Hello and welcome to the Baha’i Blogcast with me your host, Rainn Wilson.

In this series of podcasts I interview members of the Baha’i Faith and friends from all over the world about their hearts, and minds, and souls, their spiritual journeys, what they’re interested in, and what makes them tick.

In this special episode in honor of the 100th Anniversary of the passing of Abdu'l-Baha, I'm joined by my good friend Shahin Sobhani, who among many other things, was the creator of 239days.com, a site dedicated to the time Abdu'l-Baha spent in North America. Shahin tells us about his childhood and his Baha'i ancestors, and shares stories about Abdu'l-Baha, whom Baha'u'llah called "The Mystery of God". I'm sure you'll enjoy this conversation as much I did!

Find out more about some of the things we covered below:

* Learn more about Abdu'l-Baha and the commemoration of the Centenary of His passing here: https://bit.ly/3meSCjX

* Website created in honor of Abdu'l-Baha's visit to North America: https://239days.com/

* Read this Baha'i Blog interview with Shahin Sobhani about 239Days.com: https://bit.ly/3cKzWWo

* Find out more about:
- The Universal House of Justice: https://bit.ly/3mgH0wN
- Shoghi Effendi: https://bit.ly/3rCOeNM​
- Abdu'l-Baha: https://www.bahai.org/abdul-baha/​
- The Bab: https://www.bahai.org/the-bab/​​
- Baha'u'llah: https://www.bahai.org/bahaullah/

* Shahin mentions the following:
- Mulla Husayn: https://bit.ly/31Id0kg
- Battle of Fort Tabarsi: https://bit.ly/3wiY8qu
- Nabil-i-Azam: https://bit.ly/3mfIJme
- The Dawn-breakers: https://bit.ly/3cK6q35
- Quddus: https://bahaipedia.org/Qudd%C3%BAs
- Islamic/Iranian Revolution: https://bit.ly/2OhbsdV
- Persecution of the Baha'is in Iran: https://bit.ly/3rIjaLx
- Landegg International University: https://bit.ly/2OglkV7
- Dr. Hossein Danesh: https://bit.ly/31GKLlU
- Suheil Bushrui: https://news.bahai.org/story/1065/
- Townshend International School: https://www.townshend.cz/
- Baha'i Firesides: https://bit.ly/2QVLfCp
- May Maxwell: https://bit.ly/3sKDj4Z
- John Robarts: https://bahaipedia.org/John_Robarts
- Audrey Robarts: https://bahaipedia.org/Audrey_Robarts
- Baha'i Pioneering: https://bit.ly/3cLWrde
- Tablet of Ahmad: https://bit.ly/2QSHZru
- Louis Gregory: https://bahaipedia.org/Louis_Gregory

* Shahin talks about Douglass Martin: https://news.bahai.org/story/1455/

* Douglas Martin 'Historical Consciousness and the Divine Plan' talks: https://bit.ly/2POBEgq

* Shahin mentions Nader Saiedi, who was also a guest on the Baha'i Blogcast: https://bit.ly/3rMYmCN

* Shahin mentions Rhett Diessner, who was also a guest on the Baha'i Blogcast: https://bit.ly/31DdtEi

* Rainn mentions Mona Foundation CEO, Mahnaz Javid, who was also a guest on the Baha'i Blogcast: https://bit.ly/3cMuhz8

* Website about 'One Common Faith': http://onecommonfaith.net/en

* 'One Common Faith' article: https://bit.ly/39xhnD1

* Audio reading of 'One Common Faith': https://bit.ly/3sLgePz

* Here's the animation Shahin helped with: 'What is the Baha'i Faith? An Introduction by Rainn Wilson': https://bit.ly/3wjCKBn

* Book: 'God Passes By' by Shoghi Effendi: https://bit.ly/2OerdSG

* Quote by Baha'u'llah about Abdu'l-Baha: "Blessed, doubly blessed, is the ground which His footsteps have trodden".

* You may also be interested in listening to 'The Journey West' podcast: https://bit.ly/3wfmd1k

* QUOTE: “Freedom is not a matter of place. It is a condition." -Abdu'l-Baha


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Thanks for listening!

-Rainn Wilson

Baha'i Blogcast with Rainn Wilson - Episode 62: Shahin Sobhani (In Honor of Abdu'l-Baha)

Episode 62: Shahin Sobhani (In Honor of Abdu'l-Baha)

Thanks to the Baha'i Publishing Trust of Sweden, we’re happy to share with everyone a great talk given by Dr. Steven Phelps called “The Baha'i Faith & Atheism (Part 1 of 2)”.

You can also listen to and download Part 2 of this talk here: https://soundcloud.com/bahai-blog/the-bahai-faith-and-atheism-part-2-of-2

This talk was given by Dr. Steven Phelps at the Swedish Baha'i Summer School in July, 2009.

