DLM # 161 A New "Religion" of Freedom and Peace

A little recap today about what the Disco Liberation Movement is all about.

For our musical engagement, here’s what I suggest: please go out and buy the Sunday paper and bring it home. Then, light a candle and listen to Leonard Cohen’s album Ten New Songs while you use a pair of scissors to cut out words from the newspaper. Cut out words that catch your eye and pile them up until you have a bunch of them. Then, start pasting the words onto a clean sheet of paper but before you do, kiss the piece of paper and hold it to your heart for ten seconds. Now, compose a poem or piece of writing using the words you cut out from the Sunday paper. See if you can especially work towards using negative and fearful words used by the paper to manipulate the minds of the masses, and turn them instead to words of love and peace and harmony. This is how we can use religious rituals to rescue our words.

DLM # 151 Solar Cycles of Death & Rebirth 🌀🔥

It takes a lot of heart, man. That’s all I can say.

DLM # 132 On Finding Freedom 🌀

Good one this week, I found it very helpful.

DLM # 130 Hail The Victorious Dead 🍺🦋

Three supplementary items here: a photo of where I was sitting when I wrote today’s sermon, a photo of the Bohemian cemetery mentioned, and a video by Sadhguru explaining the way the mind is a reality-creation-factory we must train so we can consciously and consistently manifest peace, joy, and love.

Vyšehrad Cemetery

Nice place to sit and write!

DLM # 123 What Is A Jungian Image?

What indeed?

DLM # 118 Tom Brady, Archetype of Success

A little ditty on the kinds of psychological parameters that give rise to feelings of fulfillment and success in life. The word “success” has been hijacked by the greedy capitalist imagination but in my view, true success is about self-mastery.

****Also, the “Let’s f**cking go” sign-off on today’s sermon is referencing Tom Brady’s oft-repeated call to action.

A recycled music mix from the early days of my mixes, apologies, I’m juggling a lot right now but will have a new mix next week.

DLM # 116 The Sacred Ecstatic

This week’s verbal sermon is short but packs a serious punch. I had to listen to it myself several times, and each time I was transported. The music, too, is powerful and there are many gods and goddesses in there, inviting us to leave silliness behind and enter into true profundity. There is nothing like mythopoetic language and powerful music to transport us directly into connection with the divine.

DLM # 96 Wisdom From A Shaolin Monk

Master Shi Heng Yi gave a Ted talk about the five hindrances to total awakening. I thought they were fascinating because of their psychological specificity. All of the hindrances begin in the mind which is why I often talk about how liberation (for ourselves, for our species, and for the planet) must begin with an internal and personal struggle for freedom.

DLM # 74 Where Consumerism and Liberation Converge In Meaning

I’m convinced that if we reduce our consumption we can turn the ship around. It takes disicipline and awareness, though, and you can’t really have either of those when you’re operating from the sphere of unexamined ego desires. This is why evolving is a kind of work—it takes consistent effort.

Let’s see what we can do this week, eh?

Big love.