Podsongs: Recent Episodes
Jack Stafford
Belgian guitarist Quentin Dujardin joins pro climber Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll on Podsongs to explore the link between music, creativity, and the art of rock climbing. From life lessons on Greenland’s big walls to finding rhythm on uncharted rock faces, this conversation dives deep into what it means to balance risk, artistry, and adventure.
Stream the song that resulted from the interview: https://ffm.to/verticalbreath
In this special episode of Podsongs, musician Ceschi Ramos sits down with award-winning writer Ocean Vuong (On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Night Sky with Exit Wounds) for a raw, deeply personal conversation about art, identity, music, and grief.
This is the kind of conversation that only results when two artists at the same level, but in different disciplines, can really judge and appreciate one another's work. And Ocean said Ceschi's insights were "the most accurate and kindest thing anyone has ever said about my work."
They explore their shared Connecticut roots, the influence of punk rock and hip-hop on their creative journeys, and the impact of family history, war, and loss on their work. From Buddhism and coping with trauma to navigating the commercial pressures of the creative industry, this dialogue offers profound insights into the intersections of music, literature, and personal history.
If you’re drawn to multicultural identity stories, poetry that cuts to the bone, and the uncompromising pursuit of authenticity in art, you’ll want to hear every minute
.The song that is inspired by the conversation is called "CHANGE OR DIE": https://ffm.to/changeordie
00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome
In this deeply reflective episode of Podsongs, musical duo Samana (www.samanaroad.com) — Rebecca Rose Harris and Franklin Mockett — engage in a soulful and thought-provoking dialogue with award-winning poet and novelist Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces (www.annemichaels.ca).
Topics Covered:
- The role of solitude in the creative process
- Art as ritual, healing, and transcendence
- The subconscious mind and dreams as creative catalysts
- Reflections on death, absence, and presence
- Life in rural France, Italy, and Wales
- The impact of technology on creativity
- Indigenous wisdom, shamanism, and the unseen
- The power of analog recording and emotional truth in music
- Creating a new piece of music inspired by the conversation
This episode was recorded during Samana’s artistic residency in the French countryside, and culminates in a musical collaboration inspired by Anne Michaels and the themes of the conversation.Whether you’re an artist, writer, musician, or seeker, this interview will resonate with the part of you drawn to beauty, mystery, and meaning.Stream the song: https://ffm.to/thresholds
00:00 Introduction to Samana
00:36 Journey Through Eastern Europe
00:59 Creating in Solitude
01:24 Philosophy Behind Samana’s Music
01:54 Life in the Welsh Countryside
02:19 Anne Michaels Joins the Conversation
03:01 Reflections on Life in France and Italy
03:14 The Artistic Residency and Creative Process
11:32 COVID-19 and Artistic Collaboration
13:18 Exploring Anne Michaels’ Work
18:01 Shamanic Performance and Symbolism
19:34 Creative Inspiration and Interconnection
21:39 Connecting Deeply with Anne Michaels
38:48 Rituals in Writing and Life
41:54 Analog Sound and Emotional Truth
43:23 Nature and the Subconscious
46:58 The Dead, Thresholds, and Memory
48:47 Indigenous Wisdom and Seeing the Unseen
01:02:57 Death, Dreams, and the Subconscious
01:12:19 Rituals as Creative Anchors
01:30:56 Solitude vs. Digital Distraction
01:44:04 Mortality and Personal Transformation
01:48:55 The Role of Absence in Creation
01:56:42 Death, Mystery, and the Poetic Lens
02:00:27 Artistic Collaboration and Intimacy
02:16:28 Gratitude and the Journey
02:25:00 Closing Reflections and Future Work
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In this thought-provoking episode of Pod Songs, host Jack Stafford sits down with Icelandic singer-songwriter Svavar Knútur and Neil and Sarah from the YouTube channel Leftist Cooks for a wide-ranging conversation on empathy, activism, and the fight to preserve cultural identity through language and music.
Together, they explore how streaming platforms like Spotify contribute to the erosion of minority languages, why kindness and emotional intelligence are essential tools for social change, and how art and activism intersect in a divided world. Topics include ageism, implicit bias, feminism, sex positivity, the politics of inclusion, and the importance of embracing nuance in difficult conversations.
Whether you’re passionate about linguistic diversity, progressive politics, or the healing power of music, this episode offers rich insights and emotional depth.
Stream the song: https://ffm.to/receipeforsomething
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https://www.svavarknutur.com00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome01:20 Catching Up and Personal Updates04:54 Discussing the Leftist Cook08:07 Reflections on Ageism and Society11:04 Life in Iceland and Touring Challenges13:28 Grandparenthood and Family Life14:20 Preparing for the Interview19:28 Welcoming Neil and Sarah21:02 Current Projects and Challenges24:55 Deep Dive into Feminist Texts and Sex Positivity28:14 The Core Principle of Helpfulness29:09 Navigating Epistemic Conundrums30:05 Addressing Anger and Moving Forward30:55 The Importance of Dual Perspectives33:08 Introducing the Leftist Cooks33:58 Challenging Ageism and Boomer Stereotypes37:34 The Complexity of Social Taboos45:09 Implicit Bias and Internal Struggles53:12 The Role of Art in Social Movements59:07 Redefining Happiness and Embracing Grief01:11:23 Engaging in Difficult Conversations01:14:57 Navigating Difficult Conversations01:15:50 Meeting People Where They Are01:17:21 The Importance of Diverse Voices01:18:48 The Challenge of Inclusion01:22:48 The Fragility of Human Emotions01:32:20 Cultural Genocide in Music01:35:39 The Power of Language01:40:34 Concluding Thoughts and Reflections
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In this emotional and inspiring episode of Podsongs, host Jack Stafford brings together acclaimed author Cheryl Strayed (Tiny Beautiful Things, Wild) and beloved indie folk musician May Erlewine for a rare conversation on creativity, courage, and vulnerability.May shares how Cheryl’s deeply human writing shaped her latest album, and the two explore the connection between music and literature, emotional healing, activism through art, and navigating life as working artists and mothers.Whether you’re a fan of heartfelt storytelling, songwriting, or empowering conversations, this episode offers a profound look into the creative soul.
🎧 Stream the new song inspired by this episode: https://ffm.to/wearethesolid🔗
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Join us in this heartwarming episode of Podsongs where musician Reverend Peyton interviews the legendary American actor and director LeVar Burton. From the transformative impact of 'Roots' and 'Reading Rainbow' to his role as Geordi LaForge in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation', LeVar Burton's inspirational journey is laid bare. Reverend Peyton shares personal anecdotes on how Burton shaped his life, and Burton delves into his career, the importance of storytelling, and the influence of seminal figures like Fred Rogers and Gene Roddenberry. Don't miss this emotional conversation filled with admiration, insights, and a lot of heart. Listen to the end to hear the song 'Are You Gonna Rise?' which Rev was inspired to write after the conversation. https://ffm.to/areyougonnarise
LeVar Burton’s website: https://levarburton.com/
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band website: https://bigdamnband.com/
00:00 Introduction to Podsongs
01:14 Reverend Peyton's Musical Journey
03:35 Overcoming Physical Challenges18:36 The Impact of LeVar Burton
29:53 LeVar Burton Joins the Conversation
48:13 The Impact of Stephen Hawking and Overcoming Disabilities
48:43 The Historical Significance of Reading and Kunta Kinte
51:15 LeVar Burton's Journey with Reading Rainbow
52:08 Meeting Mr. Rogers and Authenticity on Camera
55:38 Influential Figures: Alex Haley and Gene Roddenberry
01:01:55 LeVar Burton's Path from Seminary to Acting
01:08:40 The Audition Process for Roots
01:14:01 Challenges and Emotional Impact of Filming Roots
01:21:04 Reflections on History, Equality, and the Power of Truth
01:28:30 Concluding Thoughts and Future Projects
In this episode of Podsongs, acclaimed musician Raul Midon (https://www.raulmidon.com/) sits down with legendary radio producer Thomas Lopez to explore the art of audio storytelling. And to get inspiration for a brand new song https://ffm.to/timeisariver
Together, they dive into the world of binaural sound and its transformative role in creating immersive radio dramas. Thomas shares insights from his pioneering work at ZBS Productions (https://www.zbs.org/), including how he integrates music into stories like Ruby and Steam Dreamers. Raul reflects on his admiration for Thomas’s innovative techniques and discusses his own journey—from his early musical roots in New Mexico to his international success.
The episode culminates in the creation of an original song inspired by their shared love of soundscapes and storytelling.
Whether you’re a fan of audio dramas, an audiophile fascinated by binaural recording, or simply love great music, this episode is packed with inspiration.
Tune in to discover the magic of sound and how it can transport us to other worlds.
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In this episode of Podsongs, musician Corey Kilgannon interviews acclaimed journalist and author Johann Hari to explore the deeper causes of depression and anxiety. Drawing from Johann’s groundbreaking book Lost Connections, they discuss mental health solutions that go beyond traditional treatments, focusing on the power of social connections, meaningful work, and community building.
LOST CONNECTIONS: The song Corey wrote after the interview https://ffm.to/lostconnections
Their conversation dives into topics such as the role of music therapy, sound healing with Tibetan singing bowls, and the creative process of songwriting. Johann shares transformative stories, including a protest in Berlin that redefined the power of community, while Corey reflects on the link between music and mental wellness.
The episode also touches on financial insecurity, the impact of “junk values,” grief, and the healing potential of self-care and social prescribing. Stay tuned to the end for an original song by Corey Kilgannon, inspired by their powerful discussion on depression, anxiety, and holistic health.00:00 Introduction to Podsongs00:19 Meet Corey Kilgannon00:42 Touring and Transition02:15 The Evolution of a Musician03:54 Sound Healing and Day Jobs06:33 The Role of a Death Doula09:15 The Purpose of Podsongs10:12 The Balance of Fame and Creativity20:26 The Impact of Johan Harry's Work25:25 Conversation with Johan Harry47:47 Exploring Psychological Needs49:02 The Impact of Junk Values53:17 The Role of Music in Mental Health58:32 The Grief Loophole and Diagnosis01:06:22 Financial Insecurity and Depression01:15:39 The Power of Community: The Kotti Story01:30:17 Concluding Thoughts and Reflections
Get ready for a journey into Ancient Mysteries and the world of Psychedelics, all in the search for inspiration for a new song.Guy Keltner of the band Acid Tongue sits down with renowned author and researcher Graham Hancock. Together, they explore a wide array of fascinating topics, including ancient civilizations, psychedelics, and Hancock’s groundbreaking theories on human consciousness and historical mysteries.The resulting song is called "She's a Teacher" and features at the end of the show.In addition, Hancock shares insights from his recent ayahuasca journeys and the connections he sees between ancient sites and mind-expanding practices. Guy Keltner opens up about the influence of psychedelics on his musical creativity and reflects on his experiences with Seattle’s underground music scene and the Freak Out Festival.This episode promises a thought-provoking conversation filled with reflections on the past, present, and future of humanity. Whether you’re intrigued by ancient ruins, curious about the role of psychedelics in shaping consciousness, or drawn to the interplay between music and history, this episode is for you.Key Topics Covered: • The mysteries of ancient sites and alternative theories • The role of psychedelics in personal transformation and creativity • Graham Hancock’s recent ayahuasca experiences • How ancient technology connects to modern science and consciousness • Insights into the creative process of Acid TongueTimestamps:00:00 Welcome to Podsongs00:12 Meet Guy Keltner of Acid Tongue01:57 Freak Out Festival and Seattle’s Music Scene04:04 The Challenges and Rewards of Running a Nonprofit Festival06:40 Collaborations and Social Commentary in Music08:09 Graham Hancock: A Fascinating Guest08:56 Ancient Sites and Alternative Theories18:56 Psychedelics and Mind Expansion27:28 Graham Hancock Joins the Conversation47:54 Exploring the Concept of Magic and Technology48:51 Ayahuasca and the Science of Shamanism50:02 Healing Frequencies and Ancient Structures51:09 The Great Pyramid and Human Consciousness58:06 Psychedelics and Personal Transformation01:01:29 The Role of Psychedelics in Modern Society01:04:58 Cannabis and Creativity01:09:49 The Future of Humanity and Consciousness01:15:09 The Impact of Psychedelics on History01:25:47 Reflections on the Interview and Future PlansRelated Links: • Graham Hancock’s Website: grahamhancock.com • Acid Tongue’s Website: acidtonguemusic.com • Listen to Podsongs: podsongs.com • Spotify Pre-save for “She’s a Teacher”: Spotify Link • Promo Preview: Promo Link// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL //Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com// LINKS //Website: https://podsongs.comPodcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodesSongs: https://podsongs.com/musicSpotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7IgSpotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656// SOCIAL //Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongsInstagram: https://instagram.com/podsongsFacebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs
Dr Claudia Welch delves into the holistic health benefits of Ayurveda, focusing on stress relief, pregnancy nourishment, and balancing modern life with ancient wisdom. She shares personal experiences and expert insights on the interplay between physical, mental, and spiritual health. We explore topics ranging from the importance of a balanced lifestyle to managing thyroid issues and enhancing lactation naturally. The conversation also touches on possession, metaphysics, and how foundational beliefs impact overall well-being. Tune in for a comprehensive guide to incorporating Ayurvedic principles into everyday life.
01:22 Discussing Art and Metaphysics
02:41 Exploring Cosmic Religion and Metaphysics
07:28 Ayurveda and Metaphysical Connections
15:25 Stress, Courage, and Life Balance
18:04 Possession, Belief Systems, and Courage
28:46 Desire, Ignorance, and Enlightenment
07:26 Understanding Lifestyle Diseases
32:21 Women's Health and Thyroid Issues
35:46 Endocrine Disruptors and Environmental Impact
36:18 Solutions for Thyroid Problems
39:08 Hormonal Changes After 35
41:38 Postpartum Depression and Oxytocin
49:05 Pregnancy Cravings and Their Significance
52:07 Increasing Milk Production
55:18 Final Thoughts and Reflections
57:41 Closing Remarks and Song
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https://ffm.to/ayurvedalifestyleblues
I've been trying to live an Ayurvedic life
With the wisdom of the ancient minds
But I wonder if they'd have been so wise
If they had to live in these times
Can’t sit cross-legged in the restaurant
Can’t lie down on the aeroplane
Can’t do what your urges want
And it all adds up to pain
I’ve been having an oil massage every day
Oil in my hair and enemas
Footprints on the stairs
My girlfriend's in despair
And the only food I cook is Kitchari
Now she's thinking about leaving me
Too many turmeric stains
She thinks that I'm insane
I've got the Ayurveda blues
The Ayurveda blues
Chlorine in the water
Plastic everywhere
EMF from everything
No one seems to care
Particles in the air
Pesticides in food
Modified and fertilised
To a malevolent magnitude
And I'm on my guard
But health these days is so hard
And you I'd know to like to sleep from 8-4
But then my friends all feel ignored
I gotta keep the balance right
But I belong in bed at night
To meditate in the Brahama Muhurta
Is it to take a step closer to God
And every day that I fail to pray
I take another step further away
The secret is the seasons
But nobody wants the reasons
As the last sane man alive
It’s a very lonely drive
I know I gotta be a guiding light
Living the life I know is right
I can't change the world just me
So I'll be the change I want to see
I've got the Ayurveda blues
The Ayurveda blues
Chlorine in the water
Plastic everywhere
EMF from everything
No one seems to care
Particles in the air
Pesticides in food
Modified and fertilised
To a malevolent magnitude
And I'm on my guard
But health these days is so hard
The sages foresaw
All these problems before
And predicted the rise of the cities
While they studied us
We know so little of them
Only how poorly we compare to these men
But their Sutras survive
And they make perfect sense
All we need
Is obedience
Handed down
From enlightened minds
And been proved right
A million times
I don't need no AI
Ain't gonna rely
On no computers
I've faith in Sutras
I don't need no AI
Charaka's my guy
You keep computers
I've faith in Sutras
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What is a Partnership Society? What is the difference between partnership and Domination societies? Musician EMA interviews author and scientist Rianne Eisler, and creates a song inspired by Eisler's work on Partnerism and Domination cultures, aiming to bring about societal change on gender politics through music, called "Riane: Made for love"Stream the song: https://ffm.to/riane
What is the Dominator culture?In the conversation they delve into Eisler's groundbreaking work on societal structures, gender politics, and the myths surrounding human nature. Eisler discusses the distinction between dominator and partnership societies, providing historical and archaeological evidence that challenges the inevitability of hierarchical, patriarchal systems. They also explore themes from Eisler's various books, including 'The Chalice and the Blade' and 'Sacred Pleasure', and examine what is the meaning of Partnerism?
https://rianeeisler.com/
https://partnershipway.org
https://www.iwannadestroy.com/
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In this special episode of Podsongs, we take a journey through a season full of diverse musical inspirations and intriguing interviews. Hosts Luigi Falcione, Maurizio Sanicola, and Massimino Vozza reflect on their creative process and share tracks inspired by guests from various fields, including physicist Alan Lightman, jazz musician Sidron, chef Martin O'Dell, and Dire Straits' David Knopfler. We explore international collaborations, from America to India, featuring telepathic animal communicator Manjiri Lathi, rock band Indus Creed, and artists like Stefano Bellani and Dave McKean. Tune in for behind-the-scenes stories, exclusive tracks, and insights into how interviews with artists and influencers shape the music. Don't miss standout songs like 'Meaning in the Moment,' 'Melody Snakes,' and 'Second Hand Lemonade.' Subscribe, like, and sign up for our newsletter to stay updated on future projects!00:00 Welcome to Podsongs00:12 Studio Tour and Personal Updates01:11 Reflecting on Past Albums01:32 Sidron and Alan Lightman: Meaning in the Moment05:36 Jack in Water and Martin O'Dell: Minimal Waste08:30 David Knopfler and Lem Sisay: On the Outside12:04 Perpetual Groove and Jonathan Lubecki: Fiery Skies15:31 Indus Creed and Manjiri Lathi: Hollow Bones19:25 Stefano Bellani and Dave McKean: Coincidentals27:31 Peter Mulvey and Naomi Shihab Nye: Comedian31:55 Brandon Kinder and Chad Abumrad: Conversations in D34:07 Surprise Vocals and Studio Cats36:34 Epic Collaboration with Steve Erickson39:16 Meditative Soundscapes and Ritualistic Music45:37 Nose Breathing and Free Diving50:00 Milo Gore and Second Hand Lemonade55:57 Art Can Change the World59:40 Upcoming Artists and Final ThoughtsListen to the complete album here: https://ffm.to/podsongs13// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL //Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com// LINKS //Website: https://podsongs.comPodcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodesSongs: https://podsongs.com/musicSpotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7IgSpotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656// SOCIAL //Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongsInstagram: https://instagram.com/podsongsFacebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs
In this episode of Podsongs, host Jack Stafford is joined by the band ATLYS to discuss their project inspired by renowned dog trainer Linda Michaels. They delve into the unique, innovative methods of Linda, emphasizing her force-free dog training techniques and the development of the Hierarchy of Dog Needs. The conversation covers the band's classical roots, their evolution, and their boundary-pushing performances. They reveal insights into their creative process, including composing and recording their first original song inspired by Linda's work. Tune in to hear about the guests' dedication to animal welfare, the band's upcoming projects, and the premier of their new canine-inspired track.
Stream the song: https://ffm.to/fortheloveofdogsatlys
00:00 Welcome to Podsongs00:08 Introducing Jinty McTavish and Atlas00:37 Creating a Masterpiece: The Songwriting Process01:49 Atlas: Breaking Classical Music Stereotypes03:16 Life on Cruise Ships and Intensive Training05:30 The Art of Looping and Live Performances06:48 Composing the First Original Song08:13 Inspiration Behind the Song: A Tribute to Animals09:15 Interview with Linda Michaels: World Famous Dog Trainer17:23 Linda Michaels' Journey and Philosophy39:42 Discovering the World of Dog Training41:00 Hands-On Experience with Dogs43:59 Memorable Dog Training Stories46:34 Understanding Dog Behavior and Communication49:30 The Science Behind Dog Intelligence53:31 Practical Tips for Dog Owners01:13:18 Adopting and Fostering Dogs01:18:16 Resources and Community Support01:23:37 Conclusion and Future Plans
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www.atlysmusic.com
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Creating hope with every brushstroke, Max Frieder goes into refugee camps around the world to bring light into the darkest corners. Working with children who have experienced terrible trauma, to anyone with any doubt he shows that Art can change the world.In this inspiring and engaging episode, he talks to the musician Zea Stallings form the band The Copper Children. They discuss their shared history, personal journeys, and impactful work. Max, co-founder of Artolution, discusses his projects teaching art in refugee camps, while Zea shares insights on fostering community, creating social change, and the role of art in education and trauma recovery. They emphasize art's ability to develop leadership and resilience, making it a powerful tool for change. The episode concludes with a touching song, 'Art Can Change the World,' inspired by their dialogue.
Stream the song: https://ffm.to/artcanchangetheworld
https://www.thecopperchildren.com/https://www.artolution.org/
LYRICS
Art can change the world
Art can change the world
Paintbrush in a child's hand
See her universe expand
Color canvas with her love
Sharing joy and creation
Art can change the world
Art can change the world
Young man with his first guitar
Transported to worlds afar
Sharing songs with all the world
Melodies so magical
Art can change the world
I can change the world
Every moment is a chance to give
To someone who's hurting
Who's so deserving
Of a miracle
Art can change the world
You can change the world
Sculpture in refugee camps
Reminds us of our humanness
Come together as one blood
See what we're capable of
Art can change the world
We can change the world
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In an extraordinary dialogue between rising music talent Milo Gore and acclaimed actor Robert Carlyle, Episode 151 of Podsongs unveils the raw essence of the creative process, navigating through the highs and lows that define the artistic journey.
Hosted by Jack Stafford, this episode takes listeners on an introspective dive into the minds of two prolific creators, exploring the symbiosis between music and storytelling, the challenges of self-doubt, and the triumph of artistic expression.
Throughout the conversation, Carlyle, known for his diverse and dynamic roles, shares his insights into the nuances of embodying different characters, the importance of authenticity in performance, and his personal artistic endeavors. On the other side, Milo Gore, a musician celebrated for his emotionally resonant compositions, discusses the influence of personal experiences on his music, the cathartic power of songwriting, and the struggles of navigating the modern music landscape.
00:00 Welcome to Podsongs: An Inspiring Musical Journey
00:24 Getting Comfortable: Tech, Swearing, and Music Love
01:07 Deep Dive into Milo Gore's Musical World
02:10 Introducing Milo Gore: From London to Bristol
02:51 The Vibrant Music Scene of Bristol and Beyond
04:02 Building a Local Following: The Importance of Community
04:31 The Magic of Live Performances and Creative Processes
13:07 Navigating the Challenges of the Music Industry
15:29 The Art of Songwriting and the Impact of Streaming
24:29 Robert Carlyle Joins the Conversation
26:40 Exploring Identity, Belief, and the Actor's Journey
40:31 Tackling Challenging Roles and Embracing New Identities
43:45 Exploring Character Depth and Acting Challenges
44:58 The Rigors of TV Acting and Learning on the Job
46:20 Transitioning Skills from TV to Film
48:15 Finding Meaning and Identity on Stage and Screen
48:57 The Emotional Journey of Improvisation and Acting
50:17 Navigating Creativity and Identity in Music and Acting
50:44 The Struggle with Self-Consciousness and Creativity
55:52 Confronting Past Addictions and Finding New Paths
57:47 Building Confidence and Character in Acting
01:03:03 The Impact of Music and Emotional Connection
01:08:14 The Challenges and Opportunities of AI in the Arts
01:10:08 Reflecting on Career Choices and Future Aspirations
01:23:05 The Creative Process and Finding Inspiration
https://www.instagram.com/milogoremusic/Lyrics:
Don’t overthink it
Even if you feel like sinking
Time will tell the tales of tomorrow
Sorrow will only get you so far
Only get you so so so so so so far
And it’s easy to believe
That everything will be handed to you on a plate
And it’s easy to concede
To the doubt that’s rife
That pulls you down
But strengths comes
To those who wait
Stand strong
Believe in fate
Believe in fate
Believe in fate
CHORUS
Secondhand lemonade
Still tastes the fucking same
But they just throw it away like it’s nothing
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Podsongs is the unique podcast where musicians interview inspirational people as inspiration for a new song. This episode, with writer James Nestor and the musical duo Lowland Hum, covers an expansive range of topics including the significant roles of breathing in enhancing both physical and mental health as advocated by Nestor, the creative and transformative journey of artists, and the deep intricacies of interviewing and engaging with diverse subjects. Detailed explorations include a breathing experiment led by Dr. Jayakar Nayak at Stanford exploring nasal versus mouth breathing, the attempt to communicate with marine animals through AI, and the concept of creating inclusive and meaningful retreats and musical experiences. The discussions provide rich insights into the interconnectedness of creativity, wellness, and scientific exploration, emphasizing the power of breathing and genuine engagement in fostering artistic expression and deeper understanding across various disciplines.
https://www.mrjamesnestor.com/
www.lowlandhum.com
00:00 Welcome to Podsongs: Introducing James Nestor and Lowland Hum
00:27 Musical Connections and Collaborations
01:50 The Evolution of Lowland Hum's Sound
02:52 Recording Challenges and Creative Processes
09:43 The Art of Album Covers with Lauren Goins
10:12 The Realities of Touring and Creative Tensions
15:36 Exploring the Impact of Breathing on Health and Creativity
23:53 James Nestor Joins the Conversation
37:40 The Journey of Writing 'Breath'
42:29 Creative Processes and Collaborative Dynamics
49:49 The Paradox of Confidence and Insecurity in Creativity
50:25 The Privilege and Pressure of Artistic Creation
51:19 The Impact of Expectations on Art and Performance
55:03 Navigating the Challenges of Travel and Work-Life Balance
01:17:38 Exploring the Depths of Human and Animal Communication
01:27:28 The Universal Language of Breathing
01:29:34 Creating Unique Musical Experiences
01:36:31 The Power of Intergenerational Connections and Legacy
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In the 149th episode of Podsongs, we're honoured to feature the legendary writer Steve Erickson and Canadian musician Aidan Baker, part of the ambient/experimental music duo Nadja. They delve into the origins of Baker's musical journey, the essence of creating music across different genres, and the collaborative dynamics within Nadja. Erickson and Baker touch upon the evolving landscapes of politics, culture, and the inherent challenges and inspirations for artists. The conversation traverses the complexities of identity, the impact of global shifts on artistic expression, and the pursuit of creativity amidst a changing world. This engaging exchange not only offers insights into the respective crafts of Erickson and Baker but also serves as an inspiration for a new piece of music capturing the nuanced conversation around creativity, cultural shifts, and the undying pursuit of artistic authenticity.
https://www.steveerickson.org/
https://brokenspineprods.wordpress.com/
00:00 Welcome to Podsongs: Introducing Aidan Baker
00:19 Exploring Aidan Baker's Musical Journey
01:53 The Creative Process and Evolution of Music
02:55 Aidan Baker: The Multi-Instrumentalist
03:44 Collaborative Projects and the Birth of Nadja
05:07 Inspirations and Influences: From Music to Literature
05:27 Steve Erickson: A Unique Voice in Literature
06:47 Exploring the Works of Steve Erickson
08:02 Aidan Baker's Reading Habits and Inspirations
12:10 The Changing Landscapes of Berlin and Personal Reflections
16:48 Touring, Festivals, and Fan Interactions
21:42 Creative Ventures: From Soundtracks to Video Games
24:29 Setting the Stage for Steve Erickson's Arrival
30:00 Navigating the High Costs of Artistic Life in Toronto
30:23 Political Shifts and the Blurring Lines Between Left and Right
31:59 The Unique Political Situation of Expatriates
32:51 Exploring the Meditative Qualities of Music
36:11 The Challenges and Rewards of Creating Video Game Soundtracks
41:42 The Impact of Political Climate on Creative Processes
46:53 Seeking Refuge and Creative Inspiration Abroad
50:21 Discussing the Dynamics of European Politics
55:12 The Role of Art and Music in Times of Political Turmoil
01:11:20 Reflecting on Canadian Identity and Political Landscape
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In a compelling exploration of art and creativity, this interview brings together insights from conversations with Jad Abumrad, co-founder of Radiolab, and musician Brandon Kinder. It traverses Abumrad and Kinder's personal creative journeys, highlighting their transitions in the music industry, from band dynamics to solo projects, and the impact of experimental influences. Abumrad delves into the challenges of storytelling within traditional and innovative formats, expressing a desire to break free from neat narratives to embrace a more chaotic, truthful representation of reality. He also reflects on his journey from curiosity to leading a new wave of curiosity-driven content, aiming to blend storytelling with societal utility. Themes of authenticity, the struggle with creative blocks, and the fusion of documentary elements with music are discussed, aiming to create unique auditory experiences that transcend conventional boundaries. The dialogue concludes with a look into the future of storytelling and music, underscoring the importance of innovation and accessibility in pursuing societal benefits through art.
