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TWTS – Intro to The Speaking Up Process . TWTS – Episode 84 – Intro to The Speaking Up Process http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/IntroToSpeakingUp.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 84 – Intro to The Speaking Up Process . It’s time to listen to the world. Telling our stories has never been more important, or easier! I’ve simplified the older Speaking Up process into four questions which naturally guide us through the stages of grief and learning, to help us clarify the most important experiences of our past, present, and future, so we can understand one another at our most human level. The more of these stories of loves, losses, dreams, and needs we hear from the world, the more informed we’ll all be about who we are and where we want to go, as a whole planet, full of Earthlings who are, simultaneously both very similar, and quite unique… • Loves – What are your most precious people and/or places that have helped you feel most alive? Losses – How have those people and/or places not been able to get what they needed to flourish? And how have their struggles effected you, personally? Dreams – Thinking about these precious people/places, what would you most love to create and/or explore as a way to honor them, or take excellent care of them, in some deeply meaningful way? Needs – Which specific basic physical resources does your body require for you to be able to effectively work towards your dreams? (Human physical needs can be categorized as: regular access to nutritious food, clean water, fresh air, comfortable warmth, inspiring light, useful information, and outlets for expressing the body’s excess solids, liquids, gasses, and energy.) . Will you please share your story with me and the rest of the world? . Links referenced in episode: All of my Speaking Up blog posts Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview . The Big Picture: We have land! Thanks to generous donations, my dream of starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves has real, material beginnings! We now have a (very cheap) small blop of property in mid-coast Maine, and I’m seeking folks who can help physically build spaces for volunteers to live, and the public to explore and create with us. Also, if you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo I’ve created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have a high score of non-Bitcoin banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever). Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. Or just search for “Turil” in podcasts. (Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.) Yay! . .

TWTS – Reconnecting to the Beginning . TWTS – Episode 83 – Reconnecting to the Beginning http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/ReconnectingToTheBeginning.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 83 – Reconnecting to the Beginning . What is the core awareness of life? Pain and pleasure of the body. Repression or growth. Focus on the inputs and outputs from the organism, allowing everything outside the system to simply be complex neutral patterns in an ocean of waves of concentration and dissipation. Letting go, temporarily, of the intellectual and emotional assessments of the patterns we see around us in the ocean that is our universe can help us reconnect to life itself, and listen carefully to our core awareness of how our current environment is taking care of our needs, to help us decide if we are healthy where we are, or if we need to move elsewhere to become healthier. . Links referenced in episode: When the Body Says No: Mind/body Unity and the Stress-Disease Connection W/ Dr. Gabor Maté (video)

Russell Brand & Gabor Mate | Damaged Leaders Rule The World (video)

Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview . The Big Picture: We have land! Thanks to generous donations, my dream of starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves has real, material beginnings! We now have a (very cheap) small blop of property in mid-coast Maine, and I’m seeking folks who can help physically build spaces for volunteers to live, and the public to explore and create with us. Also, if you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo I’ve created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have a high score of non-Bitcoin banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever). Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. Or just search for “Turil” in podcasts. (Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.) Yay! . .

The Library of All Stories . TWTS – Episode 80 – The Library of All Stories http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/TheLibraryOfAllStories.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 80 – The Library of All Stories . Happy Winter Solstice! Enjoy the library. :-) . Links referenced in episode: Last Year’s Solstice Video: The Grand Solstice of Life on Earth Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview . The Big Picture: We have land! Thanks to generous donations, my dream of starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves has real, material beginnings! We now have a (very cheap) small blop of property in mid-coast Maine, and I’m seeking folks who can help physically build spaces for volunteers to live, and the public to explore and create with us. I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever). If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. (Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.) Yay! . .

TWTS – Morality: A How To . TWTS – Episode 79 – Morality: A How To http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/MoralityAHowTo.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 79 – Morality: A How To . Where do you draw the line? What do you stand for? Is it more important to you to conserve the good things that are already here, or is it more important to liberate new possibilities? It’s all good. But there’s this one simple trick! . Links referenced in episode: Peter Draws: http://www.peterdraws.com A quincunx/Galton board you can play with to see the bell curve in action Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview . The Big Picture: My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there. I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever). If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. (Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.) Yay! . .

