While exploring my local woodland during Winter Storm Bobby on 1/29/2022, I noticed a particularly loud and frequent creaking and popping coming from a large, dual-trunked yellow popular, Liriodendron tulipifera.

Upon further inspection, I found the popular was hollow and had a large, vertical crack running about 25' up the trunk. 

I setup my SASS microphone directly in front of the cavity and recorded for about an hour.

Unfortunately, a snow blower polluted most of the recording but I was able to capture about 20 minutes of pure tree creaks and pops! This recording is an excerpt from that longer file.

I plan to revisit this tree during every major wind storm with the hope of capturing the moment that it gives way and returns to the forest floor...stay tuned :)

Thanks for listening ♫

Tree Creaks Inside a Yellow Popular

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"We all have our own reality tunnel, and in our reality tunnel we pick out some things and ignore other things. And we got 10 billion cells in our brain receiving hundreds and hundreds of millions of signals all the time.We just pick out the ones that fit into the established grooves in our brain, the reality tunnel that's been laid down by past experience. We all have our own belief system, and the signals that fit our belief system get in. The signals that don't fit our belief system get ignored, or if they keep coming back we go to a psychiatrist to get cured and make them go away. "
Robert Anton Wilson
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Robert Anton Wilson explains reality tunnels

Join Rupert as he talks about the essential nature of the ‘self’ and its relationship to others and things in a contemporary, experiential and rational way that is free from all religious belief and dogma. Discover its inherently unconditioned nature as the source of lasting peace, happiness and true love that we seek to find so much in another person or thing. Rupert will explore how almost all our thoughts and feelings revolve around a self that we refer to as ‘I’. Sages and mystics have pointed to this belief as the source of all psychological suffering.

About Rupert

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Morning sounds from the Amazon Rainforest recorded by Richard Ranft.

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Amazon Rainforest Atmosphere - Morning

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Today, we are sharing a recent podcast show that Chris was invited onto, to speak about Semen retention and masculine energy. 

The show is hosted by Amanda Biccum of the Driven For purpose Podcast, and AmandaBiccum.com where she is a yoga instructor, nutritionalist, and mens coach. 

We hope you enjoy todays episode, and if you would like to be featured as a guest interviewer, or would like to invite Chris onto your own podcast, simply email chris@awakenedintent.com

Podcast #15 - The "Driven For Purpose Podcast": With Amanda Biccum

A new meditation with Diana Lang 
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Diana Lang © 2019

MUSIC used with permission by Steve Roach, 
"Structures from Silence"

CAMEL MEDITATION - A meditation on what we are carrying

Shiva Prayer is a deep, heartfelt and tender call for the energy of Shiva, the Lord of Transformation. This sweet and soulful track will calm your mind, open your heart and light up your soul.

Shiva Prayer

MILK. #5
PARIS // 02 JUNE 2018
LE POP UP DU LABEL

PERFORMERS:
YANNIS PHILIPPAKIS - GUITAR & VOX
JIMMY SMITH - GUITAR
VINCENT TAURELLE - SYNTHS
VINCENT TAEGER - DRUMS & PERCUSSION
ALEXANDER ANGELOV - BASS

RECORDED BY BRETT SHAW & ROB WILKS
MIXED BY BRETT SHAW
FILMED BY KIT MONTEITH

MILK. #5: PARIS [Part I]

Forests have long occupied a fertile landscape in the human imagination. Places of mystery and magic - of wildness and wisdom - of vision and dreaming. Yet beyond mythic realms of imagination, we’ve largely treated forests as inert physical resources to satisfy human needs and desires. The main operative science behind this commodification has been market science – how to extract maximum resources and profits. Suzanne Simard is a revolutionary researcher who is transforming the science of forest ecology and coming full circle to the wisdom held by First Peoples and traditional land-based cultures from time immemorial. The story Simard is uncovering can change our story for how we live on Earth and with each other – for the long haul.

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