Dr. Steven Phelps is an American Baha’i physicist, philosopher and translator who currently lives in Oregon, USA. If you're interested in learning more about him, he was interviewed by Rainn Wilson in this episode of the Baha'i Blogcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-545312385/bahai-blogcast-steven-and-rainn

We’d really like to thank Dr. Steven Phelps for giving us permission to publish this wonderful talk, and to the Baha'i Publishing Trust of Sweden for organising the recording of the talk, and for giving us permission to publish it as well.

Happy listening!

The Baha'i Faith and Atheism (Swedish Summer School July 2009)

The Baha'i Faith & Atheism (Part 1 of 2) - A Talk by Dr. Steven Phelps

Baha'i Talks - Mr Adib Taherzadeh: Spirit Of Faith

In this talk, Dr. Vahid Rafati explores the Tablet of Medicine, a mighty work revealed by Baha'u'llah. Dr. Rafati explains that he is not a medical doctor, and instead, he discusses the context of this tablet, medicine in the Islamic Revelation, and the theological issues related to physical wellbeing.

Dr. Vahid Rafati received his B.A degree in Psychology from Tehran University. He subsequently completed his PhD in Islamic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Rafati has been serving at the Research Department of the Baha’i World Centre in Haifa, Israel since 1980 and is the author of numerous articles and books in both Persian and English.

This talk was given at the Grand Canyon Baha'i Conference, 25 December, 2017.

We’d like to thank the organizing committee of the Grand Canyon Baha’i Conference for granting us permission to share this talk with you, and you can find out more about this annual conference here on their website (http://bit.ly/2nRTDDE).

You can watch the video version of this talk here on Baha’i Blog’s YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/2Btl4Wy

You can also listen to a talk Dr. Rafati gave called "Abdu'l-Baha: The Exemplar" on our Soundcloud page: http://bit.ly/2Eco3W2

You can also watch a lecture Dr. Rafati gave at the 2014 ABS conference titled “The Evolving Role of Baha’i Scholarship”: http://bit.ly/2rFX5nd

For more Baha’i-inspired talks, you can visit Baha’i Blog’s Soundcloud page: https://soundcloud.com/bahai-blog/sets/bahai-talks, or Baha'i Blog's YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/2ia1Yxp

"Tablet of Medicine" A Talk by Dr. Vahid Rafati

In this series of eight talks, historian Douglas Martin discusses the evolution of religion in the context of our capacity to respond to the requirements of the Divine Plan. 

Douglas Martin was born in 1927 in Ontario, Canada. He held a Bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Western Ontario and a Master's degree in history from the University of Waterloo, Ontario.

He was a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Canada from 1960-85, serving as its general secretary from 1965-85. From 1985-93 he was director-general of the Baha'i International Community's Office of Public Information at the Baha'i World Centre in Haifa.

Mr. Douglas Martin was also a former member of the Universal House of Justice, the governing body of the Baha'i International Community (for more information, please visit: https://universalhouseofjustice.bahai.org/).

Mr. Martin passed away on 28 September 2020 in Toronto, Canada. You can read a tribute to him by the Universal House of Justice on the Baha'i World News Service: https://news.bahai.org/story/1455/

You can watch the whole series of talks here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8392079924F5E850

Or listen to the audio versions of these eight talks here on Baha'i Blog's Soundcloud page:

Talk 1- Introduction: http://bit.ly/2HprBEO
Talk 2 - The Challenge of Islam: http://bit.ly/2HlLb4M
Talk 3 - The Bab: http://bit.ly/2FL8hom
Talk 4 - Spiritual Evolution: http://bit.ly/2FtrWdn
Talk 5 - The Advent of Divine Justice: http://bit.ly/2GhteW1
Talk 6 - Abdu'l-Baha: http://bit.ly/2p7IjRD
Talk 7 - The Guardian: http://bit.ly/2Il1qjW
Talk 8 - Where Are We Now?: http://bit.ly/2HmenJ9

Special thanks to Mr. Douglas Martin and the organizers of this talk for granting us permission to share it. 

Discover more Baha'i-inspired content on BAHAIBLOG.NET

"Talk 1 - Introduction" A Talk by Mr. Douglas Martin

In this series of eight talks, historian Douglas Martin discusses the evolution of religion in the context of our capacity to respond to the requirements of the Divine Plan.

Douglas Martin was born in 1927 in Ontario, Canada. He held a Bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Western Ontario and a Master's degree in history from the University of Waterloo, Ontario.

He was a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Canada from 1960-85, serving as its general secretary from 1965-85. From 1985-93 he was director-general of the Baha'i International Community's Office of Public Information at the Baha'i World Centre in Haifa.

Mr. Douglas Martin was also a former member of the Universal House of Justice, the governing body of the Baha'i International Community (for more information, please visit: https://universalhouseofjustice.bahai.org/).

