Impact‪!‬ Ellen Bintz & Clive Johnson

In the second part of her conversation with Clive, Earth healer and retreat founder Sabine Engelhardt describes how going off grid involves getting away from romantic ideas about nature. While there's great value just being with nature, we need to get our hands dirty for our intuition to be fully reawakened. Sabine shares her fear that humanity is ill-prepared humanity for changes that are approaching, and calls for a return to simpler ways of living and honing our practical skills to face up to this.
While we can’t predict timeframes for this change, we reflect on some wake-up calls that suggest that it may come much sooner than many may anticipate, and bring about a need for a radical resetting of the collective consciousness and grounding ourselves.
Yet, in the spirit of free will intention, we may have considerable leeway in determining the nature of this new existence. We can energetically hold and channel the qualities we wish to see in the societies that emerge. And so it is that the work of the three crones from pre-history that first drew Sabine to Croatia remains as important today as it’s ever been.
Websites, people and organizations mentioned in this episode:    
Gea Viva, Sabine’s website, giving information about her work and the Gea Viva retreat https://www.geaviva.net/ 
Retreats and courses at Gea Viva https://www.geaviva.net/retreats-courses 
Sign up to Sabine’s newsletter on the home page of the Gea Viva website (sign-up form is near the bottom of the page): https://www.geaviva.net/ 
Watch a HRT (Croatian television) documentary about Gea Viva and Sabine’s work on Brač: https://youtu.be/jyT17ZHJgqI (with English subtitles). 
Find out about Dr. Masaru Emoto’s experiments with intention and its affect on water crystals at https://masaru-emoto.net/en/science-of-messages-from-water/ 
The book mentioned that describes the pre-classical practice of incubation is “Reality” by Peter Kingsley. 
Join us in person for intenton holding:  
https://www.legacylabyrinthproject.org/events-1 ~ Labyrinth Activist Network Zoom calls  
https://insighttimer.com/cliverj ~ Daily intention holding with Clive on Insight Timer.  
Our websites:   
www.heartfulimpact.com/   ~ Our show website.  
https://globalhealingresponse.com/ Global Healing Response ~ Offers a wealth of prayers, suggested practices and prompts in response to environmental catastrophe, conflict, and other world events.  
https://www.legacylabyrinthproject.org/ Legacy Labyrinth Project ~ Creating global energetic connections through the labyrinth; inspiring active intention sending using the labyrinth via labyrinth activism.  
https://www.clivejohnsonministry.com/ Clive Johnson Ministry
https://insighttimer.com/cliverj ~ Events and offerings aimed at building beloved community, including weekly energy holding vigils and Power of Eight group.  
Impact! Is presented by Ellen Bintz and Clive Johnson. It is produced by Impact Productions.  
Our show content is hosted by Podbean and available from all major podcast platforms.  
Our theme music is by Chris Collins. indiemusicbox.com.  
Our logo artwork is by AltoClassic (Getty Images/istock).  
Contact us via Facebook Messenger from the Impact! Facebook group, or using any of the contact methods mentioned on our websites.  
Impact! www.heartfulimpact.com  

In this insightful episode, we explore the recent wave of campus protests across the United States, ignited by the ongoing conflict in Gaza. We delve into student responses to the crisis, specifically looking at campuses of prestigious universities like Columbia University and Yale. We offer a neutral examination of both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian sentiment rise on US campuses, discussing anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and Jewish students' perspectives in the context of these movements.
We move beyond protest dynamics to scrutinize the underlying demands and motivations, be it calls for institutional divestment or opposition to government policies, and their relationship with the BDS movement. We also shed light on events such as the violence at UCLA, arresting of protest participants, and the resulting impact on education. This episode aims to navigate through the multiple layers of this critical global issue, in our aim to suggest concentrated prayer and intent.
This in-depth episode also investigates the intricate balance strived for by university administrations and law enforcement amidst the ongoing protests. Concerns over free speech suppression and rights to peaceful assembly have intensified, along with the unsettling rise in anti-Semitism. The role of law enforcement and the restrictions imposed by university authorities, and their influence on the protest momentum, form an integral part of our discussion.
We further delve into the political implications of these protests, examining President Joe Biden's carefully curated response and the increasing pressure for a firmer stance from Republican opponents. As the potential impact on Biden's reelection bid becomes increasingly complex and divisive, the political aspect of these protests intensifies.
The response of universities, ranging from negotiation with activists to seeking police enforcement, is also examined. With the escalating trend in anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic hate speech, we confront challenges related to the limits of free speech while pointing out the pressing need for peaceful dialogue. We also discuss the critical role and responsibility universities have in striking a balance between protest allowance and ensuring student safety and uninterrupted education.
Suggested intention
Deciding what is acceptable, and in accordance with the principle of free speech and the right to protest, and what crosses the line into threatening the safety of others, incites hatred, and puts unreasonable pressure on authorities to maintain order is a difficult judgement for any free society. Given this difficulty, we suggest holding as our intention this week:
We will that University presidents, trustees, and others in positions of influence will be guided in their responses to the protests on their campuses.
Please join us in holding this.
Chapter markers:
00:00:10 Introduction
00:00:17 Host Introduction and Welcome
00:01:19 Focusing on the Protests
00:04:23 Recent Protests at U.S. Campuses
00:07:02 Response to Peaceful Demonstrations
00:10:13 Understanding the Polarization
00:11:05 Addressing Anti-Semitism
00:14:13 Responses from Institutions and Politicians
00:18:15 Why the Situation is Polarized
00:20:49 Balancing Freedom and Responsibility
00:21:23 Holding Intention for Decision-Makers
Sources referenced for this episode:  

