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Lammas, Eclipse Season, New Moon Shining In Leo & Swimming Into A Full Sturgeon Moon At The Tail End Of August

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Blood moon lunar eclipse with orange glow over ocean and mist
A Full Sturgeon Moon rises above a mist-covered ocean at night

“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change… We need not wait to see what others do.” 

–Ghandi

August kicks off on the 1st with the Lammas, which our ancestors honored as a marker for the first grain harvest in the Northern Hemisphere. The Lammas celebrates the approximate mid-point of summer between the Summer Solstice and Fall Equinox, and gratitude for the bounty of food the earth provides.

In the Southern Hemisphere, it will be the Imbolc, or the approximate mid-point between the Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. At this time, it’s as if the seeds underground are starting to think about waking up in their neck of the woods.

Wherever you are on the Planet, astrological eclipse seasons are major cosmic reset periods that trigger rapid personal growth and sudden life changes, which represent karmic past and spiritual identity.

Nothing to be superstitious about. Sometimes, especially during eclipses, it might feel like we are tempted by fate. During times like these, it can feel like we are being guided rather than in control of our destiny.

And yet, we can transform the heavy luggage that has been passed down to us by our ancestors by letting it go and giving it back . . . So that we can become the change we want to see in the world.

In much the same way as letting go of any dark edges of old selves, we can release and envelop old stories in the Mirror of the Mind meditations.

We can consciously work with the energies of eclipses that have the power to permanently close doors that no longer serve our spiritual evolution. Picture them sealed up in a black hole where they can transform into the light.

Eclipse season is a friendly universal reminder to nudge us back on the path of deeper and higher soul purposes. Their energies inspires us to let go of stagnant habits, emotional baggage, and limiting beliefs.

Furthermore, a Total Solar Eclipse on August 12th kicks off the final leg of 2026 seasonal eclipses by way of a New Moon in Leo. The energies of this New Moon are fuel injected by the Solar Eclipse. New Moons are always associated with new beginnings.

Keep in mind that new moons during eclipses are like new moons on steroids.

Moreover, these energies amplify radical new beginnings, light a spark of external changes, sudden breakthroughs, and unexpected shifts in identity. Talk about a Thunder Road, if you’ll pardon the Boss pun.

Leo’s energy loves the spotlight and thrives on feeling safe in moments that allows Leo to impress and receive praise and admiration from others. That’s a natural state for them.

But what about when the red carpet is rolled out, the spotlight shines brightly on your soul, and you are still feeling at a loss?

Like Leo, this writer can relate to having a hard time with criticisms.

If we can accept feedback however, we can use it for visibility, creativity, confidence, and self-expression. Deep meditation can be a good ally during this process.

And then on August 28th, a Partial Lunar Eclipse in Pisces shines on a Full Sturgeon Moon. These energies trigger internal emotional releases, exposing hidden truths and serves as a catalyst to break toxic patterns or relationships.

Keep in mind that Full Moons during Lunar Eclipses are like Full Moons on steroids.

Like a sturgeon’s spiritual significance, we can awaken the power of resiliency by trusting the flow of life, and surrender to the changing tides of universal oceanic waves.

Setting aside time for non-linear, non-localized and non-productivity is truly important, especially during intense energies. Some folks like to take a forrest bath, so to speak. Getting out in Nature, connecting with the animals and nature spirits is good energy medicine.

If you’re into rocks, it’s always a good idea to recharge them outside under the Full Moon cycle which lasts a few days before and after the actual Full Moon.

Do whatever you can to rest so that you can effectively integrate the energies of this last eclipse season of the year.

Remember that the aftershocks of the Eclipse season can be felt for quite some time.

Try not to push the river. Rather, let go of the oars and let the flow of the Universe guide you to wherever you need to go.

