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Podcast Episode: Even on the Surface, Conscious Breathing has Great Depth

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Rough sea waves hitting rocky coastline with grassy cliffs and a lighthouse in the distance under dark clouds
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.

Even on the Surface, Conscious Breathing has Great Depth

Podcast Episode: Swimming with Otter and Getting in Touch with Our Feminine Side

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Swirling blue and green water flowing over textured, layered brown and gray rocks
Swirling blue water blends seamlessly with layered, textured rocks creating an abstract pattern

Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the curriculum includes otter medicine, elemental water, and the Sacred Feminine, and attendance is apparently taken by the universe itself.

Mara: Ari Joshua Bouse brings us into that territory today — feminine energy as a living force, what the otter symbolizes, and how all of it connects to the way we move through daily life.

Pip: Let’s start with the otter.

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Swimming with Otter: Feminine Power and Letting Go

Mara: The central question here is whether we’ve lost touch with the qualities the otter embodies — playfulness, empathy, flow — and what it costs us when we have.

Pip: The post opens with the otter as a symbol and then turns it into a direct challenge, setting up the quote with a question about how we love: “Do you know the power of love without jealousy? Have you experienced the joy of loving other people’s kids and their accomplishments as much as your own?”

Mara: That’s the hinge of the whole piece. It moves from animal symbolism into something concrete — whether we can genuinely celebrate others, or whether we’re quietly keeping score.

Pip: And then it gets elemental. Earth and ocean as feminine forces, rivers flowing into the sea — the imagery is doing real conceptual work, not just decoration.

Mara: Right. The post frames water as a model for how energy moves: “Water gradually building momentum… Flooding us with waves of Sacred Feminine tides into our energetic seas.” The argument is that this quality — receptive, accumulating, eventually overwhelming — is something every person carries regardless of gender.

Pip: Which is where the otter stops being a nature documentary and starts being a mirror. Are you clinging to outcomes? Addicted to worry? The post is asking whether your daily operating mode is more like a dam than a river.

Mara: There’s a line that cuts through the more lyrical passages: “To accept the present moment as it is does not mean we condone what is.” That’s a careful distinction — presence isn’t passivity.

Pip: The piece also names the rescuer trap — running a constant crisis operation for everyone else while your own garden goes untended. That one lands.

Mara: And it closes with Mercury in Retrograde as a prompt to release left-brain control and move from intuition instead. Whether or not you track planetary cycles, the underlying point is about when calculation stops serving you.

Pip: The otter, it turns out, is just asking you to let go of the shore.

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Mara: Feminine energy as flow, empathy as a practice, the present moment as neither approval nor surrender — that’s the terrain today.

Pip: More from the mothership next time. Bring your own river.

Swimming with Otter and Getting in Touch with Our Feminine Side

Podcast Episode: Fellow Luminous Souls Traveling Together In Collective Cosmic Consciousness . .

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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.

Fellow Luminous Souls Traveling Together In Collective Cosmic Consciousness . . .

Releasing Old Stories, and Reworking New Scripts Revisited

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Hiker with backpack standing on rocky cliff overlooking ocean and sunset
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.

Releasing Old Stories, and Reworking New Scripts

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:

And just 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!

Photo by Steven Purdy on Pexels.com

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!

Till next time,

Ari

Podcast Episode: Orbs Of Light Meditative Poem Revisited

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Cross-section of Earth showing crust, mantle, outer core, and glowing inner core beneath a forest and village
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.

Orbs Of Light Meditative Poem

Podcast Episode: A Full Strawberry Moon On June 29th & Then Tracking A Firecracker Felt Sense

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Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the lunar calendar, indigenous ecology, and the occasional ET sighting all share the same cosmic waiting room.

Mara: Ari Joshua Bouse has a post out that moves through a stretch of celestial events — strawberry moons, mercury retrograde, a full buck moon — and what each one asks of us emotionally and spiritually. Let’s start with the moons themselves and what they’re tracking.

A Full Strawberry Moon, A Buck Moon, And The Space Between

Pip: This segment covers a sweep of sky events from late June through late July — and the post isn’t just listing dates. It’s asking what each moon, each season, and each planetary shift is actually inviting us to do.

Mara: The post opens with a grounding claim from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” That framing sets the tone for everything that follows.

Pip: So the celestial events aren’t decoration — they’re a curriculum. The moons and retrograde periods become prompts for inner work rather than just astronomical footnotes.

