Germ Theory vs Host Theory
 adapted by Jean-Claude van Itallie from Darin Olien’s online article

Shantigar: An Exercise in Poetic Living

I first arrived at Shantigar in a blizzard; I last departed in a thunderstorm. There is…

THE FORCE AWAKENS: Why Free Will Triumphs Against the Dark Side

Re: Have you ever tried toad medicine?

10–29–2017 //

12 Quick Tips for the Movement

So thrilled by all the forms of resistance happening right now. We’ve got protests on the reg, boycotts brewing, we’re lawyering up, making noise with our representatives, and looking for more ways to organize and disrupt. Even this tree is getting in on the action:

Nationalism after 11/9

An egregious fallacy of Nationalism is that it assumes a reductive sense of identity.

Deep Question

Why do some 40% of US voters support infantile abusive Donald Trump?

Berkeley anthropology professor Arlie Russell Hochschild spent five years in Louisiana interviewing sixty white people who are likely Donald’s fans.

Spiritual Techniques — 
 If we agree that we routinely see the world through habitual filters and preconceptions — then what do we do about it? How do we change that?
 It’s not…

Crowd Mantras for Now

An artist friend making visual art for demonstrations against the dangerous 2017 Republican administration asked me to…

HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD? — Hillary’s emails again — a paper demon.

Yesterday evening an intelligent friend was concernedly watching CNN. “I’m worried about…