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Spiritual Night Growing

Fairy tales don't only belong to the domain of childhood. Their overt themes are threaded throughout hit TV series like Game of Thrones and True Blood, Grimm and Once Upon a Time. These stories survive, says Maria Tatar, by adapting across cultures and history. They are carriers of the plots we endlessly re-work in the narratives of our lives — helping us work through things like fear and hope.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/the-great-cauldron-of-story-maria-tatar-on-why-fairy-tales-are-for-adults-again/5073

Maria Tatar — The Great Cauldron of Story: Why Fairy Tales are for Adults Again (May 8, 2014)

A shimmering evening fantasia of insect song and the singing of Bayaka men sitting in a circle illuminated only by firelight and stars.

Note: To fully experience the 3D sound in this soundscape, listen to the recording with your headphones on.

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Related Stories:

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http://www.npr.org/2002/10/31/828396/listening-to-elephants

http://www.npr.org/2014/05/08/309089369/civil-war-invades-an-elephant-sanctuary-one-researchers-escape

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/18/338989248/elephant-slaughter-african-slavery-and-americas-pianos

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Late Afternoon To Dusk In An African Rainforest (binaural/headphones)

from Sara Lov's upcoming album of orignial material "Some Kind of Champion" featuring Collaborations with Dustin O'Halloran, Hauschka, Zac Rae, Scott Leahy and Jonathan Price.  Produced by Zac Rae and recorded in Los Angeles. Released October 30, 2015

One In The Morning

The Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue was beloved for his book Anam Ċara, Gaelic for "soul friend," and for his insistence on beauty as a human calling. In one of his last interviews before his death in 2008, he articulated a Celtic imagination about how the material and the spiritual — the visible and the invisible — intertwine in human experience. His voice and writings continue to bring ancient mystical wisdom to modern confusions and longings.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/john-o-donohue-the-inner-landscape-beauty/203

John O'Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty

"The soul is contained in the human voice," says David Isay, founder of StoryCorps. He sees the StoryCorps booth — a setting where two people ask the questions they’ve always wanted to ask each other — as a sacred space. He shares his wisdom about listening as an act of love, and how eliciting and capturing our stories is a way of insisting that every life matters.

Find more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/david-isay-listening-as-an-act-of-love/6268

David Isay — Listening as an Act of Love

A philosopher of ecology, Joanna Macy’s path wound from the CIA to Tibetan Buddhism, to translating the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. We take that exquisite poetry as a lens on her wisdom on the great dramas of our time: ecological, political, personal. Now in her 80s, Joanna Macy says we are at a pivotal moment in history — with possibilities of unraveling, or of creating, a life-sustaining human society.

On Being with Krista Tippett

Joanna Macy — A Wild Love for the World

Painovoimaa, valoa

Albert Einstein's quip that "God does not play dice with the universe," was about quantum physics, not a statement of faith. But he did ponder the relationship between science and religion and his sense of "the order deeply hidden behind everything." With guests Freeman Dyson and Paul Davies we explore Einstein's wisdom on mystery, eternity, and the mind of God.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/einsteins-god/90

Freeman Dyson and Paul Davies — Einstein's God (Feb 25, 2010)

From Nat Bartsch Trio's 2008 self-titled release

I Think I Always Knew... - Nat Bartsch Trio

From the archives. Headphones and loud volume recommended. :) I hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening!

Restoration of the Dance

I did this in one take, recording on Audacity. My intention was to just record it and play with it to see what I could change, I ended up just making a few mistakes and I didn't know what to do to fix them.

I should really go to a recording studio and hire people that know what they are doing.

Bohemian Rhapsody - Classical Guitar

www.onbeing.org/program/sarah-kays-way-words/4548

Sarah Kay says that listening is the better part of speaking. She's a spoken word poet in her twenties who is inspiring teenagers around the world — with the way she uses words:

"I like words, I love strange words, I love words that mean exactly what I need them to mean, and the word flux, when I found that word, I loved the way it was fluffy but it was sharp, it was just everything that I wanted and also, my life is just eternally in flux and just has been and probably always will be."

Sarah Kay says her job description is rediscovering wonder, and rediscovering how language and listening make impossible connections between people.

Sarah Kay's Way with Words (June 13, 2013)

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

Sarah Kay's Way with Words (June 13, 2013)

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