Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Healers and Dealers I tried to liberally shepherd this Talk Flock. It is not just sheep chosen from the enormous herds and strays, it is sheep, wolves, lions, snakes, bugs, apes, birds, "workers". From this flock can be heard laughter, cries, musings, dreamings, exclamations, hard-nosed assertions, and, of course, playful imaginative excursions. Jack Saturday Thanks to Caroline Casey for catching the unintended wolf diss last week, and for the remedy I had in my trove. “Words are animals, alive with a will of their own.” C.G. Jung

Reframing The Conversations In our hands is placed the power greater than their hoarded gold. Go and enjoy wise woman Caroline Casey and her enlightening guests , add support if you can afford it. And of course the same with Dr. Dave at Shrink Rap Radio , for his premier psychology podcast. Perinatal Matrices explained .

Where The Hell's The Money? Hopscotching around the neoliberal years, following dollar signs!

A Cocktail Party Of Gurus, Pundits, Poets And Hecklers "This is the city… and I am one of the citizens; Whatever interests the rest interests me… politics, churches, newspapers, schools Benevolent societies, improvements, banks, tariffs, steamships…" Whitman’s Specimen Days, which he described as “the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed,” is a moving scrapbook of clippings and jottings from the whole span of his life, including his years as a volunteer nurse in Union hospitals. While conceding that “the real war will never get into the books,” in Specimen Days Whitman tried to get at what he called the “interior history” of the war. Unlike more conventional scrapbookers with their impersonal digests of clippings from the distant battlefront, Whitman (who famously boasted, “I am large. I contain multitudes”) wrote himself into the proceedings. ... A hyperactive cutter and paster, Emily Dickinson also repurposed scraps and clippings for ori...

More Of The Different Following our path is in effect a kind of going off the path, through open country. David Whyte Here's some interesting info to go with the inspiring words about Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Wright Bros: When Wilbur Wright was asked, in 1905, what the purpose of his machine might be, he answered simply, “War”. As soon as they were confident that the technology worked, the brothers approached the war offices of several nations, hoping to sell their patent to the highest bidder. The US government bought it for $30,000, and started test bombing in 1910. The aeroplane was conceived, designed, tested, developed and sold, in other words, not as a vehicle for tourism, but as an instrument of destruction. George Monbiot

Clips For The Creatively Maladjusted Cupitt's deeply performative and creative vision of religion asks us to place our faith in the incessant flux of language and discourse - signs and images being our earthly kingdom of eternal plenitude, an accessible realm in which we can exercise our spiritual liberation. At the very least, this is a religion that would chime with the most 'modern' (and perforce, postmodern) of our great play rhetorics - self-oriented play and imaginative play, directing a multimedia performance of the spirit. Pat Kane The Play Ethic

Mindhold By Mindhold "The psyche has many little pockets for tucking things away and sometimes it's a good idea to have a sort-out." Posted by COINNEACH SHANKS