Jad Abumrad: http://jadabumrad.com/
Brandon Kinder: https://www.thewealthywest.com/
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In an engaging dialogue, musician Peter Mulvey is inspired to create a new song after talking with poet Naomi Shehab Nye and exploring the profound impact of art, poetry, and music on human connection. They reflect on their personal experiences, discussing the role of these artistic forms in creating and strengthening bonds between individuals. Highlighting the works of Emily Dickinson and Lorine Niedecker, among others, the conversation underlines the importance of allowing art to transcend definitions and speak directly to the heart. Stories of personal anguish, the quest for originality, and the legacy of past artists underscore the dialogue, emphasizing art's power to resonate on both personal and universal levels. The session reinforces the notion that art and poetry should be accessible, inviting listeners to experience them intuitively rather than analytically. Through personal anecdotes and a shared passion for creativity, the speakers inspire a resolve to continue exploring and contributing to the vast world of artistic expression.
Stream the song https://ffm.to/comedian
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Join renowned artist, Dave McKean, and Italian pianist, Stefano Bollani for an enlightening conversation on Podsongs covering their shared interests in art, jazz, and literature. The two creatives explore the intricacies of music creation and appreciation. Insights include their artistic journeys, perspectives on music education, experiences with film scores, the impact of regional dialects on music, and their love for various music styles such as jazz and Brazil's Bossa Nova. Personal stories of inspirations, challenges, and the magic of matching music to films make it a must-watch for arts and music enthusiasts. A perfect blend of shared passion, engaging creativity, and intellectual conversation on the convergence of art and music, which results in the creation of a new song by Dave McKean called 'Coincidentals'.Stream the song: https://ffm.to/coincidentalsLYRICS to 'Coincidentals' by Dave McKean:His assistants busy themselvesFetching scissors and coloured papersMixing hues of different flavoursPainting blues and greens and purplesCutting stars and squares and circlesBeginning the journeyThrough a thicket of collage and texture and bread andcircusesFrom his bed he considers the surfacesHe remembers his voyagesAnd he watchesHenri watchesHenri’s body is bed boundBut his mind isn’t even earthboundHe cuts into the form of a figureHe places it next to anotherImprovisation,No turning back, no hesitationLetting go to muscle sense and iterationCreativity in the present tenseNo more sitting on the fenceCommit to the compositionAnd he watches…Enrico watches…The kids coming up through the quavers and crotchetsLittle birds with their scales and rhythms and pitchesFinding their voices and hoping to singHe’ll pass on the history, of princes and kingsOf Bix and Miles and the truth and the sophistryOf Chet and Louis and the proof and the mysteryAnd he takes an occasional player under his wingAnd flies through fundamentalsImprovisations and incidentalsAnd he watches…Stefano watches…The silence of the film and the stillness of the manDeadpanBusterKeatonThe girl leavesHis heart heavesHis blank expressionFalls to his knees and then the horizonHe sits.He thinks.Pushing his hatBack on his head.Lost in this moment of loss, the signs he misread,He fails to noticeThe coupling rod on the train that is rising and fallingand that is where his seat isHe bobs up and down as his dignity decreasesHis stone face flashes a moment of indignation beneathhis…Hat.To acquire learning you need to readBut to gain wisdom you must watchStefano watchesThrough the bars of his cageA cage of bar lines and stavesSomething to break out ofTo fight withTo play withTo push and pull and tear and tickle and sway withAll those accidentalsCo-accidentalsIncidental music for lifeIncidental music for life https://www.davemckean.comhttps://www.stefanobollani.com// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL //Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com// LINKS //Website: https://podsongs.comPodcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodesSongs: https://podsongs.com/musicSpotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7IgSpotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656// SOCIAL //Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongsInstagram: https://instagram.com/podsongsFacebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs
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Uday Benegal speaks to Manjiri Latey, Telepathic Animal Communicator and expert in Neuro Linguistic Programming about Interacting with The Universe: Tune in for a deep conversation on consciousness, Animal Communication, and Eastern Spirituality. Uday is inspired to create a new song called 'Hollow Bones. Stream the song: https://ffm.to/hollowboneshttps://www.instagram.com/udaybenegalhttps://www.earthwise.co.in/Manjiri Latey is a celebrated Telepathic Animal Communicator and teacher in animal communication, shamanism, and holistic living practices. Across the episode, they delve into in-depth discussions on topics such as consciousness, telepathic interaction with animals, neurolinguistic programming, divination, mediumship, and the Wim Hof method. They underline the significance of open-mindedness, self-trust, and the need for understanding and compassion towards animals. Drawing upon their' Indian roots, the conversation explores Eastern spiritual practices, while also appreciating the insights of Western ideas, aiming ultimately to guide the audience towards a raised collective consciousness.00:00 Introduction and Welcome00:29 Discussing the Agenda: Telepathic Animal Communication01:11 Life in Goa and Environmental Concerns03:40 Exploring Telepathic Animal Communication06:50 Exploring Consciousness and Communication10:12 Reflections on Music Career and Collaborations32:16 The Journey into Animal Communication41:33 Understanding Personal Reactions and Responses42:11 The Power of Skepticism and Questioning43:04 The Challenge of Doubt and Seeking Validation43:49 The Impact of Skepticism on Personal Growth44:48 Exploring the Influence of Cultural Consciousness46:14 The Role of Trust in Personal and Cultural Contexts46:46 The Influence of Westernization on Indian Identity48:16 The Paradox of Indian Culture and Consciousness50:17 Understanding Neurolinguistic Programming53:32 The Power of Linguistics in Human Behavior56:12 The Role of Animals in Reflecting Human Behavior58:05 The Concept of Energy in Investments58:11 The Expansion of Teaching Beyond Animal Communication01:01:00 The Role of Animals in Human Consciousness01:04:00 The Importance of Presence in Animal Communication01:21:56 The Role of Breathwork in Enhancing Communication01:22:04 The Importance of Being a 'Hollow Bone' in Communication01:25:02 The Impact of Individualism and Community Living on ConsciousnessLYRICSHollow bonesDivining from River StonesThriving onThe world contained in a moment of playAnd every being's a thought awayHollow bonesHuman-based telephonesAll-embracedCalling all creatures, every raceTune into your inner spaceJourneying on a magic tripInto the underworldThere we met the special onesOur spirit animalsThe ripple effect is playing outRaising consciousnessConnecting to the source of lifeWith greater confidenceAnd still you try try tryHollow bonesDivining from River StonesThriving onThe world contained in a moment of playAnd every being's a thought awayHollow bonesHuman-based telephonesAll-embracedCalling all creatures, every raceTune into your inner spaceMetamorph into alignmentBy tapping into toolsMirroring and taking onAs you journey through the rulesLove and forgiveness both come firstIn everything you doSaying your sorry and ask forgivenessAnd they you say thank youAnd still you try try tryHollow bonesDivining from River StonesThriving onThe world contained in a moment of playAnd every being's a thought awayHollow bonesHuman-based telephonesAll-embracedCalling all creatures, every raceTune into your inner spaceHollow bonesDivining from River StonesThriving onThe world contained in a moment of playAnd every being's a thought awayHollow bonesHollow bonesHollow bones
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Episode 144 of Podsongs—the podcast where musicians interview inspirational people as inspiration for a new song— Matthew McDonald of Perpetual Groove speaks to Jonathan Lubecky, Veterans & Governmental Affairs Liaison for MAPS, as inspiration for a new song called 'Fiery Skies', which will be released as a single on 1st December 2023
Stream the song: https://ffm.to/fieryskies
LYRICS:
Distant worlds from a past life, they haunt me
Memories blurred from that time, still find me
A shell of myself just trying to survive
Fiery Skies celebrate tonight, but I'm locked up
Trapped inside of my own mind, I'm fucked up
Maybe it's time to leave it all behind, and change my state of mind
No longer feel the need to wear my armor, long the way that it's been
And now I begin to see in colors, more than I've ever seen
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Episode 143 of Podsongs—the podcast where musicians interview inspirational people as inspiration for a new song— David Knopfler speaks to Lemn Sissay, British poet, author and broadcaster, as inspiration for a new song called 'On the Outside', which will be released as a single on 17th November 2023Stream the song: https://ffm.to/on-the-outsideON THE OUTSIDENever quite at homeAlways you’re aloneAlways on the outsideRiding out the stormSo where do we now startWhere do we beginNever looking outsideAlways looking inAlways on the outsideAnd never quite at homeAlways on the outsideAnd every Christmas you’re aloneWaiting for the dawnFamily full of strangersBarely holding onAlways on the outsideYou know you must be strongAlways on the outsideAnd you’ll survive the stormAnd always you’ll belongAlways you’ll belongAlways you’ll belonghttps://knopfler.com/ https://www.lemnsissay.com // SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL //Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com// LINKS //Website: https://podsongs.comPodcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodesSongs: https://podsongs.com/musicSpotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7IgSpotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656// SOCIAL //Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongsInstagram: https://instagram.com/podsongsFacebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs
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Episode 142 of Podsongs—the podcast where musicians interview inspirational people as inspiration for a new song— William Clapson speaks to Martyn Odell, aka Lagom Chef - a Food Waste Disruptor, as inspiration for a new song called 'Lagom', which will be released as a single on 3rd November
Stream the song: https://ffm.to/lagom-jackinwater
LYRICS
Strip the leaves
And pick out the flowers
Toast the seeds
And harness the flesh
May your cupboard
Be abundant with
Flavours and colours
And the produce you buy
Be exactly what you need
Not too much, Not too little,
Just right, Just right, Just right
No life is linear
All days are adventures
To enjoy or endure
And all food still matures
Without you in mind
One day you want pizza
The next you want pie
It’s kind of easy
If you eat what you buy
Not too much, Not too little,
Just right, Just right, Just right
Not too much, Not too little,
Just right, Just right, Just right
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Leo Sidran speaks to Alan Lightman, American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur on Episode 141 of Podsongs—the podcast where musicians interview inspirational people as inspiration for a new song—as inspiration for a new song called 'Meaning in the Moment'
Alan Lightman is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur. He has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently a professor of the practice of the humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Leo Sidran is an American Latin Grammy-winning musician, composer, performer, and producer whose credits include co-producing the Oscar-winning song "Al Otro Lado Del Rio" for the soundtrack to the movie The Motorcycle Diaries. http://www.leosidran.com/
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LYRICS:
Everything you see is impermanent
Every last star in the firmament
Everyone you love or you ever met
Every single thought running through your head
Every setting sun, every morning mist
All the works of art and the sciences
Every “out of body” experience
Everything you see is impermanent
Try, try, try not to let it throw you
You know you can find
Meaning in the moment
Meaning in the moment
Every sweet song that you ever heard
Each turn of phrase, every perfect word
Every back corner of consciousness
Every single thing is impermanent
Try, try, try not to let it throw you
You know you can find
Meaning in the moment
Meaning in the moment
No one will remember us
When we return to sand and dust
But there’s one thing that you can trust
When you feel all alone
Meaning in the moment
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A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by the interviews. Note from Jack: In the video I mistakenly say this is our 11th album... but it's actually our 12th 1. Miracles2. Une ville avec un fleuve enterré3. Deeper Than Love4. Two Cokes for Paul Nelson5. Afterlife of a Painting6. Candy Land7. Galileo - with a microscope8. Eagles9. Public Land10. Peace on my mind11. The New Convention12. Animam Nondum Efflavi// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL //Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com// LINKS //Website: https://podsongs.comPodcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodesSongs: https://podsongs.com/musicSpotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7IgSpotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656// SOCIAL //Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongsInstagram: https://instagram.com/podsongsFacebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs
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Episode 140 of Podsongs—the podcast where musicians interview inspirational people as inspiration for a new song— Shane Thomas speaks to Kevin Hines, an American suicide prevention speaker who attempted suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. His story gained major media coverage and he has since become a motivational speaker and advocate for suicide prevention. Shane was inspired to create a new song called 'Animam Nondum Efflavi', which will be released as a single on 22nd September.
Animam Nondum Efflavi (I Have Not Yet Exhaled My Spirit)
[Latin original]:
animam nondum efflavi,
tametsi eam vulneravi;
parce mihi frater,
tam longe meo carne.
quando te deterrui
et quo furtim effugisti?
te quoniam necavi.
mortuis adiunxisti
vel phasmatibus perditis?
redde mihi vitam
quam in noctem abstractam.
[English]:
I have not yet exhaled (flared out) my spirit,
Though I have caused her harm (wounded her) ;
Forgive me, my brother,
So distant (remote) from my flesh.
When did I cause you to flee in terror,
and whither have you quietly (furtively) fled?
For I have murdered (killed) you.
Have you joined the company of [the] depraved phasms (spirits) ?
Return to me the life (vitality)
that was dragged off into the night.
Shane Joshua Thomas
www.KevinHinesStory.com
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In Episode 138 of Podsongs—the podcast where musicians interview inspirational people as inspiration for a new song—musician and producer Nicholas Gunty—most famous for being part of the folk band Frances Luke Accord—interviews James Martin, American Jesuit priest, writer, and editor-at-large of America: the Jesuit Review, as inspiration for a beautiful new solo song called 'Peace on my mind', which will be released as a single on 25th August 2023
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LYRICS
I know I am strongWith peace by my sideThe story is powerWill truth out in time?This one's for allThe shame in our livesI need you to call me by my nameI need you to let me be my wayThe story is powerWith peace by my sideI know I am strongI know I'm aliveTime and againBuilding a bridgeChange happens whenthey hear what we didBuild with the penBuilding with stoneBuilding with fireBuilding with boneBurdens are uglyThe burden is realI know I am strongI know I will healI know what I knowChange happens this wayWe work from withinIt ripples awayIt ripples awayWe work from withinWe all gotta liveIf you felt under-lovedAnd you're at the edgeCall your nephew and nieceBy the name that they chooseBe a sensitive manPut your skill to good useGo write a good bookGo write a new songGo practice your loveWith everyoneMake it all realMake it yourselfBecause you are hereAnd you're nobody elseThis one's for allThe love in your heartI know you are strongAs I fall apartThis one's for allWith peace by their sideWith peace in their heartAnd peace on their mind
https://www.americamagazine.org/
https://nicholasgunty.com/https://www.franceslukeaccord.com/
Nicholas Gunty - - - He is the primary writer/producer for the folk band Frances Luke Accord (NPR: “The definition of lean-in music”) and a regular collaborator with Darlingside and Chris Dupont. Nicholas has shared stages with Tony- and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and Grammy-nominated guitarist Tim Reynolds.
James J. Martin SJ - - - An American Jesuit Catholic priest, writer, and editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine America. A New York Times Best Selling author, Martin's books include The Jesuit Guide to Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life, Jesus: A Pilgrimage, and My Life With the Saints.
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In Episode 139 of Podsongs—the podcast where musicians interview inspirational people as inspiration for a new song—Thomas Feiner interviews Dave McKean, an award-winning English illustrator and graphic designer, about the effect midjourney is having on their industry. Thomas uses the interview as inspiration for a new song called 'The New Convention', which will be released as a single on 8th September.
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LYRICS
A journey into moments
A journey out of mind
A journey through the possible
Collated and entwined
Telescopic netherworlds
Portals into space
Hyperplexic Ferris wheels
Cut up and replaced
Welcome to the new invention
Where everyone is an artist - Why would anyone disagree?
It's dark inside the great convention
Exhibitors are reminded to be uniformly free
Pixelated prophecies
Prompted into being
Will we ever be able to
Believe in what we're seeing
Artistic instability
Call it what you will
It comes without a warranty
And this is not a drill
Welcome to the new invention
Where everyone is an artist - Why would anyone disagree?
It's dark inside the great convention
Exhibitors are reminded to be uniformly free
www.thomasfeiner.com
www.davemckean.com
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Jasper Lorentzen of Grammy-nominated bluegrass band ‘Po’ Ramblin’ Boys’ interviews Ryan Callaghan of Meateater on the Podsongs podcast, as inspiration for a new song called Public Land
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LYRICS:
We grew up on a dead-end street out on the edge of town
We didn’t have much land to call our own
We had big dreams of the mountains and tall pines
We needed those wild places we could feel it in our bones
Every weekend Dad would take us to the forest to roam around
We learned to hunt and fish just like he had planned
It was as much a part of us as that house that we called home
I thank god every time I step on public land
Those hills were like a classroom they taught me all I know
It wasn’t hard for me to understand
Leave it better than you found it cause we only get one chance
We have to be good stewards of the land
Every weekend Dad would take us to the forest to roam around
We learned to hunt and fish just like he had planned
It was as much a part of us as that house that we called home
I thank god every time I step on public land
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https://www.instagram.com/olcal406
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In episode 136 of Podsongs, Dick Forsman's deep knowledge and passion for birds provide pianist and songwriter Ruben Hein with a unique perspective on the world of raptors, inspiring him to create "Eagles," a song that delves into the profound majesty of these magnificent creatures.
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LYRICS:
We can’t soar above this
Or migrate away
Just leaden on the land without wings
We’re deafened and deceived
An outcome out of sight
Lost without non-human rights?
Oh where the eagles live
Over the rim of a far long cliff
Where I lay on my belly and look over the edge
So I could get a glimpse of what eagles have
So I could get a glimpse inside an eagle’s head
I wish I could get up there
Glide through the sky
As chaos plays out on the ground
Where money does the talking
But could it be contrite?
Can it say non-human rights?
Oh where the eagles live
Over the rim of a far long cliff
Where I lay on my belly and look over the edge
So I could get a glimpse of what eagles have
So I could get a glimpse inside an eagle’s head
It’s more than philosophical
An upgrade for us all
Replace positions we’ve been claiming for so long
It’s a necessary call
An unexpected rule of law
And change the patterns that would otherwise go on
Oh where the eagles live
Over the rim of a far long cliff
Where I lay on my belly and look over the edge
So I could get a glimpse of what eagles have
So I could get a glimpse inside an eagle’s head
Dick Forsman: http://www.dickforsman.com/
Ruben Hein: https://rubenhein.nl/
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Episode 135 features musician Karl Blau's speaking with Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride. This interview sparks the creation of a new song titled "Galileo - with a microscope," set to release on July 14th.
In this captivating episode, Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, a renowned expert in medicine and nutrition, and the creator of the Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) diet. The discussion explores the intriguing connection between gut health and overall well-being.
Karl Blau struggled with health issues for a long time until his life (and wife) were transformed by the diet. This interview—and the song he writes for her—is some small payback to say thank you to Dr Natasha.
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LYRICS
Trust your gut and it will tell you "Put your love in the ground" Make amends with inside friends Help them to feel at home
Galileo Galileo Galileo - with a microscope
Wobbling on the pottery wheel Microbiome from Ma & Pa Lord of the Flies meets Silent Spring I'll be glad to wake from this Piscean dream
Galileo Galileo Galileo - with a microscope
Tuned in by choice Had I not been in pain Would I choose the same? Dr. Natasha The worlds that you found When you looked around The Universe inside us
Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride I've got your yellow book
Dr Natasha's site: https://gaps.me/ Karl's music: https://www.karlblau.com/
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Dillon Hodges and Heidi Feek (firekid) interview Lee C Camp and Brad Crisler as inspiration for a new song. Lee is a Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, and Brad Crisler is an award-winning music producer, both with strong ideas about modern Christianity. In this interesting discussion they talk about what it means to be a Christian in these days. firekid are inspired to write the song Candy Land
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LYRICS:
Mother, father I’ve seen signs
In the symbols of your faith
Gone are days of muscadine
Nightmares follow like a wraith
Tears of sparrows, Brothers blood
Laid a curse on holy ground
Buried boundless in the mud
For the joy of tainted crowns
Go down Moses lead the band
Fill their mouths with desert sand
Milk and honey in their heads
Dreaming of a candy land
Children’s sorrow, hidden well
Drowned out by a gospel song
Trouble hid behind the veil
Lost in plain sight all along
Go down Moses lead the band
Fill their mouths with desert sand
Milk and honey in their heads
Dreaming of a candy land
Milk and honey
Running wild
Hungry mouths are full of sand
Go down Moses, meek and mild
Raise your cane and lead the band
Say farewell to freedom child
Welcome them to
Candy land
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Episode 133 of the Podsongs Podcast: Laura Weinbach of Foxtails Brigade finds inspiration in historian of bad behavior Alissa Bennett, Co-host of the C-word PodcastIn this episode, Laura draws inspiration from the insights and experiences shared by Alissa Bennett of the C-word Podcast. The conversation between the two serves as a catalyst for the creation of "Afterlife of a Painting," a song that beautifully captures the essence of their discussion. With Laura's lyrical brilliance and Foxtails Brigade's signature sound, the song will resonate deeply with fans old and new. The song will be released on June 30th, 2023
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Two heavyweights in their respective fields of music and writing discuss their mutual friend, the late Rolling Stone writer, Paul Nelson—and go on to create a tribute song for him 'Two Cokes for Paul Nelson'.
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TWO COKES FOR PAUL NELSON (Murphy / Lethem / Stafford)
These are the elements of a verse Sherman cigarettes - but it gets worse Footprints on the running board of his wall And by the way his name was Paul And let’s not talk of his fall … just yet
Oh starved to death – that’s what the tabloids say But you know - I don’t see it that way In fact for me - the opposite is true Paul was a glutton for everything he loved and knew From Orson Welles, Ross Macdonald, Howard Hawks, Raymond C, Chet B, PKD, and Warren Z … oh The New York Dolls and me
So let’s take a seat at the Jackson Hole Let’s raise two cokes and toast his soul The soul of a man - our friend Paul Nelson – Paul Nelson
A magnum forty-five and a snub-nose thirty-eight But books can kill if you can’t get them straight A paragraph, a sentence, to a starving mind Some die for want of an opening line Life on a shrinking editorial island Paul couldn’t lie, he couldn’t lie
Hey Rod Stewart - bashed out on a lark Typing as fast as Lester Bangs could bark Paul the quiet man, living in a borrowed head An enabler who couldn’t get out of bed Marathon man in a hamburger booth He told the truth, he told the truth - that’s Paul
Let’s take a seat at the Jackson Hole Let’s raise two cokes to toast his soul The soul of a man - our friend Paul Nelson – Paul Nelson
Abiding mentor, with a guiding mind Freeze-frame, isolate the details, and then rewind A stickler for the director’s cut His own mis-en-scene, he fell into a rut Scraps on the cutting-room floor Shut the door, shut the door, shut the door
Now somehow he lost his way and that’s a pity But in the words of Norma Desmond The movies got small not Paul not Paul not Paul not Paul
A drink at the Jackson Hole Two cokes oh let’s toast his soul The soul of a man Our dear friend Paul Nelson – Paul Nelson
The older you get, the more you live with ghosts And that’s according to Nick Tosches who’s now among them And Paul …
Credits: Elliott Murphy : Vocals, Acoustic Guitars Jack Stafford : Backing Vocals Massimino Voza : Mellotron, Percussions Luigi Falcione : Bass Guitars Maurizio Sarnicola : Electric Guitars, Percussions Written by Elliott Murphy, Jonathan Lethem & Jack Stafford Recorded in Paris, France and Goldmine Records, Italy Mixed and mastered by Maurizio Sarnicola at Goldmine Records Produced by Elliott Murphy, Gaspard Murphy and Maurizio Sarnicola Cover artwork Brendan O’Connell
https://elliottmurphy.com/https://jonathanlethem.com/https://www.podsongs.com/http://www.brendanoconnell.com/
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Chrissie Blaze is the author of 12 books, a metaphysician and astrologer. She has been a student/practitioner of the psychic and spiritual sciences from a young age. She is a regular media guest and conducts lectures and classes in the U.S.A. and U.K. Blaze is a professional astrologer who qualified at the Faculty of Astrological Studies, London in the early 1980s. She qualified as a lecturer with credentials from the University of London, England. She was a longtime close student of renowned English Yoga Master, Dr. George King, Founder of The Aetherius Society. Her goal is the global promotion of practical spirituality, including astrology. http://www.chrissieblaze.com/
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Blaine L. Reininger—American songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, writer and performer, best known as a member of the Californian post-punk, new wave band Tuxedomoon who migrated on mass to Europe in the 1980s—speaks with James Nice, owner of Les Disques du Crépuscule and Factory Benelux, about their formative time together in the emerging Brussels music scene.
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Une ville avec un fleuve enterré
Voilà la ville avec un fleuve enterré
Qui coule sous les pavés
Ciel de plomb
Bas en dessous de la place dorée
Bruxelles des années 80
Ma joie et mes remords
Dans le vidéo bar branché où
Sans un sou sur la rue
Des superstars inconnues
En longs manteaux noirs
Je suis assis sur une rive lointaine
Savourant ce chagrin ancien
Perdu dans la musique
Déformé par la musique
Posant dans le cimetière
Debout sous la pluie
A city with a buried river
Here is the city with a buried river
Which flows under the cobblestones
leaden sky
Down below the golden square
80s Brussels
My joy and my remorse
In the trendy video bar where
Without a penny in the street
Unknown Superstars
In long black coats
I sit on a distant shore
Savoring this ancient sorrow
lost in the music
Distorted by the music
Posing in the cemetery
Standing in the rain
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https://mundoblaineo.org/
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After making a spiritual resolution, Country Roots Singer Amanda Anne Platt talks to Elaine Pagels (Professor of Religion at Princeton University) to come to a greater understanding, and write a beautiful new song - "Miracles".Stream the song: https://ffm.to/amandamiraclesLYRICS:I saw Jesus in a parking lothe said to give the world what I gotbut nobody believed meyeah they said I was crazyand now it's gonna turn me to stonelike milk for the baby that never came homeit's the saddest thing that I've ever knownand can't nobody save meSometimes the heart breaksjust like an egg hatchestiny and barely breathinghungry for some meaningSometimes the world laughsjust trying to hold the tears backsometimes we're lonelysometimes we're only dreamingWe were short on miraclesGuess they needed them for the warso we said "we don't believe in miracles anymore"but I don't wanna be scared to loveI don't wanna be scared to hopeI don't wanna be scared to call out just cause there might be no answerShe misses her brother todayasks me why he went awayI say "honey, it's beyond me"I been trying to wrap my head around the whole damn thingtrying to find the truth, trying to make it singsometimes the truth just seems so uglyWe were short on miraclesGuess they needed them for the warso we said "we don't believe in miracles anymore"but I don't wanna be scared to loveI don't wanna be scared to hopeI don't wanna be scared to call out just cause there might be no answerCREDITS:Amanda Anne Platt : VocalsDulci Ellenberger : HarmoniesJack Stafford : Backing Vocals Luigi Falcione : Acoustic Guitar, BanjoMassimino Voza : Drums, Strings, Vibes Maurizio Sarnicola : Bass GuitarWritten by Amanda Anne Platt & Jack StaffordProduced, mixed and mastered by Maurizio Sarnicola at Goldmine Records Italy// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL //Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com// LINKS //Website: https://podsongs.comPodcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodesSongs: https://podsongs.com/musicSpotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7IgSpotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656// SOCIAL //Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongsInstagram: https://instagram.com/podsongsFacebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs
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A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by the interviews.
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Nothing's by Design
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Borderline
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Don't Forget How Far You've Come
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Get Free
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EZ Water
Bonus track - Blinding Lights
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If I listened to you
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Drunk on the Cork
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Your Energy
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Always Gonna Be The Same
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The Science of Sound
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Feel the Colors
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Peace is a Serious Matter
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Psychedelic soundsmith Al Lover interviews writer, educator and futurist Zak Stein as inspiration for a new song.
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LYRICS to 'Peace is a serious matter'
Build peer-to-peer propaganda
Techno-feudalists position for mate
The social media memoranda
Hypnotize to a suggestible state
Reaching peak psychological dysfunction
Going down an infinite scroll
Pulled out with intentional suction
No self-control
Son rise become all that you're meant to be
Son rise over everything and be free
Queuing up for micro-targetted rapture
Enjoy the pleasure of the new world order
Addicted to attentional capture
A self-diagnosed disorder
Overcoming the shocks of existence
Che Guevara's in the shopping mall
Hendrix plays Star Spangled Resistance
Slowly we fall
Son rise become all that you're meant to be
Son rise over everything and be free
Links:
Zak Stein - http://www.zakstein.org/
Al Lover - https://www.al-lover.com/
Podsongs - https://podsongs.com/
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Bonnie from Death Valley Girls gets inspiration for a new song by interviewing Neil Harbisson, a cyborg artist and activist for transspecies rights. He is best known for being the first person in the world to have an antenna implanted in his skull.
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https://cyborgarts.com https://www.instagram.com/deathvalleygirls/
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In this episode, the musician Michael Lane interviews music-appreciation maestro Rick Beato. Millions have subscribed to Rick's channel to hear him dissect music old and new. An outstanding musician and producer in his own right, Rick has used his skills to help others deepen their understanding of the music they love.
The interview inspires a song about Rick's ear-training program, and the perfect pitch developed by his son Dylan after exposure to hours and hours of Bach. Unfortunately, Michael Lane wasn't able to provide the vocals for the song, so Jack Stafford stood in.
