In response to the question about what it means to live a good life, Liz Gilbert stated this: It’s to know that you are loved…by the divine…not a small L that is dependent upon other people or other things working out in a way that you want them to….that whatever…

Collaboration consultant Miki Kashtan explains that change happens in four stages, which title the subsections that follow. 1. We recognize what isn’t working. What isn’t working is the current neoliberal economic and social structure, the income inequality. If we stop arguing about how and why that happened, the 99% of…

As you may be aware, “Billions are going to zillionaires under the guise of pandemic relief,” reports a New York Times journalist. Now they’re planning the next one. Obviously the U.S. economy is going from bad to worse. Multi billionaire Nick Hanauer has been trying to convince his “fellow plutocrats”…

Collaboration consultant Miki Kashtan explains that change happens in these four stages, which also title the subsections that follow. Recognize what isn’t working: highest per-capita spending & highest administrative costs Recognize what alternatives are available: single-payer system & emphasize prevention Trust that we have the capacity to reach an alternative…

We don’t want to believe pain and discomfort are inevitable for everyone, especially for ourselves. It’s true that we have some choice about how much we suffer. The Buddha as well as famed modern psychologist M. Scott Peck and psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis all have agreed that pain is an inescapable…

The debate about evidence for or against the “near-death experience” phenomenon being brain-based is simply another version of the argument between what we could call traditionally a reductionist/materialist view and a dualist view (altho a monist view doesn’t preclude consciousness after death). There can’t be solid proof either way. The…

Whether or not you believe in the possibility of life-after-death experience (near-death experience or NDE), you might find the following description interesting as a basis for a thought experiment about whether a collective of independent socio-political and economic structures would be feasible. This is reminiscent of some regions of Europe…

These honorable pessimists. Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky work tirelessly to help us get over our denial of how bad it really is. They decry the stupidity of positive thinking, or in other words, magical thinking, the belief that if we focus on what we want, the horrors will simply…

I have three close friends who each had a few minutes of flat-lining during a surgery. They described to me (only because I asked) a near death experience (NDE). Two said it seemed more real than their current life, not like a dream. Because I know them as otherwise smart…