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Category Archives: Culture and Civilization
Our cultural challenge of enjoying comfort
On the civilization scale, developing countries are trying to improve standard of living because it greatly improves their happiness. In the United States, our civilization scale problem isn’t trying to improve standard of living, it’s improving quality of living and … Continue reading
To Have a Love Affair with the Humanity
It is often necessary to look at our collective faults and the disasters we have wrought to draw contrast to what could be. You need to know the shadows to know the light. But if you dwell in the shadows … Continue reading
Our journey through darkness
1. I encourage you to adopt this vision of civilization: The vision: We envision civilization as a platform that supports and nurtures a thriving natural world and serves to fully empower every individual. 2. Because civilization is a living breathing … Continue reading
Guide the Momentum
Do you really want to start anew? It’s not possible. Too much has been done and learned and that’s a good thing. You want to start with the active energy you already have. It’s there and it’s working, it’s wanting … Continue reading
Society has a flow state too
You may know the terms “flow” and “qi” (pronounced “chi”). The idea is that each individual has a life force flowing through them. Acupuncture works to open up the qi within a person who may have developed blockages (and I … Continue reading
Is Global Warming Real?
This debate gets tossed around a lot. Scientists point to data showing proof of global warming… critics argue it’s just part of standard global temperature fluctuation. The trouble in “selling” this problem to the world is that most of us … Continue reading
Ubuntu
I once read a quote (which I can’t find now) that stated something like ‘I am able to do what I do because of what you do.’ Another quote (which I also can’t find now) came from a woman (Update: … Continue reading
The Currency of Deep Connections
For several years now I’ve found it strange that I’m not compelled to make loads of money. In this society, I should be programmed for it. I came from a good middle-class family and went to a leading university where … Continue reading
Having Enough
Do you have enough? This is one of those questions that always gets me. And it probably gets you too. By the looks of it, looking around US, it gets nearly everyone. It seems that in the modern developed world, … Continue reading
What Burning Man Is
i am a man that feels a deep connection to an ancient past. That feels the river of history flowing through me. Though I appreciate what we’ve done here in modern times, it is not that which guides me. It … Continue reading