Can we zoom out and get to a place of Love? Zara Yacob, and many great thinkers throughout the centuries believe it is the only way to salvation. Yacob was the first to posit that thinking and rationality actually start with the heart. What stops us the from having love and compassion as a starting place? Perhaps it's the trauma defense mechanisms we build to protect ourselves.

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.”

― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

Ain't I a Woman?

Seventeenth century Rationalist: On the rationality of the heart. by Tedros Kiros

The Meditations of Zara Yaquob - Tedros Kiros

The Human Experience - Robert Firestone Ph.D

The Principles Behind the Human Experience - Michael Neill

Christopher Hamilton is a General Manager and hospitality management professional who is using technology and creativity to invigorate the hospitality space, and create a boutique experience for guests. What is a Ferla Bike? What is a Ghost Kitchen? What does the future hold for food service?

"Self-motivated, career oriented professional that has a love for hospitality with a hands on management approach. A team player that is committed to continuous quality improvements and promoting a positive team environment in the workplace. A passion for developing and mentoring young leaders.

Topics: Food Vending, Yo Kai Ramen Machines, Ghost Kitchens, Ferla Bikes, Cryptocurrency, Staking, ADA, Artificial Intelligence

Life has a rhythm to it, and once you understand that you can learn to flow with it. Derrick Tillman-Kelly PhD is the perfect example of that. Through his willingness to constantly fill his plate with more in support of others yet remaining authentic to himself, Derrick has found himself ascending to levels of influence with the support of real, genuine mentors and advocates. He is a lifelong learner who listens to the fullness of people to help guide his relationships and interactions. He sees people as people. He likes his relationships true not transactional. And you may catch him in some black jeans at work on the right day because that’s him. He has man identities - he is a Black, Christian, gay man; a member of Kappa Alpha Psi, a Trustee, and a board chair. And a great human.

He has a keen interest in critically engaging campus constituents to improve student success and the socialization of senior level administrators. He has experience in a variety of functional areas including financial aid, fraternity and sorority life and first-year programs, to name a few. Derrick earned his doctorate (PhD) in educational policy and leadership with a specialization in higher education and student affairs and a graduate interdisciplinary specialization in sexuality studies from Ohio State, his master’s degree in higher education and student affairs from Indiana University, and his bachelor’s degree in biology and cognitive science from Illinois Wesleyan University.

His research interests consider three primary aspects of higher education: (a) leadership and organizational socialization of administrators in higher education; (b) minority serving institutions; and (c) impact of identity intersections on academic and social experiences of college students with specific consideration of race, gender, sexuality, and spirituality as social identities.

Derrick L. Tillman-Kelly, PhD, has been named chief of staff in The Ohio State University College of Engineering to serve as principal advisor to Dean Ayanna Howard.

How We Got Here: Racism + Higher Education

Every so often I get in my head. About so many things, but the big looming question is - What is all this? What is life? When I get stuck in my own head, I try to turn it around. This episode is an exploration of the process of turning it around, getting unstuck, and redefining the focus. I use Richard P. Feynman’s impromptu speech “Fun to Imagine” as a supplement and vessel to steer a clear path.

Your Facts Are Fragile

Seeker of truth, Randy Gibson talks about how dogma is dividing society, and how we must come to realize that our information is more powerful together. We must consider all perspectives. What are the unintended consequences if we don't? If we make decisions in haste without thinking long term? Why is it that people are so quick to believe the popular "science" when we have seen many examples of corruption in science in the past? 

As early as the 1950s, the groups shared scientists and publicists to downplay dangers of smoking and climate change

Mentions: Alan Watts, Edward Bernays, Carl Jung, Sam Harris, and more

In this episode I join Ronald Gibson on his podcast Short Life Advice w/Ronald Gibson:

Ryan Danley shares his incredible story how he overcame a brutal snow mobile accident that left him paralyzed in 2019, he tells us how we should always carry the mentality "Why not me?", and how a book(s) literally saved his life.

Books Shared:

As a Man Thinketh-James Allen

Man's Search For Meaning-Viktor Frankl

You Are Here & The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh

Thinking and growing rich by Napoleon Hill

Bhagavad Gita

The magic of believing Claude Bristol

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind- Joseph Murphy

Host of the podcast Danley and Friends

https://open.spotify.com/show/5ivyP2vxLDxJrjcdm9HW9G?si=7FuCV6CyQ3emBQx9VADjwA&dl_branch=1

Covid Stats mentioned:

-Israel shows vaccinated are 13x as likely to be infected and 27x to have symptomatic infections compared to those previously infected -study --

-After recovery from COVID-19, 95% of the previously infected have lasting immunity after infection.” -study

-Israeli study shows those who were vaccinated were 6.72X more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection-link

-17 years after being infected with SARS, natural immunity protects from COVID-19 -study

-J&J's COVID-19 vaccine data demonstrated that naturally immune persons are protected at nearly 5X greater than from the vaccine.

