An iridescent hummingbird symbolizes trans-dimensional quantum energy in a cosmic multiverse scene
If there is any creature created by Great Spirit that embodies the vibration of joy and light, it’s Hummingbird.
These spirited winged creatures dazzle us like a trans-dimensional craft might.
Remember, there is no fear when no fear is present.
During these sacred encounters, the hum of their wings when hovering reflects effective movement between the physical 3D and spirit realms.
Keep in mind there is an infinitely abundant amount of help bursting at the seams in the spirit realm, if only we ask and allow for ourselves to receive!
Incredibly, the ability to fly in any direction; changing directions spontaneously and instantaneously is nothing short of jaw dropping when watching hummingbirds work their magic.
Is anyone else out there inspired at Hummingbird’s power that such a small creature carries in its stature.
Do you remember the old creation spiritual truth that in the beginning, there was sound?
Meditation on Hummingbird awakens a vibrational shift when humming along.
When life gets heavy, take notes from Hummingbird about how to fly into zones of consciousness that reflect the sweetness of life through a felt sense of joyful lightness.
I’ve been making friends with a family of hummingbirds at our home in the backyard.
Like a trans-dimensional craft powering up, the feeling I get is being winked at by them in a lovingly playful way.
What’s in it for me? A New World if you can take it.
It does feel like the grief and dirge of everyday tragedy is transformed into the light; breathing in the air of levity and awakening an experience of being kissed by bliss.
If Hummingbird flies into your energy field, could it be that a past loved one’s spirit checking in on you?
May All Beings Be Free From Suffering And Experience Joy And Light In Their Consciousness,
A monarch butterfly gracefully flies above blooming wildflowers.
Energetically, butterfly supports carrying a playful, light-hearted sense of detachment during our everyday doings.
Isn’t it mind boggling to watch their apparent labor of love by constantly flitting about and sewing the seeds of love?
And yet, Butterfly consciousness holds up a mirror to awaken a real felt sense perceptible experience of levity embodying joy and light.
I watched a butterfly do this the other day…flying around tirelessly, landing on flowers, taking off and not appearing to have a concern in the world about the seemingly endless amount of work to be done or the uncertainty of what might come next on the endless honey-do list.
As I watched in awe, I experienced a shift as my own vibe lightened up.
Seeing them doing their thing invites Socratic self-reflective questions about where we might be landing on the map of consciousness at this moment in time.
Are you in the egg stage of an idea (beginning), the larva stage (manifestation), the cocoon stage (program development) and/or the final stage (transformation)?
Butterfly breathes in an air of creativity to get the juices flowing.
During times of more sunlight and warmer temperatures, movement out in Nature floats to the natural rhythm of Butterly magic.
May this experience give pause to an allowing for gentle growth that is sweet like the fragrant scent of flowers.
May All Beings Awaken To Planetary And Universal Peace,
A winding forest path strewn with various feathers leading into dense greenery
Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the blue jays are spirit guides and the curriculum runs from inner wizardry to planetary consciousness, which honestly sounds like the most interesting school district on Earth.
Mara: Today we’re covering territory from Ari Joshua Bouse — one post that moves between personal spiritual practice and some very large questions about power, disclosure, and what it means to wake up in this particular moment.
Pip: Let’s start with the blue jay.
Awakening A Felt Sense Of Wizardry With Blue Jay As A Spirit Guide
Mara: The post opens with a striking tension: the gap between how advanced our technology has become and how spiritually underdeveloped we remain as a species — and what it costs us to ignore that gap.
Pip: The post puts it plainly: “energy is energy — it’s what we do with it that counts.” That line is doing a lot of work, sitting right next to a discussion of weaponized technology, governmental coverups, and the demonization of whistleblowers.
Mara: The upshot is that the same human capacity that built atomic weapons could be redirected. The post isn’t just making a spiritual argument — it’s making a political one about who benefits from keeping people spiritually asleep.
Pip: And the Blue Jay enters here not as a cute woodland mascot but as a specific kind of medicine — a crow’s-eye view, the post calls it, that helps people access what it describes as their “true inner wizardry.”
Mara: There’s a real distinction being drawn between spiritual pretenders and genuine mastery. The post asks directly: “Would you rather be a pretender to the throne or a true master?” That question anchors everything else.
