If you have ever thought of writing a novel, a short story, a film script, a play, take advantage of this sequence of twelve steps known as The Hero's Journey. This is the path that the hero follows to earn the treasure, the throne, the hand of the princess. A journey we can also follow in everyday life, and which we illustrate here step by step with the plot of three admirable stories: The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix and Harry Potter. Enjoy it!

Josh Leake - Horizon

“Horizon”

The Hero´s journey

The Sermon on the Mount is a collection of Jesus' teachings to a group of simple people who followed him everywhere. It is not a theological dissertation for intellectuals, nor a discourse delivered in some elegant college or palace of the time. It is, as the title implies, a talk on the mountain. In direct, simple and often incandescent language, Jesus rewrites everything people knew about God up to that point. These words have been so influential that with them Jesus founds a new period in human history.

Jordan Peterson describes it as "the closest description of what it would mean to walk with God so that you’re in the Ark when your personal flood comes." 

CREDITS:
Written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, voice artist at gabrielvoice.com, radiantwhispers.com

Biblical Text:
The Gospel of Matthew, chapters 5 to 7

Bible version:
The Message (MSG)                                                                                                   Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson

Music:  
"Horizon", by Josh Leake - Songs for Norah at artlist.io
"Dusk to Dawn", by Clara at artlist.io

Photo:
“Sunset over sunflowers Field” at wallpapers13.com

Horizon

The Teachings Of Jesus

An old man carries on his shoulders his only son, who’s been wounded. He has to cross a mountain in the dead of night, to get to the next village, where there may be a doctor to look after him. Both their lives unravel in the journey.  

A masterful and heartbreaking story of the father-son relationship.

Original story by Juan Rulfo read by Gabriel Porras
Translation by Stephen Beechinor
Production: Gabriel Porras
Music: La Guanábana, by Los Parientes de Playa Vicente, from the album América Afroíndigena at freemusicarchive.com

América Afroíndigena

La Guanábana

You Don't Hear The Dogs Barking?, by Juan Rulfo

Sunstone is the longest and perhaps the most extraordinary poem by the extraordinary poet Octavio Paz. Sunstone is an epic poem, long and passionate, like a golden mantle in which to take shelter. A hypnotic torrent of images and signs dazzle and enchant us as we pass through each verse. The imagination is left spinning, intoxicated with pleasure. Sunstone is made up of hendecasyllables because hendecasyllables are the measure of the sonnet, the love poem par excellence in Latin languages. And they are 584 hendecasyllables because the planet Venus covers a cycle of 584 days to return to the same point in relation to the sun. This peculiarity was highly valued and studied by the Aztecs, who placed it at the centre of their cosmogony. And of that portentous and complex machine for reading the cosmos, the Sunstone, the Aztec Calendar.

Let the music, the images and the many lights of the 584 lines of this prodigious love poem to life and its fragility carry you away.

Credits:
Poem by Octavio Paz
Translation  1987, 1991 by Eliot Weinberger
(New Directions Paperbook NDP735, ISBN 0-8112-1195-9, 1991)
Read by Gabriel Porras, professional voice artist 

Music:
Horizon, by Josh Leake at artlist.io
With our own atmosphere, by Kris Keogh, from his album Processed Harp Works, Vol. 1 at  freemusicarchive.com

Horizon - Processed Harp Works

Horizon - With our own atmosphere

Sunstone, by Octavio Paz

Presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor.

Copyright Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd
Roald Dahl Nominee Ltd, 1982
Puffin Books, Penguin Random House 1984
Illustration: Quentin Blake, 1982
ISBN: 978-0-141-37885-5
(Treat yourself to a copy, it's a beautiful book!) 
Visit the great Roald Dahl's website here: www.roalddahl.com

artlist.io

The Ice Cream Booth

Cinderella, by Roald Dahl

Presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor.

