Posted April 30, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel P. Bowman, on 30 April 2020 The title of my article for this month comes from a song popular in the 1950s, “Time Was”:
Time was when we had fun On the school yard swings When we exchanged graduation rings One lovely yesterday Time was when we wrote Love letters in the sand Or lingered over our coffee and Dreaming the […]
Posted November 30, 2018 in Monthly News By Joel P. Bowman, on 30 November 2018 I borrow my title from lines spoken by Shakespeare’s Hamlet, who has just figured out that his uncle murdered his father. Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in 1601. In spite of the great expanse of human history and speculation, we still do not understand the relationship between what we call “life” and what we call “death.” Humans […]
Posted May 31, 2018 in Uncategorized By Joel Bowman, on 31 May 2018 I borrow the title for my article this month from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet uses the phrase to explain why Romeo’s family name does not change his character. Most people know that the play does not end well for Romeo and Juliet, and most people also know that the basic plot […]
Posted April 30, 2017 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 April 2017 A long time ago (1957), a social psychologist named […]
Posted August 31, 2016 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 August 2016 The song central to Debra’s post this month, “Show Me the Way,” by Dennis DeYoung and Styx, illustrates humanity’s desire for meaning. As is usually the case for the Beyond Mastery Newsletter, Debra wrote her article first, so that I could write something that would fit the theme she selected. When I read her article, […]
Posted March 8, 2015 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 8 March 2015 Although we rarely stop to think about the process of communication, it may be the single most important influencer of behavior. Humans aren’t the only species that communicates of course, nor are we the only species that uses language. For most of human history, we have assumed that we are the only ones who have […]
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