Mara: Right. The Strawberry Moon on June 29th connects to Algonquin and other North American nations who tracked the wild berry harvest by this moon. Mercury retrograde runs concurrently — June 29th through July 23rd — and the post frames that overlap as an invitation to slow down, reflect, and work with subconscious material rather than resist it.

Pip: Mercury retrograde as a scheduled appointment with your own programming. Honestly, worse things have been on the calendar.

Mara: The New Moon in Cancer on July 14th follows, and Cancer season carries its own specific energy — nourishment, emotional safety, hearth and home. The post notes that Cancer encourages reconnecting with the feeling realm and stepping back from negative self-talk.

Mara: Then the Full Buck Moon arrives July 29th. The post traces its names across cultures — Native American, Native Alaskan, Celtic, Anglo Saxon — each name anchored in what the land was doing that month: antler growth, salmon runs, herb harvests, honey.

Pip: That cross-cultural naming is doing something real. It’s a reminder that people everywhere were paying close attention to the same sky, just through different lenses.

Mara: Leo season closes the arc, running July 22nd through August 22nd. The post calls it a time for “radically confident self-expression through the heart chakra” — but also cautions against chasing praise or applause as substitutes for genuine inner authority.

Pip: The whole sequence builds toward that: not outward performance, but grounded presence. The moons are a map, not a stage.

Pip: Spiritual beings, seasonal moons, and the quiet work of not outsourcing your sense of self to the crowd.

Mara: Next time, more from Classroom Mothership Earth — same sky, new questions.

Please enjoy the original post that inspire the podcast version by clicking on the link below:

A Full Strawberry Moon On June 29th & Then Tracking A Firecracker Felt Sense Of Independence With A Full Buck Moon In Late July

A Full Strawberry Moon On June 29th & Then Tracking A Firecracker Felt Sense Of Independence With A Full Buck Moon In Late July

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Sleeping lion with glowing floral decorations under a crescent moon in an enchanted forest
A magical lion adorned with glowing flowers sleeps peacefully in a mystical forest at night.

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Please enjoy the following videos below that capture the sentiment. Perhaps listening to them together in peaceful alignment, will be music to your ears, if you’ll pardon the pun . . .

We Shall Overcome

A Full Strawberry Moon on June 29 reflects lineage connections to the Algonquin and other North American nations who noticed the connection between the wild berry harvest to this Full Moon.

Also, Mercury will be in Retrograde on June 29 – July 23. These energies are in alignment with slowing things down, reflecting on the past, and focusing on the here and now.

Energetically, Mercury in Retrograde is a good time to be mindful of subconscious thoughts, including past programming. These energies can be a healing and highly intuitive time when we work with its energies intensionally.

Moreover, our psychic abilities and dreams can become triggered so that we can tap into deeper insights by working with our subconscious minds in ways where the unseen realms yield useful information to light our way.

A colorful New Moon in Cancer rises in the skies on July 14, 2026. Cancer season continues till July 22nd.

As always, new beginnings are in the air. And specifically, the new waves coming into the shores bring back feeling safe in family matters of the hearth, and other related activities like cooking and gardening.

Crabs are known to weather their emotional fluctuations. Might as well be mindful of co-creating a sense of belonging in the world.

Cancer the Crab is a time when we are encouraged to focus on nourishment, self-care, and our emotional health that breathes in a softer tone that supports reconnecting with ourselves and our hearts. Crabs reflect emotional sensitivity and tapping into the feeling realm.

Remember there is God in forgiveness, and it can be good to get out of our heads; especially when getting seduced into negative self talk narratives.

Or perhaps merely an atheistic appreciation the mysterious forces of Nature are enough to be shelter from the storm.

Looking ahead, a Full Buck Moon will happen on July 29. This Moon gets its name from the Native American observation that male deer antlers began growing in late spring and reach peak growth in July. Many Native Alaskans called this moon the Salmon Moon for its timing with salmon runs.

Whereas in Celtic culture, this moon has been known as the Wyrt (Wort), Mead or Herb Moon because most herbs can withstand harvesting by July. And in Anglo Saxon lineage, this moon was known as the Hay Moon. Bees buzzing out and about reinforce that honey is the elixir of life.

It is important for all humans to remember our shared history. This includes our lineage connections to our indigenous ancestral roots that are part of our planetary history before Colonization. This has impacted everyone and continues to do so.