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-faces-pressure-republicans-speak-college-protests/story?id=109833745


https://abcnews.go.com/US/student-protesters-denounce-antisemitism-amid-criticism-pro-palestinian/story?id=109643275


https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/jewish-students-grapple-respond-pro-palestinian-campus-protests-109908307


https://apnews.com/article/gaza-war-campus-protests-966eb531279f8e4381883fc5d79d5466

 

https://deadline.com/2024/05/saturday-night-live-cold-open-college-protests-1235904688/

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/03/world/pro-palestinian-university-protests-worldwide-intl-hnk/index.html


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In the first of an absorbing two-part conversation, Clive chats to Sabine Engelhardt, whose remarkable calling prompted her to leave her career in architecture to discover a sacred cave on the Croatian island of Brač, and to found a unique retreat center that honours our connection with the Earth and our innate but often forgotten ability to sense and work with Her energies. An inspiring leader of what it means to truly tune into the energies that unite us and which we impact, as we hear in this episode, Sabine’s off-grid life has been strongly empowered through her connection with the Divine Feminine.  
Websites, people and organizations mentioned in this episode:    
Gea Viva, Sabine’s website, giving information about her work and the Gea Viva retreat https://www.geaviva.net/ 
Retreats and courses at Gea Viva https://www.geaviva.net/retreats-courses 
Sign up to Sabine’s newsletter on the home page of the Gea Viva website (sign-up form is near the bottom of the page): https://www.geaviva.net/ 
Watch a HRT (Croatian television) documentary about Gea Viva and Sabine’s work on Brač: https://youtu.be/jyT17ZHJgqI (with English subtitles). 
Find out about Dr. Masaru Emoto’s experiments with intention and its affect on water crystals at https://masaru-emoto.net/en/science-of-messages-from-water/ 
Join us in person for intenton holding:  
https://www.legacylabyrinthproject.org/events-1 ~ Labyrinth Activist Network Zoom calls  
https://insighttimer.com/cliverj ~ Daily intention holding with Clive on Insight Timer.  
Our websites:  
www.heartfulimpact.com/   ~ Our show website.   
https://globalhealingresponse.com/ Global Healing Response ~ Offers a wealth of prayers, suggested practices and prompts in response to environmental catastrophe, conflict, and other world events.   
https://www.legacylabyrinthproject.org/ Legacy Labyrinth Project
https://www.legacylabyrinthproject.org/events-1 ~ Creating global energetic connections through the labyrinth; inspiring active intention sending using the labyrinth via labyrinth activism.   
https://www.clivejohnsonministry.com/ Clive Johnson Ministry  
https://insighttimer.com/cliverj ~ Events and offerings aimed at building beloved community, including weekly energy holding vigils and Power of Eight group.   
Impact! Is presented by Ellen Bintz and Clive Johnson. It is produced by Impact Productions.   
Our show content is hosted by Podbean and available from all major podcast platforms.   
Our theme music is by Chris Collins. www.indiemusicbox.com.
Our logo artwork is by AltoClassic (Getty Images/istock).   
Contact us via Facebook Messenger from the Impact! Facebook group, or using any of the contact methods mentioned on our websites.   
Impact! www.heartfulimpact.com   

