This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosophical short story writer, essayist, and poet Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Circular Ruins" which can be found in Collected Fictions. It focuses on the narrative and the key philosophical themes of this tale. It centers on a sorcerer who has the desire to dream another human being into reality, which he does at the abandoned temple of the fire-god. After a failure, he dreams meticulously all of the organs of the person's body, but is unable to give him consciousness, which the fire-god miraculously does for him.

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Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins - Sadler's Lectures

Mariela Espino Zuppa lives in Walyalup/Fremantle but is originally from Mexico. Her work aims to bridge divides—between ‘here’ and ‘there’, and ‘us’ and ‘them’—fostering curiosity, connection, and systems of reciprocal care. In this episode, she shares her journey emigrating to the USA and later, Australia. Her deep desire to find a place she could belong to, where she would finally be accepted, is confronted by Australia’s difficult past.

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Truth Telling in Walyalup is a collection of stories from Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians that were shared in local resident’s backyards all around Walyalup/Fremantle. The stories were reflections about Australia's shared colonial history and imagining a better future toward reconciliation. These stories were produced in partnership with and made possible by generous funding from the City of Fremantle. Find out more about their reconciliation journey and truth telling program at www.fremantle.wa.gov.au. 

To support Centre for Stories in helping more important truths to be told and share, please consider donating or partnering with us. You can find out more about Centre for Stories at www.centreforstories.com. 

This episode was narrated and produced by Luisa Mitchell from Centre for Stories. Original music and sound engineering by Mason Vellios. Live recording by Cobie Mason. 

Truth Telling in Walyalup: Mariela Espino Zuppa

Knowing the tenses of our reality in Christ

The Tenses of our Reality

"Filtered Reality" explores the contradiction between online persona and real life. Through honest lyrics and emotional delivery, it captures the exhausting experience of maintaining a perfect social media presence while struggling with real-life challenges. The song speaks to everyone who's ever posted a smiling selfie during a breakdown or crafted captions that hide their truth. From designer tags to rent checks, it contrasts the glamorous online world with raw reality, questioning which version of ourselves is real in this digital age.

Filtered Reality

Soundtrack for coming-of-age, be a little bit better every day.

You Be You

Dave Brisbin 12.15.24
What is it we’re supposed to see in Christmas? Talk about a mixed message... Only two gospels mention Jesus’ birth at all, and the few details given depict a birth so ordinary to parents so poor that those closest didn’t even make room for them in the inn. Enter shepherds and Magi...here the gospels spend a bit more time, because their reactions were anything but ordinary. 

What did they see that everyone else missed?

We only see what we’re prepared to see. Impoverished shepherds spending their lives in silence and solitude with their flocks, grew a consciousness that allowed them to see significance in the smallest detail. Magi—wealthy, educated advisors to the king—were used to power and influence. Yet these magi had retained a humility and vulnerability that allowed them to see the promise of their star while still unformed in a poor Hebrew infant. If we’re willing, the magi are showing us wealthy, educated ones how to get small enough to see Christmas.

Christmas has a way of bringing vague, submerged feelings to the surface the way hook and line bring up fish. We find ourselves grasping squirming emotions that should have nothing to do with what we think Christmas is supposed to mean, what we remember it used to mean. We imprinted the meaning of Christmas through a child’s eyes, then subtly mourn its loss each year through adult eyes.

Christmas hasn’t changed; the possibility of Christmas returns every December. We have changed. We’ve lost the pace of childhood, forgotten the smallest details. Maybe Christmas-as-remembered happens exactly when we stop trying to make it happen. Maybe when we stop running faster and faster, trying to catch the stored experience of Christmas, meaning has a chance to catch up and catch us. 

We can’t choose the pace of life around us anymore than we can alter the course of a storm. But we can choose our own pace within it. Of course we will always find our God as a child. Unassuming. Unformed and always forming. Are we prepared to see?

Every time we meet our God is Christmas morning.
The babe is in the manger.
The star is in the east.
And we are the Magi, and they are us.