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THE SCIENCE OF SOUND
With perfect pitch And linguistic abilities Mathematical mind Woken latent capabilities Cos Dylan heard Sounds of such complexity That his mind grew Out of sheer necessity Processing power Stimulation made The power of music The science of sound Firing neurons Or earthing to ground The power of music The science of sound Untying potential That's otherwise bound The science of sound The science of sound The sun spoke the word The earth came into existence And we all flowed Down the path of least resistance Our ideas have traction If we know that truth is action The power of music The science of sound Firing neurons Or earthing to ground The power of music The science of sound Untying potential That's otherwise bound Grow as you're meant to be Know all you're meant to see Latent destiny The power of music The science of sound Firing neurons Or earthing to ground The power of music The science of sound Untying potential That's otherwise bound
Written by Jack Stafford
Produced by Maurizio Sarnicola, Goldmine Studios
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What will Amazon do once it’s eaten every other business, automated every process, and none of us have any money to buy their products? To find out, musician Oliver Ackermann (A Place To Bury Strangers) interviews Stacy Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a national research and advocacy organization that fights corporate control and works to build thriving, equitable communities. She inspires him to create a new song ‘Always Gonna Be The Same’.
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I could spin a story that would make you freak
But I’m not thinking of ways to manipulate you - I don’t hate you
I just want you to enjoy your life
And I hope you’re a really good potato - Kato
I don’t wanna live in a stupid world
I don’t wanna live under their control
I don’t wanna buy all their useless shit
That should just be thrown in a giant pit
I don’t wanna be hooked on all these drugs
Pushed to fund someone's expensive rugs
I just wanna live and have some fun
I don’t need to feel like I have won
Cuz it’s gross
They’re lying to our faces
It’s a show
They stripped away their regulations
What we don’t know
Is that they multiplied their operations
So if we don’t vote
Then its always gonna be the same
Someone’s gotta play the adult in the room - with a broom
We can’t let these greedy fuckers take another dime - waste of time
I would rather be out on vacation - in another nation
But we seem to be living with some bad potatoes - Kato
I don’t wanna live in their stupid world
I don’t wanna live under their control
I don’t wanna buy all this useless shit
That should just be thrown in a giant pit
I don’t wanna be hooked on all their drugs
Pushed to fund someone's expensive rugs
I just wanna help out my fellow man
Any fucking way that I can
Cuz it’s gross
They’re lying to our faces
And it’s low
They bought a house with our donations
What we don’t know
Is that they buried all the allegations
So if we don’t vote
Then its always gonna be the same
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We're delighted to have the wonderful Sally Seltmann come on for this episode. She is an award-winning songwriter with a canon of amazing songs—including Feist's worldwide smash 1234.
We talk with writer Tom Oliver about his book 'The Self-Delusion' and how science doesn't justify our claims for any sort of individuality.
Stream the song 'Your Energy' which was inspired by the conversation: https://ffm.to/sallyyourenergy www.sallyseltmann.com
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Professor Gad Saad, host of 'The Saad Truth' comes on to inspire a song. Jack's co-host for the episode was Aaron from the Portland band Ezra Bell. Unfortunately the collaboration didn't come through, and Jack and the Podband play this one.
https://www.gadsaad.com/ https://www.ezrabell.com/
Stream the song: https://ffm.to/drunkonthecork
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This week's guest is Kelly G. Wilson, PhD, professor of psychology at the University of Mississippi, and founder of Onelife, LLC. He has authored or coauthored eleven books, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness for Two. In this episode, he inspires a song about the importance of listening. http://onelifellc.com/
Stream the song: https://ffm.to/ifilistened
LYRICS
If I did all the things that you tell me
And you did all things that I tell you
There's nothing that we couldn't do
If I listened to you
And you listened to me
Imagine how happy we'd be
Cause you tell me truths
I don't like to hear
Truth is painful
You know you can lie sometimes
Then I'd listen more
To the wise words you've said like
Like, like... errrr
If I did all the things that you tell me
And you did all things that I tell you
There's nothing that we couldn't do
If I listened to you
And you listened to me
Imagine how happy we'd be
We'd be healthier, happier, fitter and wiser
Richer and thinner and younger and more organised
The world would be a better place
Without war
It's a simple thing but hard to do
With ego involved it's a blinkered view
But if you saw yourself from outside, you'd say
"Why didn't you tell me!?"
The world's a crazy mixed-up place
Because of the stupid human race
Our thoughts pollute the very
Air we breathe
If we're going to be the ones to make the change
It's our thoughts we need to contain
And switch our brains from broadcast
To receive
And if I lived for you
And you lived for me
Imagine how happy we'd be
If I did all the things that you tell me
And you did all things that I tell you
There's nothing that we couldn't do
If I listened to you
And you listened to me
Imagine how happy we'd be
If you listened to me
I listened to you
We listened ro each other
Listening to you
Did you hear what I've been saying?
Has any of this registered?
You're looking at your telephone
I don't know what to say
I've done all I can
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A short Christmas special and a very Happy New Year.
Stream the song https://ffm.to/blindinggypsylights
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This week's episode is with Gerald Pollack is a scientist who's recognized worldwide as a dynamic speaker and author, whose passion lies in plumbing the depths of natural truths. He inspires a song about his life's work: EZ Water—the fourth phase of water—and its incredible life-giving properties.
Stream the song: https://ffm.to/ezwater
He received the 1st Emoto Peace Prize and is a recipient of the University of Washington's highest honor, the Annual Faculty Lecturer Award. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the research journal WATER and Director of the Institute for Venture Science. Dr. Pollack's (award-winning) books include: The Fourth Phase of Water (2013), and Cells, Gels, and the Engines of Life (2001). https://www.pollacklab.org/
LYRICS:
In the water
I am reborn
With EZ water
No structures torn
With the water
And with the sun
This EZ water
Keeps me young
My mitochondria
Rebuilding cells
My power swells
Without the water
My life is starved
But with EZ water
I am recharged
With the water
And with the sun
This EZ water
Keeps me young
My mitochondria
Rebuilding cells
My power swells
Running free these radicals
They're speeding up the change
All are idiopathical
I'm closer to my age
But in the water
I am reborn
This EZ water
Builds back what's worn
And with the water
And with the sun
This EZ water
Keeps me young
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In this episode of Podsongs, Ryan Walsh of the critically acclaimed Boston-band 'Hallelujah The Hills', interviews ground-breaking researcher Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). The interview that the song inspires is song called 'Get Free'.
Stream the song: https://ffm.to/getfree
Rick Doblin, Ph.D., is the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He received his doctorate in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he wrote his dissertation on the regulation of the medical uses of psychedelics and marijuana and his Master’s thesis on a survey of oncologists about smoked marijuana vs. the oral THC pill in nausea control for cancer patients. https://maps.org/
Hallelujah The Hills have been releasing critically acclaimed albums and touring the U.S. since 2007. Described by Spin as “criminally underappreciated” and lauded by Pitchfork for their “fist pumping anthems,” they’ve been declared “Boston legends” in their hometown and as having a “cult following” by Stereogum. The band released their first two albums on Misra Records, assisted Titus Andronicus in recording their breakout album The Monitor, and are one of the only bands to have ever toured with The Silver Jews. Their sound was creatively explained as “the kind of punk rock you’d expect on stage at the roadhouse from ‘Twin Peaks’” in The Boston Herald. Others go further, with Aquarium Drunkard noting “few do it with the style and imagination of Hallelujah the Hills” and Captain’s Dead boldly publishing that they “without a doubt they are one of the greatest bands currently making music.” https://www.hallelujahthehills.com/
LYRICS: We’ve been backstabbed betrayed, butchered and splayed On the altar of “the way it’s always been done.” It’s American, man, watch the funerals span The bulk of the calendar year And you can shake your head say it’s not right Spend all your nights in electronic fights But you know in the end, there’s no way to defend The way we do nothing at all When waking up is a trauma and hellos turns to drama You disassociate from every nuclear thought Total lack of conviction with a bullshit addiction It’s enough to forget all we’ve got And all we’ve got could someday be enough A spiritual world where we lean into love Well hey I get it man, you’re not sure of the plan As you harangue me holding a beer What if the best in us was on the cusp Of true manifestation? Could we take the leap into the deep And find that the softest landing? And besides What have we got to lose? If we could stay like this or get better, What would you choose? I just want my friends to get free I just want my love to get free I just want the pained to get free I just want you to get free I just wanna get free Come on let’s all get free
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In this episode, Chad Moses of 'To Write Love on Her Arms'—the non-profit dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide—talks to Swedish songwriter Paula Jiven to inspire a new song that will inspire those going through difficulties.
Stream the song 'Don't forget how far you've come': https://ffm.to/dontforgethow
TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery. Since its start in 2006, they have donated over $3 million directly into treatment and recovery making it possible for people to access mental health care when they need it the most.
Each month, TWLOHA creates more than 11 million moments of hope through their online and social media presence for people in over 100 countries. And these moments lead to people taking the next step to find help as TWLOHA connects 3,000+ people monthly to mental health resources like crisis lines, support groups, and affordable local mental health resources through the FIND HELP Tool.
On a mission to disrupt
Swedish songwriter and artist Paula Jiven from Gothenburg made her debut appearance for the public at age 14 with her rendition of Michael Jackson's ‘Billie Jean' on Sweden's Got Talent in 2018. A cover that gave her a Golden Buzzer and that subsequently went viral, amassing over 4 million views to date. She has since then developed her songwriting talent together with Wamer/Chappell and currently shares her management with the likes of Imagine Dragons, Clinton Kane, and The Killers (Reynolds Management in Las Vegas, US). Paula Jiven makes spellbindingly original pop music, each song sparked from her radiant imagination.
At just 18-years-old, she's already cultivated a truly singular voice as an artist, one that defies all expectations in favour of following her most playful and daring instincts. With a self-described mission of “disrupting the comfortable and comforting the disrupted,“ Jiven is set to deliver a debut body of work revealing her supreme gifts as a storyteller and the tremendous power of her captivating voice.
DON’T FORGET HOW FAR YOU’VE COME
Say you’re down
And say your stuck
Can’t get out of bed
Laugh it off
But it’s not a joke
What’s messing with your head
You say it’s hard
To be living out
In the way you wished you could
But I know it’s not
How you think it is
When you think you’re really screwed
You’ve got things
you’re convinced you need
The things you’ve got to be
I’ll lend a hand
And I’ll lend my eyes
I wanna help you heal
Cause all we need
Is all you are
I want you to run free
You were always beautiful
And one day
I hope you’ll see
Don’t forget how far you’ve come
And I’ll - write the love upon your arms
I’ll lend my hand, I want to help you heal
You’re all we need, I want you to run free
You’re all we need, I want you to run free
You’re all we need, I want you to run free
You’re all we need, I want you to run free
I want you to run
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What happens when a young Boston musician interviews a Professor of Sociology at Boston University about the refugee crisis happening worldwide? The answer is a great song for Social Change.
Stream the song: https://ffm.to/juniperborderline
Heba Gowayed is the Moorman-Simon Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University, and it's her job to make sense of it all. Her research, which is global and comparative, examines how low-income people traverse social services, immigration laws, and their associated bureaucracies, while grappling with gender and racial inequalities.
Heba’s writing has appeared in Gender & Society, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Sociological Forum and in public outlets including Slate and Teen Vogue. Her new book, Refuge, out now with Princeton University Press, explores how states shape the potential of people pursuing refuge within their borders. She is currently working on her second book, The Cost of Borders, which theorizes borders as a costly, and often deadly, transaction.
JUNIPER
After meeting in college, Scott Johnson, Ahren Shreeve, and Alejandro Marín formed Juniper. The group has formed their unique sound from diverse influences of alternative rock, folk, R&B, and bedroom pop. With various vocalists throughout their early discography, one thing has remained constant: their songwriting is tangibly honest, ranging from upbeat and high energy to delicate and introspective. With roots in local venues and basement gigs, their music found a loyal fan base early on, which has since only grown. At just 21 years old, the band has emerged as one of the new faces of the Boston music scene, and with this encouragement, they’ve consolidated and are now working on their debut album, coming soon.
On the borderline
Ordinary people
Are intertwined
On the borderline
If you think it’s equal
Then you’re colorblind
Can’t you see it’ll never be the same
Even if you’re from the same place
Disproportionate, longevity
Based on things you wouldn’t believe…
Who’s complicit in creating (generating) lies
A never-ending staircase
With freedom at the top in disguise
Protected by
Countries with money
And no sense of pain
The pain, of dropping everything
And moving away
At the borderline Hope is used
To build the lie//
That it's a better life
It takes a criminal mind
For death and sacrifice
To find a compromise
To find a compromise
But can’t u see it’ll never be the same
Even if you’re from the same place
People seek refuge
But don’t you go calling them refugees…
Who’s complicit in creating (generating) lies
A never-ending staircase
With freedom at the top in disguise
Protected by
Countries with money
And no sense of pain
The pain, of dropping everything
And moving away
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"Compassion is the antidote to suffering and harmfulness. Put simply, it is a sensitivity to suffering in self and others with a commitment to try to alleviate and prevent it." So says Psychologist Paul Gilbert, the godfather of Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), in an interview that inspires singer-songwriter Patrick McGuire of Straight White Teeth to create a new song called ‘NOTHING’S BY DESIGN’.
Research has now revealed how our capacities for compassion evolved, how it works in our bodies and our brains, and when cultivated, is a source of courage and wisdom to address suffering. Compassionate courage lies in the willingness to see into the nature and causes of suffering - in ourselves, others and the human condition.
Patrick McGuire-inspired
Straight White Teeth is the tenacious songwriting project of musician and writer Patrick McGuire. Stream the song: https://ffm.to/nothingsbydesign
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A commentary on the last 11 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by the interviews.
1) A Hose Through Which Love Flows
2) It's Not 1984
3) War On Mother Nature
4) From Me To We
5) This Is Making Me Crazy
6) Transhuman Dreams
7) The Rules of Ayurveda (Dinacharya)
8) Where Were The Drugs?
9) Let Go
10) CRISPR
11) Masterpiece
12) Next episode
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In this episode of Podsongs—the show where musicians interview inspirational people, as inspiration for a new song—Professor Carl Hart, author of Drug Use for Grownups and a campaigner for drug law reform, talks to American singer-songwriter Tanner Peterson about why everything we know about drug addiction is wrong. The resulting song inspired by the conversation is called ‘Break the Spell’ and features Carl’s son Damon Xavier rapping as guest vocalist.
https://drcarlhart.com/
https://tannerpmusic.com/
Stream the song: https://ffm.to/tannerbreakthespell
BREAK THE SPELL
They’re coming again
They’re coming for my own heart
Just live and forget
Everyone plays their part
Need a reset
Spirits in the mind are breaking through
New consciousness
Visions of something I can’t prove
We’re changing slowly
But still falling onto ourselves
Can’t stop the controlling
Could melodies break the spell?
Illegal truth
Covered up like it’s suicide
Forbidden fruit
How can you tell me what is mine?
We’re changing slowly
But still falling onto ourselves
Can’t stop the controlling
Could melodies break the spell?
We’re changing slowly
But still falling onto ourselves
Can’t stop the controlling
Could melodies break the spell?
Time to grow up
'Cause it’s no rights if they control us
My whole life all I heard was “no drugs”
Coming from the motherfuckers that don’t even know drugs
And as I
Get to get a little closer
I can identify the propaganda like “hold up”
Then we can recognize that the lies never hold up
Whether you do a line, or wine, or you roll up
High Times couldn’t cover my mind by the byline
The news never spill the truth on a timeline
The boys in blue are the brutes in my lifetime
I been on sidelines and now it’s high time
Look at the country deposit
Locking my people for profit
How can you look in the mirror?
I cannot honor "Your Honor"
Chasing our happiness and I’m knowing the courage will cause it
What do we need? To get out the closet
Wassup?
We’re changing slowly
But still falling onto ourselves
Can’t stop the controlling
Could melodies break the spell?
We’re changing slowly
But still falling onto ourselves
Can’t stop the controlling
Could melodies break the spell?
Could melodies break the spell?
Could melodies break the spell?
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In this episode of Podsongs—the show where musicians interview inspirational people, as inspiration for a new song—high-performance psychologist Dr. Michael Gervais, who’s worked with some of the world’s top athletes, talks to LA singer Katie Welch about what it takes to be the best version of ourselves. The result is a song called ‘Masterpiece’ which invites you discover the artist inside your heart.
Learn the power of thinking
High-performance psychologist Dr. Michael Gervais has dedicated his career to exploring how to push the boundaries of human potential. His clients include Olympians and Fortune 100 CEOs. As the host of the Finding Mastery podcast he interviews world-leading professionals taking their fields to the edge. Dr. Gervais works in high-stakes environments with some of the world’s top-performing athletes and businesspeople. He is known for his work on the Red Bull Stratos project, where he helped Felix Baumgartner overcome the anxiety and claustrophobia felt when he pulled on his jumps suit to make the history-making leap from 128,000 feet. Meditation, mindfulness and team-building techniques introduced by Dr. Gervais are credited by Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll as being key to his team’s 2014 Super Bowl win. Carroll and Dr. Gervais continue to work together as co-founders of Compete to Create, a digital platform helping people become their best through mindset training. Here, Dr. Gervais shares insights gleaned from working with the best in the world.
Katie Welch is an American Pop-Jazz singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles, her cinematic pop-soul sound highlights her powerful presence and soulful voice, influenced by the greats like Ella Fitzgerald, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, and Celine Dion, but with a dance/disco-funk edge inspired by The Jacksons, Prince, Cher, Stevie Wonder, and Christina Aguilera
Stream the song: https://ffm.to/katiemasterpiece
MASTERPIECE
Everyday’s an opportunity to create a living masterpiece
The biggest thing that hold us back is the fear of what other people think
Your most authentic self’s available to you every day and everywhere that you meet your feet
Cuz when we’re present and we’re grounded and we’re mindful
That’s when life gets really sweet
Because we’ve all got the chance to be the best versions of ourselves
And we can learn to harness all the gifts we’ve each got to express
You’re enough just because you are
And everything you need is inside of you
Your inner capabilities are absolutely extraordinary
Baby you’re a work of art
The artist is inside your heart
Your body is the canvas
And you’re mind is the paint
Once you can see the picture you can paint it for the world to see
Because we’ve all got the chance to be the best versions of ourselves
And we can learn to harness all the gifts we’ve each got to express
You’re enough just because you are
And everything you need is inside of you
Your inner capabilities are absolutely extraordinary
Baby you’re a work of art
The artist is inside your heart
Your body is the canvas
And you’re mind is the paint
So paint the picture that you want the world to see
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Jo Zayner is a biohacker, artist, and scientist best known for their self-experimentation and work making hands-on genetic engineering accessible to a lay audience, including CRISPR. josiahzayner.com/
Chicks on Speed is a feminist music and fine art ensemble, formed in Munich in 1997, when members Australian Alex Murray-Leslie and American Melissa Logan met at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. http://www.chicksonspeed.com/
Podsongs is a podcast where musicians interview inspirational people as inspiration for a new song. www.podsongs.com
CRISPR
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CRISPR
CRISPR
CRISPR
CRISPR
CRIS, CRIS, CRIS, PR
Where’s the bass? Doing the science
Cut and add, you’ve got the sequence
Making it happen
Do you want to jam, with my genes?
Give me some of your genetic engineering
Your kitchen garage time machine
Take me to see a dragon
Everybody has a device to push the button
Bottom up, top down
Lifloning logistics
Baby genes in editing
Change our genes, make a choice
Self-injected, what’s the real
Believe in who, what’s the wrong in the world
Science isn’t done a lab coat
Seeing through your twisted CRISPR
Science isn’t done a lab coat
Empty hallways what’s going on
Artificial balance hey
Hey love I could lose
Body autonomy
Me and you just we two point of view
What’s the truth?
Make me faith
Make me real
Change modify
Men on estrogen
Therapy it’s popular
Vocabulary
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CRISPR
CRISPR
CRISPR
CRISPR
I was not born this way
Didn’t like my DNA
You said my genes were lame
Were so uncool and my parents were to blame
If only, science made me cooler
Maybe some talent and a photogenic bone structure
Dear science, save me from this gene pool
It’s mediocre why does nature have to be so cruel?
What do you think about mosquitos?
What about repair kit?
What about the DNA?
What about the therapy?
What is natural?
Have the repair kit rather than the scalpel?
What about fixing the murals?
What about repair kit subsitutes for jail cells?
I’m starving mosquito flying around
Can’t locate dinner
Receptors are down
My target of desired of plasma can’t be found
A starving mosquito
Buzzing around
Buzzing around
Buzzing around
Buzzing around
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A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by the interviews.
1) Unclench
2) It's Possible
3) Afterlife
4) Bravery
5) Kudzu From Heaven
6) Changes
7) Unravel
8) Moment of Truth
9) A Change Is Coming
10) Change without pain
11) Live to Give
12) Where Attention Goes
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Can you learn to let go? This is what Kyle Cease challenges Doe Paoro to do in their interview together in this episode of Podsongs.
New York Times Best Selling author Kyle Cease has a gift of merging comedy with personal transformation. As a comedian, Kyle had two #1 Comedy Central specials and was voted as #1 ranking on Comedy Central’s Stand-up Showdown. After leaving his job as an award-winning comedian, Kyle dedicated his life to helping others and created Evolving Out Loud, which is a growing community with over 400 thousand members worldwide. Kyle has personally coached over fifteen thousand people and his YouTube videos have been watched over 60 million times. http://kylecease.com/
Working under the name Doe Paoro, Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Sonia Kreitzer blends elements of soul, R&B, dubstep, and dark-toned pop. After earning critical accolades with her self-made first album, she signed to Anti-, working with members of Bon Iver and making her label debut with 2015's After. Slow to Love Following a trip to Tibet, the Syracuse native began recording under the name Doe Paoro, folding Tibetan opera vocal influences into her own minimalist pop sound. https://www.doepaoro.com/
Stream the song: https://ffm.to/doeletgo
LET GO
Well I never had the sense of a road
No no no no
And I gave up all of my knowing
A long time ago
Yeah I tried
To let go
Of what could not hold
Well I promised myself a love
That wouldn't rely
On anyone else's choosing me
This love never dies
Yeah I tried
To let go
Of what was a love so many times
I had to let go so many times
I had to let go of so many lives
I had to let go of so many so many so many lives
So many times
I had to let go
I had to let go
I had to let go
Of so many lives
So many times
Well I walked to the edge
Gave my prayer to the stars
What if the thing that I want most
Is breaking my heart
Well I tried, yes I tried to accept what is hard
Yeah I tried to accept what is hard
I had to let go
So many times
I had to let go of so many lives
so many lives
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Jeremy Hunt inspires a song about Covid medicine. Jeremy Hunt is a senior British politician serving as Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee.
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WHERE WERE THE DRUGS?
Where were the drugs in our hour of need?
Where were the drugs against this deadly disease?
That it's wholly untreatable's not entirely believable
But for what other reason can you rush through vaccines?
Are you really telling me?
When every other ad I see
Pumped in by TV
Is for a magic cure
I don't believe you anymore
Cos all doctors were pharmacists
All-day long prescription lists
Now suddenly the only thing in their bag is
Paracetamol
Where were the drugs in our hour of need?
Where were the drugs are we being deceived?
Can we wake up from denial, we're in one big clinical trial
And Paracetamol is not an anti-viral
Why can't drugs be authorized?
Until you've been hospitalized
The system has been paralyzed
Right before our very eyes
Everyone's been hypnotized
With the thought of being immunized
The unjabbed are despised
Now there are drugs you cannot mention
It's become a sin
Even to talk about ivermectin
Or Hydroxyquinoline
There must not be
Vaccine hesitancy
And all the SARS that went before
We treated them we won the war
But suddenly the only thing we have is
Paracetamol
Where were the drugs in our hour of need?
Where were the drugs are we being deceived?
Can we wake up from denial, we're in one big clinical trial
And Paracetamol is not an anti-viral
Where were the drugs in our hour of need?
Where were the drugs against this deadly disease?
That it's wholly untreatable's not entirely believable
But for what other reason can you rush through vaccines?
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This is a reissue of Episode 7, while Jack recovers for the birth of his first child last week. Bernardo Kastrup's work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on 'Scientific American,' the 'Institute of Art and Ideas,' the 'Blog of the American Philosophical Association' and 'Big Think,' among others.
https://youtu.be/ZiFc11XHRQ4
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THE PRISON OF MATERIALISM
VERSE
Fm
It's stitched into the sitcoms
It's sewn into the news
Bfm
Twisted in the movies
It underwrites your views
It underwrites your views
Fm
Pumped in by the television
Reinforced in school
Bfm
Seeps into your every hole,
But your nobody's fool?
BRIDGE
Cm
It permeates and advocates
Corroborates we're separates
Bfm
Venerates-our-physical-traits-while-vindicating-violent-states
Cm
Perpetuates subordinates
Implicates we're primates
Culminates in selfish hate
That enumerates & exterminates
CHORUS
Bfm
Oh no, they’re selling you a prison
Cm
Don’t buy the lie of materialism
VERSE
It’s been cunningly conceived
And slyly concealed
Dripped into your consciousness
Now it has congealed
You're just purely physical
You're a piece of meat
Who cares if I beat you
Or emotionally mistreat you
BRIDGE
Soul starvation, strangulation
Spiritual castration
Secularize-sexualise-glamourise-with-vacant-lies
Temptation and gratification
Physical adoration
Sedation of civilization
Societal transmogrification
CHORUS
VERSE
They're happy you're confused
They feed upon your fear
Suck up all your feelings
They’re always very near
You’re one of the little pawns
Putty in their hands
Moving in formation
As they whisper their commands
BRIDGE
Preaching the dualities
Physical realities
With-distorted-moralities-for-limited-mentalities
Contorted tonalities
Temporal modalities
Separate nationalities
For global criminalities
CHORUS
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This is a reissue of Episode 6, while Jack takes a short break for the birth of his first child. Scott Carney is an investigative journalist and anthropologist and has worked in some of the most dangerous and unlikely corners of the world. His work blends narrative non-fiction with ethnography. He inspires a song called True Believer, about the life philosophy he has built based on his work and travels.
His books include What Doesn’t Kill Us was a New York Times bestseller; other works include The Red Market and A Death on Diamond Mountain. Carney was a contributing editor at Wired for five years and his writing also appears in Mother Jones, Men's Journal, Playboy, Foreign Policy, Discover, Outside, and Fast Company. His work has been the subject of a variety of radio and television programs, including on NPR and National Geographic TV. In 2010, he won the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for his story “ Meet the Parents,” which tracked an international kidnapping-to-adoption ring. Carney has spent extensive time in South Asia and speaks Hindi. He attended Kenyon College and has a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He currently lives in Denver, CO
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TRUE BELIEVER
There's a wedge, we drive
For our minds, to thrive
We wither in this world
Or we evolve
What is truth? What's belief?
What is hiding underneath?
In the lie-infested world in which we crawl
You call me faithless - but my faith's unshakeable
In fact, I'm one of only a few believers left
From what I've seen with my own eyes
A lie is always in disguise
My faith's built on solid base
I trust in what I touch or taste
I've been convinced by black and white
That today will end in night
The song is long while will is free
Life ends in a minor key
You call me faithless but I've no doubt
I'm a true believer - believe me!
I've faith men cheat, Faith men lie
Faith they steal, one day die
I'm a believer!
A true believer
I've faith they'll kill to make a million
Sell their bodies, sell their children
I'm a believer!
A true believer
Lies are always told
As lives are, bought and sold
Our belief is the currency that we traded away
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In the show where every conversation inspires a song, Jack Stafford interviews Dr Bhaswati Bhattacharya about her book 'Everyday Ayurveda: Daily Habits That Can Change Your Life in a Day'.
Living between Manhattan and Kashi, Dr Bhaswati Bhattacharya is a licensed, board-certified physician, integrating 'Good Medicine' with Ayurveda for the past fifteen years. She is Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and a PhD researcher in Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University. She is a 2014 senior Fulbright-Nehru Scholar, recipient of American Medical Association's Leadership Award and the first Indian to speak at Commencement Exercises at Harvard University. Her work is featured in the documentary, Healers: Journey into Ayurveda.
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THE RULES OF AYURVEDA (DINACHARYA)
Waking up
Before the sun
You have your motions
One-by-one
Clean out the Kapha
From your head
Accumulated
While in bed
Clean the teeth
And scrape the tongue
Gargle with oil
Then Abhyanga
I get tired of the rules
Nasal drops
Salute the sun
Wash your body
When you’re done
Meditate
And then hydrate
Break your fast
Very late
Exercise
December to May
To only half
Capacity
Well I get tired of the rules
But every time I go a little crazy
Do something I know is really wrong
I wake up in the morning feeling so bad
That I go running... to the rules
Not holding a sneeze
Or stopping a yawn
No activities
At dusk or dawn
Only breathing
Through your nose
Never eating
When the right ones closed
All 6 tastes
In every meal
The ratio
For how you feel
I get tired of the rules
Avoiding incompatible
Foods
Mixing with fruit
It precludes
Then you lie
On your left side
While you digest
What's inside
Control the body
Speech and mind
Granting gifts
And being kind
I get tired of the rules
But when I forget contraindications
Don't change with the seasons or my situation
Whenever I act mindlessly, I feel so bad
I go running to.... to the rules
Speaking little
Speaking good
Speaking only
When you should
Not causing ill will
Telling lies
No dissension
In others lives
With a smile
The first to greet
Insults received
Never repeat
I get tired of the rules
Living a life that's
Filled with dharma
Pursuing only
Pleasure and kama
Not believing
All you see
But nor suspect
Conspiracy
Perfect the skill
Of adoring others
Sharing profits
As with brothers
Not loving
living alone
Compassion for all
Is always shown
And having the long life
And the health
The reputation
And the wealth
Who's tired... of the rules?
