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LF93 Paul Kivel – Living in the Shadow of the Cross

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Paul Kivel on Living in the Shadow of the Cross – Understanding and Resisting the Power and Privilege of Christian Hegemony. Over the centuries, Christianity has accomplished much which is deserving of praise. Its institutions have fed the hungry, sheltered the homeless, and advocated for the poor. Christian faith has sustained people through crisis and inspired many to work for social justice.
Yet, although the word ‘Christian’ evokes the epitome of goodness, the actual story is much more complex. Over the last two millennia, ruling elites have used Christian institutions and values to control those less privileged throughout the world. The doctrine of Christianity has been interpreted to justify the killing of millions, and its leaders have used their faith to sanction participation in colonialism, slavery, and genocide. In the Western world, Christian influence has inspired legislators to continue to limit women’s reproductive rights, and kept lesbians and gays on the margins of society.
As our triple crises of war, financial meltdown, and environmental destruction intensify, it is imperative that we dig beneath the surface of Christianity’s benign reputation to examine its contribution to our social problems. Living in the Shadow of the Cross reveals the ongoing, everyday impact of Christian power and privilege on our beliefs, behaviors, and public policy, and emphasizes the potential for people to come together to resist domination and build and sustain communities of justice and peace.
www.christianhegemony.orgwww.paulkivel.com
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LF92 Giles Slade – American Exodus: Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival

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Giles Slade discusses his book American Exodus – Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival.
Some scientists predict the sea will rise one and a half metres before 2100, but rapidly melting polar ice caps could make the real increase much higher. In the coming century, intensifying storms will batter our coasts, and droughts and extreme heat events will be annual threats. All this will occur as population grows, and declining water resources make growing food ever more challenging. What will happen when the United States cannot provide food or fresh water for the overheated, overcrowded cities where 80 per cent of Americans currently live? The good news is that this overall decline of habitability in the mid-latitudes will be matched by increases in the carrying capacity of sparsely populated lands above the 49th parallel. This phenomenon suggests that waves of environmental refugees will travel north as southern conditions worsen. Our northern lands are our Noah’s Ark – a vital refuge in the time of mankind’s greatest need.
American Exodus argues that we are entering a long period of global turmoil which will be characterized by human migration on an unprecedented scale. It is a frighteningly believable survey of our immediate future, but it ends on a note of hope: we may yet survive the coming century of climatic change if we act now to safeguard our shelter of last resort.
www.gilesslade.com
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LF91 Vlatko Vedral – Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information

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Vlatko Vedral on Decoding Reality – The Universe as Quantum Information. What is the nature of reality? Why is there something rather than nothing? These are the deepest questions that human beings have asked, that thinkers East and West have pondered over millennia. For a physicist, all the world is information. The Universe and its workings are the ebb and flow of information. We are all transient patterns of information, passing on the blueprints for our basic forms to future generations using a digital code called DNA.
Decoding Reality asks some of the deepest questions about the Universe and considers the implications of interpreting it in terms of information. It explains the nature of information, the idea of entropy, and the roots of this thinking in thermodynamics. It describes the bizarre effects of quantum behaviour such as ‘entanglement’, which Einstein called ‘spooky action at a distance’ and explores cutting edge work on harnessing quantum effects in hyperfast quantum computers, and how recent evidence suggests that the weirdness of the quantum world, once thought limited to the tiniest scales, may reach up into our reality.
The book concludes by considering the answer to the ultimate question: where did all of the information in the Universe come from? The answers considered are exhilarating and challenge our concept of the nature of matter, of time, of free will, and of reality itself.
Vlatko Vedral’s Frontiers of Quantum Physics
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LF 90 Don Cerow – When the Dragon Wore the Crown

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Don Cerow discusses his book When the Dragon Wore the Crown. When our ancestors gazed upon the skies thousands of years ago they looked up into the centre of Creation and saw a mighty Dragon, a great celestial serpent with wings circling ceaselessly above them, night after night, century after century. When the Dragon Wore the Crown is a ground breaking book that covers a period of over 6000 years, focusing on what astrologers would call the Ages of Gemini, Taurus and Aries, and taking us through the period of classical astronomy with the Greeks and Romans (circa 7000 BC – 200 AD). The book opens and closes with the Chinese mythological tradition and touches on Sumerian, Babylonian, Phoenician, Hindu, Norse, Native American and even Mayan myths, weaving together many of their celestial serpentine similarities.
Questions posed in this interview include:
Are historical truths about people, places and events concealed within ancient myths, including those in The Bible?
Do common themes within myths such as the Great Flood and End Times point to an age when there was one global culture and one common language?
Why are symbols such as serpents, spirals and spheres so common in mythic traditions?
Did climate change and the loss of ancient astronomical knowledge tip humanity into an era of famine, upheaval and war?
Do celestial bodies possess consciousness and perhaps even intelligence?
And finally, as we ourselves enter a new astronomical age, what does it signify about our future?
www.athenasweb.com
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LF84 Mark Corske – Engines of Domination: Political Power and the Human Emergency