Last episode I discussed the difficulty of communicating. In this episode, my wife joins me to discuss our approach to communicating and offer practical tips:

Step 1 - Prep for Convo

Step 2 - The Dance

Step 3 - The Follow-Up

It can be stated, with practically no qualification, that people in general do not know how to listen. They have ears that hear very well, but seldom have they acquired the necessary aural skills which would allow those ears to be used effectively for what is called listening.

In general, people feel that concentration while listening is a greater problem than concentration during any other form of personal communication. Actually, listening concentration is more difficult. When we listen, concentration must be achieved despite a factor that is peculiar to aural communication, one of which few people are aware.

Basically, the problem is caused by the fact that we think much faster than we talk. The average rate of speech for most Americans is around 125 words per minute. This rate is slow going for the human brain, which is made up of more than 13 billion cells and operates in such a complicated but efficient manner that it makes the great, modern digital computers seem slow-witted. People who study the brain are not in complete agreement on how it functions when we think, but most psychologists believe that the basic medium of thought is language. Certainly words play a large part in our thinking processes, and the words race through our brains at speeds much higher than 125 words per minute. This means that, when we listen, we ask our brain to receive words at an extremely slow pace compared with its capabilities. - HBR

Why is communication SO HARD!?

Sources

Code Switching

Understanding Listening

What is Cognitive Dissonance?

Cosmic Consciousness

The Six Steps to Cosmic Consciousness

We Remember

Speaking Science: Why People Don’t Hear What You Say

An exploration into the layers of thoughts that helped me pull myself out of a dark hole after a snowmobiling accident that left me paralyzed below my chest.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

800-273-8255

Clips from:

The Hidden Power by Thomas Troward

Alan Watts - how to see through the game - the secret to life :: happiness

Neville Goddard- The God You Seek Is Within You

Man's Search for Meaning audiobook—Viktor E Frankl

As A Man Thinketh (1903) by James Allen

The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind- Audio Book

The Magic of Believing Claude Bristol (complete)

After a health scare, Ryan Bartlett set out on a mission to naturally restore his health. On his quest for a method, he traced the cause of his problems and many problems in the world to food, and the medium in which most of our food is grown - soil. Because of modern farming practices, our soil is dying, and Ryan believes that in order to save the world we must restore our soil to a richer state. He believes the way to do this is through "regenerative farming," or "regenerative agriculture"

“Regenerative Agriculture” describes farming and grazing practices that, among other benefits, reverse climate change by rebuilding soil organic matter and restoring degraded soil biodiversity – resulting in both carbon drawdown and improving the water cycle. The loss of the world’s fertile soil and biodiversity, along with the loss of indigenous seeds and knowledge, pose a mortal threat to our future survival. According to soil scientists, at current rates of soil destruction (i.e. decarbonization, erosion, desertification, chemical pollution), within 50 years we will not only suffer serious damage to public health due to a qualitatively degraded food supply characterized by diminished nutrition and loss of important trace minerals, but we will literally no longer have enough arable topsoil to feed ourselves.

The key to regenerative agriculture is that it not only “does no harm” to the land but actually improves it, using technologies that regenerate and revitalize the soil and the environment. Regenerative agriculture leads to healthy soil, capable of producing high quality, nutrient dense food while simultaneously improving, rather than degrading land, and ultimately leading to productive farms and healthy communities and economies. It is a dynamic and holistic, incorporating permaculture and organic farming practices, including conservation tillage, cover crops, crop rotation, composting, mobile animal shelters and pasture cropping, to increase food production, farmers’ income and especially, topsoil.

16 days of Conscious Love guided meditation course

https://www.facebook.com/groups/540124147161119/

Plant-based Fake Meats vs. Grass-fed Meats By Stephan van Vliet at Duke University:

Bionutreint food association for the data on nutrition variances in veggies: https://bionutrient.org/site/

 Kiss the Ground documentary on Netflix: https://kissthegroundmovie.com/

Farmer’s Footprint - https://farmersfootprint.us/