Podcasts about watchtowers

From Bitcoin Magazine X Spaces, Business Reporter Juan Galt sits down with Roy Sheinfeld, co-founder of Breeze, to discuss the evolving architecture of Bitcoin's Lightning Network and how Breeze is working to make Bitcoin more usable as a medium of exchange. Roy explains Breeze's unique SDK architecture, the role of Lightning Service Providers (LSPs), and the technical trade-offs of custodial vs. non-custodial systems.The conversation dives deep into the mechanics of self-custody, key management, watchtowers, and the controversial use of stablecoins like USDT on Lightning via Taproot Assets. Roy also shares what's coming next for Breeze—including support for Bolt 12, BIP 353, Nostr Wallet Connect, and WASM.Chapters:00:00 – Intro and Bitcoin News Roundup05:40 – What is Breeze? Company Mission and Evolution08:00 – Solving Lightning's UX: Breeze SDK Explained12:00 – Key Management, External Signers, and Custody Models15:00 – Native Lightning vs. Liquid-Based Payments18:00 – Lightning Service Providers and UX Challenges21:00 – Is Breeze Custodial? The Liquid Trust Model Debate26:00 – Defining “Self-Custody”: Terminology Controversies30:00 – Phoenix, Watchtowers & Trust Assumptions in Lightning34:00 – Unilateral Exit as a Bitcoin Layer 2 Filter39:00 – Bolt 12 and BIP 353 Support Incoming42:00 – Building for Nostr: Wallet Connect and Zaps44:00 – Taproot Assets & Stablecoins on Lightning47:00 – Regulatory Risks and the USDT Lightning Takeover Concern49:00 – What's Next for Breeze: Mr. Breeze, WASM, and Multi-Network SupportRecorded 04/05/2025

We explore the wild idea of vacationing in fire watchtowers—rugged, remote, and oddly serene. Then, we tackle a burning question: can you still call yourself a man while tossing a beach ball around? Spoiler: we're rethinking masculinity one bounce at a time. We sip on the tangy trend of pickle juice as a beverage—will it catch on or leave us puckered out? Finally, we join real wine and pizza connoisseurs who swear by boxed wine and fruit-topped pies for the ultimate gourmet rebellion. Laughs, debates, and weird wisdom! #UnconventionalLife #FireWatchtowers #BeachBallDebate #PickleJuiceTrend #WineAndPizza #QuirkyPodcast #OffbeatVibes #JeffandJeremy

The Minor Prophets: Habakkuk (Habakkuk 1:12-2:1)

Join us for a discussion about the Occult Elements and all such related topics including the Elemental Kings and Watchtowers. All of our links at https://linktr.ee/intothewyldwood

#Israel Along the North Watchtowers. Sarit Zehavi: Lieutenant Colonel (Res.) Sarit Zehavi is the CEO and founder of Alma. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 https://israel-alma.org/2023/11/02/the-hamas-pij-and-pflp-strongholds-in-lebanon-posing-a-multi-front-threat-to-israel/ https://israel-alma.org/2023/11/01/daily-update-israel-at-war-day-26-nov-1-2023-2000-pm-israel-time/ https://israel-alma.org/2023/11/01/does-lebanese-public-opinion-influence-hezbollahs-decision-to-enter-the-war/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/hamass-attack-on-israel-was-straight-out-of-hezbollahs-playbook/   1857 JERUSALEM

I'm joined by guests James O'Beirne⁠ & Rijndael to discuss CTV. Discussion Topics 00:01:23 Guest intros 00:01:58 Recap 00:03:10 Technical overview of covenants 00:14:41 Watchtowers 00:16:16 Use cases for vaulting & scripts 00:21:53 Use cases for vaulting & scripts 00:26:10 Covenants as a solution to third party 00:27:42 Covenants and censorship risks 00:33:24 Covenants and censorship risks 00:34:07 Risks of major Bitcoin changes 00:39:39 Cryptographic improvements of CTV 00:40:14 Quantifying the scale of change in code 00:46:52 TX hash 00:49:04 Simplicity of CTV 00:50:19 The consensus deadlock 00:55:34 Social coordination and activation 01:05:55 Speedy trial - good or bad for Bitcoin? 01:16:00 Problems with Bitcoin core defaults 01:18:18 The politics of changing Bitcoin 01:23:36 Testing for consensus 01:28:37 State sabotage 01:31:56 Moving forward with activation 01:36:48 State of development and economic 01:53:04 Bitcoin.Review going late night call 01:54:04 Next steps 01:59:58 Bitcoin politics closing summary 02:01:38 Closing thoughts Links & Contacts Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod Email: producer@coinkite.com Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!) Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-52

One of the most renown forms of Magic we have today was received by the Arch Mage of England John Dee and his scrying counterpart Edward Kelley. No doubt, even if you have a cursory knowledge of the world of Magic, the word "Enochian" conjures up many opinions. For some it is a beyond useful and very powerful type of magical process which tests the magician resolve. For others, it is such a powerful form of magic that doing it could cause ruination, insanity and disaster for the one who dares attempt it. On this Episode, we have Scott Stenwick and Cliff Wigtil helping us get some perspective on the whole enterprise that is called Enochian Magic.

