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Human sacrifices

Here's an issue you might want to think about. The Ego and capitalism are inseparably related. Neither want to contemplate, or hear about the possibility of sacrifice. But sacrifices need to be made. So who decides who is to be sacrificed? Are we talking about human sacrifices?

The rape of Mother Nature Essay

I am a staunch conservative. To those who know me this might come as a surprise, but in terms of ecology and environmental issues, and on account of being a shaman, I am a conservative. If plants and trees had human rights I would be speaking out in defence of them, which is what I'm doing here. So let's start by assuming that plants and trees have human rights.

Complexity in obesity

This is a post about obesity and the complexity of obesity as a health issue. Forget about the simplistic platitude 'eat less, exercise more' because that's not going to help you lose weight. Obesity is a complex medical issue and there's a hard truth about obesity which doesn't get said often enough. If you're looking to lose weight you're going to have to investigate and you're going to have to pay attention to relationships. Let's get into some of the variables you need to be thinking about.

War

Sleep is generally regarded as a good thing. We all need to sleep. But it is also extremely important in life not to be so asleep that your life is a failure. But what has this got to do with war?

My way or the highway?

This is another post about free will and personal agency or responsibility. Just to make it interesting and yet clear I'm going to start with an old Frank Sinatra song sung by Elvis Presley... the song is of course titled 'My way'.

The Texas Example

Today we're going to be looking at capital punishment in Texas as an example of how believing in free will completely skews your perception and your understanding of reality. Much of what I'm about to write applies equally to the Western WASP cultural concept of criminal justice, but Texas makes a good example because we can see how murder perpetuates murder leaving behind nothing but victims.

Capitalism and democracy

As this is a year of elections for many people reading this I feel it's worth getting into the dilemma of voting in an election, which brings most people face to face with an conflict between the natural and the ideological. Many people seem to have this idea that voting in an election is preferable to not voting and that if you do not vote then you have no 'right' to complain about the system. Okay then, so what is the benefit of voting?

An example of being messed up in the head

I rarely write about news and current affairs, but today I make an exception. Following on from my previous post 'Things which mess you up in the head' a news story broke which provides a very clear example of what it means to be messed up in the head. I'm referring to the story involving Tory donor Frank Hester's comments about Labour MP Diane Abbott, Britain's first black female politician. So we're going to take an opportunity to examine what it means to be messed up in the head within the context of racism.

One in five

This is another post inspired by one of my social media posts on Reddit. This was in response to the question "What is a ticking time bomb that very few people are aware of?'. I gave another simple answer 'societal collapse', but qualified this response by what I'm going to write about today in this post.

Love and reincarnation

Energy and consciousness are equal to one another in the same way as karma is always equal to reincarnation. This means that karma is always equal to love, truth, beauty, and courage. At the top of the pyramid of human living existence all these things become one.

The paradox of greed and selfishness

In this post we're going to look at the paradox of greed and selfishness. Hopefully by the end of this post you will see how when distorted by separateness greed and selfishness can be powerfully destructive to both society and the environment. But hopefully also you will see how both greed and selfishness can be transformed into a basis for both spiritual and social liberation.

Separateness: the fundamentals of self-deception

In this post I dig deeper into separateness, the fundamental issue affecting all of Mankind, and explain how it relates to the various deceptions and self deceptions we all participate in to maintain Ego, ideologies, authority and hierarchy structures and that what we call society.

The human famine

I'm going to start off by crediting this poignant image by Tom Stoddart and Getty Images. It was published in 'The Lancet' in November 2008 and appeared in Alex de Waal's article titled 'On famine crimes and tragedies'. It's a snapshot of a man stealing maize from a starving child at a feeding centre in Ajiep, southern Sudan in 1998.

Conceptual living

This is a post about life or rather a concept of living. I'm referring to a concept of life which we all developed roughly around the ages of eight or nine. This concept of life is what we generally use as a yardstick or reference model for life or what life should be. Often this yardstick or reference which makes us resistant to change and not really that open to what is actually going on around us. It's kind of like an emotional or psychological straitjacket. Let me go a bit deeper into this.

Shadows masks and struggles

At what point does your life experience really belong to you? At what point does your life experience and what goes through your mind belong to someone else? How can you be sure that the thoughts which go through your mind are really your thoughts and what you are thinking is really coming from your individual perspective on life? How many of the thoughts and feelings which go through your mind actually come from someone or somewhere else?