BEE's list of life-changing audiobooks* and podcasts, and the scenarios in which they first pierced through our veil of illusion to let in the light!
Audiobooks
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
The season is summer.
The city is Jerusalem.
A bowl of freshly cut watermelon, cooled by the fridge, is becoming juicier in the heat.
Bare on the balcony.
Dante's Divine Comedy, though full of rich and somewhat incomprehensible language, is understood on a deep level. Validating and amusing, in an existential crisis kind of way!
No spoilers tagline: Follow the protagonist through a journey into hell (and out the other side).
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz
Lying on the grassy hill by the music school in Mitzpe Ramon, the most isolated town in the Negev. Students from the circus school practice their craft and the music students roll cigarettes. Following the feeling to connect inwards, earphones go in ears and learning ensues.
No spoilers tagline: What are the agreements you have with yourself? Do you agree that you're good? Bad? Ugly? Worthy? Unworthy? Lucky? Unlucky? What you agree about yourself, you are. What you agree about yourself, you experience. Agreements are self-fulfilling prophecies. Don Miguel Ruiz offers four simple agreements to fine-tune your relationship with yourself and help clarify your way of being.
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
Walking through open-hearted fields in Hertfordshire, Eckhart Tolle blesses the ears. The intense wisdom sharply and warmly shifts the clouds that cloak the all-knowing inner guide, and with the help of marijuana, which opens the mind in ready receptivity.
Many times the audiobook is paused and re-wound, for each word holds the potency of GOD itself... This book has the power to permanently illuminate. Both reading and listening are recommended.
The bulk of the book is in Q&A form, which is handy, for many reservations are bound to arise when hearing such savagely sweet Truth. Notice Truth, with a capital T!
No spoilers tagline: A practical guide to liberation from mental and physical suffering.
A Return to Love
Marianne Williamson (future US president!)
Soaking in a magnesium salt bath.
After an invigorating, connecting and cleansing walk through Coppett's Woods, North London.
Deepening into inner peace further and further.
Future US president Marianne Williamson convinces that choosing love in every situation is an emboldened choice.
After reading, listening and then putting the lessons into practice in daily life, we confirm: she is right.
No spoilers tagline: Learn how to shift your entire perspective to one of love, not fear. In all situations, in all relationships. Not acquiescing, empowering.
Silent Power
Stuart Wilde
Atop a grassy hill in a North London park, Stuart Wilde, a particularly grounded enlightened author, narrates Silent Power, an explanation in a clear, concise and comprehensible way, of the power of silence. Lean back, stand strong... when others lean into the drama...
No spoilers tagline: The power of silence, how and why to harness it.
Podcasts
Bobo & Flex
Bathing in the southern France sun, Bobo & Flex inspire, with great humour, critical thinking and mind-expansion. Bobo now has her own philosophy podcast where she discusses topics including 'why men cheat', 'why your marriage will fail' and 'is love a class privilege?'. Bold, real, illuminating, helpful.
Now discontinued but gratefully leaving behind a library full of brilliant, intelligent, hilarious discussions between the savagely smart Bobo and the wickedly wise Flex. Topics range from psychedelic experiences to racism, aliens to patriarchy, an array of moral and ethical dilemmas, and so much more.
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