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Did you know that the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere is dedicated as World Giraffe Day? Amazing Wildlife heads to the Savannah hub to honor the long legged, long necked giraffe for its special day on June 21st. Marco and Rick are joined by lead wildlife care specialist, Charlie Hyde, who shares his expertise after being at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park for about 15 years. Charlie lets us in on uniqueness of the tallest mammal's tongue and hooves and explains what differentiates their neck though they have the same number of vertebrae as us. With these animals in a mixed species habitat, we'll learn how they interact with the others and how their height plays a big part in everyone's environment.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I'm joined by guests Steve Lee, Future Paul & Stephan Livera, to go through the list. Housekeeping 00:01:44 OpenSats 00:05:08 Reproducible builds Bitcoin • Security Updates 00:06:50 Ledger miniscript vulnerability 00:08:12 Ledger Recover • Software Releases & Project Updates 00:23:30 Coldcard Mk4 6.0.0X 00:29:28 Liana 00:33:55 nunchuk-android 00:34:10 Mempool.space 00:42:17 electrum 00:42:47 Mercury Wallet 00:43:30 BlueWallet 00:43:57 libwally-core 00:44:54 startOS 00:45:57 Robosats 00:46:31 mycitadel-desktop 00:48:31 Blockstream Green Desktop 00:48:53 Parmanode 00:49:16 Whirlpool 00:52:14 Orange Pill App • Project Spotlight 00:52:39 Lnscribe 00:54:29 Joltz rewards 00:54:38 The Bitcoin Legacy Project 00:55:18 lndk Lightning & L2 • Software Releases & Project Updates 00:58:15 Cashu 01:04:01 Mutiny 01:11:23 Alby 01:12:27 lnbits 01:12:52 Core Lightning 01:14:37 TORQ 01:14:51 Satimoto 01:15:10 Swisspay 01:15:20 Polar 01:15:33 Nayuta Wallet 01:15:46 Wavlake 01:15:55 River • Project Spotlight 01:15:59 Zap Planner 01:17:07 Vortex 01:18:51 Etta Wallet Nostr • Software Releases & Project Updates 01:19:22 Damus 1tapzap • Project Spotlight 01:20:02 nostr-zap 01:21:05 nostr-control 01:21:35 Wasabi Nostr Boosts Thanks to everyone who streamed sats, and shoutout to our top boosters: @apemithrandir, @obex, @northofthewall, @vake, @hipocrates, @dubravko Bitcoin Optech Newsletter 01:25:52 LSPs specifications [251] 01:30:15 Bitcoin Core developers in-person meeting [251] News & Noteworthy • Lightning & L2 01:37:53 Burak announces Ark 01:46:15 MicroStrategy announces Lightning Platform 01:46:28 Wallet of Satoshi Has Processed 9m LN Payments 01:46:46 Zebedeeio announce the Node.js SDK for the ZEBEDEE API • Privacy 01:47:02 BULL BITCOIN becomes a No-KYC exchange 01:47:08 HODL HODL and BISQ announce lightning integration 01:47:37 Lava Launched in Miami 01:49:37 Amboss privacy concerns • Integration 01:51:06 Total Play has integrated Bitcoin Lightning payments 01:51:16 IBEX Mercado announced partnership with Grupo Salinas • Business News 01:51:23 Strike expands Bitcoin payments to 65 countries, moves global headquarters to El Salvador 01:51:39 Paxful is back online 01:51:48 Stripe announced the launch of a Stripe-hosted fiat-to-crypto onramp 01:54:35 Fold Expands to El Salvador as Base for Latin American Operations 01:54:59 Bittrex Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection • Funding 01:55:06 Fedi 01:56:32 HRF gifts 16.5 BTC via its Bitcoin Development Fund to support 12 projects worldwide 01:56:45 River Raises $35 Million 01:56:50 Tether will allocate >15% of operating profits to purchase Bitcoin 01:58:32 Brink partners with Marathon Digital to raise $1,000,000 for funding Bitcoin Core development • Legal & Political See full shownotes (link below) • Reads 01:59:33 Here's a few of our recent recommended reads: Watchtowers on Lightning Network by Voltage.cloud, How do Lightning Network Fees Work by Voltage.cloud, Seeding a Bitcoin marketplace by Pablo, Using Spacechains and Fedimint to solve scaling by Fiatjaf, Bitcoin, CTV Covenants, and Enigma by Polyd_ Links & Contacts • Audience Questions 02:04:01 "How many words of a 24 word seed phrase you'd need to know (in the correct order), for the full seed phrase to become realistically brute-forceable?" Links & Contacts Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod Email: producer@coinkite.com Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!) Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-37/

The party presses the attack while coping with a staggering loss. Personnel: Bill Beard, Chris Bergman, Mike Fessinger, Donny Gore, and Brad JarrettWebsiteDiscordTwitterPathfinder Second Edition and the Kingmaker Adventure Path are published by Paizo."Take the Lead" and other featured music were composed by Kevin MacLeod and licensed under Creative Commons by: Attribution 4.0 License.All ambiances were composed by Michael Ghelfi Studios.The Zero Check are committed to providing an inclusive and respectful experience to all listeners, but we also recognize and acknowledge that we are limited by our individual frames of reference. If we misstep, please let us know. Email all feedback to feedback@zerocheckpodcast.com.Thank you for listening to The Zero Check.

