EPISODE 4: The Return from Babel - Finding our way out of the Machine.

Paul Kingsnorth's "Against the Machine" opens a window into the modern impulse to measure, optimize, and control everything.

This episode traces that pattern from the Tower of Babel to our lives today and offers a way back through breath and presence.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• The Machine as more than technology: a restless engine of control that shapes our entire civilization
• The ancient pattern from Genesis to today: building towers, measuring worth, forgetting we're human
• What the Machine cannot hold: breath, presence, love, and the truth of being human
• How confusion keeps us divided while missing the larger pattern
• Finding our way back through the body, one breath at a time

PRACTICE:

Place one hand on your belly.
Inhale slowly through your nose, letting your belly expand.
Exhale twice as long as the inhale. Feel your shoulders drop, jaw soften.
Try this three times and notice what shifts.
Every word begins here, in this quiet exchange between body and world.

LINKS & RESOURCES:

Read the full article: https://bit.ly/4pwEkuE
Join monthly breathwork sessions: https://bit.ly/4qZUiPe
Learn more about Vital Healing: https://www.vitalhealing.org/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7ofzKHTnyUQ
Walking Pilgrim App: https://www.walkingpilgrim.com/

CONNECT:
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