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

June 25, 2023 Gelareh Khoie

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 # 159 The Sovereign Psyche (Or Why Texting Sucks)

June 11, 2023 Gelareh Khoie

Here is a video that clearly shows why we are dying, psychologically. Why our souls are dying even as we make sure to take down all other living beings with us. If I waggle my finger in everyone’s face this week, it’s because our babyish ways are irresponsible, we need to grow up, stat.

For this week’s music, I’ve decided to start offering musical assignments. Please download Beethoven’s final symphony onto your phone, then go out into the woods with headphones, or or the desert, or the river, somewhere away from humans and the digital world. While you listen to the symphony, collect leaves, rocks, twigs, whatever winks at you, and then build a mandala on the ground. Make a square, then put a circle in the middle of it. Then embellish and decorate it in any way you like. Say a prayer for the soul of the world, the anima mundi. This process will take a bit over an hour. Then make a pact that you will do something beautiful and non-digital like this every week come hell or high water. Don’t take a picture of your mandala. Don’t upload it to social media or text it to anyone. Let it be a secret ritual of between you and the cosmos, mixed together in silent and loving solitude.

DLM # 158 Asleep At The Wheel 🌀

June 4, 2023 Gelareh Khoie

So excited to share this week’s sermon and music with you all. After a very long and cold winter, the weather is finally turning warm around here and it’s a glorious Sunday morning. No matter what is happening in your world, or in the world in general, there can be some joy in sitting in the sun and breathing deeply.

DLM # 155 Adventures on the Wheel of Samsara ☸️

May 14, 2023 Gelareh Khoie

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers, and Jai Ma!! Victory to the Mother!

And happy four years of attempting to spread wisdom and light into the world!

After listening to the sermon, you may object that it’s important to be “in the world” to help alleviate suffering. I agree, of course, we must all do what we can. But what I am suggesting is that there is something even more important than that: training yourself and your mind to such a degree that you are no longer unconsciously contributing to the cyclical regeneration of suffering in the first place. If with one hand we clean, and with the other, we are creating a mess, then the cycle just goes on ad infinitum. At some point, we must stop creating the mess in the first place and we can only achieve this with a highly trained and refined mind.

DLM #154 The Samadhi of the Intergalactic Mushroom 🍄

February 12, 2023 Gelareh Khoie

DLM # 152 Moonday Sermons

September 12, 2022 Gelareh Khoie

I like the word thalassic. For music this week, look up Tom Moulton’s remixes of the Philadelphia Classics and listen to all of them, then slowly, slowly, get really into Tom Moulton.

DLM # 151 Solar Cycles of Death & Rebirth 🌀🔥

September 5, 2022 Gelareh Khoie

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

DLM # 149 Untitled Sermon

August 21, 2022 Gelareh Khoie

This week’s music.

Douglas Brooks lectures, the one I am listening to is called Clothed in Consciousness.

DLM # 148 Slowness and Consciousness

August 14, 2022 Gelareh Khoie

I hope you enjoy today’s sermon. In honor of its theme, we’re listening to Manuel Göttsching’s E2E4—an hour-long song that gives new meaning to slowing down.

DLM # 141 Where Is Our Volition Carrying Us?

May 22, 2022 Gelareh Khoie

I think it’s a pretty good sermon this week, but gentle friends, I am working on so many projects that I have no music mix again. Maria Popova speaks of the “Ode to Joy” today in her blog, so I’m inspired to listen to Beethoven’s ninth symphony in its entirety and am suggesting you do the same. When you do listen to it from beginning to end, keep in mind the lyrics that I’ve posted here for you. They will make you quake with ecstasy.

With love until next week (and scroll down for link to sermon!)

An die Freude

Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!
Deine Zauber binden wieder
Was die Mode streng geteilt*;
Alle Menschen werden Brüder*
Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.

Wem der große Wurf gelungen
Eines Freundes Freund zu sein;
Wer ein holdes Weib errungen
Mische seinen Jubel ein!
Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele
Sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund!
Und wer's nie gekonnt, der stehle
Weinend sich aus diesem Bund!

Freude trinken alle Wesen
An den Brüsten der Natur;
Alle Guten, alle Bösen
Folgen ihrer Rosenspur.
Küsse gab sie uns und Reben,
Einen Freund, geprüft im Tod;
Wollust ward dem Wurm gegeben
und der Cherub steht vor Gott.

Froh, wie seine Sonnen fliegen
Durch des Himmels prächt'gen Plan
Laufet, Brüder, eure Bahn,
Freudig, wie ein Held zum Siegen.

Seid umschlungen, Millionen!
Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt!
Brüder, über'm Sternenzelt
Muß ein lieber Vater wohnen.
Ihr stürzt nieder, Millionen?
Ahnest du den Schöpfer, Welt?
Such' ihn über'm Sternenzelt!
Über Sternen muß er wohnen.

Ode: To Joy

Joy, beautiful spark of Divinity [or: of gods],
Daughter of Elysium,
We enter, drunk with fire,
Heavenly one, thy sanctuary!
Thy magic binds again
What custom strictly divided;*
All people become brothers,*
Where thy gentle wing abides.

Whoever has succeeded in the great attempt,
To be a friend's friend,
Whoever has won a lovely wife,
Add his to the jubilation!
Yes, and also whoever has just one soul
To call his own in this world!
And he who never managed it should slink
Weeping from this union!

All creatures drink of joy
At nature's breasts.
All the Just, all the Evil
Follow her trail of roses.
Kisses she gave us and grapevines,
A friend, proven in death.
Ecstasy was given to the worm
And the cherub stands before God.

Gladly, as His suns fly
through the heavens' grand plan
Journey, brothers, on your way,
Joyful, like a hero to victory.

Be embraced, Millions!
This kiss to all the world!
Brothers, above the starry canopy
There must dwell a loving Father.
Are you collapsing, millions?
Do you sense the creator, world?
Seek him above the starry canopy!
Above stars must He dwell.

DLM # 132 On Finding Freedom 🌀

November 14, 2021 Gelareh Khoie

Good one this week, I found it very helpful.

DLM # 131 The Affirmative Hero 👑

November 7, 2021 Gelareh Khoie

As always, keen discernment is a golden key that can unlock many doors.

DLM # 130 Hail The Victorious Dead 🍺🦋

October 31, 2021 Gelareh Khoie

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.

DLM # 129 A Coronation Event 👑

October 24, 2021 Gelareh Khoie

A halo of light encircling a radiant object.

DLM # 128 Goddess Reclamation Projects 🌚

October 17, 2021 Gelareh Khoie

Here is a photo of Prague according to the tram system (notice the mandala-esque design), and a cool Gothic tower. Plus, this week’s wisdom and musical libations. Enjoy!

DLM # 124 Not Wasting Energy

September 19, 2021 Gelareh Khoie

Energy is precious, we need to save it for our loving attention to the holiness of life.

DLM # 123 What Is A Jungian Image?

September 12, 2021 Gelareh Khoie

What indeed?

DLM # 121 The Relgious Life

August 29, 2021 Gelareh Khoie

How can we rescue ourselves from indoctrinated ideas that limit our ability to be in direct communion with the divine?

DLM # 120 Growing Up Strong Like A tree

August 22, 2021 Gelareh Khoie

We’re often blown off course when we see the success and wealth of others and start to feel bad about ourselves. But for those seeking wisdom, the slow maturation process of a tree is a better image to emulate.

DLM # 119 The Psychology of The Pied Piper

August 15, 2021 Gelareh Khoie

We have to be careful what we covet. For every action, there is a reaction.