In this special episode, as we approach the end of World Immunisation Week, we take a special look at how the world is performing in terms of vaccinating its people. This month also marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), which was created by the World Health Assembly with the aim of vaccinating all children against diphtheria, measles, pertussis, polio, tetanus, tuberculosis, and smallpox, the only human disease ever eradicated. There’s much to celebrate, although warnings and challenges too that need our prayers and focus for sending intention.  
Suggested intention 
While there has been significant progress in the 50 years since the UN’s drive toward immunizing all against preventable diseases, with the continued need for all countries of the world to co-operate in funding and supporting vaccination rollout, we suggest holding as our focused intention this week: 
We will that all governments will be moved to recognise the priority for enabling and promoting vaccination against preventable diseases for all people who are governed by them. 
Please join us in holding this. 
Episode Chapter Markers:
00:11 Introduction
08:11 Global impact of vaccination
09:42 Covid-19 vaccination
10:45 Challenges for global vaccination
15:39 World Immunisation Week
Sources referenced for this episode:    
https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-immunization-week/2024 World Immunization Week website 
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/our-work/programs/global-development/immunization 
https://www.gavi.org/investing-gavi/funding/donor-profiles/bill-melinda-gates-foundation 
https://www.africanews.com/2023/10/09/gates-foundation-pledges-40-million-to-help-develop-covid-vaccines-in-africa/ 
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01301-0 
https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/13/we-have-enough-covid-vaccines-for-most-of-world-but-rich-countries-stockpiling-more-than-they-need/ 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4712379/ 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8677503/ 
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html 
https://www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/news/world-immunisation-week-lets-get-talking-about-vaccines.html 
https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/immunization/world-immunization-week/index.html 
https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-immunization-week 
https://immunizationdata.who.int/ 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8482029/ 
https://www.who.int/news/item/24-04-2024-global-immunization-efforts-have-saved-at-least-154-million-lives-over-the-past-50-years 
https://scorecard.immunizationagenda2030.org/ 
Join us in person for intention holding:  
https://www.legacylabyrinthproject.org/events-1 ~ Labyrinth Activist Network Zoom calls  
https://insighttimer.com/cliverj ~ Daily intention holding with Clive on Insight Timer.  
Our websites:  
www.heartfulimpact.com/  Our show website.   
https://globalhealingresponse.com/ Global Healing Response. Offers a wealth of prayers, suggested practices and prompts in response to environmental catastrophe, conflict, and other world events.   
https://www.legacylabyrinthproject.org/ Legacy Labyrinth Project  
https://www.legacylabyrinthproject.org/events-1 Creating global energetic connections through the labyrinth; inspiring active intention sending using the labyrinth via labyrinth activism.   
https://www.clivejohnsonministry.com/ Clive Johnson Ministry. Events and offerings aimed at building beloved community, including weekly energy holding vigils and Power of Eight group. 
https://insighttimer.com/cliverj Daily intention holding and lovingkindness meditations.   
Impact! Is presented by Ellen Bintz and Clive Johnson. It is produced by Impact Productions.   
Our show content is hosted by Podbean and available from all major podcast platforms.   
Our theme music is by Chris Collins. www.indiemusicbox.com.   
Our logo artwork is by AltoClass

This week Ellen talks to Zen teacher Brother Dave Kenneally, aka the Marine Monk, whose practice and study as an ordinand in the tradition of the late Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing spans more than twenty years. Brother Dave and Ellen talk about how to respond to hearing bad news in a mindful way, the exhaustion of near constant exposure to news that many of us experience in the modern world, and the importance of directing energy  inward as well as outwardly looking for solutions to problems. 
How can we stay in touch with our deepest intentions? How can we truly care for ourselves as well as for others? How can we become more aware of a false sense of urgency? How can we be kept beware of being incoherent when we merely react to hearing a story in the news? How can we reverse the tendency to be more outward than inward focused in our attention, and in turn, show up more powerfully in the world? Brother Dave offers reflections on these and many more questions in this inspiring conversation.  
Thich Nhat Hanh said, “peace in oneself, peace in the world." Brother Dave explains how we can each make this our practice, offering many words of wisdom in ways that relate to being in the world. He also reflects on his own experiences of how easy or otherwise practising mindfulness while living in a monastry is compared to living in the world and the constant external stimuli it presents. Brother Dave’s answer may surprise you!    
Websites, people and organizations mentioned in this episode:    
Read about Brother Dave’s amazing story,  find out about his work, his weekly Zen teaching on Zoom (Sundays 5-6pm PST, free), and sign-up for his newsletter on his website, https://www.davekenneally.com/  
Join a brand new Mindfulness Facilitator's Sangha hosted by Brother Dave, starting  Saturday, April 27th from 4:30 - 6pm PST / 7:30 - 9pm EST, via Zoom and FREE to join. Find out all about this, including the Zoom link at the bottom of the Resource Page:
https://www.davekenneally.com/factx-resource-page
 
Information and links to Brother Dave’s free 3-month training course in facilitating sangha are also available through his website, https://www.davekenneally.com/factx-resource-page   
Brother Dave’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DaveKenneally 
FOLLOW Brother Dave on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dave.kenneally.5
Brother Dave on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brotherdavekenneally/
Brother Dave has generously offered us access to his teaching video, Mindfulness of the News, normally only available for folks registered with his Mindfulness for Resilience course: https://youtu.be/8hCc9Jr9Xd0?si=hkVlQBozjDWYOt1g (see https://www.davekenneally.com/healyourheart for more about the course).
Mindfulness Makes us Part of the Solution, watch Brother Dave share his reflection at https://youtu.be/JTxLC_AwkNU 
Plum Village The Five Mindfulness Trainings https://plumvillage.org/mindfulness/the-5-mindfulness-trainings  


