Sorry for deceiving you, but this is not a fun romp through the past. If you want an actual book review, I made one last year, but this is a trap. I've been tired of D&D for a long time, and when this open D&D business started, I didn't even care because I was so disinterested in the business side of things that I haven't even reviewed the last couple of books that Wizards put out. In my mind, Wizards is and always has been an amoral company owned by Hasbro, which is itself a soulless megacorporation. I wanted my life to revolve around D&D. I do not throw my lot in with greedy businesses. With that said, Wizards of the Coast has been on a quality decline for years, but I didn't even believe all the hype around them destroying the OGL because that would be the biggest act of brand suicide possible. I thought that at the very least Hasbro would understand the concept of immediate growth versus opportunity cost. Considering that these events echoed the creation of Fori and then subsequent backlash and creation of Pathfinder, their biggest competitor, I was certain that the hype was impossible and that everyone was just in a Twitter feedback loop. I was wrong. Fuck, dude. D&D's over! Glad we pirated anyway. I honestly don't have much to say that plenty of people won't have already said in videos way better than mine, except that it was fun while it lasted.  My next video is gonna be about some lark that I went to and it's half an hour long. If you wanna watch it, cool! If not, I'm doing other stuff too, but while I was totally fine about making the occasional D&D video in the past, even though it benefits Hasbro, I really have no interest in making 5e content anymore for obvious reasons. My new series, How It Feels to Play, is staying up. D&D doesn't own the rights to fantasy class names and if you play Pathfinder, you can enjoy them just as much as anyone. I'm having so much fun with them that even if Hasbro didn't take its brand, I would still be making them so that any random person could just enjoy it without reading massive tomes of 5e. But yeah, all this to say that Wiz of the Coast is making a huge mistake. If they focused on quality control over brand recognition, they wouldn't have needed to pull the rug out from under every third-party company that was embarrassingly better than them. Fuck! The best official book in five years that they made was Tales from the Radiant Citadel. And that was just them hiring a dozen third-party writers to make stories better than they could. You know what? There, that's your book review. Tales of the Radiant Citadel gets a 5 out of 10 because it's better than half of every Wizards release. I want to take the last minute of this video to shout out every other TT RPG that I've played and enjoy. Pathfinder, obviously. It's the easiest one to jump into if you like D&D. 4 out of 10. Star Wars Saga Edition. It plays like old-school D&D, but with the entire Star Wars Legends era. Yes, it still Wiz of the Coast, but come on, you know how to fix that. 4 out of 10. City of Mist. Very rules-light and more focused on solving mysteries than being an action-adventure. 4 out of 10. Alice is missing. This isn't a TT RPG, it's just a one-and-done RPG, but nobody talks about it, and that is bad. Content warning, there's a lot of depressing stuff there, but it hurts so good. 4 out of 10. Kids on bikes. It's like Call of Cthulhu if you want something more accessible and less depressible. 4 out of 10. Thirsty Sword Lesbians. 4 out of 10. Dungeons and Dragons. Seriously, just play the game and don't support Hasbro by buying your stuff. It's not like the previous books you've bought spontaneously combusted and you sitting at a table with your friends isn't hurting anyone.  Beyond that, there's just a whole world of tabletop games and board games that can fix whatever itch needs scratching. And I really hope that when you find it, it doesn't attempt to destroy an entire industry in a megalomaniacal tantrum. But yeah, Davi out.


Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another AI video. In this one, we're in chat GPT, and I'm going to show you seven prompts that can help you learn anything. And I mean, any skill, anything you want to learn, chat GPT can help you. I've got seven prompts. Let's go through them. I'm going to go through them sequentially.  And then I'm going to execute on it. And then we'll go through the results. So I've gone ahead and copy and paste it in the first one. And you'll see here, generate a list of specific and actionable steps that a student can take to improve their performance in subject or task. Now, for me, I'm going to go ahead and select Photoshop. Because I know Photoshop quite well. So I'll know if GPT is giving me a BS answer. So I'm going to hit enter on that. I'm going to let it write its thing. I'm going to come back, we're going to take a look at what we got. All right, welcome back. So what's gone ahead and given us 15 ideas and 15 things, or actionable steps that we can go and take a look at. So setting clear goals, learning the basics, online tutorials, practicing daily, all of these are kind of generic. And, you know, to some degree, they're sort of platitudes, just stuff you'd expect it to say. But here's where it gets interesting. Let's take number one, set clear goals. Okay, determine what you want to accomplish. And then okay, let's go with okay, expand on one. Give me examples. And be as detailed as possible. Something like that. Now watch this. All right, great. So you'll see here that instead of just getting the generic answers, I can actually go ahead and type in that prompt there, which was expand on number one, give me examples and be as detailed as possible. We can go right into it. So it's given us it's broken it up into photo editing and retouching, graphic design, digital painting and illustration. And then it broke it down into multiple tasks. So that is an example of a prompt that works. And then there's just a follow on prompt. And then bang, we're in business. So let's go ahead and look at the second prompt, I'm going to copy and paste it in, identify the 20% of topic or skill that will yield 80% of the desired results and provide a focus learning plan to master it. This one, we're asking a little more, we're asking for a learning plan, we're also adhering to what's called the Pareto principle, which you've probably heard about, where, you know, 80% of results come from 20% of the effort. So here we go, I'm going to go ahead and Photoshop. And this one I'm going to be going a little bit more specific graphic design. We're going to pick number two there. I'm going to hit enter and when it's done, we're going to come back and see how good this is. Alright, welcome back. So it has even noted that when I said Pareto principle, it actually said yes, this is the Pareto principle known as the 80 20 rule. And you know what? Hey, cool. GPT's on the ball here. So here we go. It's given us now a basically a lesson plan or a learning plan, understand the interface and workspace. And it gives you the two sub tasks, master layers and layer management, graphs, grasp, selection techniques, typography, fundamentals, etc, etc. If you're still like, okay, this sounds great. And you want to dig in and say, okay, well, what about compositing and blend modes? You remember, you can always say, expand on. And then in this case, I'll go number nine and watch this. It's going to go ahead and give me a better description or a better format here of number nine, I'll come back when it's done. Alright, so it's cooked it up. And here we go. It says nine compositing and blending modes. And then it breaks it down into compositing and then it chops it into five different parts. And then it talks about blending modes and all the different tools and techniques, things that you can always dig into and go a little further. So we'll go over another technique for that in a second here. But I'm going to show you the third prompt. And here it is, teach me the topic of your choice and give me a quiz at the end. But don't give me the answers and then tell me if I answered correctly. So not only are we going to get it to teach us, we're going to get it to quiz us. Now the topic instead of something generic like Photoshop, I'm going to go Photoshop, and then I'm going to go blending modes. So I'm going to choose something that we've that was covered up here. I'm going to go a little bit deeper. I'm going to hit enter. And when it's done, I'm going to show you what it came up with. Alright, welcome back. So here we go. We went a little bit deeper into blending modes and look at this. I've read the answer and it is fantastic. It has it talks about the darkening modes, which are dark and multiply and color burn and the differences between them, the light and modes, the contrast modes, the comparative modes, and the component modes, the blending modes in Photoshop are not straightforward, especially to new people. And this goes into great detail, explaining them. So kudos to chat GPT for this. Then after that, it gives us a quiz. So question one, this blending mode multiplies the base color by the blend color, creating a darker result. So I would go up here and I'd be like, okay, base color, blend color, okay, that's the darken mode. So it gave us a quiz. Now this is great for Photoshop. But if this was a quiz on Macbeth, for example, it would be doing the same thing. Who's the king in