Copyright Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd
Roald Dahl Nominee Ltd, 1982
Puffin Books, Penguin Random House 1984
Illustration: Quentin Blake, 1982
ISBN: 978-0-141-37885-5
(Treat yourself to a copy, it's a beautiful book!) 
Visit the great Roald Dahl's website here: www.roalddahl.com

Music: "Piggyback” de Dan Pundak, en artlist.io

Piggyback

The Three Little Pigs, by Roald Dahl

Written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor.

Music: 
"Wants to know", by Bodysurfer, at freemusicarchive.org.
"Morning Mist", by We Dream of Eden, at artlist.io
Stings by Orange Free Sounds, orangefreesounds.com

Links that will give you
a much broader perspective on this issue:

Read the stories of people who have had gender reassignment surgery and have lived to regret it every day. You can start here:

Jeffrey, repentant transgender: https://youtu.be/r09cDPsQ1wI

Scott Newgent has devoted his life to denouncing the irresponsibility of the many doctors who operated on him and the psychologists who should have warned him of the devastating consequences of the changes brought about by the surgery. His life as a transgender person has become a living hell. Scott has a whole website about it: www.trevoices.org
Learn about his story and his struggles here:

https://www.trevoices.org/post/this-time-i-will-rise-up-years-later-what-i-would-say-to-the-therapists-that-pushed-me-to-med-trans

and another one:

https://thepostmillennial.com/transman-twitter-banned-for-speaking-against-gender-transition-of-children-fights-back?s=04

"Wants to know"

If gender is fluid, why not age too?

Presented y produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor.

Original text by WW Jacobs published in 1902 in his collection “The Lady of the Barge”. 

Music:
“Reflections”, by Ian Post, at artlist.io

Listen to more great stories like this one on radiantwhispers.com also available on your favourite podcast platform

Reflections

The Monkey's Paw, by W.W. Jacobs

Extract from the final chapter of the book "The Sanity of Belief - Why faith makes sense" by Simon Edwards. A great, very readable and valuable book which you can buy in paperback or ebook version here: https://amzn.eu/1CkIRAt
Simon Edwards is a member of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics (OCCA) team, who do excellent work communicating the teachings of Jesus Christ through the big cultural questions of our day (such as science, suffering, the meaning of life, homosexuality and many more). As they say on their website https://www.theocca.org: 
"We seek to extol the credibility of the Christian faith and the person of Jesus Christ through the questions of culture, speaking in secular settings and contributing to the public discourse on religious belief."

A podcast produced and presented by Gabriel Porras, professional voice artist. You can find out much more about Gabriel here:
gabrielvoice.com
radiantwhispers.com

Music:
"Circle of life", by Letra, on artlist.io

Circle of life

The hearts true home, by Simon Edwards

A masterpiece of the Latin-American imagination. Juan José Arreola is one of the greatest writers of the XX Century in Spanish, one of the first to dare to abandon realism. He is the greatest precursor of Magical Realism. As Professor George D Schade says:

Whatever the subject of his satire, Arreola most often achieves his effects by a deliberate jumbling of phantasy and reality, a mingling of the logical and the absurd, a blend of imaginative frivolity and Orwellian grimness. 

CREDITS

Produced and recorded by Gabriel Porras, professional voice artist at gabrielvoice.com and radiantwhispers.com

Translation by George D Schade for the University of Texas Press

Sound effect by Pixabay

For more of Arreola, listen to his “Bestiary”, also recorded by Gabriel Porras as "A book of fabled creatures" for radiantwhispers.com and available on all podcast platforms and at Soundcloud and YouTube.

The Switchman, by Juan José Arreola

A programme written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional philosopher, journalist and voice actor. 

