Keith “Maggie” Brown
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The Path of the Sacred Clown: Where Trickster and Shaman Converge
Like Thomas Merton wrote, “In a world of tension and breakdown, it is necessary for there to be those who seek to integrate their inner lives not by avoiding anguish and running away from problems, but by facing them in… Continue reading
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You don’t need empathy to support a depressed person
Very true. I can admit that this has happened to me and that I have done it to others. Continue reading
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State Terrorism and Racist Violence in the Age of Disposability: From Emmett Till to Eric Garner
The larger reasons behind Eric Garner’s execution seem to be missed by most commentators. The issue is not simply police misconduct, or racist acts of police brutality, however deadly, but the growing use of systemic terror of the sort we… Continue reading
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Cotton and Capitalism: The Tapestry of Domination
The truth is that no one knows what “the history of capitalism” is because its history is just now being written. But if there is any indication of what it might look like, it appears in Sven Beckert’s remarkable and… Continue reading
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Declaration Against Modern Slavery – 2014
Dec 02, 2014 – Vatican City – The Global Freedom Network organized an historic moment with Pope Francis I acting as host to a cadre of religious leaders from around the world in order to draw attention to modern slavery.… Continue reading
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Candice Bernd: Don’t Frack With Denton!
A small city in Texas has taken a bold step forward by banning fracking within municipal limits. Source: www.truth-out.org My friend and fellow Dentonite, Candace, talks with Thom Hartman about the citizen supported local ban on fracking in Denton. Continue reading
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“Robert Anton Wilson” from The Occult World Routledge, 2014 | Erik Davis – Academia.edu
Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) born Robert Edward Wilson, was an American novelist, essayist, editor, playwright, and lecturer whose playful and prolific writings helped make him one of the most stimulating and influential popular thinkers in the ‘head’ or ‘freak’ currents of… Continue reading
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Teasing the Force
First international teaser trailer for Star Wars, Episode 7: the Force Awakens… Continue reading
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Embracing the broad cosmos
We never know with any certainty where we are going. Only conviction carries us forward. And such conviction, if it would do better than we did yesterday, must arise from a courageous assessment of who we are by looking at… Continue reading
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The Journey to Mindfulness
To give everything back in open communication–the fullness of love–is the vocation of everyday life… Realize this… Around our ownmost personhood there is a circle of earnestness that we might call our mindfulness. It has two principal faculties, the will-to-order… Continue reading
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Getting Started with Phenomenology
Someone on Quora asked, “What primary and secondary sources should I read if I want to better understand phenomenology and the phenomenological method?” I always steer folks wanting to learn about phenomenology in the direction of getting a good foundation in… Continue reading
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Out-of-Order with God
The ordinary, everyday stuff where the Enduring flows as our duration… Things that one does: getting up, brushing your teeth, making breakfast, or even more particularly yawning – blinking – scratching… What we do in every moment of the ordinary… Continue reading
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School of the Americas Morphs Into US Training Industrial Complex
Activists still demand closure of the School of Americas 25 years after a Jesuit priest massacre. Source: www.truth-out.org interlocking networks of violent control Continue reading
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Speaking in Tongues
humming refrigerator pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral tapping keyboard pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral cursor flashing on screen pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral breathe breathe breathe where mind wanders at night along the pathways… Continue reading
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