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 # 131 The Affirmative Hero 👑
As always, keen discernment is a golden key that can unlock many doors.
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 # 121 The Relgious Life
How can we rescue ourselves from indoctrinated ideas that limit our ability to be in direct communion with the divine?
DLM # 119 The Psychology of The Pied Piper
We have to be careful what we covet. For every action, there is a reaction.
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 # 114 Dancing Past Our Defense Mechanisms
DLM # 113 Chaos and Creation
Beware the existential thumb!
DLM # 110 Tussling With Demons
Whenever you need to go down into the depths of profundity and sustain a lengthy sojourn there, listen to E2E4.
Also, here is the website for a scholar, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe, about whom I speak in today’s sermon: https://www.emergencenetwork.org/
DLM # 109 The Parable Of Jesus
I explore the story of Jesus being nailed on a cross between two thieves this week.
And the music is a mix of some of my favorite songs from past mixes for a demo tape. I was planning on becoming a broadcaster at a radio station in northern California, but they wanted me to keep inserting inane little advertisements into my music every three seconds and I realized it wasn’t my thing.
I’m working on mixing music with sermons in a new podcast-style thing which is more in tune with my spiritual and creative obligations.
DLM # 83 Consumerism Cosmology, Heading North
Happy Sunday and en-joy the week.
DLM # 82 The Dancer Gives No-Fear
Dancing and making personal choices about which energies to cultivate in ourselves are activities that go hand in hand. See what you make of it.
DLM # 81 Not Wasting Our Wounds
Plumbing the depths of our wounds can teach us a great deal about who we are and until we better understand who we are we can keep making blunders that hurt ourselves and others. Hence the logic of looking into this matter.
DLM # 80 We Are saying Thank You, Dark Though It Is
As we shift gears and enter the autumn and wintertime of the year, I find I’m shifting gears with the music, too. Feels good to listen to slow music and just groove to it while cooking and folding the laundry. Walks in the woods or a quiet park in the morning with our music sounds nice, too. It’s time to cultivate yin energies so we can all cool it all down a bit already, slow down and listen more, to our friends, and even to our ideological “enemies.” Peace comes from within, not from events outside of us.
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.