Toward a World that Works for Everyone
I’ve just had some devastating news recently. It wouldn’t be fair to name the person involved. But I can’t imagine the shaft penetrating deeper into my heart. I’m going through one space after another – grief, hatred, the collapse of self-importance, helplessness. It also has me addressing some issues in my life that have been […]
This article is a few days out of chronological order, set aside for breaking news. Werner Erhard made the distinction between an us-against-them and an us-and-them world. A world that works for everyone is an us-and-them world. Others have called it win/win. Now, I was not raised in an us-and-them environment, not viewed from any […]
From 2017. Neuroscientists have identified how exactly a deep breath changes your mind By Moran Cerf, Quartzy, November 19, 2017 httpss://tinyurl.com/y4n7a544 Breathing is traditionally thought of as an automatic process driven by the brainstem—the part of the brain controlling such life-sustaining functions as heartbeat and sleeping patterns. But new and unique research, involving recordings made […]
I hypothesize that: When tension goes up, awareness goes down. Moreover, our awareness that our awareness has gone down also diminishes. I ask us to keep these two notions in mind. Long ago I was in a situation that so triggered me that I couldn’t see or hear a man shouting at me from a […]