Safe Spaces for Mammalian Memes . TWTS – Episode 78 – http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/SafeSpaces.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 78 – Safe Spaces for Mammal Memes . We’re seeing history repeat itself, on a higher level now. We kinda know how the story of the dinosaurs’ genes went, and now we can see the dinosaur memes flame out too, to be recycled into informational fuel for the future. While that happens, our small, furry, pro-social, creative memes need a place to hide out for a while. We can CREATE spaces for us to be safe, while we focus on taking excellent care of the basic needs of the small resourceful groups that are starting to spread out into the cracks and crevices of our planet, staying well away from the oversized, aggressive, dangerous beasts of centralized corporations and national governments. You can join me in working to make truly safe spaces for all of our mammalian memes, and the bodies that contain them, or just go for it on your own, in your own local spaces. It might not be the most comfortable time on the Earth right now, but if we focus on the best stuff, in small, decentralized ways, we just need to hang tight for a bit, and then we’ll finally inherit the Earth. Happy Summer Solstice! Love,

Turil . Links referenced in episode: The video podcast this one is following up on: The Grand Solstice of Life on Earth Speaker John Ash’s Twitter thread that partly inspired this story An old, sparse website introducing the CREATE Space project: http://www.createspaceearth.org Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview . The Big Picture: My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there. I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever). If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. (Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.) Yay! . .

TWTS – This is Valuable . TWTS – Episode 76 – This is Valuable http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/ThisIsValuable.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 76 – This is Valuable . How do we bring our own personal values, of what we most want to get from the universe, and most want to share with the universe, into the internet culture and economy? I explore a bit about what value is, and ask for ideas and help for incorporating our priorities, in some quantifiable way, into our communications online, in social media, government, education, and basic physical needs. . Links referenced in episode: Speaker John Ash’s video on quantified human value #Trashtag: Social Proof of Work Choice blindness | Petter Johansson | TEDxUppsalaUniversity video (Talking about the “explain why you prefered this photo” study.) Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview . The Big Picture: My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there. I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever). If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. (Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.) Yay! . .

TWTS – How to Know What’s Right and True . TWTS – Episode 75 – How to Know What is Right and True http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/WhatIsRightAndTrue.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 75 – How to Know What is Right and True . The title of this is a good old fashioned bait and switch, really. That’s because I want to talk about the question itself. I want to talk about these concepts of “right and wrong” and “true and false”. These ideas are based in a limited, one dimensional, linear view of reality, which, while useful sometimes, is generally ineffective in the long term, and/or on large scales. To get a more effective view of reality, we can look at things from a higher dimension, with more complexity, seeing how reality is like a tree branching outwards in a fractal pattern. It’s not always easy! But it’s worth it if we want to find good solutions to our problems and gain more joy and meaning in life. Ultimately, from the perspective of the center of the universe, “right” is just a subjective direction. All directions are “right” if every direction is available and interesting and moving reality forward, or “true”, just like every branch of a tree is the right branch. So, whatever you do, and whomever you are, is what’s right, from the universe’s perspective. . Links referenced in episode: The British Royal Institution’s (for science) video “How to Think Like a Mathematician – with Eugenia Cheng” which talks about moving up a level of understanding to see the complexity of things a bit more. Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview . The Big Picture: My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there. I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever). If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. (Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.) Yay! . .

