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The Importance of Getting Words Right
In these times of growing illiteracy I find it more important than ever that people get their words right because words are what we use to communicate ideas to one another. Words are both positive and negative in that they are able to capture and reveal the great beauty in our lives and at the…
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Being in Alignment
These turbulent times call for getting our ducks in a row. But how? Are we just too divided, too nuts, too confused? For most of us this is quite difficult to discern because emotions, personal prejudices and judgments get in the way.
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Heaven or Perdition? A Conversation With AI, Theologians, And Me
Me: summing things up: Like all things in this physical universe, salvation and perdition are a dualistic polarity creating a choice of paths that can be taken leading to eternal joy and happiness or to eternal horrific suffering. According to traditional Christian dogma there are only these two paths and their destinations are final unless…
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Allowing the Tyrants to Fall. Humpty-Dumpty anyone?
Now is the perfect time to eject a big part of our personas and open ourselves up to what we could be, not necessarily what we have become in the eyes of the world. What is a persona? It is a mask, a sort of pretend self that we adopt for the purpose of navigating…
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Erasing War and Fear
There is always a war somewhere on this planet and often there are many wars, sometimes between two counties in opposition and sometimes involving packs of nations working together.
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Are You Getting Ahead of the Medicine?
In Native American understanding there is a concept called ‘getting ahead of the medicine’. This is an extremely useful idea. To understand the meaning of this term it helps to understand what a native person means by Medicine. Medicine is a term used by indigenous peoples around the world to refer to a person’s unique…
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Can We Fix This World?
There is a sense of overwhelm and helplessness about these enormous events that are everywhere these days.
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Expectation as a Tool for Transformation
One of humanity’s greatest advantages and challenges is our capacity to expect. Our ability to expect allows us to gather data and plan for events so that we can survive. For example, we use our powers of observation to gather data about weather changes. When we sense a sudden, dramatic drop in temperature, winds coming…
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Creating Our Future Right Now
This article is not about planning for the future, neither our personal desired future nor our desires for the future of the world. Why? Because we have been trying to prepare for the future for thousands of years and in so many ways it has not worked at all. We think we know what kind…
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Knowing The Nature of Containers
In this physical universe everything is divided into categories and held within containers. A container is something that holds other things. A box, a bowl, a bottle, a car, a building, a parking garage are all examples of containers. These are more obvious containers but most people do not readily identify their body, a relationship,…
