There Are Places…

The modern prejudice of looking inward, creating ourselves, as if we were a project to work on and to fix, risks losing what is beyond self: the world and our place in it. Ever felt lost? Me too. Maybe it is just that we are misplaced or that we don't live in place because our …

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Your Bright Baby Blues

Even before the Aurora theater shootings last July, I had an interest in mass shootings that have sadly become a part of our American culture in the last 25 years or so. Why are they happening - is there something in the water causing some new form of derangement? Seriously, what is clear to me …

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Freedom’s Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose

"Picasso said, "I don't develop; I am." And the puzzle in therapy is not how did I get this way, but what does my angel want with me?" James Hillman Although continuing to meditate, I stopped attending Ananda after a brief conversation with one of their ministers. I asked him how he would know when …

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