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Podcast: Poems of Annihilation
Episode: The wicked situation in the cities
Description: The Journals of Thomas Merton a civil rights activist John Howard Griffin has a theory of white extremists provoking violence. “It is certainly true that the people killed in riots are mostly black” George Floyd curfew in New York the “contemplative mystique” “we should be serious about solitude, discipline and prayer California: Our Lady of the Redwoods monastery Bear Harbor Needle rock Astavakra gita Han Yu City Lights bookstore Lawrence Ferlinghetti Monastery of Christ in the Desert Abiquiu New Mexico “miles of emptiness” Rene Daumal Mount Analogue “nowhere is the real home” “mindfulness” “no mind” April 25, 1968 to May 24, 1968 The Intimate Merton