Of course knowing our spiritual roots connects to that truth as well. Because we all have stardust in our DNA, not to mention oral traditions passed down about our cosmic connections to the Sky People.

Speaking of cosmic connections, a growing body of people are talking about Disclosure these days:

Late July’s full moon cycle amplifies a strong need for emotional freedom that can heighten emotional complexities.

Whether you’re an ET, human or otherwise; the resonate point is that harmonizing with groups can be challenging for everyone till you get into the right vibe, if you’ll pardon the multidimensional pun.

Moreover, Aquarian energies that also constitute July’s full moon cycle can intensify in those of us with strong rebellious streaks, our need to assert ourselves, and can make getting along in groups feel more challenging.

But then again, that’s just part of the human condition.

Speaking of the human condition, fear, anger and jealousy aren’t particularly healthy emotional cravings. And yet, all emotions are fleeting and transient, so we might as well see them as they are; no more or no less.

Besides, the power of community shows that people can be good mirrors for each other to reflect on what triggers us, and can shed light on better understanding of our humanity.

Finally, the tides of Leo season roll in from July 22-August 22. Tis the season to broadcast radically confident self-expression through the heart chakra, and a friendly reminder to nurture our inner child. Leo’s energies encourage movement out of the shadows, and stepping into the light with courage and passion.

Of course dominating the spotlight and always stealing the show can be blinding; as is self-stimulation as a form of meddling into the affairs of others. Besides, it can come across as an arrogant form of defensive pride.

Truly, the 3D realm we live in still carries a strong identification as an outer directed culture. Might as well see this reality as a friendly reminder that we stand in a deeper and higher personal authority when we stop chasing after happiness in the form of “praise, likes, or applause.”

May all Beings awaken to God Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness, Unity Consciousness, Diversity within Unity, Inner Peace and the Universal Pillars of Love and Truth,

Ari

Podcast Episode: Letting Go Of Getting Stuck In Life By Being Present With Our Stuckness

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Woman practicing Tai Chi barefoot on stone path with yin-yang symbol in garden

Check out this newly created experimental AI Podcast feature that aligns with my writing, compliments of WordPress.

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 version of 1 of my more recent writings stars 2 AI created characters named Pip and Mara.

Please enjoy the podcast & transcript below:

Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where getting unstuck, staying present, and surrendering to the universe are all on the syllabus, and somehow the homework is actually worth doing.

Mara: Today we’re covering work from Ari Joshua Bouse — one extended meditation on what it means to stop fighting your own stuckness and find your way back to the present moment. Let’s start with the heart of it: surrender as a path through.

Letting Go: Presence, Surrender, and Getting Unstuck

Mara: The central question here is deceptively simple — why do we get stuck, and what does it actually mean to let go? Not as a motivational slogan, but as a lived, embodied practice.

Pip: The post opens with a Rhonda Byrne line that stops you cold: “You can’t feel good when you’re feeling bad about feeling bad.”

Mara: That’s the trap in one sentence. The secondary suffering — the judgment layered on top of the original feeling — is often what keeps people frozen far longer than the feeling itself would.

Pip: And the post gets specific about what that looks like in practice. The reflection on getting stuck on other people’s stuckness, and taking it personally, is one of the more honest things you’ll read about how entanglement actually works.

Mara: The post frames it plainly: “experience teaches that it is freeing to stay centered, and observe those entanglements soften and relax.” Letting go of victim consciousness is described as a process — peeling away layers of an onion, not a single decision.

Pip: Which is where Tai Chi enters — not as a detour, but as a structural argument. Ancient meditative movement practices, the post says, integrate the brain’s hemispheres and re-pattern the neurological system toward emotional regulation. The body is part of the solution.

Mara: The post profiles Professor Cheng Man Ching, who brought Tai Chi to the West against the explicit orders of his masters. He once said he was approximately seventy percent Confucius and thirty percent Lao Tzu, and that learning how to be human takes a very long time.

Pip: Seventy-thirty is a surprisingly precise self-assessment for someone also teaching surrender.

Mara: The post also weaves in bibliotherapy — a medium using reading, film, podcasts, and other materials to support therapeutic change, especially between sessions. It traces back to an independent study in college exploring how clients get unstuck outside the therapy room.

