Awakening From Your Anger

Tag: Personal Growth

  • The Blowing Out Process, Part 1

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    MacQuarrie Email #07 — The Blowing Out Process, Part 1 Two more emails (plus a summary email), and then we start the process of skill development as to how to explore and manage your anger. I hope by now you are starting to recognize that the concepts thus far allow you to get a handle…

  • Acedia underlies global warming

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    Have you ever asked yourself how we have ended up with the problems of global warming? Or what stops us from solving these issues? We have avoided resolution of the issues for more than 50 year now. The superficial issue of global warming is technological, but what keeps us stuck is emotional? First of all,…

  • Global Warming: My Stance

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    I’ve been ill for the past week, still somewhat frail — it has given me an opportunity to think about what I really want, and why I am writing this blog. Succinctly, I believe that as a species we are on a suicide mission, and as a culture we are incredibly angry; you only have…

  • A Mature Culture: Daily Living? (Part 5)

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    Daily life in a mature culture — more musings. In the last few posts, I have suggested that “therapy groups” would be the norm for personal development. I now want to chunk up to what would cities be like, possibly shifting back and forth between daily life and city life for the next few posts.…

  • A Mature Culture: Daily Living? (Part 4)

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    Daily life in a mature culture — more musings. In the last post, I suggested that “therapy groups” would be the norm for personal development. What would this be like? These would be gatherings in small group for honest dialogue, likely weekly or twice a week. Adults learn best by having significant emotional experiences, and…

  • A Mature Culture: Daily Living? (Part 3)

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    Daily life in a mature culture — my musings continue (I will continue with acedia in a few weeks when I finish with my thoughts regarding a mature culture). In the last posts, I suggested at least two three-hour sessions a week for in-depth personal work. What would this be like? For most of my…

  • UK politics not compatible with maturity

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    Today’s digression: What would it really take to move us towards a mature culture — the impact of our acedia. I am finding that one of the aspects of writing a blog is to find a balance between: responding to current issues (because I feel some excitement about the issue), and maintaining a theme (such…

  • A Mature Culture: Daily Living? (Part 2)

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    To continue my musings concerning daily life in a mature culture — I am suggesting that human beings would essentially live within small village-like environments, nested within larger communities which would provide more sophisticated resources. If we were to do away with most of the consumerism of our current society and live such that much…

  • A Mature Culture: Daily Living? (Part 1)

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    Daily living: I have mentioned in my last few posts that Louis Herman, in Future Primal, lists four characteristics that satisfy human activity, what he calls the Truth Quest: the seeking of wisdom (individuation), face-to-face discussion of important issues (intersubjectivity), shared decision making in trusted groups (direct democracy) and a narrative of meaning (mythic narrative).…

  • Community in a mature culture? (Part 2)

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    We are now the most important species on this planet, dominant in our capability to sustain it, or to destroy it. Up to this point in time, our “civilization” has been that of domination, and essentially unlimited growth. If we want to survive and thrive as a species, we have no choice but to learn…