Sweden
the largest Nordic country and the fifth-largest country in Europe... Sweden has a population of 10.6 million... 88% of Swedes reside in urban areas -- wikipedia.
Free Tier
sobriety
Priority request: the state of being free of the effects of drugs and alcohol.
social worker (occupation)
Social workers held about 751,900 jobs in 2023 -- Brave AI. Request: I wonder If it is in the 200s or 300s. Also an important profession that helps many people.
Good Energy, by Casey Means
The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health. Request: Our ability to prevent and reverse these conditions - and feel incredible today - is under our control and simpler than we think.
AwakenWithJP (YouTube channel)
JP Sears' spiritual satire with 1.6 million subscribers (1/2021). Update: 3 million subs, now with cultural and political satire.
Seasons in the Sun, sung by Terry Jacks
Priority request: Hit song from 1974: "We had joy, we had fun / We had seasons in the sun / But the hills that we climbed / Were just seasons out of time."
Star Sky- Two Steps From Hell
Priority request: One of the most exhilarating songs I've ever listened to.
"Non-Violent Communication" as taught by Marshall Rosenberg
Priority request. See embedded video for a sample lecture. The principles taught are calibrated.
childfree / voluntary childlessness
"the voluntary choice not to have children" -- wikipedia.
T/F: weather modification is being used to generate things like floods and hurricanes
Priority request. "Weather modification is the act of intentionally manipulating or altering the weather" -- wikipedia.
empathy
Priority request: It seems like a very significant milestone in consciousness when one stops and thinks, "How would I feel if someone did that to me?"
Living Buddha, Living Christ, by Thich Nhat Hanh
"On the altar in my hermitage," he says, "are images of Buddha and Jesus, and I touch both of them as my spiritual ancestors" -- Thich Nhat Hanh.
This is Marketing
You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See, by Seth Godin
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, by Gabor Mate
"Maté looks to the root causes of addiction, applying a clinical and psychological view to the physical manifestation and offering some enlightening answers for why people inflict such catastrophe on themselves" -- goodreads.
Hara meditation
by request: "David R Hawkins mentions it in Healing and Recovery (in regards to using it during intimacy)."