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The I Ching on Trump’s Election – Wooing
On January 20, 2017 shortly after Trump was sworn in as the 45th U.S. President, I put my copy of the I Ching on the table, my three Chinese coins on top of the book, folded my hands around the coins...
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Red, Blue, or Third Pill?
The family left for an 8-month stay at our family home in Taiwan in the Spring of 2005. Being home-alone, it seems the next day, I rented The Matrix movies, popped a big batch of popcorn, and watched...
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Solaris
This morning we are being asked this question: What’s Missing From This Photo of Politicians Deciding the Future of Women’s Health? This Mother Jones post says, “Donald Trump met with the...
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Why So Serious?
I had this early morning dream: I was able to take from my computer screen the program that was running a Looney Tune program and then use the program with others to act-out any Looney Tune cartoon. It...
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Individuation of Ethics – Justice
Dream: I am watching myself from 1st base on the mound pitching a baseball game. I have lost previous games but now have discovered within myself a source of energy, a way that now gives me confidence...
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A New Universal Spirituality in Fargo’s Civic Center Courtyard
A New Universal Spirituality in Fargo’s Civic Center Courtyard One year ago, 2003, during Fargo’s Ten Commandments Monument debate, a local professor supported his argument for...
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Sly like a fox
I have read Ed’s Gadfly column, Crazy like a fox, several times – each time adding to multi-colored-maker underlinings and penciled notes. There is something “not quite right” with Ed’s essay, of...
View ArticleThe Lost Keys to Management
Introduction “I think, therefore, I am” has long been man’s distinguishing characteristic. But, exactly where does thinking take place? Early ideas located thinking in the heart, the gut and along the...
View ArticleSense8
I picked up copies of the HPR on Friday, 9.8.2017, when I went for lunch at Tailgators Bar & Grill with classmate Terry Steinweg (FCHS 63) where we ran into Tom Olson (FCHS 62) who was having lunch...
View ArticleFuck You Donald
When news broke that John Bolton was to be appointed by President Trump as his National Security Adviser, I had an intuition in watching Adam Curtis’s documentary The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream...
View ArticleI, Robot
Some interesting news on the MSNBC Morning Joe Show 7/18/17. Elon Musk issued another warning against runaway artificial intelligence, stating “AI is an existential risk to mankind”. Even more than...
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America’s Sandy Hook is Germany’s Auschwitz
I received a message from a high-school classmate commenting very positively on Ed Raymond’s most recent HPR column, Enough to make you puke, on the Parkland school shooting. He is calling for us to...
View ArticleOur Modern Odyssey
IN-SHADOW – A Modern Odyssey – Animated Short Film Anonymous – Incredibly Honest Animation Shows What’s Happening In the “Shadow” of Our Society You Will Wish You Watched This Before You Started Using...
View ArticleIn The American Penal Colony – Trumpesque
The title of this blog entry comes from Franz Kafka’s essay In The Penal Colony. Modifying Kafka’s title suggests his allegorical framework can be used to examine America as a penal colony. Wikipedia’s...
View ArticleThe I Ching on the Kim Trump Summit
6/10/2018 6:42 am cst. In the news – the meeting between the US and NK. I am asking the I Ching this question: What of the meeting between the United States and North Korea, between Kim and Trump? I...
View ArticleThe Frankenstein Trump Prophecies
I have kept Romanyshyn’s book The Wounded Researcher: Research with Soul in Mind close as I am often moved to re-read chapters. I recently re-read Chapter 13 Towards an Ethical Epistemology which...
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Listening With The Third Ear
I recently retrieved from my bedroom bookcase Theodor Reik’s book Listening With The Third Ear and began re-reading Chapter 18 Insight. Reik is a Freudian psychoanalyst, trained by Freud, and the 3rd...
View ArticleImagine Your Strength To Dream – Steven a Scherling
In a recent dream, I am sitting alone in the center of a darkened room like the Fargo Theatre. I could see lights in the projection room, coming under the two doors entering the theatre, and from...
View ArticleIn Dialogue – Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson
Two of the most popularly significant analytical thinkers on challenges facing our World are Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson. These speakers are introduced, then briefly we listen to them individually...
View ArticleHappy 21st Birthday Valentine Annah!
This is a very special ‘morning page’ as I have been planning to write it all of your life. Writing this just now has brought tears to my eyes, remembering how this day began 21 years ago. The emotions...
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