Pip: The Wizard of Oz reference lands harder than you’d expect — the man behind the curtain isn’t just a metaphor for self-deception, it’s a stand-in for the Military-Industrial Complex specifically.
Mara: The post connects that to a broader argument about consciousness and cooperation. It closes with a vision where free clean energy ends wars and famine, where universal healthcare and public education are treated as rights, and where the ET presence — framed as spiritually evolved and non-threatening — is part of that larger awakening.
Pip: So the Blue Jay is the entry point, but the destination is Unity Consciousness and a co-creative New Earth. That’s quite a flight path for one bird.
Mara: The post frames it as a personal and collective process both — the Blue Jay within, as it puts it, reveals how to use power “properly and effectively.” Inner work and systemic transformation aren’t separate projects here.
Pip: Which leaves the real question sitting with the listener: what does it actually feel like to start?
Mara: The thread running through all of this is that awakening isn’t passive — it’s a practice with real political stakes.
Pip: Next time, more from Classroom Mothership Earth — wherever the curriculum takes us.
A Spiritual Traveler Encounters A Blue Jay Illuminating A Moonlit Forest Path.
A growing body of humans are awakening to the reality of the sickening rise of religious extremism, fascist thinking and the seductive underbelly behind the secrecy of the global cabal.
Likewise, our technology has far exceeded the spiritually evolved state of consciousness that we are capable of and need to awaken. As the old saying goes, energy is energy…it’s what we do with it that counts.
We all know there’s a lot of fake news out there; including the dog and pony show about ET disclosure, illegal private corporations and governmental coverups, and the spending our tax dollars illegally and without reserve. Without skipping a beat, this provocatively abusive and deeply engrained behavioral patterns are always cited under the guise of National Security.
As usual, whistleblowers who are trying to expose systemic injustices are being demonized instead of being encouraged and protected for telling the truth. It’s a dangerously developmentally delayed system, where wisdom needs to be seen and heard.
Otherwise, we can all use our imaginations to envision the catastrophic consequences of reinforcing this old paradigm.
But as we trek forward, remember that the powers that be are terrified of the spiritual powers that our meta human potential embodies. When we change the way we look at ourselves within the context of the 3D realm around us, the world around us literally changes before our eyes.
Enter the wise spirited guidance of working with Blue Jay energy medicine in the positive.
Would you rather be a pretender to the throne or a true master?
You already know what the hidden hand of the man behind the curtain is banking on, if you’ll pardon the Wizard of Oz & Military-Industrial Complex pun. Why do you think Hollywood invests billions on romancing an establishment of gifted pretenders?
Meditation on the energy of Blue Jay give us a Crow’s view of feathering the embers of our true inner wizardry. Our healers, guides, teachers and coaches are valuable resources to us as helpers along our way.
But at the end of the day, the Blue Jay within facilitates the process of getting in touch with a deeper and higher part of our souls that reveals how to use our power properly and effectively.
Our modern world showcases many dabbling spiritual pretenders out there that front being wise gurus. Of course the Empire’s Imperial friends in Congress prefer to go unexamined by keeping us distracted with handsomely paid experts hustling the god of opinion. But don’t be fooled by the man behind the curtain.
Geopolitically, This current criminal paradigm peddles the idea that We The People aka the rascal multitude are children that should be seen but not heard. There is great fear, particularly among our leaders, that the people have all kinds of crazy leveling impulses to “Form A Perfect Union”. Fear is the trump card, if you’ll pardon political pun.
The elitism and accompanying arrogance that flies within this energy field feels entitled to control the public mind behind closed doors. Because our friends at the top of the food chain are as indoctrinated as anyone. It’s hard to feel motivated to tune your frequency to a deeper and higher tune when you’ve got access to unlimited funds, coupled with entourage of really smart people doing your dirty work for you. Who payin’ you?
While “appetite comes with eating”, does this kind of hierarchical, patriarchal and linear thinking really reflect best business practice? Of course, it’s hard to prove otherwise to the movers and shakers of the highly lucrative and a slickly well oiled machine.
But the masterful illusion that the “ends justify the means” is merely a smokescreen. It’s a put on, vis a vis a false flag coverup to true wizardry of a budding and co-creative New Earth that is peacefully in alignment with Planetary and Universal Consciousness.