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Mark Corske discusses his book Engines of Domination: Political Power and the Human Emergency.
Is political power – armed central authority with states and war – really necessary for human society? Or is it a tool that ruling elites use to live at the expense of everyone else? Engines of Domination offers a theory of political power as a tool; an engine that converts human energy into power and privilege for the rulers. Invented in the Bronze Age and ruthlessly refined for six thousand years, today this engine threatens to destroy our world in a human emergency of converging political and economic crises, resource depletion, and environmental destruction. Applying his theory of political power to Western history, Corske makes a passionate argument that there is only one way to respond to this emergency: Armed central authority must be abolished, giving way to a world of peaceful voluntary communities. Six thousand years of violence and chaos, of abusive power and plundered privilege, is more than long enough. It’s time for something better.
www.enginesofdomination.com
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LF83 Joseph Chilton Pearce – Culture, Control and the Madness of Man

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Joseph Chilton Pearce discusses some of the ideas in his book Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg. Originally published in 1974, the book has just been reissued.
Although most human beings consider themselves sane, as a species we exhibit almost total insanity. From endless wars to the wholesale destruction of the environment, our actions wreak havoc on all around us, and in the end, on ourselves. But what is the cause of our mass psychosis, and why do so few of us acknowledge it? Do greed and violence truly reflect human nature, or are we victims of some long forgotten tragedy that lives on within the dark depths of our collective unconscious?
Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg asserts that our fear of death and belief that the universe is fundamentally hostile are at the root of all our problems. Beginning in childhood, the development of language and the process of acculturation render our direct experiences of the world much less vivid and our innate states of non-ordinary consciousness become suppressed. Trapped in a specific cultural context – a ‘cosmic egg’ – we are no longer able to have or even recognize mystical experiences not mediated by the limitations of our culture which itself literally splits our minds and prevents us from living fully in the present.
Exploring the Crack‘¦ explores the varieties of non-ordinary states that can help us return to the unencumbered consciousness of our infancy. Just as we each create our own cosmic egg of reality through cultural conditioning, we also innately create a ‘crack’ in that egg through which we can restore wholeness to our minds, find freedom from our fear of death, and re-establish our ability to create our own realities through imagination and biological transcendence.
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LF448 Gerry O'Neill - Unvaxxed Soul: A Post Pandemic Spirit Journey

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Gerry O'Neill discusses his book 'Unvaxxed Soul: A Post Pandemic Spirit Journey'. What if the real journey after lockdown isn’t across a map, but into your own soul? Gerry's book is a post-lockdown road memoir and search for faith and inner freedom while navigating the wild beauty of the West of Ireland; a raw, reflective, quietly rebellious account set on the back roads and byroads of the countryside. When old certainties crack and the world’s explanations ring hollow, one man realises that no expert, institution, politics or movement can give him the inner peace he's searching for.
Slowly, the outward road trip becomes an inward one. The search shifts from the world outside to the one within: memory, grief, fractured relationships, old shame, new learnings, and stubborn streaks of faith; a long, faltering search for a lived soul-heart. If you’ve ever felt out of step with the crowd, suspicious of easy answers, or drawn to a spirituality that’s messy, human and hard-won, 'Unvaxxed Soul' is a companion for the long road home.
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LF447 Kingsley Dennis - Transhumanism, Technocracy and The Struggle For Your Soul

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This week I welcome back longtime guest Kingsley Dennis to discuss his latest book 'The Threshold: The Forces of Techno-Materialism and The Struggle for The Human Soul'. In his analysis of the modern technological world, Kingsley demonstrates that humanity is rushing headlong towards a critical moment for civilisation which he terms the ‘Threshold’, where the trajectory for human evolution is facing hostile forces that not only reject the path of the human spirit but aim to sabotage our connection to it. The Threshold brings the reader face-to-face with the intensifying threats of technocracy, transhumanism, AI-theology and false transcendence, and the re-defining of the biological human condition.
Humanity must choose between a future of deepening fundamentalist materialism or a life that recognises the presence of metaphysical truths and the rising capacities of spirit-consciousness. At this time, unlike any other in known history, the Earth is engaged in a struggle for the presence of the human soul.
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LF446 Thomas Sheridan & Maria Wheatley – The Dark Agenda Denying Access To Ancient Sites

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With Thomas Sheridan, Maria Wheatley and Greg Moffitt
We discuss ancient megalithic sites, their importance throughout human history, their place in the modern era, and in the future. At a time of increasing interest in such sites – which many people instinctively intuit as highly significant – there exist increasing controls and restrictions on access to these places of power. Why might this be happening and who – or what – might be behind it?
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LF445 Gary Lachman - Rock and Roll, Magic and The Occult

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Gary Lachman discusses his memoir 'Touched by the Presence: From Blondie’s Bowery and Rock and Roll to Magic and the Occult'. The book traces Gary’s journey from founding member of Blondie to writer on consciousness and the esoteric tradition. He explores his involvement in Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way, Crowley’s Thelema, and his relationship with author Colin Wilson. He also shares how an early love of comics, science fiction, and fantasy led him to the esoteric tradition. From his rock'n'roll days he recalls encounters with, among others, the Ramones, New York Dolls, Patti Smith, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Iggy Pop. Excursions to Stonehenge, Avebury, and Glastonbury in search of ley lines, and pilgrimages to Colin Wilson’s home in Cornwall, are just a few of the many highlights of this introspective, humorous account of a nascent writer’s struggle from the music business to self-discovery and beyond.
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