TWTS – The Best… For What Purpose? . TWTS – Episode 74 – The Best… For What Purpose? http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/BestForWhatPurpose.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 74 – The Best… For What Purpose? . When we are asking for the “best” option or solution to a problem, it’s very useful to also be clear about: Why are we asking the question? (Who, specifically, are we trying to help, and what are we specifically trying to help them get or do?) How are the complex probabilities, and values of each option/solution, being simplified (to reach a single “best” answer)? Bias, aka, subjective perspective, is a necessary part of a healthy, diverse system, but it can be problematic when we’re not aware of why individuals are coming up with dramatically different answers to what can seem, on the surface, like the exact same question. For example, when asking an important question such as “Do we want to vaccinate ourselves and/or our children?” we can look at what our own, personal, goals are in life, what the options available to us are, how we give weight to the different possibilities, and what the probability is that the “best” choice is going to help us achieve our goals, relative to what the probabilities are that the other choices will get us to where we want to be. And then we can seek to understand all of these things — goals, available options, and assessed probabilities — for everyone else who’s asking the same question and getting different answers, whether those others are animals, vegetables, or minerals even (computers, etc.). Of course, understanding why their “weird” answers are the “best” from their perspective doesn’t mean that our own best answers aren’t the best for us. We might not need to change our own ideas about the best answers to our own problems when learning about others at all, since our own goals and options are probably different. But even so, getting to know a little more more about others’ thought processes is just a healthy way to feel more comfortable with the diversity of goals, and approaches to those goals, that life creates. Or, we can skip the deep exploration of why and how, and just trust that life is doing what it needs to do, as we individually learn how to take excellent care of the specific people, places, and things that we find most precious. Also, ultimately, we can become aware of the reality that life, as a whole, has to explore all the different options for all the different tactics, so that every time living organisms are thrust into new situations and new environments, there is someone, somewhere, capable of navigating through the new territory effectively, specifically because of their particularly abnormal modus operandi. As strange as others’ answers might seem to us, and our answers might seem to them, all of our answers, and our thinking processes, are probably important for the success of life as a whole. . Links referenced in episode: The diverse roles different personality types fill in a healthy planetary system Video explaining machine learning (deep learning) by the wonderful YouTube math guy “3blue1brown” More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview . The Big Picture: My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there. I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever). If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. (Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.) Yay! . .

TWTS – The Old New You: a Ritual Practice . TWTS – Episode 73 – The Old New You: a Ritual Practice http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/OldNewYouRitualPractice.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 73 – The Old New You: a Ritual Practice . We can use our old stories to tell new stories, and make new habits by choosing to engage in practice work that prepares us to create, explore, dream, and do, in more effective ways when we are faced with life’s bigger challenges. And the more regularly we choose to play with these rituals of connecting with ourselves and others in meaningful ways, the more comfortable we can become as we navigate through the flow that is a robust and rewarding life. . . Links referenced in episode: A list of my posts about the Speaking Up process More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview . The Big Picture: My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there. I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever). If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. (Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.) Yay! . .

TWTS – SciFi Cities . TWTS – Episode 72 – SciFi Cities http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/SciFiCities.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 72 – SciFi Cities . Combine Burning Man together with a farmers’ market with a library and a mini forest, and maybe that’s a bit like what a neighborhood in our future cities will be like. The ultimate in multi-use urban development, emerging out of a combination of technology, specialization, networking, and good old fashioned humanity getting messy and doing the really meaningful and awesome work that needs doing. Not like Blade Runner. Way more friendly, fun, diverse, and welcoming. For everyone. Future cities are places you really want to live at least some of the time. While also leaving some of the time, to go off on your own for a while. And then return to, to share and reconnect. . Links referenced in episode: More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil . The Big Picture: My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there. I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever). If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. (Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.) Yay! . .

TWTS – Fake Fake News . TWTS – Episode 71 – Fake Fake News http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/FakeFakeNews.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 71 – Fake Fake News . You only get fake answers when you ask fake questions. Fake answers are great when we are looking for some nice fiction, but when we want more honest, meaningful, personal, and important answers with which to make crucial decisions about the world, then we want the fake fake news, aka., the real news. So how do we ask questions that lead to the best, more useful answers? Ask everyone to Speak Up about the stuff that gets their blood flowing, so to speak. Best Things (Loves): What most precious people, places, and things in the universe do you most value and want to take good care of? Challenges (Losses): How have you struggled, or are struggling, with being able to protect the people, places, and things you love? Purpose (Dreams): What do you most want to create and/or explore in this vast universe? (Eg., stuff for taking good care of physical bodies, for creating heathy living spaces, for building healthy communities on a larger scale, and for generating the most flourishing global culture possible.) Needs (Hopes): What basic resources does your body most need in order to continue to work on your life’s purpose effectively? (In general: inputs of high quality food, water, air, warmth, light, information, and outlets for expressing the body’s excess solids, liquids, gases, and energy.) . Links referenced in episode: More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil . The Big Picture: My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there. I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever). If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. (Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.) Yay! . .

