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Am I a ‘privileged f*ck’? Yep, guilty as charged. (But guess what? So are you!) ~ Ben Ralston

Via Ben Ralston
on Aug 23, 2011
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I’m a therapist. I heal trauma. That’s what I do for a living.

I could tell you some tales that would, perhaps, chill you to the bone. Perhaps not though – we’ve all lived a little haven’t we? We all have our skeletons, our shadows, our stories.

I’m also a yoga teacher. I spent 12 years teaching yoga full time.

I worked for a year as a youth worker. The hardest, most challenging, rewarding, uplifting, depressing, worst paid job I’ve ever done.

And I’m a writer, and a long time ago, before I had a clue what I wanted to do (when all I knew was what I didn’t want to do) I was an actor. A pretty bad one. I embarrassed myself spectacularly many times.

If I had ever wanted to be rich; if money had ever been a motivating factor in my career choices… I would not have chosen any of the above paths.

And yet I’ve been called a

“money-grabbing charlatan”

(by people who don’t know me, but have read an article of mine online, and believe themselves to suddenly be in a position to discern who I am, and to pass judgment, publicly).

I’ve also been called:

“an arrogant ignoramus, an opportunistic charlatan” (by ‘Monique’). And a:

“Huge Douche… trying to capitalize off of others genuine need to feel better about themselves” (‘Tracy’).

‘Kim’ said that I:

“Cause psychic pain”, and “shame fragile and suggestible people, filling their minds with crap”.

She went on to say that I “use technology… with the entitled-ness and lack of awareness of an infant”

And she finished kindly educating me with these choice words:

“All you are is stigma in another form, dude”,

followed by:

“…a malignant narcissist bordering on a sociopath… you bilk people out of money, and capitalize on human suffering”.

(The above ‘quotes’ are comments in response to a single article that I originally published on Elephant Journal.)

Scary huh? It’s not like I wrote that I enjoy biting small children’s heads off whilst worshiping Satan and chopping down rainforests – I was writing about healing trauma!

In another article ‘Del’ said:

“You [Mr. Ralston] are a fool… it seems your head has become lodged in your ass.”

I could go on and on… these are just a few of the examples on offer. And I’m just one of many writers here at Ele Journal (and all over the internet) who get this kind of ridiculous ‘criticism’.

Notice a pattern to the above? Yep, they all have the courage to shout their (fairly vitriolic) opinions from the rooftops, but not enough courage to leave their names. Anonymous name-calling. Welcome to the era of intelligent high-speed communication.

Another article earned me the lovely moniker “privileged fuck” (yes, anonymously).

And you know what? Here’s the thing: ‘Fuck’ I understand. I get that – he wanted to insult me, right? And using swearwords to insult is usually a fairly safe bet. Like when someone says “I had your Mother last night”, often abbreviated simply to “Yo Mamma”. (Apparently a very high percentage of young adult males in the British prison system are there as a direct result of someone telling them those three simple syllables). Effective!

But what is insulting about being called privileged? I didn’t get it.

And then something pretty strange started happening. I started seeing the word ‘privileged’ being used as an insult all over the place.

Most notably, when Waylon Lewis (EJ’s editor in chief / owner / oh sod it, he IS EJ isn’t he?) reacted a little over-emotionally to an insinuation that he was racist. Suddenly people are popping up all over the place calling him ‘privileged’. Sometimes even, ‘a privileged white man’. Again, as an insult.

So here’s my point:

Waylon is privileged, so am I, and so are you. If you’re reading this on a monitor or a laptop, at home or in an internet café, you are privileged. You are privileged if you had something to eat today. You are privileged if you have clean drinking water.

If you are alive, you are privileged.

So we’re all ‘privileged fucks’, okay?

And if some people seem more privileged than you are, you know what? Great! Be happy for them. They probably earned it. And if they didn’t, so what? Privilege is something that we all crave, somehow or another. It’s certainly not an insult!

Oh, and while I’m at it…

Those of you who (anonymously) hate on the internet – there are better ways to spend your time than reading the blogs of the people you hate and compulsively attacking each and every one of their comments with ‘thumbs down’. (Whatever it is that you think about that person, you’re wrong.)

Does this deserve even a single 'thumb down'? Let alone 6?! Or do people use the thumbs as a way of trying to hurt people they 'hate'?

Really. It’s a waste of your precious, precious time. Take a deep breath, leave the computer. Go smell some flowers, or look up at the sky for a while, or sing a song. Failing all else, study and memorize this flow chart with the aim of decreasing your ‘dick rating’, slowly, one day at a time:

Sheer comic genius:

On the other hand, if you like something… spread the love! Share, ‘like’, Tweet, Stumble it, and most importantly, leave a comment – nicely ;)

About Ben Ralston

Ben Ralston is a therapist, healer, advanced Sivananda Yoga teacher, and writer. His writings have been read by millions of people and can be found on Elephant Journal, Rebelle Society, and various other portals online. He has been teaching Yoga for 16 years in hotels, ashrams, beaches, gyms and rooftops worldwide. And he runs a busy international therapeutic practice from his home in rural Croatia. Offering sessions in person or via Skype, his therapeutic work is based on healing trauma, and the tools he uses for this are varied – mainly RPT, Shamanism, and energy work. He has also developed some of his own methods, particularly in the area of abuse trauma; ‘resource state’ awareness; and boundary reconstruction. He regularly runs retreats combining Yoga and other energetic exercises with his therapy. He would love nothing more than to see you on one of these retreats, since he believes that this approach to personal development is really the only effective way of bringing love and peace to global human society. Connect with Ben on Facebook. Read more of his writing on his new website with integrated blog! Yes, he's excited about that :)

71 Responses to “Am I a ‘privileged f*ck’? Yep, guilty as charged. (But guess what? So are you!) ~ Ben Ralston”

  1. Well said, Ben! Love the 'dickfinity' symbol at the end of the illustration. And to all who leave anonymous negative and/or hateful commentary: what motivates you?

  2. DaveTelf says:

    my penis is offended by the above flow-chart. he's an upstanding citizen who hardly deserves to serve as the measure for how pathetic people choose to be. he has to deal with enough internet-centric shame as it is; can't we just leave him be? (A: No.)

  3. Thanks for sharing this, Ben. I’ve felt very disturbed and disheartened by the recent firestorm here on Elephant Journal and other blogs. I’d heard it went on. But I suppose in the past, because it’s never been a personal friend, I’ve just chosen not to read it.

    Thus far I’ve chosen not to comment on any of the posts, because i felt that any additional comments would just add fuel to the fire. The only reason I’m choosing to comment here is you seem to be taking the conversation away from the said parties and to larger issues– Why can we not communicate honestly, respectfully and with dignity online?

    I read the conversations very closely, and you’re right… it was vitriolic. Hateful. Angry and fear-based. The group mentality in the comments section struck me as mob-like, as anytime someone voiced dissent the larger group rallied back with even stronger derisiveness. Ironically, many of the commenters pointed out that they experienced the same type of environment when they themselves were dissenters here at Elephant Journal. I imagine that probably true, and it makes me sad to see that many of the (probably hurt) commenters seem to be fighting fire with fire.