Macbeth, Duncan, you know, Oswald, etc, etc. So here we go. Let's get into the next one. All right, welcome back. So here we go. And the next one, it's this, it's explained topic in question or subject. So in this case, I'm going Photoshop blending modes in the simplest terms possible as if teaching to a complete beginner, identify gaps in my understanding and suggest resources to fill them. I'm going to hit enter and come back when this is done. And I'll show you the results. Alright, welcome back. So it wrote us up some more stuff here. And you'll see here it says, in the simplest terms or like Eli five Photoshop blending modes determine how the colors of one layer interact with the colors of the layers beneath it. Then it breaks it down into the five different types, dark and light and contrast. And then it gives us access or suggestions for external resources, always keeping in mind that if we want to expand on it. So for example, if it says online courses like Skillshare, Udemy, LinkedIn, you can always just go give me examples of number three, give me examples for number three, and then hit enter and bang, it's going to go ahead and give us actual courses or suggestions for online resources that we can look at. I'm going to run it here, come back when it's done. Alright, welcome back. So I actually made a small mistake there. I put number three in there. But you'll notice up here, there's actually two number threes. There's number three, which is contrast modes. And then number three, which is online courses. So what I should have said is give me examples of online courses because when there's two numbers, it usually selects the first one. So I'm going to hit that and then come back in my bed. Alright, welcome back. So there we go. We dug a little deeper in here and it gave us five really high end courses. And for the record, I have access to four of them. And these are excellent teachers.  They're awesome. All five of them, especially Carl's Marcel and I would go with Julianne Cost. Anyways, that's another example. Let's do a final example or final thing here. Alright, so another one that I want to show you is this here design a deliberate practice routine for topic or skill focusing on my weaknesses and providing regular feedback for improvements. So I'm going to go in this case, I'm going to go for Photoshop. It doesn't have to be too focused on this one because again, let's just go routine for Photoshop. Yeah, let's just go with for Photoshop focusing on my weaknesses and providing regular feedback for improvement. I'm going to hit enter, come back when it's done. Alright, excellent. So we've gone ahead and done that and it's given us deliberate, told us what deliberate practice is. And it's a systematic approach to mastering skill, etc, etc. And then I gave us some ideas, assess your skills, set goals, allocate dedicated practice time. If I wanted it to give it a schedule, please create a schedule for me. I am free Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nine to nine a.m. to five p.m. I want to train at least six hours per week. Hit enter. It will give me a schedule. I'll come back when it's done. Check this out. There we go. So I come back here and it's given us an idea of an example of training. So nine to nine 15 review your goals nine 15 to 1115 focus practice. Take a break following along with a tutorial course or lesson lunch break. This is quite a bit of practice a little more than I would probably sign up for but it's just an example and you can always dial this in but if you follow these prompts in this order or a similar order, you're going to be able to learn anything and you'll be able to get that all through chat GPT. Thank you for watching.


And lovely day. Well it really is a lovely day here. The moment the sun has come out and we're in a lovely location at the campus in Veracembe for ATU or here for their information day. So if you're CAO results or maybe you got you know you didn't get the offer that you wanted or even if you did and you are coming here there's still plenty of questions I'm sure that you have and they will all be answered if you're here today and if you're interested in postgraduate or part-time opportunities at the university. Again questions been answered here today or something about accommodation or all the facilities or and all the opportunities. Whatever questions that you have today until four o'clock is the time to get them answered in person as if you like because I know so much can be done online or over the phone if you want to chat to somebody then all the staff are here today for that. Now let us focus on something else for a moment because back in March of this year Falkshire Ireland unveiled 10 new and updated viewing points along Mulroy Drive. Mulroy Drive is a looped route off the Wild Atlantic Way. It's sort of an offshoot of the Wild Atlantic Way and the whole idea is to encourage visitors to explore more and to stay longer in the Mulroy Bay area and the loop is sort of Milford, Kerry Keele, Ross Nekill, Render Kerry Garton and Cranford and the viewing points what they do is they bring local stories in life sort of local stories to life if you like and just maximize the opportunity from those vantage points but there's just more to the area than just the vantage points. It's a 38 kilometre route and to coincide with the launch the Mulroy Drive Tourist and Development Group together with the Irish Centre over in Philadelphia organizes Superdraw and the winners were Emma Robinson and Jason Kaminsky and the prize fantastic prize because the prize was they got flights here with their Lingus they arrived at Donegal Airport on Sunday they have Carr Hire they have a stay in the Harveys Point Hotel they got to visit Sleeve League walk around Lauske and then on Wednesday they moved to Rossapenna staying at the hotel there and there's plans for Fanad Lighthouse and kayaking at some I think that they've done and others maybe that they have yet to do but I'm delighted anyhow that in our mobile studio here we're joined by Jason and also the chairman of the Mulroy Drive Tourist Development Group Paddy Loog you're both welcome to our studio good afternoon Jason let me start with you how has it been? It's been amazing it was a once-in-a-lifetime trip that we had you been to Ireland before we'd never been to Ireland right I don't know anybody that's been Ireland Emma has a couple of friends that have been Ireland and rave about it right and one of her friends is a member of the Irish Center in Philadelphia which is how we ended up buying tickets for the for the Superdraw great and when you find out that you had one I'm sure all sorts of things were through your head the first thing was we thought it was a fake email all right by email right well so you're here it's very real yeah so once we once we realized that we actually did win the trip it was just crazy we just could not stop telling people that we're going to Ireland and we won this trip and it was just unbelievable that it was us out of everybody that you know purchased tickets and whatnot how did we win this trip somebody had to win it so how has it been since you since you got here you've had a you've had a busy itinerary by the looks of things we have we've you know we spent some time at Harby's Point which was a beautiful hotel great food we've enjoyed the hardest part for me was getting used to driving of course yeah I had to have an automatic because I've never driven a manual so that took a little while and now driving on the left side of the road does take a while to get used to understand it does makes left turns a lot easier though for sure but it's been it's been great it's the island is beautiful the area is beautiful the people are just so friendly it's crazy you don't I'm not used to that much friend that's not here well there's there's a lot of Irish people who go over to America and depending maybe on what what part you're in or is rural or urban do it say that you know Americans are very friendly as well so well to people that come and visit not yeah okay maybe maybe that's it yeah but you've you've also seen so much some of you know some great sites you've you've you've been helped with your itinerary so so that helps rather than come in here and kind of you know wonder where we go today sort of thing yeah what we we uh one of the good things was when we were at Harby's Point we were talking to some of the people that worked there too and they were giving us ideas of where you're coming how I'm sure helped yes he did he's an amazing so it's so much energy he has yes um and you know Patty and um the folks here really giving us ideas of where to go but even just not that just stopping anywhere we as we said we were up at fan at lighthouse and we stopped at the fan at lighthouse bar and restaurant on the side of the road to have lunch and the woman there was extremely helpful she's like oh if you want to go to the arch let me show you pictures and we're like all right we're going there next great and so it's just then see the arches and then we went and saw the arches so we've seen um you know sleeve league uh got lost going there and saw a wool mill factory so that was entertaining too um we've been to donicle castle and donicle town spent a lot of time in there took the the boat uh boat trip around the bay that was great um we did um murder hole beach this morning brilliant i was gorgeous yeah