Antony continues to read multiple extracts from the seminal 1998 book 'The Art of Happiness', with particular attention given to the role of compassion, suffering and pain in our lives.

East meets West as Tensin Gyatso, better known as 'The Dalai Lama' (in fact the 14th Dalai Lama), and American psychiatrist Howard Culter exchange ideas on what constitutes happiness and how we can train our minds and alter the human outlook that shapes our perceptions of events and the world itself.

Both the book and this podcast series are full of impactful and easy-to-use ideas to enrich our life experience and indeed that of others, and Antony adds comments on the text and some of his own insights based on his life experiences

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Animated summary of 'The Art of Happiness'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGQwTALSL6U

John & Yoko 1971 interview extract (episode-relevant section starts at 3.50)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfIhYtCPnPY

The first of a 3-parter in which Antony reads multiple extracts from the seminal 1998 book 'The Art of Happiness'. East meets West as Tensin Gyatso, better known as 'The Dalai Lama' (in fact the 14th Dalai Lama), and American psychiatrist Howard Culter exchange ideas on what constitutes happiness and how we can train our minds and alter the human outlook that shapes our perceptions of events and the world itself.

Both the book and this podcast series are full of impactful and easy-to-use ideas to enrich our life experience and indeed that of others, and Antony adds comments on the text and some of his own insights based on his life experiences

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Episode links

Noam Chomsky on 'what we really want' (propaganda vs 'human nature')

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CFwSQiTu3I

Life Coaching page (free consultation to start)

https://www.fiverr.com/lifecoach1975/give-you-sympathetic-realistic-and-inspiring-life-coaching-sessions

Nick Drake was an English singer-songwriter whose work was only fully recognised long after his tragic, untimely death in 1974 at the age of 26. This podcast is a 2-part reading of an essay about Nick written by your humble host, and between the two parts Antony talks to master guitarist Kester Jones about Nick Drake's music and guitar technique, with Kester also providing demonstrations of songs using the legendary alternate tunings. There are also full interpretations of a couple of Nick's songs by Antony, Kester and Melanie Lawrence

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The 'Glass Onion; On John Lennon' podcast

https://soundcloud.com/glassonionjlpod/tracks

links

Antony's recent appearance reviewing 'Five Leaves Left' on the 'Love That Album' podcast

https://lovethatalbumpodcast.blogspot.com/2021/11/love-that-album-podcast-episode-152.html

Highly-recommended documentaries about Nick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roORx0DJ4rk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VAXiSlIraA

As the title suggests, today's episode looks at the methods of (often very subtle) suggestion used fairly openly by the powers-that-be to 'nudge' the public towards following certain policies in this most surreal of eras, which has been dominated by an unseen enemy and much public discussion about how to cope with it. There is some initial discussion of what propaganda actually means, as it has different strands and slightly differing definitions, depending on who you ask. Julian Charles and Antony navigate these choppy waters with a myriad of references, observations and ideas.

Julian's website is 

https://www.themindrenewed.com/

and his version of this episode contains a multitude of links for further perusal

https://www.themindrenewed.com/episodes/2020-21/14-episodenotes/1468-ep061n

The music for the TMR podcast is Moment of Green by Antony Raijekov from the Jazz U compilation.

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This episode is a follow-up to the conspiracy theory discussion of the previous episode as I mop up a few of the things that weren't covered or not covered sufficiently

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episode links

Ian R Crane- Conspiracy Theory vs Deep Geopolitics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mpGY7aR1oo

Peter Joseph's podcast 'Revolution Now'

https://www.revolutionnow.live

Dr Dentith on 'The Mind Renewed' podcast (2 parts)

https://www.themindrenewed.com/interviews/2021/971-int-192

https://www.themindrenewed.com/interviews/2021/1422-int-193

James Corbett's website

https://www.corbettreport.com

Review of 'The U.S. vs John Lennon' (Antony & James video version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXBuj4wkSuc

9/11 Press For Truth documentary (no loony theories)

https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/911-press-for-truth/

'Conspiracy theory', as previously discussed on the show, has become a weaponised term and often used sweepingly to discredit alternative viewpoints. At the same time there are plenty of wild theories that have no basis in fact. Ricky Green of the University of Kent joins Antony for a friendly debate/discussion about what is often a semantic and informational minefield. When does sceptical mean paranoid? Is reasonable and trusting actually naive and innocent? You can decide!

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episode links

'Zeitgeist Moving Forward' documentary

https://documentaryheaven.com/zeitgeist-moving-forward

Dr Dentith on 'Taking Conspiracy Theories Seriously' ('The Mind Renewed' podcast, Part 1 of 2)

https://themindrenewed.com/interviews/2021/971-int-192

Karen Douglas at a conspiracy Theories conference in 2011, followed by conspiracy researcher Ian R Crane's rebuttal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yx3E1G9IMc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mpGY7aR1oo

Life Coaching is a modern and somewhat misunderstood concept and so Antony takes the time to explain and also offer his credentials as a potential coach before reading his essay about creativity and how it can uplift and positively affect mental health, especially with others involved

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links

Antony's Life Coaching page

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the original essay on creativity

https://www.antonyrotunno.com/2021/07/24/creativity-communal-experience-and-mental-health/

A lighthearted entry in the LALO canon as I read a story I wrote in 2013 about a rather surreal night in the world of Table Tennis, a fine sport that I played a lot as a youth. There is also some discussion of nerves and why they can sometimes crack on the big occasion.

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This episode is a reading of the short but powerful 1935 book 'War Is A Racket', written not by a conspiracy theorist living in his parents' basement (admittedly, they didn't really exist in 1935!) but by a highly-decorated Marine Corps Major General. I intersperse it with a few comments of my own and the reading is followed by Mark Twain's 'The War Prayer' and Antony's song 'Lessons of War'

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Antony’s most recent album, including the ‘Lessons of War’ song

https://antonyrotunno.bandcamp.com/album/through-life

‘Addicted To War’ illustrated expose

https://www.addictedtowar.com/about-atw

‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ film by Peter Jackson

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7905466

‘John Brown’ by Bob Dylan (anti-war song)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTjSQFqGYPQ

I'm joined by Harry from the 'Harry's Moving Media' you tube channel to discuss in depth our collective favourite episode of the classic Charlie Brooker-conceived 'Black Mirror'. Since 'Nosedive' was created, we've seen China introduce a social ratings system but could it happen in the West? (or has it already?). We go more or less scene by scene to dissect the obvious and subtle elements contained within and then offer some advice as to how we could all prevent a 'Nosedive' reality (links to Harry's work below).

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Episode links

Harry's you tube channel and original 'Nosedive' analysis video

https://www.youtube.com/user/HarrysMovingCastle  (Twitter- '@harrys_moving')

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8tX9zjO698

clip from Charlie Brooker's AntiViral Wipe (Covid )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOLRBnXLBEE