Assembly of Silence

This episode features more Assembly of Silence Moments per square meter of podcast than any other to this date. A triumph that will one day appear in the beer book of world records - assuming the world sticks around long enough to recognize the achievement. The prospects are not looking good. The collective anger appears to be reaching a peak during this countdown to oblivion. No, it’s not funny - but if we can’t laugh then we are terminally doomed. Also worth mention perhaps is that right off the bat we get into some five element theory (suggesting an ever more pressing need to create some introductory materials for these core concepts). Let me know if you want that. Judah’s Website: https://www.judahveitel.com/ ASRH Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/taijireality BTC: 3ArEkk6xAZia13gmtJzbmEMW1haHVUPCfz ETH: 0x56073462949bA7EFB21dFB562067b4628685436C PayPal: t a i j i r e a l i t y atsign geemaildotkom ASRH theme music “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

John and I continue our conversation from the last episode. Reckoning with the decadent art we loved or Hated and which surrounded us irrespectively. The final rather oblique segment of this conversation is available to Patreon supporters here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/32184648 ASRH Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/taijireality BTC: 3ArEkk6xAZia13gmtJzbmEMW1haHVUPCfz ETH: 0x56073462949bA7EFB21dFB562067b4628685436C PayPal: t a i j i r e a l i t y atsign geemaildotkom ASRH theme music “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

I don’t think anyone ever reads these summaries so I’m not sure it’s worth writing much about what happens in the episode. It’s a conversation you won’t want to miss. John is a great guest and we explore many interesting topics. What else do you need to know about it? If anyone wants a real summary text please complain or else I'm likely to continue along these vague lines. If you were hoping to hear the 2nd part of S3E15 "Programming the Audience w/Spectacular Simulations" with Jeff it can be heard by Patreon subscribers here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31990101 ASRH Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/taijireality BTC: 3ArEkk6xAZia13gmtJzbmEMW1haHVUPCfz ETH: 0x56073462949bA7EFB21dFB562067b4628685436C PayPal: t a i j i r e a l i t y atsign geemaildotkom ASRH theme music “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

The impossibility of coming to any consensus on what we might do differently while we all agree we’re heading over the cliff. Is the surveillance state the only way to curtail conspicuous consumption? We may be taming the species so that freedom is a farce - but does anyone have any better ideas? ASRH Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/taijireality ASRH theme music “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

Background information for this discussion is the material collected in Cahlen’s Freewill Playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLknRvZt8PEgSbuzz8JMswCggbfGt2WhaZ Cahlen’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXgiWdSbAapi_Z_RNUur0iA Noah’s Trigram YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8j2QsBqUb7ylMAnjUCS_ow Noah’s Songwriting Service: https://www.patreon.com/posts/get-your-custom-29606369 Not-Astrology: https://www.patreon.com/posts/natal-chart-29583123 ASRH Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/taijireality Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

Sewing the threads together with the Trigrams. If you don’t know what we’re talking about it's because there’s a lot of background information required. Sorry about that. Trigram Basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG-gEquCqdA More depth on Noah’s taijireality YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8j2QsBqUb7ylMAnjUCS_ow A Proposed Model: https://medium.com/@taijireality/a-metaphysical-model-for-a-c%C3%B8nscious-universe-of-timeless-physical-change-57775dbb8718 ASRH Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/taijireality ASRH theme music “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

Background information for this discussion is the material collected in Cahlen’s Freewill Playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLknRvZt8PEgSbuzz8JMswCggbfGt2WhaZ Cahlen’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXgiWdSbAapi_Z_RNUur0iA Noah’s Trigram YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8j2QsBqUb7ylMAnjUCS_ow Noah’s Songwriting Service: https://www.patreon.com/posts/get-your-custom-29606369 Not-Astrology: https://www.patreon.com/posts/natal-chart-29583123 ASRH Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/taijireality Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com Sorry about the audio quality in this episode - the next one will be better…

This episode covers so much territory it’s not worth trying to describe it. We can only hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed having the conversation. If you’d like to read the papers referred to in the discussion they are all viewable here: https://medium.com/@taijireality ASRH Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/taijireality Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

The original Assembly of Silence team are back in an episode covering the full range of standard ASRH topics: what is the best way forward from any given here and now? Is a pure spiritual practice itself an imbalance, and if so then what is the practice? How do we proceed in a game that keeps changing? It's 43'08" of pure unadulterated freewheeling talk for your listening enjoyment. ASRH Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/taijireality Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

In this episode I welcome a new guest to the ASRH: Yair is a world traveller from the ancient land of Israel whose depth of wisdom is made evident in this conversation. The appreciation of the present moment exists in tension with the grasping mind that strives to manage life. The two are incompatible yet it is only through their integration that we can experience the fullness of life. I don’t know that this summary does justice to the subject discussed. Listen and then forget about it - for the present moment cannot be extended beyond this now and efforts to possess are futile. ASRH Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/taijireality Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

We are fortunate to have Cahlen return to the Assembly of Silence. This lengthy episode covers a wide range of subject matter too complex to describe. Oftentimes it’s impossible to do justice to something by describing it. You’ll just have to listen to hear what it’s about. Cahlen’s website: http://cahlen.org. ASRH Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/taijireality Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

Our first listener suggested topic provides the seed for yet another stimulating and free-wheeling conversation with Judah and Noah. Keep those topics coming! ASRH Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/taijireality Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

On today’s episode we’re thinking about thoughts and feeling our feelings and discussing the optimal attitude towards both. We get into a kerfuffle over the distinction between need and want. If it's the case that those who say don’t know and those who know don’t say - then what the heck are we talking about? ASRH Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/taijireality Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

