Clinicians use a diversity of anesthetic drugs to regulate memory formation, the perception of pain and other aspects of consciousness during otherwise painful, unpleasant or anxiety-provoking experiences. These drugs are well known to vary in their effects on human behavior, but the neural processes in the brain that form the basis of this variation are now being uncovered with functional neuroimaging. In a new study published in the journal Anesthesiology, researchers compared the effects of medazolam and ketamine. These two commonly used anesthetics differ in their effects on memory formation, pain perception and the regions of the brain involved with these processes. While inside an MRI scanner, 26 healthy volunteers received a saline infusion and were asked simple yes or no questions about a series of spoken words. Some third of which were immediately followed by a painful shock. This procedure was then repeated with one of the two anesthetic drugs in addition to the saline infusion and the participant's memory of the spoken words was evaluated to the following day. Each participant was then asked to return at least one week later to repeat the experiment with the other drug. While the two anesthetic drugs had similar sedative effects, the participants indicated that they felt lower levels of pain while receiving ketamine than they did under the other conditions. However, medazolam had stronger effects on memory formation, causing a significant reduction in long-term memory compared to that observed when they received ketamine or neither drug. Medazolam also increased the coordinated communication among different regions of the brain, a measure called functional connectivity. Functional MRI analysis showed that answering the questions and periodically receiving painful stimulation during the experiment engaged important regions of the brain involved in memory formation, pain processing, and fear conditioning when the saline was administered. But the functional connectivity between these regions and the rest of the brain was altered by the two drugs, with greater connectivity observed under medazolam and less connectivity observed under ketamine. These results highlight that different anesthetic drugs engage different neural processes to affect cognition when a patient experiences pain. They also suggest that painful stimulation during sedation with medazolam causes increased coherence in brain connectivity. Although specific details are less likely to be recollected as explicit memories than they are when ketamine is used.


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Not that any of you asked, but I'm having an amazing time in Hawaii. I'm a little sunburned for today's video, but we're going the Lambeau Field for today's video. Green Bay Packers team team. As you imagine, this team was going to be very good. The Packers were good this year, and they have been good for a very long time, and they're historically good. So in Madden, they're going to have nasty teams. I see three gold 99s on offense. Devonte Adams, Aaron Jones, and Aaron Rodgers, which I love, one of my favorite trios. Aaron Jones carried my fantasy team. Not this last season, but the season before that. And I know fantasy football is far away, but you guys should definitely be on the AJ Dylan bandwagon. I think he's going to have an awesome year next year, too. So just keep your papers out, OK? Gold 99, Aaron Rodgers. Let's take a peek at this. Aaron Rodgers love the card art, so sick. 85 speed and pretty much 99 at every throw stat. That's the MVP right there. I actually feel bad. Aaron Rodgers gets a lot of hate, I think. Good teams always get hate, and Aaron Rodgers is in the media a lot, but I really wanted to see him get a Super Bowl this year. Gold 99, Aaron Jones, with 97, 98, 98. He's honestly not going to be that good, I don't think. And then Gold 99, Devonte Adams. You got to see the Rodgers to Devonte Adams connection one final time, gentlemen.  This is what Aaron Jones is like. 99 speed, jump, catch, catching traffic, spec. And I think he's 6'1". He's 6'1". So he's not huge, but he's not like a little tiredy kill, you know? Got Charles Woodson and Dave Robinson as my other wide receivers. Baxiari 99, John Runyon, Josh Myers, Jess McCrae, and Billy Turner. Keith Jackson, Jeremiah Finley, and Jared Cook up at tight end. On defense. There are also three Gold 99s. Kabish, Kabagadabagosh, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at right end. A young goat. Devonte Wyatt, Kenny Clark, and Reggie White. Gold 99, Reggie White. Dave Robinson, again, Christian Curtsy, Kway Walker. Clay Mathews, Darnell Savage, one of my favorite free safeties. I love Darnell Savage. I don't know why. I'm such a bandwagon of Darnell Savage, but I am. Jimmy Graham, Casey Hayward, Roswell Douglas, Charles Woodson, Jairo Alexander. Honestly, such a shame that EA does this. Jairo Alexander should have a Gold 99. I don't know why they're so bad about updating guards, but Jairo Alexander should have a 98 or 99. He just should, you know? We got Hot Roadmaster, Long Range, Deadeye, Passingly, Dashing, Deadeye on Aaron Rodgers. Only for 9-AP is actually really, really good. Devonte Adams, Aralt Tech, and Jukebox. Aaron Jones with Bulldozer Jukebox. And then we have Josh Meyers with All Day and All Day on John Runyon as well. Also, huge thank you to Roman Swipes. Science is Greatest Invention for sponsoring today's video.  Roman Swipes are a clinically proven, fast-acting way to last longer in bed. Doesn't require prescription. Anybody can use them. Let me show you. 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It's kitted very well. It's so crazy that every team team can be a 97 right now. It's so good. All right, let's go get a dump for our boy. Let's go get a dump for our boy Trev here. Trev is having me play, oh no. This will take him to the Super Bowl if we win it.  I don't think I've lost one of these yet, but I'm gonna feel horrible if I lose this. 99 Aaron Rodgers, 99 Devonta Adams, 99 Charles Woodson. What do you got, sir? Ross, Joey Gaddley, Tyler Lockett. It's a Seahawks team team. The NFC Championship.  No, no, no. This is a Packers video and we're in the NFC Championship. And I have Aaron Rod... Oh, we're bound to lose. Oh no. All right, not sure what's gonna free up, but I'll be looking. Oh, down the middle. Woo-hoo. I don't know. I literally don't know who that is. Who was that? It's Keith Jackson.  Inside zone, Aaron Jones. Good juke. Juke like a menace. That's four yards. I'm just gonna go underneath Devonta Adams. That's what I'm looking for.  I didn't even get that off. Damn, they're fast. That's clowny. Let's see if he's in man again. Oh, he is, but look at AJ Dillon. Great catch. It's fourth down already in the NFC Championship. I gotta go for it. Devonta! Devonta! What a catch! Just barely snagged it. I was well across that. Are you kidding? Wait, what? Dude, he was like a yard across that. I'm so confused.  It's really the curse of being the Packers in the NFC Championship, bro. Oh my God. This is a nightmare.  I feel horrible. I'm on one of my boys' accounts in their playoffs and that just happened. Dude, I'm so frustrated right now, but we just gotta fight back. I don't really have a choice. Aaron Jones in the middle, good completion. He's gonna get a ball of half, too, so I have to stop him at some point. Easy pass to Aaron Jones. Wait, stop and go. All right, beautiful move, Aaron Jones. Keeping us alive here. Let's get the ground game going again. We were solid in the ground game before. No reason to just shy away from it. Look at those blocks. An absolute and cake from, I think, Charles Woodson. Ooh, right up. Ah-ha-ha. I'm really on fourth down again.  I don't even know what to say right now. He could throw underneath for sure. Oh, Jimmy, I need you to pick that, buddy. No swats, I need to pick.  This is crazy infuriating right now, man. This is more annoying than if it was on my account.  Good hit. That's what we need right there. No shot. How are there five Packers over there and there's a guy open? All right, he throws it. Congrats, bro. This game was literally scripted for you to win. There's nothing I can do right now. Just pick him with. Is this Kway Walker? Two points would be nice. Ooh, this could be big. This could be the break we need. Kway Walker.   See, so that's the throw I tried to throw on third and three last time, and it didn't work. That should be open. Yes, sir.  All right, that should be an easy pass. Keep Jackson. I still have my three timeouts. Just gotta score. Eight is as simple as I have to score. Beauty. Keep Jackson? I see you. Dude, his defense actually blows. I just have been getting crazy unlucky and also playing bad. It's not a good duo. All right, we'll just take free yards with Rogers. Get out of bounds for three yards, don't mind. Three seconds on the clock. We had to take a field goal. Not good clock management because I have two timeouts, so Devon should have been able to get something legitimate out of that. Gotta have a really good second half. Hey, good start. Great start. PA cross shot. He really likes that play. Let's go low? No, go low. I literally tackled low and I still got trucked high. This is why it opened over here. I was just about to get that. I didn't expect that play. I expect something different.   Take away this middle one. Oh, okay, throw right at me. I have to get a turnover and I can't.   Let's go. Finally, he drops one. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Dead out of pass. Charles Woodson is gonna coast this one in and it's still a ball game. I need this two point though. Let's go, Aaron. Yes, sir. Daylight. That's why we took our field goal before half and didn't get greedy. It is 13, 2-13. I'm on my boy's account. I have to clutch up right now, bro. It's never over, boys. A few moments later. The left side crosser should be covered by that purple and I'm gonna cover the right side. I don't understand this play.  Is that God?  I swear to God, sometimes they just determine who they want to win the game and they go from there after. Please step up and get him. Oh my God. I was spamming right sticks for someone to go get him. Charles Woodson might've just done it again.  