Lisa Siraganian is the J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities and Professor in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland, USA). Her work has won multiple awards and has been supported by fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Siraganian has written award-winning scholarly monographs that bridge literary criticism, art criticism, and legal and philosophical scholarship. More recently, she was the Editor of the Norton Anthology of American Literature, 10th edition, Volume D (1914-1945) (2022). Tim Wyman-McCarthy is a Lecturer in the discipline of Human Rights and Associate Director of Graduate Studies at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He can be reached at tw2468@columbia.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law

Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protections, as if they were individuals. The right to life or freedom has been claimed on behalf of fetuses, trees, and elephants. The fund of human rights is spilling over into the nonhuman.Lisa Siraganian's The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots (Verso, 2026) reveals the unsettling consequences of granting rights to imagined persons, such as Sophia the robot citizen or New Zealand's Whanganui River. Synthesizing the political and phil­osophical debates on personhood and drawing on a varied cast of thinkers that includes Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, and Dr. Seuss, Siraganian un­covers the disturbing impact of this contemporary development. Awarding rights to robots and rivers all too easily becomes a legal tool to turn people into capital. When robot Sophia is made a citizen, “she” is transformed into a subject in the law without the corre­sponding legal duties that protect us from her.At the root of this trend is the US Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that grants First Amendment rights to corporations as if they were individuals. The result has not been the transformation of things into humans so much as humans into things, when animals and the environment would be better protected with reference to our humanity rather than to theirs. Lisa Siraganian is the J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities and Professor in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland, USA). Her work has won multiple awards and has been supported by fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Siraganian has written award-winning scholarly monographs that bridge literary criticism, art criticism, and legal and philosophical scholarship. More recently, she was the Editor of the Norton Anthology of American Literature, 10th edition, Volume D (1914-1945) (2022). Tim Wyman-McCarthy is a Lecturer in the discipline of Human Rights and Associate Director of Graduate Studies at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He can be reached at tw2468@columbia.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Olivier Clerc a fait connaître les Accords Toltèques en France. Il les a traduits et édités, après sa rencontre si marquante avec Don Miguel Ruiz, leur auteur. C'est également auprès de Don Miguel Ruiz qu'il dit avoir vécu une expérience du pardon qui a bouleversé sa vie.« Je me suis retrouvé, bien malgré moi, à transmettre l'art de guérir les blessures du cœur. » C'est ce qu'Olivier Clerc confie dans cet épisode, un an après sa première participation à Zeteo, consacrée alors aux Accords Toltèques.Cette année, avec Le Pardon à soi, en finir avec nos guerres intérieures, Olivier Clerc publie un nouveau livre sur ce sujet du pardon qui est devenu central dans son œuvre. Auteur d'une trentaine d'ouvrages, fondateur des Cercles de Pardon qui rayonnent dans de nombreux pays, Olivier revient ici sur les liens qui relient les Accords au pardon.« Je n'ai rien expérimenté qui provoque une transformation aussi profonde, bénéfique et durable. » Avec une simplicité, une profondeur et une clarté admirables, il décrit quelles sont les arcanes du pardon et de son cheminement, une fois que nous acceptons de nous y engager.« Avant de se pardonner à soi, il faut pardonner les autres » Olivier Clerc revient ici sur les étapes du pardon qu'il détaille dans son livre. La plus importante, l'ultime, est la plus difficile et aussi la plus méconnue : le pardon à soi.  Le mystère le plus profond dans toutes nos existences, c'est peut-être celui du désamour que nous avons envers nous-même. Quelles sont les racines profondes, les ramifications, et les conséquences de ce manque d'amour de soi qui peut se transformer si souvent en haine de soi ? Comment vivre le passage intérieur de l'ombre à la lumière et à l'amour de soi ?Parmi les perles de cet épisode, cette phrase de Simone Weil citée par Olivier : « Ce n'est pas parce que Dieu nous aime que nous devons l'aimer. C'est parce que Dieu nous aime que nous devons nous aimer »Au moment où je reçois en cette fin de semaine les confidences bouleversantes d'amis en détresse à qui je pense fort en écrivant ces lignes, au moment où l'hiver et le printemps se livrent bataille à coups de tempêtes aux vents puissants, au moment où notre monde est pris dans des tourbillons de colères et de conflits, voici un épisode clé avec un homme rempli de douceur et d'humanité, pour ouvrir le flux infini de l'amour divin en chacun et chacune, et pour ressentir une paix et une joie que rien ne pourra effacer.  