At this mark Michael Dowd’s voice sounds demonic for about 15 secs. Hahaha!          Rev. Dowd, thank you so much for recording your readings. I’ve recently found them and very much appreciate them. 

John Michael Greer - Dowd narration

After a one-year break the Swiss worldbeat producer Meister Lampe is back on a musical journey, including his new EP "Travel Lightly" featuring four beautiful singles.

True to his style Lampe picks antique and forgotten folklore samples from all corners of the world, which he mixes across different music genres and packs them with driving beats. A handful of sweet old melodies, packed up in the usual exhilarating vibes.

Buy The EP on Bandcamp

Sail Away

Natalie Jordan @nataliejordan is a radio programmer, music archivist, and student of human rights and public health. She finds solace in the songs of civil rights, anti-war, unions, vegetable farmers, and all of the other peacemakers working towards a better tomorrow. You’ll find that she is most inspired by the sights and sounds of Greenwich Village in the 1960’s and seeks to keep the folk tradition alive and well. To keep up with Natalie, you can tune into Hobo’s Lullaby on WKCR 89.9FM on the dial in New York or WKCR.org on Saturdays from 4-6pm EST and visit natalie-jordan.com 

1) Farewell, Mr. Charlie - Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick
2) Taxes on the Farmers Feeds Us All - The New Lost City Ramblers
3) A Picture from Life’s Other Side - Woody Guthrie
4) Arkansas - Henry Thomas
5) River of Jordan - The Carter Family
6) Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind On Jesus) - Blind Roosevelt Graves
7) Those Three Are On My Mind - Pete Seeger
8) Birmingham Sunday - Joan Baez
9) The Ballad of Donald White - Blind Boy Grunt
10) George Jackson (Acoustic) - Bob D
11) Cruel War - Peter, Paul and Mary
12) Saigon Bride - Joan B
13) Jubilee - Guy Carawan
14) Wild Mountain Thyme (Live at Newport) - J Baez 
15) The Ghost Lover - Ian & Sylvia
16) Two Sisters - Peggy Seeger
17) When He Returns (Take 2) - Bob Dylan
18) Farewell, Angelina (Take 1, solo acoustic) - B Dylan
19) Closing/Oh! Susanna (show 9) - Hank Williams

L'envie #92 :: Natalie Jordan

Rare and classic sounds of 60's and 70's Brazil. It's a special! A mix of musical gems in a culturally rich era for Brazil that gave rise to diverse musical styles that include Afro Samba, dreamy jazz Percussion to Bossa Funk. A look at the lesser-known artists such as Ely Camargo and Vox Populi to icons Gilberto Gil and Tom Zé who helped define the cultural movement Tropicália through their unorthodox approach to melody. Big thanks to the Brazilian embassy New Delhi, Radio 79 and labels Mr.Bongo and Far Out Recordings for their support. Enjoy x

Tom Zé - Gloria
Vox Populi - Vera cruz
Ely Camargo - Taieiras
José Mauro - Obnoxious
Trio Mocotó - Não adianta
Trio Esperança - Não aguento você
Cizinha - Pra fazer um samba
Arnaud Rodrigues - Turma do poiê
Orlann Divo - Beleza não vai embora
The Ipanemas - Malandro quando vaza
João Bosco - Cobra Criada
Albilio Manoel - Luiza Manequim
Os Novos Crioulos - Mar Afunda
Os incríveis - Uma rosa pra dita
Elis Regina - Madalena
Joyce ft Elza Soares - Samba de Silva
Rita Lee & Tutti Frutti - Agora é moda
Gilberto Gil & Caetano Veloso - Cada macaco no seu galho
Jorge Ben - Carolina carol bela
Tim Maia - É Necessário
Os novos baianos - Tinindo Trincando
Djavan - Nereci
Marcos Valle - Água de coco
Silvio Cesar - Festa
Wilson Simonal - País Tropical
Tom Jobim & Miúcha - Pela luz dos olhos teus
Salvador Trio - Rio e sempre Rio 
Wan Trio - Selvagem
Tutti Moreno - Constelacao

Join me: www.facebook.com/iamrisha

#14 A Worldwide Thing // Brazil Classic

My best of the Ethiopiques to start this mix, then some jazzy nuggets from South Africa, Turkey and North America...

