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THE AQAL HAMMER
2008-06-02 13:38:00 The following could serve as the subject of an assignment: What’s wrong at the level of assumptions found in the following argument? I’ve provided some helpful italicizing. At the second gathering of the teachers of Integral Spiritual Center, Patrick Sweeney famously asked Ken Wilber, ?what can we do to stay out of Appendix III of Integral Spirituality?? ... More About: Hammer
SELF-TALK
2008-06-02 01:28:00 click image to enlarge A mentor emphasized: “Beware of the agenda behind the agenda.” This advice has stood the test of time. Note my ol’ nickname has been added over the dog. This does capture my mildly passive-aggressive puppie nature. a2a_linkname="SELF-TALK";a2a_linkurl="htt p://squareone-learning.com/blog/2008/06/0 1/self-talk/"; More About: Talk
HITCHED TO A GODDESS
2008-05-31 15:21:00 Married Susan Friday in a short and sweet civil ceremony in Shaker Heights, Ohio. After 15 years of being lovingly partnered, it’s okay to ask what changes now? Change happens, yet, what’s wonderful for me is that our fundamental deep friendship evoked the changes, whatever they are and turn out to be, and I couldn’t ... More About: Goddess
THE ANTIGONE COMPLEX
2008-05-24 20:59:00 I don’t have a harsh judgment to levy against Hillary Clinton in the aftermath of her answering the question about, implicitly, her tenacity in the face of long odds and about party unity at the end of the process. There’s a reason for my being circumspect. It’s that the incident takes a specific psychological form and ... More About: Complex
PRECAUTIONS MUST BE TAKEN TO CONCEAL THESE ACTIVITIES
2008-05-14 16:46:00 Dr. Aubrey Blumsohn has done yeoman work in highlighting the sordid and criminal story of the CIA’s use of psychedelic drugs in experiments done for dark purposes. Whatever the specific purpose was, it was an ill purpose. And, it resonates today because it is mostly unknown to what extent drugs are currently deployed by the ... More About: Activities
WHINING TAKES TIME
2008-05-11 16:58:00 Dr. Brian C. Melton, Assistant Professor of History at Liberty University, writing at the web site Intellectual Conservative, Human Origins and a Side of Fries: Refuting a Popular Neo-Darwinian Position. [A] A prime example of this appeared in Expelled, when Dawkins expressed a willingness to accept evidence of cellular intelligent design if it came from aliens, ... More About: Time
Two Seasons
2008-05-05 14:28:00 March 13 to May 4. Spring has sprung. Click for large version. a2a_linkname="Two Seasons ";a2a_linkurl="http://squareone-le arning.com/blog/2008/05/05/two-seasons/";
PROCESS OF CIVIC LOVE
2008-05-05 13:08:00 The Heights Observer, like the Lakewood paper, is written by citizens, who use AGS’s web-based program to upload stories and photographs onto a server. Volunteer editors read the content, post stories to the paper’s web site and design newspaper pages, all via the Internet. The volunteers and low overhead will allow the Heights Observer to keep ... More About: Love , Process , Civic
Time to Reflect
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EXPELLED
2008-04-26 15:01:00 The anti-evolution movie Expelled has garnered a lot of attention in the aftermath of its release to the nation’s cinemas. I haven’t seen it. The mainstream reviews all point out that it’s a deceptive piece of propaganda. I have no doubt that it is after reading about the various canards it rolls out gleefully. Of more ...
A LOT OF STUFF IS TRUE
2008-04-24 15:32:00 If both natural law and ceaseless creativity partially beyond natural law are necessary for understanding our world, and if we as whole human beings live in this real world of law and unknowable creativity, these two ancient strands of Western civilization can reunite in ways we cannot foresee. Out of this union can arise a ... More About: Stuff , True
pluralism = monism
2008-04-24 02:19:00 “With univocity, however, it is not the differences which are and must be: it is being which is Difference, in the sense that it is said of difference. Moreover, it is not we who are univocal in a Being which is not; it is we and our individuality which remains equivocal in and for a ...
FOLK ETHNOGRAPHY
2008-04-20 21:12:00 Just as there is the term folk psychology, meaning the subjective psychological assumptions and models individuals deploy to navigate the interpersonal universe, there could be the term folk anthropology to designate the subjective assumptions each of us deploys to understand the human universe. Mr. Obama got himself in a lot of hot water recently when he ... More About: Folk
SAN FRANCISCO HOLIDAY
2008-04-19 01:38:00 Four song podcasts constructed from the amazing seeqPOD interface show up on my music blog, nogutsboglorystudios. noguts is serving as fly paper for my muso inclinations. I hope you’ll click the play button. Steve Lacy & Don Cherry-San Francisco Holiday Jessica Williams-Bemsha Swing Jerry Gonzalez & the Fort Appache Band Thelonious Monk-San Francisco Holiday A few comments… I could exist ...