Music:
"Gone with the winds", by Veaceslav Draganov on artlist.io

*******

Learn more about this URGENT topic by following these links:

The Story of Helena Kerschner, who regrets having “transitioned” as a teenager:
https://youtu.be/Ibq3ld087Y4

The Irish Bill to remove the words "woman", "mother", and more from legal language:
https://4w.pub/ireland-to-strip-maternity-law/

New Supreme Court Judge Ketanji Brown cannot bring herself to say what a woman is:
https://youtu.be/BWtGzJxiONU
…and she then refuses to answer clear questions about self-definition as a woman:
https://youtu.be/BWwx-UrL0e4

Documentary “What is a woman?” by Matt Walsh:
https://youtu.be/8wlZWZoqRlo

Disability statistics in the UK:
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9602/CBP-9602.pdf

Scotland’s Gender Recognition Reform Act (Transgender Trend):
https://www.transgendertrend.com/scotland-gender-recognition-act-reform-bill/

The SNP’s Gender Recognition Bill is a threat to women (Spiked Online):
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/03/05/the-snps-gender-recognition-bill-is-threat-to-women/

Ministers face public backlash over gender recognition reforms (The Times):
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ministers-face-public-backlash-over-gender-recognition-reform-plans-dvgljmqrf

Brit Awards 2023: Why no women were nominated for Best Artist  (BBC)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64264069

The nonsense of nonbinary (Spiked online):
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/16/its-time-to-call-out-the-nonsense-of-nonbinary/

"Toxic feminism is the ONLY kind of feminism": https://youtu.be/mOSS8yBp3go

"Biology trumps gender," says the president of the World Athletics Association:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10934773/World-Athletics-president-Sebastian-Coe-backs-FINAs-ruling-transgender-athletes-banned.html

The "triumph" of transgender athlete Lia Thomas:
https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/ncaa-title-for-lia-thomas-is-joke-with-biological-women-as-punchline-hardly-a-laughing-matter/

Transgender martial arts "champion" Fallon Fox punches her female opponent so violently that he (she) breaks her skull: 
https://www.bjjee.com/articles/transgender-mma-fighter-who-broke-female-opponents-skull-are-we-getting-too-politically-correct-with-reality/

Why female athletes should raise their voices every time a transgender athlete tries to compete against them:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sharron-davies-the-trans-debate-is-toxic-its-made-my-life-hell-but-female-athletes-must-speak-up-xllplkmp3

Toilets in new public buildings should be separate for men and women:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/02/single-sex-lavatories-mandatory-new-public-buildings/

But transgender activists consider this "transphobic":
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a40497357/new-buildings-must-have-single-sex-toilets/
 
It is "unfair" to force someone "who is already facing exclusion" to use toilets that are not "neutral" or "gender neutral":
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/17/gender-neutral-toilets-public-buildings-single-sex-uk-robert-jenrick/

The alarming "gender dysphoria" among minors, which jumped from 138 cases in 2010 to 2,383 in 2020: 
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/10/nhs-gender-identity-service-for-children-cant-cope-with-demand-review-finds

Bullying and violence against girls who dare to question the transgender agenda in their schools:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/girl-driven-out-of-school-for-questioning-trans-ideology-ls790krdh

Gone with the winds

The Disappearance Of Women

We are all surprised by the rapid advance of transgender ideas and LGBTQ ideology. Although their proposals are controversial and have no historical or scientific basis, they penetrate all layers of society. Learn how they infiltrate businesses, universities, schools and governments worldwide. 

Programme written, recorded and presented by Gabriel Porras, a professional communicator at gabrielvoice.com and radiantwhispers.com

Music: "Balance" by Invisible Choirs at artlist.io

If you are interested in this topic, listen to "If gender is fluid, why not also age?" and "The Disappearance of Women", both available on radiantwhispers.com, YouTube, SoundCloud and all podcast platforms. Comment, share and subscribe.

Cover:
“The judgment of Paris”, by Enrique Simonet (1904)

Links:

Stonewall's "Champions of Diversity" programme:
https://www.stonewall.org.uk/join-diversity-champions-programme

The UK's "Top 100 Employers of 2023" list: 
https://www.stonewall.org.uk/top-100-employers/full-list

There is an extraordinary BBC Radio Ulster podcast entitled "Nolan Investigates", which published in October 2021 a revealing 10-episode series detailing Stonewall's influence on public institutions across the UK. It is a masterclass in in-depth journalism and took them eighteen months of research to achieve, but what a triumph of professionalism, intelligence and dedication! All BBC material has territorial restrictions, so you may be unable to access it outside the UK. Try here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09yjmph/episodes/downloads