What is this? What do I have, bazooka? I think I have bazooka. Darn it, you know what? That's why I use run and gun. Run and gun would've been a perfect ball right there. Easy pass to Keith Jackson. He's on cam, am I getting side? Damn, that's not a touchdown? It's been a game of inches and we keep losing it.  Richard Sherman did not just do that. What? He just pressed cover Devonte Adams on the goal line. Oh my God. Dude, I'm gonna freak out.  I get that he has double me, but there's two down there. That's not how double me works. Once there's two, it stops activating. I just gotta lurk whatever he does here.  Except for the fact that my corners and safeties just stood there while he ran it in. I gotta give Charles Woodson wide receiver credit though for holding down the fort. All right, we got a wide open Keith Jackson.  Ah, could've thrown B. I might still be able to. Oh, no. Wait, what?  It's not, I'm not even mad anymore. It's just funny.  That ball just bonked Devontae Adams in the head. Aaron Jones just barely is gonna get this. If I got a quick turnover, I guess it's still a game, but I am mentally defeated. I am absolutely mentally defeated. Aaron Jones out of the backfield, he was on cam, Woodson. How many times have I been on the water, been on inches? I don't think this has ever happened to me. I'm pretty sure Devontae Adams cannot get pressed like that twice. Let's give him an out route. I'm not mad anymore. I think I deserved a lose at this point. Deserved my out. Unnecessary. And he's out of bounds. You gotta take the small victories in a game like this. Morale touchdown, complete. Gotta take a good game in a game like this. Casey Hayward literally has his X factor on and he just got lost.  That is a really good example. That one hurts. Wow, Trev, I'm so sorry.  You shouldn't have given me the other six. I'm just kidding. It's my fault. It's really my fault. I'm sorry, bro. I definitely could have played a lot better game right there. Appreciate you, boys, so watch as always. Green Bay Packers theme team of the books. Sorry, I couldn't play better. I did throw for four or 30 yards in two touchdowns with Rogers. So it was an all right game, just the goal line INTs. There's no coming back from that. All right, y'all. Thanks for watching as always. I'll see you guys in the next video. Peace out.


Okay. Thank you. Thanks very much. Those of you still coming in, there are some seats at the front. But it's now my enormous pleasure to welcome Kate Bowles, who's our first keynote speaker. And many of you know Kate Bowles because she is an open practitioner. She practices her openness through her online presence, particularly her blog, her lyrical blog, I might say, music for deck chairs, and through her engagement on Twitter. So even though she comes from far away, she feels very much part of our lives. And for those of you who haven't read her blog, I encourage you to do so. Kate is a unique voice. Catherine and I had, we thought as one when we thought of Kate and inviting her to be here. She manages this extraordinary thing, which is to be both deeply critical and profoundly compassionate at the same time, which you would think would be irresolvable, and yet that's what she does. And what she does is she voices what is troubling in higher education and in society in a way that avoids despair, as I know we'll hear today. So I'm not going to go through Catherine, through Kate's fabulous CV. I'm just going to mention that it's really interesting that her job is in internationalization in higher education, which gives her a global view. But I think it's her global view that enables her to do her job. She has a profoundly global view. She's a critical pragmatist and she told us yesterday that she was putting together the pieces of the quilt. And so I'm delighted that she's going to be sharing the quilt with us today and the pattern that she's created. So please welcome Kate Bowles. Thank you. This has been a really lovely welcome and it's an absolute joy to be here. In Australian events like this, it's very common to begin with an acknowledgement of the fact that the country on which we work has a continuous relationship of care to its traditional owners. And in fact this is starting to apply to acknowledgements to works that are made in Australia and carried elsewhere. So I'd like to let you know that this quilt of a talk was made on Wadi Wadi country of the Darrell people and I bring it to you with my profound respect to their elders for their continuous care of their unceded country on which I work. I also want to thank my good friend and recently retired academic colleague and feminist activist Rebecca Albury for this beautiful quilt. Her quilt has given me a slightly adjusted title for this talk and a new emphasis. It's called Expanded Universe and it got me thinking about the expanding university in which we work. Yesterday Leo published a blog that said that when we talk about open we also think about closed and I think when we think about closed we often bring with that some assumptions about the traditional university, a university like this one that is constituted around its values that is trying to do what it's trying to do in the world. I believe the traditional university is changing at such a rate that it is absolutely transforming the prospect that resources will continue to be available to do open work in a good way. I think therefore as open practitioners, as people who care about open, we absolutely have to conduct a forensic and ongoing examination of the closed university. We have to understand the expanded university's aggressive business tactics. We have to understand why it is that the expanding university has started to take a sort of interest in open and has become hopelessly porous in its outsourcing and hiring practices without ever actually truly being open. This is something that really matters to us so this talk is now actually about the expanding university. But I want to start here because this talk is also a bit about stars and a bit later on it's a bit about rivers. My daughter expressed complete disbelief that there were so many different things in this talk but I think it's because it's a kind of a quilt so she said to me is this just everything you've looked up on Google? And to an extent I say it is when I was first asked to do this talk I was thrown suddenly because I don't consider myself to be a part of the open community in the way that you are. I haven't done the research, I haven't walked on the ground that you've walked on, I haven't developed the libraries of resources that you've developed. And I've often looked at open and found myself thinking is that it is what I do, what I'm supposed to be doing. So I was taken back to my first experience of learning something somewhat in the open outside of formal education which was from this little book. This was the first non-fiction book I was ever given and I was blown away by the discovery that I think we hope all our learners have that what was on the page was in the sky above me. I couldn't believe it but I also learned something about disappointment in learning from this little book because try as I might I couldn't see the Milky Way in the way that the book described. I stared at the sky, the book described a vivid pathway and I saw a kind of murky cloud and I felt that this was probably my fault that I was probably looking in the wrong direction. What I've discovered is the real profound truth about the Ladybird Book of the Night Sky which was shipped all over the world is that it only speaks in a very partial way to the night sky in the northern hemisphere and now that I live in the southern hemisphere I know that there are deep and enduring practices of indigenous knowledge that have attached indigenous cosmology to agricultural practices and ways of moving around our huge country and that this was only one way of looking and I think that's also important to us as we think about open who makes resources and who receives them what happens if what's in the resource isn't what's in the sky above you but because I'm here I also want to celebrate the career of Mary Brooke who wrote this little book she was an Irish astronomer and like many lady astronomers she had significant trouble pursuing her own career because she was married to a more famous astronomer and she was raising his children and in fact quite a lot of her publications came out after he died and they were about the careers of other women astronomers so a shout out to Mary Brooke Irish astronomer. I think this is an important lesson for us too. People can only produce resources if they are supported to do so. Mary Brooke committed her entire career to the caring labor of teaching and therefore she's an important kind of precedent for us but we also need to look at what made it very difficult for her to do what she did. This is the question that Mary Brooke asked about the shape of the universe the expanding universe for her she had really big questions that was pretty overwhelming to receive this question in a ladybird book when I was little but it conveyed to me the idea that the world might be a bigger place than I could see in suburban England. Let's go back to Rebecca's quilt which I showed you a detail from this is the whole thing and you can see that Rebecca is asking the exact same question about the universe. What lies just outside of the margins of what we can immediately perceive what larger scope is there for our preoccupations for our human scale. Mary Brooke and Rebecca both looked up at the night sky and you'll see that the stars in Rebecca's quilt quite unusually escape the border that the quilt has assigned and I think this is as good a metaphor for open as I can come up with. I think it's very important that we think about what is beyond what we can see but we also need to think about the labor of producing a thing like this. So I asked Rebecca how long did it take you to make this quilt and this is the email she sent me back last night. Rebecca had to map all this out for me because I'm not a quilter and I felt a little anxious bringing a title of a talk that says quilting implying that I might know something about it. I truly don't so Rebecca had to explain to me that