Pisces energy associated wiht this full moon breathes in sensitivity and perceptiveness of surroundings. The Fish love to go with the flow. Yet paradoxically, engaging in creative and spiritual forms, awakens imaginative waters. This lunar eclipse releases illusion, boundaries, and emotional truth.

Remember that Sturgeons are tough fish that can live over a century, grow up to 20 feet, and tip the scales by weighing nearly a ton. They are the largest freshwater fish, and have especially thrived in the American Great Lakes.

Their peak catch is traditionally in early August, which is in alignment with the harvest of plentiful seasonal crops that are on their way. As such, their energies reflect abundance that want to yield to your bounty.

Because of their natural ability to survive and thrive, meditation on the energy of sturgeon can help you build resilience in challenging times; particularly in preparation for darker days ahead, and also while diving into the deeper waters of Climate Change.

May all Beings be free from suffering, awaken to God Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness, Unity Consciousness, Diversity Within Unity, Inner Peace and the Universal Pillars of Love and Truth.

Ari

Podcast Episode: We Are Only One Song Away From Spring

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Rows of small green plants growing in a field with sunlight rays.
Sunlight beams illuminate neat rows of young plants in a rural field at sunrise.

Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the astrological, the political, and the deeply personal all share one frequency, and somehow it holds together.

Mara: Today we’re working through a piece by Ari Joshua Bouse that moves across a lot of terrain — political transition, the Aquarian Age, disclosure, and the spiritual calendar between winter and spring. Let’s start with that overarching question of where we actually are right now.

We Are Only One Song Away From Spring

Pip: The frame here is a moment of overlap — a political transition happening inside a much larger cosmic one, and the question of how those two timescales interact when you’re trying to stay grounded.

Mara: The post anchors that overlap in the seasonal calendar, and near the end it lands on Groundhog Day specifically: “Meditation on the in between times, mystical, mysterious energies, inner planes, echoing silence, void, and heartbeat” are offered as the right callbacks for this moment.

Pip: So the upshot is that Groundhog Day isn’t a punchline here — it’s the midpoint between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox, and the post treats that threshold as genuinely instructive about how change actually moves.

Mara: Right, and that’s the structural argument running through the whole piece. The political relief of a new administration fades fast — the post is direct about that — because the chattering monkey mind starts up again quickly. The deeper shift is astrological: a move from the Pisces Age to the Aquarian Age, measured in millennia, not election cycles.

Pip: Which is a useful corrective to anyone who thought January 20th was the finish line.

Mara: The post makes a careful point there about the people on different sides of that political moment. It says that most Trump voters “are not Nazis, Klan members or racists” but have been shaped by a divisive mindset that pushes everyone toward an us-versus-them frame — and that neither progressive nor conservative values hold a monopoly on the way forward.

Pip: And then it pivots — genuinely pivots — into UFO disclosure, which lands as less of a detour than you’d expect, because the argument is that ET concern for Earth is tied to humanity’s development of nuclear weapons. The stakes are planetary either way.

Mara: The post treats disclosure as a process, not an event. And it closes with something practical: I-messages, feeling statements, the right to say “I feel offended by that comment” and stand there without having to defend it. Personal authority as the ground-level version of the same sovereignty the post argues for cosmically.

Pip: Spring is underground. It’s firing, just not visible yet — which is maybe the whole thesis in one image.

Mara: The thread through all of this is the in-between — politically, seasonally, cosmically. The darkness isn’t the destination; it’s the passage.

Pip: You can’t get to the light if you won’t go through the dark. We’ll be back with more from Classroom Mothership Earth.

We Are Only One Song Away From Spring

Podcast Episode: Animal Symbols And Inner Wisdom

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A bear standing at the edge of a river looking at a heron standing on a small grassy patch in the water, with snowy mountains and pine trees in the background under a colorful sunset sky.
A heron and brown bear share a peaceful space at a river at sunset with mountains in the background.

Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the stock market, the moon cycle, and a great blue heron all show up to the same staff meeting.

