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Instrumental Music for Relaxation, Meditation, Study and Concentration, Spa and Massage, Healing Music Therapy.

This Collection of Long Music Playlist is Perfect for your daily Meditation and Relaxation. A lot of music out there for meditation and relaxation is too busy and distracting.The music from these videos are light, beautiful, calming sounds (some with binaural brain waves and nature sounds) that do not distract you from focusing on what you want to achieve. A Daily 1 Hour Instrumental Playlist that can be used for background music on the following subjects:

Meditation and Healing:
The music we create are perfect for Deepak Chopra meditations, buddhist meditation, zen meditation, mindfulness meditation, Eckhart Tolle meditation. Influences used in this type of music is mainly from Japanese meditation music, Indian meditation music and Native American music. Some benefits from using it will cleanse the Chakra, open Third Eye And increase Transcendental Meditation skills. The work of Byron Katie, Sedona Method, Silva Method and the Secret highlights the fact that healing can occur through the use of mind and being in the now. Healing Meditation can be practised using this music for best results.

Yoga and Massage:
The music is really useful for yoga for beginners, yoga exercises, yoga chants influenced by indian songs, african music, soothing music that has a calming effect. It sometimes puts you into a yoga trance. If you are familiar with the work of yogscast, hare krishna, michael franti, and keshna be sure to use this. If you are into massage therapy these soothing relaxing nature sounds and peaceful light instrumental music will help you relax mind and body and keep you relaxed throughout the day.

Relaxation and Spa:
The light instrumentals can really be useful after a long hard day of work to unwind and enjoy the peaceful sound of our music. Imagine the spa music, nature sounds, rain sounds, light piano, easy listening instruments are used in these tracks for ultimate relaxation. It can also be enjoyed in the background as mindcraft music and game music. Truly these are the best soft tunes, mood music new age music.

Binaural Mind States:
Many of the tracks include Binaural Brain Waves that can be used to enter different mind frequencies. For instance, it can be used for studying music, revision for when you need to be creative, focused and have good concentration. Many people find Brainwave entrainment useful for deep sleep to help you fall asleep easy, and also have enough rest to start the day fresh. As mentioned before, Binaural Brainwaves can be used for meditation, study music, creativity, deep sleep and many more benefits. Many mothers use it for baby music, lullaby to help baby sleep.




Deep Shamanic Meditation- Relaxing Powerful Meditation Music For Deep Relaxation, Sleep Music 030

This public lecture was recorded at Birkbeck College, University of London on 25 November, 2013, and was organised by the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.

For further details and audience Q&A, visit
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/11/slavoj-zizek-economy-the-vicious-cycle-of-capitalist-reproduction/

Slavoj Žižek - Economy: The Vicious Cycle of Capitalist Reproduction

What is Silicon Valley’s greatest reigning monopoly? How did PayPal manage to emerge from the dotcom implosion? Can you build a great tech company and keep it private forever? And how did Elon Musk manage to wreck an uninsured, million-dollar car with Peter Thiel in the passenger seat speeding on the way to a VC meeting? Marc Andreessen and Thiel discuss all of it in a wide-ranging conversation that toggles off the topics in Thiel’s new book “Zero to One.”

a16z Podcast: The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel

Dr. Stuart Hameroff is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychology, and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona. Together with British quantum physicist Sir Roger Penrose, Hameroff is the co-author of the controversial Orch OR model of consciousness.

I first met Dr. Hameroff at the recent GF2045 conference where the usually mild-mannered Ray Kurzweil went out of his way to make it abundantly clear that the Orch OR model is totally wrong. Others called it “speculative,” “non-testable” and “unscientific”. By now both Stuart and Roger must have become accustomed to such attacks, and I have developed a lot of respect for the calm but firm way they are daring to stand their ground. Furthermore, if the Orch OR model were to be correct, then, there will be profound implications on variety of fields and disciplines such as medicine, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, quantum physics and philosophy. And so I decided to bring Dr. Hameroff on Singularity 1 on 1 where we can confront the controversy head-on.

During our 1 hour conversation with Stuart we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: how he got interested in studying consciousness and the definition thereof; why understanding anesthesia is the route to understanding consciousness; the hard problem of consciousness; why the brain is more than a classical computer; how Hameroff reached out to Roger Penrose after reading The Emperor’s New Mind; the Orch OR model and why the vast majority of scientists are disdainful of it; the best ways of proving or disproving the Hameroff/Penrose model and the most important implications if it is indeed correct; out-of-body experiences, quantum souls, afterlife, and reincarnation; Hinduism and Buddhism; cryonics and chemical brain preservation; Stuart’s upcoming paper [together with Roger Penrose] where they will review and present new evidence in support of the Orch OR theory.

Some of the most memorable quotes that I will take away from this interview are:

“Consciousness is the most important thing there is!”

“Assuming that a neuron is a bit-like [computer] firing ON or OFF is a tremendous insult to neurons.”