the weather was nice there was nobody had been on the beach yet this morning so you walked out and it was just there were no footprints it was crazy that's that's pretty common not just there but the other beaches as well yeah you know the one thing is you know when you you know gps is telling us it takes you know 30 minutes to go from one place to another that doesn't take an account how many times you want to stop and just take pictures and look out the window everything the landscaping is just beautiful well all the itinerary from from what you want it's suggested it's not like you have to do it so therefore you make your own time exactly yeah that's great um uh patty it's been a big success um the draw the anyone that was raised from the draw go they're redeveloping the area center in philadelphia is that it that's correct yeah yeah well i've um been happy out there and a lot of relations and uh our friend barny boys would be would have been chairman in it and he was grand marshal in the last for the second last philadelphia he's from bonlun just or mali moor outside malport so it's strong connections to the philadelphia center okay and they were doing renovations so my brother kevin was out there and he was at a function out there and they have some great functions great for every people going there and pleased to reconnect with absolutely you know among themselves so the money went to that but it's worked out well and that uh in a way you know uh you're you're helping them but they're also helping you and that they're spreading the word through the draw through the tickets you know i mean you know jason's here chatting about it chatting about it now for instance as well as having been here well as i said to you back in march it seems like yesterday but it's nearly six months ago now um like the idea was to reconnect with the people that haven't been to ellen now for nearly three years like you know and they were going to maybe miami or other place we wanted to get them back let them know donnie gall is open for business yeah i would have liked to have taken in maybe someplace in an issue but there just wasn't enough time and it shows a beautiful peninsula but we were took in donnie gall in the airport and our own mulroy drive area you know but uh we only had a week we were very lucky that we had two people that are so enthusiastic about it energy to burn and wanted to see as much of it and as i say we couldn't have a better investor yeah but he hadn't a clue who's going to win so we could have wanted to come here and just sit back in a spout all day we were just so lucky because like they may not you know as you say they just wanted to see everything and anything they're up early in the morning they were traveling to the end of the night to make sure they see as much as they can and um good so we were very lucky in the photographs just i can't even tell you how many photographs it takes a half an hour just to scroll through them that's good that's good uh patty it's it's it's been a great start to the initiative because you know uh when i first heard about it i was thinking okay well what is this entail and then you see the map and then we're down chatting to you and it all doesn't make perfect sense because you know about the wild atlantic way and this is an offshoot that really it deserves to have a light shone on it and just uh going through the part of adjacent itinerary and uh also the places that we mentioned there it's it's important that you know people who might be on the wild atlantic way are aware of it whether they come or not it's up to them but just let them know about it yeah well when the wet atlantic way was drawn up um like it's a massive success for tourism in ireland and the west of ireland on but when we discovered we were just left out of it we worked very hard to maybe get it changed at the time it was done but that was never going to happen but they promised us when the whole thing was developed that we would be made a sub route and they were good to the fancy and it was good to the word and Joan Crawford worked very hard for it and all the people at fancy ireland and that was what happened when you were with us in march and it was sort of to celebrate that being done uh and being added that's a sub route to the wild atlantic way that we come up with this idea of something different maybe to to give it a boost that uh which we were we're very happy with would would fall child and support this now and do a similar draw maybe next year in new york or something you're you need to talk to Joan Crawford that's not that's not my idea but the idea has been floated out now so at least we've made we will make good connections with the Philadelphia people now that they have this to work on and show the different this man has done amazing we couldn't have a better ambassador and a better is everything is we'll put together probably a portfolio of photos and maybe we videos and send them out to america we're also lucky that um when the american ambassador was coming to rosa penna and lunch didn't value this down to lunch to we explained the draw to her in a very nice woman way and she was amazed at this idea of of uh us taking people from falladale you know but uh so it all worked out very well well uh jason's party has said you've there's so much more to do i think all i mean you've missed out on a huge chunk any show but next time you're back we'll make sure that you see any shown in the meantime you're here in let it came out for two nights yes so um they're staying at the radisson correct all right and there's still a few more things to do there's a possibly a planned trip to glen ve castle possibly yes and maybe some kayaking there's kayaking we saw um when we were at the donagall castle they had brochure for you know things to do in donagall for 2022 and we that's where we saw like murder hole in their murder hole beach and there was hell's hole up in i can't remember where that one is located um my more gap is okay my more gap as well oh yeah oh yeah so we still have you know so much we want to do and there's only two days left so we're gonna have to pick it and then decide what we're gonna do the next time we go and you're gonna have to come back we're gonna have to come back okay patty if anybody is interested or they've got friends or relatives coming over um just to get their hands on the map or just to find out a wee bit more about the the route where's the good place to go online yeah well well we have our own website www.molroydrive all the information of this trip was just posted last week and the broadcast for press release so it's www.molroydrive.com and that's the map then is on that as well and you can download it and uh but the maps are i have put the maps into nearly all the local hotels around here yeah um i can tell you i was just counting last night i think we've 16 hotels would you believe it here so tourism is a strong understating this part it only got and and that's in the but i can't even i believe it yeah and uh well worldwide drive uh most definitely now a part of the the offerings and the maps widely available or your own website isn't jason i thanks for taking a bit of time out of your itinerary to come in i don't see me he's nice here but there's there's there's there's better to be had elsewhere so enjoy the rest of your stay i really appreciate it patty thank you as well thank you john for having this enemy hear that


Good afternoon everyone and thank you for joining us for today's public safety briefing led by chief of operations for the New York City office of Public Safety Justin Myers following our last speaker We will take a few questions from the media followed by some questions that have been submitted by the public ahead of today's briefing I would now like to turn it over to chief Myers Welcome and thank you for joining us for this week's public safety briefing Every Friday we hold these discussions so that New Yorkers can hear from various different folks within the public safety team Here in the city of New York about what we're working on and what mayor Eric Adams is working on to better protect this city on Every single type of front that you can think of so sometimes we talk with law enforcement Sometimes we talk with the fire department today. We have some really great guests To join us for the briefing to talk about some different subjects that we haven't touched on yet so Today we've got the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene executive deputy commissioner of the division of mental hygiene Deepa Avulla Next week marks overdose awareness week in the US which culminates in international overdose awareness day on August 31st Unfortunately, our country is in the grips of an opioid overdose crisis and New York has certainly not been spared so commissioner Avulla as well as harm reduction training coordinator Herbert Kionez are here today to give us some insight into the issue of Overdoses including what is causing them and most importantly what we can do if we're ever in a situation where summer someone is suffering from an overdose Many of you have heard of the overdose reversal drug called naloxone or Narcan and we are going to give an actual Demonstration today so that you can see exactly what that looks like and how you might be able to save someone's life I'm also joined here today by the executive director of the mayor's office of