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Everyone has a plan until they hit Shit Creek.In 2007, Ralph Watkins watched a $10 million empire vanish in a Category 5 hurricane of bankruptcy and betrayal. He didn't just lose his business; he lost his identity. He sat on his sofa for months, paralyzed, waiting for the water to take him. But he didn't go under. He found a paddle.The Shit Creek Survivor Podcast is a raw, unfiltered field manual for anyone navigating a "total collapse"—whether it’s financial ruin, a career meltdown, or a personal dark night of the soul. Hosted by Ralph Watkins, author of 10 Habits of Shit Creek Survivors,...

🎙 The VTM PodcastWhat if the future isn’t approaching you… but already exists?The VTM Podcast explores the cutting edge of science and the architecture of tomorrow — from theoretical physics and complexity science to artificial intelligence, information theory, and the Volumetric Time Model.In this series, we examine a bold idea: that time may not be a river flowing forward, but a structure — a vast geometric landscape where past, present, and future coexist. Not destiny. Not superstition. But physics.If modern science suggests that spacetime is a four-dimensional object, what does ...

Here in one volume are both the Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series from one of the most influential philosophers in American history. Although Ralph Waldo Emerson, perhaps America’s most famous philosopher, did not wish to be referred to as a transcendentalist, he is nevertheless considered the founder of this major movement of nineteenth-century American thought. Emerson was influenced by a liberal religious training; theological study; personal contact with the Romanticists Coleridge, Carlyle, and Wordsworth; and a strong indigenous sense of individualism and self-reliance.

Throughout history, great thinkers have explored life, leadership, and self-mastery. This collection presents their most influential works, updated for today’s listeners. Whether seeking guidance on resilience, strategy, or ethics, these timeless classics remain relevant.

Listen to the greatest thinkers of all time as they explore the deepest questions of human existence.

Includes contributions from the late Ralph Metzner, Chris Bache, Whitley Strieber, Jeffrey Kripal, Angela Voss, Bill Richards, Chris Timmermann, Michael Winkelman, Luis Eduardo Luna, Anton Bilton, Bernard Carr, Daniel Pinchbeck, Dennis McKenna, Ede Frecska, and David Luke Explores DMT...

On September 11, 2001, Doug Laux was a freshman in college, on the path to becoming a doctor. But with the fall of the Twin Towers came a turning point in his life. After graduating, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency, determined to get himself to Afghanistan and into the center of the action. Through persistence and hard work, he was fast-tracked to a clandestine operations position overseas. Dropped into a remote region of Afghanistan, he received his baptism by fire.

Emerson's enduring reputation, however, is as a philosopher, an aphoristic writer (like Friedrich Nietzsche) and a quintessentially American thinker whose championing of the American Transcendental movement and influence on Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, William James, and others would alone secure him a prominent place in American cultural history. Emerson is often characterized as an idealist philosopher and indeed used the term himself of his philosophy, explaining it simply as a recognition that plan always precedes action. Contents:. History. Self-Reliance. Compensation.

Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first and then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays, Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), represent the core of his thinking. They include the well-known essays "Self-Reliance" and "The Over-Soul". Together with "Nature", these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period.

Eckhart Tolle Shares the Timeless Teachings and Practical Wisdom of Five Classic Works Why is that some books remain relevant hundreds of years after they were first written? “Powerful books are more than simply books,” teaches Eckhart Tolle. “They are living energy fields that correspond...

Ralph Nader talks about what’s happening in America, what’s happening around the world, and most importantly what’s happening underneath it all. www.ralphnaderradiohour.com

Inside the Mind of a Visionary: Emerson’s Essays on Life, Nature, and the Human Spirit. Essays, First & Second Series is a collection that encapsulates Ralph Waldo Emerson’s vision of a life lived authentically, in harmony with one's deeper values and the natural world.

In Ralph the Heir, Anthony Trollope masterfully weaves a tapestry of diverse characters representing various English social classes and sentiments. The novel delves into the complexities of inheritance, the clash between extravagance and reason in financial matters, the courtship of young lovers, and the electoral practices of the era, inspired by Trollopes own experiences running for Parliament. The narrative is rich with subplots that illuminate Trollopes views on greed, snobbery, work ethics, and the quirks of dandyism. With a playful twist, we meet multiple characters named Ralph and ...

Australia's Waste and Recycling Industry is now experiencing more than 15,000 used battery related fires every year. Used lithium battery fires impact human health, community safety and the receiving environment. In the absence of the Australian Governments lack of action New South Wales Government has taken leadership to address this critical issue. The Garbologist talks with Brett Lemin of the Waste Contractors and Recyclers Association of New South Wales about this important government leadership

Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a...

Explore the depths of human thought and the pursuit of self-reliance through the lens of philosophical exploration and introspection. This podcast invites you to engage with profound ideas and the essence of individuality, reflecting on the nature of society, personal growth, and the human condition. Each week, we present a new full-length audiobook, offering a diverse range of perspectives, time periods, and literary styles. This rotating collection ensures a fresh and enriching experience with every episode, perfect for those seeking insight, intellectual curiosity, or a reflective escape. ...

Ein Podcast über Stoizismus fürs echte Leben - jenseits von "Härte zeigen" und "Gefühle unterdrücken". Hier geht es darum, wie antike Weisheit und moderne Erkenntnisse über Emotionen, Körper und Selbstzugang zusammenwirken, um ein würdevolles, vitales Leben zu führen. Für alle, die nach Lösungen für emotionale Kämpfe suchen und dabei auf jahrtausendealte Philosophie treffen wollen, die im Alltag funktioniert. https://www.stoiker.net/der-emotionale-stoiker

Emerson's ideas are alive and well and very much with us today. Consider that Emerson, now an establishment figure, was a rebel in his time. He could find no relevance in established religion. But, unlike others, he set out to reform it. Many of his ideas now seem obvious and as American as apple pie.

This captivating memoir from 1923 offers a poignant glimpse into the life of a World War I soldier, a Royal Engineer and skilled hand-to-hand combatant. With vivid storytelling and raw honesty, it presents a respected first-hand account of the harrowing battles faced in the wars final year. - Summary by David Wales

More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice, philosophy, art, desire, and suffering. James Marcus introduces listeners to this Emerson, a writer of self-interrogating genius whose visionary flights are always grounded in Yankee shrewdness.