    I feel like one person was made a straw man, was forced to bear the brunt of many peoples’ projections. Sure, he was disrespectful. Sure he made some insensitive gestures out of anger and fear himself. But really, there are greater travesties being committed in the world than an editor responding to a comment that offended him in a reactive, derisive way. That’s not to minimize the inappropriateness of his actions, nor undercut the experience of those whose feelings were hurt as a result. But, please, let’s not forget that we’re all human beings. “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” is a line that comes to mind. Apologies were made, only to be met with ridicule. Who cares if you think they’re genuine or not, leave the poor guy alone.

    In my opinion, this whole shebang was blown way out of proportion, but it highlights a very significant question we need to be asking ourselves in the online community. How do we engage with people we disagree w/ with respect and compassion?

    For me, it starts with turning the spotlight on myself. Will the words I’m about to utter (or type) contribute to more peace or create more violence in this world? Will my words build connections or divide us further? Am I about to speak words the ‘other’ can hear, or do I need to convey my message in silence?

    With the utmost respect to all involved,

    • Ben_Ralston says:

      Hi Chelsea,
      yes, thanks for pointing out the whole mob mentality aspect of it. That's something I've noticed too, a lot.

      You say that it all begins within, and of course, that's true to a degree. But… you would't, and didn't, create anything like this. Neither did Waylon, neither did I. Sure, I've made mistakes such as the one Way has admitted to making – slightly over-reacting to something. Being a bit too emotional, sarcastic, etc. But that's very different from using vitriol in a derisive, unforgiving, and violent manner. Especially when it becomes mob-like.

      So it does begin with us, but on the other hand, when people are behaving like that, what can we do? I think the answer is… nothing. Except point them in the direction of that flow chart and just have a laugh about it amongst ourselves, which is why I wrote the above.

      I've been hurt in the past (by some of the quotes above too)… now I decided that the internet is full of sad, angry, afraid, lonely people, and if they want to vent – that's ok. And if they want to follow me around voting me thumbs down – that's ok too. A bit sad, but maybe it's what they need. Somehow?

    • I love Chelsea Roff and everything she writes. Period.

  4. missbernklau says:

    HAHAHA Some more EJ gold from Ben Ralston! Thanks, Ben, well said 🙂

    • Ben_Ralston says:

      I'm glad you get my humor Miss B.

      • elephantjournal says:

        Thanks for having the guts, Ben, to comment on the recent vitriol toward myself and, as Chelsea Roff said above, to take the "conversation" of recent days into a constructive "we all have something to learn" zone that has nothing to do with me and my countless faults, and more to do with the community and culture we're all living in and trying to create.

        I know I reacted emotionally and defiantly to the notion that I was passing on something analogous somehow to good ol'boys' racist humor…I reacted so strongly, I'd remind my detractors, because I've devoted myself to the opposite of racism all my life. I had a great momma and want to create community, not prejudice.

        I am disappointed, a bit, at how few friends and colleagues stood up for me or any sort of perspective. But I get that the few who did, like Jessica, were shouted down by those, ironically, who complained they'd been shouted down. As Ginsberg said, "Aggression creates aggression." I take full responsibility for starting the wheel of samsara spinning, in this case…by reacting defensively and offensively to Chelsea loves Yoga's original concerns about the Funny or Die video. But, though it'd be easier, I'm not sure I or others should stop sharing humor (whether it's funny to all, or not), or other videos or issues that are edgy or dangerous. I'll just remember that with controversy, tough questions, we and I as editor need to bring a greater degree of gentleness and sensitivity to such issues.

        My world is smaller, now. Now it's not wide and open—it's dotted by those, like Linda and Bill, who love to hate me no matter what. That's sad. I messaged the four or five bloggers in this recent pile-on directly, with no responses and no resolution. I guess it's called growing up.

        An observation: this is how politicians become what we criticize. This is why they learn to play it safe and not respond genuinely and stay away from controversy and give vague answers and answer the question they want to answer, not the question they're asked. If I, a random jerk with a mid-sized blog, can run into this sort of demonizing, just imagine those who are actually in the thick of it, and powerful…what they must face each day. That's why more good folks don't go into public service, or when they do quickly learn to safe themselves up and dumb themselves down.

        Can we change this culture? That's what elephant is here for: to share the good news about living a mindful life—one that's good for others, and our planet.

        As with all things, creating understanding begins by talking with true friends who'll help guide us, genuinely feeling our hearts, going for a walk and letting the sun and sky and fresh air take us outside of our whirling story lines, and meditating and doing whatever practice helps us to wake up to compassion and the present moment. I, for one, will continue to work on it.

        • elephantjournal says:

          FROM FB:

 Thanks for this, Ben. As we get bigger, our rough edges continue to elicit helpful criticism…and, occasionally, hatred that enjoys itself. ~ W.
          50 minutes ago · LikeUnlike
          Sandi Strong Interesting and thought provoking. I had never thought of the word "privileged" being use as an insult, but more as a reminder to understand the context and worldview from where we are coming from. – I'll have to pay more attention to how it's being used. – Also, we cannot really ask the "other" to laugh at themselves when we are the one telling the joke as the "other", especially if we ARE the "privileged" one in relation to the "other" we are sharing the joke about. — I come from what I lovingly call a "hick" background, but since being out of that area and away from my "people" for 20 some years, I can no longer claim to be an insider, and thus my "hick" or "redneck" jokes are now offensive to those who used to be my "people". I cannot tell them to just laugh at themselves since I am no longer one of them from their perspective. – A great starting point on the subject is "Privilege, Power, and Difference". – As a white, straight woman, I am afforded, by birth, a level of "privilege" that only a white, straight male can top in most of our world today. It is not my place to tell anyone who is not white and straight to "lighten up" and laugh at my jokes about not being white or straight. – And I am not using "privilege" as an insult, but as a systemic fact that affords me things others do not get to experience purely by the lottery of birth. (This is not an "I am better than" fact. This is a "the world is not yet equal" fact. – How incredible the day when this "fact" is no longer true and gender, race, skin color, nationality, sexual identity, or who your parents are no longer what brings privilege. Until then, an academic understanding of the word is important.
          43 minutes ago · LikeUnlike
 Humor is humor. Not everyone finds it funny, or should. Having a constructive dialogue around edgy humor—often the best kind of humor—it partly what we're here for. We and you can't please everyone, all the time. But we can become more and more sensitive, I hope, without playing it safe and becoming afraid to laugh at ourselves. Again, from my upbringing, full of tolerance and love, I don't think about color. I think about people being human, and judge them based on their character—but do not prejudge them.

