Betwixt and Between
Desert Oracle Radio
Ken Layne
4.9 • 852 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In these last days of this cruel summer, as our wilderness burns, what we can we learn from the Other Life, the world of our pandemic dreams and universally traumatized collective consciousness?
Sometimes, there are signposts in the rubble of the ongoing disaster.
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| 0:00.0 | Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert. |
| 0:16.6 | Night has fallen on the desert. |
| 0:23.6 | Power below. night has fallen on the desert. Our beloved desert, |
| 0:26.6 | in our continuing year of calamity. |
| 0:35.6 | When the weather's good, when the skies are blue, |
| 0:38.3 | weather clear or busy with storm clouds, when the landscape opens up, |
| 0:46.3 | well then I tend to do my dreaming outside. |
| 0:54.8 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:00.0 | Away from the chatter and the ugly things built by real estate developers. |
| 1:12.9 | I guess then I can think straight. |
| 1:17.4 | Because, like, those beach chair cushions at the Ace Hotel down in Palm Springs, say, |
| 1:26.9 | no bad vibes |
| 1:29.2 | But when it's ugly out |
| 1:37.6 | When our lungs hurt from the smoke, |
| 1:45.1 | when our eyes burn, |
| 1:48.0 | when the mountain rising of just a mile ahead, |
| 1:52.3 | looks like it's at the bottom of a jar of Vaseline. |
| 1:59.9 | Well, then the landscape cannot do its work. |
| 2:07.5 | The birds are quiet and the human mind becomes numb. |
| 2:19.3 | But we have another reality that we carry with us from day to day night to night. |
| 2:33.3 | We don't always use it in our waking life, but it's there. |
| 2:40.4 | It's ready when we need it. |
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