Friday Night

Somethings Happening Program Notes July 21, 2023



12 AM

Alan Watts – two episodes

The Work of Sokei Ah Sasaki (30:49)

Paul Tillich on the Eternal Now (27:29)



1 AM

Sounds True – Tami Simon – Insights from the Edge (runs 1:10)

Interviews Andrew Holocek on reverse meditation

https://resources.soundstrue.com/podcast/andrew-holecek-reverse-meditation/

Your mindfulness practice worked! You calmed your mind and felt the deep, inner bliss that meditation brings. But, asks Andrew Holecek, what do you do with these beatific states when your world is falling apart? Where’s your meditation practice then?



In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Holecek about his new book, Reverse Meditation, and how we can move toward a more complete spirituality that welcomes all of our experience. Illuminating the four steps of reverse meditation and much more, their conversation explores: how pain and hardship can accelerate the spiritual journey; why mindfulness “sedates but doesn’t liberate”; the cultivation of “industrial-strength” meditation; repairing an adverse relationship to unwanted experiences; the practice of open awareness; bringing the unconscious into the light of consciousness; investigating our personal “super-contractors” such as anger, fear, or anxiety; shifting from reactivity to responsiveness; the OBEY acronym of reverse meditation: observe, be, examine, yoke; three attitudes for practice: kindness, patience, and curiosity; establishing the right view; the anti-complaint meditation; and productive thinking.



Note: This episode originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com.



Andrew Holecek is an author, speaker, and humanitarian who offers seminars internationally on meditation, lucid dreaming, and the art of dying. He has studied sleep yoga, bardo yoga, and other traditional practices with living masters in India and Nepal. Andrew’s books include Dreams of Light, Dream Yoga, and Reverse Meditation. His work has appeared in Psychology Today, Parabola, Lion’s Roar, Tricycle, Utne Reader, Buddhadharma, Light of Consciousness, and many other periodicals. He hosts the popular Edge of Mind podcast and is the founder of the Night Club community, a support platform for nocturnal meditations. Learn more at andrewholecek.com.



2:15 AM

Old Radio Break

Superman vs the Clan of the Fiery Cross finale (episode 16)

2:30 Cloak and Dagger (from the files of the OSS) “Trojan Horse”



3: 00 AM

Caroline Casey Visionary Activist

https://coyotenetworknews.com/radioshow/guiding-culture-to-sane-reverence/

GUIDING CULTURE TO SANE REVERENCE

Dark o Moon radio,
when Communitarians gather to guide culture to ingenious sane reverence,
Caroline welcomes, ally Jamie Yeager.

Jamie Yeager, “a lifelong Texas liberal, was press secretary for Senator Eugene McCarthy’s independent presidential campaign in 1976, and is now battling the modern Confederates.” Yeager wrote Washington politics articles for the Texas Observer, the Progressive Populist and the Minority Business Report.



4-6:00 AM Final two hours of Thom Hartmann Program from earlier on 7/20/23