April 13, 2016  Award-winning author Joseph Boyden reflects on his love for places like Attawapiskat, and the desperate need for investment and education Attawapiskat is a microcosm of intergenerational trauma. If you don’t know what Attawapiskat is or if you’re not quite sure what intergenerational trauma means—or how they are married to each other—please allow… Read More Joseph Boyden: The True Tragedy of Attawapiskat

written by Katherine Kirkinis,Metal health counselor and doctoral fellow at SUNY Albany. Sarah Birdsong, Mental health counselor and emotional intelligence educator No one wants to be called fragile. And if you’re white, what you feel reading the title of this article may be indicative of the term. “White fragility” refers to white people’s low emotional tolerance for discussing… Read More The scientific way to train white people to stop being racist

Published on  Monday, April 11, 2016 by Common Dreams ‘This movement was not born and will not die in Paris…It has no limit, no border and it belongs to all of those who wish to be part of it.’ by Lauren McCauley, staff writer For twelve nights, protesters have occupied central Paris, and beyond, as part of… Read More ‘Up All Night’ Protests Sweep France as 100,000 Join Pro-Democracy Movement

[Editor’s Note: By publishing this article, I am not recommending that people use LSD to dissolve the ego and enhance sensate experience. You can achieve the same effect with daily sustained meditation. I know because I have done both LSD and meditation. Meditation works better and is less dangerous ] Groundbreaking Study Shows Your Brain… Read More Non-Self: Ego Dissolution on LSD

Lou Reed is my kind of Buddhist. Laurie Anderson’s tribute to the life and art of  Lou Reed is entitled  “The Bells”, the title track of Reed’s 1979 album. Strange thing is that The Bells is a dark noir drone jazz poetry piece that is the only composition of it’s kind on the album. The… Read More Tribute to the Life and Art of Lou Reed

[Editor’s note: this day-long is being offered at Spirit Rock in May. It is offered, in part, as a Continuing Education course for Health Care Professionals, so I understand why they direct the advertising toward working with “clients.” However, my experience is that people of colour, queer, trans and disabled people are often treated as “clients” in every… Read More Exploring White Privilege at Spirit Rock

I apply some of theses tools to Buddhism from time to time. Keeps the religious mystification (aka bullshit) in check. Carl Sagan Presents His “Baloney Detection Kit”: 8 Tools for Skeptical Thinking Posted: 11 Apr 2016 04:50 AM PDT Photo by NASA via Wikimedia Commons It is sometimes said that science and philosophy have grown so far apart that they… Read More Carl Sagan Presents His “Baloney Detection Kit”: 8 Tools for Skeptical Thinking