Thursday Night

Prog Notes S H 12-15-23



12 AM

Alan Watts

Zen Buddhism

The second part of a lecture on Zen by Watts that began last week



12:30 AM

Old Radio break

Frankenstein parts 1 and 2

Radio dramatization of Mary Shelley’s prophetic novel about the consequences of scientists playing god and developing artificial life forms.



1 AM

Sounds True from Tami Simon

The Surprising Power of Nostalgia

https://resources.soundstrue.com/podcast/clay-routledge-the-surprising-powers-of-nostalgia/

Can relishing the past help us create a better future? If we want to move ahead, how does going back support us? Could it be that thinking about the past is inseparable from thinking about the future? These are the questions Dr. Clay Routledge explores in his new book, Past Forward.



In this fascinating and very cool podcast, Tami Simon and Clay consider how a walk down memory lane can lead you to a brighter tomorrow, discussing: agency, action, and the power of a “meaning mindset”; building a culture of agency; existential psychology; the subjective experience of time and the concept of “temporal consciousness”; why it’s important to savor the moment; the characteristics of nostalgia; working with difficult or bittersweet memories; how creativity is facilitated by a sense of security; journaling, playlists, scrapbooks, cooking, and other practical approaches to cultivate nostalgia and its benefits; the “reminiscence bump” and how nostalgia helps us feel younger; becoming our true selves; nostalgia around objects and personal possessions; and more.



Clay Routledge, PhD, is a leading expert in existential psychology. His work has been featured by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the Atlantic, The New Yorker, Wired, Forbes, and more. He is the vice president of research and director of the Human Flourishing Lab at the Archbridge Institute, and coeditor of Profectus. For more, visit clayroutledge.com.



2 AM

The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein

A New Language and Way of Thinking About Life

Marshall Rosenberg was the founder of the Center for Non-Violent Communication, and he taught non-violent communication all over the world and in the prison system for many years. He helped create schools that taught non-violent communication for kids.



In this presentation Marshall Rosenberg talks about using a new language of life to think and be more compassionate with ourselves and with each other, and to help create peace in the world.



3 AM

Caroline Casey, Visionary Activist

DIVING INTO THE DARK UNDERWORLD, ANIMATING COMMUNITY

Caroline welcomes spicy, deep-delving Shambhavi Sarasvati

Diving into the Dark Underworld where our souls can speak more deeply to us.

Tyranny seeks to destroy Community, then creates the toxic mimic,

which be a cult…. that must have conflict and cruelty on which to feed….

So we animate Community arising from the Earth, across all borders….

Community be dedicated to collective well-being- democracy- equal rights; a cult be a prison…..



wonder and responsive augury conversing. This ongoing crisis of cruel carnage – reminds us to practice everything we hold dear, & invite in power to resolve.

Shambhavi is the spiritual director of Jaya Kula. Her principal training is in the View and practices of Trika Shaivism (a.k.a. Kashmir Shaivism or Shaiva Tantra) and the Dzogchen tradition of Tibet. Shambhavi emphasizes direct encounters with the wisdom of the heart through the more explicitly devotional teachings and practices of Trika Shaivism and Dzogchen. At one time, Shambhavi taught at Northwestern University. She left academia in 2004 in order to devote herself to practice, writing and teaching in her spiritual tradition. Shambhavi is the author of The Reality Sutras: Seeking the Heart of Trika Shaivism (2018), Nine Poisons, Nine Medicines, Nine Fruits (2017), The Play of Awakening: Adventures in Direct Realization Tantra (2012), Pilgrims to Opennness: Direct Realization Tantra in Everyday Life (2009), Returning (2015), and No Retreat: Poems on the Way to Waking Up (2016). In addition, she published an academic book, Avatar Bodies: a Tantra for Posthumanism. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Mills College and a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University.

jayakula.org

timemedicine.org (a project of Jaya Kula)

kindred108.love (articles)

and her recent article, her shared last week: Mourning the victims of the cult of Israel

https://www.kindred108.love/p/mourning-the-victims-of-the-cult



4-6 AM

The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours of the 12/14/23 non-commercial broadcast