Pour lire Le Pardon à soi, le nouveau livre d'Olivier Clerc, cliquer ici.Pour découvrir les Cercles de Pardon, créés par Olivier Clerc, cliquer ici. --------------     PAROLES PROPHÉTIQUES...Il y a deux semaines, le titre de l'épisode de Zeteo pour le Dimanche des Rameaux avait une dimension prophétique : « Comment Jésus serait accueilli dans Jérusalem aujourd'hui ? » En choisissant le titre de cet épisode la veille de sa diffusion, je ne savais pas que le lendemain, le jour des Rameaux, l'entrée des lieux saints de Jérusalem serait interdite à ceux qui venaient célébrer la messe ce jour là, une interdiction sans précédent dans la mémoire récente des chrétiens, depuis des siècles…Nous vivons une période agitée, bousculée, avec le sentiment que les évènements inquiétants se multiplient en se produisant de plus en plus souvent, comme si la machine s'emballait, comme si les forces du mal se libéraient.Je crois plutôt que les forces du mal précipitent leur action, parce que le monde nouveau est déjà annoncé. Il est déjà sous nos yeux.Je pense à frère Simon, à la beauté, la profondeur, l'humilité de ses méditations de Semaine sainte que vous avez été si nombreux à écouter. Je le remercie de tout cœur et je remercie la Communauté de Taizé qui offre un des plus beaux visages de l'Église et du monde nouveau.Je pense aux invités passés ou récents de Zeteo. Je pense aux femmes et aux hommes qui vont bientôt parler ici. Ils ne sont pas seuls, ils sont à l'image de la multitude d'hommes et de femmes de bonne volonté qui se lèvent partout. Ils nous annoncent un monde meilleur pour lequel ils sont déjà engagés corps et âme. Les invités de Zeteo sont souvent les prophètes du monde nouveau.« Zeteo, c'est une invitation à traverser les grands changements d'aujourd'hui et de demain. pas seuls, ensemble » C'est ce commentaire d'Alice que je recevais il y a peu.Oui, nous sommes ensemble. Nous formons une réelle communauté qui se retrouve chaque semaine. J'ai le sentiment d'être entouré d'amis merveilleux, certains sont des invités que vous entendez régulièrement sur Zeteo. Je fais aussi des découvertes chaque semaine, comme encore avant-hier, hier et ce matin, avec Laura, Mathilde ou Noura. Vous allez les découvrir à votre tour dans quelques semaines. D'autres sont des auditeurs et des auditrices que je ne connais pas, et qui m'envoient des messages merveilleux. Ce sont aussi des personnes qui confient parfois leur détresse, leur rédemption, leur désespoir, leur solitude ou leur maladie. Je pense ici encore à Servanne, qui lutte contre la maladie avec un panache formidable, et qui m'envoie souvent des messages où elle me transmet beaucoup de force et de lumière.Cette communauté, elle porte de la lumière, de la force et de l'amour. J'aimerais que nous soyons nombreux à penser ou à prier particulièrement pour ceux d'entre nous qui souffrent le plus, comme Servanne ou Jean-Philippe.J'aimerais enfin remercier ceux et celles qui ont fait un don à Zeteo pendant cette période. Aujourd'hui marque la fin de l'octave de Pâques, la fin du temps pascal, un des deux moments clés dans l'année pour la récolte de Zeteo qui ne vit que des dons. C'est pourquoi je renouvelle mon appel auprès de ceux et celles qui n'ont pas encore répondu à cet appel pascal, ceux et celles  qui peuvent contribuer à cette mission de Zeteo, celle de continuer d'accompagner les prophètes, pour continuer aussi de toucher de plus en plus de cœurs.Je mesure que les temps sont difficiles, des coûts importants dans nos vies quotidiennes augmentent dramatiquement, comme ceux de l'essence.Dans ces temps que nous vivons, je crois pourtant qu'un podcast comme Zeteo, qui est peut-être un peu prophétique parfois lui-même, a de plus en plus sa place. C'est pourquoi il est important que ceux, pour qui Zeteocompte dans leur vie, puissent faire un geste qui compte pour Zeteo.D'avance merci aux auditeurs et aux auditrices qui vont entendre ce dernier message pascal, et qui feront un don.Fraternellement,Guillaume Devoud  --------------    Pour soutenir l'effort de Zeteo, podcast sans publicité et d'accès entièrement gratuit, vous pouvez faire un don. Il suffit pour cela de cliquer sur l'un des deux boutons ci-dessous, pour le paiement de dons en ligne au profit de l'association Telio qui gère Zeteo.Cliquer ici pour aller sur notre compte de paiement de dons en ligne sécurisé par HelloAsso.Ou cliquer ici pour aller sur notre compte Paypal.Vos dons sont défiscalisables à hauteur de 66% : par exemple, un don de 50€ ne coûte en réalité que 17€. Le reçu fiscal est généré automatiquement et immédiatement à tous ceux qui passent par la plateforme de paiement sécurisé en ligne de HelloAssoNous délivrons directement un reçu fiscal à tous ceux qui effectuent un paiement autrement (Paypal, chèque à l'association Telio, 76 rue de la Pompe, 75016 Paris – virement : nous écrire à info@zeteo.fr ).  Pour lire d'autres messages de nos auditeurs : cliquer ici.Pour en savoir plus au sujet de Zeteo, cliquer ici.Pour lire les messages de nos auditeurs, cliquer ici.Nous contacter : contact@zeteo.frProposer votre témoignage ou celui d'un proche : temoignage@zeteo.fr

