America Strong

America Strong first some music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8C7i9kdEf8 Madison Rising – The Star Spangled Banner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srSdEgCS604 Folksoul Band_We Can Make It Better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjzZh6-h9fM Jimi Hendrix – The Star Spangled Banner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRUjr8EVgBg Ray Charles – America the Beautiful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aOGnVKWbwc Joni Mitchel – Woodstock a poem, as if She – America – had Her own Voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNfKPWswe-w The narrative …

Conceptual Pollution

Conceptual Pollution There are to me (as a spiritual social scientist) some curious “concepts” / “ideas wandering among our collective representations, as Barfield might have put it. Too many of them are linked to a fundamentally bad idea, which is that the human being is only matter, and not spirit at all. In addition, as …

who said the gods have no sense of humor?

Let us assume, and I believe we are justified in this hypothesis: If there is a bad way for folks to do something benefiting their own interests, they will do it. In the TV show, Mr. Robot, the character White Rose remarks that the only currency the wealthy and powerful recognize is violence.The other odd …

She Has the Whole World in His Hands

She Has the Whole World in His Hands To the women of the Catholic Church, both laity and religious: A strange tale, from a visitor to aethereal vistas long forgotten … attend here to the fact that New Revelation has been given to humanity, through the works of Rudolf Steiner & Friends. The “Church” knows …

dreams I wish I never had

from my book, American Phoenix – written over ten years ago ..,. http://www.lulu.com/shop/joel-wendt/american-phoenix/paperback/product-21565198.html President McHenry sighed a very deep sigh.  The Threats team from Defense, the one chaired by someone representing the real powers behind everything, had just put on his desk a plan they called – very unfortunately – Armageddon.  It called for letting …

The Mystery of Technology

The Mystery of Technology I take it for granted, that whatever darkness folk may believe lives in “technology”, there is no getting rid of whatever “it” is. The Divine Mystery loves to give us puzzles, mazes, labyrinths, secrets, and mysteries. Not mysteries in the sense of detective stories, but mysteries in the sense of sacred …

so … while anthros were not paying attention

so … while anthros were not paying attention, I spent some quiet time with the Holy Mother, given that Chaos is Her nature, as against the Father, who is Order. It would be fair to say that paranoid conspiracy theories hardly reach the scale and level of how/what/ and why the Divine Mystery allows stuff …

The Role of Skepticism in the Practice of Science

The Role of Skepticism in the Practice of Science I just finished a careful listening to the Are Thoresen webinar. Intentional doubt is an art. This Northern Mysteries shaman is very good at that – personal skepticism – if we listen to the tale of his journey. Skepticism is neither antipathetic, or sympathetic. In Are’s …