(audio available for paid subscribers) “And so long as you haven’t experienced this, to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on a dark…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “Our descendants will sooner or later reach, as a race, the condition of cosmic consciousness, just as, long ago, our ancestors passed from…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “Right from the start, all your ideas are wrong, so that’s not good. If you are not happy about this, you can either…
In 1990, at the request of author and astronomer Carl Sagan, NASA instructed the outbound Voyager I space probe to take a picture of our planet from 3.76…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” Kurt Vonnegut “Start your inquiry like a…
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened, but…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “Maybe you think I’m crazy because I say crazy things. I don’t mind if I’m crazy but don’t be too sure. Don’t give…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy.” Dr. Stanislav Grof In exploring the profound influence of the…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “I know my words are weapons, full of danger, full of death.” Walt Whitman A powerfully-built young man named Zeke, in his early…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” Christopher Robin to…
(audio available for paid subscribers) The Tao That Can Be Told Legend has it that late in life, Chinese sage Lao Tzu got on his water buffalo and…
(audio available for paid subscribers) Darkness within Darkness YANG What the hell is the Tao? LAO TZU Well, yeah, that’s where we start running into some issues. You…
(audio available for paid subscribers) Soft & Yielding YIN Okay Maestro, we’re on a roll, let’s keep it going. YANG Yeah, this Tao thing sounds pretty great. LAO…
(audio available for paid subscribers) Yield and Overcome Four days later… OLD LADY Okay, where are we? YIN We just have a lot of crazy bits and pieces.…
(audio available for paid subscribers) The Eternal Tao YIN I’m not sure this guy really is a wise man. I think maybe he just said that to complete…
(audio available for paid subscribers) The Mother of All Things Upon crossing the threshold, Bubby transforms into a tall, radiant goddess in flowing silk robes. Yin, Yang and…
A Play by Jed McKenna It is what it is, they say — but is it? Jed McKenna has always been more about destroying questions than answering them,…
GEMINI Opening music, sung by children in a loop: rock-a-bye baby, on the treetop when the wind blows, the cradle will rock when the bough breaks, the cradle…
Twenty-something GUY and GIRL enter audience left and right and conduct separate cellphone conversations. GUY Yeah, no, no… yeah… it’s like a mini intermission. They’re between things right…
PINKY TOUCH Transition music sung by children: ring-a-round the rosie a pocket full of posies ashes, ashes, we all fall down! repeat CHARACTERS All characters have English accents.…
GIRL Yeah, me again… yeah, they do this gimmicky thing between acts so I just come out and call you… (looks in surprise at audience, speaks in audible…
PARADE Transition music, sung by kids in a loop: this is the song that never ends. it just goes on and on my friends. some people started singing…
GUY Oh my God! It was just a couple of old farts watching a parade! I know, like I’m psychic or something, right? … Hey, when a tailor…
DEBATE Transition music sung by children: humpty dumpty sat on a wall, humpty dumpty had a great fall. all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t…
GIRL I can’t talk long, I gotta pee… it’s okay, I’m sure the government knows people gotta pee… no, no, yeah, it was like a debate thing, I…
ANATTA Transition music, sung by kids: while the moon her watch is keeping all through the night while the weary world is sleeping all through the night o’er…
GUY Yeah, me. Jesus, wow, that one was fucked up. I have no idea what I just saw. Listen, by the way, I uh, I don’t have a…
FEDALLAH Transition music, sung by kids: oh! jolly is the gale, and a joker is the whale, just a’ flourishin’ his tail, such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty,…
GUY Yeah, whassup? Yeah, still going… this last thing was like a weird Moby Dick remix… no, not Moby, Moby Dick. What? No, Moby Dick. Dick Dick DICK!
DELPHI Transition music, sung by kids as a round: row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream
The Enlightened Perspective We are programmed from birth to believe that our existence is an unsolvable riddle, but if we make an honest effort, we discover that mystery…
(audio available for paid members) Socrates I want to hear from him what is the nature of his art, and what it is which he professes and teaches;…