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Let's talk transhumanism. Steve Fuller Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, England talks to Holly Chant of the band Xylaroo, to give her inspiration for a new song.
Social Epistemology, what it is and how it is relevant to the question of Intelligent Design? Steve was originally trained in history and philosophy of science, but he is best known for the research programme of 'social epistemology', which is the title of a journal he founded in 1987 and the first of his dozen books.
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In this conversation, Dr. Caroline Leaf inspires a song about the struggle for sanity in our crazy world. Dr. Leaf is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist and was one of the first in her field to study how the brain can change (neuroplasticity) with directed mind input.
During her years in clinical practice and her work with thousands of underprivileged teachers and students in her home country of South Africa and in the USA, she developed her theory (called the Geodesic Information Processing theory) of how we think, build memory, and learn, into tools and processes that have transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), learning disabilities (ADD, ADHD), autism, dementias and mental ill-health issues like anxiety and depression. She has helped hundreds of thousands of students and adults learn how to use their mind to detox and grow their brain to succeed in every area of their lives, including school, university, and the workplace. https://drleaf.com/
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THIS IS MAKING ME CRAZY
I can’t live in this place
It makes me crazy
All are wild with naked greed
To which somehow it seems that we have all agreed
I can’t live in a city
It makes me crazy
Overcrowded, poisoned air
Frowning face’s surrounding me everywhere
I can’t live with a job
It makes me crazy
Sold myself, get paid in stress
Now what I have left of my life’s worth so much less
When there's so much confusion
And so much is wrong
And so many people
Then I must be strong
When so much is wasted
And there's so much of strife
I need to change my life
I can’t live in a house
It makes me crazy
Even though I’ve too much stuff
What I have just never seems to be enough
I can’t live with a woman
They make me crazy
Always complaining, nothing’s right
All I get is criticism every night
When there's so much confusion
And so much is wrong
And so many people
Then I must be strong
When so much is wasted
And there's so much of strife
I need to change my life
I can’t live with a body
It makes me crazy
Aches and pains and colds and flu
And it never looks the way I want it to
I can’t live with a mind
It makes me crazy
Always talking, never peace
Even meditation gives me no release
I can’t live with myself
I make me crazy
Cos after all the things I’ve changed
I myself remain the same
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Jack Stafford's guest as inspiration for a new song is Judy Wicks, an activist, entrepreneur, author, and speaker working to build a more compassionate, just, regenerative and locally-based economy.
LYRICS:
All our problems come
When we get outside ourselves
We need to grow our communities
And seize new opportunities
We gotta move... from me to we
Think reciprocity
It's time to move from me to we
Think one community
All together now
Altogether now
All together now
Altogether now
All together now
Altogether now
All together now
Altogether now
Independence is
An illusory thing
It's real the abundance
So share it all with a caring call
And move from me to we
Think generosity
We gotta move from me to we
Think one big family
All together now
Altogether now
All together now
Altogether now
All together now
Altogether now
All together now
Altogether now
Instead of over-reliance
On global supply chains buy locally
Say no to corporate violence
Against the earth and all of us yeah
All together now
Altogether now
All together now
Altogether now
All together now
Altogether now
All together now
Altogether now
All together now
Altogether now
All together now
Altogether now
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Vandana Shiva inspires a song about corporations' War on Mother Nature on episode #107 of the Podsongs podcast.
VandanaShiva is a modern-day revolutionary, and for forty years has been fighting a heroic battle on behalf of humanity and the ecologically besieged natural systems that support us. But she is opposed by powerful multinational corporations and billionaires like #billgates invested in continuing their degenerative but lucrative agricultural practices. For more information on Vandana’s work and to take part in her online courses go to navdanya.org Her latest book is called: Oneness VS the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom. Also please check out the documentary film about Vandana’s work “The Seeds of Vandana” here: https://vandanashivamovie.com
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The song was performed by Rebecca Jenkins whose partner Joel Bakan—writer and director of The New Corporation documentary—suggested Vandana Shiva to Podsongs host Jack Stafford.
Podsongs is a unique podcast format created and hosted by Jack Stafford, a British musician living in Italy. Musicians interview inspiring people and produce a song inspired by the conversation. It launched in November 2020 after COVID lockdowns forced Jack to look for other outlets for his music, and it evolved into a collaborative project.
War on Mother Nature
The song was recorded at Goldmine Records in Vallo della Lucania, Italy. The music was written by Jack Stafford, with lyrics by Jack Stafford and Rebecca Jenkins. Rebecca Jenkinson sang vocals, and it was produced by Maurizio Sarnicola and Massimino Voza, who also played Drums, Piano, Bass, Trumpet, Organ and Keys. Maurizio Sarnicola played guitar. LYRICS: Capital creation you know It's just blatant theft And the system will not stop Until there's nothing left Wake up people come on now Don't get mesmerised By these digital barons And their hypnotic lies Their aim is not discrete They want to defeat Mother Nature It's their illusion It's so senseless Dangerously Anti-life, anti-health, anti-woman No accountability Their media floods our minds PR pollution Money is their goal But you know it's nature's execution Their aim is not discrete They want to defeat Mother Nature Mother Nature It's their illusion As food creators They own what we need They patent nature Even precious seed Come on people Let's collectivise It's time for revolution It's been prophesised Their aim is not discrete They want to defeat her Their aim is not discrete They want to defeat her They want to defeat her They want to defeat her Come on people It's time for revolution Come on now Let's collectivise It's time for revolution // SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @
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Balinese activist and singer Kai Mata interviews English writer Dorian Lynskey—author of 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs and The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s 1984—on episode #106 of the Podsongs podcast.
Challenged to come up with a song that covers both subjects, she creates an anti-protest song—an anthem for peace.
LYRICS:
To those who call for uprising
And bloodshed to begin
Who holler that the system
must be torn down from within
If you want to drive out the dark
Well stand up with light in your heart
You're acting like it's Nineteen Eighty-Four - And you need a revolution
Screaming for a storm rage and a war - trying to tear down institutions
Preaching hate, liberate, anger bait nothing more - we're in need of resolution
You're acting like it's 1984
An eye for an eye
Makes the whole world blind
With peace in your actions
There's peace in your mind
If you want to drive out the dark
Well stand up with light in your heart
You're acting like it's Nineteen Eighty-Four - And you need a revolution
Screaming for a storm rage and a war - trying to tear down institutions
Preaching hate, liberate, anger bait nothing more - we're in need of resolution
You're acting like it's 1984
In the cacophony, I hear a single melody
So would you come along and sing this song with me?
We can use harmonies to sing of what we dream this little world could be
You can be mad, you can be angry
In this time where words are feeling so unheard
We write songs about our worries
Sing out loud to share our stories
In the hopes that someone near or far can hear our words and feel them in their heart
You're acting like it's Nineteen Eighty-Four - And you need a revolution
Screaming for a storm rage and a war - trying to tear down institutions
Preaching hate, liberate, anger bait nothing more - we're in need of resolution
You're acting like it's 1984
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Today's guest is Diana Winston, author of The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering your Natural Awareness, and the co-author of Fully Present, the Science, Art and Practice of Mindfulness.
She has taught mindfulness for health and well-being since 1993 in a variety of settings including the medical and mental health field, and in universities, businesses, non-profits, and schools.
At UCLA, where she is the Director of Mindfulness Education at MARC, she developed the evidence-based Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs) curriculum and the Training in Mindfulness Facilitation (TMF), which trains mindfulness teachers worldwide. She is also a founder of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association.
Her work has been mentioned in the New York Times, O Magazine, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Women’s Health, and in a variety of magazines, books, and journals. The LA Times has even called her “one of the nation’s best-known teachers of mindfulness.”
She has been practising mindfulness since 1989, including a year as a Buddhist nun in Burma (Myanmar).
Learn more at www.dianawinston.com
LYRICS to A Hose Through Which Love Flows:
Am I validated feelings
Am I compassion incarnate
Or the darkest of the answers
Resigned to his fate
Yes am I doomed to live forever
With the free will that I chose
Or am I a hose
Through which love flows
I'm an accumulation of consciousness
A wave before the sand
An amalgamation of aspects
At the limit of the land
I'm growing and collecting
Where attention goes
And I'm a hose
Through which love flows
I'm chaos in the making
And robust rigidity
Desperately adding layers
Trying to fashion identity
I'm refractions of the light
An animal that knows
And I'm a hose
Through which love flows
I'm a bundle of emotions
Each with their own name
Pretending individualism
All desperate for a frame
I'm the wheel of awareness
A whisper dressed in clothes
And I'm a hose
Through which love flows
I'm a preacher proud to stand up
A prosecutor who'll fall
A politician in the alley
Answering mother nature's call
I'm integrating hemispheres
The poetry and the prose
And I'm a hose
Through which love flows
I'm the left side giving narration
And the right side reaching out
A problem-solving algorithm
Wants to know what it's about
I'm the observer and the object
The audience and the show
And I'm a hose
Through which love flows
I'm a hose through which love flows
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Musicians Jack Stafford and Will Clapson interview world-renowned professor of psychology Dan Siegel to understand their own psychology and write a song inspired by their insights. /This interview is also available on Youtube, and you can as artist Ciro Fabbozzi creates the artwork for the single while listening to their conversation.)
Daniel J. Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. He served as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at UCLA, studying family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behavior, autobiographical memory and narrative. Dr. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person seminars that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. https://drdansiegel.com/
Guest musician: Jack in Water - https://www.jackinwater.com/
Jack in Water is the artist name of William Clapson. He was brought up in a little village in Essex and grew up listening to the different musical influences of his parents. His Dad introduced him to a whole host of melancholy and drama created by bands such as Radiohead and the Blue Nile. Whilst at his Mum’s house, the living room was mostly full of the powerful R&B and soul voices like Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross. It was this mix of post rock melancholy instrumentation, partnered with the emotional soulful voice of some of the greats that really drove him to make the music he does today. His latest work is his most personal to date, looking back on his childhood memories and relationships, digging back into uncomfortable emotions and abuse, in order to process past traumas and appreciate the person he is now. “When you’re no longer tangled up in its ups and downs but you’re still able to see that you’re inevitably a result of everything that’s happened to you so far” William explained. “Being able to reflect on my upbringing has been quite therapeutic, and also difficult at times.
Written by Jack In Water and Jack Stafford
Producer: Maurizio Sarnicola
Vocals, Piano, Synthesizers, Soundscape: Jack In Water
Backing Vocals: Jack Stafford, Massimino Voza, Maurizio Sarnicola
Drums, Bass, Synthesizers: Maurizio Sarnicola
Mixed and Mastered by Maurizio Sarnicola at Goldmine Records - Italy
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LYRICS
Once in June, Dan explained to me a rhyme that i could use
To reinforce the undivided love I promise on to you and it was simply
Where attention goes, neural firing flows and neural connection grows
So to you I dedicate my attention
In the hope that it fills you with the energy to take on this world
Where attention goes, neural firing flows and neural connection grows
There will be no energy wasted on shame
The only exchange is the fruit of integration
So we avoid rigid or chaotic frustration
Where attention goes, neural firing flows and neural connection grows
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This episode of Podsongs—where inspirational people inspire a song—is Jen Sincero, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, speaker and motivational cattle prod who’s helped countless people transform their personal and professional lives via her products, speaking engagements, newsletters, seminars and books. Her #1 New York Times bestseller, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life (2013), has been on the NY Times bestseller list for over four and a half years, has sold over 5 million copies worldwide, is available in over 40 languages, and continues to grow in popularity around the globe. Her follow-ups, You Are a Badass® at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth (2017), also a NY Times bestseller, You Are a Badass® Every Day (2018), and Badass Habits (2020) are written with the same signature sass, down-to-earth humor and blunt practicality that made You Are a Badass® a beloved bestseller and Jen a celebrated voice in the world of self development. https://jensincero.com/
MUSICAL GUEST: Gregory Harrington is one of Ireland’s most recognized violinists, with a wide ranging diversity that encompasses classical to jazz to crossover.
Born in Dublin and based in New York City, violinist Gregory Harrington is redefining the classical virtuoso for the 21st century. As a classical artist, he is admired for the expressive lyricism of his playing, beauty of tone, and impeccable musicianship. His unique ability to transform movie and film scores, popular jazz, rock and pop music into brand new violin concert pieces has enthralled audiences around the world. As noted by critics, Mr. Harrington juxtaposes Bach and Bob Dylan, Beethoven and Leonard Cohen, Radiohead and Johnny Cash to staggering effect. As a performer/arranger with orchestra or his performing groups, Harrington’s cross-cultural and wide-reaching appeal has brought him to perform for Presidents and Vice Presidents, celebrities, heads of state, the United Nations and millions of music fans around the globe. https://gregoryharrington.com/
LYRICS - "Live to Give":
There's a golden rule
They don't teach in school
It's when you help someone else
You end up helping yourself
And as you give what you can
To your fellow man
There's a reaction
That's opposite and equal
Fear will disappear
When you're not scared to share
And when you live to give
The world gives back to you
Now add in gratitude
As your gateway drug
To a life of awesomeness
And abundance
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Binyamin Appelbaum, of The New York Times, talks about his book, The Economists' Hour, which traces the rise of the economists, first in the United States and then around the globe, as their ideas reshaped the modern world, curbing government, unleashing corporations and hastening globalization.
Binyamin Appelbaum is the lead writer on business and economics for the Editorial Board of The New York Times. He joined the board in March 2019. He was previously a Washington correspondent for the Times, covering the Federal Reserve and other aspects of economic policy. Appelbaum has previously worked for The Florida Times-Union, The Charlotte Observer, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. His book, The Economists' Hour, was published in September 2019.
LYRICS TO 'CHANGE WITHOUT PAIN':
What kind of world are we living in?
When going out, is giving in
Do you feel we're one?
Or that you're the only one
And can we change without pain?
The fractured land society
The prophets failed it's plain to see
Where's the broad prosperity
Promised by their reign
And can we change without pain?
Do you ever feel these changes?
Altogether, going through changes
Economists now, have all control
Companies bought, our very souls
In the Economists Hour
Hard to explain
How we change without pain
Do you ever feel these changes?
Altogether, going through changes
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Joel Bakan is professor of law at the University of British Columbia, and an internationally renowned legal scholar and commentator. A former Rhodes Scholar and law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada, Bakan has law degrees from Oxford, Dalhousie, and Harvard.
His critically acclaimed book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), electrified readers around the world (it was published in over 20 languages), and became a bestseller in several countries. Bakan wrote and co-created (with Mark Achbar) a feature documentary film, The Corporation, based on the book’s ideas and directed by Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The film won numerous awards, including best foreign documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, and was a critical and box office success.
The New Corporation, a sequel to that film, is based on Bakan’s book of the same name and directed by Bakan and Jennifer Abbott. Bakan’s scholarly work includes Just Words: Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs (1997), as well as textbooks, edited collections, and numerous articles in leading legal and social science journals. His award-winning book, Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children (2012), has been translated into several languages. A recipient of awards for both writing and teaching, Bakan has worked on landmark legal cases and government policy, and serves regularly as a public speaker and media commentator. Also a professional jazz guitarist, Bakan lives in Vancouver, Canada with his wife Rebecca Jenkins.
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We made it to 100 episodes in just over a year. Well done to the whole team. Thanks to the guests, the musicians, the listeners, everyone! How should we celebrate our one-hundredth episode? - it has to be something special edition. And it is. Because I originally started Podsongs as a way to help publicise the Aetherius society, the spiritual organisation that I’m a member of. And about 12 of the last 100 guests were from the Aetherius Society. Two directors of the society in LA—Brian Keneipp and Paul Nugent—agreed to come on and give a special track by track commentary, with some extra metaphysical insights.
The album is called 'Through slits in the chrysalis'—meaning the truths we get glimpses of, through cracks in our cocoons—and will be available on all platforms from 1st January.
Tracks:
1 The Prison of Materialism
2 The Violet Flame
3 The Mother Earth
4 The Healer
5 Most Caterpillars Don't Believe In Butterflies
6 The Mighty Sun
7 If The Bombs Go Off
8 Pranayama
9 Serve
10 Hymn of the Blessings
11 Bravery
12 Don't Dwell on your Physical Shell
13 The Absolute
14 Blind and Groping in the Dark
Moving forward.... In 2022 we'll be switching to an episode every fortnight which is what many other shows do, like Song Exploder the next best music podcast. Podsongs has become all-consuming... Because it's not just the production of the podcast that takes time - now I have to find musical guests who want to collaborate, finding a guest expert for them to interview, researching, recording, editing.... and then making the songs of course, which has been huge.... but it's also that now we give every song a special single release, with marketing, promotion, a music video... we're a proper record company. And two singles a month is still a lot.
And even on top of that, another new idea for next year is that I want to release episodes with video as well - but we need something extra special for Podsongs - so not just talking heads, but as well as each episode inspiring a song, it will also inspire a painting..... I'm asking artists to video themselves creating a piece inspired by the conversation - so on youtube, you'll have a split-screen of the interview and the artist painting a picture in real-time. It's evolving into a gesamtkunstwerk - as we have music, dancers in the music videos. Maybe some literature in future, with story readings instead of interviews. I don't know how I can get architecture in there, but if you have an idea let me know.
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An incredible episode with a mountaineer turned Transformational Teacher and Coach for living an Enlightening Life. He's a world-record-holding expedition leader, who led expeditions to Everest, the North Pole, and the South Pole. As well as succeeding in business: he created the first commercial airline in Antarctica and other multiple multi-million dollar businesses. Other notable achievements include initiating a global youth empowerment project involving 60 million young people and producing a Primetime TV documentary. To cap it all he has now travelled on a spiritual adventure and has taught meditation to monks in India and around the world. He lives in constant bliss, joy, love, and creativity.
LYRICS to "Moment of Truth":
I am ready, for revelations
I am ready, for open eyes
I am ready, for sacrifice
I'm ready for love
I'm ready for loss
I'm ready for truth
I'm ready for an open eye
I'm ready for the truth inside
I'm ready for a turn of the wheel
I'm ready for electric feel
I'm ready to give up dislikes
I'm ready for the great insights
I'm ready, leave it all behind
I'm ready for a higher mind
I'm ready for love
I'm ready for loss
I'm ready for truth
I'm about to believe
Open my heart and receive
I'm about to believe
Show me how show me now
Cos I'm about to believe
Ready to know and perceive
I'm about to believe
Ready to see, There's more than me
I'm about to believe
I'm on the eve, to receive
Tell me tell me
How, I can slowly perceive
The truth as it breathes open my eyes, I'm ready
A matter of time
A matter of faith
A matter of grace - ooooooh
I'm about to believe
to receive
Come on, come on, come on, come on
About to believe
Open my heart and receive
I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready,
Help me now, show me how
Ooooooh
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Charles Eisenstein is an American public speaker and author. His work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the ecology movement. Key themes explored include anti-consumerism, interdependence, and how myth and narrative influence culture. According to Eisenstein, global culture is immersed in a destructive "story of separation", and one of the main goals of his work is to present an alternative "story of interbeing". Much of his work draws on ideas from Eastern philosophy and the spiritual teachings of various indigenous peoples. Eisenstein has been involved in the Occupy, New Economy, and permaculture movements. His work has also been popular with countercultural and New Age audiences. An advocate of the gift economy, he makes much of his work available for free on his website. https://charleseisenstein.org/
Musical guest BRIAN BULGER:
Brian Bulger is an alternative singer-songwriter from Springfield, Missouri. Folk, indie, and pop elements infused with honest storytelling is what sets Brian apart. He strives to tell his own story in a way that places the listener within the moment, crafting worlds and emotions in the melody. https://brianbulgermusic.com/
Lyrics to UNRAVEL - https://ffm.to/BB-Unravel
We're in the world
And overwhelmed
While we're divided
We are compelled
Even though small
And all estranged
We are ambassadors
Agents of change
I want
I wanna unravel
There’s something deeper in my being
There must be something more than just breathing
While we ourselves
See us apart
Our actions will be flawed
Wrong head, wrong heart
You show me cause
I see effect
Separateness
Road to neglect
I want
I wanna unravel
There’s something deeper in my being
There must be something more than just breathing
To die
And to multiply
My self-interest
My capital
My persistence to my ignorance
We die
And we multiply
Our self-interest
Our capital
Our persistence to our ignorance
There must be something more than this
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Acclaimed food author and fermentation guru Sandor Katz whose renegade revival of ancient culinary rituals has transformed his relationship with life and death, inspires songwriters Joshua and Jeremiah Zimmerman of The Silent Comedy to create a new track.
Sandor Katz is a rock star of the food world. Since 2003 when his book Wild Fermentation was published, he has taught hundreds of workshops demystifying fermentation and empowering people to reclaim this important transformational process in their kitchens. His next book The Art of Fermentation (2012), received a James Beard award and was a finalist at the International Association of Culinary Professionals. https://www.wildfermentation.com/
Musical guests: the Silent Comedy
Joshua and Jeremiah Zimmerman of The Silent Comedy have spent most of their life on a tour bus and subsisted almost wholly on fermented food. They’ve performed with Dave Matthews, Mumford and Sons, and Vampire Weekend, and at Bonnaroo, Kaaboo and more. The band recorded and self-released a series of albums, selling hundreds of thousands and streaming millions. Still, they needed to capture the magic of their live show. Work with Grammy-nominated producer Chris “Frenchie” Smith led to a body of work that includes the EP Friends Divide and LP Enemies Multiply. https://www.thesilentcomedy.com/
Listen to CHANGES: https://ffm.to/TSC-Changes
LYRICS:
Gather up the pieces of the day
Pushed into the dark and locked away
I fear I’m repeating my mistakes
But I can’t stay
Can’t stay the same
Might take days
Might take ages
You need patience
To make peace with change
Might take days
Might take ages
You need patience
To make peace with change
No can’t stay the same
No can’t stay the same
Gathered myself up to meet the day
Pulled out from the dark what I put away
I think I’m getting free of my mistakes
If I don’t break
I’ll break away
Might take days
Might take ages
You need patience
To make peace with change
Might take days
Might take ages
You need patience
To make peace with change
No can’t stay the same
No can’t stay the same x3
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Charles van Rees is a conservation biologist and naturalist specializing in freshwater ecology, ornithology, and human-wildlife water conflict. Freshwater ecosystems are a primary focus of his work because of their extremely high levels of threat, important ecosystem services, and multifarious interactions with water resources management for societies. He also co-hosts the Nature Guys podcast - https://natureguys.org/ https://cbvanrees.wordpress.com
Musical guests: Creature Comfort
Creature Comfort are a Nashville-based rock band. Frontman Jessey Clark’s anthemic, heart-on-your sleeve lyrics and end-of-the-day vocals together with new lead guitarist Charlie Hickerson—backed by a rawer sound that draws on the band’s Tullahoma, Tennessee roots. Add in multi-instrumentalist Alex Robinson’s lush backing vocals, Cole Bearden’s ever-mobile bass, and Taylor Cole’s spry drumming, and you’ve got a sound that has affectionately been dubbed “bootgaze.” Think of it as Fleet Foxes for people who grew up bailing hay, or your favorite indie record—if that record were scattered, smothered, and covered, of course. https://www.creaturecomfortband.com/
Pre-save the song/listen: https://ffm.to/CC-Kudzu
LYRICS:
The sickness came in and killed off the pine
I got my lumber at the Walmart for $2.99
The river dried up and push turned to shove
Now we’re choking on the kudzu from heaven above
What can one man do
To stop the invasion from spreading around you
What can one man say
To stop the darkness from winning the day
What can one man do
To stop the invasion from spreading around you
What can one man say
To keep our good nature from fading away
I don’t wanna talk to strangers, I want to be with my friends
You tell me it’s the beginning when it feels like the end
I fell asleep in Tullahoma and when I opened up my eyes
It was a town like any other that I didn’t recognize
What can one man do
To stop the invasion from spreading around you
What can one man say
To stop the darkness from winning the day
What can one man do
To stop the invasion from spreading around you
What can one man say
To keep our good nature from fading away
I can fight
I can walk
I can talk
And I can listen
I can teach
I can learn
I can laugh
I can cry
What can one man do?
What can one man do?
What can one man do?
What can one man do?
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Richard Lawrence is the Executive Secretary of The Aetherius Society for Europe and Africa, which is the oldest UFO contacts organizations in Britain, and possibly the world. He is also a Bishop in The Aetherius Churches. Richard has devoted his life to the work of his late master and personal friend, Dr George King (1919-1997) - founder of the Society - with whom he co-authored Contacts with the Gods from Space.
He also the host of the Spiritual Freedom Show: a fortnightly podcast bringing you the wisdom of some of the greatest spiritual teachings ever given to Earth: The Nine Freedoms.
Lyrics to BRAVERY:
We're all taught, an outlook based on fear
We are caught, in bondage of our making
Study fear coldly without emotion
See it for what it is - a state of mind
Walk towards - what you're afraid of
Show the world - what you are made of
Break away, clearly see
That bravery, it's freedom
We have allowed, negativity
We have imprisoned, our psychic abilities
But with knowledge and enlightenment
Burn fear in the light of your new dawn
Walk towards - what you're afraid of
Show the world - what you are made of
Break away, clearly see
That bravery, it's freedom
We all made this
We denied bliss
That's why we are all suffering
But transmute fear
Apply knowledge
Tempered by love
Become wise....
Walk towards - what you're afraid of
Show the world - what you are made of
Break away, clearly see
That bravery, it's freedom
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Janet Varney is an Emmy-Nominated actor, comedian, writer and producer. In the animation world, she is lucky enough to be the award-winning voice of Korra on Nickelodeon’s critically-acclaimed standout hit “The Legend of Korra,” a role for which she continues to be invited to comic cons to give sweaty handshakes the world over. She can also be seen as the entitled and bitchy Becca on FX’s (via hulu) “You’re the Worst” (named as one of the last decade’s best comedies), and fighting dark forces alongside John C. McGinley as Evie Barrett on IFC’s (via hulu) “Stan Against Evil.”
Her own podcast on the Max Fun network, The JV Club with Janet Varney, has been going since 2012 and features almost 400 interviews with celebrities about their awkward teenage years. She co-programs comedy for Outside Lands music festival and is co-founder/creative director/producer of one of the largest and most acclaimed comedy festivals in North America, SF Sketchfest: the San Francisco Comedy Festival, now in its 20th year. http://janetvarney.com/
Episode co-hosts: FRANCES LUKE ACCORD
When Nicholas Gunty and Brian Powers put their songs and their voices together, there is a delicate magic that commands the room to attention. The duo is known as Frances Luke Accord, and they are what NPR's Mountain Stage calls “the definition of lean-in music.” Their soft, contemplative vintage of indie-folk gestures toward a timelessness that honors the Simon & Garfunkel comparisons but pushes beyond into the world of Bon Iver, Jose Gonzalez, and progressive folk music. Both raised in South Bend, IN, Gunty and Powers met and began performing together during their time at the University of Notre Dame.
Their first release, 'Kandote', was an intercultural collaboration with the Barefoot Truth Children’s Choir in Uganda, a not-for-profit effort which provides ongoing support to the choir to this day. Relocating to Chicago in 2013, the duo honed their songwriting craft while releasing two more self-produced EPs, laying the groundwork for their breakthrough debut LP, 'Fluke'. This immersive, philosophically rich album set them off on their first national tour, which included support dates with Anais Mitchell, Darlingside, and The Ballroom Thieves. The duo's 2021 release, the Sunnyside EP, offers a glimpse into the larger body of work Frances Luke Accord have been developing over the course of the pandemic. More to come soon. https://franceslukeaccord.com/
LYRICS to Afterlife:
As long as you’re by my side
I will make you dinner in the afterlife
Live in our after world
Stringing jewellery of gold and pearl
Some bonds don't break
I come to nourish you with my hands
Make you a sculpture in the sand
Hands that work, hands that tire
We form the shape but the shape expires
You know I worked for all these years
Trying my hardest at my life career
We’ve been witness to joy and pain
But the world we left was the world we gained
We’re so different you and I
In a way we never saw eye to eye
Despite the loss that set me free
In a way you’re maybe still guiding me
Some bonds don't break
We all need shape
As long as you’re by my side
Will you make me laugh in the afterlife?
Long as our long dark night
You can lead me on to the morning light
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Dr. Tirch is the Founder of The Center for Compassion Focused Therapy, the first clinical training center for Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) in the United States. Dr. Tirch has been described as one of the country’s foremost leaders in compassion training and evidence-based therapy. He is an internationally acknowledged expert therapist, supervisor and trainer in CFT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Buddhist Psychology (BP).
Dr. Tirch is an author of 6 books, and numerous chapters and peer-reviewed articles on mindfulness, acceptance and compassion in psychotherapy. His books include the new Guilford Publications release, Experiencing ACT from the Inside Out, a self-practice/self-reflection workbook for therapists, and The Compassionate Mind Guide To Overcoming Anxiety, the first evidence-based self-help book to apply the science of compassion to the treatment of anxiety. With Dr. Laura Silberstein-Tirch and others, Dr. Tirch is currently developing a research protocol involving behavioral science and CFT for treating anxiety, worry and fear-based difficulties through compassionate courage cultivation.