this is how a quilt is made and this is more or less how people have had to explain OER to me. It doesn't just pop up in the library it isn't just there is shareable in a magical sort of way there is a great deal of planning behind every good thing that we see and that we can share and so we would all recognize ourselves I think in the temporality of Rebecca's design process and what I really like is the end after all that designing and thinking and wondering and as it turns out she was responding to a brief talking with fellow quilters got the problems solved quicker. That's great advice so now I want to go back to an older quilt and this might be the quilt that Francis expected me to talk about this is a very well known quilt this is Ellen Harding Baker's beautiful solar system quilt from 1876 it's in the Smithsonian it is a precedent OER it has outlived her it continues to be useful it is scientifically accurate to an extraordinary degree this is Halley's Comet which passed by a few years before she made this quilt and again I want to bring this quilt to you to think about the labor of making resources there's very little about Ellen Harding Harding Baker but but enterprising archivists have found this contemporaneous newspaper account this quilt took her seven years to make because she went to Chicago to look at the information through the telescope that she needed in order to ensure that it was completely accurate and from this she devised a lecture in astronomy which she took around her community in 1876 it was really hard to be a lady academic and one of the few fields that was even relatively open to women was astronomy so Ellen Harding Baker decided that this would be her labor she entered into the caring labor of teaching and she made this extraordinary quilt to go with it Ellen Harding Baker died at the age of 39 after having seven children so that's also what she was doing two of whom predeceased her so this is the world that we are working in this world that has a history and a history of practice a history of craft but also a history of the profound intractability of space and time that we've all gone through to get here I was intending to share a different tweet by Martin because we had a bit of back and forth about looking at the stars when we were kids but in fact this is Martin's pinned tweet and I think it's really lovely let's remember where we are because this is the problem that we are all causing as open practitioners for this little planet I have flown a great distance to be here many of you have flown similar distances to be here and while I absolutely support the values of the flying less movement it's a very northern hemisphere movement it's a movement that says if you can't get there by a plane you can get there by a train actually this is not conceivable from Australia or where I'm coming from I could have come by sea that would have taken a really long time but I do think at this point it's timely for me to give a huge shout out to virtually connecting because although I think virtually connecting started off for different reasons one of the things that they've done is made it thinkable for us to imagine a conference in which virtual participation in which flying less is a credible way of using up the resources of our planet so thank you now interestingly this has stopped moving I'm not taking this personally I might Martin said no more flying Martin said if you have any trouble I will be right there so I I thought well I would just widen my eyes slightly and Martin will come to the front and and this is that that's it okay thank you Martin I'd now like to invite you into an activity which is an icebreaker but it's a silent icebreaker I've discussed icebreakers at length with people and I am on the introverted side so in fact when someone says icebreaker something happens in my lower gut and so for anyone else who identifies in this way this is an entirely silent reflective exercise that will help us come gently into this room it's based on an idea from our illness sociologist Arthur Frank that whenever we meet whenever we meet anybody we become hosts and guests in one another's lives and that this is a moral moment in which we decide how we will treat one another I want to expand this idea of a moral moment with something that comes from narrative practice which is remembering exercise the little hyphen is important where we also bring into the moral moment of our encounter other people who are important to us silently and in our thoughts so I want to ask you each to think quietly and deeply about three people firstly I'd like to invite you to think about one person who has made it easier for you to be here today whether you're here in your room at home or here in Galway someone is protecting your time and attention someone is minding your kids someone is teaching your class someone is looking after your dog think of that person and secondly if you're here in Galway I'd like you to think of one person that you regret is not here someone that you feel it would have been great if they could come with you but money or travel or work or other responsibilities prevented them from being here and I'd like to invite you to bring them quietly into the room and as part of that I'd like you to think about all of the people who are not here but are participating virtually you are in their lives too and they are in yours what can you do while you're here to make them feel co-present with you the first step is to acknowledge that you are already co-present with them in their homes in their offices wherever they're following along and finally and this is a very dear one I'd like you to think very deeply and with gratitude there's someone who has helped you in the longer journey that brought you here today who helped you to read who encouraged your curiosity who supported your early career who knows how important open is to you who would look at you here or at home and say I thought you'd be there that is totally what I expected because I think when we come together we come together in a certain kind of corporeal reality but there is a much larger ghostly kind of shape around us like the universe beyond the borders of the quilt I think it's very good to keep that in mind so just Laura mentioned briefly that I have an open practice when I said I don't think I'm part of the open community Laura said well you can be an ally I thought that was lovely so if you are an ally I have an open practice and my open practice many of you have seen it's mostly on Twitter it's partly on WordPress it involves a large number of students it's messy it's tentative it's exploratory it's opportunistic I'm quite likely to mention you in something if I think that a student of mine needs to know about you and if you want to take a moment sometime not necessarily now check out the hashtag my curiosity as part of our degree program where all of our students are on Twitter and WordPress and Reddit and Twitch and Instagram they're all over the shop from day one students currently in the second year of our degree working with me there's about 240 of them are pursuing independent public projects researching the student experience from the point of view of students and the hashtag for that is my curiosity if you pop in at the moment you'll see they're all learning how to use Twitter polls to test with their peers an idea has legs or doesn't have legs so you know as you as you will this kind of thing has risks but mostly it comes with I think great opportunity for students at a regional university in the southern hemisphere this is one of my students I should say that all of the Twitter screenshots in this are shared with permission and there is some more controversial ones coming up this is Olivia who's in my class and her curiosity is about self-confidence and learning and I'm enormously proud that instead of putting this in some kind of Moodle Dropbox she gets to put it out there and anybody can come by and give her a shout this is my shout out to my tremendous colleagues my colleague Chris Moore and his students live tweet science fiction movies every week and this is their subject number trending on Australian Twitter every week this is brought an enormous number of people to through our front door to see what on earth BCM325 is about and it's Chris and his students tweeting their film screenings and this is the kind of thing that happens in my open practice somebody shares something from my network and I know two students might want to know about this and in this case I'm introducing two students to each other because they're not connected we all do this you all do this many of you have interacted with my teaching and my students in this way and this is an everyday miracle in the open we stop thinking about this I think when we do it a lot but I want to thank all of you who've taken the time to come and read my students blogs or have a think about what they're up to particularly shout out to Bonnie Stewart who is working closely with a student of mine at the moment giving her bits of thoughts about ethnography the context for this what's beyond the border of my open pedagogy is the expanding university where I work it's regulatory it's growth hungry it's rankings focused it's a hustling institution it's constantly chasing reputational gain in public and I'm just going to walk you through fairly quickly a couple of it seems to me exemplary slides of the way in which all of our expanded universities are now talking this is my field of expertise I work in internationalization as Laura mentioned and this is how the expanded university talks about internationalization of learning internationalization of learning when international students come to your universities is treated as export trade data and it is spoken about in these terms and with these charts this chart describes the movement of young people from countries outside the country where you work to come and work at your study at your university this is trade data and because it's the trade data it's talked about by politicians who specialize in trade and they say things like this our education exports are ripe for growth fabulous news what he means there is that we are recruiting young people often from