This week’s podcast builds on how our brief May 27, 2025 exploration of Interbeing , freedom, and the myth of separability through the writings of Thich Nhat Hanh, Timothy Snyder, and Vanessa Machado de Oliveira contrast with the apparent beliefs and actions of Donald Trump and the people he accumulates.
Notes and Sources
Ted Kerasote, “Will America’s National Parks Survive Trump?” New York Times, June 1, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/opinion/trump-parks-budget-cuts.html
NIV Study Bible, (1995), 7-8.
Daniel Schmactenberger, et al. “Development in Progress,” The Consilience Project, July 16, 2024, https://consilienceproject.org/development-in-progress/
https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a24996/president-trump-gold-obsession-meaning/
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/trump-oval-office-gold-decor-rococo-versailles.html
https://www.lawnstarter.com/blog/lawn-care-2/mar-a-largo-donald-trump/
Bill Plotkin, The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries, and Revolutionaries, (New World Library, 2021), 7. Note that most chronological adults do not complete the work of the Thespian at the Oasis, so never engage the Wanderer in the Cocoon. For those who do successfully navigate the Cocoon, four more developmental stages await—two in adulthood and two in elderhood. To see all eight stages: https://www.animas.org/wp-content/uploads/Intro-to-ESDW-for-Animas-website.pdf. For an in-depth exploration, see Bill Plotkin, Nature and the Human Soul (New World Library, 2008).
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