Happily, a feminist group called "Fair Play for Women" has taken on the great task of preparing detailed transcripts of the key points of each episode for all to read and quote from. You can find the transcripts here:
https://fairplayforwomen.com/stonewall-transcripts/

Balance

How The LGBTQ Agenda Is Forced On Us

Paul Kingsnorth is an English intellectual and environmentalist who has written novels, essays and poetry, contributing to publications such as The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Le Monde, New Statesman, Granta and BBC Radio and Television. His spiritual quest was passionate and diverse. As he says, The Cross and the Machine is "an essay-length account of my journey from atheism to Orthodox Christianity, via Buddhism, witchcraft and other strange twists." 
It is a beautiful, lyrical and revealing text.
The Cross and the Machine originally appeared in First Things magazine: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/06/the-cross-and-the-machine

To read more from Paul Kingsnorth, visit his website paulkingsnorth.net and his YouTube channel. 

Programme recorded, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional broadcaster at gabrielvoice.com and radiantwhispers.com.

Music: 
The Last Train, by David Roy, on artlist.io
Morning Mist, by We Dream of Eden, on artlist.io

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The Last Train

The Cross And The Machine, by Paul Kingsnorth

A lucid and easy-to-understand view of how ground-breaking Jesus' message was in his world (and ours). Jesus once said that the greatest display of love is sacrificing oneself for your friends, but by "friends," he meant every single person, regardless of our differences in nationality, race, religion, opinion, age, gender, blindness, or wisdom. Understand how and why we all fit in his comforting embrace.

Credits:
Programme produced and recorded by Gabriel Porras at gabrielvoice.com and radiantwhispers.com

Cover:
Jesus walks on the waters, image generated by artificial intelligence ai-generated-7922881_1280 at pixabay.com 

Music:
"Devotion", from The Pilgrimage Series, Part 1 on artlist.io

Text: 
"What Jesus taught and why" is a chapter from the beautiful book Jesus: a biography from a believer, by Paul Johnson. 
Copyright © Paul Johnson, 2010 ISBN 978-0-670-02159-8

Biblical passages taken from The Message, Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson

Devotion

What Jesus taught and why, by Paul Johnson

A much funnier version of the children's story we all know...and written in rhyme! Only the fantastic Roald Dahl could twist the end like this. Get ready for a hilarious adventure!

Presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor.

Copyright Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd
Roald Dahl Nominee Ltd, 1982
Puffin Books, Penguin Random House 1984
Illustration: Quentin Blake, 1982
ISBN: 978-0-141-37885-5
(Treat yourself to a copy. It's a beautiful book!) 

Visit the great Roald Dahl's website here: www.roalddahl.com

Music: 
"Gypsy Bill”, by Ofer Koren and The Hill Bullies, at artlist.io

Gypsy Bill

Snow White and the seven dwarves, by Roald Dahl

Jack and the Beanstalk,
 by Roald Dahl


This version of the classic children's story is way funnier... and it rhymes!
Roald Dahl is a genius: his plot twists are mind-blowing, and that ending too! Brace yourself for a laugh-out-loud journey.

Presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor (gabrielvoice.com).

Cover design: Ricardo Gil (ricardo@scrav.com).

Copyright Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd
Roald Dahl Nominee Ltd, 1982
Puffin Books, Penguin Random House 1984
Illustration: Quentin Blake, 1982
ISBN: 978-0-141-37885-5
(Treat yourself to a copy. It's a beautiful book!) 

Visit the great Roald Dahl's website here: www.roalddahl.com

Music: 
"Jay C”, by Synthet from the album Free Synthet! at freemusicarchive.org Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Sound effect: bbc.co.uk – © copyright BBC

Free Synthet

Jay C

Jack and the Beanstalk, by Roald Dahl

My atheist friends love to cite Immanuel Kant, David Hume and Voltaire as leading thinkers who opened new horizons for humanity, freeing it from the religious prejudices that had enslaved it for centuries. But things were very different, and the writings of these three influential thinkers provided a framework that supported the slavery and exploitation of non-European races more than anyone else. We examine the great ambiguities of the Enlightenment and the main myths of atheism, such as The Myth of Progress, The Myth of Human Rationality and The Myth of Human Goodness, with a discussion of Steven Pinker's  "Enlightenment Now".