price sensitive countries who we think will pay more than domestic students to come and do undergraduate degrees and cross subsidize our research and our other teaching ripe for growth this is a specific spin that we place on trade data in relation to internationalization in Australia relentlessly and over years and years and years we compare it to the extraction of iron ore coal and sometimes gold we literally compare it to mining and we do this without a blush without shame all our trade weighted departments do this our government does this but perhaps most crushingly for those of us who work in Australian universities our own internal lobby group does a version of this so universities Australia says that it's okay Australians will go for international education because it's making a contribution to prosperity what a chilling thing to say about young people crossing the world to learn and this is how the expanded university thinks it thinks in bar charts and it thinks in progress over time every time you see a bar chart you know that someone is wondering how it will go next year or whether it's better than last year because the expanded university thinks in trends it is restlessly incapable of being present in the moment it always wonders and worries about the future in charts as she's keynote made this point and i think it's absolutely spot on we have become captivated by this spectacle we have become seduced by a defective logic and we have come to accept a logic of a system that is defective and this is what it looks like this is a blog post last week from paul prinsley who's writing i i admire without any hesitation at all i think he's he writes in a way about the expanded university that we should all read and paul writes about the fact that the way in which the expanded university works and thinks is now leading us to practice a kind of fear a kind of fearful response to the demands that are made on us and now i want to talk very briefly about the fact that it's not all about people like me and people like paul and probably people like most of you i wonder if i could ask in gallway for a show of hands for how many of you have or have retired from a secure job that is a job that lasts for more than two years that you had a contract that hired you for that time in australia we are seeing the rapid mobilization of casualization as a solution to a largely manufactured budgetary crisis and i'm sharing this particular quote with you because my own university has at last found a list that it can be top of the last week you may have seen the conversation in australia attempted a kind of both sides of casualization and put out an article that said well casualization is not going anywhere so maybe we should try to make casualization a better experience for everyone not by giving casuals real jobs but somehow by making casual jobs harder to get and this article said that what was really great about casualization is that it gives the flexibility to hourly paid workers to work for more than one organization uh john petrini again i'm quoting this with permission it is i the casual academic who loves the flexibility of working six contracts across three institutions simply to eat the australian academy for the humanities has started to report on the precarity the impact of precarity on developing a future workforce and this is where open education comes in because for people to make resources they have to be supported they have to have time they have to be able to do the things that they have been skilled to do and you can't do this if your first second and third job are all side hustles and here's the double whammy it's disproportionately affecting scholars who are from minority backgrounds so although this is the way that the expanded university talks about research the restrictive pipeline of research labor in fact what's buried in here is a very serious thing about social justice and casualization so again with permission cat oakley responded to fellow batty sharing a report about very high levels of mental and physical ill health in the uk system and she said i left and it's better than i left because it would have done for me let's stop and think about this for a moment and i'm going to go carefully through this next little bit we've been reading this story the death of an adjunct the hunter was a promising brilliant scholar and died of a preventable acceleration of a chronic condition for which she could not get insurance as an adjunct she had an asthma attack and this isn't the first time that we've seen this headline in 2013 migrant mary vodko died still working as an adjunct as at 83 destitute because she had neither health care nor pension arrangements and could not afford to stop working and i share this with you with the greatest of respect i've made a personal commitment to keep the name of professor stefan grim in all of our minds this is the email that was sent to him by imperial college london shortly before he died this is how the expanded university talks to us this is its ethic of care for us i was worried when i was making the the pieces of this quilt that it was all too dark but we're now moving to the end which is a bit lighter how do we hold a global system accountable for a failure of care at this scale on my way here i had a bit of a bit of biffo with george seamans who is known to many of you and again he's given permission for me to share these tweets with you it's part of a long thread which also included martin in which george was saying that universities who weren't getting into a certain kind of innovation were screwed part of that long thread he said this and i read this and international students are people who are dear to me and i thought well if this is how we're talking about students particularly international students actually were already screwed if this is how we think so i put this to george that the issue wasn't a failure of growth but a failure of care and he said this very interesting thing back caring is an attribute of people it is not an attribute of systems and i'm completely taken with this proposition as one that we must rebut meanwhile in the exact same moment phil wood who many of you will know writes about academic workloads was also involved in a long conversation and i'm quoting this this with care he said the problem is that individuals have an ethic of care and universities don't and this creates a dissonance but he points out that this is also a dissonance for the university system and i think it is i think it's how come we come to seem troublesome so just briefly the ethic of care in action this is angus he works on the team that i convene i'm the only person in a team of six with a full-time job the other five are all casuals one has been casual working for 10 weeks at a time twice a year for 13 years angus chose to engage in some support of his students on twitter this morning and i said but here's the thing angus this you are now engaging in consultation with students this is something that the faculty has decided it will not pay for and so you have absorbed this as part of an ethic of care into your own open work practice and i've become mindful that while we're enormously proud of our program being out on twitter because it is between 70 and 90 percent casually taught we are using up other people's time in a reckless way so the risk is that open practice can without a system-wide ethic becomes another caring labor i'm going to wind up very quickly and run through something about rivers change is possible if you're from australia you know this is our beautiful Murray Darling system and it is a river system like a university system that is absolutely in crisis the Murray Darling river is at ground level dying i take great hope from critical pragmatism of thinkers like henry jiru who says if we are going to have hope we have to be realistic about the environment that we work in this is what the Murray Darling river looks like and its complex reality is that it is facing system collapse for predictable reasons too much water has been taken out upstream there is too little left for the thing that the river is supposed to do this is exactly how universities are also working the first step we need to take is to name the crisis this is no longer a river the expanded university in profound and important ways is no longer a university and let's have a think about what's possible Jerome Bruner narrative scholar says every story is measured by the story that it might be possible to tell about the same thing here's my one message to you i do believe change is possible i am an optimist and i believe optimism is a discipline not an emotion a couple of good news from the the world of rivers new zealand has granted legal personhood to both a river and a lake canada is considering putting into its bill of rights the human right to a good environment this because i'm i'm going to wrap up quickly i'm just going to let you know that the wonganui iwi who argued for the protection of the river wonganui had to use existing laws and systems so to achieve system change in universities we have to use the systems that universities are prepared to value and i'm going to close with a discussion of about 30 seconds on rankings because at last a ranking that measures what matters has come out of the times higher education and with profound gratitude to them i want to thank them for the sustainable development goals rankings they have ranked universities around the world for whether or not they are meeting the united nations sustainable development goals sustainable development goal eight focuses on decent work the times higher ed developed four metrics on this universities must research work they must have good employment practices and they must have a proportion of students taking work placements but the big one is this one we now have a ranking system in place that says the casualization of the university workforce is a genuine concern thank you to the times higher education system for this hope is not a pipe dream hope is the most important resource that we have to promote the social change that we care about and it's the heartbeat of our politics the last time i saw rebecca she was at a climate change rally we've all