Keith “Maggie” Brown

  • Stylist Turns Ancient Hairdo Debate on Its Head

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A hairdresser at a Baltimore salon has stuck a pin in the long-held assumptions among historians about the hairstyles of ancient Rome and Greece. See on online.wsj.com Continue reading

  • Originally posted on WYRD ATTRACTIONS: “Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” — and find that there is no death.”  ― Eckhart Tolle Source: alongtimealone.tumblr.com via Claudia… Continue reading

  • The Leisure to be Your Own Self

    “You find peace  not by rearranging the circumstances of your life,  but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”  ― Eckhart Tolle Aware. Awakened. Enlightened. Mindful. Many ways of describing a person who is tuned-in with the Encompassing. Each… Continue reading

    The Leisure to be Your Own Self
  • How to Save College | The Awl

    I focus a lot on what youth are facing as well as what their parents & grandparents have done & are doing concerning the technofuture which is mostly hear today already. Because I am involved in higher education, I tend… Continue reading

  • “The Straight Agenda”: an e-toon from thebigslice.org

    etoon-straight-agenda.jpg (3292×1488). Continue reading

  • nesh nesh nesh

    …As has always been said, clarity comes with the giving up of self. But what this means is that we cease to attribute selfhood to these echoes and mirror images. Otherwise we stand in a hall of mirrors, dancing hesitantly… Continue reading

  • wandering, wondering: (a)maze

    Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the… Continue reading

    wandering, wondering: (a)maze
  • Originally posted on Evolutionary Landscapes: By and large, Talat’s story shares with the reader two distinct possibilities for our contemporary culture: transformation and healing. The two coincide: one wave piles over the other as it recedes, unveiling the shadows, traumas,… Continue reading

  • Tip Your Server and Save the World / Truthout

    Want to help the workers? The economy? The whole country? Tip your server, don’t be a jackass about it, and worry about the rest of the world after you do what is right within reach of your arm. Maybe, if… Continue reading

  • Comments to a Walking Meditation 20130205

    The good is one thing, the gratifying is quite another; their goals are different, both bind a man. Good things await him who picks the good; by choosing the gratifying, one misses one’s goal. Both the good and the gratifying… Continue reading

  • Originally posted on WYRD ATTRACTIONS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vr_vKsk_h8 Commemorating Black History Month Continue reading

  • Originally posted on sittinginthewoods: Last Saturday was the first substantial snowfall that we’ve had all season.  To herald the occasion, I was out of bed by 5AM, shoveling the sidewalk by 5:20 or so, and on the road by 6:30. … Continue reading

  • Mindfulness = Emptiness

    Mindful thinking properly becomes emptiness or no-thing. This begins by the inward turn. Being now/here, there is no then/there to which you can race that will possess all the things you “need” to possess. Continue reading

    Mindfulness = Emptiness
  • Philosophical Improv with Andrew J. Taggart

    In this short YouTube video, my colleague Andrew J. Taggart explores the way in which radiance manifests itself. A Ph.D.-trained philosophical counselor,  his forthcoming book, Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time, discusses the important connection between goodness and beauty. Links to follow up… Continue reading

  • Soul Spelunker: Musings On Metaphor And Allegory

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions These primeval symbolic images are best presented, not as allegories, but as metaphors. Metaphorical language is the language of Soul. Thus, there is a correlation between imaginal reality and metaphor, just as there is… Continue reading

  • Why You’re Not A Leader – Forbes

    Ten items to help identify the leader from the manager. Pretty helpful. Everybody thinks they’re a leader – most are far from it. The harsh reality is that we live in a world awash with wannabe leaders. As much as… Continue reading

  • From Arab Spring to global revolution | Paul Mason | World news | The Guardian

    Two years on from the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the new Egyptian president is from the Muslim Brotherhood; on the streets of Cairo, the same kind of people who died in droves in 2011 are still getting killed. On the… Continue reading

  • Originally posted on philosophia: Looking back over the centuries, philosophy has often served society as the proto-discipline par excellance.  It was the name given to the community of the wise, before that wisdom become specialized enough or technological enough to… Continue reading