The Crow’s view of Blue Jay’s perch reveals that a mysterious and magical everyday abundance is available to all of us because there is enough and we can all win. We can experience living harmoniously on our Planet and beyond. The spiritually evolved ETs that are in alignment with God Consciousness and Cosmic Consciousness are here to support us and are not a threat.
Looking back, after we detonated the atomic bomb; we certainly got the ETs heightened attention. Keep in mind, they could have wiped us out immediately. If they wanted to take us over, they could have done it long before that. Game over.
As if shooting them down with reversed engineered technology that humans have secretly weaponized weren’t enough; capturing, torturing, abusing them in secret underground facilities, and then proliferating disgusting black opt programs that make it look like alien abductions, cattle mutilations, etc. weren’t enough. We then have disrupted their way of life (as well as ours) by creating and detonating these criminally insane weapons of mass destruction.
I am reminded of a wise psychologist that once said, “there’s more than one reality . . . (and) denial is a primitive but powerful defense mechanism. And it ain’t just a river in Egypt either, if I might add.
Fear is a tired old way of motivating people to stay complacent and keep the blinders on to maintain the status quo. It’s time for this stale mental box of compartmentalized thinking to be released and let go of, like the back peddled, fake weather balloon media demonstration that fronted as the Roswell crash in 1947.
When you want to sell the public on war mongering, you create an enemy that needs to be dehumanized. Of course the rise of armageddon fanatical thinking is happening now because the dominant dinosaurs in power are terrified of losing their grip.
But as we all stand up to this tyranny with courage, the noose of their grip will fade into the ghosts of yesteryear.
Wars, famine and poverty will end on this planet once we have free clean energy. When humanity awakens to a more cooperative cultivation and sharing of resources (like those at the top do with each other), then the disastrous idea of maximum economic profit is gone with the wind. Moreover, the devilish fighting over resources fades into an infinitely sealed black hole in the Universe for a light mulching composted form of transformation.
Universal health care is a right. Everyone should have equal access to clean air, drinking water and safely habitable shelter. Free public access to quality education is the hallmark of a free society that values “fairness, honesty and integrity”, like Grandfather would say.
During this process of systemic transformation, holding democratic principles in our awareness is a challenge and an opportunity. Being less disposable and more mindful of our daily consumption helps us awaken to Unity Consciousness and celebrate our diverse expression of Great Spirit. We are all cut from the same cloth.
In this writers experience, a real felt sense encounter with an ET or any Being in alignment with a spiritually evolved state of consciousness; humans included…stir something on the inside, and reveals another way of life that is worth supporting and expanding exponentially.
For this reason, role models like Lord Buddha and Lord Christ show us how to awaken our own Lordship and access the Kingdom of Heaven within.
May all Beings be free from suffering, and awaken to Joy and Light within our Collective Consciousness,
Cloudy skies loom over rugged cliffs and crashing waves along the coastline with a distant lighthouse.
Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the dolphins have lesson plans and the moon has opinions about your breathing.
Mara: Ari Joshua Bouse writes here at the intersection of natural cycles, embodied awareness, and the kind of inner work that tends to surface when the season is turning. Today we’re looking at conscious breathing, dolphin intelligence, and what the body already knows.
Pip: Let’s start with the breath itself.
Even on the Surface, Conscious Breathing has Great Depth
Mara: The post opens with animal wisdom as a frame for self-examination — dolphin as guide, tide as teacher, and the question of whether we’re actually paying attention to any of it.
Pip: The post puts it directly: “Do you need to pay more attention to your intellectual development, or communication issues regarding the psychology of self in relationship?”
Mara: So the upshot is that the dolphin imagery isn’t decoration — it’s a diagnostic. The question is whether your communication patterns, internally and outward, are actually working for you or just running on autopilot.
Pip: And the prescription is almost comically simple, which is maybe the point — pause, breathe, think before speaking. The Military-Industrial Empire gets called out specifically as something that could use a deep exhale.
Mara: The post frames feminine energy as building sustainable momentum “gradually, gently and softly” — a direct counterweight to the force-and-projection model it’s critiquing. Emotional cleansing, dreamtime, releasing old wounds — these aren’t metaphors to set aside; they’re the actual curriculum.