been watching young people rallying for climate change and that's where i saw rebecca hanging out with her fellow quilter activists so i'm leaving you with this image it has some strong australian language in it but i think it is exactly the energy that we need for change thank you thank you so much i'm speechless but i know there'll be questions and we do have a few minutes so please take the opportunity to pick up any one of kate's profound and visionary and compelling and difficult comments to ask questions of kate the right place thank you to react because when you are in need because you work to eat and also you're not in your country because you left there's too much threatening things underlying your feet and you just don't have that space because if you lose those hours you can't just live and i always wonder what's the right place because i'm a rebel and i'm always going to be what's the right moment in the right place where you say you know what i'll leave or whatever you want to do in order to to rebel yourself against this but i'm not sure what what that is and i said sorry my alarm and i see you talking and i kind of think you are in a safe space in a way to talk and and and whatever you say against the system you are protected because you have a right to not be um how do you say um fired in a way but if we talk we're not hired anymore it's a tricky place to be and it's a place where i don't want to be but i have to be and so that is kind of my reflection about this um first i absolutely respect that uh situation i think that casuals all over the world are saying the same thing and i think one of the ways in which systems break down is that they ask the most vulnerable people in those systems to do the labor of fixing the system i actually think that it's important it's incumbent upon all of our organizations organizations like all to organizations like this one to change the language in which we describe universities so we stop describing them as though all is well and we don't leave the work of pointing the crisis out to the people who are experiencing the crisis in their lives and so i think uh probably what triggered me into responding to george for example was that he spoke about the institution and the university there is literally no such thing this river is no longer a river and so uh i think the work needs to be done with considerable new forms of solidarity and i hope that the open community is one from which this solidarity might more robustly emerge than it has okay thank you uh on rob farrow with the open university um thank you very much for your talk i think you're talking about the right things bring up the attention to the right areas i wonder if you could share a perspective on the importance of generational difference for this because in the uk at least there's a big sort of cohort of academics who are kind of just coming up to retirement now um and they've sort of been less affected by this kind of thing when they're coming up through the ranks let's say um and the whole market has changed around that generation um and it's not just an education it's in other things like health care and that kind of thing i wonder if that is mirrored in your experience in you know different hemisphere a different community um and whether you think it is there is a generational element to this that explains some of the you know these idea of the bigger fish you know they're the ones who need to change in a way they're the they're the more effective agents of change but everything is rolling downhill onto the people coming in at the bottom so do you think that's a generational thing or does it reflect some sort of change in power structures more generally to be honest i think it's both i think it varies from country to country uh from as you put it market to market um i think the reason that we see migrant mary vochco working in her 80s in the united states is that they've had longer to develop an academic underclass than the uk or australia uh laura reminded me that i asked her five years ago about casualization in south africa and she said i don't think we have any and they do now um i think there is a generational discourse around this why won't the baby boomers retire one of the interesting things about me is that i am the last baby boomer so baby boomers still have kids in high school we we look like me and i think that we need to stop talking about this uh what we might call kind of bed blocker generation who are not moving on and if they only moved on they would release all of these decent this decent work to another generation universities have become absolutely fixated on cheap labor so they're not going to be passing on the decent jobs that people like me hold to people like you they're going to be because they can change the way that they budget for uh resourcing so i think it's generational but the generational aspect is confusing what is very important is that people coming into the profession now and working for years on casual contracts are not building up any kind of pension capability and i think that's uh something we need to be absolutely attentive to because we're not just trashing the river now but we're trashing the river in the future second row and then yeah that's right i don't know your name sorry yeah and will you introduce yourself please right uh as far as i know my name's bill johnson i used to be a lecturer before i retired so i'm one of the baby boomers who victimized young people so we're told it sadly i didn't notice it as it was coming up through the ranks it might question to you kate which i think your talk is spot on the question would be do you see a role for organizations like trade unions which were traditional kind of bulwarks against exploitation to be frank and also the traditional socialist and social democratic political parties and the political left generally in the u k as in australia i think academic trade unions have found it very hard to lobby for people who work securely and people who work insecurely at the same time because their lives are entangled in ways that are really difficult to see but a big shout out to the ntu in australia who are now campaigning vigorously on casualization having taken a while to come to this and i think the same is also true in the uk absolutely i think we need to resist the demonization of labor organizations it's not in our interests to have old-fashioned ideas about labor organizations governing our practice in the present and i think that we need to have labor organizations that are absolutely good at managing what is becoming an academic gig economy hi thank you i'm Virginia Rose from uruguay latin america english is not my mother language so i will try to express myself um i think uh the the whole sheet you show is the is the origin of our open education is the hidden curriculum we have this is what open education was created so as to deliver content in in ship sorry budget content for everybody and we have to see it and think different ways to think about open education but this is this rhetoric is inside our heart inside our ways to consider open education so um what do you think we can do with this mess um i that was very clear thank you i'm open education this is inside our heart um i think this is why i practice optimism in this company specifically i think that this is exactly the community that has a track record of caring about social justice when facing outwards and now needs to care equally about social justice facing inwards the social justice issues are now inside the house and i believe that inadvertently some aspects of open practice including my own are worsening the justice issues inside the house for the time being um and so i think we need to develop a new consciousness a new lens on justice that allows us to match the justice of working conditions with the justice of learning conditions that have always been our focus um i think it's exactly the right question and i think this is the right community uh julia time for one last question julia hankser from vancouver island university in british columbia um do you think that competitive commercialization of the expanded university is at fundamental odds with the collaborative oer movement can they be reconciled are we needing to reorient the post-secondary educational system and as an example i wasn't aware of my colleague lisa oniel is speaking later about the commercialization of mooks and the freemium kind of model that's moving into that so might you have a comment uh just very briefly um i don't believe the two are incompatible i don't believe they can be incompatible because the host organization underwrites the time and resources that's available to people who have some kind of employment um they must they must begin to talk to each other about their values i i love i love that we started with values they must begin to talk to one another about their values um mindful of the fact that this is being livestreamed i will tell you that when i told my executive dean that i was coming to this conference and i said what the conference was he asked me what open education is so i think that the open education movement has hidden very effectively in the weeds of higher education and i think perhaps it's time to reveal your presence okay um we we we do have a tea but we have a couple of announcements but before them can we please have a last round of applause for a moving and wonderful kid killer sperm blue and humpback these are some of the ways of go away pay come see these beautiful intelligent creatures hire big goggie web stuff for all of their academic projects that thing they do with the tail that's them dancing in happiness at another successful project by big 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for us. It's exciting. Go for it. Hey, friends. This is Dan Burke. You're watching Behind the Scenes, Divine Intimacy Radio. We'll start the show in just a minute. Before we do, oh, and by the way, we are going to be talking with one senior, Stephen Rosetti, about the diary of an American exorcist. You're not going to want to miss the show. I want to tell you about a few things going on that you may be interested in, into the deep retreat at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church in Deer Park Road, Decatur, on Deer Park Road in Decatur. I should have just said Decatur, Texas. So that is on Saturday, June 5th. It's a half-day retreat on prayer. And then Divine Intimacy and Marriage Retreat, which is a three-day retreat, or is it two and a half? Three-day retreat? Two and a half days? Yeah. Yeah. And it's on, it's marriage retreat based on the mystical tradition of the church, which is very different than what anybody will have experienced. I know that. Will you make them hold hands?  