Facing the Fear of Death

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Engaging with worldviews beyond our own is one way of confronting death in order to transform our fear of it. Other people have faced their fear of death and shifted it to life-affirming values through their direct personal experience, their spiritual beliefs and practices, and their philosophy of life.

Mythology of Business Part 2: The Dark Side

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Despite the exciting creative possibilities posed by new
media, the danger presented
by the presence of myth in modern media is paramount, and must be considered
outside the mythic framework of industry, which reduces the
material world to a matrix of profit and risk.

Mythology of Business Part 1: The Veil of Ignorance

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Myth is so entrenched in the nature of business
that it is often overlooked within the advertising rhetoric of capitalism, even
if the building of a mythology is the centerpiece of all effective branding.  Myth may be encoded in any medium, but its defining characteristic is its
psychological function.

Real Life Super Heroes

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Costumed activists are engaging ideas of self and community on the online Super Hero Academy taking place this month.

Initiation Part 3: Making Do Without A Guide

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The actual lesson provided by hallucinogens seems relatively
simple: let go. Hey
look, the walls are bleeding. Let go. I'm fifty and my life is a wreck. Let go.
That hawk headed God has giant tits and it's starting to unnerve me. Let go. If
you hold on, it can become a demon, and if you let go, it becomes bliss. 

Initiation, Part 2: A Long Road Out Of Hell

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A modern myth is a living myth, it cannot help but
borrow inspiration from historical sources — the lives and thoughts, myths and
images of those who have come before — but it is transformed, re-forged we
might say, in the heat of our personal experience, and may come out looking
quite different from any of those original sources.

Just Bee

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The encircling bee
was a guidepost to a new way of being. Even as the bee was buzzing circles round me, I
intuited it as a Heaven-sent invitation to leave behind the old world for a new
one in which the divine intelligence behind the natural world is conveyed
through metaphor.

Shamanic Transference

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To deny or distrust our own perceptions is to reject our authority as author of our own experience. It takes courage to stand for our experience when our perceptions are not validated by others. In not disassociating from our experience, we are on our way to becoming autonomous individuals.

Change Your Time Zone = Change Your Mind

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In China, I am a wealthy westerner. I am poor in Dubai and London, but I can be middle class or rich elsewhere, depending where my plane lands. What does this say about personal worth?

Staying in Your Place

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When I first drank ayahuasca the insights I received were as numerous as the swirling colors and out-of-body visions. As my relationship to the medicine has deepened, the insights I keep close to my heart have become simpler and less material. Part 1 in the series Meditations from the Medicine.

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