This episode is the maiden voyage for what will hopefully become a regular Assembly of Silence feature: The Assembly of Science. In this episode Jeff, Jonathan and Noah discuss what science is and begin to poke around at some of the many problems presently confronting the sciences. ASRH Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/taijireality Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

This Episode features an in depth discussion with Cahlen focusing primarily on the subjects that arose during our initial exchange (as presented in the previous episode). While we don’t explicitly discussing “tuning in” or “dropping out” they are reasonably apt descriptions of the terrain covered. Cahlen’s website: http://cahlen.org. ASRH Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/taijireality Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

Noah asked Cahlen the following question for Cahlen’s “Ask Cahlen” video series. "What’s the most significant / important thing you hope to convey to the world?" This episode contains the audio to Cahlen’s video response as well as Noah’s comments on the video. Next week will feature a wonderfully lively conversation with Cahlen. Cahlen’s website is http://cahlen.org (website appears to be down at the time of this episode's upload). Cahlen’s video may also be viewed on YouTube: https://youtu.be/kR6P7f30kjs ASRH Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/taijireality Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

Noah reads and discusses the remainder of the first section of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. The article postulating cønsciousness as a fundamental attribute within all entities can be found here: https://medium.com/@taijireality/metaphysical-questions-for-physicists-about-consciousness-117b6505429f This argument for God may also be relevant: https://medium.com/@taijireality/a-relatively-logical-argument-for-the-existence-of-god-21305d91170e If you would like to find out more about trigram theory: https://medium.com/@taijireality/consciousness-and-time-part-1-24c2f6e11b62 or video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG-gEquCqdA Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/taijireality Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

Noah reads and comments on the first section of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the ancient Hindu text considered to be the source document for the practice of Yoga. Here Yoga does not refer to the physical exercise systems now popular in our day. "Yoga" is a Sanskrit term meaning "union". Union here refers to union in the spiritual sense - to attain a state of unified consciousness. This might also be described as communing with God. The article postulating cønsciousness as a fundamental attribute of all phenomena can be read here: https://medium.com/@taijireality/metaphysical-questions-for-physicists-about-consciousness-117b6505429f God's existence may also be relevant: https://medium.com/@taijireality/a-relatively-logical-argument-for-the-existence-of-god-21305d91170e? If you would like to find out more about trigram theory: https://medium.com/@taijireality/consciousness-and-time-part-1-24c2f6e11b62 or video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG-gEquCqdA Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/taijireality Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

Judah and Noah randomly open a book and 28 minutes later this episode was done. If you would like to find out more about trigram theory: https://medium.com/@taijireality/consciousness-and-time-part-1-24c2f6e11b62 or video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG-gEquCqdA Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/silentassembly Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

Judah and Noah spend this episode getting into greater detail on what is meant by “spiritual”, how the spiritual domain interacts with the material and the limits of knowledge. The discussion touches on examples from Taoism, Hinduism, Christianity, Hegel, Goethe, Steiner, Metabolic Science and the Experimental Process. Noah’s article about how cønsciousness is inherent in every entity: https://medium.com/@taijireality/metaphysical-questions-for-physicists-about-consciousness-117b6505429f Jacque Ellul Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOCtu-rXfPk If you would like to find out more about trigram theory: https://medium.com/@taijireality/consciousness-and-time-part-1-24c2f6e11b62 or video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG-gEquCqdA Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/silentassembly Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

The topic that just won't go away - Judah and Noah dance around a basic disagreement about spirituality and seem to agree on most of it. If you would like to find out more about the trigram theory Noah mentions briefly take a look at this article: https://medium.com/@taijireality/consciousness-and-time-part-1-24c2f6e11b62 or this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG-gEquCqdA Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/silentassembly Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

In this episode Judah and Noah try out Zoom for remote recording. We enjoy some technical glitches & features hinting at a discussion of last weeks episode but quickly launching into a set of ideas that Judah's working on regarding three realms of nutrition: body, psyche and spirit. Considering the topic things take a turn for the surprisingly dark. Enjoy! If you missed Noah's reading of his latest article last week it can be read here: https://medium.com/@taijireality/a-metaphysical-model-for-a-c%C3%B8nscious-universe-of-timeless-physical-change-57775dbb8718 The song "Not Democracy" mentioned in the show can be heard here: https://weak.bandcamp.com/track/not-democracy Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/silentassembly Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

Judah is MIA - a fact that causes Noah to present the first part of his article wherein he attempts to integrate cønsciousness into physics. Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/silentassembly Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

Holy Shit! Judah's been reading the Mahābhārata! Stimulating conversation ensues... Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/silentassembly Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com

We continue our discussion of S2E4: Judah's talk "Nourishing the Soul of a Child". If you haven't yet listened to S2E4 and S2E3 (the first part of the discussion) - there's no way to guarantee this episode will make any sense. Context is everything. Almost everything. If not everything - it's at least significant. Significant to some. OK - so, for some people context is apparently meaningless. If you're one of those people go ahead and listen without context and fully enjoy not knowing what we're talking about. Excellent. Thank you. Note: we recorded another episode prior to these two which focuses largely on the Hindu epic Mahabharata - some of this conversation is referenced in the latter part of this episode. Our "epic discussion" will appear as S2E7 next week! Contact/Support: silentassembly@protonmail.com https://www.patreon.com/silentassembly Theme music from “Huddled” by Peck Slip: https://peckslip.bandcamp.com