LYRICS to "It's Possible":
Compassionate living
Is easy to do
The seed is already there
Inside of you
And can you imagine?
All you could do?
If only you?
Didn't stop you
It's possible - all you gotta do is try
It's possible - let your old habits die
It's possible - to change the way you feel
It's possible - to become the ideal
Maintain a loving heart
In the presence of strife
Awaken your courage
Reclaim your life
Observe anxiety
Watch it get quashed
With love as your compass
You'll never get lost
It's possible - all you gotta do is try
It's possible - let your old habits die
It's possible - to change the way you feel
It's possible - to become the ideal
It's possible - change your likes and aversions
It's possible - be your very best version
Be grounded and here
Let go of your fear
Dear inner critic
I wanna thank you again
I know you're trying to protect us
From going through pain
Despite your criticism
I hold you in kindness
But you can
rest now because
We've got this
It's possible - all you gotta do is try
It's possible - let your old habits die
It's possible - to change the way you feel
It's possible - to become the ideal
It's possible - change your likes and aversions
It's possible - be your very best version
Be grounded and here
Let go of your fear
It's possible
It's possible
Make it probable
Be loveable
It's possible - all you gotta do is try
It's possible - let your old habits die
Be grounded and here
Let go of your fear
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This is a special one-off episode where I’ve invited revolutionary singing teachers Lisa Paglin and Marianna Brilla back on the show (listen to Episode 58 first), to give advice to singers with vocal problems.
Thank you to these talented artists who volunteered to have their vocal issues discussed on the show that more singers, suffering with the same problems, can listen and learn:
Tiz McNamara https://tizmcnamaramusic.com/ is an Irish singer-songwriter based in Toronto, Canada. McNamara’s independent releases have racked up more than 15 million streams on Spotify. His songs have featured on UK TV shows Hollyoaks and Emmerdale and have gained support from some of the industry’s heavyweights, including BBC Radio 2, CBC and Amazing Radio. He’s toured with BRITS Critics Choice winner James Bay, and was asked to sing alongside one of his musical heroes, Sir. Paul McCartney, as well as Robbie Williams and Shane McGowan under the The Justice Collective name. Tiz’s latest offering ‘Miami Night Sky EP’ was signed to New York-based label, AntiFragile Music and has been receiving rave reviews.
Stephen Scaccia is an award-winning 29 year old vocalist from Burnaby, British Columbia. He has performed for several fundraisers, Pride events and charities around the Lower Mainland, and was voted "Favourite Local Musician" alongside Michael Buble in the 2017 "Best of Burnaby" awards. Stephen has two pop EP releases under his belt, along with over 140,000 subscribers on YouTube. Stephen has gone on to perform with Michael Buble, and has received reactions and shout outs from Mariah Carey on YouTube. https://www.stephenscaccia.com/
Nikita Afonso has made it her mission to create songs that provoke human emotion. She has taken her love of country music and made it her own, incorporating modern components and inspirations from her favourite artists, Lennon Stella and Sasha Sloan, to name a few. Like the world, Nikitas's artistry is continuously evolving, and yet, she maintains the quintessential elements of classic songwriting, moving listeners and putting music to emotions we have all felt and know. https://nikitaafonso.com
Elisabeth Kontomanou https://www.facebook.com/waitinforspring/ was born in Sète (France) in 1961. She moved to New York in the 1990s and then on to Stockholm where she was based when she recorded Back to My Groove. This album includes covers of songs which she sings in English. Kontomanou has worked with Michel Legrand, Mike Stern, John Scofield, Alain Jean-Marie, Jean-Michel Pilc, Daryl Hall, Franck Amsallem, Toots Thielemans, Richard Bona, Stéphane Belmondo, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Leon Parker, and Geri Allen.
Plus Courtney Hunt https://www.facebook.com/CourtneyHuntMusic who has been a professional singer since 2018 as frontwoman of Canadian event band Appaloosa and on the roster of other international corporate bands. She began a solo career in 2020.
Contact Lisa Paglin and Marianna Brilla via their website https://www.newvoicestudio-brilla-paglin.com/ or email assistant.newvoicestudio@gmail.com
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A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by the interviews.
1 Sweet Dharma
2 Pranayama
3 Don't Dwell on Your Physical Shell
4 The Violet Flame
5a Electric Cars (ft. Helen Austin)
5b Electric Maybellene
6 People Of The Garden (ft. Shane Thomas)
7 You Are The Average
8 Between The Worlds
9 Plastic Sea
10 Vikruiti
11 Retrosuburbia
12 A Land That Loves Me
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Catherine Rampell is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post. She frequently covers economics, public policy, immigration and politics, with a special emphasis on data-driven journalism. She is also an economic and political commentator for CNN, a special correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and a contributor to Marketplace. Before joining The Post, she wrote about economics and theater for the New York Times. Rampell has received the Weidenbaum Center Award for Evidence-Based Journalism and is a Gerald Loeb Award finalist. She grew up in Florida and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University.
Lyrics to "A Land That Loves Me":
I want to live in a land
Where there's real welfare
Not just for the sick
But real healthcare
A land where the police are loved and trusted
The legal system's there to always give you justice
And prison is seen
As the very last resort
Education for all is the top priority
For all children all minorities
I want to live in a country
That cares about me
That cares about me
That cares about me
That cares about me
Where those who have a lot
Give all they've got
To raise all the boats
Helping those who have not
I want to live with a sense of community
And everybody there has equal opportunities
I want to live in a country
that cares about me
That cares about me
That cares about me
That cares about me
I want to live in a land
A land that loves me
A land that needs me
A land that believes me
This land is our land
This land is your land
Reach out take my hand
We are but one band
No man is an island
And we can rule and
United we stand
be at my right-hand
This land is our land
This land is your land
Reach out take my hand
We are but one band
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Australian environmental designer, ecological educator and writer. He is best known as one of the co-originators of the permaculture concept with Bill Mollison. His latest project is RetroSuburbia is part manual and part manifesto. The book shows how Australian suburbs can be transformed to become productive and resilient in an energy descent future. It focuses on what can be done by an individual at the household level (rather than community or government levels).
RetroSuburbia is a source of inspiration, introducing concepts and outlining patterns and practical solutions. It empowers people to make positive changes in their lives. As with David’s previous work, it is thought-provoking and provocative. If you are already on the path of downshifting and living simply, exploring RetroSuburbia will be a confirmation and celebration that you are on the right track and guide you on the next steps forward. If you are just beginning this journey, it provides a guide to the diversity of options and helps work out priorities for action. For people concerned about making ends meet in more challenging times, RetroSuburbia provides a new lens for creatively sidestepping the obstacles.
The book outlines options available to retrofitters in three ‘fields’ – the Built, Biological and Behavioural – along with speculation on the future and philosophical musings. Throughout the book, examples from David’s ‘Aussie St’ story and real life case studies support and enhance the main content. RetroSuburbia can be read as a whole, cover to cover, or can be dipped into according to your interests.
LYRICS to the song Retrosuburbia:
You say this way of living is way too hard
Start a revolution in your backyard
Be the change in the world that you wanna see
What if you could stay right where you are
No more wasting hours every day in a car
What if you could make a living doing what you really love
Retrofit suburbia
Downshift through the gears
Before the crash, be earlier
thriving there for years
Are you Ready?
Are you Ready?
Are you Ready?
Ready for resilience
What if you could suddenly be free of debt
Leave behind your worries and your woes forget
What if you were poor but the richest man you know
Yes imagine being rich beyond your wildest dreams
Cos you lived entirely within your means
Saying you were happy already right where you are
Retrofit suburbia
Downshift through the gears
Before the crash, be earlier
thriving there for years
Are you Ready?
Are you Ready?
Are you Ready?
Ready for resilience
You don't like the way we're living
Build it for yourself
Surrounded by abundance
In happiness and health
What if the world around you collapsed
But you felt so relaxed
Cos you'd reduced yourself years ago
Now help all the rest
Are you Ready?
Are you Ready?
Are you Ready?
Ready for resilience
Ready
Are you Ready?
Are you Ready?
Ready for resilience
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Dr. Michael Lennox obtained his Masters and Doctorate in Psychology from The Chicago School and his Doctoral Dissertation, Astrology, and Personality, is published by Lambert Academic Publishing. Dr. Lennox is also the author of two books on dreams, Dream Sight: A Dictionary & Guide for Interpreting Any Dream and Llewellyn's Complete Dream Dictionary. Dr. Lennox leads workshops and retreats all over the United States and conducts a worldwide private practice based in Southern California.
Highly sought-after media expert, Dr. Lennox has been seen internationally on many television shows, beginning with the Sci-Fi Network's The Dream Team and has also been featured on numerous network and cable television venues including NBC's Emmy award-winning Starting Over, Soap Talk, The Wayne Brady show and many others. His radio appearances talking about the power of dreams number in the hundreds.
This episode is a re-release and was originally published on November 30th 2020,
Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Michael called 'Brighter'
BRIGHTER
You've told him of a childhood
That no one would aspire to
He says - "look at the strength it's given you"
Tales of misfortune
Catalogue of doom and gloom
Michael just smiles at you
You're having the nightmares
You're writing them down
But all you can see is the storm
But the best plays are the tragedies
We get shown what we need to see
The moral is morality
You make your own reality
But I'm afraid
With your frame of mind
(It's only gonna get) Darker
And darker
And darker
Darker than you remember
Wait until November
Mercury's in retro
Chaos from the get-go
Live it up - you reap what you sow
Neptune's in alignment
Saturn's feeling violent
Pluto's gonna tear you to shreds
La la la la la la
Your scars clearly show
The world's been unfair to you
But only if you let it define you
If every experience
Gives you strength and resilience
Use it to help others in need
BRIDGE
You're having the nightmares
You're writing them down
But all you can see is the storm
And when you moan and when you curse
You write your play with every verse
The truth is cold may seem perverse
But burn it up live in reverse
Otherwise
I'm afraid
(It's only gonna get) Darker
And darker
And darker
And darker
Darker than you remember
Wait until November
Mercury's in retro
Chaos from the get-go
Live it up - you reap what you sow
Neptune's in alignment
Saturn's feeling violent
Pluto's gonna tear you to shreds
La la la la la la
Get over what your parents said
The voices inside your head
Only speak to people in the room
You'll get happiness you'll get health
If you're not focused on yourself
Just change your state of mind
And it'll get brighter
And brighter
And brighter
And brighter
Brighter if you're willing to serve
The crazier the world becomes
Suffering in everyone
The more chances to serve
Your world will get brighter
And brighter
And brighter
And brighter
Brighter if you're willing to serve
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Rosamund Kissi-Debrah is a grassroots campaigner in London, UK raising awareness of asthma and the health problems that can be caused by air pollution. Kissi-Debrah's campaign for clean air followed the death of her 9 year old daughter, Ella Roberta, in 2013 who had experienced a series of severe asthma attacks over several years. A 2014 inquest focused only on Ella's medical care, prompting Kissi-Debrah to campaign for air pollution to be included on her child's death certificate, after learning about its possible adverse effects on health. Her campaign has led to a second inquest in 2020, where evidence about air pollution was considered, with a ruling in December 2020 that pollution from the South Circular Road, London was a contributing factor to Ella Roberta's death.
Roberta also co-founded the Ella Roberta Family Foundation to promote her goals more widely to the public and officials. This charity aims to improve the lives of children affected by asthma in South East London. It engages with politicians and policy makers as well as young people and communities to raise awareness of asthma, advocate for better medical treatment of asthma and also campaigns for clean air.
Listen to the song: https://ffm.to/ellakissidebrah
Lyrics to the song:
THE BALLAD OF ELLA KISSI-DEBRAH
Reading in the papers
Numbers written there
Of how many die each year
Cos of dirty air
But numbers they don't speak
Drama they lack
Unlike the sound of hearing someone
Die from an asthma attack
What can change?
So that - Ella Kissi-Debrah
Didn't die in vein
And we all take action
And Policies change
Ella Kissi-Debrah
Hear our prayers
So that no more children
Will die
From breathing air
Ella Kissi-Debrah
Deserves a happy tune
But this song is not for her
It is meant for you
To pluck and play your heart strings
So you think twice before we drive
And decide who you will give your vote to
So more kids stay alive
So that - Ella Kissi-Debrah
Didn't die in vein
And we all take action
And Policies change
Ella Kissi-Debrah
Hear our prayers
So that no more children
Will die
From breathing air
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Dr. Robert Svoboda is the first Westerner ever to graduate from a college of Ayurveda and be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India. During and after his formal Ayurvedic training he was tutored in Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish, Tantra and other forms of classical Indian lore by his mentor, the Aghori Vimalananda. He is the author of twelve books including Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution and the Aghora series, which discusses his experiences with his mentor during the years 1975 – 1983. (Information on all of his books can be found here) Dr. Svoboda was born in Texas in 1953, and in 1972 earned a B.S. from the University of Oklahoma in Chemistry with a minor in French. After being ritually initiated into the Pokot tribe of northern Kenya as its first white member in June 1973 he moved to India, where he lived from 1973-80 and 1982-86, receiving his Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (Ayurvedacharya) from the University of Poona in 1980. In his final year of study at the Tilak Ayurved Mahavidyalaya he won all but one of the University of Poona’s awards for academic excellence in Ayurveda, including the Ram Narayan Sharma Gold Medal.
Lyrics to Vikruti:
Vata
You're feeling tired uptight a pretty sorry sight
After years of gas and constipation
Craving heat, can't sleep, rings under your eyes
No strength and emaciated
Deluded and dizzy, even having tremors
Talking all the time
You're in pain, inflamed, for years it stays the same
They test and test, but still it can't be named
They suggest treatments but no prognosis
You can't even get a real diagnosis
It could be a gluten allergy
It could be a genetic malady
It could be mineral deficiency
When you've still got no idea about doshas
Kapha
Heavy and hazy, lethargic and lazy
Body feels loose and cold
Poor digestion, salivation and white discolouration
You take test after test, for your respiratory distress
They suggest treatments but no prognosis
You can't even get a real diagnosis
It could be autoimmunity
It could be a parasitic disease
It could be an allergy to trees
When they've still got no idea about doshas
Perhaps they've misunderstood
And it's something from your childhood
They just can't seem to do no good
And running out of ideas
But you're emphatic
It's not psycosymatic
In fact, you've had it
With this Western approach to medicine
Pitta
Got a burning sensation, yellow discoloration
Of your faeces, urine, eyes, and skin
So hungry, so thirsty, so very little sleep
You take test after test, and the specialists go deep
They suggest treatments but no prognosis
You can't even get a real diagnosis
What could it be?
They know what it should be
If only you would be
A little co-operative surely
Gluten allergy? Do bey do bey
Iodine deficiency? Do bey do bey
Imaginary? Do bey do bey
It's nothing officially
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Chad Nelsen is the head of The Surfrider Foundation, a grassroots environmental organization dedicated to protecting oceans and beaches. Its major programmatic work is carried out by sixty local chapters around America. They've more than forty thousand members, as well as affiliates in Europe, Brazil, Australia, and Japan. Its membership is made up of surfers, swimmers, divers, bodyboarders, kayakers, and beach enthusiasts who have learned to be effective advocates for the ocean environment they value.
At any given time, the Surfrider Foundation is tackling more than 100 campaigns across the country. The Surfrider network works to protect clean water, healthy beaches, ocean protection, coastal preservation and beach access for all people.
LYRICS:
Out there in middle of each ocean
Is a high-pressure gyres with little motion
All the rubbish collects there
Swirls in from everywhere
There they form a plastic sea
The bad news is the problems getting smaller
As the pieces become too small to collect from a trawler
Just because plastic don't break down
Doesn't mean it can't be ground
Now everywhere's the plastic sea
The process has already long begun
And soon there will be more plastic than plankton
It works its way up the food chain
And makes a home in your brain
Welcome to the plastic sea
So don't be surprised when the next time you gut a fish
And find it its stomach filled with plastic bits
All the chemicals in its flesh
That soon you will digest
As you eat the plastic sea
They're already discussing the possibility
Of how it affects our virility
They said there wasn't proof
Until nobody can reproduce
Of course it was the plastic sea
And they say there's no reversal
And it's only going to get worse so
Better keep your DNA on ice
And then as the sea levels rise
Keep your eggs and your sperm held high
Don't use an oil-based lube
Store them in a glass test tube
As you wade into the plastic sea
And then in 10,000 years time
They dig down to the plastic line
We got what we deserved
But at least we are preserved
Perfectly in the plastic sea
Perfectly in the plastic sea
Forever in the sea
Forever in the sea
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Jeffrey Babcock is an American alternative film curator and cultural activist now in Amsterdam. As a promoter of independent film culture he is currently the programmer of several underground cinema venues throughout the city, where he places the films he screens into a historical, aesthetic, political and biographical context. As a student of Stan Brakhage, he developed a keen interest in experimental cinema and philosophy. He also has a keen eye for finding elements of experimental film-language beyond the strict limits of what is categorized as experimental film: from early science documentaries to contemporary Korean teenage films.
LYRICS:
Straight, while you watch and curate
Consume or create
Allowing eternity to enter
Free, like the sway of a tree
You shrug in its lee
This is the stillness that was never still
Silently dreaming together
Bright light, cutting our night sight
Guiding our inflight
To a new polarity
Big screen informing our dreams
Living our slow scenes
riding through realities
Between the light
Between the dark
Between the worlds
Right, a disguised fight
Machine guns of light
Doing the maths up to infinity
Apart, the flickering art
Somewhere smart
This is the magic of the cinema
Silently dreaming together
Bright light, cutting our night sight
Guiding our inflight
To a new polarity
Big screen informing our dreams
Living our slow scenes
riding through realities
Between the light
Between the dark
Between the worlds
And we are
The negative
Exposed to
A positive
The principles
Of photography
Rise us up
And set us free
Bright light, cutting our night sight
Guiding our inflight
To a new polarity
Big screen informing our dreams
Living our slow scenes
riding through realities
Between the light
Between the dark
Between the worlds
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Steven C. Hayes is one of the godfathers of modern American psychology - and Nevada Foundation Professor in the Behavior Analysis program at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of 44 books and nearly 600 scientific articles, his career has focused on an analysis of the nature of human language and cognition and the application of this to the understanding and alleviation of human suffering. He is the developer of Relational Frame Theory, an account of human higher cognition, and has guided its extension to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a popular evidence-based form of psychotherapy that uses mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based methods.
Chords/lyrics to the song:
VERSE
F
Most of us live in a state of constant confusion
F
As automatic thoughts cause circuitous delusions
Bf
We don't want these feelings
F
So choose distractions
But with simple exercises, your mind can be taught
To watch the act of thinking without entangling in thoughts
Welcome emotions
Hold them to the light
Bf C
Defuse your thoughts, choose how to react
Defuse your thoughts, choose how to react
VERSE
For a minute let your mind go wherever it wants
Then write down the thoughts you had, every little point
When you've let the fish run
Reel him in
Now disobey on purpose the dictator within
Write down the phrase "I cannot walk around this room"
Then read it outloud
While you walk around
Or give your mind a name, and listen to it speak
Politely as you would to any stranger you meet
And agree or disagree
Respectfully
Defuse your thoughts, choose how to react
Defuse your thoughts, choose how to react
MIDDLE (whispering and downbeat)
Bf
For sticky thoughts
C
Sing them away
Dm
To the tune of
F
Happy Birthday
Or write them down
And carry them with you
Wherever you go
Through your day
Bf
Accept every memory, every faction
C
Override rigid reactions
WHISTLING VERSE
VERSE
So you've noticed now that there's more than one voice
An argument begins whenever you're faced with a choice
Does this to-and-fro
Feel familiar?
Write down what the voices are repeating at you
Don't think which are appropriate or even true
See them as quarrelling children
Watch in amusement
Now your mind's a bus, thoughts are passengers
But they're distracting your driving and causing a fuss
Keep your destination sign
Always in mind
Defuse your thoughts, choose how to react
Defuse your thoughts, choose how to react
Defuse your thoughts, choose how to react
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Gregg D. Caruso is Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Corning, Visiting Fellow at the New College of the Humanities (NCH London), and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is also Co-Director of the Justice Without Retribution Network housed at the University of Aberdeen School of Law. His research focuses on free will, moral responsibility, punishment, philosophy of law, jurisprudence, social and political philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, moral psychology, and neurolaw. His books include Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice (2021), Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (w/Daniel C. Dennett) (2021), Free Will and Consciousness: A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will (2012), Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility (2013), Science and Religion: 5 Questions (2014), Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience (co-edited w/Owen Flanagan); and Free Will Skepticism in Law and Society (co-edited w/Elizabeth Shaw and Derk Pereboom). http://www.greggcaruso.com/
LYRICS:
Careful of the friends you have
Remember you can choose
You may not like their attitudes
But in time you'll share their views
Everything gets past around
From attributes to vice
If you accept their company
You'll soon take their advice
You are the average
Of the five people
With whom you spend most of the time
You are the average
You only know what you've been taught
You think your culture's thoughts
You look around the place you work
With an expression of disgust
At people who you'll never be
There's no one you can trust
But take a look from a little bit up
You already look the same
You're blending in quite perfectly
You fit inside the frame
You fit inside the frame
You are the average
Of the five people
With whom you spend most of the time
You are the average
You only know what you've been taught
You think your culture's thoughts
Even you ambitions
What you want from life
Can be enabled or destroyed
By your husband or your wife
Your friends can help you be a better person
Or lead you on the path to sin
You might think you can rise above it
But in time you will sink in
In time you will sink in
You are the average
Of the five people
With whom you spend most of the time
You are the average
You only know what you've been taught
You think your culture's thoughts
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Yasmine Mohammed is an ex-Muslim Canadian educator, human rights activist and author who is critical of Islam. Mohammed, who escaped a forced, abusive marriage to an Al-Qaeda operative, became an advocate for women's rights through her non-profit organization Free Hearts, Free Minds. She is a member of the Center for Inquiry Speaker's Bureau and on the board of advisory for the Brighter Brains Institute.
Through her initiative Free Hearts, Free Minds she supports closeted ex-Muslims from Muslim-majority countries and co-ordinates an online campaign called #NoHijabDay against World Hijab Day. She also has a website. Mohammed has been interviewed by Sam Harris, Seth Andrews, and several news outlets from multiple countries, and in 2019 self-published the book Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam.
MUSICAL GUEST: SHANE THOMAS
Shane Thomas is still in his early 20s, but his extraordinary story started when he was 3. He insisted he could play the piano at that age despite never having touched one in his short life, apart from a tendency to play an imaginary one on the carpet. Shane finally got his hands on a piano aged 7, sat down at the keys and immediately starting playing all sorts of recognisable tunes with both hands. Within weeks he was composing his own pieces. A month later he made his first public performance and was nominated for the national Talented Youngster of The Year Award. The top prize in the Music for Youth Awards then followed. By the time he was 9, despite not having had a piano lesson, he achieved Grade 8, having skipped Grades 1 to 7. He was playing all the classics, just about any contemporary pop song and was even arranging them in a classical style. Shane was asked to appear on The One Show where Jamie Cullum exclaimed ‘he’s amazing!’. The Daily Telegraph hailed Shane as a ‘mini Mozart’.
At 11 Shane became the youngest composer to be given his own publishing deal with a major publisher – EMI Music. This led to invitations for Shane to play in front of 10,000 people at Castle Howard, at a private dinner for the then Prime Minister’s wife Cherie Blair and even being endorsed by royalty. And then everything stopped. Shane’s mother had walked out of the family home never to be seen again (she is now in prison). This left Shane, his father Clayton and two little siblings to fend for themselves. Clayton, himself a former pro musician and teacher had to singlehandedly look after the family unit. Priority was given to Shane’s education, leaving any potential musical career behind. Money was not just short, it was non-existent at times. Sometimes they were sat in the dark, without electricity.
Suddenly with Shane now well into his teens, the media remembered him. The BBC set him the challenge of composing and performing a symphony for the BBC Northern Orchestra within 8 weeks and Shane completed it in half the time. He performed it in front of a disbelieving audience of several hundred and the BBC cameras. Shortly after this Channel 4 picked up on Shane’s extraordinary story and produced a documentary called ‘Extraordinary Teens – Young Gifted and Broke’. So where are we now? Decca Records went on to release two singles in 2017 and his track ‘The Ruins’ hit No.2 in the Classical iTunes chart. Bucks Music Group then signed him to a publishing contract in 2018 and have been building him as a composer/artist since then. 10 years on from his original publishing deal at EMI Music , he could now more accurately be grouped with the likes of Ludovico Einaudi, Nils Frahm and Hans Zimmer. What is extraordinary about Shane is that, as well as composing melodies that have such immediate ear-worms, he does so by evoking such strong emotional links and themes. His team have identified that Shane can become one of the most exciting and prolific new artists at a time when playlists are so in need of new composers of great original music.
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Robert Llewellyn is a British actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He plays the mechanoid Kryten in the TV sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf and formerly presented the TV engineering gameshow Scrapheap Challenge. He also presents a YouTube series, Fully Charged. Llewellyn was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. Llewellyn's first foray into the world of show business started out as a hobby, organising a few amateur cabaret evenings in a riverside warehouse overlooking Tower Bridge in London. The shows were a great success and he eventually helped form an alternative comedy theatre group called the Joeys. Within six months he had stopped working as a shoemaker and started performing professionally with the group alongside Bernie Evans, Nigel Ordish and Graham Allum. The group toured Britain and France in the early 1980s with an initial idea of exploring sexual politics between men. Llewellyn wrote much of the material, and also began writing novels. The group split in 1985, having toured for years and done thousands of shows.
ELECTRIC MAYBELLENE
As I was motivatin' over the hill
I saw Maybellene in a Coupé de Ville
A Cadillac a-rollin on the open stretch
Nothin' will outrun my Tesla S
The Cadillac doin' 'bout 95
She bumper to bumper, rollin' side by side
Oh Maybellene well you won't get far
Nothing outruns an electric car
The Cadillac pulled up at 104
The Tesla hot and wouldn't do no more
It done got cloudy and started to rain
I tooted my horn for the passin' lane
The rain water blowin' all under my hood
I knew that wasn't doin' my battery good
Maybellene well you won't get far
Nothing outruns an electric car
Breaker breaker
You got your ears on caddy?
What's your 20?
Seen a county mounty
in a plain white wrapper
10-4
The motor cooled down, the heat went down
And that's when I heard that highway sound
Cadillac sittin' like toad on a lake
A 110, a half mile ahead
The Cadillac lookin' like it's sittin' still
And I caught Maybellene at the top of the hill
Maybellene well you won't get far
Nothing outruns an electric car
Oh Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You done started back doin' the things you used to do
Maybellene, why can't you see?
You're draining my batteries
Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Why do you do? The things you do?
Maybellene, please see
How you're draining my batteries
ELECTRIC CARS (ft. Helen Austin)
Electric cars, electric cars
Why's it taking so long?
If you want your air clean, forget dirty gasoline
Switch to an electric car
Electric cars, electric cars
Funkier by far
Never have I seen a sexier machine
I want to get in an electric car
I want to give joy to all whom I meet
Don't want to leave behind smelly streets
Electric cars, electric cars
Come on now it's common sense
With so much air pollution, can you think of a solution?
Dumbo, get in an electric car
Electric cars, electric cars
The time has come time to change
If you want your air clean, forget dirty gasoline
Switch to an electric car
I want to give joy to all I meet
Don't want to leave behind smelly streets
I want to soar
I want to surge
A revolution
We're on the verge
I want fresh air
That's pure a clean
Like the future
Of my dreams
Electric cars, electric cars
Where were you all of my life?
Only when you've met one will you know you're gonna get one
There's no way back from electric cars
Electric cars, electric cars
Why's it taking so long?
If you want your air clean, forget dirty gasoline
Switch to an electric car
I want to give joy to all whom I meet
Don't want to leave behind smelly streets
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Chrissie Blaze is the author of 12 books, a metaphysician and astrologer. She has been a student/practitioner of the psychic and spiritual sciences from a young age. She is a regular media guest and conducts lectures and classes in the U.S.A. and U.K. Blaze is a professional astrologer who qualified at the Faculty of Astrological Studies, London in the early 1980s. She qualified as a lecturer with credentials from the University of London, England. She was a longtime close student of renowned English Yoga Master, Dr. George King, Founder of The Aetherius Society. Her goal is the global promotion of practical spirituality, including astrology. http://www.chrissieblaze.com/
THE VIOLET FLAME
The holiest being
That you'll ever meet
Is right there below you
Under your feet
She hides the beauty of her true light
Under material form
To render to us sustenance
Until we return
But we don't honour her name
We defile and defame
And involve ourselves over again
Bring up the violet flame
Transmute the dross in this frame
While we scar her body
And we cause her pain
Still she gives her violet flame
Blessed is this Goddess
Who gave us refuge
Instead of accepting unlimited gowns
She refused
So that we can gain experience
On our way back to God
she has not yet demanded
That we change or leave
But we don't honour her name
We defile and defame
And involve ourselves over again
Bring up the violet flame
Transmute the dross in this frame
While we scar her body
And we cause her pain
Still she gives her violet flame
So bring up the violet flame
protection of power retained
She gives this willingly
Without a claim
Love it is a violet flame
How can she suffer so much?
