01:01:42 Jill Dunphy: Joseph was awesome! so much wisdom! 01:01:51 Joseph Parent: Founding of Nithartha Institute. 01:01:58 Peter Rossner: Anybody here based in Montreal, Canada? If so, I’d like to get in touch. Write me at pierre.rossner@gmail.com 01:02:28 Joseph Parent: It was my pleasure! 01:02:30 Andy K. - Moderator: Welcome Everyone! Feel free to say HI and tell us where you’re tuning in from :) 01:03:19 Virginia Bower: Virginia from Asheville, NC--so happy to be meeting back with Andrew and the group! 01:03:26 Prem Anjali: Nithartha Summer Institute will be online this year: https://summer.nitarthainstitute.org/ 01:03:32 KandyHirsch: Tucson AZ - where the mountains are on fire… 01:04:08 Amanda: Hi from London...I did'Andrew's fantastic Shambala course and wonder if more could be said about 'shenwa'? ref industrial mind'! Amanda 01:06:53 Prem Anjali: If you’d like to study bardo teachings more & preparing for a “Graceful Exit”, he’ll be doing this program online Labor Day weekend. Info here (further details within next week with schedule specifics etc. as we transition to online format): https://www.yogaville.org/programs/8555/graceful-exit-preparing-for-a-good-death/ 01:07:07 Mariana: I've been attendin Nitartha Summer Institute for the last 7 years. A wonderful experience. Registration is still open. https://summer.nitarthainstitute.org/ 01:14:49 Debra Blake: Anyone else here in Austin, TX? I’m here through the end of July and would love to be in touch, with distancing of course. 01:15:10 Debra Blake: After that, Ann Arbor, so there too. . . 01:18:21 Mayra Lorenzana-Miles: I am near Ann Arbor 01:21:58 Prem Anjali: “If something affects you more than it informs you, you are probably dealing with a projection (or a samskara has been triggered)." 01:24:05 Lindsay S: I have a question. 01:25:15 Joseph Parent: Appreciate Andrew’s comments about last weeks questions— a lifetime of fear/insecurity and hatred/anger, that triggers projections and actions way out of proportion to the situation. Sadly, that cop had a history of that kind of overreaction, but wasn’t called on it and removed from the street. 01:26:15 Joseph Parent: And how much our seeing it triggers our own reactions. 01:31:08 meg starbuck: I once thought of radicals (including myself at times) as people who are “created” to deal with where society is dysfunctional. So in this context wondering if they have perhaps more samskaras because of that - does this make any sense? 01:31:09 Elaine Pigeon: What was the title of that book? 01:32:09 Prem Anjali: https://www.amazon.com/World-Made-Stories-David-Loy/dp/0861716159/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=david+loy&qid=1593113726&sr=8-7 01:32:09 patricia: The world is made of storiesd 01:32:44 Lynn Fuentes: An article that sums up the stages by Susann Cook-Greuter, an expert in the field. http://www.cook-greuter.com/Cook-Greuter%209%20levels%20paper%20new%201.1%2714%2097p%5B1%5D.pdf 01:32:44 Sue B: please, which book by ken Wilbur 01:32:58 Lynn Fuentes: Integral Psychology by Wilber 01:33:02 Elaine Pigeon: Thank you! 01:33:08 Lynn Fuentes: Also, Terri O 01:33:57 Lynn Fuentes: Oops. Another person teaching stages is Terri O’Fallon. https://www.stagesinternational.com 01:34:16 carinabredberg: To bring things to the table is provoking often, and I am hesitatnt to trigger others. Yet I do it anyway sometimes since I perceive we need to bring it all up. If it is safe, and that is not always easy to know if it is or not. What is your discernment on how to know when to keep and process things within alone, and when to bring it out to be processed collectively with others? I think long generational samskaras perhaps need to be brought up to be freed? How to discern? 01:41:12 meg starbuck: What I meant about dysfunctional societies was that the societies that are particularly dysfunctional (like ours) will create more difficult childhood conditions for many, which creates such unhappiness that people want to become radical/active to change it. So thinking the more samskaras, the more radical….but not quite sure that makes sense. Its an old idea of mine I may be needing to let go of! 01:43:20 Joseph Parent: Stop, Drop, and Breathe! 01:44:27 Barry Sponder: The Dakini Speaks My friends, let’s grow up. Let’s stop pretending we don’t know the deal here. Or if we truly haven’t noticed, let’s wake up and notice. Look: Everything that can be lost, will be lost. It’s simple — how could we have missed it for so long? Let’s grieve our losses fully, like ripe human beings, But please, let’s not be so shocked by them. Let’s not act so betrayed, As though life had broken her secret promise to us. Impermanence is life’s only promise to us, And she keeps it with ruthless impeccability. To a child she seems cruel, but she is only wild, And her compassion exquisitely precise: Brilliantly penetrating, luminous with truth, She strips away the unreal to show us the real. This is the true ride — let’s give ourselves to it! Let’s stop making deals for a safe passage: There isn’t one anyway, and the cost is too high. We are not children anymore. The true human adult gives everything for what cannot be lost. Let’s dance the wild dance of no hope! 01:45:19 Elyse: Poet's name again? 