In the past few days, I’ve noticed a number of articles extolling physical, psychological and spiritual benefits of certain psychoactive plants and the “drugs” made from them. For example, this one, on mainstream, CBS news: “Ecstasy helps treat PTSD patients” And this one, found on alternet.org, originally published in Mother Jones: “How magic mushrooms can […]
Read MoreI found this piece first on alternet.org, where it was retitled: “Should Wealth Be Held by the Few or Everyone?” I am reminded of a Thomas Berry quote: “We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life is the common responsibility of […]
Read MoreThe Nation, where this piece was first posted, used the word “would” in the title. I’d change that. Just imagine what the thousands upon thousands of ETs — stationed above, below and among us while waiting for us to wake up to their presence — imagine what they must be thinking about this latest in […]
Read MoreGregory Gull is one more author who “gets it”: we need to grow in ways other than the sheer accumulation of (manufactured) “goods” (which we then parade before others like two year olds: “Look at me! Look at me!”) This author’s twist is to redefine the word “progress,” and thereby keep that word as an […]
Read MoreA reader commented on my last bitcoin post that he had set up a site to help people get started: how to mine bitcoins. Thanks!
Read MoreAnd those old energies include the world views and attitudes with which we, the people, interact with our world. Very seldom do I see such a concise and comprehensive article about science and technology that also includes a both/and orientation: what’s outside us and how to change it depends on what’s inside us, and how […]
Read MoreI just noticed that climate activist and convicted monkey-wrencher Tim DeChristopher’s prison term has again been delayed, though the protests, say those from the group Peaceful Uprising, will continue. Tim, “now 29, attended a Salt Lake City lease sale in December 2008 to protest the last of the Bush administration’s offerings to industry, which included […]
Read MoreI find this article very beautiful. megworden.com Fierce Compassion: Tornados, Prison and A More Maleable Reality I have a client in Missouri. We speak on the phone every two weeks. Her home is an hour or so outside of Joplin where she works as a yoga teacher and massage therapist. She describes the nurses, the […]
Read More“There is a Clock ringing deep inside a mountain. It is a huge Clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. Every once in a while the bells of this buried Clock play a melody. Each time the chimes ring, it’s a melody the Clock has never played before. The Clock’s chimes […]
Read MoreThanks to openminds.tv. An interesting twist, in that not only did “an overwhelming number of people” want to see this traveling exhibit, but so, apparently, did some ETs! Who’s who anymore? Reminds me of my favorite bumpersticker. I’ve got it pasted on my fridge: “We are everywhere.” Breaking News: A mobile exhibition was organized in […]
Read MoreI remember being astonished, back in 1973, as I sat in the small audience at New College of California, to witness our speaker, Alan Watts, compose complex musical sentences out of thin air. His being felt calm, still, centered. So different from my striving, righteous, polarizing 30-year-old self. I had just been hired to teach […]
Read MoreWas yesterday’s hack of the CIA website a false flag to condition the public to accept internet censorship? (Also see my skeptical view of what may be government/hackster collusion in the post, “Random Hacks of Kindness.”) Huff Post story does not mention this possibility. CIA website allegedly attacked by LulzSec hackers The Huffington Post Bianca […]
Read MoreWhy? Because “to question the government story about 9/11 is to question the very foundations of our entire modern belief system regarding our government, our country, and our way of life. To be charged with questioning these foundations is far more serious than being labeled a disgruntled conspiracy nut or anti-government traitor, or even being […]
Read MoreAfter posting the upcoming October occupation of Washington Square in D.C. I now see that the hacker collective Anon called for Operation Empire State Rebellion in Liberty Square in New York, to begin June 14th. Their plan is to “occupy the park indefinitely, to express non-violent dissent to the further consolidation of wealth into the […]
Read MoreToday’s Full Moon/Eclipse reminds me: how could I forget? This Sun/Moon opposition is personally relevant, given that it’s sandwiched between my 22° Sagittarian Ascendant and my 27° Sagittarian Sun . . . Sagittarius: the big archetypal pattern within which the “ten thousand things” of day to day are rendered meaningful — or not! I guess […]
Read MoreThis is exciting. The organizers aim to begin a continuous presence on October 6th in Freedom Square, Washington, D.C., only two blocks from the Wbite House. Directly inspired by the Mid-East, they also follow in the footsteps of the ongoing action in Madison, Wisconsin where yesterday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld that state’s new antiunion […]
Read MoreWhen Newsweek magazine called Grand Rapids a “dying city,” five thousand of its people responded, to create a Grand Rapids performance piece strung together via a world-record lip dub video of the song, American Pie. Had me grinning from start to finish. Yeah, we just aren’t going to take it anymore from lamestream media and […]
Read MoreI came clean with myself yesterday, and shared it with you. Then I busied myself preparing flyers for our upcoming three events on June 25th. And today? Well, I woke up this morning to an email from a man named Koen who appears to live in Belgium and runs a very interesting site, www.wemustknow.net. I […]
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