The Descent Into Illumination Podcast

The Descent Into Illumination

Tal The Journeyed
The Descent is ultimately an anthology of stories and self guided representations, in an attempt to learn how to be present in the moment. This journey is highlighted by travelers stopping by with their incredible colors and expressions, mindful study into the profane and mundane, and honestly just experimental expression. The mission of the Journey is simple: be bad at what you love, as we learn to revolutionize the moment. Always remember to follow your own will of the Whisp through your descent. Majority of music is credited to @BAMF, they are an amazing artist please support them.
QOTW Choose Your Name
Traveler at this point in the journey the night is dark and the noises are frightening? Coming back to your breath and slowing down as we find ourselves sure footing on the path that lays ahead. As we take it one step forward through the billowing darkness eventually the will of the whisp shines its fairy light through the willows as we Descend down The Tavern Post Inn for another weekly Meditation. The Fig Tree --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tdii/message
Feb 19
29 min
QOTW Crying In The Tavern
Taking a step down the path you notice how thick the underbrush is, thorns and plant ends leave their marks as you rush downwards searching for the peace of a clearing. A place to rest and find reprive. As you notice the Sachi dancing its way up the falls you begin to slow down, watching its struggle up the waterfall. In this moment of struggle, you find stillness. It is here as you move forward you don't find hat next clearing, but some broken down inn nestled in the heart of the swamp. Ogre Stew? Onions? Emotions begin overrun your crumbing walls. For at least a moment we welcome you to the Tavern Post Inn for our weekly meditation. Come rest and enjoy Traveler, the journey is long and there is a new foundation to build. The Fig Tree --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tdii/message
Feb 12
37 min
QOTW Be Our Guest?
Traveler, as you find yourself in this special time and place in your own confounding journey may you find peace. Whatever uncontrollable elements of life are weighing down on you as you trudge the path forward may you find levity entering the doors of the Tavern Post Inn. Warm up a nice bowl of Ogre Chili as we bull back the layers on this onion, asking ourselves THE questions of non-importance to meditate on. Thanks to Antasia and Jared, from ACOT for joining, and Traveler you are enough. The Fig Tree --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tdii/message
Feb 5
28 min
BC Wrathful Deities
Hey there traveler. Thanks for joining us at the bar here as we weigh life and compassion. As we traverse the balance of serenity and loss, we are faced with atonement and accountability in a transcendental way. join us as we seek forgiveness and compassion through our readings of Confession in the Presence of the Wrathful Deities. The Fig Tree --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tdii/message
Feb 2
48 min
QOTW Which you Are You?
Welcome Traveler and thank you for making your way through swamp bottom to be here at the Tavern. Whether you are famished from walking your own existential wastelands or at peace in your own personal Shambala we welcome you to the Descent. Please enjoy a nice Ogre Stew as we peel back the layers on this onion and Meditate on this Question of the Week. The Fig Tree --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tdii/message
Jan 29
24 min
QOTW Wake Up
Wake Up Traveler, it's something we all did to be here. Do you remember what that moment was like? what your first sensation was, or how it felt? Thank you for stopping into the Boggy Swap and entering the Saloon Doors of the Taver Post In for the Descents Question Of The Week. Traveler This week Jared Stobbed by, Listen to them on A Cup of Tea The Fig Tree --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tdii/message
Jan 22
23 min
QOTW: Parallel Hello's
Hello Traveler welcome to the Tavern Post Inn- on this week we are cooking up some Potato Stew as Samantha and Tal answer this week's Tavern Post "Which parallel universe versions of yourself would you want to meet and why?" Music Credit: BAMF Links: ⁠The Fig Tree --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tdii/message
Jan 15
18 min
QOTW: No Good Fear
Hello Traveler welcome to the Tavern Post Inn- on this week we are cooking up some Potato Stew as Samantha and Tal answer this week's Tavern Post "What is something that freaks you out for no good reason?" Music Credit: BAMF Links: The Fig Tree --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tdii/message
Jan 8
15 min
Tal's Descent
Hello Traveler, where ever you might be may peace be with you. On Todays Descent Tal and Jared get personal about why Tal is so delusional. While this represents a change on how the animism series was being presented, at this point the best way I have figured to explain and explore these topics is to start building context of understand. After all this is the descent. This is Tal's lived experience as to why Animism has become their framework for place and being. Music: Bamf Links: The Fig Tree --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tdii/message
Jan 5
1 hr 12 min
Autumns Meditation
The harvests have come in, the cold breath escapes. Stay warm on your path traveler. Leaves change from green to reds, browns, and yellows. Sarahs reminder to stay gold. A cycle is coming to an end as the world retreats from life towards rest, the death of countless microbial communities lights the painting of the natural world in one last blast of color. A final reminder for our natural rhythm its time to slow that beat down the symphony reaches a natural rest in the song. Innate cyclic desires to restore and find one’s rejuvenation, you have survived long enough sense the harsh dark of last winter, through the pastoral rebirth, and the adventure of the campaign, and the celebration of those few moments where we get to live.  This world has been built by those who come before, whose suffering through those dark night and dog days is a tireless effort to escape the cyclic existence of suffering. This world has not been inherited with equity. It has been built off the continued exploitation of other suffering. Suffering does not have to be an innate inheritance of life; it is built into the inherited world though. As individual agents we are dwarfed by goliath these systems of power have far greater reach than you or I, so what is there to do? Grow, and not in that cheesy self-help way, but for the simple reason no one, not you or I, deserve to suffer. That is a basic sentient need. The hard part of all of this is that the growth that we all need to do is not something we are going to get from a church or temple, not by going into the wilderness or as policy from our government, you can’t sign up for it in some organization and it’s not something I can give you. You get that growth my looking within. Stopping, pausing when agitated from life’s conditions. Taking the time to feel and process the emotions, especially the hard ones, the choosing to respond with compassion and kindness for both you and others. Sustainability is not just green science and applying geothermal energy to the grid. It is taking the time to cultivate empathy as a learned skill and applying it to all actions. There are no gods and there are no masters left in the garden, cultivate your own tree while sustaining our forest. Music : BAMF --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tdii/message
Nov 26, 2023
3 min
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