“Most scientists can’t explain consciousness in the brain, so they can’t say that consciousness out of the brain is impossible.”

“Consciousness is the music of the Universe.”

Stuart Hameroff on AI, the Singularity and Consciousness

Shinzen Young leads a 25-minute guided meditation on how to focus on relaxation in your body. This represents a subset of the full Focus on Rest technique. Learn more at Basic Mindfulness Home Practice Program http://basicmindfulness.com.

Focus On Relaxation

Actor Martin Sheen as you've never heard him before. He has appeared in over 100 films, including Apocalypse Now. He’s best known on television as President Bartlet in seven seasons of The West Wing. But Martin Sheen, born and still legally named Ramón Estévez, has had another lesser-known life as a spiritual seeker and activist. He returned to a deep and joyful Catholic faith after a crisis at the height of his fame in in mid-life. He’s been arrested over 60 times in vigils and protests. "Piety is something you do alone," he says. "True freedom, spirituality, can only be achieved in community."

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/martin-sheen-spirituality-of-imagination/8257

Martin Sheen — Spirituality of Imagination

In this episode I interview philosopher Evan Thompson, who is a Professor of Philosophy at University of British Columbia, mainly in the fields of cognitive science, philosophy of mind and Phenomenology. He is the author of the book Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy. We discuss a wide range of topics, the aspects of consciousness in sleep and lucid dreaming, various scientific studies, meditation as well as get into some geeky philosophical pondering on dreams and the nature of the sense of self.

Links and show notes at: http://www.lucidsage.com/24

Ep 24 - Philosopher Evan Thompson

Stephen Batchelor is a teacher and writer. His books include "Buddhism Without Beliefs," "Confession of a Buddhist Atheist," and "The Faith to Doubt." His newest book is "After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Stephen Batchelor — The Limits of Belief, The Massiveness of the Questions." 

Find more at www.onbeing.org/program/stephen-batchelor-the-limits-of-belief-and-the-massiveness-of-the-questions/8347

Stephen Batchelor — The Limits of Belief, The Massiveness of the Questions

Listen to this podcast with author Anthony Peake on his latest book Opening the Doors of Perception: The Key to Cosmic Awareness.

In this new book Anthony Peake goes beyond the work of Aldous Huxley and updates it using the latest information from such seemingly unrelated fields as quantum mechanics, neurochemistry and consciousness studies.

'Anthony Peake s fascinating book explores the underlying nature of consciousness as it is revealed through various syndromes and disorders. The book combines scientific evidence with philosophical inquiry in an elegant way, posing deep questions about what we experience as reality. A great read!' -- Daniel Pinchbeck - author of Breaking Open the Head. 

Anthony Peake studied sociology and history at the University of Warwick and completed a post-graduate management qualification at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a member of the Society for Psychical Research, the Scientific and Medical Network and the International Association of Near-Death Studies. A prolific author of several books, his latest book is called Opening the Doors of Perception.

Anthony Peake Talks About His New Book, Opening the Doors of Perception

Patterns Of Consciousness

Caterina Barbieri - This Causes Consciousness To Fracture - from Patterns Of Consciousness LP

Speaker(s): Professor Sir Paul Collier | Following the publication of his latest book, The Future of Capitalism, Paul Collier will discuss this book and his wider work. Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and a Professorial Fellow of St Antony’s College. From 1998–2003 he took a five-year Public Service leave during which he was Director of the Research Development Department of the World Bank. He is currently a Professeur invité at Sciences Po and a Director of the International Growth Centre. He has written for the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. His research covers the causes and consequences of civil war; the effects of aid and the problems of democracy in low-income and natural resources rich societies; urbanisation in low-income countries; private investment in African infrastructure and changing organisational cultures. Tim Besley is School Professor of Economics of Political Science and W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics in the Department of Economics at LSE. STICERD (@STICERD_LSE) brings together world-class academics to put economics and related disciplines at the forefront of research and policy. Founded in 1978 by the renowned Japanese economist Michio Morishima, with donations from Suntory and Toyota, we are a thriving research community within the LSE.

The Future of Capitalism [Audio]

with Prasad Akella, Paul Daughtery (@pauldaugh) and Frank Chen (@withfries2)

What is different on that factory floor from Henry Ford to today? In this conversation, Prasad Akella, Founder and CEO of Drishti; Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer of Accenture, and author of the recently published Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI; and a16z operating partner Frank Chen, talk about how the introduction of automation from Henry Ford to now co-bots and AI all change the work we do in manufacturing and beyond. What are the skills that we’ll need in the future?  What kinds of new information is available, and what new needs -- for dynamic adaptive processes, for example? What are the new tool chains and core (organizational and technical) habits of ML/AI-centric companies of the future?

a16z Podcast: Automation + Work, Human + Machine

What are the implications of our online lives? Most of our online steps leave traces of data about us, and by this time, we know it. And yet, it’s still hard to grasp how it all works, what’s behind it, who can own it, who can access it? Let’s take a step back and look at big data from a sociological point of view, not Silicon Valley’s. What kind of society produces big data, and what society emerges from the corporate use of it? What kind of “self”, that takes into account constant use of apps and search engines? More questions and answers in this episode with sociologist Irina Culic. 