Pip: That thread runs all the way to Pema Chodron, whose work the post closes with — a veteran Buddhist teacher the post credits as a leading force in bringing these principles to Western audiences.

Mara: The throughline is consistent: whether it’s Tai Chi, bibliotherapy, or sitting meditation, the practice is always about carrying the insight off the cushion and into ordinary life.

Pip: Stuckness, it turns out, is less a destination than a habit — and habits, given enough momentum, can be re-patterned.

Mara: Surrender as a technology for change — that’s the real thread running through all of this.

Pip: Next time, we’ll see what else the mothership has on the curriculum. There’s always more to unpack.

Please enjoy the original post that inspired this podcast at the link below:

Letting Go Of Getting Stuck In Life By Being Present With Our Stuckness Through The Power Of A Sweet Surrender

Take care of yourselves everyone,

Ari

Podcast Episode: A Crazy Business Idea For Co-creating A Beautiful New World

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Child standing in a futuristic classroom looking at Earth through large space station windows
A student gazes out at Earth from a high-tech space classroom

Check out this newly created experimental AI Podcast feature that aligns with my writing, compliments of WordPress.

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: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the daily writing prompt is “come up with a crazy business idea” and the answer turns out to be: civilization, but better.

Mara: Ari Joshua Bouse takes that prompt seriously, and today we’re following the thread — from a vision of shared consciousness and cooperative economics to what it actually looks like to clear space, inside and out.

Pip: Let’s start with the business idea itself.

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A Crazy Business Idea For Co-creating A Beautiful New World

Mara: The post opens with a genuine question: what does an economy look like when the underlying operating system shifts — when interconnection is the default, not the exception?

Pip: And the answer isn’t a product or a pitch deck. It’s a paradigm. The post lays out what falls away when people genuinely feel their connection to each other.

Mara: The list is specific: “the institutionalized isms, trashing the park, wars, violence, gang banging, organized crime, the so called legitimate maximum-economic profit capitalist conditioning, economic strangulations, and the need to control each other fades away, and is released into a black hole in the Universe.”

Pip: That’s a sentence doing a lot of heavy lifting — and the point underneath it is real. The argument is that these patterns aren’t permanent features of human nature; they’re symptoms of a particular kind of disconnection.

Mara: Right, and the post is careful to say it doesn’t get killed or die — it transforms. The balloon metaphor follows: letting go of a thought form so it floats away, rather than fighting it.

Pip: There’s a friend in the piece who’s been sober from the news for over a year and reports genuine levity — less charge around politics, less reactive energy. That’s offered as a small proof of concept.

Mara: The post connects that to The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield’s intention, quoted directly, was to inspire readers to “reclaim their power from dominant authorities and dysfunctional relationships: not via political or legal action but through a personalized spirituality that portrays life as a meaningful journey toward self-actualization.”

Pip: So the crazy business idea is essentially: skip the legal filing, go straight to the consciousness upgrade.

Mara: The post also gets concrete about physical space — imagining trash compressed in a way that literally opens up room, turning what looked like a landfill into ground for new growth. It’s the same logic applied materially.

Pip: And the T’ai Chi section earns its place. Professor Cheng’s instruction to “be like a ghost” — to create spaciousness — maps directly onto the economic argument: lead, follow, listen, don’t force.

Mara: The upshot is that cooperative competition, in this frame, isn’t naive. It’s more like push hands than a zero-sum match — sensitive to the other’s energy, not trying to overpower it.

Pip: Which makes the closing meditation clip feel less like an appendix and more like the actual deliverable.

Mara: That thread — from inner clearing to outer structure — is what the whole piece is building toward.

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Pip: Clear the space, transform the pattern, don’t fight the balloon — it’s a coherent through-line once you follow it.

Mara: More from Classroom Mothership Earth next time.

Please enjoy the original post that inspired this new podcast version at the link below:

A Crazy Business Idea For Co-creating A Beautiful New World

Take care of yourselves everyone,

Ari

Podcast Episode: A New Moon in Gemini, Solstices, Full Strawberry Moon & Mercury in Retrograde

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Full moon rising over fields and a country path with a farmhouse nearby
A glowing full moon rises over a peaceful countryside at dusk

Check out this newly created experimental AI Podcast feature that aligns with my writing, compliments of WordPress.

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: 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:

A New Moon in Gemini, Summer Solstice, Full Strawberry Moon & Mercury in Retrograde at the End of June