And then do ice breakers, ice breakers, and we're going to make them hug and I don't know, you know, maybe wear dresses. I don't know. No, that's not the truth. So we're, we are not, our marriage retreats are not man-dangerous, or I don't know how you put it. The guys like it. The guys actually like it a lot. Yeah, because we don't make them do dumb stuff. Well, and I think from the fruit that we've seen, what's remarkable to me is see all the growth in the man. It's incredible. It's funny, the guy, head of our local fraternist chapter here in Birmingham, he went and he's a man's man, you know, and he did not want to go. He's friends with us. And he told us afterward, I did not want to go, my wife dragged me there. And he absolutely loved it. Yeah. Yeah. So much so that he's working to get it promoted like all through everywhere. Right. All this other stuff. Yeah. It's really, really great. So, you know. Yeah. You'll love it. It's a man's man's kind of retreat. Yeah. And it's also a woman's retreat. Yeah. But we get down to the real. The real issues. The real issues. No soft peddling. No. You will grow, you will grow an intimacy with one another and you will grow in intimacy with our Lord if you choose to do so. Right. So, don't miss this.  So, don't miss this. Get on there. Farmer's Branch, Texas at Mary the Immaculate Church. So, all of our events are out on spiritualdirection.com forward slash events. Yeah. And there will be, get this free childcare. Free childcare. There is going to be free childcare at this retreat. Wow. That's huge.  For guys, if your points warehouse, you know, secret guy talk, you know what I'm talking about. If your points warehouse is depleted, telling you what, this is a way to get your inventory back and stop. Lots of deposits into the emotional bank account if you sign up for this and you present it as a gift. Say, hey honey, we're going to take a few days away and I'm going to have a place for the kids. Right. Everything we take care of. Meals will be taken care of. You won't have to clean a dish. Right. Yeah. Anyway, let's get to our guest today and I have to say just at the risk of, well, you know what? We'll start the show and I'll say it at the start of the show. Okay. You ready? Okay. Let's go. On your mark, get set, go. This is Dan Sipney Burke. Welcome to Divine Intimacy Radio, your radio Haven of Wraths. Your hermitage of the heart. Your monastery of the mind where we lift our hearts and minds to heaven to draw upon the wisdom of the saints, to teaching them to the church, to help us to navigate this very challenging life that we all live if you have a pulse anyway, right? That's right. So we're welcoming again a guest that honestly, all the rest of the guests are going to get mad at me, but he's one of my favorite guests. Yeah. So his name is Monsignor Stephen Rosetti. He's the president of St. Michael's Center for Spiritual Renewal. He's participated in hundreds of ecstasisms, licensed psychologists, author of many books, and we're welcoming him on to talk about his latest book, which is extraordinary. And I'm not just saying that. Yeah. It's a wonderful book. Yeah. I'm going to explain why we both think that. It's probably a good idea to say why. I don't think we did previously. But it's diary of an American exorcist, demon possession, modern day battle against ancient evil, published by Sophia Institute Press. Welcome Monsignor, back to Divine Intimacy Radio. Dan and Stephanie, great to be back with you. So I want to tell you, Stephanie, why I think this is the best book ever written on the topic. And I'm not just saying that. The reason I think it's the best is because it has a lot of really short stories. Of course, many of which are out on spiritualdirection.com. There's a lot of short stories, which really draw you in or easy to read, powerful. He's very concise, but not shallow. And then then he provides the depth and with interspersed theological reflections as as this fitting. So I think it's uniquely tailored for the modern, you know, American mind or modern mind, if you will, where we are tension tense, span tends to be brief. But it doesn't. It reaches the modern mind without a compromising on quality of content. So that's my reason. I think it's the best. Yeah, no, I do, too. I find it incredibly engaging and not not scary. You know, I have read books that like rattle me and I it's it's just very uncomfortable and you kind of get to a point where you don't want to go there anymore, but this is factual, it's interesting, it's intriguing. And it's just this is what it is. This is this is why it's happening. This is how it's happened. This is the remedy. This is why it matters. This is why how we live matters. It's just really extraordinary, very engaging and intelligent and deep without, you know, being very heavy. I agree with you. So we're in the third episode, a third show. And what I wanted to jump in with is something that's in his bio that I don't think we asked him about the first time or the second time, which is you said, Monsignor, in two seconds, I learned 80 percent of what an exorcist needs to know. Can you tell us about what happened? Well, I was a seminarian and I was lying down in bed before I had gone to sleep and I was never happening before. And I was immediately attacked and it was unbelievable. It was it was powerful. It was with lightning speed. And I felt like I was going to be overwhelmed. And I knew it instantly what it was. I knew that Satan was attacking me. And so I lunged out of my bed, grabbed my rosary beads. In the instant I touched my rosary beads. God, and I learned a lot. First of all, I mean, I was stunned that that happened. And I learned that Satan's very real. He is very powerful and he moves with a speed of thought. So by myself, I would be completely overwhelmed in less than five seconds. But the Blessed Mother threw him out. So and I saw just ever since, by the way, ever since then. I always have my rosary beads on me. There you go.  And I make rosary beads, too, by the way, I knot them myself. And I would say, Michael here and there are sometimes our lady. So yeah, so I make them strong because they break. The other ones break too easily. But so I'm never without my rosary beads on me. And I realize with the Blessed Mother, no worries, no worries. But by myself, if I try to rely on myself, I'd be quickly overcome. So somebody asked me, so how can you go to sleep after that? I just instantly fell asleep. I said, well, the mother took care of me. What's the problem? So and and that's about again, about 80 percent. What do you need to know about as an exorcist that don't rely on yourself? Because if the same tries to do that in an exorcism, he tries to goad you into a mono face to face fight. No, don't never do that. And oftentimes he'll do that. And I'll say simply, I'm not your problem.  Get out. Yeah. Right. I think it's so powerful to to understand whose we are and to whom we belong and having that clarity that we belong to the Lord, that we are his and that we are protected by our lady, as you said, because I had an experience years ago, I think it was three or four years ago. And I as well was attacked. I was I felt like I was like there was a presence on time. It was physical. I felt it pressing down on me. I felt like I was choking and I was going to be drowned all at once. You know, it's kind of this all encompassing. And when I realized what was happening to me, I fought against it and was praying to Saint Michael, the archangel and and going and just standing in. No, I invoke, you know, Saint Michael and I invoke our lady and I would go back and forth and it lifted and it was gone. And it never happened again. And I think it was just for me, it was a reminder of we are in a battle and sometimes the Lord allows us, I think, to have an occasional experience with the reality of the dark side so that we can cling more closely to our Lord and all that he provides for us. So very powerful. Yeah, go ahead, Father. Well, it happens more than people realize. For example, I'm starting to as I work with priests and sisters and seminarians, whatever, it's almost common for anyone going into religious vocation, seminarians, postulates now is at some point, I would say, maybe, maybe majority of them. I have some sort of demonic attack since they don't want people to do that. And Stephanie shared hers. I think it happens more often people realize, but we don't talk about it. Yeah, I agree. And that's why your your book is so important. We're with Monsignor Rosetti, Steven Rosetti, who wrote the diary diary of an American exorcist, and he's the founder of the St. Michael Center, and you can find them online. There's a great app.  