Avalon Mentors

Avalon Mentors

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Avalon Mentors episodes

  • Ep000 Opening Bumper Music

    The original music is my own performance of a piece by 16th century composer, Luis de Narvaez, which I first heard on this excellent album by Rolf Lislevand.

    Various clips over the music create a montage of reflections on what it means to be human.  Here are the clips:

    Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet

    Psalm 8:4-6 (My own reading)

    Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats (read by Cyril Cusack)

    Walker Percy - "Lost in the Cosmos" (My own reading)

    Alan Watts - "You Might Not Be Who You Think You Are"

    Mel Gibson as Hamlet reciting the "What a Piece of Work is a Man" from Shakespeare's Hamlet Act 2 scene 2

    William Hazlitt paraphrasing Aristotle (My own reading)

    Coleman Barks reading Rumi "Only Breath"

    Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty in the movie "Bladerunner"

    Psalm 139:14 (My own reading)

    Hogarth Hughes (Eli Marienthal) speaking to the Giant in "The Iron Giant"




    3 min
  • Ep002 Introduction

    Each episode of SCRIBBLEBIBBLE attempts to bring to bear the great works of human culture from the past upon the dilemma of living in the present age. 

    Then thus replied the prophetess divine:

    “O goddess-born of great Anchises' line,
    The gates of hell are open night and day;
    Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
    But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
    In this the task and mighty labor lies."

    -Vergil; the Aeneid Bk VI:124-129

     “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few”

    ― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice 

    Each episode of SCRIBBLEBIBBLE attempts to bring to bear the great works of human culture from the past upon the dilemma of living in the present age. 

    Scribble Bibble at Blogspot

    Music by Aitua: "Wings II Animato"

    The Patreon Page:

    https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21129179

    16 min
  • Ep 001 The Dark Wood

    Each episode of AVALON attempts to bring to bear the great works of human culture from the past upon the dilemma of living in the present age.

    • Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy in the early 14th century.  His extended poem consisting of 14,233 lines divided into three cantiche of 33 cantos each helped establish the Tuscan language and granted us one of the most vivid articulations of the afterlife, hell, purgatory, heaven.  But what relevance does this work have for anyone today?  Who can read that many lines of poetry?  Who even takes these realms of the afterlife seriously anymore?  In this episode we briefly examine that initial entrance into the interior journey toward meaning, purpose, and eventual freedom that each one of us actually does crave in our life.

      • The Patreon Page:

      https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21129179

      16 min

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