SHIVER ME TIMBERS
2008-03-17 12:14:00 White House Chief of Staff, Joshua Bolten, and Tony Blair’s Office Request Information Regarding Spiral Dynamics from Dr. Don E. Beck of Adizes Graduate School © Business Wire 2008 - Mr. Bolten requested details for President Bush regarding Dr. Beck’s recent high profile meetings in the Middle East. Tony Blair’s office, as the official Envoy of the ...
ASSUMPTIONS
2008-03-13 02:09:00 Versioned from yet another tale of Nasruddin. More About: Assumptions
COULD A COMMUNITY BE AN ART FORM?
2008-03-08 20:16:00 Having intended to get a clear shot unencumbered by glare or rain, I still missed out clearly capturing this sign in the window of the library annex in Cleveland Heights. Could a community be an art form? I believe it it could be. Even better, with the deployment of intention, chops, communal creativity and spontaneous poetics fused ... More About: Community , Form
EXPERIENCE AND ALL OF IT
2008-03-07 18:29:00 Hillary Clinton: “Experience not only counts, it is all that counts.” Mrs. Clinton’s rhetoric here makes no account of an interesting division among Democrats. Barack Obama enjoys a substantial edge in that better educated, more affluent Democrats support him over Mrs. Clinton. How to account for this edge among people who are much more likely to ...
TENDING TO THE TROU
2008-03-06 14:51:00 An indelicate metaphor, albeit on the target, courtesy of Xosrow Jamsheidi and Jamsheid Jamsheidi, writing in a somewhat inscrutable article, Time for Dipstick Examination of our Assumptions. We feel our underwear only the first few minutes we put them on. Then we don’t see them, we don’t feel them, we don’t think about them, and we ...
MY ONE FAN
2008-03-05 22:21:00 I checked my Technorati profile and discovered there–lo and behold–that someone had self-selected to be a fan. Alan has his own blog and it gets updated with about the same frequency as Explorations does. His blog http://milindasquestions.com has one more authority point than I do. I consider his blog to be akin to a sister ...
WHY PEOPLE DON?T AGREE WITH ME
2008-03-03 14:03:00 It’s the political season and so I’m happy to indulge two obsessive interests, politics and the social psychology of the citizenry. Actually, I don’t need a political season to be gripped, it’s always the political season in my house. Over at Colonel Pat Lang’s blog, Sic Semper Tyrannis 2008, one of the handful of blogs I ... More About: People
INTO A VACUUM
2008-02-07 13:42:00 …added “Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104” to the blogroll. Evidently Ed is a librarian and so his attention surplus disorder is expressed through his blog’s rich captures of diverse resources. This earns his blog the ‘all over the place category’ here. The curious thing is that I learned of Vacuum when Ed ...
DAY IN THE COUNTRY
2008-02-03 14:34:00 Parable from Chuang Tzu. Found here.<click thumbnail to see cartoon> More About: Country
HEART OF JUNG (link)
2008-01-24 23:31:00 “Heart of Jung ”…carry over from the old Hoon web site to the new Tools for Transformation blog. I say: ‘Fulfill something you are able to fulfill rather than run after what you will never achieve. We can modestly strive to fulfill ourselves and be as ... More About: Link
LEARN TO RELEASE
2008-01-24 18:11:00 This is one of my favorite idea bites. I’ve truncated a long section of McSwain’s work to make it bite-sized. The paper it was taken from, A Transformational Theory of Organizations, is one of my all-time favorites. It actually served to put me on the hunt for new paradigms in organizational theorizing. The baseline goal that ... More About: Release , Learn
LEARN TO RELEASE
2008-01-23 18:11:00 This is one of my favorite idea bites. I’ve truncated a long section of McSwain’s work to make it bite-sized. The paper it was taken from, A Transformational Theory of Organizations, is one of my all-time favorites. It actually served to put me on the hunt for new paradigms in organizational theorizing. The baseline goal that ... More About: Release , Learn
SITTING IN KONYA
2008-01-22 14:40:00 Another pane from a recent ‘Quinttych’ rendered as montage and using found (as in: purloined,) images from the web.
THREE SCHEMAS IN 3
2008-01-22 13:33:00 Quick upload of 3 schemas that summarize ongoing research with a colleague into “interpersonal pragmatics” and interpersonal problem solving. …more later. This schema addresses the problem of collaboration and proposes that faults in any of its general elements may undermine the optimal outcome. Our investigation went on to highlight faults of execution in light of ...
HEAVY
More articles from this author:2008-01-20 13:55:00 from the marvelous collection of Zen materials at Deoxy The Stone Mind Hogen, a Chinese Zen teacher, lived alone in a small temple in the country. One day four traveling monks appeared and asked if they might make a fire in his yard to warm themselves. While they were building the fire, Hogen heard them arguing about subjectivity ... More About: Heavy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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