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Perennial Philosophy

  • Replace the Gospel of Money: An Interview With David Korten

    Dean Paton: Tell me how somebody who was an organizational management specialist, and then a new-economy thought leader, made this leap into what is as much a spiritual proposition as it is a political one—that Earth is a living organism,… Continue reading

  • Live Long and Prosper

    Leonard Nimoy/Mr. Spock was the first person I remember talking about logic. As a child, I did not want to be Captain Kirk in games, I wanted to be the Vulcan. When I think about the passing of a person from… Continue reading

    Live Long and Prosper

  • Liminality… and Hope – Patricia Damery

    Liminality is a word that people ask me to repeat twice when I say it, as if they didn’t hear it quite right the first time. As a Jungian analyst, I recognize the liminal state as that of many entering… Continue reading

  • Black holes do not exist where space and time do not exist, says new theory

    Being be’s… not-being be’s-not. –Parmenides In a new paper, physicists Ahmed Farag Ali, Mir Faizal, and Barun Majunder have shown that, according to a new generalization of Einstein’s theory of gravity called “gravity’s rainbow,” it is not possible to define… Continue reading

  • Bang bang — No Talk at All

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    Bang bang — No Talk at All

  • Mind Altering

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    Mind Altering

  • This Way

    We are frustrated by how we confuse  difference with complexity. Identify this now/here…  The simple way! Among so many choices there are a few decisions but no single path  when the Way  is the Encompassing Itself. Live – Believe –… Continue reading

  • Overcoming the McMindfulness Craze

    Jeffrey R. Rubin examines the troubles that arise when meditative practices of detachment, like those in Buddhism, are decontextualized and used to further repress our emotions. He recommends another kind of engaged reflection called emancipatory meditation. Emancipatory meditation – which involves intimacy with… Continue reading

  • Fairy Tales: Honest Harshness, Wishful Hoping

    Folktales, bedtime stories, and reworked myths open us up to the power contained in the “amoral scheme of the world.’ Fantastic images can become mundane by having pithy morals at the end… but they can be reinvigorated and lead beyond… Continue reading

  • 2015 #love

    Make this a year of love: #consolation #comprehension #compassion Continue reading

  • 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

    Declaration Against Modern Slavery – 2014

  • Teasing the Force

    First international teaser trailer for Star Wars, Episode 7: the Force Awakens… Continue reading

    Teasing the Force

  • 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

    Embracing the broad cosmos

  • 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

    The Journey to Mindfulness

  • 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

    Getting Started with Phenomenology

  • 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

    Out-of-Order with God

  • 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

    Speaking in Tongues

  • Who ‘Deserves’ Anything?

    A homily from Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, on the Gospel of St. Matthew 20:1-16. The suffering that arises from the sense of entitlement. Yet verily, verily… the last shall be first and the first shall be last. https://cac.org/images/MP3s/RRHomily-2014_09_21-Deserves-128k.mp3   Continue reading