TWTS – Art & Science . TWTS – Episode 69 – Art & Science http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/ArtAndScience.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 69 – Art And Science . Humans are extraordinarily majestic when it comes to the arts and sciences, and as we move into the future where technology — computers, AI (if we ever help truly intelligent synthetic beings evolve), robots, etc. — can take over the jobs that we humans find boring or dangerous in a bothersome way, humanity will become far more free to focus on exploring and creating new art and science. So what is art? What is science? Art is the emotional connection and communication with various media — the two-dimensional relationship between you and your medium, or you and your audience (via a medium/media). Art is the individual, subjective stories of what it’s like to be an individual relating to someone or something else in our big ol’ universe. And science is taking two more more of those art stories and simplifying, analyzing, and comparing them to one another, collectively, to find the important similarities and differences so that we can generate a more broad, literally objective, view of reality. art + art = science . Links referenced in episode: Peter Draws a community of lines Must Art have an Objective? (video) Understanding Comics, a book, by Scott McCloud More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil . The Big Picture: My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there. I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever). If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. (Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.) Yay! . .

TWTS – What is This Thing? . TWTS – Episode 67 – What is This Thing? http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/WhatIsThisThing.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 67 – What is This Thing? . A little wandering exploration of one of the most basic elements of the universe, the it-y “thingness” of each of the individual elements within reality, from atoms to alligators to Alisons. These “its” are all about containment, stability, and separation/connection to the rest of existence. And there are levels. The more boring things are pretty compact and stable. What is “you”, on the other hand, is much more fuzzy, with the center of you being the electromagnetic matter that forms your body, and the edges of you being the little bits of you that are more free flowing outward into the rest of the universe, only held moderately closely to your center through the gravity that holds humanity close to the Earth. . Links referenced in episode: This discussion was very much inspired by my new YouTube discovery Speaker John Ash My weird Discord channel… has now been banned. Discord does not protect minority opinions, or free speech. More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil . The Big Picture: My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there. I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever). If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. (Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.) Yay! . .

TWTS – You Really Can Help Them (Don’t Give Up!) . TWTS – Episode 66 – You Really Can Help Them (Don’t Give Up!) http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/YouReallyCanHelpThem.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 66 – You Really Can Help Them (Don’t Give Up!) . Is what you’re trying to do really important to you to do? But what you’re doing just isn’t working? Are all of your efforts being rejected by whomever you’re trying to help, yourself, your friend/family/companion, your community, your whole culture? Look at offering help on a different level, then. There are four basic levels of offering good things to reality: Physical: first person offerings to the outside environment Emotional: second person offerings to someone you are close to Intellectual: third person offerings to the larger infrastructure of the system/group you are a part of Philosophical: fourth person offerings to the whole world (and beyond) If you’re failing to accomplish your goals of improving things on one level, try to do something useful at one of the other levels that will indirectly help things at the level you care about most. . Links referenced in episode: My weird Discord channel… has now been banned. Discord does not protect minority opinions, or free speech. More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil . The Big Picture: My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there. I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever). If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. (Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.) Yay! . .

TWTS – You Are Worth It . TWTS – Episode 65 – You Are Worth It http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/YouAreWorthIt.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 65 – You Are Worth It . There are no good words. I attempt anyway. You make the universe vaster and deeper when some of the wiggly bits of you complement some of the wiggly bits of me, in some deeply valuable way. Thank you to those of you who have impacted my life, in immeasurable ways, by offering your unique selves to me. You’ve made me a far better human being than I imagined possible. Special thanks goes out to my beloved David. There really are no good words. But, thank you from all of the cells in my body, nonetheless. . Links: My weird Discord channel… has now been banned. Discord does not protect minority opinions, or free speech. More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil . The Big Picture: My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Spring 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there. I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever). If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. (Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.) Yay! . .

