Welcome and Happy Holidays. Today it is Christmas Eve and we are exploring the perinatal experience of Mary, mother of Christ and Christ in our discussion power and resistance. We often don’t consider Mary as “powerful,

“ no more than we consider G-d as “vulnerable” or “Fragile,” but for a moment- lets look at what happens when we rethink the power of divine vulnerability.

Happy Holidays! I was inspired by the Torah portion of Rabbi Hilly’s talk last Friday night who spoke about the Menorah as a symbol of resistance. Although in popular culture outside of religious instruction we may not see it that way, this week kicks off the first of a three-episode series of looking at the signs of the winter solstice, Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa as symbols of resistance in trying times.

How can your light be a miracle? What are you resisting?

Let’s discuss.

#holiday #identity #faith #revolution #hanukkah #christmas #kwanzaa

How many times have you seen a horror movie where digital technology gains eerily human-like consciousness? Somewhere during the film ,the conversation arises [typically from a scientist who contributed to the disaster and is somehow characterized as being “morally or ethnically defunct”] states that the machine “doesn’t have a soul;” or something like that. In our culture, “technology,” as we use the word is seemingly the complete antithesis of the soul, or spiritual work. What if we consider the task of ascending consciousness, an affect of using spiritual technology? Let’s discuss.

Here are a few links mentioned in today’s podcast:

Sugar Hill Children’s Storytelling Museum: https://www.sugarhillmuseum.org/

Reggio Emilia Methodology of Learning: https://www.reggiochildren.it/en/reggio-emilia-approach/

Intelligence v. Smart - the difference :https://brainmanager.io/blog/emotional/am-i-smart-vs-intelligent

Ancient Egyptian Ideas on Spiritual Technology: (And a A bit on Heq) a https://csa-living.org/oasis-blog/the-ancient-egyptian-view-of-the-human-psyche-the-ka-the-ba-and-the-akh

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/ancient_egyptian_magic

Knowledge Sharing and Transmission in Neolithic Era https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X20305630

Rethinking What Makes Human Intelligence Unique: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2024/april/human-intelligence.html