the prevent the mayor's office For the prevention of hate crimes Director Hassan Naveed under Hassan's leadership and of course under the leadership of mayor Adams the office of of the Office for the prevention of hate crimes has been taking a really creative approach towards reducing our implicit bias and fostering strong Relationships in our communities They're doing that through a program called breaking bread breaking bread and building bonds Which is something that everyone watching can and should get involved in We can only tackle the issue facing our city when we work together And this is a program that brings different perspectives to the table to do just that So in just a few moments Hassan will tell us about how that program works and how you can sign up to be a part of it So as I mentioned first, we're going to start off Talking as we lead into national overdose awareness week next week It's a time to remember the lives that have been lost to the drug overdose epidemic that is occurring across this country It's a time to fight against the stigmas that still exist around substance use disorders And it's a time to strengthen all of our efforts to prevent overdose deaths. However, we can You know, I think as a community we've evolved a lot over the years to really understand substance use disorder And recognize that it really can strike anyone and any community at any time I know a lot of folks watching are probably thinking oh, well, I don't use drugs or I would never would do that I wouldn't be engaged in that but the reality is is that Opioid overdose related deaths has now become the leading cause of death in this country for people age 18 to 49 years old That is a spectacular statistic And if you think about what that really means is it means that this is an epidemic that is impacting every single community across this country Absolutely. No one is immune to this epidemic in 2000. We had 20,000 opioid related over deaths Sorry, we had 20,000 overdose deaths in this country in 2010. We had 21,000 last year. We had 105,000 Overdose deaths in this country and 88 percent of them are believed to be linked to synthetic opioids like fentanyl So this is a very serious issue. I can tell you personally I have multiple family members and i'm someone who works in public safety someone who works on these issues on a daily basis I have multiple family members who Became addicted to opioids through prescription drugs following surgeries or other medical events Had a legitimate prescription from a doctor When that prescription expired they had grown in addiction to that to that drug and they they went out and sought to purchase it themselves They struggled with that addiction for many years and were able to break it I personally did not know the entire time that that family member of mine was suffering from that So we're really here to bring awareness to this issue because it can happen to anyone in any community And it's important to recognize the signs of it and be prepared to help folks in need if in the event You need to step in so powdered fentanyl is often added to other drugs like heroin cocaine Or even we're seeing Adderall and other prescription drugs or things that look like prescription drugs ending up with fentanyl in it and the reason why is because Fentanyl is much much more powerful than these other drugs and it's also very cheap to get your hands on it So what uh drug traffickers do is they purchase the synthetic opioid fentanyl They mix it together with whatever else they might Think it the market is going to purchase from them And then they put it out to market and and consumers can sometimes be and of course This is the illegal illicit drug market. Of course not a pharmacy or prescription drugs, but the illegal Illicit market even when you're buying something that looks like a prescription drug can now sometimes have fentanyl in it And it takes less than the amount of fentanyl that you can fit on a pinprick I mean literally that little fentanyl can kill a human being So even in small doses it can be deadly and even in circumstances where you don't recognize that you're taking fentanyl It is possible if you've bought those drugs on the market on the in the illicit market That it's possible that you could be consuming fentanyl So in a few moments, we will have an actual demonstration on how to administer the lifesaving overdose reversal drug naloxone Also known as narcan as well as information on where you can obtain it here in new york city Commissioner of vula will also be providing some information to help us understand the gravity of the opioid and fentanyl crisis right here in the city of new york And give us some insights into the department's efforts to address this issue head on including resources available for those seeking help So whether you're you are someone who either uses drugs yourself You have a friend or loved one who uses drugs or you're simply a concerned citizen parent grandparent Or someone who just wants to be prepared in the event that you witness a drug overdose at some point We're here to to bring this discussion to you today. It's about Raising awareness understanding the problem and most important importantly learning how we can all be a part of the solution So i'd like to turn it over to commissioner of vula So you can share a little bit more about the work that the department of health and mental hygiene is doing here in the city of New york to combat the fentanyl crisis great. Thank you so much chief mayers As the chief mentioned Opioids are a significant issue in our city and across the country We recognize that too many lives are being lost to opioid overdose deaths in 2021 2668 new yorkers lost their lives to opioids in the preliminary data for 2022 We have half a year of data and that suggests we're going to Tragically surpass the milestone in 2021 What we know is the time to act is now the health department has taken that this very seriously We have prioritized addressing the opioid overdose crisis across our city The good news is that there are effective and evidence-based treatments available for individuals with substance use disorder in particular opioid use disorder There are treatments that are life-saving treatments for individuals who may be struggling with opioid addiction today and wish to To stop their their use there are millions of people across the country who have successfully stopped opioid use With the help of medications such as methadone and buprenorphine The other good news when we talk about opioids in the context of public safety And we talk about our community and what our community members can do as the chief mentioned No one is immune to this crisis. It's among all of us our families our friends our neighbors Our co-workers people we see every day and again because of the stigma people may May be afraid to talk about that and one of the things we're also doing at the health department Is making sure that we're breaking down those barriers We're making this something that people are not afraid to talk about Because again the good news on this is there is a life-saving drug out there that the chief also referenced Known as naloxone naloxone is used to Reverse the effects of an opioid overdose And I think what we want to do is today is really make sure that all new yorkers understand How very easy it is to actually administer naloxone I know it could sound a little bit scary thinking about sort of intervening at the point of an overdose and what that might look Like but we want to make sure just as New yorkers and other people across the country have taken cpr training Or have taken other training to intervene in a moment Where you're experiencing a potential public health or public safety crisis of a loved one or of a Of a stranger even we want to make sure that new yorkers across the city Understand that naloxone is one easy to get You can get it from the health department at no cost to you And it's also very easy to use and we want again we want every new yorker to feel safe and comfortable If they have to be in a situation where naloxone has to be used So what I'd like to do right now is I would like to Demonstrate how easy it is for naloxone to be used So my colleague the harm reduction treatment coordinator herbert quinoa ness is going to join me in Demonstrating the use of naloxone again as I mentioned naloxone kits are available from the health department free of charge In that kit you will see a naloxone Packet so essentially the first thing you need to do is recognize the signs of an overdose And how do you recognize those signs? What do you look for? So when you see an individual who is unconscious who is unresponsive Who maybe has a change in color of their lips or their fingers who has shallow breathing potentially having Gurgling sounds or snoring that individual may be experiencing an overdose So what's the first thing that you should do the first thing that you should do is see if you can get the person to respond One way to do that We advise is that you shout loudly if the person still does not respond Now you know this person is unresponsive and it is time to call for help So this again should be treated as an emergency. You should call 911 and immediately Notify the dispatcher of your location and notify the dispatcher that you how you are Experiencing a person who is not breathing and who is unresponsive Now it's time to administer the naloxone. So what you're going to do is you're going to take out the naloxone the medication You're going to peel the back of the packet.  