Well, we first put together this app is called Catholic Exorcism. We put together the app for ourselves, first of all, because to put all together in one place, these prayers, no matter where we were, we could access this app and their deliverance prayers for exorcists, deliverance prayers for priests, deliverance prayers for the laity. And so it's very, very useful. As a matter of fact, during some exorcism sessions, I'll whip out my phone, you know, and I'm not I'm not I'm not surfing the net. I'm pulling up our app for some of those prayers. So it just and by the way, it's been it's gone viral. We've had tens of thousands of downloads and it's been very exciting to see the positive. Matter of fact, we're just coming out with a Spanish version. Maybe next week, the Spanish version will go very cool. Oh, wonderful. Yeah, that's so needed. Yeah, it's a great it's a great it's a great app. Good work on that, Father. I'm curious, you know, as we've talked about, Stephanie, I have been in a number of exorcisms and I don't I don't remember being afraid not that I'm not really sensitive and aware of the danger because that was clear, but not like a debilitating sort of. Oh, no, you know, but I did go home the first night after assisting and I did have an attack and but I but I was ready. And I used a particular prayer out of the deliverance prayers for the laity book. What about you? Did you did you? I know you were pretty. We talked in one of the previous shows, you were pretty ready to do this. But have you ever experienced fear in the context of exorcism or with that role that you have? Oh, first of all, talking about who who should be in that room, as they said, you you're ready for it. And that's important that we have a strong faith. We don't let people in the room. You never let journalists. And they've been bad stories about journalists who attend sessions and be there or people not ready. We've had some recent examples. I've heard people shared with me that people were involved who shouldn't have been and suffered. So once you've got the armor of faith, if you will, and you're you're ready for it, it's fine. But just don't go in there as a nonbeliever because Christ is our protection of fear. Well, sometimes that's what Satan tries to do. He tries to frighten us when you when you've got a, for example, infested house. Why is it that things are flying around and banging and crashing and all sorts of demonic signs that what's what's Satan trying to do? Trying to scare you. And that's very typical. Satan tries to scare people. And the initial response, a normal human response, when someone starts flying around the room or just helping which I mean, there's an actual response go because you can't see the demons doing it. So but then the Lord kind of takes care of you.  Yeah, stop it. I mean, the name of Jesus Christ, I command the demons to stop it, you know. And then you start to realize that, yeah, am I supposed to be afraid of something flying off the wall? Well, I should buy that's like a 12 year old throwing a tantrum.  That's about the same.   Stop the antics. Yeah.  So right quick, before we go to the break, why is that so important? You know, you have a theological reflection on invoking the name of Jesus and and a short reflection on stop saying that name. Why is it so important? Why is the Lord's name so powerful? Well, as you said, I wrote a reflection on that in one session, we were using the name of Jesus and the demons respond, stop saying that name. And so we said it even more because we knew it was affecting them. And the fact is that all exorcisms are done in name of Jesus, because when you invoke the name of Jesus, you're invoking the presence of Jesus and the power of Jesus. It is not, you know, Steve Rosetti cast out the demons is the power of Christ. Christ gives that church and us that power, but it's always the name of Jesus. So when you invoke his name, you're invoking the presence of Christ, and that's what casts them out. Perfect timing to head to the break. And when we get back, hold on one second here, let me let me take us out the right way. I got to clear my throat. Perfect timing, Father, so that we can go to the break. When we get back, we're going to continue talking with Monsignor Steven Rosetti, the author of a Diary of an American Exorcist. We're going to talk about possession and manifestations and all of these very interesting topics. And I will say this is the most interesting book I've ever ever read. I think the best book I've ever read on exorcism. So make sure you pick it up at spiritualdirection.com shop and we'll be right back. OK, so I think I made that clean for you. So we're going to go. That was probably 1230 to 1245. What do you want to do? 13. OK. All right. OK.  This is Dan and Stephanie Burke with Divine Intimacy Radio. We're talking about spiritual warfare, a diary of an American exorcist. This is the book Monsignor Steven Rosetti, demon possession in the modern day battle against ancient evil. Before we jump back in, I also want to tell you about another book on spiritual warfare that is coming. It's called The Devil in the Castle. And it is a book that I'm writing on the progressive nature of the spiritual life and Saint Teresa of Avalos perspective on unique aspects of spiritual warfare along that pathway. And if you would like to be a part of the launch team and like to get an advance copy of the book and all that good stuff, make sure you send a text to<PHONE_NUMBER> and text the word Castle. And then you'll join that list. And as soon as the books out, we'll let you know. But let's get back to Monsignor Rosetti. So Monsignor, what does it mean that a demon manifests in one of our previous shows? I mentioned that somebody who's possessed was not able to come into our home because of, I don't know, whatever it was there that was bothering them. Somebody said maybe it was you said that people who are living for Christ stink to the enemy in there. It's repulsive, right? So hopefully we're incredibly repulsive. That's Father McManus's. Father McManus said that. So the enemy was the person was possessed. They couldn't come into the home. I call that manifesting, am I using the right term? How does that? What does that mean? But how does that work? Well, someone who is possessed doesn't always show their possessed, they walk around looking fairly normal. But then there are moments when you realize there's got spiritual demonic problems. For example, sometimes they get close to a church, can't walk at the steps and just can't go in. Or someone recently, where I was working with, she tried to take in the Eucharist and she said it felt like a smelt and taste like a dead animal. So it becomes repulsive, as you say, to the demons. And so it's a kind of a manifestation. Now, a full-out manifestation will happen during an ecstasy, the person's personality recedes into the background and oftentimes they're somewhat unconscious. And then the demonic presence comes forward. You're no longer talking to the person, you're talking to the demons. It's very obvious because they're in a rage and they're really evil and it can be a nerving. I mean, that's one of the ways we do diagnostics. When you're standing and looking face to face evil in the eye, it is a little nerving and debilitating at times. That brings up an important point, Father. What is it like to face the enemy as a priest of God? What can you help us understand standing as an exorcist in the midst of an exorcism? What is that like for you personally? What are you experiencing? Well, let me say on the backside before we get to that, but is it, first of all, having been an exorcist for over 13 or 14 years, that, and we do probably 20 sessions a week at our team. It affirms your faith.  So you learn, again, experientially, the truths of the faith. The second thing I would say is being an exorcist, if one's truly called, and for everyone in the room who's called, all the ladies and the deacons and the priests, it's a wonderful grace. You walk out feeling blessed. At the same time, the sessions themselves can be, especially if someone's really possessed, a little oppressed or whatever.  It is, well, they're ugly. And it is, one thing it does, it spiritually drains you. I had a naturalist, a new one, talked to me the other day and he said, is it just me or is it, after these sessions, I'm unusually drained. I said, yes, there is this spiritual warfare goes on which you don't even, part of it, you don't even see. So after a session or two, if I do three sessions in a day, I'm basically lying down for a while. I mean, it just drains the life out of you. So I would say it is challenging, it is draining, it is, but you gotta sign up, hang in there and get tough. We need people in that room who are somewhat fearless. When the demons start doing their thing, just say, just body retro-self in us, get out. Yeah, you know, it's interesting. Part of the reason, when I said I didn't experience fear, I don't wanna in any way communicate that's because I have this sense of personal strength, but I totally believe as you do, and as Stephanie does, and I think it's why we were, I mean, it wasn't fun. I'd say it was pretty brutal. In our, one case we worked on was very brutal because of the suffering, but it's just the knowledge that God is so much bigger. In terms of you could compare the strength of, if you could somehow physically represent the differential between the strength of God and the strength of a demon, it's like comparing all the matter in the universe against one grain of the sand of the sea. All the matter of the universe would be God's strength and the strength of the enemy in terms of in comparison would be of one grain of sand. And that even doesn't even get how disproportionate the whole thing is. So my comfort, I think your comfort, our comfort with dealing with these situations, it comes from knowing the reality of how big God is. Would you, does that sound on the right path to you? Sure, as you said, Dan, that nexusism is nothing to sort of glory and it is ugly.  And so sometimes people are a little bit too Hollywood about the whole thing. No, it's really an ugly event, but you get to see the power of God. And for example, when we're doing exorcism and you start bringing out holy things and saying the right, the demons are screaming. Sometimes you can hear it actually, but with the spiritual ear, you can hear them screaming. I mean, they're just, even a matter of fact, we had one session which is actually not that common that Lucifer himself was present and he was, of course, the last one gone. And at the end, Lucifer himself was screaming. And you could see the terror in his eyes. He was terrified. And one of the priests was so edified by that. He said, my gosh, I can't believe it. Lucifer himself was terrified. I said, he's terrified of the church. He's terrified of Jesus. It's fascinating because it sounds like the apostles, you know, when they come back and they're sort of amazed at how they're able to, right? How to, they're able to cast out demons. Of course, they watch Jesus do it. Then he says, now you go and they come back going, hey man, this is really something, this is really amazing. And I can imagine there was a similar feeling, but Steph, did you want to jump in on another question from? Well, and it reminds me, we just saw the, you know, the chosen, the chosen, the recent episode.  