Everything we empirically experience is myth and metaphor. All that we experience with the senses points to a parallel archetypal reality. As above, so below. The universe we experience everyday hints at the universe within. This is why, say in… Continue reading

“Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the blisSource: www.brainpickings.org Continue reading

The reality is that the government and the economy are so thoroughly integrated it is impossible to separate the two.Source: truth-out.orgGDP is telling us the value of goods and services the economy produced. It is not telling us whether the… Continue reading

SANTA CLARITA, California—Cesar Millan crosses the road to meet me. Two pit bulls, a Chihuahua, and a Yorkshire terrier—named Junior, Taco, Alfie and Kaley Cuoko—follow. Off leash and at heel, the dogs are calm, almost languid. If Millan communicates with… Continue reading

If you want to see the clearest symptoms of the prion disease that has devoured the brain of the Republican party, the state Republican party is your Patient Zero. And, before a whole bunch of people in the Beltway media… Continue reading

William Morris, the influential nineteenth century British designer, artist, writer, craftsman and political activist, generated ideas in regard to the connection between labor and the production o…Source: attentiveequations.comWould not art be more profound and meaningful if there was no economic value or… Continue reading

Tianna Gaines-Turner has been struggling to feed her family for years. She testified before Congress this week.Source: billmoyers.com Continue reading

Source: www.levity.com“The opposites and their symbols are so common in the texts that it is superfluous to cite evidence from the sources. On the other hand, in view of the ambiguity of the alchemists’ language, which is “tam ethice quam… Continue reading

If you meet Oliver Harris someday, tip your fedora. The co-mastermind along with Ian McFadyen behind 2009’s Naked Lunch @50: Anniversary Essays and commemorative conference in Paris, Harris has com…Source: bigother.com Continue reading

College graduates are sorting themselves into cities increasingly out of reach of everyone else.Source: www.washingtonpost.comI don’t know what I think about this. Not the phenomenon, but the article which teeters between “this is a social problem” and “It’s great to… Continue reading