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  • Transcendence, two thinkerings

    Talking about overcoming our everyday hustle and bustle in the older mystical tradition A perspective that strips away a good deal of the mystical language… Continue reading

  • Pantisocracy 

    [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge and [Robert] Southey believed that contemporary society and politics were responsible for cultures of servitude and oppression. Having abandoned these corrupting influences along with personal property for a fresh start in the wilderness, the Pantisocrats hoped that… Continue reading

    Pantisocracy 

  • The background of North Korea

    The basic history is this: In 1910, Japan colonized Korea, treating Koreans not so much as foreigners but as a wayward subset of the Japanese race now reunited. Imperial Japan’s official worldview was race-based, far-right ultranationalism, obsessed with racial purity… Continue reading

  • #YallQaeda and the Limits of Liberal Laughs | Al Jazeera America

    #YallQaeda jokes barter in redneck stereotyping and ignore the more pernicious underpinnings of the patriot movement. “How fucking weird is it that armed militia group in the early stages of what might become a standoff is being laughed at by… Continue reading

  • Callicott to receive life-time achievement award

    Wonderful news concerning my teacher, colleague, and friend J. Baird Callicott. I am very proud to report that the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture announced that they are awarding J. Baird Callicott their first Lifetime… Continue reading

    Callicott to receive life-time achievement award

  • Let the mystery be

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    Let the mystery be

  • Saartjie Baartman and colonial capitalist obsession

    Baartman’s story is a tragic tale of colonialism, and one of the more egregious examples of the West’s exploitation of black women’s bodies. Her body had value because it was considered exotic, like any other animal housed in a cage at the… Continue reading

  • The Pretense of Accident: Yearning, Not Gripping, for Happiness | On Being

    When we are in a state of delusion, we are disconnected from how things actually are in the present moment. We don’t know where we are; we don’t have a sense of where we are coming from, nor where we’re… Continue reading

  • Slowing Down the Perception of Time

    Wherein our intrepid Camera Master, Randall Collis, converses with a theoretical physicist. Talk about mindwalking! “It is sad, we get older and our brain becomes efficient because we are boring!” she laughs. “Without adventure, life will fly right on by.”Her eyes… Continue reading

  • Man-in-Pause: My Mid-Century Change of Life

    I got up yesterday–o3 January 2016–realizing the I was fed up with Facebook. I want to keep blogging, but what is the real use of sustaining Facebook? Sure, I’ll still let things from here cross post over there. But here’s… Continue reading

    Man-in-Pause: My Mid-Century Change of Life