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 Gary Lindorff: Covid-Epistle XI: How living under the pandemic has changed me as a writer Covid-Epistle XI, originally written for scantbehappening.net, the poet explores how writing in these times is a little like walking on water. |
 Richard Hofstadter and the "Paranoid Style": Irrationalism, Conspiratorial Thinking and Suspicion of Elites in America Question Posed To: Prof, Sean Wilentz, George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University. His many books include The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics (2016); Bob Dylan in America (2010); and The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008 (2008). The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005) was award... 28  |
 Ethan Indigo Smith: The Spiritual Either/Or The Spiritual Either/Or Either everything Or nothing is sacred |
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Kamala Sarup: Human behavior implies the progress of the political
This article is about the psychological concept of attention. I also studied psychology, hypnosis and counseling when I was studying in college. |
John Hawkins: Take Back the Night Like A Fresh Burning Star Book Review. Poetry by feminists from around the world. A lively, trenchant and lyrical collection of utterances that is a timely response to Trump and all his isms and a call to gather together an' resist de piece in the White House and his nonsense by any legal means necessary. Bring humor hat in case it rains. 1 |
 Al Hirschfield: The Amazing Emanuel Swedenborg Emanuel Swedenborg is one of those exceedingly rare beings who probably shouldn't have existed, but undoubtedly did. Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote of him and Dante, "They are not the kind of people you'd invite over for dinner. They're the kind of people you'd go see in a museum." And of Swedenborg himself, Emerson wrote in his "Representative Men": One of the mastodons of literature, not to be measured by entire libraries.. 4 |
 John Hawkins: Abba Bina: Manus Manum Lavat: A Memoiry A memory of my Papua New Guinea days. The day I met Mr Sh*t (sic) who ran for office and lost because the authorities wouldn't allow him to run on his nickname, by which he was very popular. Nobody knew who the fudge Abba Bina was. Important lessons about politics here -- and the loamy loam of life. Mention also of the trials and tribulations of Iranian refugee, Behrouz Boochani. 1 |
 Bob Gaydos: On Unwritten Rules, in Baseball and Life Life is full of unwritten rules. Baseball has a bunch of them. I'm writing some of them down. One of them is, in sports, politics and life, don't be a sore loser. |
 Philip Kraske: What if the Democratic Convention Turns into Another 1968? No doubt the protests at the Democratic convention, if any, will be calm and dignified, even boring, much like people waiting to board a bus. |
 The Habits of Unhappy People (and What You Can Do About Them) Indeed, we are all likely in denial of at least a few habits that actively increase our unhappiness. There’s lots of research on what makes people happy and unhappy. Lots and lots. (Click on the links below if you’re interested.) What follows is a partial list of the habits of unhappy people and what instigates them. To be sure, these behaviors don’t affect everyone in identical fashion. Whether these hab... |
 Kanye West Says He's Running for President Kanye West tweeted Saturday night that he wants to run for president in 2020 — four months before the election and apparently without having filed with the Federal Election Commission or created a campaign committee. “We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States,” the 43-year-old musician wrote on I... |
 Bob Gaydos: Country life (and more) with COVID-19 It's one short road, but what a menagerie. Also, foolish Mitch McConnell utterances and the virus ends a third-party presidential candidacy. Call it a mercy killing. |
 Poll: People of All Faiths See Virus as Message From God The coronavirus has prompted almost two-thirds of American believers of all faiths to feel that God is telling humanity to change how it lives, a new poll finds. While the virus rattles the globe, causing economic hardship for millions and killing more than 80,000 Americans, the findings of the poll by the University of Chicago Divinity School and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research indicate that p... 1 |
 Bob Gaydos: Fame, fate and happenstance Jackie Robinson, Jesse Jackson, Mario Cuomo, Harry Belafonte, Geraldine Ferraro. Life has introduced me to some "famous" people. In the spirit of connecting while in isolation, I'd like to know your encounters with "celebrity." Please share. It's neighborly. 2 |
 Eric Z Lucas: 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? 3 |
 Words of Wisdom for the New Year What is the principle, the life force; that mysterious, indomitable urge which motivates all beings to fulfill the need to experience Life to it's fullest? The great Sage Gurumayi Chidvilasananda gives a beautiful, eloquent and inspiring answer to that eternal question.(Click on the arrow to the right of the Golden Book to turn the pages.) | ||
 BK Faunce: Silly Film Olympics, Part II: Midsommer & Joker Review / Nomination of two very silly films, Midsommer & Joker, to be included in the first Hollywood Olympiad. 2 |
 Bob Gaydos: Kale and quinoa? How about kefir and kamut? For the record, I eat kale and quinoa and avoid fried foods as much as possible. I think that's smart. There's nothing wrong with being smart, although Republicans have been trying to suggest otherwise for some time. It's a bully's weapon. Let them drink kefir. |
 BK Faunce: Silly Film Olympics, Part I: Vice & Hereditary Review of two "silly" films, Vice (McKay 2018) and Hereditary (Aster 2018). 4 |
 Ethan Indigo Smith: Spiritual Activism and the Power of 108 The Revolution Meditation. How to meditate and inspire activism with 108. |
 "The Sound of OM" ... om is the meditative seed par excellence. Patanjali—who wrote the Yoga Sutra and is considered to be the father of classical yoga—taught that when we chant this sacred syllable and simultaneously contemplate the meaning of it, our consciousness becomes "one-pointed: and prepared for meditation. In a commentary on the Yoga Sutra, the ancient sage Vyasa noted that through chanting&n... 2 |
 Eric Walberg: Grossman's A Socialist Defector: Back in the GDR - you don't know how lucky you are Grossman swam the Danube one night and after wandering for hours, finally found an Austrian guard and asked to see the Soviet commandant. He joked with the Russian guard about Pushkin and Doestoevsky, the only Russian words he knew. He was accepted and sent to Bautzen, a hill-top town in eastern Saxony on the river Spree, complete with castle and magnificent Lutheran-Catholic cathedral. 2 |
 Al Hirschfield: Video: Towards Higher Consciousness With Sarada Chiruvolu In this show Sarada shares what she discovered along her path of devout meditation. She discusses what enlightenment entails, the truth about one's practice of meditation, what to expect, how to work with the energies moving through the chakras and how to prepare for the intensive work that ensues from such a path. 1 |
 Al Hirschfield: Even Trumps Come and Go Does life really have to be this way? Was it even meant to be this way? 2 |
Iftekhar Sayeed: Unholy Sonnets Donne wrote his Holy Sonnets at a time that was infused with God. Perhaps more, or less, wise than before, we live in what appears a God-forsaken world. Hence these Unholy Sonnets. 1 |
 Bob Gaydos: The sad truth: It's all B.S. The difference between liars and bullshitters is that liars are acquainted with the truth. They have to be to maintain their lies. There is a discipline involved. Bullshitters don't care. 11 |
 E.David Ferriman: Interpretation of the Bible on LGBTQ Even after the Supreme Court ruling made it legal, same-sex marriage is still an issue in the United States. The far right in our country has given Christianity and the Bible a lot of bad press by pushing against the practice. Where is this coming from? Seeing that the god of most of these Christians seems to be the Bible itself, we must turn to the scriptures to see what the all the fuss is about. 2 |
Eric Walberg: From Vietnam to Afghanistan: Myra Breckinridge to the rescue As Afghanistan enters its last dreadful lap, much like Vietnam circa 1970, I have been looking back to what fiction from those 'golden days' had to say, when students were alive with antiwar politics and sexual revolution, the empire at its peak of power and savagery. The parallels are bleak, and very, very enlightening. |
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