Smile Damn It

October 16, 2009 – 1:28 pm

I have a simple practice that I use on both negative people I encounter in the real world,  and negative thoughts I encounter in my personal fantasy world.  As an adherent to the Integral Model I think that the best practices are the ones that work on all four quadrants (internal, external, singular, plural), all [...]

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Religion for Modernity

August 14, 2009 – 3:09 pm

The great gift of Modernity was the differentiation of the three primary spheres of human concern: the I, We, and It realms also known as the Beautiful, the Good, and the True. The disaster was the realm of the True being so convenient, successful, powerful and bratty that it collapsed the other two realms into [...]

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The Great Answer(s)

July 24, 2009 – 6:45 pm

Life is a mystery. That much seems certain. No matter how you look at it, eventually you come up against a wall of “I don’t know.” That’s what the mystics through the ages have told us. Still, we keep looking, hoping to find some great answer to the question life presents.
The funny thing about [...]

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