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  • Life as Ceremony - Justin Favell [Pt 2]

    Guitarist Justin Favell and Abe continue talking about bringing ayahuasca lessons to everyday life, how plants are 'chemical plants", and explore related topics. When the wind picks up, you can hear the rustle of the coconut palms' fronds outside the windows.

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    Music | Abe's Featured Saxophone Track - "Operation Paper Clip"

    https://abeslogic.bandcamp.com/track/operation-paper-clip

    Towards a Deliberately Developmental Civilization - by Ken Wilbur and Dustin DiPerna

    http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/0947c8_77773468df5b44c7950365d6125b4501.pdf

    This Episode's Web Page (for Ep 9 + 11)

    https://genuinelyuseful.com/podcast-ep9-justin-favell

    Related Genuinely Useful podcast episodes:

    Peru Integration from the Beginning - Jayson Morris

    https://genuinelyuseful.com/podcast-ep3-jayson-morris

    Energy for a Better System - Darin Basile

    https://genuinelyuseful.com/podcast-ep5-darin-basile

    Rise2Shine Sacred Dream - Jit Vaitha

    https://genuinelyuseful.com/podcast-ep10-jit-vaitha-rise2shine-and-second-dream

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    1 hr 37 min
  • 10 Rise2Shine Sacred Dream - Jit Vaitha

    Jit and Abe talk about how the school Rise2Shine was formed despite all of the challenges in post-earthquake Haiti. At the Pine Ridge Reservation, Second Dream may only be beginning, yet there is promising momentum.

    About Jit Vaitha

    https://about.me/vaitha

    Rise2Shine

    http://rise2shine.org

    Second Dream

    https://www.seconddream.one

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    Music and Video:

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    Music: Abe's Featured Piano Instrumental

    https://abeslogic.bandcamp.com/track/longing-resolve

    Music Video: Flight to Moloka'i

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPdJ-Ps0etQ&index=5&t=0s&list=PL4ko6Pll35wpsfQohfKEqGjbd_y34u8Hl

    Related Genuinely Useful podcast episodes:

    Jayson Morris' Episode

    https://genuinelyuseful.com/podcast-ep3-jayson-morris

    Darin Basile's Episode

    https://genuinelyuseful.com/podcast-ep5-darin-basile

    This episode:

    https://genuinelyuseful.com/podcast-ep10-jit-vaitha-rise2shine-and-second-dream

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    1 hr 26 min
  • Life as Ceremony - Justin Favell [Pt 1]

    Musicians Justin Favell and Abe Vandenberg recorded this "luxurious" episode on Maui. In Part 1 we catch up, discuss moving one's life for another person, our musical influences from Branford Marsalis, the greater purposes of music in different cultures, revisionist Tesla history, science and spirituality/faith moving towards the communion of religion and science...

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    Music | Abe's Featured Saxophone Track - "Of Timing"

    https://abeslogic.bandcamp.com/track/of-timing

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    Episode Web Page & Artwork

    https://genuinelyuseful.com/podcast-ep9-justin-favell

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    Documentary | Ayurveda - Art of Being

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6omt8r5K6wY

    Book | The Science Delusion / Science Set Free

    [Scientific and Medical Network Book of the Year Award Winner]

    https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/the-science-delusion-science-set-free

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    1 hr 15 min
  • Moving Across the Pacific - John Absalom

    Johnny A and I used to play inline hockey near the ocean, shoot paintballs at each other in a valley on Maui, and collaborate on custom theme music for his radio show. In this episode, we drink coffee and talk in Johnny's mostly empty house with his cats, right before he moves to Vancouver.

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    Featured music, A-Train Radio Show Theme Songs:

    https://abeslogic.bandcamp.com/album/the-a-train-radio-show-theme-songs

    Episode Page:

    https://genuinelyuseful.com/podcast-ep8-johnny-a

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    55 min
  • It's All a Question of Balance - Chris Candito

    While recording music and controlling invasive species, Chris and I have worked together for a number of years. We spoke after his recent visit to the Islands. He currently lives in Boston and plays bass in The Cole Robbie Band.

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    Featured song "Back Then is Over" written by Chris Candito, produced by Abe Vandenberg

    https://abeslogic.bandcamp.com/track/back-then-is-over

    The Cole Robbie Band

    https://www.facebook.com/colerobbieband/

    Episode Webpage:

    https://genuinelyuseful.com/podcast-ep7-chris-candito

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    1 hr 49 min
  • We're All Threads of the Fabric - Shannon Wianecki

    Shannon Wianecki is a writer and editor based on the island of Maui. She covers travel, science, culture, and food for numerous publications including BBC Travel, Smithsonian, and Hana Hou! – The Hawaiian Airlines Magazine.

