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When I was a new seminarianI had a favorite parish priest mentorwho told me the best way to dieis while having an orgasm. I wasn’t sure if I could askwhy he was so exclamatory sureof his nakedly compromising position.I did not really know him all that well,although he seemed to be a swell up kind of Father. Perhaps I looked a bit nervousbecause he hastened to reassure methe reason he is…

Educational process,like any systemic change with progressive intent,is not only about successfully transferring exegetical traditionsto the next hopefully all-consuming generation. That may be the more surface half of trans-generational learning,and a necessary portion,but the deeper,innovatively absorbingco-redemptive half,is about learning transformative therapeutic balanceas contrasted to…

Prayer’s wealthy positive potentialis not as substitute for healthcare planning. Prayer might be a prelude to planning,and might be an appropriate postludeto fully implemented plans,whether psalm of gratitudeor requiem of remorsedepending on healing or diseasing outcomes. Even better,some gratitude and humble remorse,held together,demonstrating we have learned somethingfrom our nondual…

Polypathic conversation with David Holmgren: Today it is common to hear the suggestion[polyculturally-informed] education and [compassionate communication] trainingis the key to allowing people to contributeto a more sustainable [eco-political] future. Although I recognize the value of formal education and trainingand [especially cooperatively-owned and -managed] communications media,they are…

I have heard many moms repeat“You never stop being a parent.” Sadly, I don’t see or hear that quite so much from the dads,although I know of remarkably nurturing exceptions. I thought of this as my impossibly young,yet oldest son,nearly twenty-two,stopped by for an early birthday present, cash,before heading out in his carwith a fellow rap artist friendon their way from this Atlantic coastto…

Trees in a mindbody forestwork together in hidden waysand through this cooperationincrease their shared resistance to disease. In this way,densely polycultural forest systemswith mature synergetic resistanceco-evolve even more robustand mutually resonant;not might makes rightbut more like right relationships mergecooperative flowing sight. This fertile co-intelligenceis an integral faceof…

Pip: gdill52 is back, and this week the site goes from national economic policy to the neuroscience of intimacy — which, honestly, is a wider range than most cable news networks manage in a full quarter.Mara: That's the territory we're covering today — a sharp critique of trickle-down economics, and a dense, playful meditation on polyamory and peer therapy. Let's start with the money — or more…

Why is it that philosophers and scientists,politicians and even theologiansexpect more bountiful outcomesfrom relentlessly segregatingand disparately definingwhat their passionsand great pleasuresare not? Positive definitionslie withinthese negative defensive boundariesof what it,whatever “it” may be,is not. Religion is not scienceand philosophy disregards the merely scientificand scientific…

Buckminster Fuller and Julian Jaynesrecently reviewed their cultural and scientific influenceon health and well-being,economically ecological outcomes,during our current NonDual Transitional Era. Bucky:I wish I had spent more time speaking as a Unitarian Positive Teleologist.Perhaps that would have taken care of my diminished trends in cultural awarenessof what,in retrospect,was exhaustively…

This course will encourage aspiring cooperative economiststo distinguish between mean national incomesand global median incomes,with diverse long-term capital growth v evaporation trendsexpected. First,imagine USA mean income, including investment income,could approach $500,000 for two-parent working householdsper year. Are you kidding me?Where do you come up with those numbers?And that many…

Those of us living in the USAtoo often hear Republican capitalist dogmaof The Great Trickle Down Theory,in which those who have mostmust get more firstso they can hire more who have least,although perhaps without proficient wageand without health care if avoidable,to spread capitalizing wealth aroundso we can become better day and night spenderson all the thneeds and trinkets offeredin exchange…

Who would argueabout which came first,intelligent compositional design,or a decomposing natural Earth? No one.To do so is too patently absurd,when we choose to see these twonot only as oppositional cause-effect,but also as appositionaldipolar co-arising balanceof resilient resonant information,composing and recomposingtacitly implied within decomposing energetic balance. The very idea that…

A beautiful,radiantly pregnant,lady libertyswings back and forth across this Left to Right predominating stageof political history. As she recesses toward Left stage climaxshe recedes from LeftBrain audience’s co-evolving viewfor one ecstatic, yet intellectually ambiguous, momentsweeping a revolutionary changeaway from monocultural history,to re-emerge in royal blue skirt of virginal…

Cooperative Feministasare not quite so much Competitive Manifestos. In David Holmgren’s introduction to Permacultural Therapeutic Design,he contrasts “Industrial Culture” with “Sustainable Culture”kind of like comparing macho LeftBrain fundamentalist culturewith feminist RightBrain enculturation, nurturance, resonanceover the longer-term scenaria,rather than shorter-term dementio. Anyway,…

Best to leave it alone,we have plenty of environmental climate messesin our cranial ontological confusion already. I was hoping to be helpful;not professional turf sniping.When I imagine virtuous glial cell networks,mine primally responds to music and fragrance therapies,lusty rhythmsand fractal patterns With the same 4D structureas regenerative DNA tissue,double-bonding octave color wheels and…

I was noticing that those in the Unitarian Universalist Association,with which I am more or less anonymously affiliatedin some far too sensitive way for personal comfort,believe in three prime sources for their (our) truth search,rather like a revised holonic trinity,equally at home for Buddhist monkor Islamicor passionate Christiannot at all black v whitesaint v sinnerfundamentalistic. The…

As a young avid readerI always read the Introduction or Prologue,when offered,to see if this treatise overturewould take me some place I cared to wade through. As an old avid readerI always begin with the last chapterbecause I may not otherwise have time to get there Here I listen to learn if it might transport meto some place I care about and believe inand might even faithfully hope for A…