Mara: Ari Joshua Bouse brings us two posts this week, and they cover real territory: what Bear medicine asks of us when the world tilts toward excess, and what Heron teaches about standing on your own two legs in murky water.

Pip: Let’s start with the bear in the room.

Bear Medicine And Introspection

Mara: The central question in Shared Constellations With Bear is whether we know how to go inward — not as retreat, but as a kind of recalibration when the outer world gets loud and grasping.

Pip: The post sets up that contrast directly: “Standing in the space of knowing is a marketing free zone — when we enter the center of a circle, there is nobody to convince or sway.”

Mara: Which is a pretty clean description of what meditation actually does. It removes the audience. You stop performing and start listening.

Pip: Bear Medicine, the post argues, is introspection — and the timing matters. We’re moving toward Winter Solstice, toward yin, toward dimming light. The post reads that as an invitation rather than a loss.

Mara: And it extends that into economics. The Taoist idea of investing in loss gets applied to a Bear market — the suggestion being that our bullish, expansive material emphasis needs its own hibernation. The post asks directly whether greed and arrogance can be allowed to rest.

Pip: Revolutionary zeal without the hate, as it puts it. That’s a tight ask, but the post holds the tension honestly rather than papering over it.

Mara: It also distinguishes prayer from meditation in practical terms — prayer as active and outward, meditation as receptive and inward. Two modes, both necessary, neither sufficient alone.

Pip: And our treatment of bears, the post notes, is a mirror. How we handle the actual animals tells us something about how serious we are about the rest.

Mara: That’s the pivot from inner work to outer consequence — which is exactly where Heron picks up.

Heron, Moon, And Rugged Individualism

Pip: Powered By Blue Heron opens with a Strawberry Full Moon and lands immediately on a question about self-reliance — what it actually looks like when it’s practiced rather than just claimed.

Mara: The post frames it this way: “It is good medicine to hear when to be sharp, understand when to stick your neck out and snatch an opportunity, and know how to stand on your own two legs.”

Pip: That’s rugged individualism described as discernment, not just stubbornness. There’s timing involved.

Mara: Right, and Heron’s physicality carries the argument. Long legs grounded in the earth, wading through murky water — the post uses that image to push back against the idea that spiritual practice means leaving your body behind.

Pip: The post actually names that tendency directly — people traveling into alternate realities while leaving their bodies behind — and Heron is the corrective. Come back. Root down.

Mara: Mercury in Retrograde appears here too, framed as a revisitation of old selves and past relationships — not as disruption but as information. The question it surfaces is who you want to become now.

Pip: And the post makes room for the generalist. In a world of specialization, it argues we need people who can see the big picture — “many roads to get to your destination” is how it puts it.

Mara: Heron’s final move is perspective. The post describes it as flying away from a “that’s just the way we’ve always done it” mentality into, as it says, “shores of infinite solution-focused possibilities.”

Pip: Bear goes inward to find stillness. Heron comes back out and wades forward anyway.

Mara: That’s the through line — and probably a good place to sit with it.

Pip: Bear and Heron, inward and outward — the posts keep circling the same question from different angles.

Mara: How do you stay grounded when the world is noisy, and how do you move when the water is murky. More of that next time.

Powered By Blue Heron, We Wade Through Life’s Waters With Rugged Individualism

Podcast Episode: New Published Material Revisited

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An old, worn book is partially submerged as ocean waves wash over it on a beach.

Hi Folks! Mercury in Retrograde goes back direct today. As my wise old spiritual counselor Leo would say, keep in mind that the mental fog tends to lift & clear up over the next 10 days or so. Also, be patient with left brain cognition & machines as they come back online during this time. In the meantime, please enjoy this new AI 2 person podcast as an appetizer for my newest book:

Ladies and Gentlemen…Introducing AI Podcast Characters Pip & Mara On Ari’s Multimedia Writing:

Pip: Climate grief, ancestral memory, and the kind of soul wounds that don’t show up on an X-ray — Classroom Mothership Earth is not pulling punches this week.

