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 # 132 On Finding Freedom 🌀

November 14, 2021 Gelareh Khoie

Good one this week, I found it very helpful.

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.

DLM # 112 The Chains of Physis

June 27, 2021 Gelareh Khoie

The sermon is long so this part is short.

DLM # 74 Where Consumerism and Liberation Converge In Meaning

October 4, 2020 Gelareh Khoie

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.

DLM # 73 Liberty Is A Personal Choice

September 27, 2020 Gelareh Khoie

Offered with love, a heavy-duty, life versus death sermon. Which are you inadvertently choosing? Listen and find out.

The music for today is the first digital mixtape I ever made. My friend, Chris Lam, was showing me how to create a playlist on iTunes and burn it to a CD. These were the songs I picked for it. It has stood the test of time for it was made in 2005. I listened to it the other day in the car and had a lot of fun.

DLM # 69 Travel Beyond The Kiddie Pool of Consciousness

August 30, 2020 Gelareh Khoie

A free-style sermon today in honor of jazz musician, Wynton Marsalis.

Please remember, folks, that if you want to save the world you have to first rescue your own consciousness from the ideological propaganda systems that control it. Both sides are doing this to us so moving beyond binary systems has to do with more than just gender identity politics. It has to do with the politics of power in general.

I’m linking to this amazing interview with Marsalis from Friday night, you must see it. He talks about things in ways no one else is doing—profound, heavy-duty, grade-A truth.

For music this week, I only have one song because I want to encourage you to listen to Marsalis’ new album, The Ever Fonky Lowdown.

DLM # 49 Disco Resurrection (or Baptism by Disco)

April 12, 2020 Gelareh Khoie

It’s so easy when you know how. Just let go and dance. Don’t think, don’t talk, don’t worry—just dance. It’ll change your frequency, and then, from that more refined energetic frequency, you can be more useful to your own life and to the life of the world. This is what rebirth means.