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July 25, 2011
The Philosophy of Bob Dylan 1
Do not bring me news of situations that I can do nothing about. I pay little heed to what I cannot change because giving it my attention, my life force, disempowers me. Just as it disempowers you, dear reader. Observe how you feel the next time you scan the headlines. Notice your frustration and anger, the impotence you feel.
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November 6, 2009
Let Fly Your Cry of the Heart
Its civilization in ruins and looted of its treasure, its sacred shrines buried under Catholic churches, its people decimated by slavery and smallpox, ground under the boots of the Conquistadores, treated like and disrespected as no better than savages, the Inca Empire died.
One of its sons wrote a manuscript which he entitled “The First New Chronicle and Good Government,” which he sent to the King of Spain as a plea for respectful treatment of the indigenous population ....
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April 9, 2009
Ethics, Logic and the Heart
For those of you born outside of this solar system, this is a fictitious character known as a Vulcan, from the planet of the same name in the universe of Star Trek®. Vulcans are known to pursue Logic as their supreme value, disparaging intuition and emotion, much to the annoyance of their human coworkers. Unfortunately, logic was never defined!
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April 5, 2009
Mother Earth Has P.M.S.
[with addendum]
This is an image of a berserker, a Viking warrior who went into trance and fought in an enraged state. “In old-Norse sagas, they were warriors who dressed themselves in bear skins, to make use of the fear common people had for wild animals. They whipped themselves up to a sort of battle frenzy, biting their shields and howling like animals. They were . . .
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March 21, 2009
The Destructive Myth of
Trickle-Down Economics
It is time to lay to rest this destructive myth, this mantra of Reagonomics. Has not this misconception created enough misery? Wealth created from the top then trickling down to the serfs is a feudal and subservient belief. Wealth is seen as coming from above, from the lords of the land.
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January 9, 2009
He Ain't Heavy . . .
I ran into the grocery store to buy a few potatoes to throw into my cabbage and veggie soup. Sitting on the pavement outside the store's sliding door was a man. He caught my eye because he was groomed, shaven ...
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December 28, 2008
The Myth of Energy Stealing
Many people believe that they are engines, biomechanical devices, alive in a wondrous universe of space and time -- and nothing more. No wonder those who are not awake to their full consciousness fear death. ...
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December 19, 2008
A Tribute to Ivan Rebroff
The freezer in the London flat we shared in West Hampstead with several other people was where my friend Derek Colley kept his vodka. From time to time he would take the bottle out and proceed to ...
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May 3, 2008
Presuppositions of Quantum Consciousness, 10
Our conceptualization of the universe and of our own consciousness seems to parallel our worldview. Early humans, when they thought about it and weren’t too busy just surviving, blended into the landscape of the natural world. They...
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April 23, 2008
Presuppositions of Quantum Consciousness, 9
The ten or so dimensions postulated by quantum physics have not been mapped, charted or otherwise defined as to their qualities. Certainly science has not addressed consciousness within these dimensions. But, fortunately ...
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