Baha'i Blogcast with Rainn Wilson - Episode 38: Tom Lysaght

[@DianneJ.B]

So many gems in this conversation. Thank you.

[@shahnazdamasio3777]

Tom you ate unbelievable 🎉 So love you my dear Baha’i friend , you have so much to share , you have such elevating talk and points . I say dear Tom stay a servant of His cause ❤

[@debpless423]

Really enjoy Tom's talks. Thank your

[@shahnazdamasio3777]

Rainn love you and I so a k all of your info . Be well Be a servant of His cause 🎉

[@rashidlaghai8444]

Absolutely fantastic interview. Keep up the good work 👍

[@BahaiBlog]

Thank you so much for your support and encouraging words! :)

[@Unidad19]

Una buena conversación significativa, Gracias amigos y la historia que comenta Tom la puedes encontrar en la historia en Rompedores del Alba, en Dios Pasa etc Rainn. es increíble, y me encantaría tener esa trilogía de Tom. Algún momento🌻

[@Fernando-fr5cu]

What an awesome interview!!!

[@BahaiBlog]

We're so glad you like it! Thanks for your support! :)

[@christinefulbright9570]

Fascinating!! Great interview. Thank you.

[@BahaiBlog]

You're most welcome! Thanks for your support!

[@wendyscott8425]

I just happened to watch the movie _The Gate_ last night and noticed some elements of Bábí history that were new to me. Does anyone know if Tom Lysaght's uncovered information about this history was used to write the script for the movie? This was another fascinating interview, btw! I also just finished _Soul Boom_ a few days ago and found these interviews while I was reading it so I went back to #1, and now I'm here. *_Amazing,_*_ Rainn Wilson!_ Edit: Now, I'm reading Tom's _Persian Passion,_ and it's just astounding! What a contribution to the study of Bahá'í history!

[@Rooster70]

I love these interviews but are there episodes that dive in to the meat and potatoes of the bahai teachings?

[@edlabonte7773]

I'm a contemporary with Mr. Lysaght who went to college in 72-73 (didn't finish) and I just want to comment on Rainn's connecting the hippie movement with the civil rights movement. The hippies were as important to the civil rights movement as beatniks were to bebop jazz: in other words not at all except maybe parasitically.

[@c.a.t.732]

Let me guess... while other kids back then had posters of rock bands on their bedroom walls, you had pictures of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew.

[@edlabonte7773]

@@c.a.t.732 Not Nixon, Leon Trotsky. Hippies were, for the most part, privileged, middle class white kids who were much more interested in drugs than politics. Their interest in politics had to do with avoiding being drafted into the Vietnam war. That was the role of working class kids, white and black. The Civil Rights movement was fought mainly by African Americans.

[@c.a.t.732]

@@edlabonte7773 My mistake... but then referring to "hippies" as parasites is such an Agnewism after all.

[@edlabonte7773]

@@c.a.t.732 My experience with people who called themselves hippies is that they were primarily concerned with the image they were projecting. People who were the core of the civil rights movement were more concerned about not getting lynched. Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman were good examples of the former (though officially yippies not hippies). James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Henry Schwerner were examples of the latter.

[@c.a.t.732]

@@edlabonte7773 I can't argue with your experience, but mine from back in the day was very different. Of course the term hippie did become somewhat more of a fashion statement for some, but that was hardly a generalized reality. Those of us who marched against the war and for civil rights in places like here in California admittedly didn't have to worry about getting lynched, but that didn't make us parasites.