bECOMING MAGIC

I have some questions about weed. Gene has a lifetime passion for T'ai Chi. From these two sources (not to mention the Eternal Source) doth flow this conversation. To free love-lsd-1960's-NYC, to the living reality of the yin-yang symbol, to prison, to Spirit-led-roadtrips, to the heart of it all! come one, come all! Thank you for listening. If you are local to Bellingham, Gene teaches T'ai Chi he...

Roberta Mackrill is an absolute delight! Here's her YouTube and Facebook .

I don't know if you will, I don't know if you won't, listen to this episode... but you may! Also, you may be a guest on bECOMING MAGIC. I would love to have you if you're vibin with this thing. Ok, some citations: Countrie Hoodlums on Instagram Peter Rollins on YouTube That's it. Now it's up to you, baby. May...

I dream of a future without any jobs. Nobody ever tellin' anybody else what to do. Instead, work and action that overflows from our hearts becoming free and connected to what we love. A 'course it ain't set up like that quite yet. Maybe that's part of the problem: it's a little too set up, engineered, conjuncted to a profit margin. But that's where we at ain't we. We&#3...

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His dad was an alcoholic. A lost sheep. The bad guy. That was the portrait of him painted by the conservative religious (Mennonite) culture that Charlie married into, and which was then framed and hung, as it were, on the wall over his son's childhood. Behold your dad. In his book, Charlie's Boy, Justin travels back through time to his 12th summer, and he meets his dad all over again. Like...

Hello! This one about how do we become more of who we are more and more grow in time and patience and persistence. It goes a lot of places: What happens when we die? Is destiny a thing? What about God? Who dat, and what like? We do some reading too: Moby Dick, Hermetic texts, the Gospel of Matthew. Also, there's a special guest or two. - Works Uncited Fighting My Demons by Ken Carson (Where da...

New Season of bECOMING MAGIC begins April 4.

Maryn Spangler returns to the show! Why? For an adventure in the Mary field. What? An energy field of Mary. Mary who? Mary. How? When? Just listen when you’re ready, my friend. - Episode art: Etruscan sculpture (pre-Christian). Branch from the stump of Jesse.

It's Struggle Bus Season, aka Advent, The Most Won— Difficult Time of the Year. Drawing on Anthroposophy, Lisa Del Alba helps us cut through the Christmas clamor to enter a darker and deeper reality that is connected with why human souls choose to come to planet earth in the first place. Special thanks to Melissa Ramer for the episode art! And special thanks to said art for inspiring the episo...

Psychedelics are one way to trip, but there are other ways too. Imagination is a portal, I'm a tellin' ya, boo. What are these other worlds beyond the gates of imagination? Who inhabits them? Are they dangerous to visit? These questions are a bit of the ground we traverse on this episode. Maryn Spangler runs an online school for spiritual education and exploration called The Lorian Associa...

This episode is about people. Why the hell are they so scary and so interesting at the same damn time? Expect a very special guest by the name of Lydia! And another surprise guest further in. Also! We'll have Emily Dickinson, Ibn Arabi, and Jean-Paul Sartre chiming in. Thanks for listening. - A person is a window With insufficient veil— A dark and yawning opening Where tattered curtains blow, - Or...

We all feel stuck at times, am I right? I was just experiencing this a bit ago, matter of fact. I know there’s something different, something more, something new. It’s utterly unique. It’s beautiful and, and wonderful! It’s out there ahead of me in the future somewhere. Much more than that I cannot say. I don’t have the deets on it. What I do have is what I have. My current identity. My habits. Me...

Introducing half of The Radio's new name! And what's underneath it. And above it! A big thank you to Sol Nights for allowing me use of their song ⁠Keep Comin' Back⁠ . And one thing yet before you go. Take with you this... - "Into this happy night In secret, seen of none, Nor saw I aught, Without other light or guide, Save that which in my heart did burn." (St. John of the Cross) - WORKS CITED Let...

Now, this episode is about how and where to find the hiding magic in the modern world. And this episode let me tell ya... We've got Islamic mystics that'll take you out of your mind. We've got a Hans Christian Anderson story sublime. We got highways to drive. We got rivers to swim. We got mountain paths, baby, come on in. WORKS CITED Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn...

Hello, my friends, and welcome to The Radio, where we explore how to live creative and connected. This episode is a journey into the wild, weird, and wonderful. The Imagination. You have one. I have one. The what are they for? That's what we begin to explore. Well, just begin to get a feel for. No real clear answers just yet, alright. Learn from it. Not about it. That's the idea here. So i...

Julia Polter is a priest of The Christian Community, a movement for religious renewal. We discuss nighttime anxiety, death, learning how to love, and the meaning of life. - Episode Art: Night Thoughts Or, The Complaint and the Consolation, engraving by William Blake, 1797 Rage, the Flower Thrower, Banksy mural in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine, 2003

this is just a picture this a first few steps is all this a kid blowing bubbles down at Boulevard Park come find out this a this a this a there are worlds inside some bubbles bigger inside than on out that's the wild for ya weirder wilder quieter it gets deeper in you go

(Here comes the upbeat music.) Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-change-ahging! Hannah emerges from her desert retreat to visit Lydia and I in our rainforest home. (And it melts downward in solemn tones.) It's not easy to be alive. What do we do with our suffering? (Then oh chimes brighten in a smart, spring breeze.) What do YOU think and feel and know about these things? — The Kendrick Lamar song I quote...

Once upon a time there was a field. In that field was a meadow. In that meadow played a lamb. In that field there bloomed a forest. In that forest a tiger burned. In that field there grew a city. In that city everyone who ever lived, lived. The sky of that field was the floor of the entire universe. Up there in that sky Bob Dylan put his ear to the ground and listened for a song. Up there in that...

I sit down with my guitar to ask some questions and...

A little trot down to visit a "dead" horse on memory lane. A bit of a gallop through a new imagination. A short halt inside the Book of Revelation. And a few conversations (three special guests!) I hope it all adds up to connect with something inside you, the Rider in your heart. - 2025 is here. It's a brand new year. We need a horse for this frontier. We're gonna need a horse fo...

How is creativity connected to self-development? Put another way, what can making art teach us about becoming art? In this episode, I share a bit of my journey that "began" with stepping through the portal of creativity. By the end, I approach very tender territory. I hope that you can hang in there with me and that you will take courage to walk the path of becoming that is yours alone. As always,...