So one thing that's very important here. Do not test the medication the the Plunger should only be pressed when you are ready to dispense the medication again. Do not test the medication Once you do that you wait two minutes if the person is still unresponsive you can give a second dose in the other nostril As you are waiting for the person to respond you should also begin rescue breaths So if you were trained in cpr, you can begin to administer cpr If you're not quite sure how to do cpr.  You're going to pinch the nose of the person and Breathe slowly into Um the mouth of the person you're going to do this Twice and then you're going to repeat those rescue breaths as single breath every five seconds While you are neither administering naloxone nor doing rescue breaths You should place the person on their side to avoid choking So again, this is the sound like very simple steps and they sound like very simple steps because they are very simple steps So we want everyone to be comfortable and confident in the administration of naloxone.  We also want you to know there is more help available again via the department of health and mental hygiene We offer virtual trainings. We offer free Naloxone kits. We want to again make sure all new yorkers are comfortable in the administration of naloxone One of the things that's also important once the naloxone is fully administered Naloxone takes about 30 to 90 minutes to Go away from a person's system. So the person if they are successful if the overdose is successfully reversed They may appear agitated. They may appear angry. This this is okay. This is um something that Comes with the administration naloxone because the person might be experiencing withdrawal symptoms you want to calmly explain to the person that they experienced in overdose you want to Really work with the person to see if you can get them to Seek medical attention after this overdose if they are unwilling to seek medical attention. That's also okay But please do not leave the person alone. Please stay with them We want to make sure that again individuals are brought to a point of full safety before they're left alone so essentially the message here is that naloxone saves lives every one of us can be trained on how to use it And there is really no reason that in 2023 anyone has to die of an opioid overdose We have this extremely effective life-saving medication that is available to us All of us at any time. So I very much encourage you to get your naloxone kit take additional training And really again seek us out. We're here to help We will do anything we can to make sure that naloxone is distributed far and wide across the community Across the city in all communities. We have naloxone We have opioid overdose prevention programs that are equipped with naloxone. We make sure that they are distributed Again as widely as possible Once again, naloxone is one of the major strategies that we use at the health department We really take a comprehensive approach to addressing the opioid crisis Again, we want to see a day when nobody dies of an opioid overdose. Thank you Thank you so much commissioner. What critically important information, uh, you both shared with us today Thank you so much for being here. Can I just ask you if if i'm a parent or a loved one and I have a concern that My child or or someone else in my family or in my circle Might be using opioids What are kind of like the first steps that I should take to try to prepare or protect that person from an overdose? What can I do? Sure. So a couple of things one of the things that we really encourage people to do particularly parents of young people Talk to your kids ask them Let them give them a safe place to be able to share what it is they're experiencing whether it's opioid use Whether it's potential risk for substance use whether it's friends who might be using really educate Children and others on on the risks of opioid use But also alert friends family colleagues that there's help available That there are again as I mentioned Uh, there are medications that are available that treat opioid opioid use disorder They're very successful therapies to treat opioid use disorder and again if you do suspect that you are around someone who might Uh encounter an overdose at some point Ensure that you're equipped with an eloxone the other thing that I I want Anybody who might be using currently to understand is that you are not alone in that use and please don't use alone At really the message that we want to share today is if you're considering using We we ask you to to think about that and consider not using but if you are going to use do not use alone We know that the vast majority of overdose deaths Actually occur because people are using substances by themselves So there is nobody there to administer naloxone. There is nobody there to call for help So again, if you are going to use don't use alone And if I wanted to try to get my hands on on naloxone, would I go to a website call 311? What's the best way to do that? Sure. You can go to the health department's well website. So health.nyc.gov Slash naloxone Great, and we offer that for free. It is for free. Yes. Excellent. Excellent. So we really encourage folks Uh, who may know someone or or people who just want to be prepared In the event that a loved one, uh, does have an accidental overdose To please go to that website. Tell us one more time what that was health.nyc.gov slash naloxone. Perfect. Excellent And uh, you can get the help that you need there um So next, uh, we are joined by Hassan avid, uh, who is the executive director of the mayor's office for the prevention of hate crimes Hassan's here to tell us about a transformative program the city has been running this year called breaking bread Breaking bread building bonds This is a program that was started by mayor adams in january 2020 when he was serving as the brooklyn borough president Now it's been successfully running and gaining momentum across all five boroughs Where it's helping to shape communities promote understanding and enhance safety The idea is both impactful and relatively simple Bring together 10 people from different backgrounds Ethnicities religions and experiences and have them share a conversation This gives new yorkers From all backgrounds an opportunity to talk to one another face to face You do that Then you do it with 10 other people and 10 other people until you've reached 10 000 people 10 000 people who may have replaced a preconception with a shared experience Who have forged new bridges of understanding who walked away with a strengthened sense of trust in their community New york city is one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world Our population represents over 150 countries right here in this city We speak over 800 different languages Nearly 40 percent of our population. I think it's 37 percent of our population was born in another country Before they came to new york and as many as 49 percent of new yorkers speak a language other than english at home So we are a diverse community. We have so many different backgrounds And and places that we come from and this is an opportunity for all of us to engage in that diversity Understand and learn from it and really appreciate the incredible place that new york city is So our global diversity is why mayor adams is so focused on inclusivity and bringing folks together and in building these conversations the mayor Meets with foreign governments and foreign countries that are represented here in this city on a regular basis because new york city represents the world Right our population is of the world And so earlier this week mayor adams traveled to israel to strengthen partnerships and visit Historic sites and get up a get a close up look at new technologies and approaches that israel is taking To build safer and more sustainable cities and make determination as to whether or not We should bring some of those technologies here to the new york city New york city is home to the largest jewish population Anywhere outside of israel And it's important That mayor adams and and other members of the city government Make these trips and they serve as a moment for us to unite and strengthen our bond between other countries and other backgrounds and and diverse populations that live here in the city of new york So having a strong sense of community A network of support and a mutual respect for your neighbors Are all at the heart of public safety So we need to be a part of the same team in order to address our common concerns and that's what's break That's what breaking bread bread and building bonds achieves So i'd like to turn it over now to hasan to tell us exactly how this program works And best of all let us know how to sign up to either host or participate in one of these gatherings Thank you so much chief meyers. And yes, this is an unprecedented approach That's unique to this administration. Mayor adams has been really involved in the flag Raisings of many different nations at Battery what is it battery park that area? But it really goes to show that we're acknowledging and recognizing the immense diversity here and in doing that This program breaking bread building bonds really seeks to break down those silos among new yorkers, right? It