River FM 92.9 Lismore

July 19th, 9:32 am

River FM 92.9 Mondays 2pm to 4pm Our STORIES
My conversation this week with Tim. Live streaming 2ncr.org.au/stream
This weeks rave is about the dark underbelly of racism within our culture. Please engage and share your truth. Racism is a disease handed on from parents to children. A young child with an open loving heart will not necessarily think they are superior to another human being, and therefore there are feelings and connections to all fellow humans. Racism is so painful and its been going on for so long, all these first nations massacred by colonisation, one nation thinking themselves superior to fellow humans just because of the colour of their skin. Those that committed these atrocities could not be feeling their own hearts, nor the trauma that was inflicted.
So how do we, who see and feel the pain of all this, negotiate when we are confronted by racism? Sharing what we feel about this is, I think a good starting point. If we confront these people aggressively I don't think they will ever get to see their own enslavement to something which is set in concrete in their being. In confronting them there has to be some compassion for how they have been indoctrinated, misguided. By listening to first nations people, and walking with them there might be some reconciliation. I don't believe that we can save the world without this type of reconciliation. One world - one people - Tahi Aroha
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River FM 92.9 Lismore

July 12th, 11:54 am

On River FM 92.9 Monday 2pm to 4pm and Live streaming 2ncr.org.au/stream The Inner Journey Conversation this week is with Christo Warner Who is Poet Artist inspirational person with great vision for all of us.
Of course there is great diversity in the music I play, listen up, participate.
My rave today is about male domination of mother earth, and male aggression and misogyny. This is embedded in our culture, and whenever you scratch the surface there are these behaviours that arise, often aggressively. The perpetrators of these behaviours don’t really know (sometimes) that they are doing misogyny because it is so embodied in their being. Yes, Men were subtly indoctrinated into that way of being, from a very young age. Personally, I grew up not even being aware of my misogynistic behaviour, or knowing what I was doing. I took on that whole misogyny into my being. For me it wasn’t until I had a mid life crises at 38 that I looked deeper and saw that I was doing typical male behaviour, which included the oppression of women. We must challenge those stereotypes and ways of being, but not through aggression, gentle awareness comes to mind.
Unchallenged it can ultimately lead to more women being murdered, more domestic violence. Recently I talked about an incident where people were being aggressive toward a woman friend of mine. I spoke about that and there was this pushback to maintain this old patriarchal paradigm, no matter what. This was so disappointing. The language, everything was used to uphold that inequality and aggression, and I am certainly having trouble getting over that. That is why I have to speak about it, people doing behaviour like this in our culture is very painful.
My father was certainly misogynistic, and to a degree I followed in his footsteps. Until I recognised how enslaved I was to this whole way of being. That was a long time ago but it was about my own healing process that went on for some years.
So we must expose these behaviours, however subtle, anyway we can. If an individual is being aggressive and controlling with language, lets ask them simply - What is your agenda right now?
The putting down of women has been going on for millennia, but mens own liberation is tied to being a big part of this kind of change, and for a better world in general, but I think in order to uphold old ways of misogyny, men will twist the story or go off on tangents of what is the core issue here. The Mysogynistic divides so many and in that we can’t stand together and challenge the other very real issues like climate change etc. Please keep comments respectful. Please consider. See less
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River FM 92.9 Lismore

July 5th, 3:13 pm

On River FM 92.9 Mondays between 2 and 4pm my show ‘OUR STORIES’. Live Streaming 2ncr.org.au/stream Oh, and then there is sublime Music. This weeks Inner Journey Conversation is with Duncan.
Please Consider. What is missing in our culture? Personally, I think emotional intelligence is a big thing that is missing in our culture, it keeps us distant from each other, and sometimes divided. How did we become so disconnected from each other? Most people agree with me, we were all emotionally suppressed, and that effected our adult relationships in a big way. One solution is to take a risk, sit down, tell our inner stories. I have listened to hundreds of stories, I have told my own story numbers of time, this is self inquiry (without saying you must do self inquiry). What you share of yourself is up to you, no harm will come but you may feel liberated, you may be seen and heard like no other time. Owning our own story we can loosen the grip on us, the story of adversity, we then have a chance to move forward, empowered. ourinnerstories.com.au/home/ ... See MoreSee Less