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Esp 86: Decay, Death, Renewal, and Healing in DETROIT, guest Jessica Aguilar-Christy

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Today my guest is Jessica Aguilar-Christy. Jessica’s many talents, diverse background and work in the Detroit area got my attention, through our mutual connect Charlie Porter (host of Fable podcast). Our meandering conversation will give you a sense of the rebirth of Detroit as well as some surprising ways spiritual traditions and practices can cohere for a richer and more integrated life and service to others.


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MIN 2:50

Learning yoga, finding healing, wisdom and integrating it with the Christian faith.

Yoga Sutra Patanjali – 5,000 year old text

8 fold path

Mantra Yoga

MIN 5:20 Hotha Yoga

Wisdom commonalities of the wisdom texts of the bible and the Yoga Sutra Patanjali

The bodily senses have been overlooked in modern Christian

MIN 8:20 Vinyasa yoga (linking breath and movement aka “hot yoga”)

MIN 11:30

Moving from cerebral and visual and leaving the body and staying in the head.

MIN 12:00

Apophatic and Katophatic ways of being

MIN 18:00

Jessica’s spiritual and religious background and her recent “trouble-making”

Charlie Porter of Fable podcast

Patty Lynch

Lynch and Sons (Mortician)

Slow Brew Theology and the power of story

22:30 Bible and Brew

Jefferson Ave Presbyterian Church

MIN 26:30

The story of Detroit (and especially recently)

MIN 30:30

90 years of Scottish Presbyterian tradition

NOVEMBER 20th

MIN 33:00

The Detroit Pints and Parables Event

MIN 38:00

Let your symptoms teach you

Peter Rollins on Facebook Live FREE material

Friendly Fire Course

MIN 46:00

Death Salons trend

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THE SPARK MY MUSE EPISODE ON DEATH CLASSES & DEATH SALONS:

MIN 49:30

Day of the Dead

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Dia del los Muertos (Mexican)

Celebration of depleted loved ones.

All Saints Day in Catholic tradition.

Monarch migration IS A THING THAT IS CONNECTED TO THE DAY OF THE DEAD

Ghosts, people we miss, and grief

MIN 53:30

Book of Life

Death and grieving being a part of our spiritual formation

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• Jesuyogini -Yoga teaching for followers of Christ

Detroit: Slow Brew Theology

• Twitter @slobrwtheology

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Eps 79: How to Fly (at will) in Your Dreams–guest, Robert Waggoner

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Today’s guest is lucid dream expert, Robert Waggoner. We discuss remembering dreams, overcoming nightmares, PTSD, trauma, grief, and how to lucid dream (gain consciousness and control of your actions and dreams themselves while you are dreaming).robertwaggoner

MIN 2

Scientific proof for lucid dreaming (discovered in sleep lab studies)

REM sleep (the brain state where dreams happen)

MIN 3:30

Robert’s dream life from childhood onward

Precognitive dreams – Dreaming something before it happens.

Robert feeling that dreaming maybe tapping into God in a timeless realm.

6:30

Half of people don’t seem to recall their dreams at all.

Keeping a dream journal

9:30

3 Reasons you don’t remember your dreams

12:30

Important reasons why we might delve into working with our dream life at all?

17:00

Using dreams for healing.

26:30

Mutual lucid dreaming

30:00

Dreams for healing phobias, anxiety, emotional healing, to aid in mediation, bad habits, obsessions, etc.

35:00

Meditation within the dream

Dream yoga, Michael Katz

Clare Johnson better meditation in waking life.

Caroline McCready, Robert’s co-author

39:30

Ask to feel a quality of the divine or unconditional love.

42:30

How to wake up within a dream.

The lucid experience.

The website: dreaminglucid.com

BOOKS author and co-authored by Robert:

46:30

Discovering your uncovered self.

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Soul School – Lesson 45: The Threshold into Belonging (Wisdom from John O Donohue)

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Today, comes some beauty and wisdom from the late author and poet John O Donohue on the topics of connection, separation, embodiment, grief, and the threshold our soul crosses into belonging and a few of my own reflections. His words are deeply poignant, so, please visit his website, and follow the links listed below for even more interaction with his work. His accent is a delightful treat as well.

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Eps 64: TWIN-CASTING with Minimalist, Jeff Sandquist who Returns with a Surprising Story

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Not only do I have Jeff on as a return guest today, but Jeff interviewed ME. That conversation is released today too. What a treat, right?

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MIN 2:00
The significant birthday this year that changed Jeff’s life and why.

Does losing a parent at a young age change how you live?

MIN 12:00
Trying to be perfect. Trying to control and conquer life and death.

MIN 14:30
The common pain of loss in death and loss of the attachments.

MIN 19:30
Prioritizing relationships and experiences over goals, achievements, grades, and materials things.

MIN 23:00
Was minimalism coming to a place of healing from consumerism that came from loss?

Being curious.

MIN 27:00
DEATH SALON episode

• Does grief, loss, and death inform how Jeff lives and how does it?

Death: Not fear based motivator, but a passion-based motivator.

“The Obstacle is the Way” Ryan Holiday

“Behind every mountain is another mountain.”

Mortality is a time limit makes you efficient and have a better perspective.

MIN 33:00

“[ictt-tweet-inline via=””][/ictt-tweet-inline]What do you want to exchange your time [your life] for?”

MIN 35:00

What do you want to share and where do you want to go from here.

The Episode with his “rock-star” mom.

Grit and gratitude.

MIN 44:30
Jeff’s funk

MIN 48:30
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EPS 49: The “Death Class” Trend – Guest Erika Hayasaski

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Every Friday is a conversation with a guest. My guest today is Erika Hayasaki. She teaches workshops in nonfiction writing and classes in digital storytelling at the University of California, Irvine, where she is an associate professor in the Literary Journalism Program.

In her career as a journalist Erika’s seen many tragedies, but it was her involvement with Norma Bowe, the instructor of an unorthodox and very popular course at Kean University called “Death Class”, that showed her a completely different way to think about death and living and initiated her celebrated book project by that same name.

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GENERIC CAPTION hayasaki_091123_sz.jpg date shot 102909 photo by Steve Zylius/University Communications Erika Hayasaki arrived at UCI in September. She joins the faculty as an assistant professor in the Literary Journalism Program after working for the L.A. Times in their New York bureau.

Her book based on the Death Class.

 

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MIN 1 [Feb gift giveaway Facebook.com/sparkmymuse]

MIN  3 Erika’s journalism career and background.

MIN 7 Her spiritual religious context and upbringing / objectivity

MIN 12 How she was introduced to “Death Class” at Kean University with Norma Bowe,

and how the book about “Death Class” came about.

MIN 16 Field trips, general interest, fear of death, loss of a loved one, coming close to death are reasons people take the class.

 MIN 19 Seeing an autopsy and death up close and how that changes you.

MIN 21 A renewed appreciation and outlook on life and the preciousness of living. Less anxiety around death and disaster after the class.

MIN 23 How we get exposed to death or stressful things in life and how we can process the scary things in life better.

MIN 25 Death anxiety is relieved more when people process through the ideas around death.

MIN 26 The afterlife and processing death in social contexts.

MIN 27 The “Death Salon” or “Death Cafe” or “Death Dinners”

exploring with art, socially, and with food the concepts and reality of mortality.

MIN 29 Alternative burial movement happening. We have become removed from the entire process like we used to be from the birth process.

MIN 30 How we grieve a loved one. How the Amish care from their dead.

MIN 32 Being with someone as they die.

MIN 34 CLICK for death salon reading list

MIN 35 Her uncle’s near death experiences.

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