Pip: There’s a seasonal anchor too. A Full Worm Moon, returning earthworms, maple sap beginning to flow, robins arriving. The breath practice lands inside a specific biological moment.
Mara: “Altered states and New Dimensions are accessed when inner sounds reverberate in outer manifestations.” The rhythm of the post mirrors what it’s describing — breath in, breath out, the inner and the outer in sync.
Pip: Right. And the closing image — masculine and feminine energies swimming together in synchronized waves by Spring Equinox — earns its finish. The post signs off: “I hardly think a showcase of collective Olympic gold medals could touch that.”
Mara: That’s the stakes as the post frames them. Not performance, not achievement — just the actual turning of the season, met consciously, with breath intact.
Pip: Which is either very humble or extremely ambitious, depending on how you’re breathing right now.
Mara: The tides, the breath, the seasonal turn — these keep showing up as the real curriculum here.
Pip: More from Classroom Mothership Earth next time. Stay on your board.
Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the curriculum includes shamans, quantum leaps, and the in-sound from way out. Ari Joshua Bouse has been writing, and the assignment is consciousness itself.
Mara: This episode follows one extended meditation on collective awakening — what it means to move beyond the noise, find stillness, and recognize our shared ground. Let’s start with that territory.
Fellow Luminous Souls Traveling Together In Collective Cosmic Consciousness
Pip: The post sets up a lineage — shamans, the Buddha, the Christ — and asks what it looks like when a critical mass of people today actually follows that thread toward something beyond the ordinary channel of reality.
Mara: The piece builds toward exactly that possibility, and here is the spine of it: “A critical mass of people are now seeing through the smoke and mirrors that front as an illusionary curtain behavioral trap that is sold, bought and processed as everyday reality.”
Pip: So the claim is that consensus reality isn’t a neutral backdrop — it’s a product. And the work of awakening is recognizing you’ve been handed a script.
Mara: Right, and the post traces several traditions that have named this. Indigenous Australians held their Dreamtime as more real than the Western version of reality. The Buddha faced suffering directly rather than routing around it. The through-line is that the exit from the nightmare requires turning toward it, not away.
Pip: There is something almost counterintuitive about that — the way out is through, which is not the advice most of us get from the algorithm.
Mara: The post names what blocks that passage pretty specifically: “attached doubts, fears, mental tapes, concepts, and compartmentalized cognitions” — what it calls the Chattering Monkey Mind or the Reptilian Brain. The upshot is that identification with that noise is the only thing that makes us miss the boat.
Pip: And the destination, once you hop off the lily pad, is described as “free flowing expanding spaciousness” where joy and light become normative rather than exceptional.
Mara: The post closes with Unity Consciousness as the frame — the recognition that we are part of Cosmic Oneness, connected to each other and everything. It ends with a genuine question: “What’s your Light Language?” It also comes with a recorded guided meditation, Ari reading the piece aloud, which gives the whole thing a different texture than a written essay alone.
Pip: The page asks you to sit with it, not just scroll past it.
Mara: The thread running through all of this is permission — permission to step off the default reel and into something quieter and wider.
Pip: Next time, we’ll see what else is traveling in from that direction.
A hiker stands on rocky cliffs overlooking the ocean at sunset.
“The early Buddhist texts view death not as a final end, but as a transitional gateway within a continuous cycle of existence (samsara). The Buddha taught that while grief is a natural response to the arrow of loss, true transformation occurs when we stop fighting impermanence and recognize our deeply interconnected nature.”
Moreover, a growing body of scientific research is further reinforcing the old spiritual truth vis a vis the quote above; as you will see in the video clip below:
Furthermore, notice that the Imbolc will be happening in the Souther Hemisphere in early August.
Remember that the Imbolc is the approximate halfway point between their Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. Some folks celebrate the Imbolc on the first or second day of the month, while this year some focus on August 7 as the sacred date.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the Llamas will be honoring the approximate mid-point between the Summer Solstice and Autumn Equinox at this time.
Given that Mercury is still in Retrograde till July 23rd, check out the revisited related original past poetic prose by clicking on the link below.
Additionally, in much the same way as meditation,Pete Seeger’s pro-humanitarian civil rights protest music recognized that a good folk song can get the job done without the frills.