01:45:28 Lynn Fuentes: It’s Jennifer Welwood 01:45:34 Elyse: thank you! 01:45:48 joan klein: Jane Welwood. 01:47:53 Lynn Fuentes: http://jenniferwelwood.com/poetry/the-dakini-speaks/ 01:53:45 Kirsten Roth: thanks 01:55:36 joan klein: Andrew, please create a meditation tape for us to use before going to sleep. 01:55:47 Patricia B: Maybe something to do for the future Andrew! Yes please! 01:56:02 Prem Anjali: I’ll talk to Andrew about producing this! great idea! 01:56:05 louisa: I want to thank Joseph for telling us about his (& his sister’s) book “A walk in the Wood”!! I downloaded the audiobook version of it and loved it!!! It’s relevant at several different levels! I thoroughly enjoyed Joseph’s reading of his delightful book & I recommend it very much! 01:56:37 meskill: yoga nidra 01:56:46 Astrea YOGA und mehr: Yes Tomothey 01:57:05 Cassell Gross: There are shamanic descents that would probably work well. 01:57:25 FarrHome: Not Buddhist but I believe Denise Linn has a guided meditation for Lucid dreaming / Astral travel 01:58:00 Astrea YOGA und mehr: There are Yoga Nidra scripts that you can use to practice ssadhana in deep relaxation and o use it tô fall as sleep... It works well. 01:58:50 Barbara Brien: What book is she talking about? 01:59:20 Elizabeth’s iPad: Lincoln in the Bardo 01:59:23 Prem Anjali: https://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Bardo-Novel-George-Saunders/dp/0812985400/ref=sr_1_1?crid=BNK0M1KQ2CUJ&dchild=1&keywords=lincoln+in+the+bardo+paperback&qid=1593115366&sprefix=lincoln+in+the+bard%2Caps%2C280&sr=8-1 01:59:47 Jill Dunphy: Great book! 02:01:30 Jill Dunphy: Not only dreamlike, but a lovely insight into the time of Lincoln and his state of mind around losing his younger son amidst the Civil War. So beautifully written! Innovative. 02:05:15 Michele: Speak to be revealed, listen to be changed 02:07:23 FarrHome: A GREAT book on this is, Why We Think the Things We Do, and How to Change it. By Dr. Helen Kogan 02:09:42 Joseph Parent: Thanks, louisa! It was a delight to write it and then record the audiobook. 02:10:58 Joseph Parent: Did my best to channel A.A. Milne and Winnie the Pooh. 02:18:30 Jose Ricardo Fuentes: what is abycheka?? 02:18:43 mkcambridge: YES! 02:18:52 Barbara Brien: I like that idea too 02:19:09 joan klein: abhisheka 02:19:16 Barry Sponder: Charlie Morley had one last week online 02:19:32 Louise: I like it too 02:19:41 Joseph Parent: Jose, it is abhisheka, which is Sanskrit for “initiation” 02:19:46 KandyHirsch: yes 02:20:26 Jose Ricardo Fuentes: thanks Joseph. 02:21:00 Jill Dunphy: love what you’re saying! Power to the people! 😘 02:21:10 deloreshammons: Fantastic idea, David!! Andrew, your generosity of doing these teachings online have made them available to many of us who otherwise would not be able to be blessed with them. Please consider to continue them. 02:21:31 Ruth Voon: yes! would not have met Andrew if it weren't for online!!! 02:22:42 Patricia B: Night Club is really affordable for all you get, but online affordable retreats would be amazing! Keep up the great work. 02:23:37 Laura Kelly: so appreciate David's comment and suggestion about creating workshops and retreats that are accessible...for remote and economically limited people who seriously would love to be able to partake. Hope it can happen (from my tiny relatively empoverished (me included) village in Southern Mexico By the way, I deeply appreciate this weekly meeting! It is a center and highlight of my life now. Thank you so much!. 02:23:52 David's iPhone: Well said, Ted. 02:24:12 Prem Anjali: Online retreat with Andrew here: https://www.yogaville.org/programs/8555/graceful-exit-preparing-for-a-good-death/ 02:24:59 Judith Adams: Can anyone describe the hands up meditation 02:25:33 Prem Anjali: For anyone interested in a one-week retreat with Andrew and that would combine Yoga practice (gentle Yoga, yogic breathing, Yoga Nidra etc.) please email me: 108newyork@gmail.com & i’ll explore this with Andrew 02:26:11 Prem Anjali: Or, a long weekend retreat or 5-day silent retreat... 02:26:39 Vance Walker: niggers 02:26:39 joan klein: Kill niggers 02:26:51 Lindsay S: FUCK NIGGERS 02:26:55 Lindsay S: GEORGE FLOYD DESERVED IT 02:26:55 Michele: I love dick 02:27:24 Andy K. - Moderator: Sorry everyone - seems the chat just got bombed again. I’ve disabled it for now :( 02:28:37 Andy K. - Moderator: Sorry again - I think the Zoom-bomb has now passed. 02:28:46 Andy K. - Moderator: Chat is open again. 02:29:48 Louise: volunteer at an inner city hospital. 02:30:25 Louise: that is practical and helpful 02:30:25 Cassell Gross: You can teach English through Intercambio. They have excellent training and support. They really care about the people they serve and also the people who volunteer. David Loy’s wife was a colleague of mine who did it when I was doing it. I think they have online programs now.