seeks to strengthen communities And as chief meyers said there is a relation to public safety here. We know our neighbors We know the folks that we see day to day. We can be able to strengthen our own public safety within our communities as well And so breaking bread building bonds as we're looking at some of these pictures here You can just see that new yorkers from all different backgrounds just across the city itself Have come together to be able to have those conversations. What does it look like? What are those questions, right? So, yes There are small group discussions that really seek to ask questions like one question that really sort of, you know, I facilitated a few of these breaking bread building bonds gatherings and one question that really comes up is when is the time that you felt uncomfortable and why I think it's something that we can all Share and resonate right it resonates with all of us despite who we are or where we're from But really showing that no matter Wherever you come from who you love we are there's a lot more that really brings us collectively together And so those conversations have been really critical these small group discussions and really building that understanding between new yorkers itself and so As you're looking at some of these pictures you'll see that folks are holding up the the logo of the Of the program itself a building a breaking bread building bonds and what's happened as we've noticed in the course of many of these gatherings is that These people that are are sitting with folks. They've never sat with before They're engaging with neighbors that they live with on the streets For quite a while, right? But they haven't had the opportunity to be able to really say anything more than hi and hello And so to be able to have a conversation with someone who lives on the same street as you after many years and being able to build a relationship Understand where they're coming from Also, learn from each other itself really seeks to end up strengthening our community's needs collectively And so we've this program has happened in various places, but I do want to bring up a particular example of this program You know, we did this in the high schools In brooklyn not too long ago And you can just imagine 150 students collectively coming together in an assembly splitting up into small groups Really leaving their social bubbles, right? We all kind of have our cool social bubbles and in high school and such but talking to someone new Learning from them engaging with them And so it was powerful because There's no opportunities that you have like that in government to be able to build those one-on-one Relationships and that's what's very unique about this administration But that's also very unique about mayor adams as well He strongly believes as I do that we need to be able to meet people one-on-one and have those direct conversations This is a citywide initiative and as they're working toward the citywide initiative You're going to be seeing it coming from various parts of the city, whether it's in the schools NYPD or many other partners across the city are engaging this impractically, but you can also play a role as well Do you want to host or do you want to participate in one of these gatherings itself and do something like break bread and build a bond Well, you can do that just by going to nyc.gov forward slash breaking bread and sign up right there And that'll get you into the entry point of us connecting you to a much larger network that continues to grow That brings new yorkers together on Basically building community So it's fantastic. Thank you so much façan for for joining us and Sharing with new yorkers a little bit about what we're doing To help bring our communities together, right? We have such such diverse communities here in the city of new york And that's what makes the city so amazing, right? It's what it's what builds the culture The restaurants the art scene it's what makes us I think a little bit different a little bit better than than a lot of other places because you get different perspectives and understanding on how Folks from all different walks of life and all over the world Live and in doing that you enrich yourself you grow personally. So these are such important important Ways to participate and be a productive member of our community I know we have a number of questions. I don't know if we have any members of the media But I know we have some questions from the community About this program. And so I think we're probably ready to go to the question portion of the program Thank you Earlier this week the administration reached out to new yorkers asking them to submit questions for the officials that have joined us here today We will now get to as many of those we can with the amount of time that we have left Our first question comes from steve in queensford director navid who asks Sometimes I see graffiti in my neighborhood that's hateful, but it's not on a home or business or place of worship Just street polls, etc. Should I still report that to the nypd or 311? First and foremost, you know hate in itself something that we do not tolerate here in new york city And if you see something That is hateful Especially when it comes to the question related to vandalism for example on certain things It's so important to be able to call 311 or call 9-1-1 in those instances And I would always stick with 9-1-1 in cases of an emergency itself, right if you see something that's going on A situation is escalating into a particular call 9-1-1 itself But 311 is also a number to call to be able to report some of those issues of vandalism It all goes back to the nypd in those cases and those incidents are being tracked. Thank you Thank you Next question comes from greg in the Bronx for the department of health who asks Does narcan become less effective over time after previous uses? Thank you for that question. That's a it's a very good question And the answer is thankfully is that no, it does not become less effective You can administer narcan multiple times if a person has experienced multiple overdoses and it will still be as effective Next question comes from lily in the Bronx for director navid who asks How do I host a dinner and can I host more than one? Listen this program is going to be successful If new yorkers are involved and we've seen the immense Interest in just the first month of launching it. We had 600 folks asking to be host and being As well as participants in this and so yes You can host and yes, you can be a participant and yes We do provide the resources as well as the information to be able to to do it. So I would go to www.nyc.gov forward slash breaking bread There is a form at the bottom of the page and you can fill that out and submit it and we'll be in touch with you And our final question comes from stacey in queens for the department of health who asks How do you detect when narcan is necessary and I would add Potentially if you stumble upon someone who is unconscious with no other context Yes, thank you very much for that question As I mentioned, there are a few things that you can look for to see To detect whether or not someone is experiencing an overdose So what you'll look for is if the person is unconscious or unresponsive If they have slow or shallow or stopped breathing if their fingers or lips are Turning colors or if they're snoring or exhibiting sort of gurgling sounds And one of the other things I would mention is naloxone is safe to administer Even if a person is not experiencing an overdose So if you are not sure and you're you're you're worried that if you give naloxone to someone who's not having an overdose You can harm them. It will not be harmful to to give Thank you very much commissioner. On behalf of the adams administration I would like to thank everyone for tuning into today's briefing. We would like we look forward to seeing you all at our next one Have a great day


hi hi live from uh oakland california yes we are here having a potluck with a lot of friends from the area from the bay area yes welcome i see the hearts are are showing this 11 people already 11 people have joined us from around the 12 high from new zealand and they type in 13 who they type in the little hearts oh wow that's that's they're sending their love and they also hi from sydney new zealand oh that's sweet this is a different world yes yeah we're just having a great time here after a weekend swirl to come out here yes we uh we did a beautiful gathering last night and uh had um lunch with the publisher of of course miracles judy and um with wit yeah for about five and a half hours so but what did we take away from our our lunch today yeah we we met with judy and judy's daughter and husband and um we talked a lot of things she told us a lot of parables um with ken and halyn but i guess for me what um i felt after five and a half hours talk is that we are we we we are having a mission in this life and every one of us really we we come here to do forgiveness work that is really the essence of the only thing that we are here to do and yet in in in form it looks different ways and it seems like we all have our mission and it's for us to really accept it that i actually accepted fully that's really what i feel as i was talking to them to accept our function so fully and we don't have to play small or feeling like we're taking an insignificant role because as as long