Hey Ho,
I’m here with your weekly podcast, which — big highlights — includes readings from The Onion as well as from the earliest books of Allen Ginsberg. Yes, I rely on something besides nuclear bulletins for inspiration this week, though I use some of those and provide an update on the nuclear situation.
This podcast comes with a few exhibits. Here’s the text of The Onion article. Here’s the text of the Ginsberg poem, called In Society, a dream he wrote down from 1947. Here is the article by British environmentalist George Monbiot about why he’s now a big believer in nuclear power.
The new player is the little cool arrow above or below. And here is the recording in the old player.
PS, here is a video of Slow Train Coming from the day I end the podcast with. It’s a slow load — it seems to take forever. In fact does take forever, you have to be from China. Here are the lyrics from Bob’s website. Here’s a kind of Russian version of things, let’s see if it works. They talk a lot, I’m still listening. Okay if you listen through a lot of jabbering. Well it’s the wrong song! It’s marked Slow Train but it’s really “You’re Gonna Serve Someone,” from the same era.
kristal, very soothing video – thank you.
Sharon
They can shove their bullshit media and control over consciousness. We know what’s right for each and all……and they don’t. I am free of the social conditioning that would blind and bind me to inaction. It’s good that its a slow gathering momentum where the mass will have a power too great to stop. If they get in front of the train that I’m driving I’ll run right over the fuckers.
Hypatia
-“Hypatia (play /haɪˈpeɪʃə/; Greek: Ὑπατία, Hypatía; born between AD 350 and 370; died March 415) was a Greek scholar from Alexandria, Egypt, considered the first notable woman in mathematics, who also taught philosophy and astronomy. She was known for her many publications. She lived in Roman Egypt, was associated with the Museum at Alexandria, and was killed by a Christian mob who accused her of causing religious turmoil. Some suggest that her murder marked the end of what is traditionally known as Classical antiquity.” Wiki
-” Although Hypatia’s death has been interpreted by some as an example of conflict between religion and scientific inquiry, contemporary historians of science have a different view: she essentially got caught up in a political struggle. In the words of David Lindberg, “her death had everything to do with local politics and virtually nothing to do with science”. Wiki
– She seems to represent the archetype of the brilliant, passionate, independent woman who still needed her father’s name (the patriarchy) to be recognized and published. She was a teacher to men and recognized for her achievements as a leader, yet was crushed by the emerging patriarchy of the Christian Church.
– There are many literary references to her over the centuries, all capturing a slightly different angle to her archetype. And just as many debates as to the true nature of her character and place in history.
And more recently “The 2009 movie Agora, directed by Alejandro Amenábar, focuses on Hypatia’s final years. Hypatia, depicted by actress Rachel Weisz, is seen investigating the heliocentric model of the solar system proposed by Aristarchus of Samos.” – Wiki
– Her story and that of Saint Catherine of the same period seem to be intermingled, the details of both their lives very lost in myth, tragedy and the mists of time…yet they both keep resurrecting in the common literature of the times to capture the everyday person’s need for a Divine Feminine Heroine.
-“The last two centuries have seen Hypatia’s name honored in the sciences, especially astronomy. 238 Hypatia, a main belt asteroid discovered in 1884, was named for her. ” Wiki
I looked this up and saw that Hypatia is at 1 degree Libra. This is significant for all the Aries point action happening now.
Perhaps what the Heavens are also showing us is the rise (once again) of the Divine Feminine, to shake loose the constraints of the last 2000 years and this time to firmly and finally take her place at the head of the table.
Sensitivity to the energies is never fun, those of us most sensitive really need to watch our focus this year. I hope you don’t mind me posting this video, I have found it extremely useful and helpful during the more intense energetic times…….Lee’s voice is soothing and the message multi layered……each time I listen I hear and understand more…..hope it helps!
xoxoxoxoxox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr4TC32XUTE
Thank you Eric – as Stellium in Sag says, you are very much appreciated and I’m happy to hear that you’re looking after yourself.
I look forward to your articles and audios. So often your views about world events echo my own thoughts or mood of the day; in today’s podcast it was particularly striking. A couple of weeks ago, I awoke suddenly in the night with the sound and vision of Michael Jackson singing his ‘Earth Song’ – it was so vivid that I was crying and I haven’t been the same since.
