These presentations from Josh Korda (When the Fit Hits the Shan) and Tommy Rosen (How to Avoid Relapse) can be useful guides for those of us affected by trauma, PTSD, addiction and depression in response to this election. From Josh Korda: https://www.podbean.com/media/player/g3av2-64a93a From Tommy Rosen: We knew we wanted to stop. We may have gone… Read More How to Survive the Election Apocalypse
It’s Worse Than You Think by Chris Hedges http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/its_worse_than_you_think_20161111 New York City police officers guard Trump Tower, President-elect Donald Trump’s Manhattan home. (Richard Drew / AP) Widespread social unrest will ignite when Donald Trump’s base realizes it has been betrayed. I do not know when this will happen. But that it will happen is certain. Investments… Read More The End of Growth III: Weimar Republic
Raúl Ilargi Meijer Dorothea Lange Family of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, CA 1938 It’s over! The entire model our societies have been based on for at least as long as we ourselves have lived, is over! That’s why there’s Trump. There is no growth. There hasn’t been any real growth for years. All there is left… Read More The End of Growth II: Why There is Trump
[Editor: I am posting a series of articles that explain the rise of fascism as a feature of the end of global economic growth. Not satisfied with 1-3% growth, not satisfied with financialization and bank bailouts, the billionaire elites want to hijack the entire corporate-state system to produce the kind of profit they crave, at… Read More The End of Growth and the Rise of Trump
Many of us who began to practice Buddhism as adults came with certain expectations of what Buddhism was about and what it could do for us. And likewise, once we faced the reality of how Buddhism is actually practiced in the West, many of us have been severely disappointed and disillusioned. First of all, if… Read More In My Tribe: Confessions of a Post-Buddhist Dissident
Scientist Matthew Lieberman uncovers the neuroscience of human connections—and the broad implications for how we live our lives When we experience social pain — a snub, a cruel word — the feeling is as real as physical pain. That finding is among those in a new book, Social, and it is part of scientist Matthew… Read More Social: Why We Are Wired to Connect