BDP 71 Pre-Show Coin CEO Bob Lee was stabbed to death (https://protos.com/mobilecoin-exec-bob-lee-stabbed-to-death-in-san-francisco-attack/) in San Francisco News The peer to peer (sort of?) exchange Paxful has shut down (https://paxful.com/sign-up-transition) and wants users to withdraw funds amidst regulatory and other pressures 2016 bitcoin talk forums were already suspicious (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1621766.0) of paxful Crypto hedgefund scammers Kyle Davies and Su Zu are involved with OPNX, an exchange to trade the bankrupt claims the two scammers created (https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/04/04/opnx-exchange-which-offers-ftx-claims-trading-led-by-three-arrows-founders-is-now-live/) Economics and Banking The U.S. Federal Reserve never talks about eurodollars, but a former FED trader gives a very FED-ish take (https://fedguy.com/ameridollars/) on eurodollars in a period of bank deposit risk Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan a GSIB investment bank, summarizes the problem of balancy sheet capacity (https://archive.is/NGhlD) that led to the SVB bank failure Energy Texas Legislature votes to limit participation (https://archive.ph/dbtvd) in demand response schemes to less than 10% (https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB1751/id/2730952) of all demand response capacity Texan bill to create gold-backed digital currency (https://www.kitco.com/news/2023-04-06/Texas-moves-to-create-gold-backed-digital-currency.html) is slightly baffling Bitcoin Education Bitcoin Optech #245 covers a new proposal for watchtower accountability (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/04/05/) on lightning Neutrino is a bitcoin node (https://github.com/jtymoszczuk/neutrino-guide) that validates but does not store the entire history Feedback Remember to get in touch bitcoindadpod@protonmail.com or @bitcoindadpod (https://mobile.twitter.com/bitcoindadpod) on twitter Consider joining the matrix channel (https://matrix.to/#/#bitcoin:jupiterbroadcasting.com) using a matrix client like element (https://element.io/get-started), details here (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/community/matrix/) Boosts From: Jinformatique - no kyc p2p TAILS on a USB sticks. installed sparrow with persistance data. multisig with 3 paper wallets and another single sig paper wallet. robosats to buy my first sats KYC free throught Alby. coinos.io to swap lightning to on-chian Thank you Boosters If you get some value from this show, please consider sending a boost. Hearing from you means a lot to us! Send a Boost via the Podcast Index web page. No Podcast app upgrade required. Install Alby (https://getalby.com/) Find the Bitcoin Dad Pod on the Podcast Index (https://podcastindex.org/podcast/5049889) Boost right from the page! Send a re-ocurring or one-off lightning boost to the show with no message at bdadpod@getalby.com or directly to Chris at chrislas@getalby.com Value for Value Podcasting 2.0 to support an indepenent podcasting ecosystem (https://podcastindex.org/) Recomended Podcasting2.0 apps: Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/) podcast app (Android) Podverse (https://podverse.fm/) (Cross platform and self hostable) + Alby (https://getalby.com/) for boosts Castamatic (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/castamatic-podcast-player/id966632553) (Apple) Sponsors and Acknowledgements Music by Lesfm from Pixabay Self Hosted Show (https://selfhosted.show/) courtesy of Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/)

I'm joined by guests James O'Beirne, Rijndael, Antoine Poinsot and Ben Carman to discuss OP_VAULT for Bitcoin covenants. Discussion Topics: 00:03:40 Overview of OP_VAULT 00:10:34 Practical examples of OP_VAULT 00:14:44 Anchors and fee management mechanisms 00:17:05 Fee management 00:20:37 Generating addresses 00:23:44 Use cases for OP_VAULT 00:26:29 Key management 00:31:56 Inheritance planning 00:33:35 Simplicity vs complexity 00:38:42 OP_VAULT practical applications 00:44:34 Covenants and discreet log contracts 00:57:44 OP_VAULT benefits 01:05:31 Criticisms and risks 01:09:27 Watchtowers and handling blockchain information 01:12:35 Fungability concerns 01:18:46 Drivechains & CTV 01:21:34 Unforseen consequences (ordinals) 01:23:03 Activating OP_VAULT 01:42:15 Chain ossification 01:43:23 Bitcoin vs gold - attack vectors 01:51:37 Further reading Links & Contacts: Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod Email: producer@coinkite.com Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!) Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-23/

We've all done it; we've created Sacred Space by calling the Spirits of the Four Directions. We stand at each direction and draw the appropriate pentagram and we Invoke the Spirits that have the appropriate character. But where does all that mumbo jumbo come from? Some say Gerald Gardner, which is correct to a point. Others say that Witches have been doing that on their own and in secret, like, forever - which is really not at all true. So this week we're going to find out who or what the Watchtowers are and where they came from. They may or may not have something to do with Archangels, and Archangels may or may not be a Christian thing. Don't worry; I will not leave you in suspense for long. But, like everything else, The Watchtowers DO have something to do with Stars; and so does the story of Orpheus, and his Lyre. We'll see how those tie together. And I also we'll hear from Lon Milo Duquette as he talks about "The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram". Be well. Do good. Enjoy the show!

On today's Watchman Newscast, host Erick Stakelbeck tackles the reports of Lebanon's Hezbollah establishing dozens of new observation towers along the northern frontier of Israel. The construction of these intelligence-gathering posts appear to be more than just a flex on Israel's doorstep and part of a calculated process by the terror group. Plus, Israel builds a new bomb shelter just meters away from the Lebanese border as tensions continue to build. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As most of our active and Associate Members know we are mainly focused on Solomonic Ceremonial magick, but we also use the Aethyr System from Dee and Kelly's Enochian corpus, which provides us with an operative alternative when the Moon is not well aspected for Goetia. The Aethyr System, originally called “Terrestrial Victory” and was a thirty-level spherical model of the Universe with the Earth in its center and the Aeythrs or Heavens (Gnostic Aeons originally) surrounding and expanding from the terrestrial center like the layers of an onion with the lowest as number 30 TEX rising on up to LIL as number one enclosing the outer limit of the circular universe. All of these levels are related to the Four Elemental Tablets, called The Watchtowers which relate to the celestial sphere and are positioned around the magic circle. Each of these Aethyrs have angelic governors whose sigils are outlined on the tablets. This is derived from Kamea Magic. The Aethyrs themselves derive from Valentinian Gnosticism, and the Book of Revelation The Magicians who explore these astral realms will activate the tablets, with Enochian Calls, and then scry into an orb on the altar within the magic circle. You can see this in our introductory video “The Rites of Magick.” We have discussed this on the Hermetic hour before but tonight we are going to go much deeper into the mysteries and paradoxes of this powerful system of magic. So, if you want to learn how to open Pinhead's (Choronzon's) Box tune in and chant with us: Zacar od Zamran!

The Hyper-Clan, Watchtowers, and constipated heroes! This week the brothers read JLA: New World Order. We discuss Aquaman's ability to talk to porpoises, Ben gives out presents, and Batman is only human after all. Thanks for tuning in. We read: JLA: New World Order Next: Batman/Catwoman #11 and The Final Night

We've all done it; we've created Sacred Space by calling the Spirits of the Four Directions. We stand at each direction and draw the appropriate pentagram and we Invoke the Spirits that have the appropriate character. But where does all that mumbo jumbo come from? Some say Gerald Gardner, which is correct to a point. Others say that Witches have been doing that on their own and in secret, like, forever - which is really not at all true. So this week we're going to find out who or what the Watchtowers are and where they came from. They may or may not have something to do with Archangels, and Archangels may or may not be a Christian thing. Don't worry; I will not leave you in suspense for long. But, like everything else, The Watchtowers DO have something to do with Stars; and so does the story of Orpheus, and his Lyre. We'll see how those tie together. And I also have a spoken word meditation from Ted Andrews, called "The Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram". Be well. Do good. Enjoy the show!

