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 […]
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Posted May 31, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 May 2020 May 31st, 2020 | Tags: 1984, Brave New World, brick in the wall, bricks, cart, culture, customers, dystopian, futuristic, grocery store, jails, license to drive, Music, paranoid, Pink Floyd, political party, social control, society, uniformity, utopian, walls | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted June 30, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 June 2019 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 […] June 30th, 2019 | Tags: Aerosmith, Anger, Arrowsmith, Beyond Laughter, Chrystal Blue Persuasion, Dream On, emotion, emotional life, emotions, envy, fart jokes, guitar, healing, jealousy, laughter, literary expression, literature, Martin Grotjahn, meaning of life, Music, persuasion, piano, rage, relationships, rhythm and blues, rock & roll, Rock and Roll, sadness, Shakespeare, Shondels, tears, Tommy James | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted June 30, 2016 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 June 2016 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 […] June 30th, 2016 | Tags: aviankind, Beautiful Boy, Frank Sinatra, healthy eating, humankind, Jackson Browne, John Donne, John Lennon, life, Love's in need of Love today, mamaliankind, medical practices, Music, No Man Is an Island, optimism, other plans, pessimism, poetry, politics, realism, Sean Lennon, spirituality, Stevie Wonder, That's Life, the vortex | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted September 30, 2015 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 September 2015 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 […] September 30th, 2015 | Tags: Auguries of Innocence, authority, Buddha, chakra system, chakras, cognitive triangle, compassion, Confuscius, culture. humanity, dance, Drama Triangle, history, human consciousness, Jesus, law, legal systems, literature, losers, Music, painting, persecutor, poetry, rescuer, sculpture, slaves, spiritual, spiritual history, spirituality, spoils, Steve Karpman, territorial control, the drama triangle, The Mental Traveller, transrational, tribal, tribal laws, tribes, victim, victor, wars, William Blake | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted August 31, 2015 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 August 2015 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 […] August 31st, 2015 | Tags: ABC, AM radio, Apple, cameras, CBS, CDs, CNN, communication channels, computer-based print technologies, computers, Crome, e-publishing, electronic typewriters, face-to-face, FaceTime, Final Cut Pro, FM radio, Future Shock, high definition, iMove, iMovie, Internet, Internet news, Internet video, John La Valle, media richness, Microsoft, Movie Maker, Music, NBC, NLP, NPR, Orlando, print messages, records, Richard Bandler, secretaries, Skype, software, technology, Toffler, TV, typewriters, video calls, video cameras, video processing, wire recorders, word-processing, YouTube | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted December 15, 2014 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 15 December 2014 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 […] December 15th, 2014 | Tags: American Revolution, behavior, behavioral patterns, being organized, being positive, change, Chinese Revolution, drinking, enjoying life, Equality, exercise, freedom, French Revolution, gambling, grooves, health, Herbert Benson, Liberty, lose weight, lure of the familiar, Music, New Year, physical condition, records, Relaxation Response, Relaxation Revolution, repetition, resolutions, rewards, Russian Revolution, smoking, smoking cessation, stop smoking, systems of government, turntable, vinyl, Virginia Satir, weight, well-being, West Hall, Western Michigan University | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted June 15, 2014 in Uncategorized By Debra Basham, on 15 June 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 […] June 15th, 2014 | Tags: adventures, and Healing, archives, Barbara Dossey, Bernie Siegel, Christel Nani, cure, curing, Dean Ornish, death, debilitating, disease, drugs, FAAN, healing, health, hip replacement, Jeanne Achterberg, John Quincy Adams, journey, July 2014, justice, law, learning, Leslie Kolmeier, Love, love and survival, manifestation, medical technology, medicine, Mitch Albom, Music, nurse, nurses, Peace, psychological, rituals of healing, Sacred Choices, self-reflection, soul, Stephen Covey, surgeon, surgery, thinking outside your tribe, tribal beliefs, Tuesdays with Morrie, valley of the shadow of death, Woody Allen | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed |
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