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I will conduct a workshop on “Energy Healing: Beginning to Intermediate” at Pantheacon 2008, in the Doubltree Hotel, San Jose, on Monday, February 18, at 9 a.m. I will combine explanation with opportunities for participants to have personal experiences they can then apply outside the context of this workshop. To some degree its content will…

This post fulfills a promise I made in the Solstice post below. The extraordinary and disturbing entry of religion into American politics over the past few decades raises an important question for all people with a spiritual commitment: how should their spiritual practice most effectively and appropriately influence their lives as citizens. As citizens we…

I recently attended a Winter Solstice celebration here in Northern California. Held at a local community center, it was well attended by an enthusiastic crowd. A first glance indicated a growing and healthy NeoPagan community. A second glance was not as reassuring. Every new spiritual movement faces the challenge of enabling people unfamiliar with it…

The photograph on the right is of a Moslem suicide bomber, holding a Koran. But the photograph on the left is of US soldiers holding a Bible. The similarity is not accidental. All see themselves as warriors for God. Jason Leopold of the Baltimore Chronicle has written a chilling story, chilling at least for anyone…

The obvious failings of our court system have encouraged some free market theorists to support binding arbitration a more efficient alternative. In doing so many of the greates failings of classical liberal thought come to a head: its lack of awareness that public values exist, its lack of a real theory of power, its equating…

For me, one of the most depressing aspects of the past seven years is that it seems so many Americans forgot what they learned in the 60s, and many of those born since did not learn from our experience. In all too many cases my generation failed miserably in educating our young. Now they are…

While Huckabee and Romney are teaching religious bigotry, a more painful but also more hopeful story emerged from New York City, where some of their spiritual students attempted putting their attitudes into practice. Walter Adler was with his girlfriend and two other friends returning from dinner out. Getting on a New York subway, he replied…

Today I saw two related stories, one awful, but also inspiring, the other disgusting, but expected. I will make two separate posts from them, but they belong together The disgusting-but-expected one is the current dust up between Southern Baptist minister and Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and stepford candidate Mit Romney concerning whether Mormons believe Satan…

My post is short – but this link from Glenn Greenwald at Salon explains all that needs explaining. The mainstream corporate media is one of the greatest threats to the survival of American democracy. Every day its behavior demonstrates why centralization in media is a threat to freedom and truth. It also demonstrates why public…

President Bush argued in October, 2007, that a nuclear-armed Iran could lead to “World War III.” Vice President Dick Cheney warned of “serious consequences” if Tehran did not stop trying to build nukes. THIS TIME we’re right they said. THIS TIME we can be trusted. For that remnant of our most stupid citizens who still…
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