We Magi

Hailing from the UK, label head honcho 'DIS:TURBED' lands with a free download to cap off the year in cold Identity fashion. Calibrating his style with a more energetic approach, he showcases a taster of whats to come in 2025.

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DIS:TURBED - Calibrate [FREE DOWNLOAD]

Matthew Dicks makes stories come alive. He began competing in live storytelling events in New York City in 2011 and is a record 58-time Moth StorySLAM winner and 9-time GrandSLAM champion. Fortune 500 companies such as Johnson &amp; Johnson, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Slack, and Salesforce hire Matt to inject the power of storytelling into their sales and marketing, corporate training programs, onboarding processes, and customer service systems. Listen to Matthew, and you, too, will become captivated by the power of storytelling. Learn how to find, collect, store, and craft a great story that will be a game-changer for you, your leadership and your company. &nbsp;  LINKS &nbsp;  Matthew Dicks' website  &nbsp;  &nbsp; The Mojo Sessions website  &nbsp; The Mojo Sessions on Patreon  Full transcripts of the show (plus time codes) are available on Patreon. &nbsp; The Mojo Sessions on Facebook  &nbsp; Gary on LinkedIn  &nbsp; Gary on Twitter  &nbsp; The Mojo Sessions on Instagram  &nbsp; If you like what you hear, we'd be grateful for a review on  or . Happy listening! &nbsp; © 2024 Gary Bertwistle. All Rights Reserved. &nbsp; &nbsp;

EP 525: Matthew Dicks - The Building Blocks of Great Storytelling

"Stepping Stones to Belonging" explores finding belonging in a new city through small acts of courage and connection. Through intimate details and honest reflection, it captures the gradual transformation of strange places into familiar ground. The arrangement supports natural storytelling, following the journey from leaving familiar routines to creating new ones. Each scene reveals another layer of belonging, while specific details like mismatched mugs and neighbor's packages become powerful symbols of community building, speaking to anyone who's ever had to make a new place feel like home.

Stepping Stones  To Belonging

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Music takes me to new worlds. Life is the best teacher. Writing about life is a challenge and experience is what guides me. Loves, pains, disappointments, sadness, joy, despair, hope, melancholy, happiness, all these feelings burn in my veins and make me create.
You all welcome to follow my journey.

Audio podcasts delivered at theeffect church in San Clemente, CA. theeffect is a community of imperfect people working together to find the emotional recovery and spiritual transformation that is theeffect of God’s love by unlearning limiting perceptions, beliefs, and compulsions, and engaging a first century Jesus in a non-religious and transforming way. See more at theeffect.org.

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Centre for Stories is a vibrant, inclusive literary arts and cultural organisation based in Perth, Western Australia. We use storytelling to inspire social cohesion and improve understanding of diverse communities. We cultivate stories that inspire thought, spark empathy and challenge intolerance, with a focus on empowering people whose experiences and perspectives are often marginalised.

True North with Dave Brisbin is a podcast about the things that can bring you back to center, whether God, spirituality, community or family or all of them. Never esoteric or abstract for its own sake; always practical and full of common sense, we’re interested in exploring the effect of what we believe on our lives and questioning what we believe in light of the deep connection we’re meant to live. Dave Brisbin is an author, speaker, coach, and songwriter. He is the teaching pastor of theeffect, a faith community and recovery ministry in San Clemente, CA and executive director of Encompass Recovery, an addiction treatment center in San Juan Capistrano. For more on finding deeper spiritual expression free from limiting beliefs and behavior, go to davebrisbin.com.

Identity Records has a laser focus on bringing the best in well produced stripped back minimal drum and bass. This label is one that will serve as an anchor point for future dark drum and bass, concentrating on cultivating a sound curving platform diverse lineup of dark and minimal producers.

Tracks supported by Dj Marky, Arkaik, Bredren, WIngz, Sustance, Was A Be, Overview Music, Onyx Recordings & more

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