Anarcho-spiritual discourses and upbuilding speeches

  • Leaves of Grass Inscriptions Video

    There is so much Whitman to read and absorb, and as I read and reflect, I speak, because Whitman commands us to, enjoining us to use our voices. Who am I to keep these soaring, prophetic, timeless songs in my head? In love with and following my poet, I speak… Listen ⇢

  • Inscriptions – Leaves of Grass

    Hello readers, hearers, and lovers in the Spirit, I return to you once again with leaves in hand. Thinking about America this Fourth of July, I found myself drawn to Whitman, to hear some of his big ideas about America. I enjoyed my readings so much I did a recording… Listen ⇢

    Inscriptions – Leaves of Grass

  • Under Ben Bulben by W.B. Yeats

    I know I said I would get back to my spiritual rantings after some Whitman songs, yet the poetic interlude continues. Before I get back to my rogue wisdom, you have to swear you’re ready to listen. Maybe you’ll listen to somebody with some real clout, some real authority, such… Listen ⇢

    Under Ben Bulben by W.B. Yeats

  • Song of Myself by Walt Whitman Sections 1-8

    Hello friends, Let’s take a Whitmanian interlude before season 2 of my spiritual rantings kicks off. I’ve been thinking about doing an all-Whitman podcast. Uncut Leaves of Grass. What do you think, dear listener? I started doing readings of Song of Myself because this is the way it sounded to… Listen ⇢

    Song of Myself by Walt Whitman Sections 1-8

  • Episode 10 – Conscious reproduction, reduplication

    “I used to think that nothing mattered. Now I know precisely the opposite is true: that everything matters. A human being reproduces the world every single day. . .” Listen ⇢

  • Episode 9.8 – The Expectancy of Faith by Soren Kierkegaard – The Last Part

    Join me as I conclude my interview-recitation with Soren Kierkegaard, who came back from the dead to read “The Expectancy of Faith,” an upbuilding discourse published in 1843. It goes without saying that this is an exclusive interview with Kierkegaard, who appears only through the refraction of subjectivity and the… Listen ⇢

  • Episode 9.75 – Interlude – Spirit Bits #1593 by Emily Dickinson

    Poetic interlude within Episode 9, the recitation-interview with Soren Kierkegaard reading “The Expectancy of Faith.” Although I can never orate this poem as beautifully as it is written, as perfectly as it is written, I give it a few solid tries, and create some little wind of my own, even… Listen ⇢

  • Are you nobody too?

    “How dreary to be. . .somebody!” There are about a dozen poem readings in this album that are so beautiful I almost cry every time I listen to them, while a captivated smile rises and falls across my face. Just like reading Dickinson, but with a deeper echo, these recitations… Listen ⇢

  • Episode 9.6 – The Expectancy of Faith by Soren Kierkegaard – Part 3

    Part 3 of my interview-recitation with Soren Kierkegaard begins at the central pivot point of the essay, the upbuilding discourse we’ve been following along with, “The Expectancy of Faith,” published in 1843. The preamble has ended; now Kierkegaard begins to unfold the primary thesis, as clear as day. You could… Listen ⇢