Join Hot Literati at hotliterati.comWhy Some People Are Magnetic It's not confidence. It's not looks. It's not charisma in the way people usually mean it. In this episode, Hailey "hailo" Denise Colborn makes the case that the rarest thing you can give someone isn't your time — it's your attention. Real attention, not performed attention. And most of us have never been taught the difference.We get into Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch's concept of unselfing, the neuroscience of being truly seen, and three practical ways to develop genuine presence. Plus: why reading long-form books is one of the best attention training tools available right now.Explore the Hot Literati Academy at hotliterati.com.

In this episode Barry and Mike continue their discussion on Simone Weil's essay, “On The Abolition of all Political Parties.” They discuss the opposition between the truth seeking individual and the party member, and then pivot to what this question looks like in the current day.

What makes a good life? In the fragmented and harried age we inhabit, what habits of attention, reflection, and action orient us toward what is good, true, and beautiful? The season of Lent is a good time for us to tackle such “big questions.” Drawing on his popular course at Yale, theologian and author Miroslav Volf joined us for an online conversation in 2024, where we explored these questions for a live audience."What is the treasure for which you would be willing to sell everything that you have? And if you know what the treasure is, are you willing ... to risk everything to have that treasure?"Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and founding director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture in New Haven, Connecticut. He has written or edited more than two dozen books, including the New York Times bestseller Life Worth Living, A Public Faith, Public Faith in Action, and Exclusion and Embrace (winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion and selected as among the 100 best religious books of the twentieth century by Christianity Today). Educated in his native Croatia, the United States, and Germany, Volf regularly lectures around the world.Related Trinity Forum Readings:Man's Search for Meaning; Viktor FranklOn Happiness; Thomas Aquinas Brave New World; Aldous HuxleyHow Much Land Does a Man Need? Leo TolstoyWrestling with God; Simone Weil

durée : 00:32:02 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Mathias Le Gargasson - Chrétienne, Simone Weil fut aussi profondément attirée par la spiritualité indienne. Dans le quatrième épisode de la série "Simone Weil ou les métamorphoses" diffusée en 1989, la sanskritiste Alyette Degrâces-Fahd étudie les rapports étroits entre la philosophe et les textes sacrés de l'hindouisme. - réalisation : Emily Vallat

durée : 00:30:53 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Mathias Le Gargasson - D'origine juive, Simone Weil témoigna d'une attirance profonde pour la religion catholique et la figure du Christ. En 1989, Marie-Christine Navarro décline une série "Simone Weil ou les métamorphoses". Dans le deuxième volet Marie-Madeleine Davy s'intéresse à la "mystique weilienne". - réalisation : Emily Vallat - invités : Marie-Madeleine Davy

durée : 00:04:39 - Grand bien vous fasse ! - par : Thibaut de Saint Maurice - « L'attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. » Il s'agit d'une citation de Simone Weil, philosophe et militante française du XX siècle. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

durée : 00:04:39 - Grand bien vous fasse ! - par : Thibaut de Saint Maurice - « L'attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. » Il s'agit d'une citation de Simone Weil, philosophe et militante française du XX siècle. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

This is the first of two episodes on Simone Weil's 1943 essay, “On the Abolition of all Political Parties. In this episode Barry and Mike discuss the distinction Weil draws between “truth” and “ideology”.