Message from service on November 7, 2021 Scripture: Nehemiah 8, Psalm 51

Jonam Tullio Ross from England is a former Jehovahs Witness. He knows on first hand how Watchtowers indoctrination can affect your life, even years after you leave "The Organisation".Today he is helping other former Witnesses to build up a new, and free, life.I hope you will find this conversation as interesting as I did........................................................................................(Engang imellem vil jeg tale med engelsksprogede tidligere Jehovas Vidner. Men bare rolig - podcasten fortsætter generelt på dansk.

Photo:  Southcom with multinational forces in amphibious landing during UNITAS LXII #NewWorldReport: SOUTHCOM along the watchtowers.   Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, Latin American Research U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.  https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/2718065/southcom-commander-nominee-us-must-remain-partner-of-choice-in-western-hemisphe/

Hail to the Guardians of the Watchtowers of the Notties! It's October so I guess it's time to catch up with "The Bitches of Eastwick." Grammy nominated music video and short film director David Wilson (Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, M83, Tame Impala, Metronomy) hops on the pod to talk with me about Andrew Fleming's teen witch drama The Craft. The movie was released in 1996 and stars Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Rachel True, Skeet Ulrich, and Christine Taylor. 

0:00 Intro 5:32 The problem with twinks 9:18 Proof even the best player can't beat a twink 11:16 The intended experience of invasions 12:48 What frequency should invaders win at? 20:15 Disagreement over invader host win rate 26:10 We should avoid standoffs where neither party moves 37:35 Anti PvP advocates and why it's so hated by some 41:03 Framing problem with invasions 45:16 You can't be invaded unless you engage with the multiplayer 50:09 People not wanting to engage with invasions 59:01 Pro invasion people may not be a tiny minority 1:00:16 Fel's invasion story 1:03:39 Invader representation in polls 1:10:09 Bloodborne chalice dungeons 1:16:50 Miyazaki's magnum opus 1:18:59 DS1 vs DS3 1:24:37 Watchtowers in Elden Ring 1:28:49 Currently only 1 invader at a time 1:30:06 PS5 hesitancy 1:35:36 They already have all the pvp people's money 1:36:47 amish speaks blasphemous doom upon us Fel's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Felicificity iamamish's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/fsdfajklklj Evidence that you can't get invaded unless you engage with the multiplayer systems: https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/c... iamamish's video on the system: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EFTyjXy...

After an absence from E3, Gamescom and plenty other larger industry events this year, we finally got a large scope showcase from Sony showing the future of the PlayStation 5's library of games. From 3rd party exclusive partnerships with the likes of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake all the way to a look at their internal studios giving us something to "Marvel" at! We share our thoughts on the showcase, get the community's feedback on the issue of upgrade path's for cross-gen games, discuss Elden Ring's seemingly larger open-world & how "Watchtowers" will aid in exploration, think back on Jim Ryan's remarks that Sony is working on their competitor to Game Pass and what that might really look like should it ever come around, and explore the concerns of IP crossing over into different mediums than its origination! Join us on Triangle Squared: A PlayStation Podcast! New episodes posts every Monday at 12PM CST/10AM PST This show is made possible thanks to the support of our Patrons. Consider becoming one today: www.patreon.com/nartech Discord Server: discord.gg/cEvKzqm Twitch: www.twitch.tv/nartechgaming Email or tweet us your thoughts or suggestions! Twitter: twitter.com/TriangleSqrd Email: trianglesquaredpodcast@gmail.com PSN ID's: Add us! Brett - Chaimera086 Sol - MeteoricDemise #PlayStation #PlayStationPodcast #TriangleSquared

As one of our top recommended parenting resources, Preston Bowman from AXIS dives in deep on how parents can navigate our constantly changing technology. With Parent Guides, video Conversation Kits, a robust app, and the well-known Culture Translator newsletter, the most pressing questions you have about your kids and technology are at your fingertips. AXIS empowers you to feel confident to engage in these deep conversations with your kids. TAKEAWAYS Media has shifted in such a short period of time The “Walls and Watchtowers” concept combats the isolation and withdrawal in our kids Creating an environment so kids willingly involve you in their world How AXIS empowers parents to combat culture’s influences

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Arianne II - The Gang Goes to Griffin’s Roost aka All Along the Watchtowers, Princess Arianne & Crew with guest ManaroGeekTV and Scad of Davos Fingers! Davos Fingers pod: https://apple.co/2Qomy1N ManaroGeekTV: https://bit.ly/3buHueN www.historyofwesteros.com www.patreon.com/historyofwesteros Flick Invite Link (PHONE ONLY): bit.ly/howflick Discord Invite Link: bit.ly/howdiscord Facebook group: bit.ly/howfb HoW YouTube: bit.ly/howyoutube --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/history-of-westeros-game-of-thrones/support