Join us in person for intenton holding:  
https://www.legacylabyrinthproject.org/events-1 ~ Labyrinth Activist Network Zoom calls  
https://insighttimer.com/cliverj ~ Daily intention holding with Clive on Insight Timer.  
Our websites:  
www.heartfulimpact.com/   ~ Our show website.   
https://globalhealingresponse.com/ Global Healing Response ~ Offers a wealth of prayers, suggested practices and prompts in response to environmental catastrophe, conflict, and other world events.   
https://www.legacylabyrinthproject.org/ Legacy Labyrinth Project  
https://www.legacylabyrinthproject.org/events-1 ~ Creating global energetic connections through the labyrinth; inspiring active intention sending using the labyrinth via labyrinth activism.   
https://www.clivejohnsonministry.com/ Clive Johnson Ministry  
https://insighttimer.com/cliverj ~ Events and offerings aimed at building beloved community, including weekly energy holding vigils and Power of

Join hosts Ellen Benz and Clive Johnson  as they delve into the roots of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, exploring the history, on-going tensions, and geopolitical intricacies of the long-standing conflict between the two former Soviet states. 
The countries’ principal dispute concerns the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous and heavily forested area in the Karabakh region of the southern Caucasus mountain range. Ellen and Clive look at the background, go behind the reasons for the conflict, and assess where our prayers and intentions are needed now as a very fragile peace appears to be holding between the two countries.
As is customary, Ellen and Clive close the episode by assessing where our prayers and intentions are needed now. 
Suggested intention 
While there have been some positive developments towards a potential peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia, the situation remains volatile, with unresolved territorial disputes and border tensions threatening to derail progress. The potential for further conflict remains strong if underlying issues are not adequately addressed. Given this tense situation, we suggest holding as our focused intention this week: 
We will that those in positions of influence and power within the Armenian and Azerbaijan governments will be moved in with compassion to work toward and maintain peace between their nations. 
Please join us in holding this. 
The Remembrance Day of the Armenian Genocide this year is on 24 April 2024. http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/remembrance_day.php  
Chapter markers: 
00:04 Introduction
01:38 Historical Background
02:18, Azerbaijan And Armenia
08:00 Nagorno–Karabakh Conflict
10:08. Recent Developments
11:38 Regional Dynamics
14:44 Human Impact
16:09, Focusing Our Intentions
18:16, Wrap Up
Sources referenced for this episode:    
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/9/19/nagorno-karabakh-live-azerbaijan-launches-new-anti-terror-operation 
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/are-azerbaijan-and-armenia-heading-peace 
https://www.humanrightsnetwork.org/nagorno-karabakh 
https://www.freiheit.org/germany/armenia-azerbaijan-border-tensions-and-relationship-dynamics-what-russias-agenda 
https://www.freiheit.org/germany/armenia-azerbaijan-border-tensions-and-relationship-dynamics-what-russias-agenda 
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/90655 
https://president.az/en/pages/view/azerbaijan/karabakh 
https://www.c-r.org/programme/caucasus/nagorny-karabakh-conflict-focus 
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/nagorno-karabakh-armenia-azerbaijan-conflict/ 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/10/human-rights-groups-detail-war-crimes-in-nagorno-karabakh 
https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/nagorno-karabakh-conflict 
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2022/country-chapters/azerbaijan    
https://www.britannica.com/place/Nagorno-Karabakh 
https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/armenia-azerbaijan-conflict 
https://www.csis.org/analysis/renewed-nagorno-karabakh-conflict-reading-between-front-lines 
https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/europe-and-central-asia/eastern-europe-and-central-asia/armenia/report-armenia/ 
https://press.un.org/en/2023/sc15418.doc.htm 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/24/explainer-what-is-nagorno-karabakh-why-are-tensions-rising 
https://www.politico.eu/article/nagorno-karabakh-conflict-azerbaijan-armenia-south-caucasus-russia/ 
https://www.nytimes.com/article/armenia-azerbaijan-clashes.html 
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/91455 
https://www.aljazeera.com/where/armenia/ 
https://www.migrationdataportal.org/ukraine/crisis-movements 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/27/more-than-a-third-of-nagorno-karabakhs-ethnic-armenians-flee-says-yerevan 
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-how-many-people-have-died-in-the-russia-ukraine-war-and-what-could-happen-next 
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nagorno-karabakh