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A podcast about conscious empowered masculinity, exploring all the vital areas of a man's life, including family, personal evolution, sexuality and love, friendship and solitude, success and right livelihood.
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Saturday Dec 02, 2023
Saturday Dec 02, 2023
I share a recent talk I gave at the Celebration, a long-standing Santa Fe spiritual community. I present some ideas about 3 principles of conscious aging.
Saturday Nov 25, 2023
Saturday Nov 25, 2023
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.” Thus said Michel de Montaigne, the French Renaissance philosopher. How much energy do I give to my worries, anxieties and fears?
Saturday Nov 11, 2023
Saturday Nov 11, 2023
Anyone familiar with some of the great war movies – the Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Band of Brothers, & Saving Private Ryan come to mind – will acknowledge their portrayal of courage, comradeship and the meaningless abominations of armed conflict, and without glorifying any of it, also show the destructive ripple effects on families and communities.
Saturday Nov 04, 2023
Saturday Nov 04, 2023
Constantly connected to a digital neighborhood, endlessly distracted, lost in the trance of busyness and the cult of productivity, I can easily drift from living on purpose. I firmly believe that everyone needs a center and an edge.
Saturday Oct 28, 2023
Saturday Oct 28, 2023
The shimmering luminous web of connection to my more primitive self is satisfying in ways that remain important to my wellbeing on every level—physical mental emotional and spiritual. It is hard to articulate, but walking in the moonlight, hunting, gathering or time around a fire trigger, what exactly?
Saturday Oct 21, 2023
Saturday Oct 21, 2023
Thought of this as a topic while driving down I25 in a steel container at 75 mph – a journey that a mere 120 years ago would have taken three days – the scenery zipping by as if by magic. And doing that while chatting with a friend 3000 thousand miles away—hands free of course, my phone connected via Bluetooth to my hearing aids.
Saturday Oct 07, 2023
Saturday Oct 07, 2023
So, how to assess our own level of risk? We know that the risk of severe illness increases with the number of underlying medical conditions present, including obesity, diabetes, heart or lung disease, being immune compromised and others. Just being over age 65 is in itself considered a risk factor. A key question is does vaccination OR treatment with an antiviral prevent long CoVid?
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
I continue the exploration of wisdom, this time focused on body based wisdom. I've learned much by consistently listening to its messages. Here is the link to podcast 41 on energy flow awareness as mentioned in the podcast:
https://heartsongs.podbean.com/e/41-the-wonder-of-wellness/
Saturday Sep 23, 2023
Saturday Sep 23, 2023
Three more bits of wisdom to share, based on my life experience, which help me to gradually drop whatever is holding me prisoner to my past, and step into the territory of being a pioneer of my own future. For more info on the notion of deep desires, check out podcast 39:
https://heartsongs.podbean.com/e/39-greed-or-need-part-three/
Saturday Sep 16, 2023
Saturday Sep 16, 2023
The question arises: is there any individual wisdom to be found that might assist me through these modern day societal maladies? As I reflect upon various pearls of deep truth that have been passed down to me, I realize that most of them were not orally transmitted from a sage elder, but rather gleaned from books that validated and spoke to my own experience.