Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

On this episode I have my friend, my teacher, and somebody I look up to quite a bit, Susan

Green on the episode, to discuss not only her work, this book and development called

The Bean Project, but also her experiences growing up with mystical experiences growing

up during the 60s with the rise of the women's liberation movement tying in politics of

today with politics of then discussing the patriarchal mindset and how it's internalized

and all of us, regardless of gender and gender identity, and so much more.

This is really a wide-ranging conversation and this marks, like I think the second or

third episode in a row where I'm really diving deep into the wisdom paths, these mystical

traditions within the different religious traditions, we've done sufism, we've done multiple

episodes on Buddhism, this one is more in the Hindu religious context, specifically in

the Hindu mystical tradition, so I thought I could use Susan to elucidate that path,

as well as talk about a bunch of other things that are related to it, and I think we're

going to cap off this little sub-series with the next episode I'm doing with my friend

Megan on Eric From's The Art of Loving, because From comes out of the Frankfurt School

and he combines a psychoanalysis with Eastern philosophical wisdom from Taoism and Zen Buddhism

with a Marxist structural critique, and so his work is really tying all the pieces of

the last several episodes that we've done together, and somewhere within this is also

going to drop the tribute series I helped to moderate to Michael Brooks with Susan as

well as Audnon Hussein from Gorilla History and Marianne Williamson, we had a fascinating

conversation and Michael Brooks's sister put it together and is letting me release it

as a podcast on this platform as well as on their YouTube platform, so you'll hear

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