In her sermon for the fifth Sunday of Easter, the Rev. Barbara Ballenger admits to some hesitancy to be in the powerless and vulnerable position of prune-able branch of Christ the vine. She also reminds us that our job is to stay with the vine and that, “Our role as disciples of Jesus, as branches of the vine of Christ, is to help people find God's love right at hand.” Today's readings are: 1 John 4:7-21 Psalm 22:24-30 John 15:1-8 Readings may be found on LectionaryPage.net Transcript: [Introductory Music] [The Rev. Barbara Ballenger] Let us pray: Lord Christ, help us to recognize you in the love that flows through us, in the way we bloom and bear fruit. Amen. Please, be seated. This past Earth Day the Climate Action Team led a sunset compline walk along Forbidden Drive down by the Valley Green Inn. Between evening prayers, parishioner Sue MacQueen invited us to tune into the sounds and the sights of the vast network of life that we were part of. At one point she called our attention to a dead tree. A living tree might hold a hundred different species of life within it, she said. But a seemingly dead tree is teaming with life, housing and nourishing thousands of species of all kinds. That shouldn't have been a very hard concept for me to grasp, given how complex and interconnected a species we ourselves are, how reliant we are on systems upon systems of relationships. But at that moment I felt a little like an outsider staring at a city from a great distance. It can be very hard for me to shake the great myth of individualism that shaped me, the sense that I'm a free agent, self-made by myriad individual choices. It can be very hard for me to see myself in the bigger picture, how I'm shaped by what I'm a part of and what is part of me. The NIH reminds me that the micro-organisms that my body hosts outnumber my human cells 10 to 1. I don't like to think about that all that much. But even if I set dead trees and gut flora aside, today I'm faced with the story of the Vine and the Branches, in which I'm invited to see myself as a small, prune-able part of something that's largely out of my control, while channeling within me the generative power of God's love. “Abide in me as I abide in you,” Jesus says in today's Gospel from John. “Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.” How exactly do God and I abide in one another? Abide, it's a word that means to remain with or to stay with. And it means to live. Remain in me as I remain in you. Live in me as I live in you. The vine is a brilliant metaphor for this. In Jesus, God plants the divine self in creation, and the Christ, the Word of God, emerges in our world like a vine -- reachable and knowable and believable. The life-sap of that vine is the love that the author of First John is talking about, bursting out in branches and flowers and fruit. Who are those branches? You are those branches, Jesus tells his disciples. We are those branches, he tells us. And our job – allow that love to bloom, bear fruit. The Scripture writers knew that this cooperation with God may seem simple, but it's certainly not easy. You don't usually get admonitions to love one another if everyone is already doing a great job of it. Moses gave us the 10 commandments after all, not the Top 10 list of Israel's best qualities. The health and wellbeing of the vine as a metaphor for the health of Israel's relationship with God is found throughout Scripture. Isaiah points out how much tending a vineyard requires – a bit different from those seeds that are thrown willy nilly on all sorts of ground. Vineyards are planted very intentionally, protected with walls. Watchtowers are built to guard the harvest so it isn't stolen. The vineyard master waters and tends the vines. In the Hebrew Scriptures, Israel is the vine that God plants and tends. God often laments the quality of harvest when God's people produce wild, inedible grapes and the wood of their vine isn't good for anything but burning. Until Jesus himself becomes the vine in John's Gospel. Jesus is Israel at its most faithful -- fully covenanted, abiding completely in God. And in Jesus, the ancient promise of the wider world coming to God through Israel occurs. But this didn't prevent the strife that grew up among the members of the early Christian communities, especially the ones for whom this Epistle and Gospel were intended. Their disagreement over teachings about Jesus threatened the whole faithful enterprise they were part of. The advice the Epistle writer gives them is: let God love through you. Let that love push out the fear that causes communities to split apart. The Gospel writer would say: remain a living branch on the bigger vine that is Christ. To participate in the generative work of God in the world, one has to stay with the vine. Disciples who have lost access to the love that flows from that divine relationship will not bear fruit, and their faith will die, and they will fall away, or be trimmed away by the vine grower. I have to admit the metaphor of the vine and branches makes me a little uncomfortable when I really think about it. First, being a branch is a pretty passive role – not like being the hands and feet of Jesus or heading off to pasture with the flock. Being a branch feels more like letting everything happen through me, without my complete control. In the metaphor of the vine and the branches, there's a whole lot of pruning going on, and I'm not in control of the clippers. Maybe it's easy to lose sight of who we are in metaphors like these – perhaps we confuse God's role with ours. Throughout John's Gospel, Jesus explains who he is in a variety of ways, many of which start with an I am statement. Now in biblical language, especially in the Hebrew Scriptures, I Am refers to God. When Moses asks the voice in the burning bush what name to give it, God replies: I AM Who I AM. So whenever you run into the phrase “I AM" in the scriptures, pay attention, because God is near. So Jesus says in various places in John's Gospel: I am the bread of life, I am the light of the world, I am the door or the sheep gate; I am the good shepherd; I am the resurrection; I am the way, the truth and the life; I am the vine. Each one of these statements describes not only who Jesus is, but who God is in relation to humanity – each describes how God reaches out to humanity through Jesus. That begs the question: who are we then in these descriptions? We are table guests; we are travelers on a path following a light; we are receivers of truth; we are sheep who are led and protected; we are the dead restored to life; we are branches that bear the fruit of God's love in the world. Without this dynamic mutuality, this systemic life in God, Jesus becomes just a historical figure, or worse yet, an idol. Belief becomes an argument and the church becomes a discriminating club. I wonder sometimes if people's distaste for Christianity is really a distaste for those things – the idol, the apologetics, the club. I have to believe that the world does have a taste for, in fact a deep thirst, for the love of God that is described in First John. Who doesn't want life, and a deliverance from and a righting of the world's evils? Who doesn't want to be free of fear? Who doesn't want to be forgiven instead of punished? Who doesn't want to be included and accepted rather than despised and hated? Who doesn't want the boldness and confidence and courageous relationships that come from that kind of love? Our role as disciples of Jesus, as branches of the vine of Christ, is to help people find God's love right at hand. In these demanding and exhausting times, there is something almost restful about being a branch on Christ's vine. What would it take for me to ease up a bit, let go of my fear of getting it wrong, and just let God's world-changing love flow through me and out to others who need it. Parishioner Scott Robinson put it this way in a Facebook post recently: It occurs to me the vine is not separate from the branches; in fact, they are made of the same stuff--they are all of a piece. When I am having trouble tuning in to the divine presence, I can remind myself that I am already a branch of the vine. What if we saw ourselves as already teaming with the life and love of God? What if we stopped wrestling with God for control of the clippers and just let God be the vine grower? What greater yield might we bear? And who out there might finally find what they've been hungering for: Love right at hand, fruit ripe for the picking. Amen. Permission to podcast/stream the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-701187. All rights reserved. Video, photographs, and graphics by the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Episcopal Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 8000 St. Martin's Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19118. 215.247.7466. https://www.stmartinec.org

Weekly worship with the Blue Army1st Age- "It Comes Like Lightening"                    "King of Glory"2nd Age- "Let it Come"                     "I Surrender All"           

Blenheim-born and Wellington-bred Shannon Digby is a mum of three who lives in Zons, a fairy-tale village on the edge of the Rhine river in the mid-West of Germany. 