Programme written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor (gabrielvoice.com).

Cover design: Ricardo Gil (ricardo@scrav.com).

Music: 
"Joking Together", by Michele Nobler/Memory Tapes @artlist.io
"Alive and Well", by Campagna/Hello Love @artlist.io

The inspiration for this programme comes from a debate between Steven Pinker and Nick Spencer, titled "Have science, reason and humanism replaced faith?", available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ssf5XN5o9q4?feature=shared

Nick Spencer published a well-argued article entitled "Atheist Fairy Tales: exposing secularism's major myths" on Premier Unbelievable: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/topics/atheist-fairytales-exposing-secularisms-major-myths/12200.article 

Francis Collins, the director of the Human Genome Project, published a book entitled "The Language of God", in which he makes a strong case for the existence of God.

Joking Together

The Daydreams of Atheism

Reducing the conflict in Gaza to a question of Palestinian-Israeli differences is an unforgivable mistake. The conflict that has been raging in Gaza for decades is the conflict between Islam and world civilisation, that is, between Islam and you and me, and each and every one of us who are not yet under Islam: not only Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Newagers and Hindus. Also homosexuals, transsexuals, feminists, atheists, agnostics, science, education, technology and progress and welfare for all. All this is lost if Hamas wins, and Islam advances.

Programme written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, at murmullosradiantes.com. 

Cover created by Ricardo Gil, ricardo@scrav.com
Image by Vectonauta at www.freepik.es

Music: 
"Gone with the winds", by Veaceslav Draganov (Picture) on artlist.com.
"Jericho at Dusk", by Alon Peretz (Three Middle Eastern Cities), on artlist.com
"Ruhi", by Meriem Ben Amor, on artlist.com

Links and references:
On how Hamas rewards its soldiers with girls as young as nine years old, see these photographs: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hamas-wedding-girls/

On Islam's hatred of women, and how it promises a paradise of luxury and sex to Hamas soldiers and Islamism, listen to these past episodes:
"Islam hates women": https://soundcloud.com/murmullosradiantes/el-islam-odia-a-las-mujeres
"Is paradise a luxury brothel?": https://soundcloud.com/murmullosradiantes/el-paraiso-es-un-burdel-de-lujo
On the dangerous stupidity of the masses:
https://soundcloud.com/murmullosradiantes/el-peligro-de-la-estupidez-mr-sc-esp

A long and detailed collection of Hamas abuses on this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Hamas#Press_restrictions

On the despicable sexual violence of Hamas’ attack on 07 October: https://youtu.be/2l3EbRiDATE?feature=shared

Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of one of the founders of Hamas, appears in multiple YouTube videos, such as this one:
https://youtu.be/H9WEcvrWvyo?feature=shared
His experiences and perspectives on the workings of Hamas appear in a book entitled "Son of Hamas": 
https://amzn.eu/d/ff29BB7
and a film entitled "The Green Prince": 
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B00YRUA3QU/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r
 
On Hamas soldiers shouting "Allah is victorious" as they behead and rape innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023: https://youtu.be/SmivUM0tlwc?feature=shared

A passionate article by Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, which inspired me to write this episode: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20126/hamas-nazis

Photos of Mufti Husseini reviewing troops and having tea with Hitler can be seen here: https://youtu.be/ou0EgaK49Ak?feature=shared

If Hamas Wins, We All Lose

Every year, Christmas is the greatest celebration around the globe. No other event makes us get together as families and friends like Christmas. And yet, Christmas is also the worst time of the year for millions of lonely, hurting people. Commandeered by businesses and restaurants, Christmas celebrations often obscure Christ, whose birth is the original and best reason to celebrate Christmas. Find out why the birth of Christ deserves to be celebrated with all your heart.

