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People With More Empathy For The Monsters than The Villagers

It happened again just yesterday, and I wanted to make something clear. Yes, I have processed my anger about slavery to the point that I don’t think the people who practiced it in America had some...

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The View From the Ivory Tower

Arthur Byron Cover and Lydia Morano used to run Dangerous Visions bookstore in North Hollywood on Ventura Boulevard, and among other things used to throw great parties. I was at one of them, about...

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Soulmate Questions

The first step in the “Soul Mate Process” is to love yourself.  The second is to love one other person, or to admit that you wish such a relationship.   Once admitted, we step into the danger zone: the...

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Sometimes you have to take a stand

One of the things I love about my life is never knowing what I’m going to write about from one day to the next. My favorite thing is when someone asks a question, or offers a problem, or seeks my...

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“Finding Neverland” and the courage to seek the truth

Watching “Leaving Neverland.” Michael Jackson said he was innocent, and that should settle it. Exactly as much as it settled things when he said he hadn’t had plastic surgery. Come on, people, you only...

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Can We Care Too Much?

There was a young psychiatrist who got into the elevator at the end of the day, disheveled and exhausted, as he was every day. In the elevator was an older psychiatrist, looking fresh and whistling a...

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“Captain Marvel” (2019)

Maybe I have a problem with Marvel’s approach to space fantasy. Maybe. For half of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY I sat in the theater not really impressed by what I was seeing on the screen. No one was real....

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Begin With The End In Mind

“Love is all you need”–John Lennon ## We are about to wrap up the Core recordings for the SOULMATE PROCESS (you can still join the group at www.soulmateprocess.com) the last recording coming this...

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“Incels” are Everywhere

The “Incel” phenomenon is basically people blaming the world for their own non-optimal habits and damaged emotions.  Confusing ignorance for wisdom.   Clustering in pity parties  and reassuring each...

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Blind Leading The Blind

“We are Lemmings We are crazies We will feed our flower habit Pushing Daisies” — “Lemmings” the National Lampoon off-broadway show   I remember driving up to Vancouver B.C. many years back to watch an...

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