There is an ecological transformation unfolding in the places we love and come from. On a front edge of this reality, which will affect us all, Colette Pichon Battle is a singular model of brilliance and graciousness of mind and spirit and action. And to be with her is to open to the way the stories we tell have blunted us to the courage we’re called to, and the joy we must nurture, as life force and fuel for the work ahead. As a young woman, she left her home state of Louisiana and land to which her family belonged for generations, to go to college and become a powerful lawyer in Washington, D.C. Then in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina made, as she has said, “a crack in the universe,” she returned home to a whole new life and calling. Colette Pichon Battle is a vivid embodiment of the new forms societal shift is taking in our world — led by visionary pragmatists close to the ground, in particular places, persistently and lovingly learning and leading the way for us all.
This classic on shamanism pioneered the modern shamanic renaissance. It is the foremost resource and reference on shamanism. Now, with a new introduction and a guide to current resources, anthropologist Michael Harner provides the definitive handbook on practical shamanism – what it is, where it came from, how you can participate. According to Carlos Castaneda, “Harner knows what he is talking about.”
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This cloudy, ominous structure is CG 4, a cometary globule nicknamed ‘God’s Hand’. It is located in the southern sky, about 1,300 light years away. CG 4 is one of many cometary globules present within the Milky Way, and how these objects get their distinct form is still a matter of debate among astronomers. It’s an emission nebula, indicating a star-forming region. One unique feature of the nebula is the arm-shaped structure stretching into space. It measures about eight light-years long. The head is dense, opaque, and lit by a nearby bright star.
New Thinking Allowed with • May 18, 2024 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 1987. It will remain public for only one week. The native shaman learns to interact with the spirits of the underworld and the higher worlds in order to intercede in behalf of humans in the “middle world.” Michael Harner, Ph.D., has authored The Jivaro, Hallucinogens and Shamanism and The Way of the Shaman. He is currently actively involved in training westerners throughout the world to become shamanic healers. 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. Free month of the classic Thinking Allowed streaming channel for New Thinking Allowed subscribers only. Use code THINKFREELY.
Democracy Now! In 2007, Jimmy Carter spoke with Democracy Now! and described the situation in Israel-Palestine as “apartheid.” While he faced …
Islam Channel • Dec 8, 2023 • Former US President Jimmy Carter says “the Americans don’t want to know and the Israelis don’t want to know what is going on inside Palestine. It’s a terrible human rights persecution…”
Netflix • Jun 16, 2022 Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and New York Times best-selling author Michael Pollan present this documentary series event in four parts, each focused on a different mind-altering substance: LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, and mescaline. With Pollan as our guide, we journey to the frontiers of the new psychedelic renaissance – and look back at almost-forgotten historical context – to explore the potential of these substances to heal and change minds as well as culture. How to Change Your Mind is directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Alison Ellwood and two-time Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Lucy Walker.
“We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It’s so clear, you see, that if we’re to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it forever..” ― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (January 29, 1860 – July 15, 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Wikipedia
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove • May 16, 2024 Mike Jay is a freelance journalist and cultural historian. He is author of many books including Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind; Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century; High Society: The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs in History, Science and Culture; Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic; This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond; and The Influencing Machine: James Tilly and the Air Loom. His website is https://mikejay.net/ Here he focuses on the long history, within western science, of researchers exploring the effects and effectiveness of different drugs through self-experimentation. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:08 The Royal Society 00:09:53 A microscope into the mind 00:14:13 Sir Humphry Davy and nitrous oxide 00:18:32 William James 00:29:16 The romantics 00:36:57 Sigmund Freud and cocaine 00:39:56 Aldous Huxley and psychedelics 00:48:20 Leary, Alpert, Metzner and The Psychedelic Experience 00:50:30 Carl Jung and active imagination 00:52:53 The psychedelic renaissance 01:00:47 Conclusion Edited subtitles for this video are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. (Recorded on April 18, 2024)
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