TWTS – Who Haven’t You Asked . TWTS – Episode 63 – Who Haven’t You Asked http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/WhoHaventYouAsked.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 63 – Who Haven’t You Asked . I have a saying “Who haven’t you asked yet?” I guess it stemmed from my quest for answers about how to grow healthfully, and how to deal with anger, after realizing that both I and my beloved husband were so very angry. I found my best answers by looking in all kinds of weird places. Leaving no stone unturned, as they say. By listening to so many different types of individuals, instead of just the ones who were similar to me, I found some really unexpected perspectives which led to some great solutions. We can form questions in different ways to get the attention of different kinds of individuals, who have different perspectives on the subject. These can be anything from different parts of our own brain to other animals, vegetables, minerals, and whatnot that we encounter in our lives — anything that happens to have some kind of information that we might not have, or haven’t yet tried to apply to our current problem we’re trying to solve. Here are the kinds of questions that we can ask, in chronological order, as we seek to achieve a goal and encounter a problematic something or other (X): Physical (Negative/Past): What caused X? Emotional: What do others think of my theory about what caused X? Intellectual: How does my theory fail to predict reality? Philosophical: What IS reality (here and now)? Physical (Positive/Future): How can we work WITH reality (to achieve our goal)? .

Did you ask them? (Oh, and inertia was the word I was looking for!) . Links referenced in episode: The MIT Media Lab event that this was partly a reaction to Curious Minds: from building knowledge networks to inciting political resistance My weird Discord channel… has now been banned. Discord does not protect minority opinions, or free speech. More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil . The Big Picture: My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Spring 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there. I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever). If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. (Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.) Yay! . .

TWTS – Letters In Your Brain . TWTS – Episode 59 – Letters In Your Brain http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/LettersInYourBrain.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode Episode 59 – Letters In Your Brain . Consider how the brain could function in a way that is pretty literally just recording the sensations that your body physically experiences (from the wavelength of light to the temperature and pressure of touch to the chemicals of smell) when you encounter some unique thing, by drawing little diagrams – like the letter “A” only way more complex and in 3D – in the brain using the neurons as endpoints and the axons and dendrites connecting them as the lines. When remembering something, we might literally just be replaying the physical experience in the body in some way, with full sensurround experience. (Just on a more subtle scale most of the time.) And memories, ideas, language, etc. are fuzzy because the diagrams that get drawn with the biological stuff inside the brain are like waves describing probability, rather than simple, unchanging, written-in-stone “facts”. When I experience the color purple, most of the time it’s a pleasant experience, but occasionally it’s not, so the brain remembers those edge cases, as well as the more common ones, to use for future predictions about what might happen when those sensory experiences occur again. . Links referenced in episode: Podcast on Consciousness is Contraction PBS Infinite Series’ video on mapping the network diagrams of the brain: https://youtu.be/rlI1KOo1gp4 More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife Live Streaming Philosophy by Turil (on hiatus): https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg . Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. Yay! . .

TWTS – Life is a Grand Experiment . TWTS – Episode 58 – Life is a Grand Experiment http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/LifeIsGrandExperiment.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode Episode 58 – Life is a Grand Experiment . Evolution, be it genetic or memetic or otherwise, is the process of taking two unique wholes, splitting them in half (or more, perhaps) and combining those halves with different halves, making entirely new wholes. The wholes go on to split up so that they, too, can expand out into the larger environment — from the tiny spaces inside a tidal pool, to a whole solar system, or any other scale of space that life exists within — and what happens on their unique journey, going their own separate ways and then re/connecting with all the other individual animals, vegetables, minerals, and such, as the whole system is explored, is recorded in the memories and general structure of the matter that makes us “individual things” up. And then the best, most interesting, most useful, most relevant, information forms one grand story of Everything That Is. These stories — information packets in any form, genes, art, ideas, culture, etc. — of things that work best for nurturing all the individual things in the system, helping them function and grow and thrive, are shared as widely as possible, so that they can be used to make more, new, individuals/wholes, forever pairing with other parts never before combined. (And the least useful, interesting, helpful stories get forgotten, for the most part, except perhaps as examples of what not to do). The more that this process of taking the best parts of one individual person, place, or thing, and smooshing them together with the best parts of another individual person, place, or thing happens, the more effective, interesting, and delightful life gets overall, for both the individuals and the whole amazing system. . Links referenced in episode: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Noosphere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife Live Streaming Philosophy by Turil (on hiatus): https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg . Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. Yay! . .

