Posted May 31, 2020 in Monthly News

Another Brick in the Wall

A long time ago, the musical group Pink Floyd wrote and performed a song with the title, “Another Brick in the Wall.” The song is basically about what has come to be called “Social Control.” If you aren’t familiar with the song (and it is “ancient history” at this point), see “Another Brick in the […]

Posted June 30, 2019 in Monthly News

Sing for the Laughter, Sing for the Tear

A long time ago, back in the the Age of Rock & Roll, a group called Aerosmith wrote and performed a song called “Dream On”:

I confess that I am a child of the Rock & Roll era. I hit adolescence at the time Bill Haley and the Comets released Rock Around the […]

Posted June 30, 2016 in Monthly News

Other Plans

John Lennon wrote one of his most famous lines, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans,” in a song for his son Sean: Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy). Although he wasn’t the first to have that thought (for earlier versions, look here), the Lennon version has become the most quoted, perhaps […]

Posted September 30, 2015 in Monthly News

The Altering Eye

In The Mental Traveller, the nineteenth-century poet William Blake says, “For the eye altering alters all.” In the poem, Blake is exploring the spiritual history of humanity as well as his own spiritual history. Regardless of the degree to which we are aware of it, we all have a spiritual history and a sense of […]

Posted August 31, 2015 in Monthly News

Video Is Everywhere

E-publishing is just one of the changes being brought about by technology. Changes in print technology have definitely come at a rapid pace. I typed my dissertation on a manual typewriter. That was 1974, and while that may have been before you were born, in the grand scheme of things, it is essentially “yesterday.” I […]

Posted December 15, 2014 in Monthly News

Resolutions and Revolutions

It’s that time of year…. For one reason or another, the New Year has become the dedicated time for people to resolve to be better in one way or another from the way they were in the past. Most cultures have had some form of promise-making at the start of the new year, regardless of […]

Posted June 15, 2014 in Uncategorized

Debra: July 2014

Understanding Curing and Healing

I once heard Dr. Bernie Siegel tell an auditorium filled with people not to do a single thing just because it might help him or her live. He told us that death is 100% certain. While those were shocking statements, it is a fact that, in spite of all the advances […]