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Mark and Eric set up a street performance in front of the "Together We Rise" mural in Cedar Rapids, IA. The mural is a bunch of hands stacked up to the Cedar Rapids skyline, representing the need to work together to rise as a society. 

We did a live set of four poems, and the connection between them is doing the intellectual and moral work on yourself so that you can forgive and live graciously... as opposed to judging culture, opposite political parties, or individuals who have hurt you in the past. We hope you love it!

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Mark and Eric kick talk about consumerist culture and how to cultivate a life that does more good than harm. We also speculate about space archaeologists in 10,000 years, building altars in the back yard, imaginary friends, and why we'd rather be eaten in two-three T-REX chomps than mauled by giant centipedes.

We hope you love it! Be good to each other!

Heart, Mark and Eric

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Mark and Eric kick around the theory of rituals in religious traditions, and try to help you focus on the posture of the heart that actually helps. They also introduce their new book HOLY ROLLER and pop a recent live set on the back end. 

We hope you love it! Be good to each other!

Heart, Mark and Eric

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Mark and Eric talk about the upside-downside, good/evil encompassing nature of divinity and how to keep faith while being in on the joke. This one is all about why it is okay to admit you cannot know everything and are free to hold life with levity.

We hope you love it! Be good to each other!

Heart, Mark and Eric

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Mark and Eric talk about how to parent kids towards their natural gifting and talents and away from cultural pressure. We hope you love it!

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Mark and Eric talk about how religion has changed in human intellectual evolution and what kind of mythology has its place in the post-modern world. So small potatoes...

We hope you love it!
Mark and Eric

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Mark and Eric chat about a quote by Joseph Campbell, one of the first to popularize comparative mythology, and introduce a new poem called FOLLOW YOUR BLISS (you can read it at www.textandrock.com/poetry). We talk about how many people feel caught between their passion and just trying to make it...and how to hold it all at once. We hope you love it!


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Mark Shaffer and Eric Madison

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Mark and Eric talk about how having an internal authority and a righteous mind means having inner peace no matter what life throws at you. We hope you love it!


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Mark Shaffer and Eric Madison

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Mark and Eric talk about the worrisome trends of western production and consumption, and introduce the poem Corporate Future. This is the second of two episodes we filmed at the Dubuque Street skate park in Iowa City. We hope you love it!


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Be good to each other, 
Mark Shaffer and Eric Madison

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