TWTS – Going with the flow takes effort! . TWTS – Episode 56 – Going with the flow takes effort! http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/FlowTakesEffort.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode Episode 56 – Going with the flow takes effort! . One of the biggest places people get stuck when looking for enlightenment — be it in the more traditional Eastern philosophies or the more modern Cognitive Behavioral Therapy of mainstream Western psychology — is how to accept reality while also not “giving up” or being like a “doormat” and “letting people walk all over you”. How do we “go with the flow” while not getting swept up in a seriously dangerous or excessively lame current? Why not fight against the way things are going, and try to go where we want to go in the first place? The gist of it is that we find a way to aim, while using the flow to our advantage, to accomplish something meaningful. And the more open we are to all the different kinds of things that are meaningful to us, rather than trying to force a specific one, the more likely we will succeed. . Links referenced in episode:

Speaking UP process (Podcast) More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife Live Streaming Philosophy by Turil (on hiatus): https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg . Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. Yay! . .

TWTS – The Reality of Infinite Delight . TWTS – Episode 55 – The Reality of Infinite Delight http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/InfiniteDelight.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode Episode 55 – The Reality of Infinite Delight . If the universe (or multiverse, if you prefer) is indeed generating a pure mathematical randomness of all possible patterns (which physicists seem to think is very likely) – with entropy being the process of evolution where all the stuff that exists is continually being divided into smaller parts and recombined into new things – then we end up with a reality that grows infinitely more interesting, complex, challenging, fun, weird, and unpredictably beautiful with each passing moment. We’re not talking pure boring perfection of ectasy all the time, of course, but an ever increasing level of discovery of intersting and amusing and fun stuff. This means that while it might seem that everything that possibly could be created, invented, explored, discovered, and known might already have been created, invented, explored, discovered, and known, in the next moment those things will fall apart and reorganize themselves into totally new things, being created, invented, explored, discovered, and known. The universe’s story not only goes on, but the plot always thickens, the people (whatever type exists at the time) always get more character development, the settings always get more atmospheric, and the special effects always get more stunning. . Links referenced in episode: PeterDraws’ version of What One Can Invent More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife Live Streaming Philosophy by Turil (on hiatus): https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg . Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. Yay! . .

TWTS – Going in a Different Direction Now . TWTS – Episode 54 – Going in a Different Direction Now http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/DifferentDirection.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode Episode 54 – Going in a Different Direction Now . The Solstice is a time of change, stopping what we’ve been doing for a bit and then redirecting ourselves. Tilting another way. Using this as a signal to reconsider what questions and problems you have had in life, and revisiting the answers, or lack of answers, you’ve found so far, to see if there might be some new person, place, or thing that might offer you something new. Who haven’t you asked yet? Which animal, vegetable, and/or mineral might have some nugget of information that you never imagined even existed? What if enlightenment was hiding under that rock over there? This solstice, turn some things over, maybe, just to see what you might have been missing. Ask someone you never thought of asking before. Ask them how you might be able to do something that you’ve always wanted to do, but had given up on hoping you could ever get to do. You never know who might show up with something unimaginably valuable… . Links referenced in episode: More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife Live Streaming Philosophy by Turil (on hiatus): https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg . Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. Yay! . .

TWTS – If You’re Happy and You Know It . TWTS – Episode 50 – If You’re Happy and You Know It http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/IfYoureHappyAndYouKnowIt.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode Episode 50 – If You’re Happy and You Know It . We are given so many mixed messages about how to deal with emotions! Do X! Don’t do X! I try to make the most of an hour to offer you a fairly concise and thorough, but simple and universal approach to expressing our emotions in a way that works well, and makes life easier for everyone, even when doing what we instinctively want to do hasn’t worked out so well in the past. I got into how we can respect and care for our bodies, and their natural, normal, generally healthy reactions to problems, fears, danger, threats, etc. while also doing as little harm to our environment and the individual animals, vegetables, minerals, etc. around us who we need to keep reasonably intact, if we are to be successful in growing and learning and making life better overall? I go through the four basic instinctive reactions of fight/anger/aggression, flight/fear/avoidance, freeze/sadness/depression, flow/happiness/joy and how we can put a little effort into moving from the most destructive, and least effective, way of expressing our emotions, to the most creative and effective way. The general idea is identifying the particular emotion and problem, and then practicing in a reasonably comfortable space with a similar low level problem to move just a little bit towards improving the situation in some way. Then, when the “real thing” shows up, you have more options, and can choose your instinctive response or your new skilled response, depending on which one is more useful. Links referenced in episode: The Stages of Grief are Loopy More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife Live Streaming Philosophy by Turil: https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg . Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. Yay! . .