Blenheim-born and Wellington-bred Shannon Digby is a mum of three who lives in Zons, a fairy-tale village on the edge of the Rhine river in the mid-West of Germany. 

Chronicles of Darkness has their vampires, werewolves, and changelings, but what are their mages like? More importantly, what can we steal from them? Occultists Anonymous, a Mage: The Awakening liveplay explains what they think makes the game so special and what the coolest bits of the game are. Books referenced: Mage the Awakening 2e - Current edition of Mage the Awakening Chronicles of Darkness 2e - Core rulebook that also includes information for the default Chronicles setting. Mage Translation Guide - An explainer on how to move a game from Ascension to Awakening and back. Also does a good explainer of the metaphysics of both games. Mage Translation Toolkit - 1e Awakening, Revised Ascension, the Translation Guide, and 1e Chronicles of Darkness. A bit outdated but a very good price. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mage-the-podcast/support

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Wat moet je doen als je een node hebt? Openen van kanalen, en met wie je dat het beste kan doen Zorgen dat je geld kan ontvangen Kanalen balanceren Fees aanpassen Backups maken Sluiten van kanalen Node online houden Watchtowers, tegen fraude Node gepatcht en veilig houden Links rebalance-lnd, script om te rebalancen Backupscript voor Linux Lightning.Watch, stuurt je een berichtje als je node offline gaat 1ml.com, node site mempool.space: hoe staat het ervoor met de mempool? Lynis voor je nodebeveiliging LightningNL groep op telegram Beginnen met Bitcoin groep op telegram Donatielink Telegramgroep Twitter beginnenmetbitcoin.com - Niks in deze podcast is beleggingsadvies.

Bienvenidos al análisis de las noticias destacadas de esta semana con Iván Gómez y Héctor Cárdenas. En este episodio conversamos sobre los preparativos de Uphold para lanzar una tarjeta de débito para criptomonedas, primero en México, para posteriormente extenderse en otros países de Latinoamérica; la disminución en los volúmenes de bitcoins en casas de cambio desde finales de marzo y sobre el financiamiento otorgado por Square al desarrollador español Sergi Delgado, para que siga trabajando en El Ojo de Satoshi, una watchtower en Lightning Network. Aquí los enlaces que mencionamos en este episodio:

En el pod de hoy Hablo con Darío Sneidermanis, CEO de Muun Wallet que me acompaña para seguir explicando los diferentes actores y elementos de la arquitectura de la Lightning Network. Primeramente recuperamos las dudas que quedaron del #L35 y seguimos explicando las Watchtowers, los Submarine Swaps, la privacidad en Lightning, Loop In y Out, Splice in y Out y Atomic Multipath payments. Y no conformes con eso también repasamos el ABC de Muun Wallet, una wallet de bitcoin centrada en la usabilidad y con el foco en hacer indistinguible los pagos On y off chain, respentando la no custodia de los fondos.

Finishing up our Lightning week on the show, I've got a Guy's Take on all the different applications I think are viable here in the early days of Lightning, and also what decentralized projects may make sense on Lightning, but are pointless as "utility tokens." • Sat4Ads (The real BAT) • Why utility tokens are backwards economics • Fold, BitRefill, & Lolli • Making Bitcoin bills make sense • Watchtowers for decentralized backups • A new e-commerce? & tons more! Here's some more great listens to go deeper down the rabbit hole with today's discussion: • Minimum Viable Decentralization [Simon Morris] https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_228---Minimum-Viable-Decentralization-e3lfo9 • Estimating and Minimizing Consumer Worry [Nick Szabo] https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_195---Estimating-and-Minimizing-Consumer-Worry-e2ndo7 • Richard Myers on a Lightning Powered Global Mesh https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoChat_013---Richard-Myers-and-a-Lightning-Powered-Global-Mesh-e4e6ga If you want to join in the Cryptoconomy Telegram and help support turning all of the best Bitcoin literature into audio, become a patron below! www.patreon.com/thecryptoconomy --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

Finishing up our Lightning week on the show, I've got a Guy's Take on all the different applications I think are viable here in the early days of Lightning, and also what decentralized projects may make sense on Lightning, but are pointless as "utility tokens." • Sat4Ads (The real BAT) • Why utility tokens are backwards economics • Fold, BitRefill, & Lolli • Making Bitcoin bills make sense • Watchtowers for decentralized backups • A new e-commerce? & tons more! Here's some more great listens to go deeper down the rabbit hole with today's discussion: • Minimum Viable Decentralization [Simon Morris] https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_228---Minimum-Viable-Decentralization-e3lfo9 • Estimating and Minimizing Consumer Worry [Nick Szabo] https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_195---Estimating-and-Minimizing-Consumer-Worry-e2ndo7 • Richard Myers on a Lightning Powered Global Mesh https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoChat_013---Richard-Myers-and-a-Lightning-Powered-Global-Mesh-e4e6ga If you want to join in the Cryptoconomy Telegram and help support turning all of the best Bitcoin literature into audio, become a patron below! www.patreon.com/thecryptoconomy --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/message

Conner Fromknecht Head of Cryptographic Engineering at Lightning Labs, joins me to go in depth on Bitcoin Lightning Watchtowers. Understand how Bitcoin’s Lightning Network keeps channel participants honest and how Watchtowers can help: How Lightning Network’s punishment model works without watchtowers Where watchtowers come in and how they work Why watchtowers can’t steal your bitcoins Scalability of watchtowers Privacy Funding and operation model LND v0.7 features Conner Fromknecht links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitconner Github: https://github.com/cfromknecht Lightning Labs website (Developer Slack sign up link on this page): https://lightning.engineering/ Sponsor links: Kraken: http://www.kraken.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=stephanlivera Unchained Capital: https://www.unchained-capital.com/?utm_source=Stephan%20Livera&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=Affiliate Stephan Livera links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera Subscribe to the podcast: https://stephanlivera.com/ Email contact: stephanlivera@pm.me

