Day of the Winged Lioness Trudi Lee Richards
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- Religion & Spirituality
A podcast on rebelling against Death.
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The Day of the Great Change
I have a story for you - a very short story with a very happy ending, one that would turn the tide of our current disastrous direction. I even claim that it's true - truer than anything you'll ever hear on the news. Regardless, no one is going to believe it.
And yet I'll wager that even the scientists among us would agree that what we believe possible has a significant effect on what actually ends up happening.
So, with the world as we used to know it falling apart all around us, with no way to go back and no way forward - the proverbial cliff-hanger - why can't we believe in the kind of future we all want so much for our children and all the coming generations?
That's what this episode is about: the great change humanity and the earth so desperately need, and how we can make way for it. -
Words & Music on Peace & Immortality
This mini-episode consists of a poem called "Unleash Peace" and a piano composition called "Heart of Hearts," both inspired by a daily meditation for peace and an end to violence everywhere, in all forms. Join the meditation on your own: https://facebook.com/groups/7daysofasking.
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Peace in Times of War
This war freaks me out.
Because of the real life horror of it, but also, of course, because of what might possibly, unthinkably happen, IF…
When the news first broke, all I could do, in shock, was to think obsessively about it, trying to find a way out. But instead of finding a way out, all that thinking unleashed all my worst fears, and for a while I felt myself close to slipping into a bleak darkness, and never coming out…
Thankfully, I now know that can never happen, I’ll never stay in the dark forever, because I’m too scared of the dark. This last time I was so scared that all I could do was grapple frantically for a way out – which, little by little, I found.
The light that helped me find that way out was simply the discovery that I was wrong, that I’m not powerless. Not at all.
Of course I’m not talking here about the big, external world picture. It’s true I’m pretty helpless there – all I can do there is send money to help the victims, or whatever other real-world action I can take. And that kind of thing is important – but it isn’t enough. It won’t bring peace, not to me and not to anyone. The only place we can really make peace, plant the vital seed of peace, is inside us and among us.
There we’re far from powerless.
Which is why I made this podcast – it’s part of my way of making peace, since I doubt I’m alone in being afraid of the dark…
Heartfelt thanks as always, to Silo, for pointing the way to Peace in the Heart, Light in the Understanding.
Thanks also to all the members of the IRC Ensemble, a virtual band born out of the pandemic.
And finally, thanks to the 7 Days of Asking project, particularly the friends who meet every day on zoom and Facebook to ask for Peace in Ukraine.
Following is an invitation to that daily guided meditation, for anyone who would like to join in at any time:
You’re invited to join us any day in a heartfelt Asking for Peace in Ukraine. We meet for 15 minutes to concentrate all our best thoughts and wishes on the conflict in Ukraine, asking for peace and an end to the violence and the suffering. We ask for a heartfelt outcry to arise among all the people of this world, and we imagine our wishes being fulfilled.
Zoom at 11AM NY time and 8AM West Coast
Live stream on Facebook.
https://facebook.com/groups/7daysofasking
Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81293615231?pwd=aWp6NndMRTVLbjl6SmJ2RElxVWc5UT09
Meeting ID: 812 9361 5231 Passcode: peace
Unleash Peace
Peace lives
inside of each of us
sleeping in our core
Find it! Find it!
Go inside,
slip through
that inner door
and steal into
your heart of hearts
where all is well
forevermore
There in the calm
and timeless joy
of deep eternity
whisper to your
own true self,
the time has come
my sweet
to softly unleash
this inner force,
this balm to end
all suffering
Let it flow
through all the world
in gentle waves
of warmth and peace
reconciling everyone
setting all beings free
Let it manifest and shine
its joyous relief
blooming sweet
in every heart
universal harmony.
Please share this invitation with others. -
Gratitude is the Attitude
Song written and performed by Trudi Lee Richards, with Dan Buchanan on piano - recorded at Resound Northwest, Portland, Oregon, 2021.
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The Protector of Life
This relaxing poetic tale is one many "guided experiences" by Silo that have been described both as "short stories with happy endings" and as "psychological practices based on an original literary form."* All the Guided Experiences are available for download at silo.net, as well as in print at Latitude Press, where audio recordings can also be downloaded. This reading of "The Protector of Life" was recorded by Trudi Lee Richards to the music of Erik Satie, Gymnopédie no. 1 (for Harp) (available courtesy of Musopen.org).
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Guide to the Inner Road
A reading of Chapter XIV of the book "The Inner Look," from Silo's Message - read by Trudi Lee Richards.
Musical accompaniment: Adagio in G Minor by Tomaso Albinoni, arranged for guitar and performed by Noh Donghwan.