Health, Happiness, Prosperity and Seasons Greetings, iThou!

By request, for Zen Puppy.  :-)

If your music player isn't working, please, consider downloading. Beautiful.

"Go fast. Take chances." - Weems

Kathleen,

This is the closest to Esalen that I could find...

Warmly,

Michael

for the leader of the rebel alliance, with thanks!

By request for Kristy Bliss

By request for Uncle Henry

I had the amazing opportunity to dance in Huxley (with David Schiffman's Mens Group) to Babatunde Olatunji's music when his drumming workshop performed at Esalen in the summer of 1992 (?).

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/declarationofindependence.htm

... no political statement. Just a really sweet, sad song after a long day.

Weems,

I saw a YouTube memorial to Neda Soltan with the "Pachelbel Canon" as its music track. As many times as the canon has been played, it held its poignancy for Neda.

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Warmly,
Michael

Stanford neurosciences professor Robert M. Sapolsky discusses his theories of human stress. He offers some coping skills toward the end of the lecture. He wrote a book of the same title. A more robust version of this audio file can be found for free at: http://itunes.stanford.edu/

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(Very much worth listening to the whole lecture more than once.)