The Courageous Path

This quieting the mind exercise is designed to bring light from the universal divine source through your heart and to those around you: to loved ones, to those that challenge you, to those suffering, to your environment, and to the planet.

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I am delighted to share this interview with Susannah Sanfilippo, a yoga teacher offering The Yoga of Susannah yoga and guided meditations, on how she found yoga, kirtan (despite feeling like she couldn't sing!), and immersed herself in her "home" (the world of yoga) by becoming a teacher. Join us for this rich conversation on human consciousness, the yearning for connection, and the power of yoga to unite body and soul.

Susannah Sanfilippo is a Registered Yoga Teacher who has practiced yoga for over twenty one years. She teaches classes at the beginner and intermediate levels. Along with her training in classical yoga, she has in-depth studies in: yoga breathing techniques for relaxation, pain reduction and emotional balance; mindfulness meditation; restorative yoga; anatomy of yoga positions; somatic movement that promotes kinesthetic awareness. Susannah is also a singer and has a background in the visual arts.

Learn more about Susannah at www.theyogaofsusannah.com

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Ralph McGehee was one of the most courageous humans I have ever met, as he passed on from this world on May 2, 2020 at age 92 years old. He also happens to be my grandfather, my Papa. It is my deep honor to have had the privilege to interview him about his life serving in the CIA in Southeast Asia, and his disillusionment with what he was being asked to do by the US government. His bravery in sharing the truth, in going public with a book that was widely received by the press and the American public. He was an inspiration to me and I think to many others as well.

Ralph Walter McGehee was an American former officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He worked for the CIA from 1952 to 1977, yet went on to be highly critical of the agency. He was an All-American football player atUniversity of Notre Dame when they won three national championships in 1946-1949. McGehee received a B.S. in Business Administration cum laude). Upon graduation, he spent a year as an offensive line coach at University of Dayton. After moving to Chicago and taking a job as a management trainee at Montgomery Ward, he was recruited by the CIA. Upon completion of training, he was stationed in numerous field offices as well as at CIA headquarters. Since leaving the CIA, he has been highly critical of the organization. In spite of this, in 1977 McGehee was awarded the CIA's Career Intelligence Medal. His 1983 book, Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA outlines his experiences there. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair hailed it as "one of the outstanding books written by former CIA agents". McGehee has written articles on CIA activities for the Washington Post, The Nation, The Progressive, Harper's Magazine and Gannet News Service among others. He has also developed CIABASE, a computer database of CIA figures and programs compiled from available public information.

"The CIA is not now nor has it ever been a central intelligence agency. It is the covert action arm of the President's foreign policy advisers. In that capacity it overthrows or supports foreign governments while reporting "intelligence" justifying those activities. It shapes its intelligence, even in such critical areas as Soviet nuclear weapon capability, to support presidential policy. Disinformation is a large part of its covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target audience of its lies." - Ralph McGehee

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I hope you enjoy this ​quieting the mind exercise on summoning your inner power to bring your dream to fruition. Whatever it is that you've longed to do, wherever that spark or inspiration lies..this is the place where the magic originates. Let's call upon your light and strength from within to manifest this vision into your reality!

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Join me for this illuminating interview with Parivash Rohani, who left her native country of Iran fleeing religious persecution due to her Baha'i Faith and now is an activist for social justice and freedom. Her words about the importance of standing up for what you believe in, working with other people and weaving humanity together in truth and love.

Parivash Rohani left Iran and fled to India in 1979 due to religious persecution. She arrived in the United States in 1986 as an immigrant. Currently she lives in Portland with her husband and children. Professionally, she is a ICU registered nurse. She has been involved with many humanitarian, environmental, and interfaith projects. Her involvement in MIPL and International human right campaign "Education Is Not A Crime" is due to her firm conviction that change happens organically at the grass roots level, and justice demands universal participation. Parivash believes it is our moral obligation to be involved in social action and participate in the prevalent discourse of society.

To Light a Candle (2014) is a film about the triumph of knowledge over intolerance. The Baha’is are Iran’s largest religious minority. They are persecuted because of their faith, and barred from teaching and studying at university. But Baha'is do teach, and do study. The Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) was established in 1987 to give young Baha’is a chance to pursue knowledge and receive a quality education The informal courses take place in people’s homes, via mail correspondence, and with online lectures. The Iranian government regularly raids BIHE classes and arrests its students and teachers. Hundreds of Baha’is have been jailed simply for teaching and studying at BIHE. Yet, many Muslim Iranians support the right of the Baha’is to higher education and fight for the full enjoyment of civil and human rights by all Baha’is. Maziar Bahari’s To Light a Candle is a hopeful story of the BIHE and Iran. In 2015 the film sparked the global Education Is Not A Crime campaign for universal access to higher education. The last Friday of every February will be celebrated as Education is not a Crime day. The campaign has been endorsed by a string of Nobel laureates and other prominent figures around the world. Official website is http://www.notacrime.me/ .

In the spirit of justice, freedom, and our shared humanity, please check out and spread the word about this important film and work of Education is Not a Crime!

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We all have spirit guides that can assist us in providing support, guidance and wisdom throughout our lives. We can learn to identify and communicate with them by tapping into our inner selves through this guided meditation to meet one of your guides.

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By opening to the energy field, the chakra system, that exists within and around our bodies, we can align, release and balance our energies and find renewed wellbeing and health. This quieting the mind exercise guides us into opening our chakras toward healing our bodies, minds and souls.

Take some time to continue to move the focus of your attention to the intuitive inner self, where your future vision lies, by focusing in silence on progressive relaxation of the body and on the breath.

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This exercise on getting to past limiting beliefs or fears really dives into the Inner Critic(s) that we all have. Bring what your subconscious generates into waking life with the tools you learn here. You can practice bringing about your desire, vision, yearning into your reality, and ask the limiting belief/Inner Critic to quiet down.

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I was lucky enough to borrow the time of Keith Dunlap, local poet, former attorney and owner of Black Cat Coffee in Portland, Maine. Join me for this rich conversation with Keith about his path to becoming a prolific and published poet, inspiration and facing rejection, and finding a home for poems that seem to arise from within.

Keith Dunlap’s first collection of poems, Storyland, will be published in June 2016 by Hip Pocket Press. His work has appeared in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Georgetown Review, Jabberwock Review, Poet Lore, Sou’wester, and The Tule Review among other places. He received his BA in English from Columbia College in 1987, his MPhil in Classical Literature and Philology from Columbia University in 1992, his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana in 2000, and his JD from Washington and Lee University in 2007. In the Eighties in NYC, he played drums in a series of bands and worked at rock clubs, (including CBGB’s,) and restaurants, while attending school. He was a member of the avant-garde theater company, The New York Art Theater Institute at the same time. He lives in Portland, Maine, where he and his wife, the novelist, Jenny Siler, own a coffee shop, Black Cat Coffee.

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