Silent in solemn sacrifice
While we dam her arteries
And cut chunks out of her flesh
Commit foul acts against this angel
The very being that sustains us
When her seeking children ask her
Still she gives her flame of transmutation
So bring up the violet flame
Transmute the dross in this frame
While we scar her body
And we cause her pain
Still she gives her violet flame
So bring up the violet flame
protection of power retained
She gives this willingly
Without a claim
Love it is a violet flame
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Nehemiah Davis is a yogi and teacher of mystic practices. From early childhood Nehemiah’s father (Althair H. Davis) taught him to manipulate cosmic energies (prana) through prayer and mantra with metaphysical teachings that stress balanced karmic methods of actions through life. With this, his father instructed him in several forms of yoga, which included; karma yoga, hatha yoga, bhakti yoga, raja yoga, mantra yoga, mudra yoga, pranayama (yogic breathing exercises) and kundalini yoga. As a child his father created and enforced a daily schedule of early morning and late evening prayer, meditation, and pranayama. His education in metaphysics while growing up included mystic authors such as; H.P. Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Rama Prasad, Swami Vekadanada, Yogic Ramacharka teachings, Alice A. Bailey, Paramahansa Yogananda, Swami Sivananda, Sir. John Woodroffe, as well as the late Dr George King founder and president of the Aetherius Society, a modern mystic order that his family were members of. Nehemiah Davis has been teaching on various metaphysical subjects over the last 25 year. His students have asked him over the last decade to write on the subjects he taught. This book “The Ancient Language of the Soul” is his beginning in sharing his knowledge with a large audience around the world. http://mysticknowledge.org/
LYRICS to Don't Dwell On Your Physical Shell
Don't dwell on your physical shell
It's temporary
Borrowed from the sun
Yours and everyone's
The physical plane
Here vibrating
All that's born
Disintegrating
It's not physical
Only fleeting
Carriages
For the souls you're meeting
Ephemeral
And transient
Use it while
You've remenants
Your body you made
It wasn't God
He'd have done a better job
Don't dwell on your physical shell
Cos it's the only thing you see
Open to the entire spectrum
Be all you can be
See the people
Go through hassle
Building their
Little sandcastles
Want to make it big
Or make it thin
All before
The tide comes in
Wearing it out early
Cos you're nervous
Instead of living
In selfless service
Instead they hold back themselves
Limit their senses
And get stuck behind
Illusory fences
Cos you fell for your physical shell
And think it's all you are
Wake up to the real truth
You're greater now by far
Then on the astral
Fulfilling desires
With the love
Or in the fires
Reincarnating
Here and there
Back and forth
Until you evolve
So don't dwell on your physical shell
Cos there's far more to you
Your dark matter, matters more
Think about what you do
Don't dwell on your physical shell
Use it as a tool
To help others gain experience
Graduate from school
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Ayub Malik is a Spiritual pioneer and Expansion Committee member of the international spiritual organisation called The Aetherius Society – a group which has a unique and very active role in the Divine Plan for the enlightenment and salvation of humanity that is gradually unfolding. He was born into a large traditional muslim family in England, and is based in London, United Kingdom.
He has a life long natural love for yoga, deep conversations with like-minded souls interested in personal and spiritual development, running and connecting with Mother Earth through trips to the forests, mountains, seas, Whilst in his teens, Ayub had a life-changing experience which enabled him to acquire a deeper insight and feel for the practical benefits of oneness through King Yoga, which was founded by The Aetherius Society as a revolutionary pathway back to the oneness that is God. He attained a level of realisation that all of life is one – expressing itself in countless trillions of forms on this world and beyond. Why? In order to learn and gain mastery over matter and experience and to gradually shed the perceived and accepted limitations that block the realisation of Oneness.
For almost 20 years Ayub has been sharing the positive and practical life-changing results that are available to people through King Yoga workshops, talks, videos, spiritual healing on an individual, group and global level – this in addition to contributing to and promoting the more important world saving missions of The Aetherius Society. He is directly involved with various Aetherius Society run Spiritual missions that are uniquely designed to help stop or reduce earthquakes, and other natural disasters, by working directly with strategic chakras of Mother Earth and advanced Spiritual masters from other worlds. Some of these missions can even stop or reduce the effects of war and bring mass healing and support to targeted world situations. www.aetherius.org
LYRICS TO PRANAYAMA:
Waking up feeling rushed
Stupid mind need to shut up
Seeing stress in my day
I can't get a hold
Assume the position on the floor
Left nostril breathing in
Right nostril breathing out
There you go
Pranayama - restraint of the breath
Pranayama - controlling the course
Of my life force
Taking control by letting go
Ease my racing mind
Ground my soaring soul
Settle down
Cross-legged on the floor
Balanced Ida and Pingala
Slowing down powers up
It's systems go
Pranayama - restraint of the breath
Pranayama - controlling the course
Of my life force
Oh Pranayama
Pranayama
Pranayama
Pranayama
Pranayama
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Lama Karma is a Milwaukee native who first left home to attend college at Columbia University in NYC. After a long period of desperation and depression, he found a bit of light in studying the non-dual teachings of Sufiism, Christianity, and the Indo-Tibetan tradition of Buddhist philosophy. Through developing a connection with teachers such as Robert Thurman and Peter Awn, he wrote a wordy honors thesis on hermeneutics, literary theory, and Madhyamika philosophy.
Although his head was full, his heart was empty, and he took Robert Thurman’s advice of a Wanderjahr in Asia, only to end up back in New York where he started.
Along the way, he attended a ten-day Vipassana course in California, followed by various retreats in Nepal, India, Germany, and Ireland until he returned to New York, jumping blindly into a three-year retreat at Kagyu Thubten Chöling Monastery under the guidance of Lama Norlha Rinpoche. Three years later he went into back into retreat for another three years and four months.
When he graduated, he moved to Tennessee to build a retreat center and stupa, and has continued as the director of Milarepa Retreat Center. In order to reach more people with his work, Lama Karma participated in UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center Teacher Training program, and works with MARC as an online mentor. In the winter of 2017 he worked with Lama Denys Rinpoche to translate the Open Mindfulness platform into English and became an accredited facilitator of Open Mindfulness.
He currently divides his time between the Hudson Valley, NY and Happy Valley TN teaching mindfulness, Buddhism, and raising his daughter Gomadevi with his wife Karina. https://lamakarmajustin.com/
LYRICS TO 'SWEET DHARMA'
My pure and precious dharma
What I wouldn't do for you
I'll keep you pure, be always sure
Let nothing harm my heart
I'll protect my precious dharma
Won't let anger burn it down
No violent movies, no video games
I'll see nobody harmed
I'll shield my precious dharma
From any sexual deceit
Remain passionless, not obsess for flesh
See no pornography
My dharma
My sweet dharma
My dharma
My sweet dharma
My pure and precious dharma
Is such a fragile thing
It could so easily die, telling one little lie
You could make a river from my tears
So I'll hide my precious dharma
From the very idea of theft
Take nothing not given, just live and let living
Let greed never touch my heart
It's my dharma
My sweet dharma
My dharma
Sweet dharma
It's my dharma
My sweet dharma
My dharma
I love my precious dharma
It gives meaning to my life
I live life at leisure, with this secret to pleasure
The happiest I've ever been
My sweet dharma
My sweet dharma
My dharma
Sweet dharma
It would drown in alcohol
It would die on drugs
Any type of intoxication
Would wash it from the earth
It's my dharma My dharma My dharma My dharma My dharma
My dharma
My sweet dharma
Sweet dharma
My sweet dharma
My dharma.......
.......
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A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by the interviews.
1 Vaccinate
2 A Girl Called Corona
3 Apophenia
4 Unnecessary Music
5 Something That Sounds Like A Song
6 The Mighty Sun
7 If The Bombs Go Off
8 Civilised to Death
9 The Death of Expertise
10 We Don't Know What We Don't Know
11 Sure Would Like To Find Out
12 The Lie
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Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is an intellectual who speaks to the complex dynamics of the American experience. His most well-known books, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, and In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, take a wide look at black communities, the difficulties of race in the United States, and the challenges our democracy face. He is an American critic in the tradition of James Baldwin and Ralph Waldo Emerson. In his writings, the country’s complexities, vulnerabilities, and the opportunities for hope come into full view. Hope that is, in one of his favorite quotes from W.E.B Du Bois, “not hopeless, but a bit unhopeful.”
Glaude’s most recent book, Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, was released on June 30, 2020. Of Baldwin, Glaude writes, “Baldwin’s writing does not bear witness to the glory of America. It reveals the country’s sins, and the illusion of innocence that blinds us to the reality of others. Baldwin’s vision requires a confrontation with our history (with slavery, Jim Crow segregation, with whiteness) to overcome its hold on us. Not to posit the greatness of America, but to establish the ground upon which to imagine the country anew.”
MUSICAL GUEST: Angela Predhomme is an American singer-songwriter and music producer. Her first album, Angela Predhomme, was released in 2008, and she has since released four more independent albums: Don't Wonder, Let It Fall, Will, and her most recent, Love. Predhomme also released a holiday EP in 2017 called Holidayolio.
LYRICS:
You've been denying it for years
These are deep-seated fears
It's not acceptance
It's not inclusion
It's collusion
It's the lie
It's there for all to see
Implicit supremacy
Why to hide it?
Why deny it?
Why the long face?
Why the lie?
If you're invited to a table
That you build with your own hands
It's not a bridge
It's not inclusive
It's exclusion
It's the lie
There's a serpent round the legs
And its eyes your throat
Feel it moving
Feel it rising
Feel the coldness
Feel the lie
If you decide your destiny
And control identity
You'll see the tightening
Feel the grip
Here it comes
It's the lie
Its the warped reality
At the heart of the country
It's the decay
It's the wreckage
It's the damage
It's the lie
The foundations are all rotten
And the termites caused destruction
The walls are caving
The roof is failing
It's coming down
It's all a lie
Somewhere in the wreckage
In the rubble of the righteous
Are the honest
Are the real
Is the pure
Is the truth
There's a reckoning to come
When the sorting will be done
Without derision
Without division
Without the hatred
Without the lie
The kiln is fired up
Rage is burning hot
Forge again
In the fires
In the flames
Beat out the lie
Build it for the third time
Rising from the ashes
Hope's renewed
Hope's revived
Hope's reborn
Without the lie
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Lawrence Krauss is an American-Canadian theoretical physicist and cosmologist who previously taught at Arizona State University, Yale University, and Case Western Reserve University. He founded ASU's Origins Project, now called ASU Interplanetary Initiative, to investigate fundamental questions about the universe and served as the project's director. Krauss is an advocate for public understanding of science, public policy based on sound empirical data, scientific skepticism, and science education. An anti-theist, Krauss seeks to reduce the influence of what he regards as superstition and religious dogma in popular culture Krauss is the author of several bestselling books, including The Physics of Star Trek (1995) and A Universe from Nothing (2012), and chaired the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Board of Sponsors.
GUEST MUSICIAN: Heather Pierson is a pianist, multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, songleader, and performer whose inspiring live performances and growing catalog of releases delve into Americana, blues, New Orleans jazz, vocal chants, instrumental piano, and folk. Best known for her virtuosity at the piano and her bell-tone vocals, her songs and musicianship embody joy, honesty, playfulness, and a desire to share from the heart. In twenty years on her own record label, Vessel Recordings, she has released thirteen albums of original music including Lines and Spaces, her most ambitious and most personal release to date.
LYRICS:
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DON'T KNOW
After so many years
Of searching science
Countless experiments
And breaking down of elements
Of contradictory theories
And fantastic formulas
Endless equations
To get to the truth
The only thing
That we can confidently say
Throughout the ages.... is that
We don't really know what we don't know
We can't even say what we can't see
We've found known unknowns, And experiments have shown
Enough to prove that it is what it is
And we can't conceive of new realities
Or visualise a fraction of what might be
Our imagination, fails at application
When we think of new possibilities
So much of nature
Is still conjecture
And every new answer
Asks a hundred other questions
Once everything's disproved
The one thing that's left
The unchanging reality... is that
We don't really know what we don't know
We can't even say what we can't see
We've found known unknowns, And experiments have shown
Enough to prove that it is what it is
And we can't conceive of new realities
Or visualise a fraction of what might be
Our imagination, fails at application
When we think of new possibilities
How did this something
Come from nothing
What forced its becoming
Well different types of nothing
Science is moving
Perpetually improving
Examining and removing
Until we have one unifying thing... and it's that
We don't really know what we don't know
We can't even say what we can't see
We've found known unknowns, And experiments have shown
Enough to prove that it is what it is
And we can't conceive of new realities
Or visualise a fraction of what might be
Our imagination, fails at application
When we think of new possibilities
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Tom Nichols is an academic specialist on international affairs, currently a professor at the U.S. Naval War College and at the Harvard Extension School. His work deals with issues involving Russia, nuclear weapons, and national security affairs. He was previously a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Nichols taught international relations as well as Soviet and Russian Affairs at Dartmouth College and Georgetown University. He was also a fellow in the International Security Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. Nichols was the Chairman of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College where he also held the Forrest Sherman Chair of Public Diplomacy. Nichols is a former Secretary of the Navy Fellow and also a fellow in the International Security Program and the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School.
LYRICS:
Having strong opinions
Is not the same as knowing things
Experts are more likely to be right
Now we're all....
Google-fuelled and wiki-fed
Conspiracies, easily led
Our feelings matter more to us than facts
Experts say unanimously
It's the death of expertise
Democracy's in jeopardy
We're our own worst enemy
the death of expertise
Ignorance was made a virtue by
Social entrepreneurs who
Confuse obscurantism with humility
But now we're
all omnicompetent
And demanding our entitlement
Our society could quickly cease to function
Experts say unanimously
It's the death of expertise
Democracy's in jeopardy
We're our own worst enemy
the death of expertise
Ensuring all have equal rights
Doesn't mean that all opinions are right
And disagreeings not insulting
Saying you're wrong's not saying you're stupid
It's not elitist or undemocratic
To say that professionals know more about their work
than you do
Experts say unanimously
It's the death of expertise
Democracy's in jeopardy
We're our own worst enemy
the death of expertise
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Christopher Ryan is an American author best known for co-authoring the book Sex at Dawn. He received a B.A. in English and American literature in 1984, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from Saybrook University, an accredited hybrid low-residency/online learning program based in San Francisco, twenty years later. His master's thesis examined differences in specific personality measures between working fashion models and the general public. His doctoral dissertation analyzed the prehistoric roots of human sexuality, and was guided by the psychologist Stanley Krippner, a humanistic psychologist, with additional committee members Sabrina Zirkel and Jürgen W. Kremer.
LYRICS TO THE SONG:
You've got emergency surgery and antibiotics
Half your work done by a team of robotics
Still you've confessed
You're depressed
And distressed
and oppressed
What's the matter with you?
You can travel through the sky sitting down in a chair
Get a drink, eat a meal and there's wifi up there
But at the slightest delay
You complain
Like it's the end of the world
So why aren't you happy now?
Why aren't you in awe
You've been civilised to death
You've got your mother in a home, kids at childcare
You're working 7 days a week just to keep them there
You've been promised all your free time
When you're retired
You're the pyre for the fire of incessant growth
Where any movement's advancement or progress or both
Youe’re like a falling man
Who insists he’s flying
So why aren't you happy now?
Why aren't you in awe
You've been civilised to death
How much time still to put in?
Can't be long 'til you're retiring
Scratching on the walls until your time is up
One last sup at the poisoned cup
Take me back
To the simple life
When we surrendered
To being alive
We lived by the ocean
And drank from the stream
In a world of abundance
Our lives were a dream
We had all we needed
Happy in our tribe
Surrounded by beauty
That you can't describe
The trees gave us everything
We worshipped the sun
Nature was all
And we were as one
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Kate Hudson has been General Secretary of CND since 2010, having served as chair since 2003. She first became active in the peace movement in the early 1980s in the big upsurge of activity against cruise missiles. One of her proudest moments was helping to Embrace the Base at Greenham Common in December 1982, along with 30,000 other women. With the end of the Cold War, like many others, Kate felt that the issue of nuclear weapons had gone away, so she turned to other campaigning work. But by the mid-1990s with expansion of NATO and escalation of the US ‘Star Wars’ system, she came back into CND activity and into CND’s leadership just as the ‘war on terror’ was beginning. She has been a key figure in the anti-war movement nationally and internationally and considers international cooperation and solidarity to be the key to our ultimate success.
By profession a historian, Kate was Head of Social and Policy Studies at London South Bank University prior to working for CND. She is author of a number of books, including a history of CND.
LYRICS TO THE SONG:
Ordinary people feel under attack
And that the enemies invisible they can't fight back
So they focus on an issue that's important to them
But they forget about the worst thing that could happen to men
Global warming's irritating like a splinter
Compared to hunkering down for a nuclear winter
Don't let politicians blind you with their commotion
When you see missiles flying over that's one issue you'd vote on
Make nuclear disarmament the thing you're locked on
By asking all your leaders where they stand on the bomb
Cos if the bombs go off
No other issues matter
If the bombs go off
Your life will be in tatters
If the bombs go off
You'll wish that you'd acted before
If the bombs go off
There's no way to vote them back
If the bombs go off
Your world is going black
If the bombs go off
Your overriding emotion will be regret
Only 9 countries have nuclear weapons
But any single one of them could end us in seconds
One determined hacker and security breach
A single crazy president with a button in reach
An angry dictator who won't be disarmed
Some kind of malfunction that sets off an alarm
So many scenarios can't think of them all
Of course the one that you forget would be the fate we befall
The odds are all long but the risk is so high
And there's no way back, once they're all up in the sky
Cos if the bombs go off
No other issues matter
If the bombs go off
Your life will be in tatters
If the bombs go off
You'll wish that you'd acted before
If the bombs go off
There's no way to vote them back
If the bombs go off
Your world is going black
If the bombs go off
Your overriding emotion will be regret
Nuclear war could lead to social improvement
With equal opportunity and freedom of movement
Freedom of speech would be a forgotten obsession
When you're pushing round a shopping cart with all your possessions
There'd be no discrimination or judging by race
After a massive a fireball has burnt off your face
Cos if the bombs go off
No other issues matter
If the bombs go off
Your life will be in tatters
If the bombs go off
You'll wish that you'd acted before
If the bombs go off
There's no way to vote them back
If the bombs go off
Your world is going black
If the bombs go off
Your overriding emotion will be regret
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Mark Bennett is an International Director of The Aetherius Society, a worldwide spiritual organisation, whose teachings of King Yoga he chose as his spiritual path at an early age. His varied work includes spreading spiritual wisdom through giving radio interviews and lectures around the UK. His television appearances include being invited as an expert to take part in two live debates on the BBC show The Big Questions, with an estimated million viewers per week.
He is the co-author of two books, both of which he wrote with international bestselling author Richard Lawrence, namely Prayer Energy (Cico, 2009; 2nd edition 2019) and Gods, Guides and Guardian Angels (O Books, 2007), which was voted “best book on spirituality 2007” by readers of Kindred Spirit magazine. Prayer Energy has been translated into French and Japanese, and Gods, Guides and Guardian Angels into Russian and Portuguese.
Mark has travelled extensively, having spent time not only in China, but also in Europe, India, Mongolia, West Africa and the Caucasus. He currently lives in Fulham, London. He speaks English, Russian, Chinese, Italian, French and German.
LYRICS:
Don't have no faith, no need to try
The God in the Bible's the sun in the sky
Go deep within, look out your eye
The Brahma of the scriptures is way up on high
It's the solar logos on whom we depend
To go through invaluable experience
Blessed is this one, Sacred is this one
Who shineth always in sacrifice
The nearest thing to God in manifestation
The most evolved creature in our concept of creation
You say you've looked around, oooh you're not too bright
All that you see is solidified light
It's the solar logos on whom we depend
To go through invaluable experience
Blessed is this one, Sacred is this one
Who shineth always in sacrifice
Don't have no faith, no need to try
The God in the Bible's the sun in the sky
It's the solar logos on whom we depend
To go through invaluable experience
Blessed is this one, Sacred is this one
Who shineth always in sacrifice
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Sodajerker is a songwriting team from Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Founded by co-writers Simon Barber and Brian O’Connor, Sodajerker is the creative outlet for two friends raised on the celebrated songbooks of such luminaries as Lennon and McCartney, Bacharach and David, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Goffin and King and The Chic Organisation. Like the profession from which they take their name, Sodajerker use their hard-won skills to conjure artistry from the everyday. Their songs have been heard on radio stations around the world and on a number of film soundtracks. Simon and Brian are also the co-hosts of the Sodajerker On Songwriting podcast, a programme featuring interviews with some of the world’s most successful songwriters.
LYRICS to SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS LIKE A SONG:
Radio plays
No. 1 hit
But is there really
Anything to it
Melody flows
On repeat
Underneath
Generic beat
Soaring up
Crashing down
Missing meaning
It's only sound
Don't listen hard, and don't listen long?
To something that sounds like a song
The production
Is delicious
Only a little
Repetitious
Is the rift
Stuck in your head
Is it important
What was that he said?
People listen all day long
To something that sounds like a song
Pause for a moment
To take it apart
Peel back the pieces
Is there a heart?
A chorus to praise
Wisdom in verse?
Will it change things
For better or worse?
Fighting injustice, righting a wrong?
Or just something that sounds like a song?
Make a video
Cover your traces
Distract with images
Lots of pretty faces
Don't listen hard, and Don't listen long
To something that sounds like a song
Something that sounds like a song
Something that sounds like a song
LYRICS to UNNECESSARY MUSIC:
The world is saturated with songs
And we all just nod along
They have the patter and the beat
But they're whitebread food to eat
Unnecessary music
Why do we produce it?
Cos it is more fun to do
Than it is to listen to
Unnecessary music
Perhaps it's therapeutic
But they say a burden shared
Is a burden doubled
No idea in there was conceived
The embryo can't be believed
It has a head and arms and legs
But take its pulse you'll find it's dead
Unnecessary music
Why do we produce it?
Cos it is more fun to do
Than it is to listen to
Unnecessary music
Perhaps it's therapeutic
But they say a burden shared
Is a burden doubled
What spurred you on to finish it?
Put layers on the thinnish bit
When you had half-written the song?
Why'd you decide to carry on?
Unnecessary music
Why do we produce it?
Cos it is more fun to do
Than it is to listen to
Unnecessary music
Perhaps it's therapeutic
But they say a burden shared
Is a burden doubled
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"I am a game designer with experience in a very small niche. I create and research games designed to be played in reality. I’ve worked in Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), LARPs, experience fiction, interactive theater, and “serious games”. Stories and games that can start on a computer, and finish in the real world. Fictions designed to feel as real as possible. Games that teach you. Puzzles that come to life all around the players. Games where the deeper you dig, the more you find. Games with rabbit holes that invite you into wonderland and entice you through the looking glass. When I saw QAnon, I knew exactly what it was and what it was doing. I had seen it before. I had almost built it before. It was gaming’s evil twin. A game that plays people. (cue ominous music) QAnon has often been compared to ARGs and LARPs and rightly so. It uses many of the same gaming mechanisms and rewards. It has a game-like feel to it that is evident to anyone who has ever played an ARG, online role-play (RP) or LARP before. The similarities are so striking that it has often been referred to as a LARP or ARG. However this beast is very very different from a game..." Reed Berkowitz. Read the rest
LYRICS:
In unrelated things, you perceive a commonality
Building a breadcrumb trail, away from reality
The players create it
All looking to spot
The journey is the point
There's no bigger plot
Apophenia is leading you
To join the dots and build the pictures
Seems there are some scenes for you
Interpretations of the scriptures
Leading you and deceiving you
Seeing what you want to believe in
The correct answers are the ones, that resonate with most
That boost the group's objectives, they get the most kudos
The longer you play
The greater your role
The further we all go
Down the white rabbit hole
Apophenia is leading you
To join the dots and build the pictures
Seems there are some scenes for you
Interpretations of the scriptures
leading you and deceiving you
Seeing what you want to believe in
The stage must be set, for a new reality
Crumbs are easy to swallow, but will lead you astray
IF you fall in with the rest, following the hordes
Don't believe all you see, on the message boards
Apophenia is leading you
To join the dots and build the pictures
Seems there are some scenes for you
Interpretations of the scriptures
leading you and deceiving you
Seeing what you want to believe in
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Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding is an epidemiologist and health economist and a Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington DC, and Chief Health Economist for Microclinic International. He was previously a faculty and researcher at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Chan School of Public Health between 2004-2020, and an epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
In January 2020, he was recognized in the media as one of the first to alert the public on the pandemic risk of COVID-19. He focuses his efforts on analyzing COVID-19 trends, stop COVID-19 misinformation, advocate for public health, and improve health policy. Dr. Feigl-Ding’s work focuses on the intersection of public health and public policy.
He also currently works on social-network based behavioral interventions for prevention, drug safety, diabetes/obesity prevention, and public health programs in the US and globally. He has further expertise in designing and conducting randomized trials, systematic reviews, public health programs, and improving health policy.
LYRICS:
It's often hard to know what to do
You hear different arguments, points of view
What is wrong, and what is true?
On the subject of the virus
Our attitude to mortality
How we feel about authority
Filter and form all our opinions
Am I being righteous?
But if in doubt about how to act
Then always do, what's best for other people
Where a mask that filters well
Wash your hands, distance and gel
Open windows, ventilate
Vaccinate
Run in the mountains, swim in the sea
Build robust immunity
Limit your plate and watch your weight
Vaccinate
So kids can go back to school
Cos keeping them at home is cruel
Don't ruminate or hesitate
Vaccinate
Don't trust to fate or leave it late
Calculate it could mutate
If you postulate or speculate
Or read posts about conspiracies
And if in doubt about vaccines
Browse horrible photos of defeated diseases
Birth defects brought on by Rubella
The terrible shock of Chickenpox
Parents in hysteria, kids with Diphtheria
Vaccinate
Would you like Hepatitis or Rotavirus?
Or the evils that come from Measles
It's cretinous to risk tetanus
Vaccinate
You don't want your kids low with Polio
Only silly men scoff at Whooping Cough
You'll feel like a chump if they get the Mumps
Vaccinate
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Maria Neira joined the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993 as the Coordinator of the Global Task Force on Cholera Control. In 1999, she became the Director of the Department of Control, Prevention and Eradication. She was then appointed as the Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health in 2005. During her career, Maria also worked with Médecins Sans Frontières in refugee camps in Central America.
Maria served as the Vice Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs in Spain, as President of the Spanish Food Safety and Nutrition Agency, as the Public Health Adviser of the Ministry of Health in Mozambique, and as the United Nations Public Health Advisor/Physician for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Rwanda.
Maria studied medicine and surgery at the University of Oviedo. She specialized in endocrinology and metabolic diseases at the Université René Déscartes. In addition, she holds a master’s degree in Public Health, a diploma in Human Nutrition from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, and an international diploma in Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Management form the University of Geneva. In 2016, she received the “Inspirational Women in Geneva Working for the Environment” award, in additional to other international awards in France and Spain.
LYRICS TO THE SONG:
The Ballad of Ella Kissi-Debrah
Reading in the papers
Numbers written there
Of how many die each year
Cos of dirty air
But numbers they don't speak
Drama they lack
Unlike the sound of hearing someone
Die from an asthma attack
What can change?
So that - Ella Kissi-Debrah
Didn't die in vein
And we all take action
And Policies change
Ella Kissi-Debrah
Hear our prayers
So that no more children
Will die
From breathing air
Ella Kissi-Debrah
Deserves a happy tune
But this song is not for her
It is meant for you
To pluck and play your heart strings
So you think twice before we drive
And decide who you will give your vote to
So more kids stay alive
So that - Ella Kissi-Debrah
Didn't die in vein
And we all take action
And Policies change
Ella Kissi-Debrah
Hear our prayers
So that no more children
Will die
From breathing air
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Michael Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor-in-chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. The Skeptics Society currently has over 55,000 members. Shermer engages in debates on topics pertaining to pseudoscience and religion in which he emphasizes scientific skepticism. Shermer is producer and co-host of the 13-hour Fox Family television series Exploring the Unknown which was broadcast in 1999. From April 2001 to January 2019, he was a monthly contributor to Scientific American magazine with his Skeptic column. He is also a scientific advisor to the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH).Shermer was once a fundamentalist Christian, but ceased to believe in the existence of God during his graduate studies. He accepts the labels agnostic, nontheist, atheist and others. He has expressed reservations about such labels for his lack of belief in a God, however, as he sees them being used in the service of "pigeonholing", and prefers to simply be called a skeptic. He also describes himself as an advocate for humanist philosophy as well as the science of morality.
