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Eric Z. Lucas is an alumnus of Stanford University (Creative Writing Major: 1972-1975), the University of Washington (1981: BA English Literature and Elementary Education) and Harvard Law School, J.D. 1986. Since law school he has been a public servant: a prosecuting attorney, a city attorney and a trial judge. Born in Spokane, Washington where his military family lived until the age of twelve, he still resides in Washington State. Married to his wife Beth since 1974, they have four adult children and two grandchildren. Further discussions of Eric's work are available on the website: The Path of Public Service. Eric is the author of the following books: a children's book entitled: "The Island Horse," November 2005; "The Tao of Public Service" published February 2013 by Balboa Press, and "All Lives Matter: Essays, On the Need for a New View of Citizenship" published by KindlePublishing e-book July 2015. Eric's books are currently available from: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Balboa Press and Self Discovery Publications directly or through the website listed below.

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DSC00504 - Court of Appeal, From FlickrPhotos
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 22, 2021
Overcoming Delusion: Brotherhood and the George Floyd Verdict Derek Chauvin, the ex-police officer accused of killing George Floyd, was found Guilty on all counts, by a jury of his peers. On television, I saw Euphoria: people cheering, and jumping up and down....Many proclaimed this moment as a pivotal time in our nation when true change will come...some argued for the passage of legislation to ensure this change. But because of my views on delusion, I have a different view.
Series: Overcoming Delusion (7 Articles, 9757 views)
US Capitol's breach, From FlickrPhotos
(56 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, February 12, 2021
Overcoming Delusion: Save The Cannon Fodder Conspiracy theorists like my son, my brother, and others that we know and love: Are they all insane? The simple answer is "No." They are not insane. They are deluded. They have been duped. They are being exploited by powerful forms of propaganda whose primary purpose is to use them as "cannon fodder." To use the persecuted for personal aims of power-victimizing them yet again. We must try and save them.
Series: Overcoming Delusion (7 Articles, 9757 views)
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Overcoming Delusion: Freedom and the Pursuit of Happiness "We must recognize that when people are battling the terrorism of trauma, they are not free. This means there can be no freedom without healing. And this means there can be no true pursuit of happiness until one is healing. Accordingly, to work towards a politics of freedom means we must seek to heal every single individual." From Therapeutic Justice: Essays on Healing America
Series: Overcoming Delusion (7 Articles, 9757 views)
'The Truth will Make you Free', From CreativeCommonsPhoto
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 27, 2020
Overcoming Delusion: The Soul of Our Nation--Animal or Spiritual? When President-Elect Biden began his campaign, he said he was answering the call to "battle for the soul of our nation." In asserting this, he got it exactly right. The problem is whether we allow ourselves to be driven by our animal instincts or--as President Abraham Lincoln stated in his first Inaugural address--we strive to follow "the better angels of our nature."
Series: Overcoming Delusion (7 Articles, 9757 views)
'The Truth will Make you Free', From CreativeCommonsPhoto
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 1, 2020
Overcoming Delusion: The Need for Truth, Meaning and Intuition Truth is a process where the objects that we experience in the everyday world seek to express an idea that underlies them and is the source of their reality. This truth-making process is the case, whether we are talking about a tree, a dog, quantum mechanics or an individual person....The correct use of language helps us intuit meaning and truth. Lying--deliberate meaning-distortion--destroys this capacity.
Series: Overcoming Delusion (7 Articles, 9757 views)
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 19, 2020
Overcoming Delusion: Justice As Brotherhood "[Let us]....unite and build a great society: a society of justice where none would prey upon the weakness of others; a society of plenty where greed and poverty would be done away; a society of brotherhood where every man would respect the dignity and worth of human personality.... From, Overcoming Delusion: Berea College and the Supreme Court's Destruction of Racial Equality, Quoting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (9/2021)
Series: Overcoming Delusion (7 Articles, 9757 views)
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, September 27, 2020
Overcoming Delusion: Healing The Us vs Them Mentality "It is important to realize that the attempt via rhetoric to create an: "Us versus Them" mentality is always a sign of delusion. The principles of interrelatedness, interconnectedness and interdependence show that"there is always only "We"".there is always only one humanity." From, Overcoming Delusion: Berea College and the Supreme Court's Destruction of Racial Equality, Eric Z. Lucas (9/2021)
Series: Overcoming Delusion (7 Articles, 9757 views)
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Therapeutic Justice: Rage, Plague and Purification In her book "A Treatise on Cosmic Fire" (1925), meditation teacher Alice Bailey wrote that: "The separative and maleficent thoughts of man are largely responsible for the savage nature of wild beasts, and the destructive quality of some of nature's processes, including certain phenomena, such as plague and famine." If true, then we must ask: Is the COVID19 pandemic crisis forcing humanity to face the problem of purification?