          In this case, however, I understand that I have inherited privilege—though I was poor, Buddhist, half-Jewish…in some ways not the straight white male I've been caricatured as—still, there's a blindness to my worldview, a lack of appreciation for others' understandable lack of humor about our painful past and present as a nation and as a people. ~ Waylon

        • Ben_Ralston says:

          Two reasons I didn't weigh in on the whole thing earlier to off more support to you Way:
          I felt a bit guilty / responsible for my "embarrassed to be a yoga teacher" line on FB (btw – I didn't know about the video… thought it was all just about the map. Can see how the video could be deemed offensive more than map, though I still think it's all a bit self-righteous and unnecessarily PC)
          And, I didn't want to add fuel to the fire. I've learnt by now to just let the 'haters' get on with their hating, and not get sucked in.
          Anyway, I felt bad for the flak you were getting. You didn't deserve it; it was over the top, and vitriolic, and… you know. Let it go. You're successful. It's been said that until you start pissing people off, you're not getting anything done – true that.

  5. kurlykim says:

    Loving it!
    I of course, am not the Kim that abused you – although we have had some interesting exchanges! Keep on keeping on Ben…Hari Om 🙂

  6. Funny stuff, Ben. No matter how bad an actor you claim to have been, I think you might need to take this show on the road 🙂 The chart is of the chain.

  7. Ha, I totally relate to this.

  8. holy trolly says:

    what is anonymous? the non-anonymous is just a version of who we think is appropriate for the given audience. maybe ben ralson is an exception, fully open and there 100% himself, home address on his profile etc, but most people are frightened with good reason to expose themselves, as their opinions and positions will be held against them forever (aka one week on the internet) by co-workers, family and internet “friends”. if a comment relies not on an argued point but instead on the expertise of the poster, who cant even provide a link to support their argument, its an iffy point at best.

    trolling is a wonderful and beautiful thing, showing us our horriblity always hidden at the surface, and we are all trolls in one way or another, pushing our agendas for the sake of legitimizing them, just not everyone gets paid for it. so its ok to talk to trolls if you want to take the effort, just be nice, ask for specifics and express concern for their well being. its pretty funny to get people so pissed they become introspective, but cultivating this humor takes some time and effort- we write for ourselves after all.

    • elephantjournal says:

      I think that if you or I are criticizing someone we don't know, we could take responsibility for doing so and be willing to own our own words. If I'd criticized Chelsea loves Yoga criticism of myself and done so anonymously, I'd be justifiably called a mean coward, or internet troll. Instead, I put my neck on the line, and deservedly (due to my emotional reaction) got to enjoy watching it get cut off by a rusty, gleeful saw. ~ Waylon

  9. chiaraghiron says:

    Hi Ben

    I went back and read through this and the previous conversation on RPT and this had several effects
    1. made me interested in the RPT stuff, will look more into it as it sounds potentially very good although I must say (also from looking into the website which I admittedly have done too rapidly so far) that some of the phrasing used feels a bit 'weasely' in the sense that it claims science without really giving peer-reviewed references. I am a bit over-suspicious as I come from a scientific background, was brainwashed into compulsory reference-finding but as I said I need to study more on this before drawing conclusions
    2. made me think about the aggressiveness we see going on, and made me wonder whether this is partly (subconsciously) elicited by the blogging practice itself, I mean, if we elect to share our thoughts with unknown people we certainly must be prepared to meet the nice and the ugly and confront consequences  and partly a consequence of this now so popular method of instant communication, with its many positive and also many negative consequences. As the Latins said, verba volant, scripta manent, words pass, writings stay and unfortunately we are getting used to writing too much in the same tone as we speak. Which of course does not justify the rudeness that people seem to show. I myself used some poor sarcasm in the now infamous EJ/Waylon incident (accident? somebody actually got hurt in fact) and I regret it now. But I learnt, and as was told off I am signing with namesurname now, so I will be fully traceable for all my rantings
    3. made me curious to find out more about EJ. I started to read it from a post in one of my LinkedIn groups, got pretty. pissed off when I found I had to pay to read it, decided to invest 12 bucks in it and I am now totally puzzled. As many before me have commented, I came to it with a hope to find some enlightened/educated readings (and you will be pleased to know that your posts fall in this category) but was disturbed (big word I know, a bit exagerated perhaps) to also find not so funny posts (the by now infamous video + worldmap), a strange understanding of yoga (the recent bikram is better than ashtanga debate), praise of questionable companies (american apparel, its adverts and its management) and most of all the comments posted almost everywhere, with people bashing at each other with a vehemence I had not seen in years. And certainly not expected…

    I am not sure whether this rant actually addressed your question, but  I feel it sort of did, at least I hope…. bottom line, I agree that many people commenting on EJ seem to privileged enough to have the time to design and post hurtful comments, maybe from their tablets sitting in a coffee shop sipping some green tea.

    • elephantjournal says:

      Our local neighborhood paper has a farrrr more virulent comment section. In my experience, I would say that, overall, we manage to host a fair amount of debate and different ways of looking at the world (ie American Apparel's noxious boss vs. fair-trade/organic fashion) and politics and yoga debates…without folks getting personal. It's part of our mission. We have no staff, little dough, and are reader-created. If you see a view not represented, join in and write, if you like. If you don't like to contribute, that's fine–we can't pay, as some of the commenters have pointed out. But the invitation is open.

      Again: we're about personal stories, respectful debate, and apologizing when we fail (yours truly), not agreeing with one another, being safe and PC, or belonging to some sort of club where we're all on the same page. There's not enough respect among diverse povs, these days, and it's our mission to find that middle path between yes-menism and objectifying others as "bad" because they see things differently, sometimes very differently.

    • Ben_Ralston says:

      Hi Chiara (that's a beautiful name by the way – where does it originate?)
      1. RPT is amazing. Trust me on this… it is based on science, but loosely. It is an intuitive process… and the science is used intuitively. Specifically, epigenetics, and the research of Grant McFetridge (Peak States work). All I can tell you is: with RPT you can release trauma very, very quickly, and it's permanent.
      2. Yep. But i think that the internet makes people feel like they're in a community, they get comfortable, and at the same time it's easy for people's buttons to be pushed… AND they can vent anonymously. Bad cocktail…
      3. EJ is what it is. It is full of a wide mix of things, and it's very much reader oriented. Also, and I like this very much – comments are almost always un-moderated. We remove stuff that is really hateful, but the aim is healthy, intelligent debate. I prefer to read stuff that I don't agree with from time to time, and learn from it. So there's a find line, and it gets crossed all the time.
      Thanks for your comment.

  10. yogi tobye says:

    No'wt as strange as folk Ben!

  11. monkeywithglasses says:

    Simply. Fabulous. Keep up the good work and don't let the haters get you down.

  12. Susan Seiler says:

    Well said. Loved the flow chart. Keep writing.

  13. Nousha says:

    Nicely said!
    I'm so glad that you are so privileged to write in this blog and I am so privileged to read it.
    This world is full of angry people,may they find their way out it.

  14. Sara Young says:

    I get a lot of hate email. You know what I do? I feel sorry for them. That fixes em good!

  15. Andréa Balt says:

    Ben, after all the dickery is sorted through, all that’s left is awesomeness. When people either hate you or love you, you know you’re on to something good. I haven’t read many of your articles but those I have were nothing short of eye-openers. I’m sure that for each hater, there are at least 10 or more privileged fucks who appreciate your words. I’m one of them.