Mara: Ari Joshua Bouse has been publishing through Edge of Humanity Magazine, and the work lands squarely on climate change, trauma, and what we carry from those who came before us. Let’s start with the new published material and what it’s actually doing.

New Published Material

Pip: The through-line across these pieces is a question worth sitting with: what does climate change cost us emotionally, spiritually, and across generations — not just ecologically?

Mara: The series is titled “A Novel Read into the New Shorelines of Climate Change,” and the post announces it plainly: “Please see my newly published writings via Edge of Humanity Magazine.”

Pip: That framing — new shorelines — does real work. Shorelines shift. They don’t vanish cleanly; they encroach. Using that as a metaphor for what climate change does to inner life as much as coastline is a choice worth noticing.

Mara: The series spans three distinct pieces. The first is a poem called “Overcoming Deep Traumatic Soul Wounds” — which puts psychological injury right alongside environmental upheaval, treating them as the same conversation.

Pip: Which they arguably are. The literature on climate grief has been making exactly that case for a decade, and here it’s arriving as verse rather than a journal abstract.

Mara: The second piece, “Weathering Changing Weather Patterns,” shifts register slightly — the title itself is doing double duty, the literal and the internal sitting on top of each other. And the third, “Remembering Our Ancestors,” is another poem, this one pulling the lens back to lineage and what prior generations understood about living with a changing earth.

Pip: So you have trauma, adaptation, and ancestral knowledge — three movements that together make something closer to a full emotional map of the climate moment than any single essay could.

Mara: All three sit inside a larger project that Edge of Humanity Magazine is running under that “New Shorelines” banner, which suggests this isn’t a one-off but an ongoing body of work finding its public form.

Pip: Poetry as climate literature — not the most obvious delivery mechanism, but possibly the most honest one.

Mara: The shoreline metaphor keeps expanding the more you sit with it — what’s eroding, what’s being redrawn, what we’re trying to hold onto.

Pip: Next time, more from the edge. Worth watching where those shorelines move.

Please enjoy the previously published poetry excerpts from my latest book at the link below:

New Published Material

Podcast Episode: Peering Into Our Spirituality With Owl Revisited

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A luminous owl perched on a branch glowing with neon-like lines against a starry background.

Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the owl is always watching, the solstice is always coming, and the political metaphors are never quite finished with you.

Mara: Ari Joshua Bouse brings us into that territory today — spirituality, seasonal transition, and the harder questions about power, information, and what we choose to see in the dark. Let’s start with the owl.

Peering Into Our Spirituality With Owl

Pip: The frame here is the approaching Winter Solstice — the darkest day on the calendar — and the question of what that darkness asks of us spiritually, personally, and politically.

Mara: The post opens with exactly that lens: “Owl peers into dark nights with the light of empathic vision” — and from there it tracks what that vision might illuminate as the year contracts toward its lowest light.

Pip: So the owl isn’t decoration. It’s a way of asking what we can see precisely because we’re willing to look into uncomfortable places — grief, loss, the parts of ourselves that are waning along with the season.

Mara: That personal register runs through the whole piece. There’s a line about saying goodbye to old selves, to loved ones who have passed, to the ghosts of yesteryear — and then a pivot: “Remember a rainbow’s arrival reflects color back onto your soul.”

Pip: The grief gets company. That’s the move.

Mara: And then the post widens the lens considerably — out to the political, to questions about JFK declassification, to what gets suppressed in the name of national security, and whether the spirit of “We the People” is structurally in tension with protecting what the post calls “the minority of the opulent.”

Pip: The owl, it turns out, has opinions about the Military-Industrial Complex. Fair enough — so did a lot of owls in 1963.