Programme presented and produced by Gabriel Porras at gabrielvoice.com and musmullosradiantes.com

Text: Nicky Gumbel
Nicky Gumbel is the creator of the Alpha Course, which is a beautiful and warm introduction to Christianity. Over 26 million people have taken the Alpha Course in over 100 countries. Nicky graduated in Law at Cambridge and in Theology at Oxford. He worked as a barrister before becoming a writer and preacher. 
Join an Alpha Course near you here: https://alpha.org.uk/try
You can also do it online.

Cover created by Ricardo Gil, ricardo@scrav.com with AI at www.bing.com by Microsoft

Music: 
"Handpanophone" by David Charrier is from his album Ephemeral on artlist.io.
Sound effect: 
Clean high bell ring, license Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://orangefreesounds.com/

Handpanophone

Why celebrate Christmas?, by Nicky Gumbel

A jewel of Spanish-language literature, quintessentially Mexican and universal at the same time. The story of a town that is all dust, loneliness and silence “where sorrow makes her nest”. 


Original story by Juan Rulfo read by Gabriel Porras
Translation by Stephen Beechinor
Production: Gabriel Porras and Andre Sosa @drorangeacademy
Cover design by Ricardo Gil ricardo@scrav.com
Music: La Guanábana, by Los Parientes de Playa Vicente, from the album América Afroíndigena at freemusicarchive.com

Luvina, by Juan Rulfo

Psalm 27 from the Bible was written over three thousand years ago by King David, "the sweet singer of Israel". It is a profound prayer of praise to God and a plea for protection and comfort in the most troubled and challenging of times. David contemplates the most outrageous and cruel destiny he can imagine: that of a child deliberately abandoned by his parents. "Even if my father and mother abandoned me, you will take care of me"... even if something as unimaginable and unnatural as being deliberately abandoned by his parents were to happen to him, even if the natural and biological order were to be so twisted, God would take care of him. Even if his father and mother conspired to abandon him.

That is why I put his prayer on the lips of every aborted baby boy and girl.

Text:
The Voice (VOICE)The Voice Bible Copyright © 2012 Thomas Nelson, Inc. The Voice™ translation © 2012 Ecclesia Bible Society All rights reserved.
Adapted and read by Gabriel Porras for radiantwhispers.com and gabrielvoice.com.
Production: Gabriel Porras and Andre Sosa @drorangeacademy
Cover by Ricardo Gil ricardo@scrav.com
Music: "Purify" by Embrace at artlist.com. Used with license.

Purify

Psalm 27, Prayer Of The Aborted Baby

Join me to pray together every morning this powerful prayer known as "The Breastplate of St. Patrick," which was written in the 9th century in Ireland. I invite you to pray this prayer every morning with passion, surrender, and eagerness, believing that God will transform your day. This prayer is not for the timid or half-hearted, as it requires genuine conviction and a belief that our prayers can reach beyond the walls of our room.

How big is your faith? How big are your goals and aspirations? Pray this prayer with all your heart for seven days and be amazed. 
Listen to more prayers and important topics and stories at www.radiantwhispers.com. 

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Programme voiced, recorded and produced by Gabriel Porras at www.gabrielvoice.com and www.radiantwhispers.com
Music: The circle of life, by The Circle of Life @artlist.io. Used with license.

Photo: Morning Sunrise at Lake Kawaguchi and Mount Fuji. Yamanashi, Japan Copyright © 2022 Wallpapers13.com
Cover design by Ricardo Gil, ricardo@scrav.com
Again:

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I Bind Unto Myself Today (St Patrick's Breastplate)

This is a beautiful and inspiring text by Lisa Nichols, a hymn to human resilience. It is part of her excellent “Speak and Inspire” course at www.mindvalley.com (https://home.mindvalley.com/quests/en/speak/intros/4).
If you want to give yourself a precious gift, it is well worth buying an annual subscription to take this game-changing course from Lisa and many more equally valuable ones. In Mindvalley, you will find a thousand paths through which your mind and spirit can travel to grow and shine like the sunrise. It's so worth it!