After naming gravity, affliction, and attention, this sermon explores what happens when the self begins to loosen its grip on the world it has constructed. Drawing on Simone Weil's theology, de-creation is not destruction for its own sake, it is the undoing of illusion, control, and self-centered narratives that keep us from reality. We spend much of our lives building a world that makes sense to us, one where we are at the center and everything confirms what we already believe. But grace does not reinforce that world. It dismantles it. De-creation is the slow, often painful process of releasing our need to control, explain, and secure ourselves. It is what makes room for truth, for others, and ultimately for God. Before we can be remade, something in us must be unmade.

After descending through gravity and affliction, the journey toward grace begins with attention. Drawing on Simone Weil's insight that attention is the rarest form of generosity, this sermon explores how easily we replace true listening with explanation, advice, or quick solutions. In Mark's Gospel, when the crowd tries to silence Bartimaeus, Jesus does something different—he stands still and asks a question. Attention leaves the space open long enough for another person to speak.

What happens when a poet and a theologian decide to write letters to each other about faith? In this episode, I sit down with Christian Wiman and Miroslav Volf to discuss their book Glimmerings and talk about the language we use for God and why it so often falls short, the tension between God's presence and absence, what the Book of Job has to say about suffering, and whether faith can survive, even deepen, without easy answers. It's a conversation about holding paradox, paying attention, and what it looks like to keep believing in the middle of real life.Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and the founding director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. His books include Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation, winner of the 2002 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. His Gifford Lectures (2025) are titled Amor Mundi: God and the Character of Our Relation to the World.Christian Wiman is the Clement-Muehl Professor of the Arts at Yale Divinity School. He is the author, editor, or translator of fifteen books, including Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair and Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems. His work appears regularly in Harper's, The New Yorker, and Commonweal.Miroslav & Chris' Book:Glimmerings: Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a TheologianChris' Recommendations:The Banquet YearsMiroslav's Recommendation:The Cost of DiscipleshipConnect with Joshua: jjohnson@shiftingculturepodcast.comGo to www.shiftingculturepodcast.com to interact and donate. Every donation helps to produce more podcasts for you to enjoy.Follow on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Threads, Bluesky or YouTubeConsider Giving to the podcast and to the ministry that my wife and I do around the world. Just click on the support the show link belowGet Your Sidekick Support the show

In Scripture, the sea is never neutral. It represents chaos, fear, and the forces that pull everything downward. In Mark 5, Jesus crosses the water to meet a man living among the tombs, bound by affliction and abandoned to gravity. This opening sermon in the Gravity & Grace series explores what Simone Weil called the “natural movement of the soul”: fear descends, water always falls, and we often prefer familiar suffering to unfamiliar grace. Gravity is not malicious, it is simply the law. But grace interrupts. When Jesus restores the man to himself, he does not invite him into the boat. He sends him home to tell what mercy has done. The miracle is not only that he was healed, it is that he returned. Grace does not always pull us toward safety. Sometimes it sends us back into the places least likely to understand us, armed only with a story of mercy.

In a world engineered for distraction, yoga becomes the deliberate practice of training the mind to place its attention where meaning, clarity, and love actually grow. Raghunath and Kaustubha explore attention as the most valuable thing we possess — and the one thing modern culture constantly hijacks. Drawing from Simone Weil's insight that attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity, and the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam's metaphor of glowworms shining when real stars are covered, this episode exposes how noise replaces wisdom, visibility replaces value, and misplaced attention quietly shapes our consciousness — while bhakti offers a radical way to reclaim it. ******************************************************************** LOVE THE PODCAST? WE ARE COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AND WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO JOIN! Go to https://www.wisdomofthesages.com WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/@WisdomoftheSages LISTEN ON ITUNES: https://podcasts/apple.com/us/podcast/wisdom-of-the-sages/id1493055485 CONNECT ON FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/wisdomofthesages108 *********************************************************************

