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Listen to an excerpt from THE ENDLESS PRACTICE, written and read by Mark Nepo.

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Deep Ecology extends an inalienable right to life to all beings. Yet as the naturalist Aldo Leopold observed, “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” Either harden your shell, or be a doctor. Joanna Macy decided to be an Earth doctor. A systems theorist, author and lifelong activist, she describes how healing the world and healing your heart and soul go hand in hand. 

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Inalienable: Belonging to the Earth Community | Joanna Macy

“The world doesn't really contain any serious threats in it, because it's all the basic 'you' running up behind itself and saying 'boo' to see if you can get yourself to jump out of your skin...”

“Anybody who tells you that he is in some way, leading you to spiritual enlightenment is just like somebody who picks your pocket and sells you your own watch...”

“You just don't know what you're getting...”

“The only way to handle a thing of this kind, is to bring it all out in the open...”

“Whenever confronted with a Ghost, walk straight into it & it will disappear.”

Earth: Mostly Harmless

Alan Watts: Zen Problems

Thich Nhat Hanh shares a Christmas Eve talk from Plum Village in 2012. The practice of going home is a very deep practice. We need the energy of mindfulness. We don’t need a plane or train ticket to go home. There is a station – Radio NST – (non-stop thinking) and this doesn’t help us arrive home. Walking and breathing allow us to arrive. The more you are mindful and concentratesd the more pleasant. Help you stop the thinking and the worrying. Just walk and heal.

Christmas Eve 2012. I have Arrived. I am Home.

This podcast is a recording of a second conversation between me and Rupert Sheldrake, one of my favorite renegade scientists and the number one target of the defenders of scientific orthodoxy. He hardly needs any introduction, but I'll say he is prolific author and researcher with a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Cambridge University.  I see him as an elder or a pioneer in the liberating of science from its metaphysical dogmas of reductionism and mechanistic materialism, and a true practitioner of the Scientific Method in its original humble spirit. I hope you'll enjoy the intellect and refinement of this man as much as I did.

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