    Chart = genius.

  16. Manda says:

    I rarely comment (here or anywhere) but I felt that this time I should. Ben, I read your articles with pleasure. I find most all that you write to be well worth my time, and thought provoking. Sometimes I even cross-post them! 😉 Just wanted to let you know that at least one more person out there in internet-land finds what you do to be very well worth it! So, thanks!

    Also, love that flowchart. I saw it somewhere a few days ago and forwarded it to my facebook wall… there are a few people I know who should have it tacked on the wall beside their computer I think. 😉

  17. elaine says:

    So funny!

    I ran across this piece on privilege when I was following another internet blow up that actually made some headlines. Pretty good little story. We easily recognize when others have privilege. Not so much when we do.

  18. Tanya Lee Markul says:

    Just posted to "Featured Today" on the Elephant Yoga homepage.

  19. Tanya Lee Markul says:

    I love this article Ben as I've read everything you have posted and sometimes I really cannot understand the negativity, especially because of the positive messages you are sending out and also because this is Elephant Journal, know what I mean?! it's so strange! But perhaps they came to the right place if healing and compassion is what they need. 🙂

    And, I really love all of the responses above. Thank you so much for being here.

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  20. Laura says:

    I love your articles, Ben – look for 'em, in fact. Keep rockin' and let the haters hate. m/

    • Laura says:

      that was supposed to be a ' m/ '

      • Ben_Ralston says:

        Thank you Laura, I'm privileged 🙂
        and by the way – what is a m/ ?

        To my tired eyes right now it looks like a very elegant mathematical equation…

        • Laura says:

          lol – it was "supposed" to be the heavy metal "horns" but apparently this blog is averse to the left-slanted line. It showed up in the text box but did not translate over to the thread properly. Oh well. Rock on anyway. 😉

  21. Nooshi says:

    Hahaha, dickfinity- freakin classic!

    Personally, I happen to enjoy your articles. I find them to be insightful, humorous, and REAL. Thank you for that.

    I think that some people are just miserable, and want nothing more than to spread their misery far and wide. And what more efficient way than to do it electronically…and anonymously? It’s way easier to be negative and fuck up someone’s day without any real repercussions.

    Keep doing what you do, man. You are appreciated. Namaste.

  22. LAFinfinger says:

    LOVE and thank you for this.

  23. Ben, this is a phenoenal article. Thanks for writing it.

  24. Shay says:

    You are …. so refreshing!!

    Shay Jones

    • Ben_Ralston says:

      That's the first time I've ever been called refreshing. I like it. Especially because, with a 9 month baby who hasn't yet discovered the joys of sleeeeeep, I feel about as far from refreshed or refreshing as can be – Cheers Shay!

  25. I really like this post Ben! It amazes me how much time people spend insulting others on the internet. Other than elephant, I usually choose not to read the comments on most articles on the internet because there is so much negativity and so little insight. I wish your flowchart could be incorporated into pop-up screens to question people before they post insulting comments. Also, your post reminded me of a piece by Mark Morford (San Francisco Chronicle columnist), "Why are you so terribly disappointing?" See:

  26. Joe Sparks says:

    Ben, I enjoy your writing, do not stop. Your perspective and point of view is valuable and worth reading. However, I am not at all surprized on the negative comments people make, it is unfortuante, but telling how much we all have been put down and attacked for our thinking. Our culture is saturated with it. We grow up being humiliated and embarrassed for our thinking from day one. People are hurting, and our showing you where they got hurt as an attempt to get unaware attention on it. We all need hundreds of hours of loving attention in our direction. We all have hateful feelings, but most of us internalize them, except for the few who will post them as comments. We work so hard not to spill our hateful feelings on others and then get triggered / upset when others who have patterns that act them out. We all our vulnerable to being hurt, but need to focus and put our attention on people who value and appreciate us.

  27. Well, now I MUST go read that first article!

    Witty and thoughtfully written post, and I do love the message. To insult me for my privilege (as a white person, a middle-class person, an educated person, etc.) says so little. It's obviously designed to make us feel badly about ourselves, but it's like insulting someone for having brown hair or being tall. Not only is it ridiculous and ignorantly obvious, but it says more about the insulter than the insultee.

  28. Tanya Lee Markul says:

    Just posted to "Popular Lately" on the Elephant Yoga homepage.

  29. I would also like to add, if I may, that I have penis flow chart envy.

  30. Right F*cking On! Namaste, Bro!

  31. Mat witts says:

    I think there is something yo are not seeing Ben, or if you are, then you do not deserve much sympathy. the vocabulary and tone of your posts inflames. The imperatives at EJ are to catch the eye, (it is an advertising model after all). So there is a type of collusion that goes on between editors and writers that makes people over-respond. You cannot wave a flag and say- hey look at me, I am over here, and the tell people to fuck off if they don't agree with your views. It is a bit childish when yo take up a whole page with your shit and EJ only gives people tiny little boxes to try and keep things straight from their POV. It is a broken format and writing about therapy in such a heated way probably opens as many wounds for people as it does heal them for others. Take the hint, if people are getting wound up by your writing, it is YOUR problem as much as it is theirs, this would be a more responsible attitude. Suck it up and continue writing, but don't complain about your audience, it just comes across as a tantrum. The people that post anon Do so because they do not want to associate themselves with the feelings they are having, this is normal defence mechanism type and – calling yourself a therapist you should perhaps know that?

    • Ben_Ralston says:

      Hilarious. Did you even read the article Mat? Or just doing your usual Holier Than Thou routine? Read and memorize the flow chart. That's all I can really tell you…

      • Mat Witts says:

        Thanks for the tip – I ALWAYS listen to what you have to say Ben because one day I am sure you will say something important and I don't want to miss it – but since the flowchart isn't your work I didn't give it as much time as your own scintillating pop social psychology – so sorry for that. Maybe you would do me the same favour sometime too – you know – actually – read what I am saying because as far as "routines" go I think the your "unholier than thou" attitude is just as disingenuous as my "holier than thou" program you are pointing your finger at here ? – God Bless You – this has made my day bro' – a therapist escalating a simple communication / misunderstanding problem on a rather naff public facility for something more substantial and sinister is delicious.

  32. Jen says:

    Hi Ben,

    Your posts are frequently thought-provoking and not because I agree with you, I frequently don't, but because you pose questions and share sentiments that force me to consider my own attitudes. That is valuable dialogue and I appreciate it.

    As for being privileged, being offended is an opportunity to re-asses how you may or may not be enacting all of the various "isms" of the world. We all have our own set of privileges and disadvantages.

    • Ben_Ralston says:

      Hey Jen,
      I'm really glad you enjoy my posts despite frequently not agreeing with me. Now that I think about it, that's a great compliment. You keep reading and I'll keep writing, and please feel free to disagree with me in a comment or two – as much as I love being told how great I am (haha) I also love being opposed. I need to question my own attitudes too.