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BTC Lightning Olympus,Watchtowers Taproot https://lightning-wallet.com/what-does-olympus-server-do https://medium.com/@akumaigorodski/watchtower-support-is-coming-to-bitcoin-lightning-wallet-8f969ac206b2 https://github.com/mit-dci/lit/tree/master/watchtower https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/taproot-coming-what-it-and-how-it-will-benefit-bitcoin/ https://bitcoinreadinggroup.com/ my lightning node stats https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19c546V9EaaR4ZzX7FGZUPwt4W3Pk1X5mhBRhJboO0mE/edit?usp=sharing Intro music by Sam Sparro Black & Gold Twitter @Coinicarus Email: FunwithBitcoin@protonmail.com

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Want to know more about Neutrino, Submarine Swaps, Dual Funded Channels, Atomic Multi-Path Payments, Splicing, Sphinx Send, Eltoo, Channel Factories, Watchtowers, and the incredible list of new products coming for the Lightning Network? Look no further, Arjun Balaji (@arjunblj) & TheBlockCrypto (@theblock__ + @mdudas) brings us a walk through the major developments in Lightning with "From #Reckless to Wumbology."  Don't forget to check out TheBlockCrypto.com and the tons of links to explore in the Full Article.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

Want to know more about Neutrino, Submarine Swaps, Dual Funded Channels, Atomic Multi-Path Payments, Splicing, Sphinx Send, Eltoo, Channel Factories, Watchtowers, and the incredible list of new products coming for the Lightning Network? Look no further, Arjun Balaji (@arjunblj) & TheBlockCrypto (@theblock__ + @mdudas) brings us a walk through the major developments in Lightning with "From #Reckless to Wumbology."  Don't forget to check out TheBlockCrypto.com and the tons of links to explore in the Full Article.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/message

On October 3rd, 2013 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a dramatic reading of the ritual of the 30th Enochian Aethyr "TEX" (pronounced Tay-ets), which will include an opening by Watchtowers, a reading of the Call of the Thirty Aethyrs in Enochian and in English, and a reading of Aleister Crowley's vision of the Aethyr from "The Vision and the Voice" Equinox No. 5, 1911. We will give a short introduction to the Enochian Aethyr system and explain how the temple is to be arranged for the ritual. Those who have reproductions of the Enochian tablets on hand should pay particular attention to the Water Tablet. The four Governors for this Aethyr are all invoked from Water. So, if you would like to visit our virtual temple and go on a magical journey with Thabion (First Priest of the Phoenicians) and Therion (The Great Beast), then tune in and get Enochiated.

  The boys spend their Saturday reminiscing about the past…that's pretty much how this episode went. Also thank you to Joe Thomas, OT of the Cleveland Browns that retired around the time we recorded this. Song at the beginning: The Watchtowers of Sandusky by Fields Ohio is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. Song at the end: 6 Friends in the Fridge by Matt Chase

Listen to two Child Sexual Abuse survivors, Nick French and Jess, talk about the recent confidential leaked documents from Watchtowers secret files.

As most of our active and Associate Members know we are mainly focused on Solomonic Ceremonial magick, but we also use the Aethyr System from Dee and Kelly's Enochian corpus, which provides us with an operative alternative when the Moon is not well aspected for Goetia. The Aethyr System, originally called “Terrestrial Victory” and was a thirty-level sphereical model of the Universe with the Earth in its center and the Aeythrs or Heavens (Gnostic Aeons originally) surrounding and expanding from the terrestrial center like the layers of an onion with the lowest as number 30 TEX rising on up to LIL as number one enclosing the outer limit of the circular universe. All of these levels are related to the Four Elemental Tablets, called The Watchtowers which relate to the celestial sphere and are positioned around the magic circle. Each of these Aethyrs have angelic governors whose sigils are outlined on the tablets. This is derived from Kamea Magic. The Aethyrs themselves derive from Valentinian Gnosticism, and the Book of Revelation The Magicians who explore these astral realms will activate the tablets, with Enochian Calls, and then scry into an orb on the altar within the magic circle. You can see this in our introductory video “The Rites of Magick.” We have discussed this on the Hermetic hour before but tonight we are going to go much deeper into the mysteries and paradoxes of this powerful system of magic. So, if you want to learn how to open Pinhead's (Choronzon's) Box tune in and chant with us: Zacar od Zamran!

We leave the capital behind to take a tour of the Tang Empire’s neighbors, both old and new. A tenuous peace with Tibet leads to a westward push putting the Chinese into contact – and eventual conflict – with the Islamic Abbasid Caliphate. Meanwhile, to the north and east rebellious Khitan tribesmen will spark a huge military buildup in the region under the control of one man, while the former Goguryeo reorganizes itself into the powerful state of Balhae, forcing the Tang Court to re-assess its diplomatic options. Time Period Covered: 730-750 CE Major Historical Figures: Tang Dynasty: Li Longji (Emperor Xuanzong of Tang) [r. 712-756] Gen. Zhang Shougui, Military Governor of Fanyang Gen. An Lushan, Military Governor of Pinglu, Prince of Dongping Tibetan Kingdom Turgesh Kaghanate: Sulu Kaghan [d. 738] Abbasid Islamic Caliphate Second Turkic Kaghanate: Bilgé Kaghan [r. 716-734] Kul Tigin [d. 731] Khitan and Xi Tribes: Ketuyu [d. 733] Balhae Kingdom: King Go [r. 698-719] King Mu [r. 719-737] King...  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We leave the capital behind to take a tour of the Tang Empire's neighbors, both old and new. A tenuous peace with Tibet leads to a westward push putting the Chinese into contact – and eventual conflict – with the Islamic Abbasid Caliphate. Meanwhile, to the north and east rebellious Khitan tribesmen will spark a huge military buildup in the region under the control of one man, while the former Goguryeo reorganizes itself into the powerful state of Balhae, forcing the Tang Court to re-assess its diplomatic options. Time Period Covered: 730-750 CE Major Historical Figures: Tang Dynasty: Li Longji (Emperor Xuanzong of Tang) [r. 712-756] Gen. Zhang Shougui, Military Governor of Fanyang Gen. An Lushan, Military Governor of Pinglu, Prince of Dongping Tibetan Kingdom Turgesh Kaghanate: Sulu Kaghan [d. 738] Abbasid Islamic Caliphate Second Turkic Kaghanate: Bilgé Kaghan [r. 716-734] Kul Tigin [d. 731] Khitan and Xi Tribes: Ketuyu [d. 733] Balhae Kingdom: King Go [r. 698-719] King Mu [r. 719-737] King Mun [r. 737-793]

