Today's show is one where, on a bike path babbler, I dissect my 2020s mantra, which is, "I don’t know/we’ll see/adjust accordingly/everything is OK." I'll be telling you what this mantra means to me and why I think it can be useful for you as we navigate these stormy seas. Enjoy!

Today's Song: "California Nights" by Best Coast

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This episode is the first of a series I plan to do where, at the start of an astrological month, I'll discuss the archetypal meaning of that month and share some other thoughts about it, while perhaps sprinkling in some info about the astrology of the upcoming month. Thus, this one is about Libra season, which holds a special place in my heart concerning my dive into astrology which I'll go into in the episode. In addition, I cover the story of Persephone and how it relates to Libra season, while playing the wonderful track, "Persephone" by singer-songwriter Sidney Gish. Enjoy!

Astrology Hub Website

Eugenia Krok's Accessible Astrology Website

Pam Gregory's You Tube Channel

Adam Sommer's Astrology Page

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A shortie, but a goodie where I challenge the "thinking" going on today among the so-called educated "elites" such as CNN's Don Lemon who are de-humanizing people and call them to raise their game by listening and empathizing with those they think are stupid (but who may actually have wisdom you've just shut yourself off from). Enjoy!

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I'm going super deep on this one. You might wanna listen on 1.5 speed...but I was being very deliberate in my language because this is a very important topic, where I do my best to explain what I think the consciousness is that is behind the tomfuckery we have been seeing in our world for many decades now. Enjoy.

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Why the sound of crickets is more pleasant than the sound of cicadas; discussing the dichotomy between freedom and safety; the relevance of Plato’s allegory of the cave for our times; questioning some of the vaccine narratives; why my reasonably accurate 20-year track record of predicting where things are going, even when those predictions were unpopular, gives me confidence in holding unpopular opinions now; my impetus to turn inward during the Trump years and why I wish members of Team Blue had done so as well; why untrustworthy institutions and its shoddy leaders telling us to trust and obey them is going to further divide the nation (and world); and why living in Japan has shown me some of the dangers of putting too much value into the group over the individual.

My blog post on my love of cycling in Japan

PDF version of Ken Wilber’s Trump and a Post-Truth World

Russell Brand’s clip on the soldier from Afghanistan who was sacked

Myth of Cassandra

Kim Iverson on the ACLU selling out their principles

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Recorded on a night walk with a flat tire, this episode is slightly different from the usual riverside ramblers because, well, it was recorded at night as opposed to the morning. Which means after a 15-minute opening bit about how I ignored my intuition regarding the flat tire (and how that might have been a good thing), I dive into some of the more fun things I like to think about, including: memories of bad singing in high school, the number 42, aliens and, yes, Q Anon (and why I think it may have been a plan to disarm revolution, rather than lead one). I also discuss why I call cars "egomobiles" and why I hope humanity can envision two Big Projects for its future instead of one.

"The Pleaides and Our Secret Destiny" by Frederic Dodson, audiobook narrated by Thomas Miller

Official site for HBO's "Q: Into the Storm"

"The Archaic Revival" by Terence McKenna (PDF version)

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This episode is an hour-long riverside rambler where I speak to my participation in the Rebel Wisdom community and discuss a question I asked host David Fuller about how he was coming to his conclusion that Covid-19 vaccine side effects are (quote) “typically exceedingly rare.”

As you all know this is a huge topic that continues to dominate media coverage and I’ve spent a fair amount of time on it on this podcast. But I’m hoping this episode is the the last I’ll speak to it for a few months as I want to cover other things. So this is my best attempt at doing the issue justice, which means over an hour of me yakking about it from a variety of angles. Enjoy!

"On Vaccine Safety, Ivermectin and the Dark Horse Podcast: An Investigation"

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This episode playfully rambles through: childhood recollections about the dog days of August, the unreliability of memories, the power of the mind, hanging out at a Japanese shrine and wondering if I’ll get struck down by lightning for it, the unspoken rules of Japanese culture and how we foreigners aren’t expected to follow them, the experience of unbalance in the work/play relationship and being grateful for having balance in that in 2021, becoming comfortable in discomfort, musical memories about the Smashing Pumpkins, and musical reflections on the start of the summer 2021 Phish tour, an impromptu comedy bit referencing back to season 1 called “The Downside of Phish,” and ending with factual evidence for why I believe Phish is the greatest American rock band ever and forever more.

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Recorded on a typically hot Peak Summer day with a background of chirping cicadas here in central Japan. I spend about 25 minutes detailing my detox efforts, from intermittent fasting to better discerning what to feed into my head from the media, before a few brief asides about the travails of English pronunciation, some meta commentary on why my thoughts can get lost among the parenthetical weeds and then, to close things off, a dive into the recent controversy over Ivermectin that Bret Weinstein's Dark Horse podcast is at the center of and how the Rebel Wisdom channel is covering it. I think it's a solid episode! Enjoy!

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