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  36. Jessica says:

    Ben, thank you for having the guts to be in the arena to fight the good fight. People who feel called to heal, are sensitives who consciously take off their armor for the sake of others. The harsh critics are those who are numb from building walls around their hearts and wounds. So yes, it helps to have compassion for them. I think its much harder for the unarmored feeler types (vs armored thinker types) to have virtual tomatoes thrown at them. That’s why most of us choose to stay behind the scenes (fear of getting wounded by the critics) so Kudos to you. We preach peace but that doesn’t mean we should endure verbal abuse. I think you are setting healthy virtual boundaries and that’s necessary when you are putting yourself out there. Don’t hold yourself to superhuman standards either. Words don’t always convey our intentions but that’s ok because the people who follow you know your heart and only their opinions should carry cred. I recommend not even reading the harsh critics comments so you don’t absorb their yucky energy. Keep writing imperfectly valuable stuff knowing that you have tribe that will extract the good stuff and be fed by it! Blessings!

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Is the Gita Asking Us to Repress Our Emotions? (Gita Talk 10)

Via Bob Weisenberg
on Oct 25, 2011
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We will be discussing some overall themes of the Gita.
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At times the Gita seems to be telling us to repress all our ordinary human emotions.  Is this what the Gita is asking us to do?  Here is a wonderful conversation from the original Gita Talk that deals directly with this question:

I so can relate w/Michele, when you say “you have no cause to grieve for any being…” that just got to me, I had to read chapter two a few times and then I was ready to bag the whole book. I kept thinking how can I turn off my emotions so easily.

Dear freesoul. I’m so glad you hit us squarely with this issue: “Is the Gita telling us to turn off all our emotions, to live without passion?”, because I’m sure this is on the minds of many readers. It certainly was on mine the first time I read it.

I believe I can give you an answer that is crystal clear, profound, and readily usable in everyday life. But you be the judge.

The Gita does not, as whole, endorse emotional repression, even though it seems to be doing exactly that here. What the Gita asks us to do is be our human selves completely, feel deeply all our human emotions, but develop the ability to step outside ourselves and calmly witness those emotions in a completely non-judgmental way.

Even though the text right here seems to say otherwise, the situation itself supports this idea. Think about it. Krishna is urging Arjuna to fight a battle to the best of his abilities. Does Krishna think Arjuna can can fight his battle (just make that a metaphor for whatever challenges we face in life) without emotion and passion?

No, of course not. Even though the text isn’t clear on this, the situation is. Krishna is telling Arjuna to fight his battle with all this usual passion, but to be able, at the same time, to rise above it and objectively see that he is also a part of the infinite, unfathomable, wondrous universe, where these emotions hold no sway.

Tell me if this makes sense. And I hope other people will jump into this vital discussion as well. Your question really does go to the heart of the Gita.

Thanks for the great discussion, everyone. I always reject 2.57 and sentiments like it. “who neither grieves or rejoices if good or bad things happen’. It conjures up images of Stepford wives, mothers, friends….. fill in the blank. For me, I prefer – grieve for a moment, rejoice for a moment, then accept it and move on.

Lucky for me “on this path no effort is wasted.. ” (2.40). There is hope, yet.

Agree, Vanita. In the next chapter you’ll read the seemingly contradictory line:

All beings follow their nature.
What good can repression do? (3.33)

2.57 is actually part of a larger idea in Yoga philosophy called “Witness” Consciousness (what I describe above), which means simply the ability to step outside ourselves and watch our emotions non-judgmentally.

But that’s not described fully in 2.57. Obviously the whole idea of being a witness assumes there is something to witness, i.e. that we are still feeling all our human emotions. In 2.57 we have only the witness with no mention of the witnessed! That’s why I put an “E” for “Explain” next to this item in my list.

Does this make sense? Please ask follow-up questions.

i understand your feelings that this can be read as “just feel nothing” but i think Krishna is telling us to not let grief or joy overwhelm us to the point where we forget who we really are. Krishna’s dialogue is continually reminding Arjuna who he is, that he is not only Arjuna but part of the whole universe, this it what i think we can forget so easily when we get caught up in joy grief, pain pleasure etc.

John Morrison:
Yes, when one watches their emotions without judging – this is freedom. We can have emotions but engage them with equanimity. We are no longer swept along like a stick in a raging torrent, completely at the mercy of our own discursive thoughts and emotions. Instead we are a boulder within the river, watching the emotions pass around us. The boulder is not emotionless – it is effected by emotions – but it is not at their mercy….

This pivotal Yoga idea of “Witness Consciousness” is fully developed in Chapter 13 of the Gita. Here are some highlights:

This Body is called the field,
Arjuna; the one who watches
whatever happens within it—
wise men call him the Knower.

I am the Knower of the field
in every body, Arjuna;
genuine knowledge means knowing
both the field and its Knower. (BG 13.0-2)

It is called the witness, the consenter,
the sustainer, the enjoyer, the great Lord,
and also the highest Self,
the supreme Person in this body. (BG 13.22)

By meditation, some men
can see the Self in the self;
others, by the yoga of knowledge;
others, by selfless action.

Still others, not seeing, only
hear about it and worship;
they too cross beyond death,
trusting in what they have heard.   (BG 13.24-25)

Just as the sun by itself
illumines the entire world,
so the field owner illumines
everything in the field.   (BG 13.33)

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  1. Tanya Lee Markul says:

    Love this. Great discussions!!

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  2. victoria says:

    I like the metaphor of field & knower because a field is visible only when seen from above (otherwise one is among grass or whatever.) The higher one’s point of view, the more one can see of a field. The knower reminds me of a wise bird flying over a field. Interesting to read someone else thinking of a horse running through it.

    I can see myself as both a field and a bird. Better stop writing before I get stranger!

  3. Victoria says:

    For the sake of clarity in the bird metaphor: Both have clear view of field. The higher the point of view = greater detachment.

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3 Ways to “Win” an Argument with Your Husband.

Via Shasta Townsend
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Hint: It’s not what you think.

The impulse was to throw the TV remote at his head and tell him what a total asshole he was by watching hockey and cutting me off with six simple words: “I don’t want to fight, Shasta.”

These I interpreted as “I don’t want to be present to you so please go away. You are interrupting something actually important here.” So I did go away. I grabbed my purse, marched down the hall and slammed the door as I stomped into the driveway and backed my car out so fast my neighbors would think I was on a get away mission. And I guess I was.

We argue rarely so maybe that is partly why it seems awful when we do.

This time we weren’t really arguing as much as having a moment when we were both triggered or in “script.” The details of it I will not bore you with, but needless to say it was a moment when my husband and I were interpreting an event through the narrative of our own old story. And of course each of our individual old stories began to push against the other person’s. Those old worries, wounds and wants, often in place since or because of childhood were just getting ramped up by the other person’s worries, wounds and wants. So it was best to leave.

We all have stuff to some degree, and our lover can be a great tool to help expose, heal and release that stuff as long as we are willing to take responsibility for what arises. For example, I know I have a trigger around being ignored and I like to resolve conflict sooner than later. When my husband says, “I don’t want to fight” and goes back to watching hockey, all that stuff arises in me. But I also know my husband needs time to cool down, to be with things and to reflect on how he wants to respond. Though in the moment it drives me a little crazy, I know leaving him alone is the best action on my part, even if I don’t always leave it be in a graceful manner.

