By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 17 Dec 21
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.– Mohandas K. Gandhi I once read an account of bullying in rural America in the early 20th century. The narrator said, “If a victim did not stand up to them, there was no limit to how far the bullies would go.” He […] The post A Path Will Rise to Meet Us first appeared on Charles Eisenstein.
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.– Mohandas K. Gandhi I once read an account of bullying in rural America in the early 20th century. The narrator said, “If a victim did not stand up to them, there was no limit to how far the bullies would go.” He […] The post A Path
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 6 Dec 21
Guest post by Darth Sidious Thank you for this opportunity to set the record straight. I don’t expect everyone to believe my alternative account of the events chronicled in the Star Wars films, since it runs so contrary to everything you think you know. I can offer you no proof that my version is correct; […] The post The True Story of the Sith first appeared on Charles Eisenstein.
Guest post by Darth Sidious Thank you for this opportunity to set the record straight. I don’t expect everyone to believe my alternative account of the events chronicled in the Star Wars films, since it runs so contrary to everything you think you know. I can offer you no proof that my version is correct; […] The post The True
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 12 Nov 21
Psychiatrist Norman Doidge, MD, has recently published a long, four-part article entitled Needle Points, in which he examines vaccine skepticism in America. The author, who got vaccinated “early and voluntarily,” is solidly pro-vaccine, yet he displays what is in these divisive times an unusual willingness to see the issue from the perspective of those with whom he […] The post Elements of Refusal first appeared on Charles Eisenstein.
Psychiatrist Norman Doidge, MD, has recently published a long, four-part article entitled Needle Points, in which he examines vaccine skepticism in America. The author, who got vaccinated “early and voluntarily,” is solidly pro-vaccine, yet he displays what is in these divisive times an unusual willingness to see the issue from the perspective of those with whom he […] The post Elements of
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 26 Oct 21
Republishing from last year, for obvious reasons A few years ago at a retreat I was outlining the dark side of the triumphalist mythology of progress. A man raised his hand and shared the following story. “When I was a boy in the early 1960s,” he said, “my father took me aside one day and […] The post The America that Almost Was and Yet May Be first appeared on Charles Eisenstein.
Republishing from last year, for obvious reasons A few years ago at a retreat I was outlining the dark side of the triumphalist mythology of progress. A man raised his hand and shared the following story. “When I was a boy in the early 1960s,” he said, “my father took me aside one day and […] The post The America
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 20 Sep 21
Moving Beyond Redemptive Violence (This essay is the final installment of a series. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 3.5). The purpose of this essay series is to illuminate a path toward the transcendence of the ancient pattern that Rene Girard called sacrificial violence, in which society discharges its rage, its anxiety, and its rivalries upon a dehumanized […] The post A Temple of this Earth first appeared on Charles Eisenstein.
Moving Beyond Redemptive Violence (This essay is the final installment of a series. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 3.5). The purpose of this essay series is to illuminate a path toward the transcendence of the ancient pattern that Rene Girard called sacrificial violence, in which society discharges its rage, its anxiety, and its rivalries upon a dehumanized […] The post A Temple
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Sep 21
Part 3-and-a-half of the Girard series Note to readers: This material didn’t quite fit into Parts 1, 2, or 3, but it has some relevant ideas and sets up Part 4, which is about the transcendence of the scapegoating pattern. Sacrificial victims are proxies for disorder, pollution, and evil. In normal times they come from various marginal and […] The post The Sacrificial King first appeared on Charles Eisenstein.
Part 3-and-a-half of the Girard series Note to readers: This material didn’t quite fit into Parts 1, 2, or 3, but it has some relevant ideas and sets up Part 4, which is about the transcendence of the scapegoating pattern. Sacrificial victims are proxies for disorder, pollution, and evil. In normal times they come from various marginal and […] The post The Sacrificial
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