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The Building 4th Podcast

The Building 4th Podcast

著者： Doug Scott
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Welcome to the Building 4th Podcast where we explore the Perennial Philosophy from various lenses including the psychological, theological, spiritual, conventional, and esoteric. Our points of emphasis include the Hebrew and Christian scriptures (including the non-canonical Christian texts), the Law of One material, the Enneagram, Process thought (ie Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism) integral theory, and developmental psychology.Copyright 2024 All rights reserved. スピリチュアリティ 社会科学 科学
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  • The Greenhouse and the Guest House: Disclosure as Integration

    The Greenhouse and the Guest House: Disclosure as Integration
    2026/07/05

    Summary: An open dialogue night that treats ET disclosure as one instance of a single motion — welcoming back what has been hidden or split off. We move between three registers of that motion: the cosmic (disclosure as a species integrating its own shadow, and the theological widening that asks of monotheism), the psychological (Internal Family Systems, the exiles and their protectors, and the anchored/true self beneath), and Doug's greenhouse metaphor for how the higher densities tend Earth's conditions — grounded, it turns out, in Ra's own naming of the Guardians as "gardeners." Along the way: the Confederation's contact with Eisenhower, DeMarcus's careful reading of the Yahweh–Moses material, Troy's walk through the eight C's of the Self, and Doug's ACT "maître d'" practice, which a member rightly hears as Rumi's guest house.

    Key references:

    • Ra, Session 7.6–7.8 — the Law of Squares and the calling
    • Ra, Session 8.12 — the Confederation waits for the calling; Orion calls itself
    • Ra, Session 16.1–16.6 — the Guardians, the quarantine, the window balancing
    • Ra, Session 16.14–16.20 — Yahweh, Moishe/Moses, and the origin of the Ten Commandments
    • Ra, Session 18.14–18.22 — Yahweh's genetic communication and the Anak
    • Ra, Session 21.8 — the Guardians "or gardeners, as you may call them"
    • Ra, Session 24.6 — the wilderness as Confederation/Orion battleground; the name's later transformation
    • Ra, Session 24.19 — Eisenhower's contact with Confederation thought-forms
    • Internal Family Systems (Richard Schwartz): managers, firefighters, exiles, and the eight C's of Self
    • Robert Falconer, The Others Within Us — IFS and the question of external attachments
    • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): acceptance over suppression; intensity and duration
    • Richard Rohr — the true self / false self
    • Rumi, "The Guest House" — hospitality toward every arriving emotion
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    53 分
  • The Tears of Things: A Sacrament of Solidarity

    The Tears of Things: A Sacrament of Solidarity
    2026/07/18
    Doug joins the circle from a backyard, phone propped in the grass, raking leaves for an eighty-five-year-old piano teacher who can no longer garden. What follows is a teaching on sorrow — what it's for, how to hold it without gripping — and then a guided practice for letting personal pain become a blessing for others. Drawing on Richard Rohr's The Tears of Things, the Law of One, and the Christian Paschal Mystery, this episode moves from reflection into experience with the Sacrament of Solidarity, a heart-centered practice offered entirely under free will. In this episode The mundane is sacred. Why an ordinary evening of raking leaves is exactly the right ground for this teaching. Spiritual melancholia and clinical depression. Doug, a therapist, draws the line carefully: depressive disorders are real and deserve real treatment. Alongside them sits a spiritual sadness that works less like a malfunction and more like a gift. Gratitude for all that was; yes to all that will be. The Hammarskjöld refrain that anchors the evening, prayed over one member of the circle standing between a home she is leaving and a home she is entering. The Paschal Mystery. Loss and renewal. Learning to die well without gripping — or, as M put it more beautifully than any theology that night, learning to keep your hands open. Joy is not happiness. Happiness may be the opposite of sadness; joy is something else — the felt movement of life, available inside heartbreak wherever there is perspective and a sense of meaning. Everything laments. The phrase lacrimae rerum comes from Virgil; the wisdom of Rohr's book comes from the Hebrew prophets, whose arc runs from rage through sorrow into compassion. Lament as an archetype of release rather than revenge or repair. One body, one Earth. Humanity as the feeling, self-aware membrane of the planet — and what happens when the cells refuse to grieve. Ra's "quiet horror." Why a world where the positively oriented outnumber the negative can still feel so negative — and why it's the good ones who carry that particular ache. The Sacrament of Solidarity. The full guided practice, offered step by step. The practice, in brief A free-will meditation moving undirected energy up through the centers and out as directed blessing: Unite your heart with the others — you are not alone.Find the swirling red-orange sphere of sorrow and anger below the navel.Surrender the need to control the outcome; let it rise to the membrane below the heart.Watch it turn emerald green as it enters the heart, the seat of universal love.Ask, freely: Do you wish to use your pain to bless others?Let it settle behind the throat as a message of love, ready to be delivered.Open the indigo inner eye to those carrying heartache across the world.Release a violet ray from the crown, directed with will and faith: You are not alone. I am here with you. Your pain is understood. I will help you carry this.Breathe. Out: I wish you well-being and peace. In: I wish for myself well-being and peace. Return to the body with gratitude, and with the sense of having transmuted pain into blessing. Sources & references Richard Rohr, The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage (Convergent, 2025). Rohr's most personal book, which he has described as a summation of his teaching. See also his conversation with Oprah, and his Greenbelt Festival interview on how the title came about. On the title and its sources. The phrase lacrimae rerum — "the tears of things" — is Virgil's, from Aeneid I.462, where Aeneas weeps before a mural of the war dead. Rohr has said the phrase stayed with him from his Latin studies. The book's substance, though, comes from the Hebrew prophets — Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Jonah — whose writings move from rage and accusation into lamentation and, finally, compassion. Rohr calls this pattern "sacred criticism": confronting evil and injustice while holding the wholeness of history and the interconnectedness of every living being. Dag Hammarskjöld — "For all that has been, thanks; to all that shall be, yes." The Law of One (Ra Material): Session 17.23 — the Earth only seems negatively oriented; the appearance comes from "the quiet, shall we say, horror which is the common distortion which those good, or positively oriented, entities have towards the occurrences" of the present.Session 46.9 — anger as "the undirected, or random, energy." Ra teaches acceptance as the key to the positive use of catalyst, and control as the key to the negative — the same turn the practice asks for below the heart. The Paschal Mystery — the Christian pattern of death, letting go, and renewal. The Bodhisattva tradition — those who return to help humanity with its suffering by teaching us to lament well. Brené Brown — on "foreboding joy," the reflex to brace for catastrophe in our happiest moments. For reflection this week Hold one another in your hearts. If sadness or disappointment ...
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    27 分
  • South Bath with Kari

    South Bath with Kari
    2026/07/26
    59 分
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