Psyche

Mother Tongue, Manatee and Archive: A Feminafesto

I invoke "wild mind" and the "crazy wisdom" of Buddhist Tantra.  Wild mind is elegantly self-disciplined and like wilderness, it is without a management plan.  As Gary Snyder notes, "The practice of the wild inspires an etiquette of freedom. It is actually beautiful to care for things." I feel it in my larynx — in my thrust toward language — it is beautiful to care for things.

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The End of Money and the Future of Civilization

Even if governments did have the will and the power to wrest control of the issuance of credit from the banking cartel, the situation would not be a lot different. The historical record suggests that where governments have come out on top their monopolization of credit has led to militarization, wars, expansion and a weakening of democratic processes.

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Psyche

2012 is Now on Everybody’s Mind

Since 1618, the human species has been living in its own artificial time, apart from the rest of the biosphere that continues to operate in the natural cycles. The dissonance between artificial and natural time has pushed mankind toward a new condition of being. 2012 bodes a return to natural time and an evolutionary upgrading of planetary life.

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Commons

Original Wealth and People’s Capitalism

While England and the other European nations saw exploitation as the natural scheme of things, America’s founders had a more enlightened understanding of how to thrive without exploiting or being exploited. What if each nation had a mission for maximizing happiness in the world, in its own unique way?

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The Book of Practical Pussies

Puss is a concept; something you desire to be into, a goal and a means. A finely tuned nest egg with interior mechanisms, or a flippy flesh purse grafted to a vacuum. — a collection of excerpts from Book of Practical Pussies, selected by Kevin Killian.

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Commons

Networks of Grace

From my study of terrorist and fundamentalist organizations, I had learned that they rely on small cells of people who sustain and inspire each other. I envisioned a network of individual cells of people praying, meditating, and acting together for positive change on local or international issues. Now there are a dozen "Networks of Grace" cells around the country.

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Body

Human Being or Human Going?

Although being is shared by all humans of all cultures and all eras, and by all living creatures, being as an aspect of our human condition and potential is not celebrated in modern Western culture. One way to illustrate the experience of being in an alternative, magical way, is to recall being in love.

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