Mara: The post holds those threads together by treating them as the same problem: a seductive mindset that believes people are inherently bad and need to be controlled. The prescription is “openness, trust and an authentically heartfelt solution-focused perspective” — and the warning is that apocalyptic thinking, once it’s target-marketed, becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Pip: Which is a genuinely sharp observation. The machinery that profits from fear needs the fear to stay legible and renewable.

Mara: The post asks directly whether exposing establishment suppression is principle or narcissism — and leaves that question open, which feels honest.

Pip: Darkness, vision, what we’re willing to name — that’s the whole season, really.

Mara: Empathic vision as a practice — that’s what ties the personal grief and the political questions together here.

Pip: The owl keeps watch. We’ll see what it spots next time.

Peering Into Our Spirituality With Owl

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: Recognition Poem

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Students engage in a science lesson with Earth and space visuals surrounding them.

Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the self-help mantra, the bumper sticker, and the geopolitical aside share a page without anyone blinking.

Mara: Today we’re looking at work from Ari Joshua Bouse — specifically a poem that moves from inner recognition and self-talk all the way out to questions of disclosure, technology, and what we owe each other.

Pip: Let’s start with the poem itself — and what it means to truly recognize yourself.

Recognition Poem

Mara: The post opens with a premise about self-perception: that recognition — of yourself and of others — is the starting point, and that self-criticism quietly erodes the ground you stand on.

Pip: The poem names fear as the specific mechanism. Here’s the line that anchors it: “Fear of consequence avoids taking responsibility.”

Mara: That’s the hinge the whole piece turns on. If fear of what follows keeps you from owning what you’ve done, you’re not just stuck — you’re actively building the wall higher.

Pip: And the poem doesn’t let the outside world off the hook either. It moves from inner work outward — through what it calls cognitive distortions, through “Us and Them segregations,” through the idea that karmic consequences exist even when they go unseen and unheard.

Mara: There’s a line that earns its place quietly: “A Higher quality of respect comes from feeling safe to learn, even through peaceful and non-violent forms of tough love.” That’s the connective tissue between the personal and the communal — safety as a precondition for growth.

Pip: The poem then takes a hard turn into territory you don’t usually find between a self-talk mantra and a Latin etymology lesson — and yes, it notes that discipline traces back to the Latin root for teaching, which reframes the whole concept.

Mara: The outer section addresses technology, fossil fuels, and what it calls Full Disclosure — the idea that taxpayers hold a sovereign right to know how their money works. The bumper sticker image is the vehicle: imagine the Air Force holding a bake sale, and then imagine further until there’s nothing left to fund.

Pip: It’s a rhetorical escalation — start with the absurd image, then keep walking until the absurdity becomes the point.

Mara: The closing lines bring it back: “the spotlight of heart-centered mindfulness lays the cards on the table to call out the bluff.” Awareness, the poem argues, is itself a form of accountability.

Pip: Recognition as the first act of honesty — toward yourself, toward others, toward the systems you live inside.

Mara: The thread running through all of this is that seeing clearly — yourself, your fear, your world — is where any real change begins.

Pip: Next time, we’ll see what else comes into focus.

Recognition Poem

The Batman & Yoda Sessions Revisited

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Both Master Yoda and Master Wayne aka The Batman had an intention to use their position of power through the power of their presence for the collective good of the order. For this reason, I nominate Master Bruce Wayne aka The Dark Knight for the position of the Emperor…under a wise agreement of the general oversight and spiritual consultation of Jedi Master Yoda.

Some years ago, I had an idea for a story called The Batman & Yoda sessions. Basically, the idea envisioned Bruce Wayne getting spiritual consultation from Master Yoda.

I was always interested in the backstory of characters, particularly the ones that had superhero like qualities, including the villains.

What were they like when they were children?

Did they have trauma histories?

Yoda was always a personal favorite because he was an ET, had lived for nearly a thousand years, and used his powers mostly invisibly and silently; in much the same way as Eckhart Tolle embodies through his presence as a spiritual teacher today.