Series: Therapeutic Justice (8 Articles, 18729 views)
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Therapeutic Justice: Healing Unemployment Allowing the American People to be put out of work was one of the critical errors which led to the Great Depression. Natural disasters create economic trauma. And the 1929 Stock Market crash should have taught us that unemployment is not a necessary effect or a remedy to the trauma of a natural disaster: Not in 1929 and not now with COVID pandemic.
Series: Therapeutic Justice (8 Articles, 18729 views)
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Therapeutic Justice: Social Distancing and the Pigpen Effect The most recent research suggests that our social distancing rules may be woefully inadequate. The COVID19 virus may be transmittable up to twenty-seven feet.
Series: Therapeutic Justice (8 Articles, 18729 views)
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Therapeutic Justice: COVID19 - A Humanitarian Crisis Many people believe that the COVID19 pandemic merely represents a political or economic crisis. Nothing could be further from the truth. The COVID19 pandemic is not a political or an economic crisis, it is a humanitarian one.
Series: Therapeutic Justice (8 Articles, 18729 views)
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Therapeutic Justice: Killing the Coronavirus The question of the day is: "Can we kill the coronavirus?" The answer is: "Yes!" This subject is important because the principles of Therapeutic Justice define our "right" to be healed: In Body, Mind and Spirit. So Americans must demand that our government protect us from this disease as a matter of right.
Series: Therapeutic Justice (8 Articles, 18729 views)
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Therapeutic Justice: The Dual-Trauma of White Privilege People of Color agree that there is something called "White Privilege." It is common to discuss it in terms of how it harms People of Color. But what is not identified and what is not discussed is how White Privilege, in fact harms the people who benefit from it, as well as the people who are subjected to it.
Series: Therapeutic Justice (8 Articles, 18729 views)
DSC00504 - Court of Appeal, From FlickrPhotos
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, February 16, 2020
Therapeutic Justice: Healing and the Pursuit of Happiness Our Declaration of Independence asserts that we have "certain unalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." The pursuit of happiness is a Constitutional Right. About this we must ask one basic question: Can an individual pursue happiness if they are not healed?
Series: Therapeutic Justice (8 Articles, 18729 views)
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 27, 2020
Therapeutic Justice: You Are a Miracle I heard a prisoner's statement commenting on his trauma-informed treatment. He said that he, "wanted to discover who he was intended to be." I felt this comment touched a fundamental chord that healing involves more than physical or psychological medical intervention. My experience is that healing relates primarily to what we often refer to as the spirit: That this is the source of the healing place.
Series: Therapeutic Justice (8 Articles, 18729 views)
Wolves!, From FlickrPhotos
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 1, 2018
Growing Hate: Do Not Feed The Beast There are those who claim that attacking an individual or a group in the manner Hitler did is "just words," or "merely rhetoric." But this is simply not true. These words are the precursors of a process of destruction. These words feed certain beliefs and grow them in order to dominate the mind-set of the populace. And we have history to prove it.
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(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Comparing Visions: The McCain Ceremonial Many of the commentators that fill our airwaves with their opinions have offered that Senator John McCain's death ceremonial was a rebuke to the current administration. I feel that nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, Senator McCain, in his last, perhaps most significant public statement, was not offering a rebuke. But was instead offering a vision, to help his fellow Americans perceive what is true.
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 25, 2016
Demonization and Political Rhetoric Demonizing words are the precursors of violence and annihilation. Both the wise and the truly political avoid them in trying to advance true change and progress. Efforts at demonization are attempts to create change based on a lie. Such efforts are not progressive, nor will they result in true change
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 4, 2016
All Lives Matter: A Philosophy of Significance "Because we are a nation which is so diverse and can only function peacefully as a melting pot, meaning that our differences have to blend rather than form barriers which polarize and divide: We must have a common philosophy..." Black Lives Matter: The Citizenship Ideal.
Series: Black Lives Matter (4 Articles, 8176 views)
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 29, 2015
Black Lives Matter: The Citizenship Ideal "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality...Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly...Strangely enough I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be..." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Series: Black Lives Matter (4 Articles, 8176 views)

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