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 […]
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Posted May 31, 2018 in Uncategorized By Joel Bowman, on 31 May 2018 May 31st, 2018 | Tags: argue with reality, Big Enders, Byron Katie, choice, civilized life, Emperor's new clothes, George Santayana, global ar, global war, Gulliver's Travels, Hans Christensen Andersen, herds, hives, Jonathan Swift, Kill Commies for Christ, Little Enders, mass migration, options, political realities, political satire, politics, Protestants, remembering the past, Roman Catholics, Romeo and Juliet, royalty, satire, the ability to choice, the Fugs, The Who, tribal warfare, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Wide, Wide River, William Shakespeare, wolves, won't be fooled again | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed Posted April 30, 2017 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 April 2017 A long time ago (1957), a social psychologist named […] April 30th, 2017 | Tags: abortion, acquiring new information, alternative emotions, alternative thoughts, behavior, changing behavior, changing cognition, cognitive dissonance, cultures, didn't call, didn't write, divorce, Emancipation Proclamation, have your cake and eat it, husbands, Leon Festinger, Lincoln, line in the sand, master's level, morality, my way or the highway, on the one hand, on the other hand, relationship, relationships, slavery, smoking, social power, social psychology, Vietnam, Vietnam War, wives, Women's suffrage | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted September 30, 2016 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 September 2016 Humans like to think of themselves as the “Crown of Creation.” In 1968, Jefferson Airplane captured the irony of the human tendency to presume that we had achieved the pinnacle of the evolutionary process in the song, “Crown of Creation”: You are the crown of creation. You are the crown of creation, And you’ve […] September 30th, 2016 | Tags: 1960s, 1967, 1968, 1970s, and brotherhood, awakening, Berkeley California, change, communes, counter culture, Crown of Creation, Crystal Blue Persuasion, evolution, free love, Free Speech Movement, George Santayana, global politics, good, Grateful Dead, Guess Who, Haight Ashbury, Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away, hippies, human potential, If You're Going to San Francisco, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, New Jerusalem, Oakland Bay Bridge, path, Peace, Pema Chödrön, political unrest, politics, remembering the past, San Francisco, Scott McKenzie, Share the Land, social change, Stevie Wonder, the Shondells, Tommy James, Vietnam | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed 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, […] August 31st, 2016 | Tags: art and architecture, Dennis DeYoung, Dover Beach, dreamer, feet of clay, form and function, God, Heaven, Hell, humanity, Imagine, John Lennon, Matthew Arnold, Medieval Castles, New Age, priests, religion, religious beliefs, Show Me the Way, spirit, spiritual not religious, spirituality, Styx, Vietnam, Vietnam War | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted January 31, 2016 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 January 2016 When Debra first suggested that we write about the way creativity is often sparked by chaos, the first thing that came up for me was my memory of Vietnam in 1969, where I first heard the song. “Reflections of My Life,” by the British group Marmalade. Here are the lyrics: The changing of sunlight […] January 31st, 2016 | Tags: 1969, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Changes, chaos, conflict, conscious evolution, creativity, David Bowie, drugs, earth, evolve, forging steel, history, humanity, John Keats, leavings of hammers, Marmalade, old English, pain, police, poverty, Reflections of My Life, reincarnation, sixth extinction, swords, terror, the evolutionary testament of co-creation, vale of soul-making, Vietnam, war, war metaphor | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted December 31, 2015 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 December 2015 For those of you who know both of us, it will come as no surprise that Debra and I don’t always agree. As she points out in her article this month, she tends to be optimistic. I am not an optimist, but I do not think of myself as an pessimist, either. When it comes […] December 31st, 2015 | Tags: Afghanistan, bad things happen to good people, Better Angels of our Nature, brotherhood, Candide, civil unrest, conflicts, Doctor my eyes, Doctors without Borders, Eaton College, happiness, ignorance is bliss, Iraq, Jackson Browne, Korean War, Middle Ages, misery, reality, Sondells, Steven Pinker, suffering, Thomas Gray, Vietnam, Violence, Voltaire, WW II | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted April 30, 2015 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 April 2015 One of the principal challenges of modern life is keeping up. The other principal challenge is remaining calm and centered even while working to keep up with the way things are changing. The rate at which things are changing has been increasing exponentially for generations. For thousands of years, the only way for humans to […] April 30th, 2015 | Tags: airplanes, Alvin Toffler, automobiles, being in tune, center, change, computers, contemplation, contempletive, crime, crocheting, electricity, entertainment, fighting crime, Future Shock, gardening, horses, iPad, knitting, Korea, meditation, new technologies, nineteenth century, prayer, quilting, radio, rate of change, rocker, secretaries, seeking and finding, self-driving, staying centered, steam, sundown, technology, the cloud, The Third Wave, The World Is Too Much With Us, travel, TV, twenty-first century, typewriters, Vietnam, William Wordsworth, wind, wind-power, WWII | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted August 31, 2014 in Uncategorized By Joel Bowman, on 31 August 2014 One of the things about life is that we never really know what’s next. Most people know the saying by Scottish poet Robert Burns, “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley.” Most of us can also think of one or more things in our lives that confirm its truth. In many […] August 31st, 2014 | Tags: Army, B schools, best-laid plans, calculus, chronic fatigue syndrome, clerk, college, combat, grad school, graduate, high school, hypnosis, literature, Mary Jo Bulbrook, medic, neurolinguistic programming, NLP, psychology, retrospect, Robert Burns, sailing vessels, social activism, sociology, soul purpose, steam ships, tacking, type, typing, University of Illinois, Vietnam | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed |
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