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Being Political

June 28, 2020

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WE THE PEOPLE Living from the Inside Out Every word I speak, every step I take,  every name I call,  every judgment I make… Politics encompasses everything we do and say, everything we don’t do and say, and its impact on others. It’s impossible to be a-political. Our lives are a statement of our politics. […]

Words Matter

June 27, 2020

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The Power of Words for Destruction or Healing Words can be used as bullets or seeds. Words are the initial act of war or peace. When I was a kid, I’d hear someone cut loose with a bunch of words that I was not allowed to use, our standard response would be, “Your intelligence is […]

Labeling, Categorizing, Dehumanizing, and Eliminating

June 26, 2020

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The Objectifying Power of Labeling Using a language of dehumanization.Weaponizing Words.Character Assassinations.Name-calling and Insults: forms of bullying, violence, and control.Why do we need to dehumanize the “Other”?Why can't we be human together? One of my greatest pet peeves is a know-it-all acting like they know me better than I know myself. Another is being called a […]

Virus of the Mind; a mental health pandemic

June 25, 2020

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Am I my own Crap Detector? Or am I spreading the Virus of the Mind? Another name for it: The Information Virus From Axios: Axios Today podcast: A misinformation “infodemic” is thwarting the fight against coronavirus  https://www.axios.com/axios-today-podcast-coronavirus-misinformation-152f9d2a-4d23-48dc-bde5-7fbc74e1ca09.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=email The coronavirus is a physical example of what is happening in our minds and spreading throughout society. It […]

All Lives Matter?

June 23, 2020

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Of Course, All Lives Matter. AND, of course, Black Lives Matter. Black Lives MUST Matter in order for All Lives to Matter. Of Course, if Black Lives don’t Matter, then All Lives can’t Matter. All means All. We can’t pick and choose who matters. All means All. It is not a matter of “either … […]

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I have NO interest in convincing others to think in any certain way. Anything I post is simply something to think about. Everything I post is continually progressing and evolving so expect nothing to be static and all to dynamic. So don’t hold me to it. Just take it or leave it. But…
I AM interested in these three things:
1) That we all think and do what we know down deep is the right thing
2) That we all honor and respect that in others
3) That we all seek to understand more than to be understood.

HISTORY OF THE HEART

“Even the longest, most detailed, and most expressive obituaries always omit the essence of a life: the history of a person’s heart. How many of us wish we had asked more questions of someone we loved, not about what happened and when but about the inner experience of being that person? About hopes and fulfillments, failures and regrets? About moments of despair and moments of meaning?” (Parker Palmer, Healing the Heart of Democracy)

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(2.0) version is my inner work of systematic deconstruction, deconversion, uprooting, and dredging up a lifetime of deep-seated conditioning, ingrained beliefs, and dogma; discerning trash from treasures and thoughtfully reconstructing a world and life view that reflects the shape of my heart. As I go deeper and beyond, answers fade into questions, certainty into uncertainty, knowing into unknowing.

Discover the truth wherever it may be found.

Refine the truth within through the fire of discernment.

Follow the truth wherever it may take you.

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“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” (Rumi)

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” (Rumi) 

“I asked myself, ‘What is the myth you are living?’ and found that I did not know. So… I took it upon myself to get to know my myth, and I regarded this as the task of tasks… I simply had to know what unconscious or preconscious myth was forming me.” (Carl Jung)

“Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life,
and you will call it fate.”
(Carl Jung)

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