Global Capitalism
Coronavirus Predictions
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Empathy for ourselves, for all others (including the Chinese) and for all animal life is key to the survival of a global civilized society.
Creative Liturgy
The Dreidel-a-gram, or the 4 Laws of Money and Who We Are and Can Be at Any Moment – As the Spinning Stops
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Phil Wolfson argues that the Dreidel is “a compass to locate your self in this domain of the material.”
33.1/2 Winter Spring
Psychedelics, the Spiritual and Consciousness – an Evolving Confluence in the Cultural Stream
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The role of psychedelics play in amplifying our imagination, creativity, and sense of justice.
2014
Secular Buddhism and the Quest for a Lived Ethics
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Secular Buddhism offers a path that is encompassing, humanistic, and pragmatic, without being sectarian.
Articles
Hark! The Psychiatrists Sing, Hoping Glory for that Revised DSM Thing!
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The DSM-5 is full of labels and misconceptions. Avoid it, if you can. If you can’t, at least know how it manipulates medical information to turn various mind-states into “disorders” and “diseases” which must be “cured.” The truth is, psychiatry can be a wonderful and holistic discipline, when not in the clutches of Pharma and the often useless drugs that industry peddles.
Articles
Inciting Violence in This Culture of Violence
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The massacre of the Sandy Hook schoolchildren last month offered yet another painful proof that the creation of violent minds is big business and that, in its many aspects, the business of violence has become a far too accepted part of the fabric of contemporary life in the United States.
Politics & Society
The Prerequisite for Real Change: Amending the Constitution and Getting Money Out of Politics
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Prelude
It has been clear for decades that there is an ongoing erosion of the ability and power of our citizenry to govern itself. I am an old and proud sixties warrior and have a vista that begins with McCarthyism in the 1950s and remember well its grey and oppressive political and cultural oppression. For a time there was relief and new life and an increase in the quality of the welfare state. However, since the 70s, a reactionary and selfish oligarchy composed of corporate and individual wealth and their paid bureaucratic servants has tightened its grip on our country’s governance. The means to this has been increasingly vast sums of money funneled into the electoral process and their accelerating and pervasive lobbyists’ influence on elected officials. The Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court opened the floodgates wide, but the truth is that the electoral and governance processes long have been reducing themselves to the rule of money, influence, and privilege by the few over the many.
2012
Healing the World Through Consciousness Exploration
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An exploration of consciousness confirms that no matter how different the trappings of culture, language, costume, or beliefs, we are the same sort of beings, we want the same things, and we are subject to the same disappointments and joys. In short, an exploration of consciousness has great power to illuminate and inform efforts at tikkun olam.
Activism
The Middle East Uprisings and Lessons from Che
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This manifesto to Middle East revolutionaries is a congratulation, an aspiration, and a blessing that draws upon lessons from Che Guevara.
2011
Psychedelics, Spirituality, and Transformation
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Without intending to reify, or circumscribe, I will present a taxonomy of experience that reflects my personal history and observations over forty-seven years, since I and a small group of new friends just commencing medical school in New York City dropped acid (LSD).