Together, we can co-create a more welcoming, accepting and fair and just society for everyone when we unplug from old scripts and co-author new narratives:
Andjust yesterday, I saw a bumper sticker that featured a picture of a Monarch Butterfly with the accompanying lyrics, “the only orange monarch I support.” Got a full bellied laugh out of that one!
Keep in mind that spirituality as a way of life embodies a playful, light-hearted, and healthy felt sense of detachment from the heaviness of the world.
We are all interconnected.
Besides, the heavily orchestrated shadowy program that parrots that we are separate from one another is merely a finely flat tuned illusionary chorus, if you’ll pardon the music pun.
May all Beings be free from suffering, and awaken to Unity Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness, God Consciousness, Universal Pillars of Love and Truth, Inner Peace and Diversity within Unity!
Cross-section of Earth showing layers beneath a thriving landscape
Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where climate prophecy, cosmic meditation, and the occasional UFO all share a zip code.
Mara: Today we’re looking at work from Ari Joshua Bouse — a meditative poem that moves from climate grief through the zodiac and out to the edges of the universe. Let’s start with the poem itself and what it’s reaching for.
Orbs Of Light: A Meditation on Expanding Awareness
Pip: This poem isn’t just a meditation exercise — it’s a cosmology. It opens with climate grief and the suffering of sentient beings, then pivots toward something like a spiritual antidote. The question it’s asking is: what do you do with that grief?
Mara: The poem sets up the movement from darkness toward light early, and then delivers the actual practice: “Picture a growing golden white orb of light illuminating your soul and then let it travel with your consciousness outward — first filling the room, making its way through your home, community, region, planet and then to the edge of the Universe and back to the home of your breath.”
Pip: So the meditation is literally a scale exercise — you start in your chest and end at the edge of everything. That’s not a metaphor for healing; it’s the mechanism.
Mara: Right, and the poem frames that expansion in physical terms too — “Feel expansion and then contraction of the Universe” maps the cosmos onto breath. The inhalation and exhalation become a model for how awareness moves.
Pip: There’s also an astrological scaffolding underneath all of this — Aries, Pisces, the Aquarian New Age — which positions the meditation inside a larger turning of ages, not just a Tuesday morning breathing exercise.
Mara: And then the poem directs that orb outward with real specificity. It names Ukrainian and Russian people, Black and Indigenous people, whales, dolphins, USOs and UFOs — and then reaches further: “Send it to mythical creatures of folklore. For on some level, they too exist and deserve an equitable passport in sovereignty.”
Pip: An equitable passport in sovereignty — for creatures of folklore. I respect the commitment to leaving no one out of the universal health plan.
Mara: The closing line pulls it together: “We are Starseed Children of the Creator. Humans are part of a universal tapestry. But we are not the only ones.” The poem ends not on human centrality but on plurality — a shared cosmos.
Pip: Climate grief in, cosmic solidarity out. That’s the arc.
Pip: From grief to orbs to folklore creatures holding valid passports — the range here is genuinely its own thing.
Mara: The throughline is expansion: personal breath, planetary care, universal belonging. Worth sitting with.
A glowing full moon rises over a peaceful countryside at dusk
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Pip: Gemini season, a solstice, a strawberry moon, Mercury going sideways — June is apparently doing a lot.
Mara: This episode covers one post from Ari Joshua Bouse, mapping the celestial events of late June and what they invite us to pay attention to — new moons, seasonal turning points, a full moon with Indigenous roots, and a retrograde worth taking seriously.
Pip: Let’s start with the sky.
A New Moon in Gemini Through Mercury Retrograde
Mara: June opens with a New Moon in Gemini on the fifteenth, and the question this post is really asking is: what does the sky this month want from us, and how do we work with it rather than against it?
Pip: The post frames the Gemini New Moon as a prompt to balance thinking and feeling — and it puts it plainly: “Harmonizing with our heads and hearts helps support effective communication.”
Mara: That’s the throughline for the whole month. The New Moon opens a window for setting intentions, connecting socially, and letting communication projects move more freely. The post specifically names storytelling and sharing topical truths as things that can come to life with greater ease right now.
Pip: Then June 21 arrives carrying two things at once — the Summer Solstice and Father’s Day, a pairing that won’t repeat until 2037.