LYRICS:
Through much of my life I was lost, to what opinions were mine
I was blown with the wind, confused, most of the time
But hindsight is helpful for learning, and I learnt a lot
I'm older and wiser and stronger with the knowledge I've got
The right from the wrong, the false from the true
I gave the Devil his due
There were times when I had to close my ears, cos I couldn't bear to hear
When people had terrible views, that filled me with fear
Or lies like a virus infected, I thought all conspiracy
But more times exposed, meant greater immunity
Consensus can hide. Discern and decide
I gave the Devil his due
I've learnt the most from those with whom I disagreed
They forced me to think what exactly it was I believed
Knowledge is a currency. But wisdom is gold
Weigh up the value of everything, you've ever been told
Most of it's wrong, but some of it's true
So I gave the Devil his due
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Marc Lipsitch is an American epidemiologist and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also the Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. He is currently working on modeling the transmission of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Lipsitch attended Yale University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1991. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, studying zoology, and received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1995. There, he studied under Robert May and Martin Nowak. He then returned to the United States for his postdoctoral fellowship at Emory University from 1995 to 1999. During that time, he worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before joining the faculty at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
LYRICS: The Terrible Tale of Gain-of-Function Research Under the Streetlight
I was reading in the Lancet just the other day
About the risk and benefits of gain-of-function
How some thought it desirous
Give functions to a virus
Of virulence and transmissibility
Thereby enabling assessment
to inform investment
In preparedness plans for pandemics
But what was the cause of the funding pause?
Human error in high containment labs
Gain-of-function
Strange instructions
Vague assumptions
Gain-of-function
We can't even predict
How influenza hits
From one season to the next
Instead of understanding these
And improving the vaccines
They look for answers where the looking's good
Testing out the 'ifs'
And sequencing the 'whats'
Like, how about if this virus was airborne
Cos if we know, how transmission goes
We're better prepared to prevent it
Gain-of-function
Insane construction
Plain dysfunction
Gain-of-function
From ferret, to ferret
Really is there merit?
Research it, regret it
Disaster you'll inherit
From mammal to mammal
It's utterly disparate
Don't get it? Don't sweat it?
It'll kill if you let
"Why are you looking under the streetlight?
Do you think the answer's over there"
The searcher answered with a spurious riposte
"No, but the light is brighter over here"
Gain-of-function
Insane construction
Plain dysfunction
Gain-of-function
Strange instructions
Vague assumptions
Gain-of-function
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Murilo Gun is a speaker, master of ceremonies, professor of creativity and founder of Keep Learning School.
LYRICS:
Everything is perfect
Faultless without a defect
Everything you've ever been through. Happened exactly as it was meant to
Everything is perfect
Everything's exquisite
The world & everything in it
I love it all, my heart is bursting. But nobody sees it, that's the worst thing
Everything's exquisite
Everything is perfect
Utterly in all ways correct
I wouldn't change it if I could. It always works out for the good.
Everything is perfect
Everything's superb
Sublime in the way it occurs
Your life is how it's meant to be. To teach you more and help you see
Everything's superb
Everything is perfect
Everything is perfect
Everything is perfect
Everything's divine
As Karma plays out all the time
This is how God manifests, you get pressure back to feel effects
Everything's divine
Everything is perfect
Everything is perfect
Everything is perfect
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Robby Soave is an award-winning American journalist based in Washington, D.C. He is an editor at Reason. He enjoys writing about college news, education policy, criminal justice reform, and television. Soave has penned articles for The New York Times, New York Post, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, The Orange County Register, and The Detroit News. In 2016, Forbes named him to the 2016 "30 Under 30" list in the category of law and policy. He won a 2015 Southern California Journalism Award for his commentary on Rolling Stone's investigative reporting on sexual assault at the University of Virginia in which he was skeptical on the subject. In 2016, Soave won the Alumnus of the Year Award at the International Students for Liberty Conference. He was also appointed to the D.C. Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Soave is a 2017-2018 Novak Fellow at The Fund for American Studies. He appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, and syndicated radio program.
LYRICS TO BOTH SONGS
1) THE LIBERTARIAN
At college he was cruelly isolated
His ideologies set him alone
Republicans had fun and the best parties
While the alt-left ran the place to feel like home
All the were on the edges
With him in the middle
It was only years later
That he found his tribe
A group who's values
He recognised
They formed a circle
With him in the middle
He's a libertarian
And been set free
He says it loud, he sings it proud
"At last I've found my crowd
I'm a libertarian
And I belong
I'm coming up, I'm coming clean
This is what I believe
Yes to giving all a voice
Yes to more freedom of choice
Yes to work, deregulation
Yes to peace with other nations
Yes to beauracratic reduction
Yes to the Virtue of Production
Yes autonomy, less authority
Yes to freedom's our priority
I'm a libertarian
The third way
Two parties is no choice
When we all need to have a voice
Libertarians
Become free
I'm coming up, I'm coming clean
This is what I believe
Yes to giving all a voice
Yes to more freedom of choice
Yes to work, deregulation
Yes to peace with other nations
Yes to beauracratic reduction
Yes to the Virtue of Production
Yes autonomy, less authority
Yes to freedom's our priority
2) HELICOPTER PARENTS
Helicopter parents
Bred generation Z to be
Fearful of most everything
Unconsciously
Helicopter parents
Lack basic bravery
Onto unsuspecting offspring they load
Their anxieties
Helicopter parents
The media's to blame
In their rush to ratings they pushed
Kidnapping claims
Helicopter parents
Were arrested if they didn't
Provide a home environment that was
Safety sufficient
The breakfast table
Bolstered the fable
Abduction from strangers
An everpresent danger
Who's bright idea was it
To breed the fear of it
Missing kids
On milk cartons
All of their descendants have
Panic in their veins
At the slightest provocation they feel
Emotional pain
These kids are adolescents at
University
And even Halloween costumes cause them
Anxiety
They're on anti-depressants
Cos the pressure is immense
Free speech needs to be constrained for
Their self-defence
Cos of their suppressants they need
Safety at all costs
They're asking to be treated in the
Way that they grew up
The breakfast table
Bolstered the fable
Abduction from strangers
An everpresent danger
Who's bright idea - was it
To breed the fear - of it
With missing kids
On milk cartons
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Laura Nirider is a lawyer and the co-director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth.
Nirider represents individuals who were wrongfully convicted of crimes when they were children or teenagers and specialises in areas such as confessions and police interrogations.
Her clients include Brendan Dassey, whose case was profiled in the Netflix Global series Making a Murderer, and Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three, whose case was profiled in the documentary West of Memphis.
On her CV, Nirider says: "My responsibilities include representing wrongfully convicted youth, co-teaching a clinical course on wrongful convictions of youth, and directing the Center’s mission and work.
"Both my courtroom work and classroom work focus on police interrogations and confessions.
"I maintain an ongoing caseload of post-conviction cases involving individuals who were convicted as children or adolescents. The majority of my clients’ cases involve confessions."
FEATURED MUSICAL GUESTS: Big Little Lions are the award winning band from Cincinnati, OH and British Columbia, Canada. They were born out of a collaboration that won them a JUNO Award in 2014. Since then they have been cranking out infectious folk pop songs that are jam-packed with emotion and tight harmonies that sound like the product of two people working side-by-side instead of living in different countries. They have released 5 albums to date, which have garnered them awards and nominations including the CFMA Ensemble of the Year. Their critically acclaimed music has appeared on the CBC’s Top 20 and featured on shows like q and Vinyl Cafe. The duo consists of Paul Otten and Helen Austin, both hugely prolific songwriters - their music has been placed in hundreds of movie trailers, ads, network TV shows and on MTV.
Their live show is quite the spectacle with Paul playing drums, bass and keyboard all while singing lead vocals. Helen, who is no slacker either, sings, plays guitar and foot percussion. They use every limb, and then some, to make two people sound like a full band.
Their music has been dubbed ‘a blissful marriage of new folk and sophisticated pop’, and is packed with emotion and tight harmonies. https://www.biglittlelions.com/
SONG LYRICS:
Don't say a word
You know they lie
The system is blurred
And so we fight
So don't say a word
You know they lie
They pulled it out of you
A story with no truth
over your head
They get up in your face
Tell you you'll be safe
If you say what they said
Don't say a word
You know they lie
The family get hurt
And so we fight
No shred of evidence
Victim of circumstance
Put you away
How do they sleep at night
Knowing it's not right
They know that they made you say
Don't say a word
You know they lie
Their power is earned
And so we fight
No alibi so they say what they like
Confuse, distort and deceive
See it's the law using their last straw
Tell me who they gonna believe
Don't say a word
You know they lie
What have we learned
You know they lie
Just like a bad dream
You know they lie
Millions have seen
You know they lie
A life locked away
You know they lie
We hope and we pray
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Binalakshmi Nepram is a humanitarian, author, and female activist for the advocacy of gender rights and women-led disarmament movements with the objective of arresting gun culture and bringing about peace for her home state of Manipur in particular and northeast India in general. For her contributions in this field to Manipur and northeast India she is known by the epithet "The Face & Voice of North East". Nepram has established many institutions such as the Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI) in 2004, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network (MWGSN), Manipur, and Secretary General Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI). On the disarmament issue she opines, "You cannot shoot an unarmed person. This goes for both the State and non State actors... nonviolence will win at the end." Forbes named Nepram as one of its "24 Young Minds to Watch out for in 2015", and the Action on Armed Violence of London listed her among the top 100 influential people in the world actively pursuing a reduction in armed violence.
LYRICS:
When your own governments against you
War is all you've ever known
Corruption undermines everything
Votes are bought and sold
Armed gunmen drive through the streets
AFSPA says they do that you please
Your own military, is adversarial
Who do you turn to for peace?
There's nothing to say
Only to sing
Hing-min-ashi Eikhoi, Apun ba na yaiphare
Hingminashi Eikhoi
Hingminashi Eikhoi, Mit-kap thok-lo mayam
Hingminashi Eikhoi
Hingminashi Eikhoi, Apun ba na yaiphare
Hingminashi Eikhoi
No one sheds tears for Manipur
Or the forgotten North East of India
Hidden away, people shot every day
Quietly one by one
With bullets fired from Western-built guns
Who profits from peace?
Keep going no one will know
When will the winds of change blow?
There's nothing to say
Only to sing
Hing-min-ashi Eikhoi, Apun ba na yaiphare
Hingminashi Eikhoi
Hingminashi Eikhoi, Mit-kap thok-lo mayam
Hingminashi Eikhoi
Hingminashi Eikhoi, Apun ba na yaiphare
Hingminashi Eikhoi
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Justin Wolfers is an Australian economist and public policy scholar. He is professor of economics and public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, and a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Wolfers holds a Ph.D. in Economics (1997–2001) and an Master of Economics (2000), both from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney (1991–1994). He had a Fulbright Scholarship.Wolfers attended James Ruse Agricultural High School (1985–1990). He is noted for his research on happiness and its relation to income. Wolfers moved to the University of Michigan as professor of economics and public policy beginning in fall 2012 with his partner, fellow economist Betsey Stevenson.
Prior to coming to the University of Michigan, Wolfers was associate professor of business and public policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a contributor to the New York Times (where he writes for The Upshot blog) and the Wall Street Journal, and was an editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity from 2009 through Fall 2015. Wolfers' research has explored the economics of sports, sports betting, prediction markets and the family.
Lyrics to the song: The Economics of Love
I've done a differential game model
On our partnership
the results are what you'd expect
Based on effort and appeal
Our love it is ideal
Cos we've both so heavily invested
But it's not the sunk cost fallacy
That keeps us together
It's the ongoing returns
And compounded interest
Not the sunk cost fallacy
Why we go on forever
It's a high-yield bond
vs a high-heeled blonde
I've learnt the economics of love
It's growing exponentially
A concave curve
Building on our saving reserve
With no signs of fragility
And maximized utility
Returns are much greater than cost
But it's not the sunk cost fallacy
That keeps us together
It's the ongoing returns
And compounded interest
Not the sunk cost fallacy
Why we go on forever
It's a high-yield bond
vs a high-heeled blonde
I've learnt the economics of love
The coefficient of variation
Of our love affair
Shows mutual benefits
Of which we're both aware
Perceived costs are low
Cost of separation is high
Net benefit's optimized
But it's not the sunk cost fallacy
That keeps us together
It's the ongoing returns
And compounded interest
Not the sunk cost fallacy
Why we go on forever
It's a high-yield bond
vs a high-heeled blonde
I've learnt the economics of love
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We gave shelter to a touring cyclist and his beautiful husky. He is having a real adventure travelling around the world so I decided to interview him as well so you could hear about it. He writes books about his adventures, makes videos and posts about it on Facebook
Lyrics to the songs:
DUMPSTER DIVING
For some time now I've had my eye on you
And to win your heart, I've made my mission to do
It's gonna have to be something special, cos you're widely desired
You're a healthy girl, who loves to cook and eat
And I know the way, that our hearts can meet
Together we'll create the biggest feast you've ever seen
I may be a poor man
But I've got a secret plan
To the banquet of your dreams.... Gonna take you...
Dumpster diving
Put you in the mood honey
Just look at all this food mummy
Dumpster diving
Bring a torch and gloves, and a crate to stand on
And when jump in choose something soft to land on
Then sink into the delights down below
It might look dirty, a bit of a mess
But open the black bags the food's sealed and fresh
All the food the supermarkets aren't allowed to sell
But before we go
There's one thing you need to know
Don't open the meat bag baby
Dumpster diving
Put you in the mood honey
Just look at all this food mummy
Dumpster diving
I know the bakery with same day bread
The cheesecake shop with an amazing spread
I'll take you to the finest spots all over town
Some say it's risky, but you'll find it fun
If security come, get ready to run
It's not illegal, we're doing the world a favour
We'll finish by the florists, forget a spray
I'll make you a stunning bouquet
To end our perfect day
Dumpster diving
Put you in the mood honey
Just look at all this food mummy
Dumpster diving
Then we'll pack it away in the middle of the night
And make love by the fridge light
Dumpster diving
Gonna make sweet love tonight
Dumpster diving
Gonna make it sweet tonight
Dumpster diving
Gonna make it sweet tonight
Dumpster diving
COFFEE LOVER
She drinks coffee I drink tea
I'm from England she's from Italy
She the caffeinated lover
That I've discovered
She flits about on her caffeine high
Gets any higher then I think she'll fly
I won't bring her down
I just want to hang around
We've got a deep dark roasted love
Cappuccino, Frappuccino, Macchiato, Espresso
Latte, Frappe, Americano, Cortado
She likes her coffee strong and black
I've learnt to make it like that
I wake her up with the aroma
I'll get my barista diploma
I bring it to her when she's still in bed
We cuddle up under the spread
And as the coffee gets stronger
I know our love goes longer
We've got a deep dark roasted love
Cappuccino, Frappuccino, Macchiato, Espresso
Latte, Frappe, Americano, Cortado
Coffee is the way to my lover's heart
Coffee makes her love me more
Coffee is the way to my lover's heart
Coffee is the thing that she adores
I've got to keep her up there
Keep her in the mood
I'm putting caffeine in her food
To preserve her altitude
Coffee is the way to my lover's heart
Coffee makes her love me more
Coffee is the way to my lover's heart
Coffee is the thing that she adores
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Ece Temelkuran is a Turkish journalist and author. She was a columnist for Milliyet (2000–2009) and Habertürk (2009 – January 2012), and a presenter on Habertürk TV (2010–2011). She was fired from Habertürk after writing articles critical of the government, especially its handling of the December 2011 Uludere massacre. She was twice named Turkey's "most read political columnist". Her columns have also been published in international media such as The Guardian and Le Monde Diplomatique. A graduate of Ankara University's Faculty of Law, she has published 12 books, including two published in English (Deep Mountain, Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide, Verso 2010, and Book of the Edge, BOA Editions 2010). In 2008 she was a visiting fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, during which time she wrote Deep Mountain, Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide. Her books include Ne Anlatayım Ben Sana! ("What am I Going to Tell You!", Everest, 2006), on hunger strikes by Turkish political prisoners. She was awarded the Human Rights Association of Turkey's Ayşe Zarakolu Freedom of Thought Award in 2008.
Her first novel, Muz Sesleri ("Banana Sounds"), was published in 2010 and has been translated into Arabic and Polish. In 2019, she published a nonfiction book How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship, about the rise of right-wing populism and how it operates.
LYRICS:
Beware of movements that arise
Painting heaven in the skies
Telling you that they alone have the solution
On the right, on the left
Many roads lead to theft
And they're one of the ways to lose your country
Beware of the new rationale
That boosts popular morale
And schizophrenic logic terrorises
There's a distorted narrative
Where the truth will never live
It's just one of the ways to lose your country
Beware of brazen shamelessness
It's a nasty business
When people are acting up with immorality
Not humble or humane
Then chaos is soon to rein
And it's one of the ways to lose your country
Beware of appointments and dilutions
And attacks on institutions
When the judiciaries replaced with their own followers
A superfluous state
Will sign and seal fate
Another of the ways to lose your country
Beware of model citizens
Who are anointed as the ones
To follow and emulate cos they are perfect
While the rest of us are left
To feel second class at best
It's just one of the ways to lose your country
Beware of laughter in the streets
As they mock their new elites
The only self-defence left is their humour
Some say it's just sequential
And at best inconsequential
But it's one of the ways to lose your country
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A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by podcast interviews.
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Eric Topol is an American cardiologist, scientist, and author. He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a professor of Molecular Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute, and a senior consultant at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California. He is editor-in-chief of Medscape and theheart.org. He has published three bestseller books on the future of medicine. The Creative Destruction of Medicine (2010), The Patient Will See You Now (2015), and Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again (2019). He was also commissioned by the UK 2018–2019 to lead planning for the National Health Service's future workforce, integrating genomics, digital medicine, and artificial intelligence. In 2016, Topol was awarded a US$207 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead a significant part of the Precision Medicine Initiative (All of Us Research Program), a one million American prospective research program. This is in addition to his role as principal investigator for a US$35 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to promote innovation in medicine and the education and career training of future medical researchers.
Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:
DOCTORS UNITE
We need the doctors to lead the fight
We need the doctors to combine their might
We need the doctors to lead every campaign
We need the doctors to take this on
We need the doctors to be strong
We need the doctors to stand up in our name
Obesity is killing people
It's an epidemic
Heart disease is deadly
And it's become endemic
Who can end the nightmare
What can stop the pain?
Dieticians? Or marketing campaigns?
No, the remedy is Universal
Doctors unite
Doctors are stressed to breaking
By unnecessary work
Tied down to their keyboards
They are data entry clerks
Who can end the nightmare?
What can stop the pain?
Medical Administrators, this is their terrain
No, the remedy is Universal
Doctors unite
We need the doctors to lead the fight
We need the doctors to combine their might
We need the doctors to lead every campaign
We need the doctors to take this on
We need the doctors to be strong
We need the doctors to stand up in our name
There are so many issues
So many fights
From inequality to poverty
Don't mention gun rights
But if one million doctors
Were together in one lane
Imagine their power
How much they could change
Opioids are overused
A crisis now exists
Doctors serve as drug dispensers
For big pharma lobbyists
Who can end the nightmare?
What can stop the pain?
Possibly new legislation? Or something in that vein?
No, the remedy is Universal
Doctors unite
We need the doctors to lead the fight
We need the doctors to combine their might
We need the doctors to lead every campaign
We need the doctors to take this on
We need the doctors to be strong
We need the doctors to stand up in our name
We need the doctors to unite
We need the doctors to aim a strike
We need the doctors to get us out of this
The remedy is Universal
Doctors unite
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'The voice is the perfect musical instrument' When Lisa Paglin met Marianna Brilla, Marianna was questioning everything about the voice. Degrees from prestigious schools, international studies with 27 world-renowned teachers and a Fulbright Award had proven to her that clear criteria for achieving ease, perfect intonation and simple communication through the word in singing was no longer available anywhere. Despite personal dissatisfaction, she was sought after as a singer and began a successful career. But, determined to rediscover the foundations of fine singing, Marianna left the stage and began challenging fallacies, inaccuracies and misinformation. Lisa was an accomplished pianist and singer from early childhood. As a young soprano at the Vienna Staatsoper, she drew much praise for her voice and musicality, but confusing vocal instruction, combined with a period of poor health, threw her off-balance. Longing to return to effortless and joyful singing, Lisa consulted prominent teachers, to no avail. She joined Marianna, and together they completed over 15 years of painstaking research, resulting in a thorough understanding of voice. Their methods for voice training and vocal rehabilitation, Vocal Balance™ and Vocal Restoration™, were born.
Read the Guardian article that inspired me to contact them for singing lessons
LYRICS to the resulting song:
I'd been driving for years
Lost in foreign lands
Searching for answers
Some guiding hands
I'd gone cross country
Even lost the road
I was given directions
By people, far gone themselves
But it was in my darkest hour
That I heard her name
Whispered on the wind
And I was guided to a place
The parking lot was packed
the queue went round the block
But a desperate man won't be denied
I found a window unlocked
I climbed into her chamber
And poured out my heart
Of how I'd lost my voice somewhere
She watched me in the dark
"Your problems obvious
You've forced your tone
Singing should be an effortless thing
Leave well alone"
After an hour together
I felt changes deep inside
And I walked out the door two inches taller
With words to reach the sky
And I could sing sing sing
Such a pure and simple thing
Go within
And let it ring
Yes I could sing
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James Fallows is an American writer and journalist. He has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic for many years. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and The American Prospect, among others. He is a former editor of U.S. News & World Report, and as President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter for two years was the youngest person ever to hold that job. Fallows has been a visiting professor at a number of universities in the U.S. and China, and holds the Chair in U.S. Media at the United States Studies Centre at University of Sydney. He is the author of eleven books, including National Defense, for which he received the 1983 National Book Award, Looking at the Sun (1994), Breaking the News (1996), Blind into Baghdad (2006), Postcards from Tomorrow Square (2009), China Airborne (2012), and Our Towns.
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Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. Dr. Greger has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, among countless other symposia and institutions; testified before Congress; has appeared on shows such as The Colbert Report and The Dr. Oz Show; and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous "meat defamation" trial. In 2017, he was honored with the ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Trailblazer Award. Dr. Greger's most recent scientific publications in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Critical Reviews in Microbiology, Family and Community Health, and the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition, and Public Health explore the public health implications of industrialized animal agriculture.Dr. Greger is also licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition and is a founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He was featured on the Healthy Living Channel promoting his latest nutrition DVDs and honored to teach part of Dr. T. Colin Campbell's esteemed nutrition course at Cornell University. Dr. Greger's nutrition work can be found at NutritionFacts.org, which is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit charity. He is the author of Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching and Carbophobia: The Scary Truth Behind America's Low Carb Craze. Three of his recent books — How Not to Die, the How Not to Die Cookbook, and How Not to Diet — became instant New York Times Best Sellers. His latest book, How to Survive a Pandemic, was just released in May. View the trailer for How Not to Die here, for How Not to Diet here, and for How to Survive a Pandemic here. Dr. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine.
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Michael Breus is a practicing Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a specialty in sleep disorders. He oversees nine sleep labs across Southern California and Arizona as the senior vice president of Clinical Operations of Phoenix Sleep. In addition to treating more than 5,000 patients every year and training other sleep doctors, he consults with major airlines and hotel chains to provide effective sleep tips for their customers. Dr. Breus is the co-founder of SoundSleep Solutions LLC and is the designated sleep expert on WebMD.com.
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Born in Cambridge, England, in 1958, Paul Nugent was brought up in the Church of England, culminating in regular worship and charitable work for the homeless at London’s famous St. Martin’s in the Fields church in Trafalgar Square. Having completed a business degree in 1980, he later studied Eastern Philosophy at London’s School of Economic Science, as well as spending two periods at the New Age spiritual community of Findhorn in the north of Scotland.
At the same time, he was introduced to the cosmic teachings of The Aetherius Society that had been founded in London in 1955 by Western Master of Yoga, Dr. George King, becoming a member in 1986. He moved permanently to the Society’s American Headquarters in Los Angeles in 1990. Two years later, I became a personal assistant to Dr. King, remaining at his side until his passing in July 1997. Since 2001, he has been a director of The Aetherius Society, helping to spread the cosmic teachings that were given by Masters from beyond this Earth through Dr. King. Ask me anything
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Ted Kunz is the two-wheeled wanderer from Idaho. Hear me chat to him about his latest adventures in Africa
https://www.instagram.com/two.wheel.wanderer
https://www.idahopress.com/community/two-wheeled_wanderer/
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Liv Boeree is a science communicator, television presenter and former professional poker player. She is a World Series of Poker and European Poker Tour champion, and is the only female player in history to win a WSOP bracelet and EPT event. Born in Kent, Boeree earned a First Class Honours degree in Physics with Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. Boeree is a 3x winner of the Global Poker Index European Female Player of the year and currently sits at #5 on the female all-time live poker winnings list.
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Marion Nestle (born 1936) is an American academic. She is the Paulette Goddard professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University. She is also a professor of Sociology at NYU and a visiting professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell University. Nestle received her BA from UC Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa, after attending school there from 1954-1959. Her degrees include a Ph.D in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.
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Dave Powell is one half of Sustainababble: a weekly podcast about the environment, for and by the confused. He's supposed to be an expert in how to save the planet. But why’s everything got to be so confusing? Is he a little bit closer to enlightenment? They sift through the most egregious eco-guff out there, exposing the real eco villains vs the hapless incompetents. It’s topical, funny and hopefully more than a little cathartic.
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Edward Ashley Latimore, Jr. (born February 15, 1985 in Pittsburgh, PA) is a retired American professional boxer (13-1-1), influencer, and author. His final professional fight was December 17, 2016. He launched his blog Mind and Fist[4] in 2013, focusing on the difficult lessons he learned from growing up in public housing projects, overcoming alcohol and pornography addiction, and general self-improvement. He has published two books. Not Caring What Other People Think Is A Superpower: Insights From A Heavyweight Boxer and Sober Letters To My Drunken Self along with a writing and marketing guide for social media titled Engagement Is The New Cocaine: The Art And Science Of Writing Awesomely Addictive Tweets. He's been a guest on The James Altucher Show, The Jordan Harbinger Show, The Art of Manliness, Farnam Street, and Coffee with Scott Adams to discuss sobriety, boxing, growing up in poverty, and physics. He's also been featured on Ryan Holiday's blog The Daily Stoic as well as in James Clear's international bestseller, Atomic Habits.
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A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by podcast interviews.
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Gary Blaze is the husband of Chrissie Blaze, the astrologer I had on a while ago. He's an expert in many things, including qigong and Spiritual Healing. Enjoy this deep and spiritual conversation.
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Russell Roberts is an economist, a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and president designate of Shalem College. He is known for communicating economic ideas in understandable terms as host of the EconTalk podcast. Roberts categorizes himself as a proponent of classical economic liberalism. He has said, "I believe in limited government combined with personal responsibility. So I am something of a libertarian, but . . . that term comes with some baggage and some confusion." Roberts was awarded a B.A. in economics in 1975 from the University of North Carolina and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1981 for his thesis on the design of government transfer programs under the supervision of Gary Becker. Roberts has previously taught at George Mason University, Washington University in St. Louis (where he was the founding director of what is now the Center for Experiential Learning), the University of Rochester, Stanford University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a regular commentator on business and economics for National Public Radio's Morning Edition, and has written for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Roberts also blogs at Cafe Hayek with Donald J. Boudreaux at George Mason University in Fairfax County, Virginia. Roberts writes and publishes videos on economics, some of which have been viewed millions of times.[16] One of the most widely watched videos is Fear the Boom and Bust, a rap battle between 20th century economists John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek.
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Martin Kulldorff, PhD, is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a biostatistician and epidemiologist in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research centers on developing and applying new disease surveillance methods for post-market drug and vaccine safety surveillance and for the early detection and monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks. Dr. Kulldorff has developed new sequential statistical methods for near real-time post-market drug and vaccine safety surveillance, where the purpose is to use weekly or other frequent data feeds to find potential safety problems as soon as possible. He has also developed tree-based scan statistic data mining methods for post-market drug and vaccine safety surveillance. Keeping the outcome definitions flexible, the methods simultaneously evaluates thousands of potential adverse events and groups of related events, adjusting for the multiple testing inherent in such an approach.Another major research area is spatial and spatio-temporal disease surveillance, for which he has developed various scan statistics for disease cluster detection and evaluation; and for the early detection and monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks. These methods are used by most federal and state public health agencies around the world, and by many local public health departments and hospital epidemiologists. Dr. Kulldorff is the developer of the free SaTScan software for geographical and hospital disease surveillance as well as the TreeScan data mining software. He is a co-developer of the R-Sequential package for exact sequential analysis. Dr. Kulldorff received his bachelor’s degree in mathematical statistics from Umeå University in Sweden, and his doctorate in operations research from Cornell University.
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Bryan Douglas Caplan is an American behavioral economist and author. Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University, research fellow at the Mercatus Center, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and former contributor to the Freakonomics blog; he also publishes his own blog, EconLog. He is a self-described "economic libertarian". The bulk of Caplan's academic work is in behavioral economics and public economics, especially public choice theory.
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Rt. Rev. Brian C. Keneipp is the Executive Director of the American Headquarters of The Aetherius Society, a registered non-profit, religious, scientific and educational corporation, established in California in 1960. Brian Keneipp worked over twenty years with The Aetherius Society founder, the late Dr. George King, a Western Master of Yoga. Brian was a key disciple of Dr. King and helped build The Aetherius Society and perform Spiritual missions on behalf of and for humanity in cooperation with the Ascended and Cosmic Masters.