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    Episode music: Abe's Logic, Turnaround (ukulele instrumental)

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    Twitter - Genuinely Useful podcast

    https://twitter.com/GenuinelyUseful

    We talk about:

    Toward a Deliberately Developmental Civilization by Dustin DiPerna and Ken Wilber

    An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization

    Hōkūleʻa - The Mālama Honua Worldwide Voyage is taking Hōkūleʻa 47,000 nautical miles to 85 ports & 26 nations, to grow a global movement toward a sustainable world

    John Ka'imikaua

    Hō'ike o Haleakalā curriculum

    Al-Anon

    Concussion Protocol

    South of the South Pacific - Tiki, taro and tupuna —finding Polynesia in Tahiti's Austral Islands. Story by Shannon Wianecki. Photos by Elyse Butler.

    Introduction to The Wind Gourd of La'amaomao

    In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin Paperback – by Erik Larson

    Episode Webpage: We're All Threads of the Fabric - Shannon Wianecki

    Shannon Wianecki's Website

    Shannon Wianecki's Instagram

    Shannon Wianecki's Twitter

    https://genuinelyuseful.com/podcast-ep6-shannon-wianecki

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    2 hr 11 min
  • Energy for a Better System - Darin Basile

    Darin and I met in the Amazon; the jungle one, not the online one. This episode we talk about dealing with noise during a retreat, Lion's Mane, and Edward Bernays (among many other musings).

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    Darin Basile has a BS in mechanical engineering and has worked as a paperboy, busboy, bike messenger, filmmaker, photographer, and currently video director/engineer for large corporate and music events. He hopes to imbue people with a sense of wonder and empathy.

    Darin is the co-creator/technical director for a fully immersive theater of paper and illustration, and Particle, an adorable, two-dimensional light being. #AugmentedReality

    Heartcorps: Riders of the Storyboard

    WATCH a live, immersive installation at Sundance New Frontier 2017

    Projection-mapped Immersive Theater Shows the Future of Live AR Performances

    Genuinely Useful podcast - Twitter links to podcast excerpts https://twitter.com/GenuinelyUseful Hear Abe's published Music on Bandcamp https://abeslogic.bandcamp.com/track/a-forward-push ---> Hear All of the Podcast's Featured Music HERE

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    1 hr 4 min
  • Flying Helicopters and Moments of Zen - Tim Perry

    Tim and I sit on beach chairs in a coconut palm grove and talk freely about flying helicopters, conservation, climate from a place of curiosity and thoughtful exploration. Close your eyes and hear the rustling of the palm leaves…

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    Featured Music: https://abeslogic.bandcamp.com/track/flyin-away

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    Episode Webpage: https://genuinelyuseful.com/podcast-ep4-tim-perry

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    1 hr 50 min
  • Peru Integration from the Beginning - Jayson Morris

    Jayson and I catch up after our recent journey to the Amazon. We tell travel stories, talk about our ceremonial experiences at SpiritQuest, and reflect on the last few years since beginning the medicine work near Iquitos, Peru.

    Featured song: Back to Feeling Like Me

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    Show Web Page: https://genuinelyuseful.com/podcast-ep3-jayson-morris

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    1 hr 25 min
  • Cycling Through Remembering, Forgetting, and Remembering Again - Jeremy & Heather Nova

    Abe Vandenberg talks with Jeremy & Heather Nova about having had an ultra-competitive mindset while also pursuing a spiritual path that eventually lead to becoming parents.

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    Former US bike cross country national champions:

    Jeremy Nova

    20 years of competitive riding

    17 World Championship team appearances, and a visit to the Olympics & Creative Director at Studio Shed.

    "...the most important thing you can do is to start cultivating a practice where‍‍‍ you really cultivate a lot of stillness, cause that's what it takes to hook in to that ceremony..."

    Heather Nova

    Career professional athlete for over 10 years.

    "...but if you see the fact that there's something else going on here, and you decide to honor that, and then you're like, 'gonna dedicate my life to the fact that I understand that there's something else going on here'..."

    https://genuinelyuseful.com/-podcast-ep2-jeremy-and-heather-nova

    featured music by Abe Vandenberg - Six Minute Breath

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    1 hr 8 min

About Genuinely Useful

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Consciousness to Music to Conservation - aiming at truth, rather than victory; embracing the liminal space; a wide-ranging conversational style podcast in Hawai'i produced by host and musician Abe Vandenberg