as we accept our own function with our part is so essential and it's up to us to say yes and really step up in our strength and in accepting that the atonement and the function that was given to us that's what i felt yeah how profound that is and also i had mentioned to some people this year that thought this should be a year of surprises and happy surprises but nevertheless surprises and so i enjoyed hearing some of the parables today one of them was judy was talking about how she had this profound healing after being emailed by a young woman was maybe 12 10 12 and following the instructions of this 12 year old which led to an amazing healing in our life one of the most profound healings in a life and in our community you know we always watch the use of of pairings and relationships and configurations and there's all kinds of little configurations shifts happening we're watching the possible budding relationship of of someone who's 59 with someone who's 23 that's kind of an interesting one it's all kinds of surprises that are coming so i think that's what i took away from it was uh you can't prepare for the form that the healing will occur you just have to desire the healing and then you have to accept whatever form shows up and and seeing all these amazing synchronicities that are happening we're just just amazed at all the different ways it comes in and and you can sit back and and judy was saying today how the things even the difficult times in her life and the times when she felt was some of the struggles she can see now how perfect it was like everything on nuance was leading to what needed to to happen she said like nothing is um it's by accident and all all dots in your life eventually connect and you'll see it so and she also said that there is no skill or anything that she developed throughout her life that was not used by the Holy Spirit so so it's like even the mistakes very encouraging you know it's nothing is by mistake and nothing is by chance and anything that somehow we're good at it or we don't have to feel that that is not gonna be useful in our journey of awakening is all going to be really really essential eventually to serve the plan and and it's our job to embrace it so fully and really allow this body and all our skills to be used yeah yeah it's been beautiful too because in the last 14 years of having lunches with judy I think this was maybe my like fifth or sixth time but she's always relayed these experiences whether it seems to be something extreme going on with the body whether it's a a massive heart attack or it's a falling and not being able to move or whatever and then there's just something inside of her that's just either smiling or laughing when these things happen that's so far back and so detached that it's it just finds if she finds it laughable and I think that's a good little symbol of the spirit too in us that no matter how much the ego judges something or judges a strain or something difficult or challenging there's a part of our mind that really is is having a big laugh and we actually can tune into that part at any point even when you're laying on the floor or even when you're in the middle of what it seemed to be a massive heart attack or whatever you can always quickly zoom into this point and feel the lightness and the left or around the whole thing and that was beautiful too that's a great reminder and another thing is she said her husband Whit is actually very much into measurement and precision and he actually asked Bill Bedford once how to measure my her progress and how far am I into awakening and Bill said how long do you hold grievance that is a good measurement and I thought that's that's really beautiful because it's not on the linear timelines like you know that's something that we all can connect with how long do I hold the grievance really yeah yeah we also talked about I think the one of the early themes was perpetuation perpetuating what's been given like foundation for inner peace is the original publisher of A Course in Miracles and they go through their challenges and and shifting and changing in terms of who's on the board and leadership and all kinds of things that are going as as the founders and the elders are growing older and stepping out there a new one stepping in and really I look around the room we're all part of it's like Star Trek where this is the next generation we're not Spock and Kirk we're actually the next generation you know we've come in to carry the torch and you could feel it you could feel Judy is part of a winner part of a handoff they're handing it over and and we're kind of saying job well done you have done very very well and there's a passing of the torch but there's a there's a perpetuation with it there's a continuity and yet we all agree that it comes down to moment by moment prayer and that seemed to be the theme that was coming up tuning in in a prayerful way feeling the prayer staying with it and trusting that and that was one story after another about that prayer yeah that's really beautiful yeah I really like that you know they're both in their 80s and they're still talking about their forgiveness lessons and how they they use everyday lives and and watch the the emotions that come up that to be forgiven to be forgiven you know that's still like a very much part of what they practice and and which actually said until you start to practice across the miracles it means nothing like it you haven't started yet until the moment that you start to practice that yeah there's some interesting things because Francis and Whit were going back and forth with the Mandarin and then there was one point where Whit was talking about how when he's was in Taiwan and when he's been over in China and so forth that that the most fascinating thing for him was not the Asian was not the language it was trying to merge into what he called the Asian mind or looking at being so much like a curious child almost wanting to say how are these people that I'm with how are they viewing the world he found that fascinating you can see that sparkle and also he was was part of the United Nations you know embassy emissaries to China so last time we had lunch and if you remember Sundari he was telling some of those stories of of how he he was over in Taiwan and then finally he he in a delegation from the United States got called into into mainland China and the purpose of going in was to meet Mao Mao Zedong and so there they are they go in as an American delegation to meet Mao and it's a weekend I think he said and they're waiting you know to meet Mao and then Mao dies Mao dies the only reason they've got into the country is to meet Mao and Mao dies and so the people of the Chinese government around there they're like they didn't know what to do with the American delegation they had in there so they just sent them off to I think it was Tibet they just sent them I kept them out of here we didn't know what to do we got an American delegation here so they sent them to Tibet and just turned them out on the streets of Tibet this is the American delegation and Whit was one of them so he was out there and then I think it was cold it was wet he was thrown out into the streets and at one point I think he developed he got very very sick I forget what it was poisoning or something like this he got very very very sick and so he was dying and so he at one point he said told the story where he was like dying there and he said Jesus I just want to thank you for all the things he said I've lived such a wonderful full life and I just have to say here as I'm dying I'm so so grateful and he almost stopped his prayer there but then he said and if you have anything else that I can do for you at all on the planet then you just I'm your man I'm your man and then they get they get rescued somehow he makes it back he isn't marrying Judy scutch and and being ahead of charge of all these I think there's 25 he said 25 translations of of course the miracles so it's like if you ever get to the point where you just offer your life up to Jesus to say thank you for everything and if there's anything else you want me to do I'm your man you can say that because there's a saying in the Bible too much to those who much is given much will be asked or required and I think his life took that way and we find that's the way our life did you know as soon as you have that prayer of the heart and you say use me take over my life you know you are in charge and I am no longer trying to run my life if you think you were busy before if you think you were working before at a job a corporation or whatever you ain't seen nothing yet you will to those who much is given much is required and so when you give your mind to the spirit and you take it away from the ego then the spirit's going to use all the skills and abilities that the ego developed in the plan of awakening for everybody for the whole universe like that movie the island some of you might have seen Scarlett Johansson you and McGregor they get away from from the cloneville and and yet when they get out there they have a temptation to just kind of go off and and live their couple human life and then they are called back to go back right into the beast and free all the prisoners set all the captives free and that's what's in our heart we we're here to set everyone free and as Jesus says as long you will not be free as long as one slave walks the earth so you