So how do you “win” an argument with your husband if he won’t even talk to you?

The next day after we had time to chill out and have some perspective, we did talk and a deeper level of trust, intimacy and connection came out of it. Arguments can either destroy your relationship or be the contrast that helps you gain clarity through kindness, compassion and allowing. Winning an argument therefore can mean you both move forward together feeling stronger, more loved and more understood.

The old paradigm of “winning” by triumphing over another is clearly not working and not conducive to a long-term loving, collaborative and supportive relationship. It is a great way to create bitterness, resentment and tension. So the new powerful model of “winning” an argument and therefore creating a winning relationship is:

1. Be right or be happy.

Yes, it feels good to feel right. There was a part of me that wanted to tell my husband what a jerk he was and feel right about my view or actions. Perhaps it is that part that seeks vindication or even vengeance but I know that part is a voice of pain. Rather than feed that voice I chose to let it be and be happy rather than right. This means I had to not look for ways to make him wrong. I allow him his actions, views and response knowing that all is right and then I had to look for love.

2. Look for love, diffuse the anger.

It is simple but powerful. When you are angry with someone, all you can see are the things you don’t like and you keep rehashing all the stupid things he said to confirm in your mind that he is an asshole. If you want to actually be with this asshole, then you can allow the anger but seek the love. For me, I take a deep breath and call on the feeling of appreciation. I look for something to remember about him and our life that I love. Remember all the times he brings you flowers. Remember how you love the look in his eyes when he smiles. Remember how wonderful it is to feel his arms around you. Remember that he is a man who probably is trying his best and who loves you when you are an asshole too.

3. Be the powerful feminine.

Let’s just admit it—there is a voice of rage that can arise in women when we are confronted by strong masculine energy. It is the voice of millions of women who have been abused, killed or denied over the millennia and it is our own voice of victimhood as women. I notice in myself that when I have an argument with my husband there is a voice that says, “You can’t talk to me this way. Who the f—k do you think you are? No man is allowed to say that to me.” I know where this comes from and I know at one level it has helped me in my life but I also know my husband does not want to hurt me and in fact is one of the biggest feminists on the planet. I also know the time of love and holism is here and that means as a woman I can allow strong masculine energy but also be strong feminine energy. Strong feminine energy is fierce love, deep compassion and the revelation of truth.

What does that look like? I saw my husband as this beautiful man whom I loved deeply, with his own story of pain playing out in some unconscious way just as mine was. I loved him fiercely in spite of it and because of it. I looked into his eyes and reflected compassion and empathy rather than judgment or resentment.  I revealed to him clearly and lovingly what I was asking for and what I was willing to take responsibility for, which opened up the door for him to do the same. Within 10 minutes our night-long argument was complete and we both came away with a greater understanding of the other person and a feeling of renewed love.

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Best-selling author, award winning teacher and down-to-earth Canadian girl, Shasta Townsend helps women and men reconnect to their wholeness, release blocks to their happiness and reclaim magic so they can live a wonderful life, no matter what! Shasta is passionate about the how-to of creating good relationship—the relationship to our Self, to each other and to the Earth. She is a feisty champion of “unbroken wholeness”—that is the current of love, goodness and creativity that supports us always, and is adept at integrating various disciplines so we may tap into this current with power and ease. Shasta is your feisty champion as she helps to strip away the old stories and reveal your authentic radiance as you unabashedly create the next big, beautiful chapter of your life. Shasta shares her passion for living well as a Featured Columnist at Elephant Journal, The Good Men Project, Rebelle Society and Vivid Life. Shasta leads retreats, workshops and talks around the world. She lives in Canada with her husband, cat and creative impulse. Her debut book, Happy, Sexy, Shameless – What Our Mother’s Didn’t Know About the Birds and the Bees is an international best seller and is available through amazon.com and all amazon platforms world-wide. Connect with Shasta on Facebook or on Twitter @shastaherself.

3 Responses to “3 Ways to “Win” an Argument with Your Husband.”

  1. Trish says:

    Beautiful and so important to be able to show up to these difficult situations. I always admire that you tell the truth about your experience. We all have arguments with our partners — even us yoga teachers! What's important is how we handle the situation.

  2. Judy says:

    Very good advice! Thank you for writing!

  3. Shasta says:

    Thank you ladies:) Sending you lots of love. -Shasta

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“Cycling really is the best way to see the world, you’re going slow enough to enjoy all the beauty, you have the wind in your hair, fresh air to breathe, ahh, life is good!”

I finally get to say these words on a Travel Channel show and I couldn’t be more excited to bring the joys of cycle touring to a large audience. Before today, my bike touring videos were only seen by a relatively small audience on my YouTube Channel.

After years of pitching bicycle touring shows to the big networks, Travel Channel finally gave me the green light and Cali’s Wine Country by Bike series is now live on Prior to this, I always got the same depressing message, bike touring is too niche and wouldn’t appeal to a broad audience.

I, however, know from personal experience that bicycle touring is a very exciting way to see the world, even if you’re only moving at about 15mph. I felt that this unique and green form of travel needed to be seen by the masses and I didn’t let the constant rejections from networks stop me. I came up with a way to make the journey not focus only on bikes and I mixed in something everyone loves, wine! I proposed an exciting itinerary through Sonoma and Napa, highlighting all the ma and pa wineries and before I knew it, I was pedaling through Northern California working on my dream project.

The five part web series highlights the natural beauty of the area including a quick jaunt through the giant Redwoods, a spin up Highway One on the Pacific Ocean and endless views of fairytale vineyards. I was lucky enough to hire my good friend and amazing videographer Skip Armstrong and together we rode about 40 miles a day to different destinations. We hauled all our own gear (cameras, tripods, computers) and a few bottles of wine.

In each episode we show off the incredible scenery, visit a vineyard or two, and talk about the organic and sustainable initiatives of each winery.

It’s the first bicycle touring travel show produced by a major network and I’m proud of Travel Channel for taking a chance on something that’s not babes on a beach or a bald dude chowing scorpions on the streets of China. The show is genuine, fun loving, visually stunning and most importantly, it shows off a side of wine country that can’t be seen in a car.

My main goal is for viewers to be inspired by this series and hopefully bust that bicycle out of the garage and go for a spin.

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Kim Kardashian Is Not Sure If She's a Feminist

But she definitely knows how she feels about labels.