Mara: The post draws a real contrast there. In the Northern Hemisphere, the solstice carries what it calls Grandfather Sun-Yang energy — outward, expansive, growth-oriented. In the Southern Hemisphere, it’s the opposite: the longest night, Grandmother Moon-Yin energy, a turning inward.
Pip: The planet literally experiencing opposite seasons at the same moment — that’s the kind of thing that makes the phrase “duality of living on this planet” feel less like a bumper sticker.
Mara: The Full Strawberry Moon follows on June 29. The post traces that name to the Algonquin and other North American nations who connected the wild berry harvest to this moon, and notes that other cultures named it for whatever mattered most to people on the land at midsummer.
Pip: History embedded in a calendar. That’s not nothing.
Mara: June 21 also opens Cancer season, running through July 22. The post frames Cancer as a softer emotional register — nourishment, self-care, reconnecting with feeling. Then Mercury stations retrograde on June 29, lasting through July 23, and the post treats that as a genuine invitation: slow down, reflect, and pay attention to subconscious patterns.
Pip: So the month ends with two overlapping energies asking for the same thing — quiet and inward attention.
Mara: And the psychic and dream life, the post says, can surface real insight during that window if you’re working with it intentionally rather than just waiting for it to pass.
Pip: Which points straight toward how we actually tend our inner lives day to day.
Mara: A month of thresholds — new beginnings, a solstice, ancestral moons, a retrograde. The invitation seems to be: meet each one with some awareness.
Pip: More sky ahead. We’ll see what it asks for next time.
Please enjoy the original post that inspired this new podcast version at the link below:
An empty classroom with wooden desks arranged in a circular formation bathed in sunlight.
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Full Disclosure: Truly, I do take pride in my writing, and have yet to use AI for the written word. However, I have been having fun with playing around with AI for illustrations.
This podcast version of 1 of my more recent writings stars 2 AI created characters named Pip and Mara.
Please enjoy the podcast & transcript below:
Pip: There’s a site called Classroom Mothership Earth, which is either a philosophy blog or the most ambitious field trip ever conceived — possibly both.
Mara: Ari Joshua Bouse writes here about education, consciousness, and the ideas that stay with you long after the bell rings. Today we’re following him back into a high school classroom and into Plato’s cave. Let’s start with what that cave actually meant.
Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave
Pip: The post opens with a prompt — describe something you learned in high school — and the answer isn’t a formula or a date. It’s a philosophy class that apparently rewired the writer’s entire sense of reality.
Mara: The Humanities course had a teacher who, as the post puts it, “embodied his humanity” — theatrical, philosophical, running the room like a group rather than a lecture. The layout shifted between rows, clusters, and horseshoe configurations to keep energy moving through the space.
Pip: So the room itself was part of the pedagogy. The furniture arrangement wasn’t aesthetic — it was functional, designed to open something up in the students.
Mara: And what got opened up, specifically, was Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. The post describes it this way: “the metaphor of humanity being asleep and trapped in own own darkness lit a fire in my neurons and energy field.”
Pip: That’s a sentence doing a lot of heavy lifting across several centuries of philosophy.
Mara: What it means in practice is that the allegory didn’t stay abstract. It landed as a personal reckoning — the post connects it directly to protective instincts, survival dynamics, and what it calls “death and rebirth” taking root in the psyche. This wasn’t intellectual exercise; it was identity-level disruption.
Mara: The class also covered Plato’s Republic against Pericles’ Democracy, the teacher’s own Theory of Good, and Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha. The curriculum was genuinely wide.
Pip: And the post notes that metacognition and superconsciousness weren’t yet common language — but that didn’t stop anyone from having those experiences. The concepts came later; the experiences came first.
Mara: The image that closes the reflection is the teacher drawing a diagram of the Cave on a blackboard, and the writer connecting that chalk sketch to ancient cave art. The visual form of the idea outlasted the lesson itself.
Pip: Turns out the cave has good acoustics for anything that echoes.
Mara: The throughline is that a single classroom encounter with one allegory can reorganize how a person understands consciousness — and keeps doing so long after graduation.
Pip: Shadows on a wall, seating arrangements, a teacher with chalk — small things that turn out to be load-bearing.
Mara: Next time, more from the mothership.
Please enjoy the original post that inspired this new podcast version at the link below:
Classroom Mothership Earth 