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  • Loneliness And Social Anxiety

    Originally posted on Adventuring With Anxiety: Edit: I’d like to thank everyone who has commented so far, and apologize for the fact that it took me this long to respond. I had no idea I was Freshly Pressed, and as I’d only received about 5 page views, 2 likes,  and…

  • American Freedom

    I recently reposted this picture to my Facebook which had been making the rounds. It drew a lot of comments and got rereposted. In his response, my good friend and fellow pedagog John F. recommended me one of his favorite history texts, The Story of American Freedom by Eric Foner.…

  • Haunting, Tragic, Wonderfully Bittersweet – Neil Gaiman’s “Ocean at the End of the Lane”

    Originally posted on ColorTheBooks Blog: One thing that I’ve noticed, time and time again, is how damn good Neil Gaiman is at writing an ending. From Sandman to Neverwhere to The Graveyard Book, Gaiman wraps up his tales in such a soft, melancholic way that I can’t help but feel…

  • Story of the Album – Part I, The Central Conflict

  • Santa Muerte: spiritual inspiration beyond the mainstream

    Originally posted on Eternal StudentShip: http://vimeo.com/64688747 Arely Gonzalez’s bedroom is dominated by a giant altar; at its center a skeleton draped in jewelry and dressed in a sparkling jade gown. She is La Santa Muerte—The Holy Death—the object of Gonzalez’s affection, a powerful ally in a precarious life and a…

  • Grace Jones – Use Me

    My buddy-friend-guy Chris listens to so much great music and watches so many awesome videos. And until recently when his searches landed on Ms. Jones, I had forgotten how greatly I enjoyed her music way back in the 80’s.

  • Will this generation reach avatar immortality?

  • How Fast is Exponential Growth? (Or, Yao Ming Confronts the Vastness of the Universe)

    Originally posted on Math with Bad Drawings: On this humble brown planet, we’re used to things growing at a steady pace. Trees add a ring every year. Families expand by one child or marriage at a time. Even in their most extreme months of food-gobbling growth spurts, teenagers will sprout…

  • When I take off my vulnerability armor and allow myself to be seen…..

    Originally posted on OutTales around the Fire: One of the many things I love about storytelling is that each time a story is told, something is always discovered or rediscovered by the storyteller. No matter how many times I tell a tale, I am always finding another insight or revelation,…

  • Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at…

  • Red White and Robotic

    Originally posted on Riled Risibility: A well-loved holiday staple in the west, the candy cane elicits in many feelings of peppermint laced winter wonder and sentiments of snow-covered good cheer. Most associate the sugary treats with Christmas cookies, ornaments, and perhaps awkward school and office parties. Rigged elections, sentient roboinsect…

  • Mysterium Magnum

    Another of Jakob Böhme’s ciphers of the mysterium magnum appearing in his Theosophische Wercke (1682). The All Seeing Eye beholds the Phoenix Reborn. This is the Psyche/Soul transcending the encircling lifeworld. The break in the Ouroboros is the Nothing betwixt Alpha & Omega of chronological time. The Soul climbs beyond…

  • Centrum Naturae

    “When thou art gone forth wholly from the creature [human], and art become nothing to all that is nature and creature, then thou art in that eternal one, which is God himself, and then thou shalt perceive and feel the highest virtue of love. Also, that I said whosoever findeth…

  • Dear Dionysus XXXVI: Beansprout Dracula

  • Zen of Spring

    Originally posted on monk's designs: monk's designs View original post

  • quiet transformation

    quiet transformation

    Silence is the best alchemy. — Rumi Related articles Ageless Wisdom (keithwaynebrown.com) Rabia, Rumi’s Inspiration: How will you ever find peace unless you yield to love (eternalstudentship.wordpress.com) If You Need Me, I’ll Be In Rumi’s Field (lucykaufman.wordpress.com) Let Me Be Mad, Rumi Poem (mantrasandmiracles.wordpress.com) piercing Intension (keithwaynebrown.com)

  • Summer Solstice

    Originally posted on Keithpp's Blog: Summer Solstice Stonehenge Summer Solstice, 21 June, the longest day. Stonehenge, an ancient astronomical clock. As the sun rises on the Summer Solstice, the sun is exactly in line with the gap in the circle. There is an outlier stone that is exactly on this…