This program was recorded and produced by Gabriel Porras, who lives at gabrielvoice.com and radiantwhispers.com.
Cover by Ricardo Gil, ricardo@scrav.com
Music: "Midnight Forest" by Syouki Takahashi on Pixabay.com
Cover image: North Shore, Waialua, Hawaii
Photo by Brannon Naito on Unsplash 
Used under licence. 

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Midnight Forest

No one can do you better than you, by Lisa Nichols

This is a modern, versified version of the original text by St Francis of Assisi, written in medieval Italian 800 years ago, in 1225. As a great mystic, St Francis calls all of nature to praise God: the sun, the moon, the wind, the fire, the water, the stars and the earth are our brothers and sisters, praising God with their natural virtues. I closely followed the English translation published by the Franciscan Fathers on their website (https://franciscanfriarscresson.org/the-canticle-of-the-sun/ ). Still, I have made it more musical and more accessible to memorise, with rhymes and cadences. The Canticle of Brother Sun is a simple and precious prayer that deserves to be memorised and kept in mind because praising God with all his creatures is always timely and appropriate. This modernised version is a passionate rendition that I hope will inspire you. Listen to it with me in prayer, and leave a comment to let me know what you think.

This adaptation and rendition of the text Gabriel Porras
Programme voiced, recorded and produced by Gabriel Porras at www.gabrielvoice.com and www.radiantwhispers.com

Music: Pneuma, by Adrian Disch, at musicbed.com. Used with license.
Cover created by Ricardo Gil, ricardo@scrav.com

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Pneuma

Canticle Of Brother Sun, by St Francis of Assisi

This morning meditation is a call to action for you to choose and reinforce your excellent and healthy intention and purpose for the day. It's a proactive step to take before the inertia of the day sets in and derails your plans. Our days are often hijacked by distractions and demands, causing us to lose sight of our true selves and our desired path. But with a little persistent attention, we can turn even the most ordinary days into something extraordinary. Let's make today, and every day, an extraordinary day!

The original text was written by Gabriel Porras and inspired by Lauren Brollier Newton's Intention Setting Meditation.

Credits:
The show was written, presented, and produced by Gabriel Porras for radianwhispers.com. 

Music:
Meditation Relaxing and Chill, by Yurii Kohut on Pixabay. Used under licence. 

Cover artwork by Ricardo Gil, ricardo@scrav.com
Photo: Landscape Nature Lake, by Kanenori on Pixabay. Used under licence. 

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Meditation Relaxing and Chill

Today, I woke up with the gift of this day

The recent US presidential election was a disturbing spectacle. We saw political professionals and self-appointed “experts” resort to intimidation, shaming, and apocalyptic doom and gloom to manipulate or shame people into voting for their candidate. Scaring or shaming someone into voting a certain way is a condescending and immature strategy that will always backfire because no one likes to be treated like a child by being frightened or tricked into doing things. This is typical of dictators like Nicolás Maduro, Fidel and Raúl Castro, Kim Jong Un, and Vladimir Putin— all on the left— or Adolf Hitler and the Ayatollahs of Iran on the right. Any politician who does not know how to persuade people with respect, integrity, and intelligent arguments and who has to resort instead to fear and intimidation to win votes is unworthy of leading any country, party, or company. Pop, rap, and R&B singers, as well as disturbed actors like Robert de Niro, Oprah Winfrey, and Whoopi Goldberg, made complete fools of themselves by loudly threatening Nazism, dictatorship, and the end of the world if people didn't vote the way they wanted. Sadly, this kind of political deceit is used in every continent and every political party.
So, it is time to think about fatalism or catastrophism as a strategy for gaining or maintaining power. The short and brilliant text I present to you today was written by Andrew Torba, a man who gave up his easy and luxurious life in Silicon Valley to create the digital platform gab.com after seeing how Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google, and LinkedIn only promoted the posts and accounts of those who aligned with their political, social, or sexual sympathies. The gab.com platform aims to facilitate free speech for all (even those we do not want to associate with) and the parallel economy in the US. Visit gab.com and decide for yourself (I will not scare, manipulate, or shame you into doing so).

