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Steven Otero

Steven has been studying the Western mystical traditions for many years now. In 1991 he had his first "awakening." Steven is the manager of Sexy Spirits, a Tantric educational center in NYC. He books workshops & is always looking for new talent. Email: steven@souldish.com

Steve’s Weekly Dish 88.0.

July 3rd, 2008

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Science and Meditation: Are Mystics just Having a Brain Wave?

Are Mystics just useing their right instead of their left brain?

Your brain lies to you

False beliefs are everywhere.Thanks to the quirky way in which our brains store memories - and mislead us along the way.

Go Your Own Way: Gnosis And The Fractal Spiral

You have to work on yourself before you can really get anywhere.

Terminator And Star Trek Are The Yin And Yang Of Time
Travel

In the Terminator the people are backward technologically but they’re also living in a promised land compared to the world Kyle Reese comes from.

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Steve’s Weekly Dish 87.0

June 26th, 2008

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The Council of Nine and the Star Trek Pantheon.
How deeply did Gene Roddenberry’s involvement with Lab-9 go?

 An Interview with Jeff Warren
The external world is mapped; now the explorers are turning inward

How to create a cult: the Asch conformity

It may be fun, but this is no comedy, it’s more like a documentary

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

Was JFK killed because he had evolved into a threat to the war machine upon which the American economy and powers that be so rely on for wealth and the continuance of world dominance?

Michael Pollan on What’s Wrong with Environmentalism

Why environmentalists must look beyond wilderness to sustainability.

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Steve’s Weekly Dish 86.0.

June 19th, 2008

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NO ARCHETYPES FOR INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS

The first step  to  enter an intimate relationship is to do so from the point  that we have no idea how to accomplish this.

Love Guru Mike Myers Explains Why Mariska Hargitay Is The New Namasté

Since Mariska Hargitay has overcome much adversity,  with poise and grace, perhaps the spiritual meaning of the guru greeting “Mariska Hargitay” should be “strength through adversity.”

 Bad guys really do get the most girls

NICE guys knew it, now two studies have confirmed it:

to do so from the point  that we have no idea how to accomplish this.

http://www.thepresenceportal.com/Articles%205%20-%20No%20Archetypes%20For%20Intimate%20Relationships.htm

Love Guru Mike Myers Explains Why Mariska Hargitay Is The New Namasté

http://www.dailymantra.com/2008/05/love_guru_mike_myers_explains.html

Bad guys really do get the most girls

NICE guys knew it, now two studies have confirmed it:

Waiting for the Rapture
In the next several decades you’ll be able to upload your consciousness Then,  you will be able to go from mechanical body  to virtual paradise, you’ll never need to face death, illness, bad food, or poor cellphone reception.

A Course in Freedom
Lawrence Lanoff is a master energy tracker with more than thirty years of experience. He has distilled his energy tracking ability into learnable techniques.
He is holding a workshop June 28-29.Call Diana at 917-697-5812 to sign-up

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Steve’s Weekly Dish 85.0.

June 12th, 2008

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Secret Plan To Kill Internet By 2012 Leaked?

Some question if report that pay-per-view system to be introduced is a hoax, but wider march to regulate the web is documented

Religulous

Bill Maher on Religion, nuff said

Review: Swingtown

Catch it while you can
Facebook: No More Random Play

Is Facebook becoming net nanny?

How Our Sexuality Is Being Restricted One Bad Law at a Time

Sexuality is considered a public health menace, and many people want tough (albeit illegal) laws to battle the epidemic.

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Steve’s Weekly Dish 84.0

June 5th, 2008

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 The gods of greed

How the reckless speculation of a super-rich elite has left us all the poorer

 The Betrayal of Judas
Did a ‘dream team’ of biblical scholars mislead millions?

Will the Success of Sex and the City Force Hollywood to Stop Ignoring Women?
Maybe now Hollywood will stop only making movies geared at teen boys.

 Is sex necessary for reproduction?

They don’t really want to look too closely at who is using this technology and why. It might spoil the pretty, antiseptic picture they are painting.

Susan Blackmore on Memes and Temes

Susan Blackmore introduces   the ‘teme’: the technological meme. Technology, through temes, she argues, is now driving us forward, whether we like it or not.

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Steve’s Weekly Dish 83.0.

May 29th, 2008

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Michele Capozzi: Tour Guide to NYC’s Underground

Mondo Capozzi

Douglas Rushkoff Interview

Simple things you can do to keep the media from having quite as strong an impact on you without your consent.

The Birth of the Nuppie

High-end designers target nomadic urban professionals

Harrison Ford in Painful Save-the-Rainforest PSA

He makes a considerable personal sacrifice to get his message across.

Mind Control by Cell Phone

Electromagnetic signals from cell phones can change your brainwaves and behavior.

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Steve’s Weekly Dish 82.0.

May 22nd, 2008

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The Affairs of Men
The trouble with sex and marriage.

The Tantra of Tenderness
Why we need Tantra now

What’s ‘normal’ sex? Shrinks seek definition

Controversy erupts over creation of psychiatric rule book’s new edition
Burning Incense Is Psychoactive: New Class Of Antidepressants Might Be Right Under Our Noses

Space Euphoria: Do Our Brains Change When We Travel in Outer Space? 

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Steve’s Weekly Dish 81.0.

May 15th, 2008

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Sex Work, Trafficking: Understanding the Difference

Treating sex work as if it is the same as sex trafficking both ignores the realities of sex work and endangers those engaged in it.

 Swiss man soars above Alps with jet-powered wing
The real Rocketman

Sex & The City: The Column That First Revealed Candace Bushnell’s Plan To Conquer Universe, Evict The Smarts
The Real Carrie speaks

A bigger ego is the only way to truly create “A New Earth”…
Your ego is not big enough!

Riding Out the Credit Crisis” by Douglas Rushkoff 

Are we heading towards a bank collapse like what happened in 1929? Or something even worse?

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Steve’s Weekly Dish 80.0.

May 8th, 2008

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 Steve Jobs Stakes Out the TV Den

Apple is now after the remaining bit of life-share that it doesn’t already own, the home front.

Why Leisure Matters in a Busy World

We can all improve our quality of life by paying more attention to leisure habits.

Forbidden Messages in Famous Frescoes?
What Secrets Might Be Hidden in the Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Ceiling?

ARG as a new model for Rennes-le-Château phenomenon

Alternate Reality Game and the theories about the treasure of Bérenger Saunière

How social networks make money… listen up Facebook

The real opportunity is in harnessing the rich data that is created by those participating in conversations and interacting with each other.

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Steve’s Weekly Dish 79.0.

May 1st, 2008

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Nazi treasure, giant scorpions… and a crystal skull: The adventures of the REAL Indiana Jones
Just in time for the movie

Albert Hofmann Departs
Hofmann always maintained that LSD, and other psychedelic compounds, could be powerful allies if used correctly, despairing at the indiscriminate usage of the drug simply for ‘fun

Without Ceremony How I’ve managed to avoid getting married for forty years.

For an institution associated with a 50 percent failure rate and bad sex, marriage still has surprisingly many takers.

Deborah Jeane Palfrey: Another Casaulty of the War On Sex

How our sex-negative society deals with women who challenge our hypocritical sexual mores.

Squirting Videos Make Federal Prosecutor Mad as a Wet Hen

The feds want to make visible female excitement an obscenity.

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