Boolimix - RTU#20 - Ethio Jazz

TEXT: https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Progress-Toward-Sustainable-Future/dp/1611684161
A well written and vitally important articulation of the ecological worldview necessary for genuine 'deep sustainability' and a devastating critique of human-centered notions of "progress". Perfect companion to William R. Catton Jr,'s masterful book, "Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change". See here: http://thegreatstory.org/sustainability-audios.html#catton and listen here: https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/sets/william-r-catton-jr

Tom Wessels - The Myth of Progress

A curiosity cabinet of cumbias, including a mixtape of vintage “arabesque” novelty recordings, “slow” cumbias (i.e., rebajada, meaning a record played at a lower pitch and/or speed), cheesy but irresistible pop songs, and more of our favorite cumbia sounds from Colombia, Peru, and Mexico. RIAFC 005 originally broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM (London, UK) August 11, 2018 and on Delgado's Dolphin Radio - WXDR 99.1 FM (New Orleans, Louisiana) September 9, 2018.

A Curiosity Cabinet of Cumbias (RIAFC 005)

TEXT: https://thegreatstory.org/JMG-evolution-history-progress.pdf

Progress, Reason, History,

JMG - Evolution, History, Complexity, Energy

The book "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia" is a conversation, not a dictation. It's an inquiry, not dogma. 

We're explorers in search of the ever-evolving truth, not authorities proclaiming doctrine from on high. We refuse to be salespeople intent on getting you to be like us or buy our ideas. In fact, let's look at the downsides of the perspectives we celebrate.

The first thing you should consider before leaping into a relationship with pronoia is that it is utterly at odds with conventional wisdom. The 19th-century poet John Keats said that if something is not beautiful, it is probably not true. But the vast majority of modern storytellers -- journalists, filmmakers, novelists, talk-show hosts, and poets -- assert the opposite: If something is not ugly, it is probably not true.

In a world that equates pessimism with acumen and regards stories about things falling apart as having the highest entertainment value, pronoia is deviant. It is a taboo so taboo that it's not even recognized as a taboo.

The average American child sees 20,000 simulated murders before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. There are thousands of films, television shows, and electronic games that depict people doing terrible things to each other. If you read newspapers and news sites on the Internet, you have every right to believe that Bad Nasty Things compose 90 percent of the human experience. The authors of thousands of books published this year will hope to lure you in through the glamour of killing, addiction, self-hatred, sexual pathology, shame, betrayal, extortion, robbery, cancer, arson, and torture.

But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.

If you cultivate an affinity for pronoia, people you respect may wonder if you have lost your way. You might appear to them as naive, eccentric, unrealistic, misguided, or even stupid. Your reputation could suffer and your social status could decline.

But that may be relatively easy to deal with compared to your struggle to create a new relationship with yourself. For starters, you will have to acknowledge that what you previously considered a strong-willed faculty -- the ability to discern the weakness in everything -- might actually be a mark of cowardice and laziness. Far from being evidence of your power and uniqueness, your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of pop nihilism.

Before the onset of pronoia, you may feel fine about the fact that you generate much of your dynamic energy through anger, agitation, discomfort, and judgmental scorn. But once the pronoia kicks in, you'll naturally want more positive feelings to be your high-octane fuel. That will require extensive retraining. The work could be arduous, delicate, and time-consuming.

Are you truly ready to shed the values and self-images that keep you locked into alignment with the dying civilization? Will you have the stamina and inspiration necessary to dream up bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems? Do you realize how demanding it will be to turn yourself into a wildly disciplined, radically curious, fiercely tender, ironically sincere, ingeniously loving, aggressively sensitive, blasphemously reverent, lustfully compassionate master of rowdy bliss?

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Try saying this aloud: "I die daily." It's one of our favorite formulas for success. Is it right for you? Say it again, using a different tone of voice this time. "I die daily." Chant it in a fake foreign accent. Sing it to the tune of the nursery rhyme "Frere Jacques." Play with it in the voice of the cartoon character you loved best as a child. Repeat it 10 times, or try other vocal experiments. Then muse on the following questions.

What do you need to kill off in yourself in order to tune in to the beauty that's hidden from you? What worn-out shticks are blinding you to the blessings that life is conspiring to give you? Which of your acerbic theories may have been useful and even brilliant in the past but are now keeping you from becoming aware of the ever-fresh creation that unfolds before you?

"I die daily" means that it's not enough to terminate your stale mental habits just once. The price of admission into pronoia is a commitment to continual dying. You'll have to ask yourself rude questions and kick your own ass again and again. Today's versions of beauty, truth, love, goodness, justice, and liberation will pass away. To keep abreast of the latest developments -- to cultivate tomorrow's versions of pronoia -- you will have to immerse yourself regularly in the waters of chaos. Your relationship with pronoia will have to be a never-ending improvisation.

The dream of a steady-state utopia is anathema to Beauty and Truth Lab researchers. We're allergic to any paradise that resembles a spotless shopping mall within the walls of a gated community in heaven.

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Pronoia is fueled by a drive to cultivate happiness and a determination to practice an aggressive form of gratitude that systematically identifies the things that are working well. But it is not a soothing diversion meant for timid Pollyannas strung out on optimistic delusions. It's not a feel-good New Age fantasy used to deny the harsh facts about existence. Those of us who perceive the world pronoiacally refuse to be polite shills for sentimental hopefulness.