He teaches the advanced form of Yoga practiced in The Aetherius Society - King Yoga, Brian is also actively involved in several field missions performed by The Aetherius Society, which Dr. King designed to help balance world Karma, to bring greater world peace and to aid in the salvation and enlightenment of mankind. He is a Bishop in the Aetherius Churches as well as co-editor of the New Age journal Cosmic Voice. Brian has lectured in America, Canada, England and New Zealand on a variety of New Age subjects. With a background in science and corporate management, he retains a balanced, commonsense approach to the sometimes mysterious world of metaphysics.
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Peter Gregory Boghossian is an American philosopher. He is an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University, and his areas of academic focus include atheism, critical thinking, pedagogy, scientific skepticism, and the Socratic method. He is the author of A Manual for Creating Atheists and (with James Lindsay) How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide. Boghossian was involved in the Grievance Studies affair (also called "Sokal Squared" in media coverage) with collaborators James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose, in which they published several hoax papers in academic journals, as part of their criticism of a set of fields including gender studies. As a result, Portland State University initiated a research misconduct investigation of him in 2018. Boghossian coined the term street epistemology for a set of conversational techniques he described which are designed to enable examination of strongly held beliefs, especially of the religious kind, in a non-confrontational manner.
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Emily Atkin is an environmental reporter and writer, best known for founding the daily climate newsletter HEATED. She also launched a podcast by the same name to explore the intersectional issues highlighted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Previously she was a reporter for The New Republic and ThinkProgress. She is an author in the collection All We Can Save edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson, and a columnist at MSNBC. Atkin was raised in New York, and went to school at SUNY New Paltz for journalism.
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That's all I'm saying. Listen to it, it's incredible. (And includes a journey.)
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Pat Divilly is an author, speaker and high performance coach who helps people reach new levels of purpose and fulfillment through movement and mindset. Pat has emerged as one of Ireland’s top speakers in the area of personal development and is invited to give talks around the world. Between 2012 and 2017 over 20,000 clients went through Pat’s online training course. Pat has also climbed some of the worlds highest mountains and organized groups who raised over €250,000 for charity.
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Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur and philanthropist driven to solve the world's biggest challenges through innovation. A man who knows no limits, Naveen pushes big dreams into action, spurring massive cultural and technological change. His audacious vision and magnetic personality continually inspires others to follow what feels impossible. The founder of Moon Express, World Innovation Institute, iNome, TalentWise, Intelius, and Infospace, Naveen sees beyond the current business and technological landscape, creating companies that make a true impact. Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year, Silicon India's "Most Admired Serial Entrepreneur," and the receiver of "Albert Einstein Technology Medal" for his pioneers in technology, he has been repeatedly honored for his entrepreneurial successes. Red Herring also recognized him as one of the "Top 20 Serial Entrepreneurs" and with the "Lifetime Achievement Award."Naveen Jain's next endeavor is to travel to the moon, using lunar resources for innovation here on earth. Whether it's business or life, Naveen is guided by one firm belief – Our only limit is our imagination.
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Brian William Koppelman (born April 27, 1966) is an American showrunner. Koppelman is the co-writer of Ocean's Thirteen and Rounders, the producer for films including The Illusionist and The Lucky Ones, the director for films including Solitary Man and the documentary This Is What They Want for ESPN as part of their 30 for 30 series, and the co-creator, showrunner, and executive producer of Showtime's Billions. Koppelman was born on April 27, 1966 in Roslyn Harbor, New York to a Jewish family, the son of Brenda "Bunny" Koppelman and Charles Koppelman. His father was a producer and media executive. Koppelman holds degrees from Tufts University and Fordham University School of Law. He first started managing local Long Island bands as a teenager. He would also book bands at a local nightclub. Through booking acts, he came into contact with Eddie Murphy and helped arrange Murphy's first record deal. As a student at Tufts University, he discovered singer/songwriter Tracy Chapman and executive-produced her first album. He was later brought to Giant Records by president Irving Azoff. During his career, Koppelman was an A&R representative for music labels Elektra Records, Giant Records, SBK Records and EMI Records
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Shane Claiborne is a prominent speaker, activist, and best-selling author. Shane worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, and founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia. He heads up Red Letter Christians, a movement of folks who are committed to living "as if Jesus meant the things he said." Shane is a champion for grace which has led him to jail advocating for the homeless, and to places like Iraq and Afghanistan to stand against war. Now grace fuels his passion to end the death penalty and help stop gun violence. Shane’s books include Jesus for President, Red Letter Revolution, Common Prayer, Follow Me to Freedom, Jesus, Bombs and Ice Cream, Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers, Executing Grace, his classic The Irresistible Revolution, and his newest book, Beating Guns. He has been featured in a number of films including "Another World Is Possible" and "Ordinary Radicals." His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Shane speaks over one hundred times a year, nationally and internationally. His work has appeared in Esquire, SPIN, Christianity Today, TIME, and The Wall Street Journal, and he has been on everything from Fox News and Al Jazeera to CNN and NPR. He’s given academic lectures at Harvard, Princeton, Liberty, Duke, and Notre Dame.
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Nehemiah Davis is a yogi and teacher of mystic practices. From early childhood Nehemiah’s father (Althair H. Davis) taught him to manipulate cosmic energies (prana) through prayer and mantra with metaphysical teachings that stress balanced karmic methods of actions through life. With this, his father instructed him in several forms of yoga, which included; karma yoga, hatha yoga, bhakti yoga, raja yoga, mantra yoga, mudra yoga, pranayama (yogic breathing exercises) and kundalini yoga. As a child his father created and enforced a daily schedule of early morning and late evening prayer, meditation, and pranayama. His education in metaphysics while growing up included mystic authors such as; H.P. Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Rama Prasad, Swami Vekadanada, Yogic Ramacharka teachings, Alice A. Bailey, Paramahansa Yogananda, Swami Sivananda, Sir. John Woodroffe, as well as the late Dr George King founder and president of the Aetherius Society, a modern mystic order that his family were members of. Nehemiah Davis has been teaching on various metaphysical subjects over the last 25 year. His students have asked him over the last decade to write on the subjects he taught. This book “The Ancient Language of the Soul” is his beginning in sharing his knowledge with a large audience around the world.
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Coen van der Kroon was born in Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1962. He has an academic background in Greek and Latin Languages and Culture. His MA thesis was on ancient Greek gynecology with a comparison between Hippocratic and Ayurvedic Medicine. This was the start of his interest in and study of ayurveda. Coen van der Kroon has dedicated his life to understanding the Indian health science of ayurveda. It has been his mission to clarify the ancient Eastern advice for disease prevention and day-to-day health and well-being so that the implications can be understood by the modern Western mind. He is making this happen through his writing for magazines and books – including an international bestseller – and his teaching, centered around The Academy of Ayurvedic Studies (AAS) in the Netherlands, which he founded in 2005. He himself was privileged to have studied with the most renowned and inspirational teachers in the field of ayurveda and yoga, including Dr. David Frawley, Dr. Sunil Joshi, Dr. Robert Svoboda, Atreya Smith and Dr. Vijith Sasidhar (who are all visiting faculty at the AAS), as well as 3 years at the Ayurvedic Institute with Dr. Vasant Lad, in the USA and hands-on experience in India.
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Madhu Trehan studied at Welham Girls' School in Dehradun, graduating in 1962. In 1968, she went to Harrow Technical College & School of Arts in London to study journalistic photography. She earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, New York in 1972. While in New York, she worked at the United Nations in their press department, and served as an editor for a weekly newspaper, India Abroad. She returned to India in 1975 when she founded and started the news magazine India Today, with her father V.V.Purie, owner of Thomson Press. Trehan left the magazine to her brother's stewardship in 1977 during her pregnancy, and returned to New York to start her family. Upon her return to India in 1986, Trehan produced and anchored Newstrack, India's first video news magazine, which earned her a reputation as a pioneering investigative journalist.
In Aug 1994, Madhu Trehan took the rare and only interview of Yakub Memon who was convicted in 1993 Bombay bombings. In 2009 Trehan published her first book, Tehelka as Metaphor: Prism Me a Lie, Tell Me a Truth, examining the 2001 Operation West End exposé and its aftermath. Trehan has written for leading news magazines and newspapers such as Outlook India and Hindustan Times. In 2000 she launched Wah India, a website and print magazine. She, along with three other colleagues, also launched a crowd-sourced media critique website called Newslaundry in February 2012.
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World- renowned author and breathing practitioner Patrick McKeown was educated at Trinity College in Dublin, before completing his clinical training in the Buteyko Breathing Method at the Buteyko Clinic, Moscow, Russia. This training was accredited by Professor Konstantin Buteyko.
From a young age, Patrick suffered from asthma and relied on an array of medicines and inhalers until he discovered the Buteyko Method at the age of 26, experiencing immediate relief from his symptoms. By applying the principals of the Buteyko Method, Patrick remains asthma-free since then, a feat that over 20 years of medication had failed to accomplish.
In a career spanning 15 years, Patrick has since also become a bestselling author and expert on the topic of optimal breathing for improved health, well being and fitness.
Among the eight books Patrick has written, two have consistently remained in the top ten best sellers on Amazon.com: ‘Close Your Mouth’ and ‘Asthma Free Naturally’.
His latest book ‘The Oxygen Advantage®’ is based on 4 years of scientific research and tailors breathing exercises for anyone seeking to improve their fitness and sports performance. Already in its 3rd print run in the UK since September 2015, ‘The Oxygen Advantage®’ is set to revolutionise how we train, by addressing dysfunctional breathing patterns and simulating high altitude training through specific breath holding exercises as devised by Patrick.
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Alexei Levene is the co-founder of Desolentator, and now responsible for Strategy and Business Development. BA (Hons) Philosophy, CPE, Law, currently based in London. Background in consumer products, business consulting, and sustainable technologies. Globetrotter who has lived in UK, US, Poland, India and France contributing to Fortune 500 corporations and innovative start-ups. Loves philosophy, disruptive technologies and adventure. He's working towards a world without waste, with access to clean water, food and education for all.
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Dr. John Douillard, DC, CAP is a globally recognized leader in the fields of natural health, Ayurveda, and sports medicine. He is the creator of LifeSpa.com, the leading Ayurvedic health and wellness resource on the web with more than 9 million views on YouTube and more than 130,000 newsletter subscribers. LifeSpa.com is evolving the way Ayurveda is understood around the world, with thousands of articles and videos joining ancient wisdom with modern science. John is the former director of player development for the New Jersey Nets NBA team, author of seven health books including his newest Amazon best-seller Eat Wheat, a repeat guest on Dr. Oz, and newly released Yoga Journal video course Ayurveda 201 on Ayurvedic Psychology. He directs LifeSpa Ayurvedic Clinic, the 2013 Holistic Wellness Center of the Year in Boulder, Colorado.
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"Brendan Kane is a growth hacker for Fortune 500 corporations, brands and celebrities. He thrives on helping brands systematically find and engage new audiences who reward relevant content, products and services with their attention and spend. Brendan started his career at Lakeshore Entertainment where he oversaw all aspects of Lakeshore’s interactive media strategy. At Lakeshore, he worked on 16 films that generated worldwide gross of $685 million dollars. While at Lakeshore, Brendan pioneered the first ever influencer campaigns to effectively promote Lakeshore's movies. Brendan went on to build applications and platforms for celebrity clients Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Xzibit, Charles Barkley, Michael Strahan, super model Adrianna Lima and pro skateboarder Ryan Sheckler. Brendan is known for creating an innovative application for Taylor Swift and Rihanna that can automatically turn any Facebook profile into a website in less than 60 seconds. The applications and platforms Brendan created for his celebrity clients have been accessed by 50 million+ people worldwide.He also served as a consultant for the NHL and NFL Players Association on how to bolster their digital offering to both players and fans.In partnership with MTV, Brendan conceptualized and built an advertising technology that monetized consumer to consumer interaction within social networks. This technology was utilized by MGM, Lionsgate, Sony, Yahoo, MTV, Rockband and Vice Magazine.Brendan helped grow Strike Social to one of the top social media buying intelligence companies in the world. Strike Social runs over 2,500 advertising campaigns a day for brands such as; Disney, Fox, NBC, Netflix, XBOX Linkedin and many notable fortune 100 companies.Brendan is most recently known for generating one million followers in 100+ counties in less then 30 days. He went on to publish the best selling book; One Million Followers breaking down how he was able to achieve such a feat."
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Alyson Lawrence is a Bishop in The Aetherius Churches and an International Director of The Aetherius Society at the European Headquarters in London. She was a devoted follower of Dr. George King during his lifetime, and has lectured in several countries and written articles on many and varied metaphysical topics. Alyson is also an experienced teacher and trainer in dynamic prayer.
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Rupert Sheldrake, is a biologist, author, and researcher, best known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance. He worked as a biochemist and cell biologist at Cambridge University. He has written many books on science, spirituality and morphic resonance which is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits and memory is inherent in nature.
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Iyad is an internationally-recognised Arab Spring activist and expert on authoritarianism. He is the President of Kawaakibi Foundation and Editor-in-Chief of the Arab Tyrant Manual. He is an outspoken critic of both Islamic movements and secular dictatorships, and has set himself apart from many other activists through his use of humor and sarcasm. He contributes to his own blog site Islam and Liberty and podcast Arab Tyrant Manual on Soundcloud. A stateless Palestinian who was born in Kuwait and raised in the United Arab Emirates, he is now a political refugee in Norway.
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Dr. John Demartini is a world-renowned specialist in human behavior, a researcher, author and global educator. He has developed a series of solutions applicable across all markets, sectors and age groups.
His education curriculum ranges from corporate empowerment programs, financial empowerment strategies, self-development programs, relationship solutions and social transformation programs. His teachings start at the core of the issue, addressing the human factor and range out to a multitude of powerful tools that have proven the test of time.
He has studied over 30,000 books across all the defined academic disciplines and has synthesized the wisdom of the ages which he shares on stage in over 100 countries. His presentations whether keynotes, seminars or workshops, leave clients with insights into their behavior and keys to their empowerment.
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Esther Gokhale has been involved in integrative therapies all her life. As a young girl growing up in India, she helped her mother, a nurse, treat abandoned babies waiting to be adopted. This early interest in healing led her to study biochemistry at Harvard and Princeton and, later, acupuncture at the San Francisco School of Oriental Medicine.
After experiencing crippling back pain during her first pregnancy and unsuccessful back surgery, Gokhale began her lifelong crusade to vanquish back pain. Her studies at the Aplomb® Institute in Paris and years of research in Brazil, India, Portugal and elsewhere led her to develop the Gokhale Method, a unique, systematic approach to help people find their bodies’ way back to pain-free living.
Gokhale's book, 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back, has sold over 200,000 copies and has been translated into ten languages. In 2010, Gokhale hosted the nationally-televised program Back Pain: The Primal Posture™ Solution (available on DVD and streaming). The Gokhale Method continues to grow as dozens of qualified teachers, each personally trained by Gokhale, now teach the method worldwide.
Gokhale has taught at corporations such as Google, IDEO, and Facebook, presented at conferences including TEDx(Stanford) and Ancestral Health Symposium, consulted for the trainers of the SF 49ers and several Stanford sports teams, and conducted workshops for physician groups at Stanford, Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health, PAMF, and UCSF. The New York Times gave Esther the title “The Posture Guru of Silicon Valley” in 2013.
Esther Gokhale lives on Stanford University campus where she raised three children with her husband Brian White, a professor in the Math Department.
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A. J. Jacobs is an American journalist, author, and lecturer best known for writing about his lifestyle experiments. He is an editor at large for Esquire and has worked for the Antioch Daily Ledger and Entertainment Weekly. AJ has said that he sees his life as a series of experiments in which he immerses himself in a project or lifestyle, for better or worse, then writes about what he learned.
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Sean Carroll is a Research Professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Harvard University. His research has focused on fundamental physics and cosmology, especially issues of dark matter, dark energy, spacetime symmetries, and the origin of the universe. Recently, Carroll has worked on the foundations of quantum mechanics, the emergence of spacetime, and the evolution of entropy and complexity. Carroll is the author of Something Deeply Hidden, The Big Picture, The Particle at the End of the Universe, From Eternity to Here, and Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity. He has been awarded prizes and fellowships by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Sloan Foundation, the Packard Foundation, the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Physics, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the Royal Society of London, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Carroll has appeared on TV shows such as The Colbert Report, PBS's NOVA, and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, and frequently serves as a science consultant for film and television. He is host of the weekly Mindscape podcast.
This episode I'm joined by Emma Hill, an Alaskan singer-songwriter and old friend of mine.
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On-air as a radio jock for 4 years, Joyce now hosts the leading podcast in the Philippines, Adulting with Joyce Pring, which garnered popularity since its launch in 2018 - garnering the number one spot on both Spotify and iTunes, with more than 250 thousand listeners globally and 2 million streams across all platforms. She has been a child sponsor for 9 years, and 3 years ago, she became a World Vision Ambassador - championing for the protection, and education of children. Recently, Joyce was appointed by the Department of Education and World Vision Philippines as the ambassador for their latest campaign, Brigada Pagbasa.
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Tom Schwab knows how to build an online business. He’s done it successfully several times, and now helps others find online success with podcast interview marketing. Marketing at its heart is starting a conversation with someone who could be an ideal customer. Tom helps thought leaders (coaches, authors, speakers, consultants, emerging brands) get featured on leading podcasts their ideal prospects are already listening to. The Interview Valet system then helps them to turn listeners into customers. The author of Podcast Guest Profits: Grow Your Business with a Targeted Interview Strategy, Tom is also Founder/CEO of Interview Valet, the category king of Podcast Interview Marketing.
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Todd McCarty is currently living in Japan after leaving his record label job to build a consultant business and educate a large audience of musicians via his new platform Band Builder Academy. He's served musicians and fans his entire career. He also consults record labels and independent musicians getting placement for music on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon.
Previously he was Sony Music USA as Senior Vice President of Sales. Previously he was General Manager for Fearless Records where he worked for 13 years (2002 – 2015) helping artists like Portugal. The Man, I Prevail, Motionless In White, Mayday Parade, Pierce The Veil, The Maine, and Plain White T’s create heat on the street. He was awarded a 5x Platinum single, 3 Platinum singles, 5 Gold Albums, and many Gold singles for RIAA certified sales achievements.
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Neal D. Barnard is an American author, clinical researcher, and founding president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). Barnard founded Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) in 1985 because he "wanted to promote preventive medicine." By 2016, the Washington D.C.-based PCRM had 150,000 members, including 12,000 physicians and reported revenues of more than $20 million. He appeared in the 2011 documentary feature film Forks Over Knives.
Barnard serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He founded the Barnard Medical Center in 2015 as part of PCRM, and it opened in 2016 with him as president; the center provides primary care and emphasizes diet and preventive medicine.
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Alan Dershowitz is an American lawyer and legal scholar known for his scholarship of U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law, and a noted advocate of civil liberties. He taught at Harvard Law School from 1964 through 2013, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. Dershowitz is a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst. He is also a prominent voice on the Arab–Israeli conflict and has written several books on the subject.
Dershowitz is known for taking on high profile and often unpopular causes and clients. As of 2009, he had won 13 of the 15 murder and attempted murder cases he handled as a criminal appellate lawyer. Dershowitz has represented celebrity clients including Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, Leona Helmsley, Julian Assange, and Jim Bakker. Major legal victories have included two successful appeals that overturned convictions, first for Harry Reems in 1976, followed by Claus von Bülow in 1984 who had been convicted for the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny.
In 1995, Dershowitz served as the appellate adviser on the O. J. Simpson murder trial, part of the legal "Dream Team", alongside Johnnie Cochran and F. Lee Bailey. Dershowitz was a member of the defense team for Harvey Weinstein in 2018 and for the impeachment trial of Donald Trump in 2020. He was a member of the legal defense team for Jeffrey Epstein and helped to negotiate a 2006 non-prosecution agreement on Epstein's behalf.
Dershowitz is the author of several books about politics and the law, including Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case (1985), the basis of the 1990 film; Chutzpah (1991); Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O.J. Simpson Case (1996); The Case for Israel (2003); Rights From Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights (2004); and The Case for Peace (2005). His two most recent works are: The Case Against Impeaching Trump (2018) and Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo (2019).
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Stanley Chi is a Chinese Filipino observational comedian, cartoonist, TV host, columnist and book author. Chi has gained an underground cult following because of his unique comedic chops. He is the columnist for FHM Philippines' website, One Night Stan and a video blogger for Spot.ph's Suplado in the City. He also hosts The Underpaid Podcast, a podcast that talks about work-related topics, anything and everything about the office such as how to deal with your horrible boss, office mates, office politics and how to survive the corporate world.
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Chrissie Blaze is the author of 12 books, a metaphysician and astrologer. She has been a student/practitioner of the psychic and spiritual sciences from a young age. She is a regular media guest and conducts lectures and classes in the U.S.A. and U.K. Blaze is a professional astrologer who qualified at the Faculty of Astrological Studies, London in the early 1980s. She qualified as a lecturer with credentials from the University of London, England. She was a longtime close student of renowned English Yoga Master, Dr. George King, Founder of The Aetherius Society. Her goal is the global promotion of practical spirituality, including astrology.
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ECHO is a mobile library helping refugees in Greece. Around 80,000 displaced people in Greece are currently stuck in isolated camps that lack basic facilities, let alone a library. ECHO is a grassroots project organised through a community network between Athens and eleven camps and community centres in mainland Greece. I speak to Laura Naude and Esther ten Zijthoff, two of the founders.
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Shocked by the news reports of the conditions in Greece, UK couple Neil and Caroline Dykes went to Thessaloniki to see what they could do to help. They were met by dreadful scenes of overcrowded, rundown buildings with no heat or running water and no prospect of onward movement for the people. These poor families had had their houses bombed out from underneath them, had suffered terrible horrors and their plight was desperate. The large NGOs were sitting on their hands and were more interested in finding comfortable accommodation for their staff than attending to the needs of the Syrians. Their prevarication incensed Caroline and Neil and they set about arranging practical help for the refugees. They visited Greek estate agents and persuaded them to rent apartments to the Syrians, paid for by Caroline and Neil. And when a family moved into an apartment they gave them money for essential shopping, and arranged advice on citizenship and seeking asylum in other countries. Neil even built a wooden bus shelter after a Syrian woman had been run over and killed while waiting for a bus on the side of a busy road. The measure of their success can be seen in the grateful emails they receive from Syrian families now living and working in EU countries.
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A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by podcast interviews.
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As a meditation teacher and host of the global ZEN commuter Meditation Podcast Thom has taught meditation to thousands of people wanting to live a calmer, fuller life. He began a meditation practice back in 1980, when he was eighteen years old, and considers it to be the most impactful skill learned in his life. "Through the years, and up to now, I have kept my meditation practice alive, practicing over 5,000 hours. In between those times I have interviewed noted meditation thought leaders on my podcast, ZEN commuter and studied extensively on a variety of meditation practices. I have devoted my life to helping people becoming calmer and more purposeful through a mindfulness practice." Support Thom on Patreon
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Karen Salmansohn is a best selling self-help book author and award-winning designer with about 2 million books sold nationally and internationally. She is the founder of notsalmon.com, a popular personal development site, which offers books and video courses on topics including anxiety, toxic people, emotional eating, relationships, meditation, and happiness. Her website also includes many of her viral quote posters that she writes and designs. Salmansohn was formerly a senior VP ad creative director (at age 26) who left her job to pursue writing. She has been profiled in the NY Times, Business Week, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Time Magazine, ELLE, Marie Claire, and Fast Company. She also appeared in popular television shows and was a regular lifestyle reporter for Fox TV.
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Dawson Church, PhD, is an award-winning science writer with three best-selling books to his credit. The Genie in Your Genes (YourGeniusGene.com) was the first book to demonstrate that emotions drive gene expression. Mind to Matter, (MindToMatter.com) showed that the brain creates much of what we think of as “objective reality.” Bliss Brain (BlissBrain.com) demonstrates that peak mental states rapidly remodel the brain for happiness. He has conducted dozens of clinical trials, and founded the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare (NIIH.org) to promote groundbreaking new treatments. He shares how to apply the breakthroughs of energy psychology to health and personal performance through EFT Universe (EFTUniverse.com), one of the largest alternative medicine sites on the web.
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Richard Lawrence is the Executive Secretary of The Aetherius Society for Europe and Africa, which is the oldest UFO contacts organizations in Britain, and possibly the world. He is also a Bishop in The Aetherius Churches. Richard has devoted his life to the work of his late master and personal friend, Dr George King (1919-1997) - founder of the Society - with whom he co-authored Contacts with the Gods from Space.
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Brian D Smith is a life coach and grief counsellor, and the host of Grief 2 Growth Podcast. "After 57 years of experience and almost that much time helping and leading people informally, I decided to make it official, obtain my life coaching certification, and seek to help people more formally. I’ve had a career as an engineer, in corporate tech sales, and as a small business owner of a business I built from the ground up. I’ve raised two children. I’ve experienced the death of a child. I’ve been married for nearly thirty years. More importantly, I have a passion for helping people. Grief 2 Growth is a natural progression of my time on this planet." explains Brian.
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Bernardo Kastrup's work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on 'Scientific American,' the 'Institute of Art and Ideas,' the 'Blog of the American Philosophical Association' and 'Big Think,' among others.
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Investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney has worked in some of the most dangerous and unlikely corners of the world. His work blends narrative non-fiction with ethnography. What Doesn’t Kill Us was a New York Times bestseller; other works include The Red Market and A Death on Diamond Mountain. Carney was a contributing editor at Wired for five years and his writing also appears in Mother Jones, Men’s Journal, Playboy, Foreign Policy, Discover, Outside and Fast Company. His work has been the subject of a variety of radio and television programs, including on NPR and National Geographic TV. In 2010, he won the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for his story “Meet the Parents,” which tracked an international kidnapping-to-adoption ring. Carney has spent extensive time in South Asia and speaks Hindi. He attended Kenyon College and has a masters degree in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He currently lives in Denver, CO
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Triggered by her own spiritual experiences, Lynn Russell went on a journey to study Near Death Experiences - 2,500 of them! Today, Lynn is a recognized NDE expert, and has collated her research into her new book: The Wonder of You: What the Near-Death Experience Tells You about Yourself. Her research has uncovered messages about our lives, reality, and why we exist. This episode is a very insightful discussion with a truly beautiful person. I learned so much, and am sure you are going to get a lot of out of this episode too! Lynn has researched under Dr. Jeffery Long at NDERF (Near-Death Experience Research Foundation) and also worked as a family counsellor. For more about Lynn, you can visit: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wonderofyou1 Twitter - https://twitter.com/Artsoul2 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/lynn.k.russell.9 Lynn’s book The Wonder of You can be found at: https://www.amazon.com/Wonder-You-Death-Experience-Yourself/dp/1480094250
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Dr. Lennox obtained his Masters and Doctorate in Psychology from The Chicago School and his Doctoral Dissertation, Astrology and Personality, is published by Lambert Academic Publishing. Dr. Lennox is also the author of two books on dreams, Dream Sight: A Dictionary & Guide for Interpreting Any Dream and Llewellyn’s Complete Dream Dictionary. Dr. Lennox leads workshops and retreats all over the United States and conducts a worldwide private practice based in Southern California.
Highly sought-after media expert, Dr. Lennox has been seen internationally on many television shows, beginning with the Sci Fi Network’s The Dream Team and has also been featured on numerous network and cable television venues including NBC’s Emmy award-winning Starting Over, Soap Talk, The Wayne Brady show and many others. His radio appearances talking about the power of dreams number in the hundreds.
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Dr. Siegel, who prefers to be called Bernie, not Dr. Siegel, was born in Brooklyn, NY. He attended Colgate University and Cornell University Medical College. He holds membership in two scholastic honor societies, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha and graduated with honors. His surgical training took place at Yale New Haven Hospital, West Haven Veteran’s Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He retired from practice as an assistant clinical professor of surgery at Yale of general and pediatric surgery in 1989 to speak to patients and their caregivers.
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Steven C. Hayes is Nevada Foundation Professor in the Behavior Analysis program at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of 44 books and nearly 600 scientific articles, his career has focused on an analysis of the nature of human language and cognition and the application of this to the understanding and alleviation of human suffering. He is the developer of Relational Frame Theory, an account of human higher cognition, and has guided its extension to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a popular evidence-based form of psychotherapy that uses mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based methods.
Watch Steven's fabulous TED talk.
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Carlos Tanner is the founder of The Ayahuasca Foundation in Peru. After living and studying with a curandero for over four years, Carlos worked to provide a safe and effective way for people to not only receive treatment in the healing tradition of the Amazon but also to study the tradition, the way he had with his maestro. The idea for the Ayahuasca Foundation was born from a desire to spread the science of plant medicine back into the world. The Foundation supports the preservation of indigenous wisdom and culture, offering healing retreats and educational courses, and conducting research focused on the ayahuasca healing tradition used for millennia by indigenous healers of the Peruvian Amazon. The Ayahuasca Foundation also supports the preservation of the Amazon rainforest, and promotes educational efforts to raise awareness about sustainability, permaculture, and harmonious environmental relationships. The Foundation participates in community outreach programs and cultural reeducation projects.
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Jack Stafford has always been a documentary songwriter—a modern-day troubadour—writing non-fiction songs always with a goal to either instruct, educate or maintain a historical record. Now with Podsongs—his new podcast project—he is taking this a step further. Twice a week he interviews inspirational people and creates a song based on their story and their work.
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