On Tuesday night, during the San Francisco stop on her Selfish press tour (which was a conversation with retired judge and the first African American woman appointed to the Superior Court in northern California, LaDoris Cordell), Kim Kardashian had this to say about being a feminist: "I guess people would call me a feminist...I believe in doing what makes you feel comfortable. I don't like to label myself." The remark clearly reveals her feelings about labels...and not so clearly explains how she feels about THE F WORD. Because even though it sounds like she's saying don't call me a feminist, please, she told Rolling Stone in their newest cover story, yeahhh, you could probably call her a feminist. Actually, not even probably—yes, you would call Kim Kardashian a feminist:

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So would you or wouldn't you? Is she or isn't she? Does she even know? Well, it sounds like she's not sure—but bottom line, she doesn't want to have to define herself. Because she's definitely not into labels. Verdict's still out on Post-its.
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It was a lie. I was not pregnant. But I had reached the end of my rope when he ignored an important text I'd sent him. I was not only furious about being ignored, but I was hurt because he was emotionally unavailable to me. Now I feel terrible about what I've done. This is not the kind of person I am. How can I clear my conscience and move on from this? —Wronged Woman

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The shrink will help you understand that a married man is by definition "unavailable." (I have the sickening feeling that you're one of those sparkling Paula Broadwell–esque hotheads for whom "uproar's your only music," as Keats said. Hence, I'm not going to yammer all day about therapy. I just want you to give it a whirl and see if you can grok what's going on and come to a deeper, truer understanding of your life.)

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The new Fort Baxter release "Last Tango" should be out this week. This CD features the closing show of May 27th, 1974 with improved sound quality (originally released on the ''A Profile - The King On Stage vol. 2") and a 12 pages booklet. This CD was originally scheduled for release in mid / late October. Tracklisting: See See Rider / I Got A Woman-Amen / Love Me / Trying To Get To You / All Shook Up / Love Me Tender / You Don't Have To Say You Love Me / Hound Dog (with two reprises) / Fever / Polk Salad Annie / Why me lord? (with reprise) / Suspicious Minds / Band introductions / I Can't Stop Loving You / Help Me / Bridge Over Troubled Water (with reprise) / Let Me Be There / The Wonder Of You / Big Boss Man / The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face / *An American Trilogy / *It's Now Or Never / *Can't Help Falling In Love / *Closing Vamp. * recorded at the May 25th, 1974 dinner show.
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Participating in athletic activities offers numerous well-documented health benefits — not to mention instilling the intangible values of discipline, teamwork and goal-setting. Of course, in nearly every sport, the possibility of injury exists as well. But don't let that stop you or someone you love from playing! Instead, you can learn about the potential hazards of dental injury, and take some practical steps to minimize the risk.

It should come as no surprise that injury to the mouth is an ever-present possibility in so-called “collision” sports like football and ice hockey. But did you know that the greatest number of dental injuries result from the games of baseball and basketball, which are often played informally? Even non-contact sports like skiing, bicycling and skateboarding carry a real risk of injury.

Who suffers dental injury? Men are slightly more likely than women — but only by a small percentage. Injury peaks in the teenage years, and seems to decrease afterward — but older athletes tend to have more severe problems. In short, most anyone who participates in sports is subject to possible dental injury.

Besides the obvious aesthetic imperfections, a damaged or missing tooth can also result in functional problems with the bite — a potentially serious condition. If a tooth can't be immediately replanted, restoring it can be expensive: The total cost of each tooth replacement is estimated at $10,000-$20,000 over a lifetime. So tooth damage or loss can cause a multitude of troubles.

The American Dental Association (ADA) has recommended that participants in all of the sports mentioned above — as well as two dozen others — should wear a custom-fitted mouthguard. Why? Because when it comes to dental injury, an ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure.

Numerous studies have shown that wearing a custom-fitted mouthguard is an effective way to prevent dental injury. According to the Academy of General Dentistry, mouthguards prevent some 200,000 injuries each year. And the ADA says that athletes who don't wear mouthguards are 60 times more likely to sustain harm to the teeth than those who do wear them.

Off-the-shelf mouthguards in a limited range of sizes are available at many sporting-goods stores. But these can't compare to the superior protection and durability offered by a mouthguard that's custom-made just for you. Using an exact model of your teeth, we can individually fabricate a piece of protective gear that fits correctly and feels comfortable in your mouth. A custom mouthguard may be more economical than you think — yet its real payoff comes in preventing dental injury.

If you have questions about mouthguards or sports-related dental injuries, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can learn more in the Dear Doctor magazine articles “Athletic Mouthguards” and “An Introduction to Sports Injuries & Dentistry.”

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Hey Launchies! Kelly and I were all set to talk trailer but apparently our thirteenth episode was totally jinxed! We had so many audio problems and then to top things off my internet was really flaky which caused our Skype connection to flicker on and off.

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    another major comment nay-sayers made was that the trailer didn’t seem to be truthful to the book, that it looked like normal action / scifi fare, derivative and soulless. I got really angry at that, since those people not only derided the amazing visuals, they also drew conclusions from the trailer that you can never ever draw from any trailer concerning the respective movie. The trailer exists to draw in people who aren’t already fans, so to expect the first trailer to bring up the complex philosophy of the book really means that you don’t understand the concept of a trailer, right?

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    Oh, it’s a shame you had to cut it short. I wish you would have talked more about the trailer, like, maybe do a breakdown and discuss details. For instance, what does Ender’s look say in that scene with Valentine. To me, he looks pissed, but does he to you? Or, like, does the Dragon logo on the wall of the new Dragon Army quarters look red instead of orange to you, too? Oh well, here’s hoping that once the news die down you’ll return to the trailer. Please?

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I have been asked to make my statements at the Memorial Service available to the public. Here they are:

Eulogy for John and Gary Bedini
Read by Peter Lindemann at the Memorial Service on November 11, 2016

John and Gary worked their whole professional lives together. Every day, for 42 years, they were both there, working side by side.

Their first joint business venture was Bedini Electronics, started in 1974. This move, to start their own business, became necessary when John was fired from his job for developing an audio amplifier circuit that was better than his employer's designs.

John took on the role of "resident wizard." His company title was President, but he was really the Director of Research and Product Development. From that day on, John was freed to let his extraordinary creativity flow. Gary handled logistics. His company title was Vice-President, but really he acted like the CEO, because he handled everything else that it took to build a business around John's remarkable products.

Their flagship product was the 25/25 dual mono audio amplifier. In 1974, this was the very first high fidelity audio amplifier made with transistors that could compete and out-perform the much more expensive "high end amplifiers" that were still using vacuum tubes at that time. In the exclusive and stogy world of Audio Aficionados, it was believed that the warm glow of a vacuum tube was simply necessary to produce the softer, more dimensional qualities of music that sophisticated listeners demanded. To John, this was nothing more than elitist mysticism. He simply purchased a number of the vacuum tube amplifiers that people raved about and did a full-spectrum analysis of the waveforms it produced. Then, he just built a transistor circuit that emulated those waveforms. In blindfolded listening tests, customers routinely chose the 25/25 over much more expensive brands because they actually liked the sound quality better.

This established the pattern for the rest of their lives. John spent his days at the electronics bench and in the machine shop, constantly researching new ideas, prototyping new products, and overseeing quality control on the current production line. Gary spent his days in the front office, paying bills, staying in contact with suppliers and dealers, creating label artwork, writing product manuals, and overseeing shipping and receiving.

Over the next 20 years, Bedini Electronics produced multiple new models of audio amplifiers and pre-amps for a growing clientele. In its "hay-day," the Bedini brand of audio equipment was sold in over 100 high-end music stores in North America, in addition to having Dealers in dozens of other countries around the world.

