The “Racial Issue” has been in the popular vernacular for well over a century, though the actual words used have come in and out of vogue. Yet as things are turning out, it is increasingly clear that it is not, nor was it ever, really a racial issue. The race…
As a clinical psychology instructor at the U.S. Army’s Medical Field Service School, in San Antonio, my job was largely involved with teaching a wide variety of forms of psychological testing. The famous Rorschach inkblot test was among them. It is a specific example of a category of test called…
Full and effective communication is the most important single factor in any human interaction. This is especially true in a loving relationship. It is easy to overlook the fact that the information that is being communicated, even non-verbally, does not tell the whole story. Nor is it necessarily the most…
I recently watched a TV program about hazing in college fraternities. In it they quoted disturbing statistics such as every year for decades at least one student has died as a direct result of hazing. They went on to look at what colleges, parents, police, and even the leadership of…
When I look at all the classes and courses I was offered in school–and there were thousands–never did I see anything called “Being Honest with Yourself 101,” or anything like it. In fact, I’ve never even heard of such a thing. Yet what I have learned is that any inability…
In July of 1966 the Viet Nam war was just warming up the bloodmobile, Lyndon Johnson was president, Kent State was just a school no one ever heard of, and Detroit was not a good place to be black. Jerry Burnett knew that better than most of us. I didn’t…
I am the Earth. And while that is your name for me, not my name for myself, it will do for now. I write to you out of love for myself and for all of which I am composed which, of course, includes you. I will refer to myself here as “I”…
So you want to be immune to Swine Flu? Read on, but are you in for a surprise. In the last few days the consciousness of swine flu has virtually exploded. Everywhere people gather to exchange information, whether on TV, radio, newspapers, or the Internet, it is a main topic…
Although the term technology has become closely bound to science, even the word science itself has its roots in a time long before the scientific method was formalized. Basically, it means the search for knowledge. Technology is the application of that knowledge, presumably to one’s advantage. So technology can be…
Most people believe that their lives are largely a matter of cause and effect with a substantial dose of random chance (or luck, if you prefer). Some see destiny as being involved. They are wrong. Life is an experssion of choices and the creativity with which all consciousness is richly…
