Rune Soup Streamed live on Dec 10, 2022 It’s that time of year again! Join Austin and Gordon for a bracing look at your terrifying, beautiful future. Or at least the next six months of it. And also low key the next decade.

New Thinking Allo • Jan 6, 2023 This video is a special release from the original Thinking Allowed series that ran on public television from 1986 until 2002. It was recorded in about 1996.  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago.  He is author of several books including Flow, The Evolving Self and Creativity.  Here he discusses the results of over thirty years researching the lives of highly creative individuals. He points out that creativity involves a lifelong commitment that begins with one’s personal life and moves beyond to the larger cultural domain. He notes that his data does not support many common images about creative persons. Now you can watch all of the programs from the original Thinking Allowed Video Collection, hosted by Jeffrey Mishlove. Subscribe to the new Streaming Channel (https://thinkingallowed.vhx.tv/) and watch more than 350 programs now, with more, previously unreleased titles added weekly. New!! Free month of the classic Thinking Allowed streaming channel for New Thinking Allowed subscribers only. Use code THINKFREELY.

lump: (verb) To endure something unpleasant that cannot be changed: “Like it or lump it.” [Late 16th Century]

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“Become love incarnate.”

–Thane, Transcendentalism, Lesson 1

Thane was the Founder and first Dean of The Prosperos. He was also a well-known figure in the fields of psychology, philosophy, education, consciousness, religion, and cosmology. (theprosperos.org)

Chicago Humanities Festival Dec 29, 2022 In the wake of the midterm elections, join former presidential candidate, political activist, and spiritual thought leader Marianne Williamson for an intimate conversation with Sen. Nina Turner about the state of American politics. In an era of divisiveness, Williamson comes to CHF with a new vision for American politics built on social responsibility, democracy, and deep human values. 

“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.” HH Dalai Lama XIV (b. 1935)

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR DAILY REFLECTION BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY

This image was created by physicist Brian Josephson, a New Thinking Allowed guest, who received the Nobel Prize in 1972 for his prediction of the Josephson effect (made in 1962 when he was a 22-year-old PhD student at Cambridge University). Here we are looking at the pattern of raindrops on his window. In the background is a tree (out of focus). You can view our interview on The Unification of Mind and Matter.

The Astrology Podcast • Jan 6, 2023 In this clip from our year ahead astrology forecast for 2023 we talk about what the upcoming transit of Pluto in Aquarius might mean, and how fears surrounding technology may be a core theme. Watch the full episode that this clip is from: https://youtu.be/eLDVTOL4TQk

The Rational National • Nov 15, 2016 This passionate talk from Dr. James O’Keefe MD gives us a deeply personal and fascinating insight into why homosexuality is indeed a necessary and extraordinarily useful cog in nature’s wheel of perfection. James H O’Keefe MD, is a Board Certified Cardiologist and Director of both the Charles & Barbara Duboc Cardio Health & Wellness Center and the Preventive Cardiology service at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute. He is also Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His postgraduate training included a cardiology fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr O’Keefe is board-certified in Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Nuclear Cardiology, and Cardiac CT Imaging. He is consistently ranked among the ‘Top Doctor’ lists regionally and nationally as one of America’s Top Rated Physicians in Cardiology. He has been named as one of USA Today’s Most Influential Doctors. Dr O’Keefe has contributed more than 300 articles to the medical literature and has authored best-selling cardiovascular books for health professionals including: The Complete Guide to ECGs (which is used for Cardiology Board Certification), Dyslipidemia Essentials, and Diabetes Essential. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

Astro Butterfly Jan 6, 2023

On January 6th, 2023 we have a Full Moon in Cancer.

The Moon loves being in Cancer, her home sign. The Full Moons in Cancer are some of the most emotional Full Moons. When the Moon is in Cancer, we all find it easier to feel and express our emotions.

Joy, excitement, sadness, anger – tears of joy or tears of sadness – Cancer makes us “feel” our emotions. Emotions are meant to be felt, and the Full Moon in Cancer is an opportunity to embrace our feelings even if – in fact, especially if – we don’t usually feel comfortable doing so.

Our emotions are our body’s way to show us what’s important to us. When we hold back our emotions, we withhold our deepest truth. We are who we are because of what moves us. When we stop feeling, we forget who we are.

When we have a Full Moon in Cancer, the Sun is in the opposite sign, Capricorn. During the sober Capricorn season we need our Cancer emotional compass more than ever. Without it, we can’t reach the summit.

Full Moon In Cancer – The “I” In the Middle

Cancer is our roots – where we come from, our culture, our early upbringing.

Capricorn is the summit – what we aspire to become, the person we aim to be.

The Cancer/Capricorn axis is one of the 2 cardinal axes, and it shows how our environment shapes our identity.

The other cardinal axis is the Aries/Libra axis, or the axis of “I am”. Aries is the conscious part of our identity, while Libra is that part of our identity we project and seek for in others.

Aries squares the Cancer/Capricorn axis, suggesting that our identity (Aries) is the midpoint of our upbringing (Cancer) and our ideal self (Capricorn).

We’re not just a genetic replica of our parents, but we are not that ideal Self either. We are somewhere in the middle. We are something in between.

Full Moon In Cancer – Growing Pains

Our identity is continuously unfolding, and growing pains are a natural part of the process.

Chiron in Aries is at the apex of the Full Moon opposition. At the Full Moon, the tension of the Cancer/Capricorn opposition will be released through Chiron in Aries.

The Full Moon will trigger our identity wound (Chiron in Aries) but it will also offer us tools and approaches to look at this wound with a fresh set of eyes (sextile Uranus).

Our identity wound – a wound we are all born with – purposefully pushes our buttons, because it’s in the process of embracing our dual nature that we can become our most authentic self.

The Full Moon is opposite Mercury retrograde in Capricorn, inviting us to take a closer look at our ideal Self. Who do you want to be, and why? Why is that Ideal Self so compelling to you?

Often, we want to become the opposite of what we have been brought up to: “I don’t want to be like my mother”, “I don’t want to be like my father”. This approach is helpful from an evolutionary perspective because it’s through exploring complementarity that we grow and evolve.

But it’s also important to recognize that the tail and the head belong to the same coin, and being ourselves is not about being either/or, but about holding the tension of the opposites and just “being”.

At the Full Moon in Cancer, allow your pure, raw emotions to guide you to your deepest self. Honor where you’ve come from. Keep looking for the stars. And surrender to the growing pains of being human.