Ashland Oregon appears to be everything that its sister city, Chico California used to be but no longer is—a small, distinctive, tight-knit community of people united in their love of…
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thoughts on life
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Researching an environmental organization of shared intent and goals, I was struck by a core question on its homepage: “What are we not paying attention to?”
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Arriving at Lake Apserkaha in the mountains of southern Oregon for a men’s gathering around the theme, “Embracing Climate Change,” I was dismayed, but not shocked to find the lake…
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It’s spiritually immature in the extreme for a pope or a pundit to believe that “dogs go to heaven.” For a pundit to write such blather is silly and sentimental;…
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Though I was brutally raised Catholic at a time when children were forced to attend Mass in Latin six days a week (five before school and once on Sunday), I…
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As I see it, the question of consciousness on earth boils down to one of two possibilities. Either we are, as I heard an astronomer say recently, “the universe aware…
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Questioner 1: These are strange and unprecedented times. Could we inquire into the connection, if there is one, between the global climate crisis and human consciousness?
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Men are lost in America. Most no longer know what it means to be a man, and don’t know what to do in this obsessively externalizing society in which everything…