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I just heard someone explain the biggest misconception about Transcendental Meditation: that you're supposed to stop thinking. In TM you silently repeat a word called a mantra, your mind wanders and you come back to it. Featuring: Thomas Keating, Simone Weil, Swami Vivekananda Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc : Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp : Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. Multi : Turn any content into a YouTube video. Chapters: (00:00) Vivekananda on concentration (00:07) The biggest Transcendental Meditation misconception (00:26) My two-and-a-half-hour morning work block (00:43) Thomas Keating and the nun's ten thousand thoughts (01:08) Simone Weil on attention as prayer (01:15) Coming back each time Where to find Dru: I write an essay daily. Get them free Follow me on X Watch my video essays on YouTube Follow Dru's Notes on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day. Click here to view the episode transcript.

Jews are 0.2% of the world and have won 20% of the Nobel Prizes. A poor kid in Salt Lake City has the best odds of reaching the top of any big city in America. Seventh-day Adventists outlive their neighbors by a decade. Five repeated rituals explain it, and you can borrow them without the belief. Featuring: Simone Weil Watch on YouTube Read the full post Brought to you by: Trends.vc : Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp : Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. Multi : Turn any content into a YouTube video. Where to find Dru: I write an essay daily. Get them free Follow me on X Watch my video essays on YouTube Follow Dru's Notes on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Subscribe to Dru's Notes for a new episode every day. Click here to view the episode transcript.

In this episode I interview Bert Fitzgerald and Emma Coley from the Simone Weil House, a new Catholic Worker in Portland, Oregon. They explain the ministry and vision of their house of hospitality and outline an exciting new pilot project: demonstrating how an existing faith community can become a community of mutuality within a credit union, able to provide interest free loans to one another. Origins Bert founded Simone Weil House almost three years ago. Prior to moving to Portland, Bert served as a live-in volunteer at the South Bend Catholic Worker and experimented with a number of alternative economic projects. In Portland, he hoped to start a project that would model some of the less emphasized aspects of the movement. As well as hospitality, he hoped to develop an alternative model of Christian economics. Emma had volunteered for a Catholic Worker house while she was in high school, and when she was in college she got to know a self organized community for the homeless called Second Chance Village. On a visit to Portland she encountered the newly formed Simone Weil House, and eventually came back to join the project a little over a year ago. Simone Weil The French mystic and philosopher Simone Weil was chosen as the patron of the new Catholic Worker House. Bert described her as the Christian answer to Nietzsche. She wrestled with basic questions with the same exacting honesty, but found truth rather than dissimulation in the mystery of Christ. Simone Weil’s thought can also help us to overcome the “right/left” dichotomy and the compartmentalization of life in general. I recently wrote an article that draws on Weil’s spirituality of attention. Milestones The project started out in a simple and humble way. Bert stressed that he wanted it to provide an example of “Christ Room Hospitality”, something that any home could participate in. By working with a local provider of services for the homeless, Bert had got to know several individuals who were in need of housing. So with his landlord’s permission he invited them to share his house. Over time, the number of people being housed increased. Simone Weil house acquired tiny houses and converted storage units to provide more living space. Eventually they were able to clean up and use the “Hell House”, a trashed drug house across the street. After a thorough cleaning and two exorcisms, this became “Dorothy Day House”. On any given day, there are now between 11 and 14 people living in the two houses. Interest free loans As well as providing hospitality and other services such as free laundry facilities, the Simone Weil house has started a community of economic mutuality that has partnered with Notre Dame Federal Credit Union to make interest free loans available to its members.. This project is grounded in Christian spirituality. We all tend to treat members of our families in one way, and members of the wider public in a different way. But what if we broadened the circle of people we treated as family? Isn’t that part of a truly Christian outlook on the world? We are all part of God’s family now, and should treat one another accordingly. This attitude can even be found in the Old Testament. Much of the Old Testament law was concerned with social justice. The people of God were supposed to make sure that individuals or families didn’t fall “through the cracks” due to inter-generational poverty. The Jubilee years were designed to prevent this from happening. Similarly, there was an obligation to redeem the debts of relatives so that they did not fall into debt bondage. Under the New Covenant, we have an even deeper obligation to redeem debts for one another. Christ died to redeem us from our spiritual bondage. Having received such a great grace, how could we begrudge the effort to redeem others from their earthly debts? This was actually the origin of Credit Unions. Today they operate in much the same way as other banks, but originally they were founded by religious communities as

In this episode, I speak with Bert and Emma from the Simone Weil Catholic Worker House in Portland, Oregon. We talk about their community cooperative banking project and how this model is a tangible way to live Catholic social teaching, and most importantly, strengthen community bonds. Snippet from the show "this lending system actually becomes a way of deepening and strengthening community bonds. We don't usually think about taking out a loan as deepening and strengthening community Bonds in some profound way but this actually creates a way... to strengthen real relationships through...vulnerability and offering. [...] Our community here is trying to emphasize mutuality. This is not you know a handout to someone this is rather we're trying to create the kind of container that allows this to be a really mutual relationship." How to Donate to Simone Weil Catholic Worker Go to https://www.simoneweilhouse.org/ Make an electronic donations via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/InMyBackyard Check donations can be written out to “ In My Backyard ” and mailed to: In My Backyard, 5311 NE 15th Ave, Portland, OR 97211 Other ways to connect with Simone Weil Catholic Worker Wednesday Open Dinners, 6:30pm at the Simone Weil House (*we ask all guests to be fully vaccinated*) Thursday Agronomic University seminars, 5-6:15pm Pacific via Zoom (email us for the readings and links) First Monday Mutual Economy Gatherings , 5-6:15pm Pacific via Zoom, first Monday of every month Email them at simoneweilhouse@gmail.com Excerpts from the teaching segment: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17LT12YTM0_foe7t9jm-ZWlAD9uJnZepw9O2msk9PJ8E/edit?usp=sharing *** NEW! You can now submit your thoughts and recommendations of the podcast by filling out this feedback form: https://bit.ly/reclaimingsjfeedback

In this episode, I discuss the films "Wajma" and "An Encounter with Simone Weil." Consider making this podcast sustainable by supporting it on Patreon . Subscribe to the Her Head in Films Newsletter . Follow me on Facebook , Twitter , Instagram , and Tumblr . Original artwork by Dhiyanah Hassan Full show notes: More about "Wajma " More about "An Encounter with Simone Weil " Watch "An Encounter with Simone Weil" for free