Sharon
Eric Francis: This was a good podcast, like they all are. Thank you so much for your vigilance, and reminding us to get on the self-care tip amidst the turbulence in the world…. You and your gang rock; that is all. — From one of the many people who are also avidly concerned… (*A little “fanfare” for your day*)
In terms of the structure of time, it was challenging going from a late annual edition into this huge disaster, and I did sleep in shifts through that. I think that there are times when we have to put dharma and duty above personal comfort. Overall I am feeling pretty good, spiritually and physically strong. I do my best to take care of myself and I do sleep and eat food. My requests for assistance on projects are a way of making those projects easier (we are currently proofreading the Light Bridge 25-Year Span book) and also finding out who shows up for the real work when the time comes — and by that I mean with a spirit of creativity, adventure and play.
The one aspect of my life that remains challenging is the social side. That’s been a special challenge since I started astrology (not sure why) and I definitely feel better speaking the same language as my neighbors and having people I love and trust (back in NY as opposed to Europe). Most of them have relatively little understanding of what I do or the places I love to explore. There are probably a few people out there who have got a clue who I am and want to get to know me — but since I don’t know who you are…you’re invited to reach out.
Eric,
you are outdoing yourself with this interdisciplinary wizardry
-hopefully not at the expense of your health…
you are SO appreciated by me & others
you look tired
please take care of yourself
((( ))) hugs to you and all the PW’ers out there,
love the Dylan. sweet dreams…..
would you please fill us in on Hypatia?
Eric, have you ever reported on Hypatia? I notice she is at 1degree Libra right now. Lots going on with her story that’s relevant to today.
Dear Eric,
Thank you for speaking your fatigue with the nuclear thing. For me, it seems it is really too much to feel all at once, and so I find myself touring around the experience, this part, that part, — and of course I also am at this great distance to the ACTUAL experience, deeply grateful for the blessings of bodily well being each day — and even so, even so, it is too much to feel all at once. Somehow this feels bigger than Three Mile Island or Chernobyl. Maybe because I am older, maybe because the times are so much more intense in general, I don’t know.
Thank you also for deconstructing Monbiot, that was helpful.
Greenguizer, Hanford is one of the places hoping to use mox, I read in the local news yesterday (I am in the PNW also.)
And regarding that spent fuel, let’s also be aware that the US does the same damn thing as Japan:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2014571485_apusjapanquakeusspentfuel.html
“…ever-growing problem for the United States – the enormous amounts of still-hot radioactive waste accumulating at commercial nuclear reactors in more than 30 states.
The U.S. has 71,862 tons of the waste, according to state-by-state numbers obtained by The Associated Press. But the nation has no place to permanently store the material, which stays dangerous for tens of thousands of years.
Plans to store nuclear waste at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain have been abandoned, but even if a facility had been built there, America already has more waste than it could have handled.
Three-quarters of the waste sits in water-filled cooling pools like those at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Japan, outside the thick concrete-and-steel barriers meant to guard against a radioactive release from a nuclear reactor….”
Very Interesting Eric,
I live in Sequim WA across from Vancouver Island and watch only Canadian News out of Victoria BC and Vancouver BC. I never bought the digital converter when the US tv went digital, since I trust our Canadian neighbors a little more than the US media.
The Canadian news has told a lot more I think about the Japan nuclear radiation detected yesterday on our NW coast and at low levels (can’t remember how many rads), but they never said what long term exposure does and the “experts” said it was harmless. Also they have said there biggest Western Canadian Nuclear threat is Hanford in Richland WA because Handford was built on a major fault line- part of the Cascadia subduction zone- and that they just discovered that info in the past 2 years, on the news they had modeling that showed that Hanford was also built over a major aquifer and that the entire west coast including Portland and Seattle would be a ghost town and that radiation stew would dump into the Columbia. Also the Canadians reported that the disaster is not under control in Japan, and that all the hospitals and elder facilities that were in the nuclear zone the people in those facilities were left to die.
Thank you, Eric. I just downloaded the lyrics to Slow Train. There IS a slow train coming. Listen to the poets–like you and Len–the Poets of Astrology, like Fe, the Poet of Life’s Reality, like Bob Dylan, the Poet with Teeth.
You know, some of us who work and live in more “urban” environments might be a little taken back by that greeting. 😉