Credits: 
Text: Andrew Torba
Translation by Gabriel Porras for murmullosradiantes.com
Show presented and produced by Gabriel Porras for murmullosradiantes.com 

Music: Until we all reach full measure, by Ghosts Of Us on Artlist.com. Used under licence. 
Alive & Well by Hello Love on Artlist.com. Used under licence. 

Cover image created by Ricardo Gil, ricardo@scrav.com 
Image created by Freepik on www.freepik.es. Used with permission. 

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Doomerism: The Pernicious Force Defining Our Age - by Andrew Torba

What is this podcast about? What are these “Radiant Whispers”?

Radiant Whispers

Radiant Whispers? What's that?

Today I have the pleasure of reading you a story by the great Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti. It is a great example of Benedetti's genius to create in just four or five pages a world of great emotional intensity. I sincerely hope you enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed recording it.

The Night of the Ugly Ones, by Mario Benedetti

The story we read today is by a true giant of Latin American and world literature, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges. The Circular Ruins is a masterpiece of fantasy literature, and deals with how dreams are manifested in reality… Borges' launching pad is a passage from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll in which  Tweedledee draws Alice's attention to the sleeping Red King, and claims that she is nothing but a character in the King's dream. 

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Translation: James E. Irby and Gabriel Porras
Music: "Sihouette of Time's Idea", by Mid-Air Machine, from their album So We Telepathy: freemusicarchive.org 
"The Return", by Ketsa,  from their album Different Angles: freemusicarchive.org

The Circular Ruins, by Jorge Luis Borges

Today we open our space to a brilliant Franco- Argentinian writer: Julio Cortázar. We listen to one of his most celebrated stories, inspired by one of the most beautiful and enigmatic amphibians on Earth: the tiny Axolotl.

Axolotl is a meditation on that mortal danger that loneliness is for us human beings. We see a lonely man disintegrate; we are witnesses to the way loneliness, the lack of friends and relationships that keep us mentally sane, can precipitate us into a pit of alienation when we lose our sense of identity and only our ghosts and the voices in our mind seem real.



Translation by Paul Blackburn
Music: 
"Sihouette of Time's Idea", by Mid-Air Machine, from their album So We Telepathy: freemusicarchive.org 
"Rainy going mad", by J Myles: freemusicarchive.org

Axolotl, Cortázar

Did you know that there are dozens and dozens of stories of a great flood in the most diverse and disparate cultures, from Japan to the Maya, from Babylon to Polynesia, from the Eskimos to the Australian Aborigines and Africa?

Noah's Ark is the story of a vast ecological catastrophe caused by human blindness.

Do you think this may be a relevant story nowadays? I believe it could be the most compelling and urgent story for our time, and I hope you’ll agree with me once we read it together today.


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Credits:
Translation:  The Message (MSG) Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson

Music: 
"Sihouette of Time's Idea" and “Roar of the Wild”, by Mid-Air Machine, from their album So We Telepathy: freemusicarchive.org

“The Morning After”, by Mikael Kallin from Artlist.io

Great ideas and inspiration from Rob Bell’s What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything

Noah's Ark

I'm one of the blessed ones who survived the coronavirus attack. What brought me through that problematic trance, and what lessons did I learn? I share everything here with my best wishes.


Credits:
Written, presented and mixed by Gabriel Porras, professional voiceover artist

Music: 
SIHOUETTE OF TIME’S IDEA, by Mid-Air Machine at www.freemusicarchive.org 
SOFT SHINE ON pad by Mike Russell at MRC.com
HORIZON, by Josh Leake at Artlist.io

I survived COVID-19

All we have to comfort, guide us and sustain us in this straggling path called life are the radiant whispers that we grasp as a distant “sunrise of wonder” in our spiritual practice, in great works of literature, music, art, and in nature and blue skies. These are the Radiant Whispers. That's what this podcast is about. We will talk about culture and society, about ancient and modern history, literature and art with dramatized readings of poetry, fables, theatre, novels and stories. Subscribe -let's find radiant whispers everywhere.

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