Subscribe (Stitcher)Subscribe (iTunes) We confront enemies, war, and clones in our discussion of Battlefield 3 maps and screaming in Spaceteam Built to Play's had a chance to explore the ways games and interactive art can bring us closer together, but like any other medium they also have the power to tears us apart. Not just in the tribal sense either. Conflicts between whether a particular console is better than another are vacuous affairs, and rarely do friendships end over having bought an Xbox One over a Wii U. Multiplayer pits us against each other and while it's usually part of amiable competition, many players don't see it that way. They call the SWAT team on players they dislike. They call other players racial epithets.  But what if a game could make us against a whole region? Since military shooters started taking place in the near future, there's been a big focus on the Middle East and Russia. It's easy to acknowledge that the narratives in these games are frivolous sub-The Expendables attempts at storytelling, but those story maps become multiplayer maps. That's when these games, which have levels in Karachi, Tehran, and various parts of Afghanistan, leave the player to form an opinion about the place they're fighting in.  Sometimes games lead to enemies not because of their content, but because of the people who made them. Cloning someone else's work is an easy way to lose a few friends and end up in court. Or maybe a game never set out to be competitive, but let to screaming matches anyway.  For all of these examples and more, take a listen to the newest episode, which contains the following segments: Johan Hoglund of Linnaeus University wrote about the ways in which games can normalize the perception of the Middle East as a place of violence. He recently wrote a book called The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence.  Starts 0:20. Daniel Rosen brings us stories from the video game industry, like EA's promise to not buy new companies, Target Australia taking Grand Theft Auto V off their shelves, and our PlayStation memories. Starts 11:50. Bob Tarantino andConrad Leetell us about the trials and tribulations around game cloning, and how it's changed over the last 30 years. Starts 37:50. Henry Smith devised a comedy game that's been giving him strange reviews. "Your game caused me to get a divorce! A++ would buy again." Starts 47:50 Update: Conrad Lee would prefer not to be contacted at the twitter account presented in the show. The link has been corrected to reflect this. THANKS TO THE FREE MUSIC ARCHIVE FOR THE FOLLOWING MUSIC. OUR OPENING THEME WAS "Western Chow Yun Fat" by This One. We also used "rest (johnny_ripper remix)" by Alphabets, "Wanna See My Spaceship" by Beatoven, "The Watchtowers of Sandusky" by Fields of Ohio, "Dark Matter" by Podington Bear, and "summer breeze let it out (johnny_ripper remix)" by smoking fox. From Soundcloud we used "Nightmares" and "Under the Olives" by Patrick Ellis. From Freesound, thanks to "photocopy-machine" by tomija. We also used clips from Saving Private Ryan, Star Trek the Next Generation, Battlefield 3 and Spec Ops the Line. BUILT TO PLAY IS A PRODUCT OF THE SCOPE AT RYERSON RADIO STATION IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN TORONTO. IT WAS PRODUCED AND EDITED BY ARMAN AGHBALI AND WRITTEN BY DANIEL ROSEN. IF YOU LIKE THE SHOW PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US ONLINE. IT HELPS MORE PEOPLE FIND THE SHOW AND GIVES US AN IDEA HOW WE'RE DOING. FEEL FREE TO COMMENT DOWN BELOW.

On October 3rd, 2013 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a dramatic reading of the ritual of the 30th Enochian Aethyr "TEX" (pronounced Tay-ets), which will include an opening by Watchtowers, a reading of the Call of the Thirty Aethyrs in Enochian and in English, and a reading of Aleister Crowley's vision of the Aethyr from "The Vision and the Voice" Equinox No. 5, 1911. We will give a short introduction to the Enochian Aethyr system and explain how the temple is to be arranged for the ritual. Those who have reproductions of the Enochian tablets on hand should pay particular attention to the Water Tablet. The four Governors for this Aethyr are all invoked from Water. So, if you would like to visit our virtual temple and go on a magical journey with Thabion (First Priest of the Phoenicians) and Therion (The Great Beast), then tune in and get Enochiated.

Track Listing: (Deep House,NuSoul) 1.Flower (James Pants Remix) - Based On Kyoto 2.Take A Ride (Dublex Inc.Remix) - Rodney Hunter 3.Hush Boy (Original) - Basement Jaxx 4.Right On Time - Conya Doss 5.Pela Janela (feat. Gigi Rezende) - Thievery Corporation 6.They Can't Tell Us - Silhouette Brown 7.Don't Nobody - Fred Everything ft. N'Dea Davenport 8.Natural - Afro-Mystik 9.Life (Pezzner Remix) - Mark Farina Brotha salivating from the Foxxy Brown Movie 10.Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa/Soulsonic Force 11.Smile Within feat. Fyza (Maddslinky Summer Vibe Mix) Zed Bias 12.I'm The Shit (Remix) DJ Class f. Kanye West and Estelle 13.Rain (Bugz in the Attic Remix) - Gaelle 14.SuperStylin - Groove Armada 15.King Kooba's Consciousness Groove - Naked Music NYC 16.Wires and Watchtowers (feat. Sista Pat) - Thievery Corporation 17.So Long Heartache Featuring W. Ellington Felton - Wayna