And with a wave of his hand, the man is delivered. And so he's the power of Christ, the power. It was, it was quite remarkable. It was a beautiful scene. I thought it was really well done. So tell us about this, because just the wave of Christ's hand cast this, this demon out of this man. What is this idea about Satan being on a short leash? That, that sounds very interesting. What is that? Very good, yeah. Very clearly that what Satan is allowed to do is very limited.   Never does. It does not allow the demons directly to maim someone. Now they can make them suffer, they can torment them and taunt them and hurt them a little bit, burn things, whatever, but they can't maim or kill them. And so they're reduced to tempting suffering and terrifying, but they're on a short leash now. Sadly in hell, demons are not on a leash. And I can tell people, I can think of a lot of reasons not to go to hell, and that's one of them.  As a matter of fact, I'm gonna miss it one touch and I told this story not too long ago. I had a religious in the room with us working with us and I said, for the first time, I said, I want you to know what you're dealing with. I looked at the demons, I said, child of truth in Jesus name. If you could stick a knife in the back of every person that's from twisted and laugh, would you do so? He says yes, but God doesn't allow it. Right. God, be praised for that. Yeah, let me ask you, Father, because I'm sure this is on the hearts and minds of many and many people have struggled with this, even in their faith. And why does the Lord allow possession, oppression, you know, why does the Lord, if the enemy's on a short leash, why do we have to suffer through this? Let me give you a couple of thoughts through that. First is when we have someone come to us who is possessed or oppressed or obsessed and they go through the process, it's not a magic ritual. It is a prayer of the church, the intercession of Christ and it's a conversion process. And so by the end of it, if it goes the way it should, the person's faith is strengthened. They learn the truths of the faith. Many of the people we deliver are in the front views of the church because they know what the truth is. So ironically, sometimes possession, oppression, actually can be a grace. But it raises a larger question of why God allows evil. That's really the tough question for everyone. Why do children suffer? Why is there a Holocaust? Why all these things, it's horrible things. And that's the mystery of evil and sin in the world. Yeah, I think, as I've watched and participated, I think what I see is what you've seen, which is, it seems to me, and this may sound a little strange, but it seems to me necessary for the salvation of the person for whatever reason, they needed to battle through whatever they had to battle through to come to the depth of faith they needed to be saved. Because in the end, as you note, these are some very holy people. And it's not just that individual's story. It affects all of the team. It affects the priest, affects the church. It raises, I think, the faith. And it helps us to intercede and supplicate to the Lord for the salvation of all souls. Are we in the ballpark, Father? Yes, I, sometimes people say when they're possessed or oppressed or whatever, that I'm the worst of people. Not necessarily true. Sometimes, Lord allows this thing for, not as you're suggesting, it's not only their sanctification, but for others as well. And of course, there's a whole history of spiritually sensitive people and mystics who have battled with Satan, you know, Padre Pio and great St. Catherine of Siena, the great saints and mystics. So it's really a part of our spiritual tradition and the holiest of our brothers and sisters often battle Satan. Yes, okay. Well, wonderful, Father. So everyone, check out Diary of an American Exorcist, book by Monsignor Stephen Rosetti. You can find it out at spiritualdirection.com on our shop button. And until next time, may the God of peace make you perfect in holiness, may he preserve you whole and entire spirit, soul, and body, irreproachable at the coming of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. There you go. Amen. Okay. So are we doing? Yes, roll into number two. We're gonna send...


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a primer to working lightly. Why is it even needed for us to talk about this? Well, if you have ever felt yourself wanting to escape a task or project, you're wanting to distract yourself with social media or a snack or you don't even arrive, you just are recoiling at the thought of a project or a task. I'm going to say that there are many reasons, but one core reason is that you haven't found a way to work lightly on that task. In other words, you work with great intensity or judgment or perfectionism, essentially. And this is why we procrastinate. I think this is really the core reason we procrastinate, we avoid, we exhaust ourselves when working on something is we haven't learned how to work lightly on that particular task or project. The core, I guess solution to this is to change your perspective about the task or project. This is a cliche, but there's a reason why it's a cliche. It's all good. Ultimately, somehow in some mysterious way, it's all good. And however this project turns out or this task that we're doing turns out, it doesn't really matter. And perhaps what matters more is whether we brought love to the situation. And so by love we can mean love of life, of ourselves, of the other that is going to encounter the output of this project, love of the process. And so that the core solution is a shift of perspective and the core tool for me for shifting the perspective is the energy reboot. Which is why it's so important to do the energy reboot so often in my opinion, in my experience because every 10, 15 minutes, I could again lose perspective. Every two minutes, I could lose perspective again and to say, oh, this is so important. That's why I have to frown my brows, eye brows and tense my body so that what? It doesn't help to tense the body to work on this thing? Probably not, but it's a natural reaction to, this is so important. This is important, this has got to be right. This has got to be perfect. This has got to, I can't fail on this. I can't just publish it like this. I can't just put it out like this. And yet the other shift of perspective, so the one shift of perspective is it's all good. That love is what matters here. And the other shift of perspective is that value creation and quality output happens with skillfulness. Can we agree on that? The more skillful you are about a task or project, the higher quality the output tends to be in a shorter time also, right? And how does skillfulness come about? Skillfulness comes about through many reps, reps, R EPS, repeated outputs, repeated actions creates more opportunity for skillfulness. At least you can then observe the process and go, oh, I've done this 500 times now. I've done this four times now and I've noticed now, I just noticed, oh my gosh, now that I'm doing it for the fifth time, I can do this a little differently here or differently there. At the very least, when you publish sooner or put things out there and with a time boundary, you collect the experiences that allow for skillfulness which then allow for value creation, truly quality output. So again, the two shifts of perspective, it's all good, it's all about love. And two, skillfulness comes with reps, many reps. So I've given you the tool here for, it's all good, it's the energy reboot. It's all about your wellness in the moment is more important than the perfection of the task. And then the second perspective, it's long-term skill building is what creates naturally quality output over time. And so what's the tool for that? The tool for that is to work lightly, to publish half-assed, to put things, to put more projects out there and therefore you have more time for more projects, sorry, to put projects out there sooner so that you gather more experiences, you actually reach more people if you're doing marketing and business and you have more time for more projects. So instead of spending three hours writing an article, or an hour writing a newsletter, you shorten the time. Now it takes stamina, and this is the final thing I'll say, it takes exposure to working lightly to develop the stamina for working lightly, ironically. It might think working lightly just means it's supposed to be easy. No, it's not easy because you've grown up with working hard, Lee. That's funny thing, right? It's a play on words. You work hard, so you recoil from work and so you hardly work because you're using all the wonderful distractions we have in modern times to recoil from work because working is heavy and it has a lot of judgment and perfection. So this is the homework for you or the, yeah, it's the ironic thing about working on working lightly means to continually practice these tools of something like an energy reboot and something like the tool of shortening the time you spend on each task bit by bit. First, right now you take three hours to write an article. That's working hard and therefore you don't have as many articles out there and therefore you can't test the market to see what you need to produce more. And so it's sort of like this vicious cycle of working hard, less experiences, slower skill building versus working lightly, more experiences, greater reach and greater skill building, faster skill building. And so it takes stamina. Right now you're taking three hours to work on an article. Now you're gonna say, I'm gonna do it in two and a half. I mean, I timed myself, it takes me three hours. Now I'm gonna try doing two and a half. My tool is publishing half-assed to build more experiences and therefore to have more skillfulness over time. So I hope this is inspiring for you to want to work on working lightly. And I have another lesson that goes more in depth into all this, but I hope this is helpful to understand the overall concept of working lightly.


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