TWTS – The Purpose of Happiness . TWTS – Episode 49 – The Purpose of Happiness http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/PurposeOfHappiness.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode Episode 49 – The Purpose of Happiness? . Happiness seems like such an undefinable, inexplicable, unknown thing sometimes. We all know about the simple things that make all of us living things “feel good” that involve the body getting some sort of food, or water, or warmth which it needs to function well. But beyond that, why do some humans get all tingly when they hear someone whispering in their ear, and other humans don’t? And why is it so addictive for some people to gamble? And why is life still worth living when there are so many depressing things out there? Because life is, at it’s core, made to expand and grow. The algorithm of life is one for generating new life, and pretty much nothing else. Without that purpose in life, it would not continue to exist. And one way it does that is by having the super complex human brain reward itself for doing certain things. What sort of things make YOU happy depend entirely on a complex combination of your genes and your environment, but the one thing that is always true, is that the things that make you happy, that aren’t actively harming anyone (non-consensually), are the things that the universe probably needs you to do more of. Happy Valentine’s Day! Love,

Turil . Links referenced in episode: More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife Live Streaming Philosophy by Turil: https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg . Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. Yay! . .

TWTS – Freedom, Not Safety, is What We Need . TWTS – Episode 43. – Freedom, Not Safety is What We Need http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/FreedomNotSafety.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 43. – Freedom, Not Safety is What We Need . When squeezed enough, everything explodes. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The more forcefully something is contracted, controlled, and contained, the more forcefully it will soon become expanded, uncontrolled, and uncontained. But if there is an outlet, even just a single way to move into a lower pressure area, then the violence can be avoided. And the more outlets for free movement, and free expression, the less violence there will be. This is true whether we are talking about balloons or humans, physics or sociology. Yet this seems to be one of most ignored laws of nature when it comes to leaders and policy-makers in the world, at all levels, and in all fields. When norms, religions, governments, families, schools, organizations, and ideologies attempt to repress, by trying to contract, control, and contain an individual’s innate need for free expression, something always breaks. And the typical “solution” to that breakage? Add even more forceful repression, contraction, control, containment! More punitive, threatening, harm-based laws! More insults! More alienation of those who are outside the norm! In general, more lack of freedom all around. Ouch. But we understand, deep down, through both our instincts and our science, that the only cure for violence, on all levels — physical, emotional, intellectual, and philosophical — is more freedom to be ourselves, our weird, abnormal, eccentric, creative, exploratory, awesome selves. More outlets for individuals to express their unique passions. More flexibility. More openness. More space for all the diverse individuals to be themselves, whether that is LGBT, Muslim, Christian, agnostic, weird-looking, normal-looking, Republican, Democrat, Green, Libertarian, authoritarian, historian, singularitian, fat, skinny, blind, eagle-eyed, dark skinned, light skinned, female, male, mixed, genius, simple, New Aged, old aged, autistic, borderline, histrionic, hyperactive, shy, funny, dull, happy, sad, mad, mammalian, culicidian, ornithorhynchidian, Martian, or robotian. The universe makes all of us individuals to fill a niche, and as a society we can choose to try to block individuals from finding their niche, and suffer the backlash, or we can choose to help individuals find their niche, by giving them the freedom to fully, honestly, and openly express who they are and want to be. The “safety” of forced contraction, control, and containment, which always eventually results in the serious danger of forced expansion, uncontrol, and uncontainment, is the opposite of what we need. What we truly need is freedom. Freedom to be human, or whatever else the universe has made us to be. Freedom to be and do whatever we feel most joyful, passionate, excited, and delighted about when it comes to what we want to explore and create in life. So, I wonder, how can we turn the dialogue around to promoting freedom, rather than safety, flow, rather than boredom or overwhelm, in our world? Maybe Blooomy.org? . . Links referenced in episode: Understanding Hate TWTS podcast episode How to Raise an Awesome Kid TWTS podcast episode (on one of the Columbine High shooters) Introducing Blooomy! More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil My primary website: http://www.thewiseturtle.com . Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. Yay! . .