Irina Culic teaches at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Babeș Bolyai. Her topics of research have been: nationalism; interethnic relations, minority politics in Romania and Hungary; political and cultural elites. This episode is a conversation in preparation of a course she will be teaching on Big Data. 

Producers: Vlad Bejinariu and Maria Martelli
Supported by: Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Babeș Bolyai
Studio: Radio EBS (special thanks to Flaviu Petean)
Soundtrack: KindStudios
Visuals: Maria Martelli

17 - Managing society and the self: a sociological view on big data

Should I get a good grade or just pass the exam? 
Since we begin to be part of an educational system we encounter the pressure of having good grades in order to have a better future, a better life, learning that exposing ourselves to anxiety and stress is good for us. But how much of this narrative is healthy and how much of it is actually constructed for certain dispositions? How much of these are actually enforcements of the larger political and economic context? 

The Baccalaureate is around the corner, so this episode is for all of you who have struggled to remember that multiple choice answer, struggled to achieve that high level testing, struggle to design a functioning system, struggled to make a better learning experience for the students, it’s time to relax and start to deconstruct.  

In a very specific context, such as South Korea, in a larger neoliberal frame, English education becomes a necessary skill for students to prosper in an atmosphere of increasing global competition.  The computer courses and the English classes in the new curriculum, which initially were thought to help in international competitiveness, now become the norm of succeeding.

Our guest is George Baca, professor at the Graduate School of International Studies Dong-A University in South Korea, currently writing a book about the English Education and the Politics of Globalization. George also held a course at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Babeș Bolyai on neoliberalism and keynesianism titled “preludes to neoliberalism”.

Producers: Maria Martelli and Pati Murg
Supported by: Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Babeș Bolyai
Studio: Radio EBS (special thanks to Flaviu Petean)
Soundtrack: KindStudios
Visuals: Pati Murg and Maria Martelli 

Breakdown:

00:00 - 10:50 Pati and Maria talk about the Romanian Bacalaureate 
10:50 - 17:00 George Baca on life in South Korea and curiosities that led to the study of globalization and education
17:20 - 28:25 	English Education, international testing and anxiety
28:30 - 36:20 	Students as political objects, the market and the state  
36:20 - 41:00	Gender and education, order and management
41:00 - 47:20	Business, manuals and cultures of learning
47:20 - 55:40	Household debt, economic disparity and life in South Korea
55:40 - 1:03:00 Politics of education & teaching 
1:03:00 - End: Personal trajectories of learning

18 - Anxiety, education and the nation: high stakes testing in global society

Munca într-o organizație cu un număr mare de angajați presupune necesitatea aplicării unei culturi organizaționale puternice, menite să integreze și motiveze lucrătorii altfel alienați de produsul direct al muncii lor. Cu toate acestea, nu putem pierde din vedere și faptul că, pe lângă diversitatea și 'fericirea' angajaților, cultura corporativă urmărește sporirea sau menținerea profitului și a angajaților, astăzi mai flexibili în posibilitatea schimbării jobului. Stăm de vorbă cu lect. univ. dr. Veronica Mateescu despre cercetările ei pe subiectul semnificației culturii organizaționale în firme mari și mici, dar și despre fațetele managementului diversității.

1:40 Documentația și pregătirea profesională
4:40 Ce este cultura organizațională? Definiție și concepte
6:50 Când apare conceptul de cultura organizațională?
10:10 Cultura organizațională și flexibilizarea muncii
16:40 Managementul culturii organizaționale și instrumentalizarea acestuia pentru productivitate
24:00 Diversitatea "culturală" și reflexia ei în organizații
35:10 Mizele politice de la locul de muncă
36:20 Despre alte forme de organizații
41:00 Despre combinarea sociologiei și psihologiei

Referințe: 
Veronica Maria Mateescu, 2017, Cultural Diversity in the Workplace - Discourse and Perspectives, în On-line Journal Modelling the New Europe, no. 24/2017 
Veronica Maria Mateescu, 2009, Cultura organizațională. Aspecte teoretice și metodologice, Cluj-Napoca, EFES, ISBN: 978-606-526-040-5

Producători: Karol Pataki și Marina Mironica
Spațiu de înregistrare: EBS Radio cu mulțumiri pentru Flaviu Petean
Soundtrack: KindStudios
Imagine: Karol Pataki

20 - Cultura organizațională, de la diversitate la profit

#MorningGlory a fost la un târg de nunți din București și i-a întrebat pe cei prezenți acolo care este cea mai tâmpită tradiție de care vor ține cont la nunta lor.

Ilustrație Ioana Luiza

Cea mai tâmpită tradiție de nuntă

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