Mr. Martin passed away on 28 September 2020 in Toronto, Canada. You can read a tribute to him by the Universal House of Justice on the Baha'i World News Service: https://news.bahai.org/story/1455/

You can watch the whole series of talks here on YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8392079924F5E850

Or listen to the audio versions of these eight talks here on Baha'i Blog's Soundcloud page:

Talk 1- Introduction: bit.ly/2HprBEO
Talk 2 - The Challenge of Islam: bit.ly/2HlLb4M
Talk 3 - The Bab: bit.ly/2FL8hom
Talk 4 - Spiritual Evolution: bit.ly/2FtrWdn
Talk 5 - The Advent of Divine Justice: bit.ly/2GhteW1
Talk 6 - Abdu'l-Baha: bit.ly/2p7IjRD
Talk 7 - The Guardian: bit.ly/2Il1qjW
Talk 8 - Where Are We Now?: bit.ly/2HmenJ9

Special thanks to Mr. Douglas Martin and the organizers of this talk for granting us permission to share it.

Discover more Baha'i-inspired content on BAHAIBLOG.NET

"Talk 2 - The Challenge Of Islam" A Talk by Mr. Douglas Martin

"Talk 5 - Advent of Divine Justice" A Talk by Mr. Douglas Martin

Manja Ristić: Sonic Ontology of Negligence
7 Nov 2021–8 Jan 2021
FM exhibition, exhibition of 8-channel sound installation

7 Nov 2020 at 12.00 (noon) on FM 88.8 MHz – in-situ FM walk (at Park Tivoli)
10 Nov 2020 at 18.00 p.m. on FM 88.8 MHz – in-situ FM walk (at Park Tivoli)
18 Nov 2020 at 20.00 p.m. on programme Ars – radio exhibition opening

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Sonic Ontology of negligence is a continuous research evolving from listening to abandoned places and landscapes reshaped by extensive intervention of human presence and exploitation, and eventually “given over“ to Nature to reclaim the space. In the process of conceptualizing Sonic Ontology of negligence, Manja Ristić resided in places that were heavily exploited and forever changed by the human urge to build, comprising thousand years-old quarries as well as present-day mega-structures, abandoned as a result of corruption and consumerist socio-political turmoil. The nucleus of the compositional structure is devoted to abandoned construction building site of the Stožice mega-structure, while layers of mnemopoetic sonic imprints are derived from an old lime-stone quarries from the island of Korčula in South Dalmatia, such are Glogovac, Lenga, Defora and Vrnik, but also abandoned mineral mines and lime pits from Fruška gora in Vojvodina, North Serbia, and other sites such is the military compound placed in the middle of the Avala forest in the suburbs of Belgrade. The poetical accent is given to the dynamics and textures of waters and aquatic micro spaces, which are building the formative/reproductive environments in the process of re-establishing bio diversities.

Manja Ristić graduated from the Belgrade Academy of Music and later also completed her post-graduate diploma in Solo-Ensemble Recital at the Royal College of Music, London. Besides performing in the field of instrumental electroacoustic music, her sound-related research is focused on an interdisciplinary approach to sound art, field recordings and experimental radio art.

Credits:
Artist: Manja Ristić
Curated by: Irena Pivka, Brane Zorman
Organisation: Irena Pivka, Katarina Radaljac
Translation and editing: Katja Kosi, Melita Silič
Public relations: Katarina Radaljac
Production: Cona, Institute for Contemporary Arts Processing, 2020
Venue: Steklenik gallery for sound bioacoustics and art, FM 88.8MHz, 3rd programme of Radio Slovenia – programme Ars

Exhibition is being part of the Acoustic Commons project support from the European Union’s Creative Europe program.

Manja Ristić: Sonic Ontology of Negligence (stereo version of an 8 channel sound exhibition)

Every element in this song is made from three samples of ice cubes in a glass that I recorded on my phone. I put the samples in Ableton and with Simpler and sound design editing (Effects, panning, sample manipulation etc.) I created around 10 drum elements and 3 melodic elements from these samples. Plus I spread the raw samples into the track, with very light pan editing. I put the rhythms down quite quickly, because I wanted to make this track as fast as possible. Hope you enjoy!

More on this 471st weekly Disquiet Junto project — Phase Transition / The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it — at:

https://disquiet.com/0471/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0471-phase-transition/

(Ice)Cream #disquiet0471

Created for the Disquiet Junto Project 0474: Police Action
@disquiet

The Project: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians.

I added two tracks of a Volca FM organ patch + Avalanche Run delay/reverb to fill out the bass and add some mid-high overtones and slight counter melody to tracks from @anotherbenjamin and @homeontheland . You can find their first two parts of our trio here:
https://soundcloud.com/anotherbenjamin/jam-time-2-of-3
https://soundcloud.com/homeontheland/jam-time-1-of-3-by-the-land-disquiet0472

More on this 474th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Police Action (3 of 3) / The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians – at:

https://disquiet.com/0474/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0474-police-action/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Land, Bow and Stars - [ disquiet0474 - policeaction (3 of 3) ]

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Welcome to Baha’i Blog’s SoundCloud channel!

We are an independent initiative for Australian Baha’is and likeminded friends to connect with personal stories, inspiration, arts and media about the Baha’i Faith, its ideals and transformational impact. 

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The views expressed in our content reflect individual perspectives and do not represent the official views of the Baha’i Faith. The official website of the Baha’i Faith in Australia is: Bahai.org.au, and the global website for the Baha’i Faith is Bahai.org