Chats with Larry Episode 11

On today’s RABBI BRIAN’S CHATS WITH LARRY

​I removed all the SpaceX chat and just have the conversations start with you talking about the iterations of the rockets and how even your vacuum cleaner has evolved. If you can give me an intro that very briefly explains what you guys were talking about we should be good.

  1. A conversation about vacuum cleaners leads into meditation
  2. The space between sleep and awake (sleep is a spectrum)
  3. Giving in to allow other spirits control/influence over you
  4. The freedom and permission to be myself
  5. Sleep is the burden of self-consciousness 
  6. Solitary confinement can create delusion
  7. My octopus teacher
  8. Getting our stimulus alone or in a group
  9. Getting some of your own medicine isn’t always negative

Flash Bang

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✧✧✧ My buddy Marc meets me near my house at 3:30 on Saturday afternoon so we can bike to the small park named for Elizabeth Caruthers. I looked her up as I started to write this article. Elizabeth Caruthers was an early pioneer woman whose Supreme Court case led to the 1850 Donation Act—ruling that a woman, married or not,

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Hiawatha Johnson, JR.

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The Delay

January 14, 2026

2026 issue #03 — The Delay I’m in my buddy David’s car. He’s driving me from my mom’s apartment in NYC to Newark, NJ, where I’m going to catch a plane back home to Portland. David and I have been friends for fifty years. Amazing. My phone dings. I look at it. Nothing important. Just an alert from United. *

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