On the contrary, we build our optimism not through a repression of difficulty, but rather a vigorous engagement with it. We understand that the best way to attract blessings is to grapple with the knottiest enigmas.

Each fresh puzzle is a potential source of future bliss -- an exciting teaching that may usher us to our next breakthrough.

Do you want to be a pronoiac player? Blend anarchistic rebelliousness with open-hearted exuberance. Root your insurrectionary fervor in expansive joy instead of withering hatred. Enjoy saying "no!" but don't make it the wellspring of your vitality. Be fueled by blood-red yeses that rip against the grain of comfortable ugliness. 

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"A Spell to Commit Pronoia," by psychotherapist Jennifer Welwood:

Willing to experience aloneness,
I discover connection everywhere;
Turning to face my fear,
I meet the warrior who lives within;
Opening to my loss,
I am given unimaginable gifts;
Surrendering into emptiness,
I find fullness without end.

Each condition I flee from pursues me.
Each condition I welcome transforms me
And becomes itself transformed
Into its radiant jewel-like essence.

I bow to the one who has made it so,
Who has crafted this Master Game;
To play it is pure delight,
To honor it is true devotion.

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This is a piece from the soundtrack for my book, 
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pronoia-Antidote-Paranoia-Revised-Expanded/dp/1556438184/ref=ed_oe_p"><i>PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia</i></a>.

Pronoia Is a Dangerous Taboo

JMG - Dancers At The End Of Time, Part 3 - A Mortal Splendor

JMG - Dancers At The End Of Time, Part 1 - The Flight From Reason

JMG - Dancers At The End Of Time, Part 2 - "Facts Are The Enemies Of Truth"

we finally received the audio version of Elie's show from earlier in the year. a slow dreamy blend of house, breaks and Italo Disco

Elie Eidelman - HOR Radio Berlin / Jan 17th (JackOff Records Session)

JMG - The - Long - Descent - 1

Rhett Miller is the lead singer of the rock band OLD 97’s. He also records solo albums, and has published poetry and prose.

“Scotch and Soda” Kingston Trio
“Tous Les Garçons et les Filles” Françoise Hardy
“Tower of song“ Leonard Cohen
“You were always on my mind“ Willie Nelson
“I’m so lonesome I could cry“ Hank Williams
“Red Hot” Billy Riley 
“Hey Good Lookin’” Ray Charles
“Porpoise Song” The Monkees
“Complainte Pour Ste Catherine” Kate & Anna McGarrigle
“Catch The Wind” Donovan

L'envie #85 :: Rhett Miller

Brother Tito Deler (The Original Harlem Slim) has toured with various Mississippi bluesmen over the years such as RL Boyce, Little Joe Ayers, Jimmy Duck Holmes & Leo Bud Welch. They have embraced him as one of their own. With touring on hold in 2020 he released his second record, “It’s A Beautiful Thing” available https://brothertitodeler.bandcamp.com/album/its-a-beautiful-thing and on all digital platforms. Keep up with Brother Tito on instagram https://www.instagram.com/harlemslim or his website http://www.titodelerblues.com/ 


“Little Geneva” Muddy Waters
“I’m Hurted” Mamie Perry with The Gus Jenkins Orchestra
“Love Be No Stranger” The Radiations
“What Do You Think You’re Doing Of” Billy Fury
“Love” Harmonica Slim
“Titanic (Get Your Ass In The Water And Swim Like Me)” Bruce Jackson
“Hey Shine” Snatch And The Poontangs
“Bobby’s Blues” Bobby Blue Bland
“Just One More Time” Lowell Fulson
“God’s Word” J.B. Lenoir
“You Got To Reap What You Sow” Maxwell Jimmy Davis
“Skull & Crossbones Blues” Johnny Shines
“Last Goodbye Blues” Big Joe Turner
“I Stay Blue All The Time” Big Bill Broonzy
“Swanee River Rock” Billy Lee Riley
“Run Come See” Johnny Carroll
“Seven Lonely Nights” Laurel Aitken
“Remember That Sunday” Alton Ellis & Phyllis Dillon

L'envie #87 :: Brother Tito Deler

Michael Dowd died October 2023. This soundcloud list is a substantial part of his legacy. Here he shares, via his voice, the major books, blogs, and other texts that instructed his own worldview shift into recognizing the multiple causes of the civilizational collapse underway and wisdom for moving into a postdoom perspective of clarity, calm, and compassionate love-in-action. As a Postdoom pastor, Michael aimed to support others in deeply adapting to abrupt climate change and societal and ecological breakdowns. Websites: https://www.postdoom.com and http://thegreatstory.org

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