Singer-songwriter Jon Guerra joins Mark Labberton to explore devotional songwriting, public faith, and the tension between the kingdom of Jesus and American cultural power. Through music and reflection, Guerra considers how art can hold grief, courage, and hope together in turbulent times. "Love has a million disguises, but winning is simply not one." In this episode with Mark Labberton, Guerra reflects on songwriting as prayer, the call to love enemies, and artistic courage in moments of cultural crisis. Together they discuss devotional music, George Herbert's influence, the Beatitudes and American culture, citizenship and immigration imagery, increasing polarization, suffering and grace, and the vocation of Christian artists. Episode Highlights "Love has a million disguises, but winning is simply not one." "When Jesus says to love your enemies… he is giving us a means of survival." "This is not sentimentality… the only way to resist becoming what one hates." "My songwriting… would be a means of coming into contact with the invisible God." "Beauty puts us in contact with invisible things." About Jon Guerra Jon Guerra is a singer-songwriter based in Austin, Texas, known for devotional music that blends poetry, theology, and contemporary cultural reflection. His albums include Little Songs (2015), Keeper of Days (2020), Ordinary Ways (2023), and American Gospel. Guerra has also composed music for film, including Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life (2019). The son of immigrants from Cuba and Argentina, his work often explores themes of citizenship, prayer, justice, and the teachings of Jesus. His songwriting draws inspiration from figures like George Herbert and Howard Thurman, and seeks to connect spiritual devotion with public life. Helpful Links and Resources Jon Guerra website: https://www.jonguerramusic.com/ American Gospel album: https://jonguerra.bandcamp.com A Hidden Life film: https://www.searchlightpictures.com/ahiddenlife Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman: https://www.beacon.org/Jesus-and-the-Disinherited-P1781.aspx The Porter's Gate: https://www.portersgateworship.com/ Show Notes Devotional songwriting George Herbert influence on the pursuit of prayerful craft "Music for attending to the soul." Monday morning prayer music framing devotional practice Beauty and invisible realities in artistic experience American Gospel song introduction and cultural critique Beatitudes inversion in American culture "How do I give Christ a say in this conversation?" Love Your Enemies composition and album Jesus Howard Thurman's influence on enemy-love theology (Jesus and the Disinherited) Emotional formation through news, anger, and public life Death of ego and kingdom discipleship Kierkegaard and faith beyond ideology Worship as reordering power Kingdom of Jesus song and Pilate encounter Allegiance to a greater kingdom beyond nationalism Citizenship as foreignness imagery Immigrant family background shaping songwriting Citizens song written after 2017 inauguration "Come to you because I'm confused." Five-four musical structure expressing disorientation Groaning beauty and Romans 8 resonance Artists as "holy fools" naming reality Moltmann and theology near the cross Simone Weil: gravity and grace reflection "Love has a million disguises, but winning is simply not one." Hashtags #JonGuerra #DevotionalMusic #LoveYourEnemies #ChristianArt #AmericanGospel #PublicFaith #Jesus #Gospel #SpiritualFormation Production Credits Conversing is produced and distributed in partnership with Comment Magazine and Fuller Seminary.  

Neste podcast: Clóvis de Barros aborda o pensamento de Simone Weil para concluir a reflexão sobre a parábola do fermento.

Listen to the full episode Simone Weil was skeptical about the project of “rights.” They argued that obligations come before rights, and that rights only become real when obligations are recognized and lived.  Weil believed the French Revolution made a foundational error by grounding society in rights rather than eternal obligations, creating a contradiction that still haunts liberal democracies today. Rights, Weil argues, carry a bargaining spirit and ultimately depend on force for enforcement, while obligations arise unconditionally from the mere fact of another person's vulnerability. You owe something to others not because they've asserted a claim, but because they exist. Drawing from Weil's posthumous The Need for Roots, Matthew unpacks their critique of liberal rights discourse: that modern societies undermine their own moral claims by prioritizing abstractions over duties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Reed Dent talk about the virtue of faith and the idea of trusting the story.“Bad Theology: A Quiz” by Scott Cairns — America MagazineWishful Thinking by Frederick BuechnerMere Christianity by C. S. LewisThe Gospel of Being Human by Marty Solomon and Reed DentAsking Better Questions of the Bible by Marty SolomonVelvet Elvis by Rob BellGravity and Grace by Simone WeilZero at the Bone by Christian WimanMark 8 — Reed Dent, Campus Christian Fellowship

Simone Weil's razor-sharp insight cracks open this episode: we glamorize imaginary evil and underestimate how powerful real goodness actually is. Raghunath and Kaustubha reflect on goth culture, mob movies, Nagababas, and kirtan festivals as they contrast the "cool darkness" our minds romanticize with the deep, surprising joy of a life given to Krishna. Along the way, Lord Brahmā's prayers in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.14 expose how our homes, families, and attachments can either imprison us—or become our path to liberation. ******************************************************************** LOVE THE PODCAST? WE ARE COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AND WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO JOIN! Go to https://www.wisdomofthesages.com WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/@WisdomoftheSages LISTEN ON ITUNES: https://podcasts/apple.com/us/podcast/wisdom-of-the-sages/id1493055485 CONNECT ON FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/wisdomofthesages108 ********************************************************************* Join Raghu's Whatsapp channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb704tt9WtC02KPwhc1R