by Lily Forester | Jan 18, 2022 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 405 Treat Yourself There is this cliché in western culture of “treating yourself”. The idea is, if you feel down or uncertain of yourself, the best thing to do is buy a material object for yourself. Generally, this is not the best way to feel better. For one...
by Lily Forester | Jan 17, 2022 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 404 Surrender the Body In Play of Consciousness, Baba Muktananda describes a meditation – going to each part of the body, beginning with the toes, and saying to it “These toes belong to the guru. Guru Om.” He goes through each body part, releasing his...
by Lily Forester | Jan 13, 2022 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 402 Read the Scriptures A long time ago, paper was scarce, and people had to choose carefully what they wrote. Some of what they wrote survives to this day, and some of it is just as valuable as when it was written. Today it is very easy to find the Torah, the...
by Lily Forester | Jan 12, 2022 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 401 Learn a Language If you only speak one language, you might assume that other languages are more or less like codes. You just swap some words for others, and change the order around a little bit, and “voila!” In fact, it’s not like that at all. Every...
by Lily Forester | Jan 11, 2022 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 400 Freedom to be Miserable In Brave New World, a manager of a factory gives a little history lesson, saying: “Sleep-teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against...