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#174 - Dealing with Hungry Ghosts: Thích Nhất Hạnh on Healing Intergenerational Trauma, Realizing Emptiness, Self-Compassion, and Living as a Transmission from Ancestors
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Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago
#173 - The Myths of Capital: Michael Parenti on Rags to Riches Fables, Pacifying Propaganda, Wealth Pyramids and Perpetual Scarcity, Corporate Power, and the Socialist Response to the Ruling Ideology
The great Michael Parenti returns to HoPAA to enlighten us about capitalism's leading myths and legends. As the man says, 'brothers and sisters, WE own the airwaves'.
Times are tough for everyone, but…
Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago
BRM7: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, H. P. Blavatsky, Samuel Mathers, Victorian Magick, Theosophy, Kabbalah, Séances, and the Great Occult Poetry Larp
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Samuel Mathers is Bane, not Wolverine.
People Mentioned:
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
H. P. Blavatsky
Wi…
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#172c - Vergil and the Roman Tradition: Bert Dreyfus' Complete Course on the Aeneid, Augustus Caesar, Roman Propaganda, The Fall of Troy, Dido and Carthage, the Rise of Empire, and Latin Poetic Myth
The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies.
-Vergil, Aeneid
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BRM6a: Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master, There Will Be Blood, American Grifters, Bloodoil, Scientology, Solvent Abuse, Time Travel, Brahms, Chopin, Johnnie Greenwood, Radiohead and Milkshake Drinking
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Movies:
The Master (2012)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Magnolia (1999)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Music:
Violin Concerto in D Major, Movement III A…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Bad Role Models #5: Miyamoto Musashi - Japan's Greatest Samurai Duelist, the Book of the Five Rings, the Way of Combat Strategy, Dokkōdō, Zen, and the Strike from the Void
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The best version of Musashi in English that I have found is the book The Complete Musashi translated by Alexander Bennett, which is available…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Mission Accomplished: A Documentary Doctors Retrospective - Iraq, Afghanistan, 9/11, the War on Terror, Robert Fisk, Neocon Fear Bubbles, Saudi Connections, & Why It's All About The Petrodollar (DD8)
Documentaries:
Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)
Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror (Netflix)
Citizenfour (Laura Poitras)
Hollywoodgate (Ibrahim Nah'at)
The Mauritanian (Kevin Macdonald)
Books:
Jason B…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
BRM4b: The HST Bonus Show - Screwjack, Better Than Sex, Hells Angels, Flesh-Eating Snails, Mescaline, Radical Lawyers, Motorcycle Crashes, and Finding the Edge
A truly decadent and indulgent episode for the genuinely twisted wordheads and storyfreaks still crawling on all fives. Cheers, you beautiful bastards.
Music by Anapse, track Bisector off Streamsafe…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
BRM4a: Hunter S. Thompson in Aspen - Fear and Loathing in the Sheriff's Office, Greedheads, Hatemongers, and Yellow-Eyed Hyenas, The Freak Power Ticket, Fat City, and the Death of the American Dream
With special guest Deputy Dick filling in (for) Richard Sinex.
Music by Anapse, track Bisector off Streamsafe Essentials
--Books--
Hells Angels by Hunter S Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hu…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
172b - Aeschylus: Bert Dreyfus on Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, the Furies and the Eumenides, Pouring Out of Libations, Athenian Tragedy, and the Pessimism of the Greeks
Music Credit: Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 30 performed by Paavali Jumppanen, available on Museopen.
The Alan Shapiro translation of the Oresteia is my favorite.
Another episode (Hemlock #5) I did about…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago