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0Five Things No One Tells You about The Military Industrial Complex
The elephant in the room is, without a doubt, militarism and perpetual war. It's time that we point it out to each other, exorcize it, and evolve past simply being human, to becoming humane.
2Loving Greatly: A Guide To Self-actualized Love
There are three keys to happiness: The ability to love, the ability to let love, and the ability to let love go. Discover strength in vulnerability, respect in freedom, and liberation in compersion.
0The Elusive Self: an Archetypal Inquiry
The self is like a snake's skin; it is in constant renewal. But there are healthy and unhealthy ways to "shed" one's "skin." The use of myth and archetype is one way to go about healthy change.
0Message to all Plutocrats: a Declaration of Emergence
We don't live in a democracy: rule by the people. We live in a plutocracy: rule by the rich. Life is too short, and the earth is too precious, to leave it in the hands of a corrupt few. We must rebel.
0Activism and the Rise of the Animus
One billion women rising to the sound of a Gaia battle-cry. Stop the violence against women and Mother Earth. One billion women rising, striking, dancing, and loving despite the powers that be.
6Eight Signs you May be Living a Courage-based Lifestyle
If we are to act courageously there must be something we are hopeful for. It may be as simple as the hope that our courage will save lives, or as complex as the hope that the courage to go against the grain of unsustainability will open up new pathways to sustainability. To be courageous despite fear and shame we must be able to unite wisdom and acumen with foolishness and enchantment. This way the future becomes an open-ended adventure.
2The Virtue of Dissent: a New Concept of Moralism
We need to stop redecorating the prison. We need to pull the decorations down and see the prison bars for what they are. I mean really let it sink in that we are imprisoned –feel the coldness of the steel, the metallic scent of injustice. Then, and only then, can we make strides toward escape. Then, and only then, can we realize the virtue of dissent.
0How to Spot an Environmentalist
It's easy to spot an environmentalist. Just look in the mirror and ask yourself if you like breathing clean air, drinking clean water, and eating healthy food. And don't be a zombie.
1Decolonizing Gaia: The Great Rewilding
Change is inevitable and should not be feared. The question is should we move from an unsustainable fear-based culture to a sustainable courage-based culture. Decolonizing Gaia and rewilding humankind is a step toward the latter.
0Proactive Citizenry and the Political Gambit
Changes for the better should never be a goal of perfect conception, but advancement from misconception to ever more refined misconception. Progressing from an election-based plutocracy toward a sortition-based democracy with emphasis on assembly, consensus, autonomia and freedom, is just such an advancement.
2The Importance of Solitude and Meditation
Like soft coyotes in a hard desert our power is a veil. Meditation within solitude teaches us humility so that we are able to lift this veil of pseudo-power and discover the truer power of cosmic interconnectedness.
2How to Have Power over Power
In a world where the ritual is money, one gets power over power by creating new rituals that trump money. What motivates human beings is not money but purpose. And so our rituals must have meaning.
6A Heuristic Inquiry into the Correlations between Consciousness and Theoretical Physics
This thesis is a first-person heuristic investigation of consciousness and theoretical physics. The result of this inquiry is a theoretical construct: the finite-bias principle. This principle is the result of paradoxical findings discovered while researching the correlations between physics and consciousness derived from the difference between perceptual reality and actual reality as a matter of finite and infinite conceptualization.
5Eco-moral Tribalism as a New-world Ethic
What/where could the Occupy movement be moving towards? Eco-moral Tribalism is one very real possibility. Take the first step into humanity's next great adventure.
7How to Count Coup Like a Genius
Live deliberately through imaginative action. How to Count Coup Like a Genius shows how to get power over power by counting coup on one's ego.
5Commitalism: eco-moral capitalism and ego-moral communism
Commitalism is a combination of ecomoral-capitalism and egomoral-communism. By ecomoral I mean holistically conscious and compassionate. By egomoral I mean holistically individuated and ethically motivated. Commitalism combines the “heart” of communism with “the balls” of capitalism.
6How to Prepare for Joseph Cambell's Call to Adventure
"The call" can arrive spontaneously, as a blunder, or as a lucky break. It can arrive through super-serendipity, as a chance occurrence, or a cruel twist of fate. It can come through new life, or through unexpected death, or both. It can come from a book, a song, or even a movie...
6Disaster Shamanism and the Vicissitudes of Power
The many make one lifetime into less; the wise make one lifetime into many. Disaster shamans are intent upon making their one life into many. The diatribe of the Disaster Shaman is: go forth and simplify.
4Heyoka Yawning: Initiation by the Thunder Gods
Heyoka is the Lakota equivalent of a sacred clown. They were thunder shamans, representing the mysterious dual-aspect of nature and the cosmos. Their tactics were seemingly foolhardy and ridiculous, but they were revered by their people as powerful and wise.
5Transforming Militaristic Inertia into Authentic Courage
The sad thing is that American soldiers are fighting blindly. They are fighting for an America ruled by a plutocratic regime. I was once duped by the illusion that our nation is a democracy too, having served my country for ten years. But I have sense transformed my courage into real-world action.
11Seven Rules for How a Woman can Get a Man to Fall in Love with Her
Rule #1: Wait as long as possible to have intercourse. Rule #2: WAIT AS LONG AS POSSIBLE TO HAVE INTERCOURSE! Rule #3: Get him to view you as less of a sexual object and more of a human being...
9How to Question Things Like a Genius
A genius is someone whose mistakes are more difficult to imitate than his creativity. Genius is nothing more than quantifiable error. These are tactics one can use to quantify such error through fallibilism.
0What is Self-actualized Love
Self-actualized love is a mix of passion and freedom. It is welcomed and enjoyed; non-possessive, admiring, not needy, and pleasure-giving. It is never sated, doesn't require gratification, and generates little anxiety or hostility. Instead it generates abundance, creativity, understanding, open-mindedness, and hunger.
12How to Write Like a Genius
In writing, as in all art, comfort is to predictability as perfection is to paralysis. Just as practice begets precision, quantity begets quality. In the end, art is less about what you have not done and more about what you have done.
3How to Start a Revolution using Self-inflicted Philosophy
Starting a revolution is no walk in the park. It's more like a walk through hell in order to reach heaven. In order not to put the cart before the horse, one must self-inflict philosophy in order to have a mind strong enough to think through hell, and eyes sharp enough to see heaven.
0Hard Problems, Binding Problems, and the Perceiving Brain
Consciousness is more than what it seems to be. It is a dynamic phenomenon created by matter that either is or is not an illusion. All we know is that we are directly ‘experiencing’ something. And, also, that something is going on that we cannot directly experience.