have to have such a complete change of mind not that there are individual slaves but as long as you believe in the ego in the little in the tiniest bit then everyone you see is in slavery including how you perceive yourself when you heal with your mind by releasing the judgment and the perspective of the ego then everyone is set free simultaneously so very quantum so we left some books there yeah yeah we did yeah we listed gifts when they were talking about Helen receiving the course and how she was not her mission her function was such that she wasn't to apply the course and that was so interesting just that the rest of them were applying it to their lives and their situations but that wasn't her function that wasn't her her mission her dot by dot because it wouldn't have worked well if she had and just the perfection of David being David and Gia being Gia each of us just be valving val and I mean how we're on our own perfect dot dot path and even if it doesn't look like it even if Helen wasn't applying the course to her life in the same way the others were and that was very very interesting to me just thinking about that thinking about the perfection of the dot by dot place we find ourselves and how our path piggybacks and fits all together over time and the other thing that was really good for me to hear was that the atonement was not at one minute but the correction because sometimes I think of it that way and that seemed to give me a seating for fruitful contemplation of that and what the atonement is and what it isn't yeah yeah he actually uh also had heard the story of Willis Harmon some of you know Willis Harmon he's quite a famous uh transpersonal psychotherapist from right out out in this area and um I think he wanted to meet Helen and so uh they arranged for Helen to meet him and he was on he had to catch the plane so he didn't have much time so he had kind of a brief encounter and that was beautiful that Judy was talking about how um finally Willis just looked Helen right in the eye and says so what is the what does the course mean to you and Judy saw this little look in Helen's eye almost like she was going to give him a quick flip flip flip an answer but actually she she was very very sincere and she said which has been quoted I think by Judy a very famous line I know the course is true I just don't believe it and Willis was like thank you okay gotta catch my plane and then later the the rest of the story like Paul Harvey the rest of the story was Judy basically looked at Helen and said something like I don't buy it and and I don't really think that's really what you meant you you have to change in that a d to a w and it was Judy saying uh I I know that the course is true I just won't believe it will not this volition involved don't is more of just the way things are but won't so so in one sense we got to feel the perfection is that Sundari was talking about everyone's playing their part perfectly regardless of how they judge it if they think they're in resistance or denial or they're not fully able to do it or not that doesn't really matter there is a perspective that shows that everyone is playing their part perfectly from this higher perspective but we have to be willing to open to the higher perspective and that was what I took from that story it was a beautiful a lot of don't but it won't and then we're constantly having to really be honest with ourselves how willing am I to practice how willing am I to transfer the training and you know it's one thing to study whatever pathway you study but how willing am I to just let go and truly practice I think Bill Thetford was a good example of that I know in the last couple years of his life he just took it so sincerely that he just used every moment to practice regardless of whatever happened in his life before that that's really what it's about practical application so we're here with the beautiful group of people and yeah this is our our wrap-up to our quick trip our quick tour two-day tour does anyone have anything you want to share or ask or and it ties into what you were saying oh my hair it ties into to what Francis was saying like you know the answer about how long does it take to which word verb did you forgive how long does it take to forgive the grievances oh yeah how long does it take to let go grievances and then and then when I heard you say that I'm thinking wow well I'm holding grievances of myself since ever and uh and that goes back to that unworthiness like I'm trying to learn to play the piano and I can play a certain way and then my sister she's visiting and she came next to me to hear what I was playing and all of a sudden I make a million mistakes and I feel very uncomfortable as if like this sense of unworthiness or I need to get punished if someone wants to think that I'm good at something I'm kind of sabotaging myself so it's like I can't let go of grievances against myself as if I have something against myself and so my question is uh what do we do with that this sense of unworthiness and holding grievances against ourselves it's just something about letting go grievances but other people but when it's about your own self like I don't even have like some with other people's as if okay I'm not going to see that person for a while and I'm going to breathe and pray and and uh but it's like when it's like inside you can't even see it so I don't know if you have something to say about that. Yeah actually um today we talked about um everybody's called but few choose to answer like we actually talked a little bit about that and I I felt like um um Judy also said that like everybody's called not necessarily called to to be on the pathway of a course of miracles but everybody is called regardless and I feel like the spirit really is calling us to accept his guidance and to take that on and and that is scary so a lot of the times unworthiness isn't something that is static is is you know this is me I'm just unworthy a lot of the times is this resistance unconscious resistance and fear to accept what is given because we know uh some part of our mind that that we're gonna be expanding so much we we're not gonna be the same anymore because our consciousness is gonna expand as we accept the function as given by the spirits step by step even as um Tamara who is Judy's daughter I think she she had the foundation for all her life Judy all the way till she is now 84 and she never thought her daughter would be interested to take it on and and they never had this kind of discussion I guess and then her daughter was called and it was her time and Jesus is calling her and she just suddenly said yes and and Judy was like surprised oh my god I would never have guessed that she would have said yes but that is really our function you know we're not really here to battle with the ego to to like you know like go of certain kind of self-concept but where our our responsibility is to accept the spirit calling and the spirit guidance step by step and that is the only way to to take us out of this unworthiness this smallness and weakness you know yeah and I think this thing too about mistakes you know it's like when you when you watch animals in nature or you watch animals playing and they do all kinds of things it doesn't seem to be that self-consciousness that's that's so concerned or even when you watch children playing um they can do all kinds of goofy things uh we were just you were just saying oh look at my hair you know you have kids they look like him and they're not thinking about their hair or they're not thinking about what they're wearing if they've got stains all over their their shirt from playing in the mud all over the face and everything that's they don't really care it's like reorienting away from this idea of mistakes as if there's some kind of standard you know they always say dances if no one is watching you know be in a place where you just relax and relax more and more and and it can just flow through and flow through and flow through with with no judgment about how it looks and I mean I've even met people that are like singing coaches and they actually will tell me everyone can sing in their mind that's their mindset they just believe everyone can sing they don't believe that there's some that can sing and some that can't we're same with dancing and different things like this so it's it's really this the guilt is coming from this sense of a of a personality self and world outside of that somehow that that this personality self has to measure up and there's a lot of comparison with other people and those kind of things and you know to get into a place and even to practice that in relationships of of letting everyone off the hook so that you can let your mind off the hook as well you know judge not let's you be judged if we're still categorizing people and judging and then we'll do the same to ourself and that keeps the mind bound onward and upward not the real you yeah yes that's right they've a very contemplative group here oh i'm doing reading that oh i'm on hey just like us the people watching unlike other cameras when you look into a lens you're looking you say i'm in the motion picture that's for dinner they type here's dessert bliss bliss is for dinner thank you all for tuning in we thought we would do a periscope and we remembered yeah the hearts are flying we'll say goodbye come again


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