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Thinking Through: May 2015
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Philosophy, Mythology, Spirituality, and Transformational Wisdom. Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Brainstorming works wonders. When we let loose a flood of ideas, freely associating and playfully combining anything and everything that comes along, we often see past old boundaries and discover solutions to vexing problems. The stream of consciousness becomes a torrent that blasts through every snag. If brainstorming opens formerly clogged channels, then what is braincalming. In his poem The Great Wagon. Listen to...
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Thinking Through: September 2014
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Philosophy, Mythology, Spirituality, and Transformational Wisdom. Friday, September 5, 2014. How do you teach yourself to give a damn? Is there any way to rediscover your original, childlike enthusiasm and zeal? In her 1969 tour de force On Death and Dying. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross identified five stages common to people in grief. Since then many others have amended and elaborated this typology, however, it still stands as a useful guide for people in grief. And that means all of us. The third stage is barg...
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Thinking Through: February 2015
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Philosophy, Mythology, Spirituality, and Transformational Wisdom. Friday, February 27, 2015. This piece first appeared in my column "A to Zen" in the March/April 2015 edition of Unity Magazine and is reproduced here with permission.]. Thinking that we see things as they really are is the most injurious hindrance of all. As the African proverb says, each of us lives at the bottom of a well. Looking up we see only a tiny blue dot and mistake it for the entirety of the sky. A nice play on an old saying come...
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Thinking Through: December 2014
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Philosophy, Mythology, Spirituality, and Transformational Wisdom. Saturday, December 27, 2014. This piece originally appeared in the column "A to Zen" in the January/February 2015 issue of Unity Magazine, and is reproduced here with permission.]. How do you bring someone back into the fold of their own best life? The origin of the word “religion” is obscured somewhat by antiquity, but modern scholars believe it comes from the Latin root re-ligare. 169; Peter Bolland. Friday, December 19, 2014. My oldest ...
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Thinking Through: The Seven Marks of a Leader
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Philosophy, Mythology, Spirituality, and Transformational Wisdom. Wednesday, June 10, 2015. The Seven Marks of a Leader. A good leader is bold. A good leader has vision. A good leader is humble. They’re not afraid of saying the three most powerful words in the English language – I don’t know. They understand that wisdom begins with the admission of ignorance and blossoms under careful cultivation, in collaboration with thoughtful others in continual dialogue. A good leader values creation over process.
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Thinking Through: Braincalming
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Philosophy, Mythology, Spirituality, and Transformational Wisdom. Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Brainstorming works wonders. When we let loose a flood of ideas, freely associating and playfully combining anything and everything that comes along, we often see past old boundaries and discover solutions to vexing problems. The stream of consciousness becomes a torrent that blasts through every snag. If brainstorming opens formerly clogged channels, then what is braincalming. In his poem The Great Wagon. Listen to...
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Thinking Through: True Identity
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Philosophy, Mythology, Spirituality, and Transformational Wisdom. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. This piece first appeared in my "A to Zen" column in the June/July 2015 edition of Unity Magazine, and is reproduced here with permission.]. Sometimes spiritual work is simple. We just make it complicated. When we look at our hands we realize they are a part of us, that they accomplish remarkably deft tasks, but that we are so much more than just our hands. We use our hands, but we are not our hands. 8221; Contempor...
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Thinking Through: June 2014
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Philosophy, Mythology, Spirituality, and Transformational Wisdom. Saturday, June 21, 2014. Musings on the Value of a Truly Good Producer. The May 2014 issue of Recording Magazine featured a long and technically detailed cover story about the making of my album. Two Pines , written by my producer Sven-Erik Seaholm. I was invited by the editor of Recording Magazine to write a guest editorial about the artist's perspective of the whole process. This is that piece. www.recordingmag.com. In 2005 and California.
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Thinking Through: March 2015
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Philosophy, Mythology, Spirituality, and Transformational Wisdom. Monday, March 9, 2015. The Power of Silence. There is just so much noise. We are limitless in our capacity to fill the silence with so much clutter that even God can no longer hear himself. If there is a God I mean. Why don’t we debate that. Again That sounds fun. 100,000 years ago? But one thing’s for sure – once we started, we never stopped. That’s a lot of chit chat. From Concepts to Conflict. Because you are separating yourself from th...
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Thinking Through: July 2014
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Philosophy, Mythology, Spirituality, and Transformational Wisdom. Thursday, July 31, 2014. But this was different. My mom was diagnosed and eleven days later was gone. And now the home we all grew up in is empty. No one lives there anymore. It’s just a place we’re from. In times like these you go back and sift through memories. You wish you had more. You can’t believe how much is gone. And the little that’s left takes on the burnished glow of treasure. The whine of my dad’s Honda 50 coming down the...
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