ZLORD podcast

The nomads have been home for two months now and are now embarking on new journeys, together and separately. teZa explains how she's changing her focus from authoring books (having changed her manuscript-crammed writing room into an art studio and is busy painting already). For the next year she is committed to learning how to disseminate her four published books. Meanwhile, Carter is transforming his former business office into a film studio in which he wants to learn the latest technology in making and sharing with others the short videos he loves to make. Both teZa and Carter are resuming their art-making energies! The couple discuss how the seemingly contradictory approaches of setting goals while remaining in the NOW are not as incompatible as that might sound. Both reaffirm their commitment to publicly sharing their creative process, the latest "leg" of their shared spiritual journey, with continued episodes of this podcast (originally created for their faraway, extended nomadic trips, postponed for the foreseeable future). For now, the Lords are traveling to another dimension instead of a destination. Both are going deeper within, right where they happen to BE now: home sweet home.

Not for the faint-hearted, teZa one half of ZLORD podcast; the other half, Carter, being absent today) starts off warning the listener. If you are squeamish about bodily functions, especially bathroom stuff, best you skip this particular episode and check out other, less intimate ZLORD conversations. This one explores the REAL and unmistakably pernicious-natured "animal spirit" that both teZa and Carter got in touch with during their 6-month car-and-tent camping sojourn around the north, west, and southern parts of North America. Meant to be highly personal, teZa un-timidly describes in graphic detail what happened, how they dealt with the inconveniences of this wilderness-camping handicap, and what she thinks the significance of this gastro intestinal animal-attack actually was, not only for herself but for the state of our entire planet. Hubris? We shall see. More like a small voice shouting a warning of "Awaken!" in a big big cosmos. Comments welcome at [email protected] Carter will join teZa for the next episode, he promises.

Half of ZLORD is busy and unavailable, so teZa decides to make the podcast her own for this once (or maybe more?). Things are sure different now that the nomadic pair are back home. Carter is off somewhere else, as he loves playing tennis and hanging with his buds. But he'll participate in the ZLORD conversation whenever he can, he just said as this episode is being published. During this one here, teZa speaks about how similar her painting is to the description of what the couple had read that very morning in Eckhart Tolle's Book "The Power of NOW" -- about the Oneness of all in existence. She describes how similar Tolle's written words are to what she's tried to convey in her large sculpture-painting entitled "Lapis Sky" that hangs in her home. She ends by remarking that the next episode of ZLORD will have a warning, like a sex and violence disclaimer before some X-rated movies have ("thematic material might involve some degree of objectionable content') before viewing, as teZa's next solo sharing might "offend" some people. She's thought long and hard about it, and has decided she will go public with it. Carter's not heard it yet but will by the time the next episode is made public. If he can get off the tennis court long enough to listen!

The Lords, Carter and teZa are back home after six months without much of an itinerary or even a very defined plan. Now home in Florida they are adapting to sharing the precious Presence they've been relishing, and which they've focused on during their time away from their "regular" life. Here, they discuss how to maintain their awareness of Presence as they continue to flow with family, friends, obligations, appointments, and other kinds of "other" energies, distractions, choices and commitments.

Recorded earlier in December but this episode is released late in January 2020 due to technical difficulties. Speaking from Louisiana where teZa and Carter, the itinerant pair featured in ZLORD podcast are headed for Grand Isle, at the very tip of the Bayou country; Carter shares what he's learned about the Apaches. The Lords are fascinated by this particular tribe of Native Americans because they have just left their last wilderness campsite in the Big Bend, Texas, the ancestral territory of the fierce Mescalera Apache. Being in this harsh land that straddles the Mexican border, leads the couple to imagining how the Apache once survived and flourished there. It has also compelled Carter to read as much as he can, so this sharing is a lot from a historical standpoint of what he's gleaned from his research.

Two intrepid car and tent campers, teZa and Carter are on their way home! As they drive Highway 10 from New Orleans on the final lap of their six-month sojourn over a vast part of North America, the pair reflects about what they've learned and what they'll keep close to their hearts, minds, and souls forever. Soon, they'll be back to their "regular" lives in Florida. But nothing they've experienced will be forgotten. What's going to be next? That's crucial to the discussion also, as their original plan on traveling on to South America have changed. Life! Always about change change change.

The Lords speak from their totally isolated wilderness campsite in Big Bend National Park, close to Mexico in Texas. teZa had a dream the night before, and she talks about it with Carter, who has always helped her understand the significance of dreams. It's what they do. The couple speaks of different ways they connect to their Source: sometimes through the majesty of Nature, sometimes in quiet meditation, but during this vision quest they've been on they've been working on being more consciously present, in the Now ... by simply Being. Their next podcast will be about the Mescalero Apaches, the former indigenous residents of this magnificent canyonland in which they're camping.

Nomad teZa and Carter Lord are tent-camping for the next two weeks in the Big Bend National Park, which borders Mexico and Texas. They speak from the first of three wilderness camps they've already secured with permits. Sadly, no fires are allowed here. Sharing about whatever hits their hearts, the Lords are feeling melancholic because this magnificent spot marks the beginning of their return journey. Many things have happened since their last podcast, getting in town visits (Santa Fe and Placitas and Albuquerque) after visiting friends of the Acoma Nation. Now they're in Apache land, after having passed their the Jemez pueblo on their way to Santa Fe. That's before they reached Big Bend. Which, by the way, if you haven't figured out yet -- is immense! And vastly breath-takingly diverse, not to mention awesomely beautiful (all familiar adjectives for ZLORD listeners!)

the Lords (teZa and Carter) speak from the side of a babbling book-like river in New Mexico. They've just been visiting friends of the Acoma Pueblo, close to Albuquerque. In presenting ways of helping heal the bleeding dissent of current times in America, these indigenous ancient pueblans have much to offer: the need for more conversations, the civility of peaceful pow-wows instead of war-like name-calling. The shift of focus from combative to more compassionate conversation is needed in this difficult political climate. ZLORD urges people to start within their own families and immediate circles: discuss without rancor, spread Love, and help wipe out hatred, one-person-at-a-time.

The Lords first speak from the sacred place of Canyon de Chelly, which lies in the remote yet inhabited Navajo Nation of northeastern Arizona. Since leaving Las Vegas they've been running from the bitter winter cold, their tent-camping spirits warmed by campfires outside, their bellies with delicious meals cooked on their camp stove. After Vegas they visited Cochise's Stronghold, famed for the 19th Century Apache Chief's evading capture (located in the Dragoon mountains of Arizona). The couple walked the eponymous trail leading to Cochise's sacred, yet undisclosed burial place in the rocky hillsides. Along the way they find an interesting animal specimen. Next, they visit a many thousand-acre cattle ranch and marvel at that lifestyle, gratefully staying warm inside. Then they visit the restored remains of the sacred city of the Ancestral Pueblans (formerly called the Anasazi) in Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico. The magnificent ruins speak of the Ancient Ones who lived there from 800-1200 AD, when the bustling city was abandoned for unknown reasons. The Lords' whirlwind tour, driving to escape the cold, ended that very morning. This chilly November day was perfect for a drive through the breathtaking landscape of Monument Valley, located at Four Corners on the Arizona-Utah border in occupied Navajo land. Now the Lords are headed to visit their friends on the Acoma Pueblo outside of Albuquerque.