Getting to the heart of it
There's a discussion going on over at Anthropik that I'm going to respond to here because it gets to the core of what this blog is about. Or at least what it has come to be about.For the uninitiated, I...
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This posting was kind of prompted by Ted’s current state of searching. I sort of knew I was on a search but until I hadn’t realised that my outward search was a response to very specific inward needs....
View ArticleLesson from the Bushmen
I’ve often seen Ran write about how we need to develop a culture that in many ways is like a hunter/gatherer community but has the wisdom to cope with encounters with civilised culture. I was always a...
View ArticleDropping out
There’s a fascinating discussion happening on Living in a Van Down by the River about dropping out. It started off with a worrying attempt to define what dropping out was until Devin turned up and...
View Articledropping out and going home
Devin left this comment at Frank Blacks:"All I really want, in the deepest sense, is to be loved and appreciated for who I really am. I don't want to be lonely. All I really want is to go home. All I...
View ArticleThe Different Drum
I’m in the middle of reading a book by M Scott Peck called The Different Drum and it’s really knocked me over. I need to get this down so that I can move on to further chapters where no doubt I’ll have...
View Articlesaving the world
I’ve given up trying to help people and I’ve given up trying to save the world, instead I’m just going to do my own thing and hopefully a few people will be interested. I’ve learned that people don’t...
View ArticleStupid Stupid Stupid Scientists (an objective assessment of what they can...
Warning: Contains some ranting. I keep seeing the phrase ‘development of empathy’ used in a way that implies that empathy starts off at a ‘zero’ level in a child and gradually builds up as they get...
View ArticleHold on to Your Kids
I’m reading Hold on to Your Kids by Gordon Neufield and Gabor Mate. Ostensibly about how to parent children it points to an issue that seems capable of bringing about a total societal failure – if it...
View ArticleTruth & Paradox
In A Different Drum Scott Peck made the point that the truth always has a paradoxical quality to it. He used the example of the bible stating that being Christian is simultaneously about doing good...
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