Leaving Valhalla

The first step in the healing process of Trauma and Karma is to create a safe healing space. Recordings from a weekend about trauma-informed Dharma practice.

Karma and Trauma - Guided meditation into a safe place

Karma and Trauma - Part 4

Meeting your future self. Recordings from a weekend about trauma-informed Dharma practice.

Karma and Trauma - Part 5

The key to heal trauma and purify karma. Recordings from a weekend about trauma-informed Dharma practice.

Karma and Trauma - Part 6

Close your eyes, put your headphones on and enjoy a few moments in the Amazon rainforest with this soundscape.

Amongst the plethora of birds (not to mention those pesky mosquitos) listen to members of the Yanomami tribe carrying out their daily lives in the heart of the rainforest.

But the Yanomami's lands and lives are now being destroyed by illegal gold mining.  Please support their fight for survival by emailing the Brazilian authorities: www.svlint.org/YanoSounds

Sounds of the Rainforest – the Yanomami

Fox News's fabulously popular right wing pundit Tucker Carlson has ratcheted up his show's anti-China propaganda yet again, introducing his interview with Brazil's rightist president Jair Bolsonaro with a psychotic rant against Beijing that, were it about Moscow, would have looked perfectly at home among even the most demented mainstream liberal punditry at the height of Russiagate hysteria around 2018.

Before attempting to help Bolsonaro reverse his abysmal polling against his left-wing opponent Lula da Silva in a presidential election this coming October, Carlson led with the completely unevidenced claim that "China has been busy with its own agenda—taking over the world."

Reading by Tim Foley.

Tucker Carlson Is As Much A Propagandist As Anyone Else In MSM

Guitar cover of September Fifteenth by Lyle Mays and Pat Metheny from the album As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls

September Fifteenth (Lyle Mays/Pat Metheny)

Dedicated to A

Clarinet: Sameer Kodra

Trumpets: Martin Ayele, Jason Burke

Piano: Jiri Hos

Drums: Gregor Havel

Vucciria

Everyone who acts like it's a new and unprecedented horror whenever Putin reminds the west that Mutually Assured Destruction still stands is just admitting that they never understood what's at stake in this proxy war and always thought this was some kind of fucking game.

"Oh my God, he's saying he might use nukes!" Yeah that's what happens when you start a war with a fucking nuclear-armed nation, dipshit. That's why you're a fucking moron for yelling at those of us who've been calling for de-escalation and detente. Change how you are. Stop cheerleading this insane game of nuclear chicken and begin calling for de-escalation.

It's so crazy how people pretend the US wouldn't use nukes in response to the exact same type of attacks that Putin is warning against. Like we all know this isn't some weird new threat that Vladimir Putin invented, right? Do we understand that this is the very reason antiwar activists have spent years warning against this exact confrontation and calling for detente instead?

This shouldn't scan as something new for you. If Putin reiterating the longstanding principle of Mutually Assured Destruction makes you freak out like something new is being said, it's because you didn't pay attention in history class. If you were previously unaware that the threat of nuclear annihilation was baked into this proxy war from the very beginning, that just means it's time to reassess your support for this proxy war.

Yes this situation is insanely dangerous. No that's not because of anything Putin has been saying.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Idiots Are Just Discovering That This War Is Dangerous

I don't desire a future for humanity like the ones imagined by our culturally designated future-imaginers. I don't want humans living in Elon Musk Mars colonies or Jeff Bezos space cylinders. I don't want us to fly out into the stars, to disappear into virtual reality universes, or to move away from our humanness by becoming cybernetic organisms.

Not yet anyway. Not for a long time. Not until we've done what we need to do here first.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Image by Adobe Stock.

I Don't Want A Sci-Fi Future

Stephan Wormland, MA in clinical psychology and trained in Gestalt therapy. He has studied and practiced meditation in multiple Buddhist traditions for over 30 years and spent altogether 5 years in meditation retreats. Stephan was a monk in the Tibetan tradition for 11 years and teaches meditation in Buddhist centers in Europe.

Karma and Trauma - Part 6

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