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The Evil Archetype

It is about recognizing and naming evil and its archetype in our time.

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Guide Stars

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An Obscure Desire:

Reflections on Basarab Nicolescu’s‍ ‍“From Modernity to Cosmodernity: Science, Culture and Spirituality”

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In One Ear, Out the Other

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You Have Heard it Said

I hear the sermon on the side of that mountain as a call for a paradigm shift, not a set of instructions for individuals to secure a cushy afterlife for themselves, but as prescriptions to whole communities.

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Psychotherapy and Moral Masochism

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For All The Marys

And how the dominating forces that we are facing now, that wish to stifle the self-actualization, intuition, intelligence, and power of non-maternal feminine autonomy have always been there.

And have always been resisted.

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Community Group Work in the Boston Globe

‘Group whisperer’ Martha Crawford aims to help Americans revive in-person engagement skills that have gone dormant.‍

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The Dreaming Soul

Religion is just as good a psychology as our scientific psychology is a doctrine of the soul which it denies. ~ Rank

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Doodle-Brained

Some human exchanges remain wordless:

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And Their Wings Touched Each Other

I need to take a breath sometimes.

I need a birds-eye, angel-eye, cosmic-view sometimes.

Just for a moment, so I can keep going.

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Point Vierge

Then one by one they wake up and become birds. They manifest themselves as birds, beginning to sing. Presently they will be fully themselves and even fly.

~ Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, Thomas Merton

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A Common Center

Healthy community groups are circles of peers who (metaphorically) stand around a common center – a cause, a value, a belief system, an identity, a mission, a challenge, a shared story, or experience. The center is their shared concern, the deeper purposes of their gathering together.