TWTS – Generations X Yand Z Rebooting Humanity . TWTS – Episode 42. – Generations X Yand Z Rebooting Humanity http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/GenerationXYZ.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 42. – Generations X Yand Z Rebooting Humanity . A long and wonderfully winding tour of the past 60 years of humanity and how each human generation (of 20 year periods) has split off from and then recombined cultural norms and ideals from their elders and future Earthlings to elevate our species, and all of life on Earth, into thinking in three dimensions, at governmental level 111, and then, eventually, in all four, at government level 1000 and beyond, for some truly brilliant evolving. I had a whole lot of fun with this one, and I hope you find it fascinating to consider where we’ve been and where we seem to be going… Here is the way I see Generations X, Y, and Z Gen X – “The Slackers” – born 1950 to 1969 – First Person/Physical Output Focus

Question: What do I really want to do in life? What does it mean to be a human being and what are we “supposed” to do, if we want to be our best?

Answer: Stop being so greedy and violent, and instead connect to one another!

Peak Achievement (and gift to the next generation): the Internet

Some Spokesmodels: Robert Downey Jr., Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Joss Whedon, Kevin Smith Gen Y – “The Circus Generation” – born 1970 to 1989 – Second Person/Emotional Output Focus

Question: What do we really want to do together? How can we be our best, interpersonally?

Answer: Stop being so focused on just yourself, and instead play games together!

Peak Achievement (and gift to the next generation): Social media/gaming to improve health

Some Spokesmodel/s: Jane McGonigal, Tim Ferriss, Mark Zuckerburg, Alexis Ohanian, Chris Poole Gen Z – “Millennials”, “Generation 3D” – born 1990 to 2009 – Third Person/Intellectual Output Focus

Question: What do we really want to do for work? How do we want to collectively solve problems and improve the lot of us?

Answer: Stop being so focused on just you and your pals and competition, and instead start collaborating with all of the diverse Earthlings – animal, vegetable, mineral, and otherwise – in solving the problems of life on Earth in a fun and exciting way!

Peak Achievement (and gift to the next generation): Basic Income (and something involving “the Blockchain” and VR, probably)

Some Spokesmodel/s: (Ummmm… Errr…. Any suggestions for the best of the 26 and under set?) And what’s next? What will those born starting this decade want to focus on? Everything “out there”, in the most mystical, and incomprehensible sense! They will start up the “Transhumanism” reality, I think. Looking to see what the universe beyond our planet and current material understanding of life has to offer us all. And then, those born even later will be the first generation of fully active Transhuman beings, in the sense of individuals having two or more fully functional bodies (“trans” meaning “across” or “beyond”): with avatars in VR alternate realities, in robot/drone bodies exploring the deep sea, as AI copies on spaceships, or whatever, that are connected to their “home bodies” in realtime, so that individuals can collaborate creatively with themselves over expanses of space and time (making them 5D beings?). Is that a bit scary to us older folks? Yep. And also exciting! Enjoy! . Links referenced in episode: Four Dimensions of Political Government diagram http://www.government3d.xyz Pascal’s Triangle The Wise Turtle Speaks Basic Income podcast Basic Income podcast at The Guardian More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil My primary website: http://www.thewiseturtle.com . Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. Yay! . .

TWTS – Understanding Hate . TWTS – Episode 36. – Understanding Hate http://www.blooomy.org/podcast/UnderstandingHate.mp3 DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS Understanding Hate . There are so many myths and misconceptions about why someone would commit a hate crime or otherwise want to harm someone else, especially when it comes to things like identity (gender, culture, age, shape, size, lifestyle, beliefs, etc.). I offer a simple way to look at hate that allows us to see the heart of the problem, so that we might better address it, effectively and compassionately. This episode was inspired by a BBC World Service radio show that talked about a man who took up boxing after being attacked after coming out of a gay bar, and a review of a documentary film about philosopher Hannah Arendt and her controversial ideas on Nazi hate crimes. . Links referenced in episode: Speaking UP process (Podcast): https://turil.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/twts-speaking-up-for-yourself/ Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt documentary: https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/vitaactivathespiritofhannaharendt More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil My primary website: http://www.thewiseturtle.com . Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. Yay! . .