The success of the audio business gave John the resources to pursue a huge range of interests. These included the possibility of self-running electro-mechanical machines, the possibility of healing disease with radio frequency transmissions, the possibility of transmitting energy through or receiving energy from the Earth itself, and dozens of other ideas that modern science still gives little credence to. For John, the possibilities were a challenge, an opportunity to discover something new. He dove into these pursuits with a standard of self-honesty and single-minded thoroughness that most researchers in the fields of science have never imagined or held themselves to.

Historic figures that inspired these explorations included Nathan Stubblefield, Nikola Tesla, Albert Abrams, Royal Rife, Raymond Kromrey and many others. Early and influential contemporaries that joined John in these quests included Ron Cole, a brilliant electronics engineer who worked for a local television station in Los Angeles, and Tom Bearden, a retired Lt. Colonel from the US Army, whose collaboration and friendship spanned the rest of John's life.

Gary watched in wonder at John's impossibly wide range of activities. Personally, Gary didn't share John's passions or aptitudes for these scientific pursuits, but every time something actually grew out of these explorations, Gary was there handling all of the support activities in the background. Gary was always on the lookout for the business opportunities to emerge from John's research activities. And emerge they did.

By 1989, John had spent a great deal of time and money on research into the work of Royal Rife, actually being in possession of Rife's Universal Microscope for a time, as well as various iterations of self-running energy machines, many based on ideas from Raymond Kromrey, himself, and his friend Ron Cole. While very advanced technical successes were achieved during this period, none of these activities lead to new business opportunities.

The first big break since the success of the Bedini amplifiers was John's development of BASE, in 1989. BASE is an acronym which stands for the Bedini Audio Spatial Environments. It is a holographic, 3-dimensional sound processing method that could place sound sources anywhere in your mind's auditory sense of the environment. The effects of this way of processing recorded or live music vastly surpasses anything that so-called "surround sound systems" can produce today. The process could even be applied to recorded music broadcast on stereo FM stations, with 3-dimensional music magically appearing in people's homes and vehicles within the broadcast range. The technical achievement was stunning, and absolutely original!

A new company was formed around this technology, named GAMA, and millions of dollars were raised. Patents were filed and issued, but unscrupulous business partners siphoned away the money and released the technology to various recording studios without any licensing agreements. This treachery compromised the Intellectual Property rights of the company, so its stock value collapsed shortly after it skyrocketed. A handful of investors became multi-millionaires, but John and Gary were prevented from selling any of their stock when the company looked viable, so they came out of the venture penniless. John did manage to prevent anyone from back-engineering the technology, by keeping certain methods proprietary, but a number of people did try to steal the entire method, outright.

The collapse of GAMA precipitated a sequence of events which made it necessary for John and Gary to move Bedini Electronics out of Los Angeles. So, in 1990, they moved to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to lick their wounds and quietly set up shop again. The audio business had changed a lot since they started. The recording industry was moving away from analog and adopting digital methods. Amplifier sales had been dropping for years.

To kick-start the business again, Bedini Electronics introduced the Clarifier in 1990, another one of John's amazing technologies to make digital recordings play back with higher fidelity sound and visual accuracy. Critics and audiophiles eventually loved it, and they clawed their way back into business.

But John and Gary had seen the trend a couple of times. The only people they could really trust and count on were each other. By the end of the 1990s the economy was booming and Clarifiers were a big success. John's experiments in self-running machines had evolved to include a simple, hand-held toy that could run from a 9 volt battery for a very long time. Much, much longer in fact than the battery could run any other device or appliance.

And then, in the winter of 2001, another interesting thing happened. A friend came over to John's shop one day and asked him if he would help his daughter with a Science Fair project. John agreed, and so he taught Shawnee Baughman how to build the toy motor that didn't run its battery down. Amid significant controversy, she won the Science Fair that year in Coeur d'Alene, but the science teachers were not amused and they did not believe that Shawnee could possibly know more about electricity that they did.

Shawnee's successful replication of John's technology set off a sequence of events which lead to the formation of Energenx, Inc., the development of the advanced battery chargers and solar charge controllers, and the eventual publishing of the bulk of John's scientific work by Energetic Productions, Inc. and A&P Electronic Media.

At his death, John was the world's foremost authority on the work of Royal Raymond Rife and Nathan B. Stubblefield. He made dramatic and substantial contributions to the audio industry and stands within the top 5 audio engineers of all time. But history's special place for John will be as the inventor who gave the world its first trillion dollar invention, the simple self-running machine, and placed it fully and completely in the public domain, and taught tens of thousands of people in over 50 countries how to replicate it successfully.

The magnitude of John's humanity and generosity is yet to be appreciated, but one thing is certain, much less of this would have happened if Gary had not been there with him, every step of the way. Gary's name is on every amplifier; his personal work is in every battery charger; his unrecognized support is in every minute John had to discover what he found and do what he did.

John thought, we all thought, that he would go on after Gary's passing. But his heart simply said NO. What they did, they accomplished together. The spectacular, creative output from the Bedini Brothers for the benefit of humanity now comes to an end, but the good that will come from this will continue to grow for decades.

Today, we mourn the loss of these two great human beings. John's role was to be in the spotlight. Gary's role was to make sure the spotlight was focused properly on John's accomplishments. They each played their roles with grace, humility, loyalty and trust. It was my great honor to know them both.

In closing, I offer this short poem about John's passing.

The brightest light has left the room,
how can we go on? asks the first friend.

All we can do, says the other,
is live our own lives and remember,

He taught us how to see in the dark.
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Adios John Bedini

It is my loss and my regret that I never had the pleasure of meeting you. You will always be the "Last of the Titans".

You will always be alive in our memories.

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Thank you very much John for your courage and specially for giving us your knowledge in such a mean world.

God Bless John`s and Gary`s souls and their families.

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Channeled Message from John !

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Channeled Message from John !

Read this here:
John Bedini has died

Regards, Stefan.
Don't insult my intelligence. John Bedini did not channel nor did he
consume himself with contacting people thru the use of DEMONS.
Unless you people want to share some secret meetings you know
about where JOHN BEDINI did black magic also, Stay away from
me and these people is my message to you sIR.

I can give you a message from THE KING OF GLORY about John Bedini
and it does not include any magic tricks in some sort of underworld

Do not lie in my face again.

John is not here to defend himself and I don't take kindly to these
connection that you have to the abyss.

John B. was a holy man who went to Church.

Aaron take this zhit down please.

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I'm sad

I can't tell you how sad I am. My heart goes out to the families and the folks that worked with John B. and his brother every day. My hope is that the family heals and the Bedini brothers work continues. You are in my prayers.

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I did it

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I am deeply sad. I will miss you

Thank You! John C. Bedini

You inspired me, when i had nothing to believe in. You saved my life.

I see you in valhall

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Thank You John, We will miss you.

Thank you for all you taught us John.
I will always remember you and what I have learned from you.
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Under new World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, a former scientist, the global development lender has launched a more aggressive stance to integrate climate change into development.

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