My visit to the Cosmic Bodhi Tree
It was a cold crisp afternoon on Halloween Day, 2020. Six 5th graders took time off from...
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Imagining a Different World
Today we find ourselves in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a recession and a looming climate change. We can’t depend upon our economic, political and legal systems because they are what are causing our problems. We need a different way of imagining our future. This chronicle suggests that we turn to the insights of […]
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Shamanic Thinking in a changing World
Years ago Albert Einstein said, “We can’t solve our problems with the the same kind of thinkin we used to create the problems.” We are facing–a pandemic, a economic recession and the ever looming climate change. What kind of thinking do we need to deal with these situations. This article suggests we turn to an […]
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The survivors: the long consolation of ferns
Since the middle of March, when California’s shelter in place started, an acupuncturist friend has been offering weekly meditations via phone. She starts by asking us to imagine ourselves in a nurturing place in nature. I invariably find myself on a forest floor, trees reaching high above me, leafy branches arching overhead. I’m surrounded by […]
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Man’s Search For Meaning
This article uses the insights of Viktor Frank and his experience in Nazi concentration camps to...
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Cultural Racism in U.S. and Canada
After using American Racism with Black Lives Matter as an example of racial discrimination, this...
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Deep Time and Vintage Wine
Vintage Wine That’s what life has produced. Vintage Wine Years of slow and life-giving fermentation. Vintage Wine Centuries of learning, discovering, exploring. Vintage Wine Millenia of expansion, evolution, becoming. Vintage Wine Grown from a single seed, one dense and consolidated single point. This is the vintage of our times. This is the wine with […]
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A New Global Culture for the Global Village.
We need a climate change culture and a way to develop one. This article suggests that we look back in time to the 60’s to the insights of Marshal McLuhan and his concept of the Global Village. It hasn’t worked out the way he thought it would because it was taken over by the rulers […]
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The Pandemic, A Classroom for Climate Change
This article demonstrates how the CORONAVIRUS pandemic can prepare us to deal with climate change. After discussing the similarities and differences between the two realities it suggests the need for a different way of viewing and relating to the living Earth. *
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A Feeling For The Organism.
This article indicates that we are living in a world dominated by men, especially at the political level. But it notes that more and more women are taking lead roles in many areas. Because of their personal experience they seem to ave a different way of seeing the world and giving it meaning. This way […]
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