The collapse before the collapse: Recent Episodes
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The collapse of systems didn’t happen overnight! They were signs and symptoms that seemed to be overlooked-we will dive deep into some of these case scenarios in this podcast.
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Thank you so much for your patience and for all of those who took the time to listen to our previous episodes, we more than appreciate you. Thank you so much for listening to us share our perspectives and insights on unity via deconstructing and rebuilding our society with self-reflection, shared-understanding, and unified call to action. Our actions include being aware of self and taking intentional steps to address any inherent biases that might be hindering obliviousness of societal constructs that has limited unification of peoples.
This episode we talked about the importance of Humanity and how it has been defined by our identities (of race, class, social and economic status) by underlying principles such as societal constructs, frameworks, policies, and personal biases. It is therefore our responsibility to deconstructs this man made idealism that has resulted to stratification of the humanity with regards to race, social and economic status, and much more. We also look at our humanity through the lens of the Baha'i faith and why the importance of our diversity is in part the beauty of our unity.
An excerpt from the "The Creator of all is One God" by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Paris Talks (p.51) mentioned in this episode.
Rather, search diligently for the truth and make all men your friends. Every edifice is made of many different stones, yet each depends on the other to such an extent that if one were displaced the whole building would suffer; if one is faulty the structure is imperfect.
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Finally, Everything (views and opinions) mentioned or expressed herein are those of ours doesn’t reflect our companies, its affiliates, or its employees
In this episode, we discuss the uprising of the ongoing protest that resulted from the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minnesota. We approach this crisis from a question of: why have we had racial injustice in this country? Why has there been a lot of hurt from seemingly good intentions from other races to address systemic racism in the United States?
We begin by reading an except from a letter from the Universal House of Justice-the head global administrative body of the Baha'is (from January 2019).
We also discuss the importance of discussing this issue using shared/common language for effectively communication of the pain and frustration of the African community for effective change to occur. There is so much in-between that we discussed as well, and I hope you can take sometime out of your busy schedule to listen to us.
We had an interesting conversation, and we'll love to share that with you. We hope you'll leave with feedback, comments, and also your take on what is currently going on in America!
What we have experienced in these recent months is not new, and it was not uncommon for world leaders to think of international collective action about 20 years for cooperation among nation that beneficially to the whole world. It is just rare and uncommon now. It seems like history goes in cycles and it swings back and forth.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to us, and we're looking forward to having you in our next episode.
We begin by reading a Poem titled, Wean Yourself by Rumi. Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan. Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turks, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, and the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries.
In this episode, we also talk about the essence of knowledge, its origin, purpose, and briefly into different types of knowledge (we will go more in-depth with this in our upcoming episode).
Source: Wikipedia
Wean yourself
Little by little, wean yourself.
This is the gist of what I have to say.
From an embryo, whose nourishment comes in the blood,
move to an infant drinking milk,
to a child on solid food,
to a searcher after wisdom,
to a hunter of more invisible game.
Think how it is to have a conversation with an embryo.
You might say 'The world outside is vast and intricate.
There are wheatfields and mountain passes,
and orchards in bloom.
At night there are millions of galaxies, and in sunlight
the beauty of friends dancing at a wedding.'
You ask the embryo why he, or she, stays cooped up
in the dark with eyes closed.
Source Retrieved: Guardian
Our co-host, Ben Leiker shares 2 awakening quotations from the Baháʼí Faith. We discuss a few contexts on how they can be applied to our daily lives as we continue the conversation of how unity and effective transformation is much needed today now more than ever.
You don't want to miss this amazing episode.
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Our Co-host, Ben Leiker gives us a brief summary of his master's thesis at the School of International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Our co-host, Ben Leiker gives us a brief summary of his master's thesis in the conflict transformation program at the School of International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. While there, he decided to concentrate in sustainable development and Youth program leadership and design. Within his thesis, he makes a case of what Magdalene Carney Institute's Youth Spiritual Empowerment Program unique. This is a program that he got to work on while in his master's program and the case study for his thesis.
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We continue to provide real-life anecdotes on what it means for our society to unify in the process of identifying who we really are. In the midst of challenges from a socio-economic or spiritual perspective, mutual-respect and co-execution of processes is more than essential for us to see realize to best in ourselves while building long-term relationships and projects that can change our community and world.
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In our next episode, we will invite a guest to join us and ask us any question about the podcast: why we started it? what was the inspiration? What are some of the challenges that we expect to see as we navigate on what it takes to unify our community? and more! Please you can either reach out to us on our website at https://www.thecollapse.live/ or leave a comment below.
In this episode, we dissect the root causes of our lack of interconnectedness, why are they challenging to identify, the significance of diversity for a unified world, and youths as the prime segment among us to be touchbearers of effective change and transformation
In this Episode, we provide a real life example of how we bring about organic social change within our community. Our Co-host, Ben shares his experience on how he worked with a junior youth empowerment program as a model of organic social change. In this episode, we also share the process of organic change that begins with taking the first step of action (initiation), co-engagement or co-participation (which involves activating the already existing connective tissue among ourselves as humans), and final phase, empowering the local agents within communities as they propel these organic social change across their community.
Certain principles and dogmas developed many years ago by society and our cultures have shaped our perspectives. How do we challenge those perspectives especially in times like this?
Ben (my co-host) and I discuss some interesting insights that led to overwhelming of our systems as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.