The reason the Batman character always resonated for me is because his true identity as Bruce Wayne was mortal, as in he wasn’t born with any particular superpowers. However, during his Justice League days, he does answer the Flash’s query about what his superpower was by responding, “I’m rich.”

Although he came from wealthy privilege, Wayne had a significant trauma history, cared deeply for the people that fall through the cracks of systemic barriers, and never gave up on his hometown or the plight of the Planet. Moreover, he had a burning desire to elevate his humanity and inspire the rising consciousness of others.

At the time of this writing, Yoda has already left the 3D realm but still lives on in the spirit realm, and even wiser beyond his years now more than ever. Like myths of Yogis, etc. on Mothership Earth, Yoda dematerialized and died consciously,. Nowadays, he is still able to continue to interact with with the living in a mindful way; at least with those whose consciousness allowed for it.

After becoming disillusioned with Gotham City and Climate Change on Earth, Wayne hung up his cape for good, and got himself into therapy. Moreover, he developed a meditation practice to heal from his own childhood trauma. Shadow work and the Dark Night of the Soul were waiting patiently for allowing the light to illuminate the shadows, if you’ll pardon the spiritual pun.

More importantly, Master Wayne has seen his share of multidimensional villains like Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine before. Truly, he has had a myriad of experiences with the secondary trauma that he faced during his stint as a high ranking but secret detective who fought tirelessly against the shadowy criminal underground, when he became known as the Prince of Darkness. Master Wayne’s keen intellect, access to and knowledge of technological resources reinforce the vote. Besides, the brother has friends in high places like Wonder Woman and Superman for crying out loud!

Furthermore, Wayne’s flowering experiences with multidimensional reality have opened him up to a personal communion with Master Yoda…arguably the most famous reptilian ET on both Earth and the Cosmos throughout. After seeing through the smokescreen of The League of Shadows, Master Wayne is ready for a promotion. And the promotion will lead to the Galactic Dismantling of the Emperor, Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) aka STAR WARS; or more accurately what this writer refers to as, Egoic Defense Initiative (EDI).

Looking back at some of his major therapeutic breakthroughs (including letting go of his Savior Complex), Master Bruce Wayne encounters Master Yoda’s spirit in a hidden cave, deep within Mount Shasta. Given Mount Shasta’s Sacred Sites, connection to portals, and a universal-planetary root chakra serving as a Universal inter-dimensional Gatekeeper, Bruce Wayne encountered Master Yoda’s consciousness while in a deeply meditative state there. And yes, there were many bats and lizards hanging out on the cave’s ceilings and cracks and crevasses. It’s as if Bruce & Yoda met up in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, and then experienced a therapeutically, meditative experience together in visionary co-regulation. The Wise Council of Indigenous Elders & Saint Germain were a key part of their Spiritual Light Team multidimensional communication process.

Bruce Wayne is a mover and shaker, who has a unique ability to schmooze. At the point of this nomination, he has learned how to strengthen his presence in a way that is in alignment with power over force. Like Yoda, he is arriving at a Spiritual Avatar status. In much the same way as Yoda put on his work clothes when called to service, Master Bruce puts on his old cape when duty calls. Given the corruption in the Galactic Federation, the general public resonates with the story of Gotham, Batman and the affairs of Earth. The people there see their multidimensional relationship with our Galaxy and Solar System as connected in consciousness. And like people on Earth, they see a way out of the suffering.

This trick is that Master Wayne and The Batman had to integrate themselves to reflect their light and dark sides to align with the spiritually integrated way of the yin and the yang. Now with Master Yoda readily available as a role model and teacher of consciousness, Bruce Wayne aka The Batman has the right kind of power and resources to give Palpatine aka Darth Sidius and Darth Vader a run for their money. Who knows, Vader might even see himself in Batman and remember his true self as Anakin Skywalker when he notices Bruce Wayne’s authentic transformation.

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

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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