All those for or against political polls, might I remind you that the United States is not a pure democracy (one person, one vote)? If we wanted to be a pure democracy, we’d have to do away with our tricameral governance:
Category Archives: Human-Centered
WHEN LAWS CHANGE
You’ve heard a lot in the news recently that the way we do things in government has to change.
I believe that in passing any law, a legislature, no matter how humanistic or idealistic, must also be empathetic.
WHAT’S THE STATIC?
What’s The Static?
How might static (or a low amplitude signal) take part in the formation of our consciousness?
When we read, we concentrate on the words, rarely the spaces between them. But it is the spaces that allow us to consider each discrete series of letters (the information we need to transfer and receive).
What happens in these spaces that helps to group words into their discrete meanings?
What happens in the spaces between the mind’s images and its thoughts?
Gullibility
In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift introduced a theme to his book by calling his main character “Gulliver,” a corruption of the word “gullible.” Throughout his travels, Gulliver shows himself to be gullible, believing things he’s told to the exclusion of all logic. What is this gullibility that we speak of? What does the word mean? …
Déjà VooDoo
Déjà VooDoo
Instance A: (Recognition Before Announcement): From outside us, on a TV commercial about St. Jude’s Hospital, Danny Thomas is about to be identified. We recognize his identity—Danny Thomas—from memory before the commercial identifies him.
Embracing The Other Within Us
Many of us look out at the universe and think, Wow, it’s so vast, so big. Upon seeing the vastness of outer space, immediately we say, “It makes me feel so small.” Why do so many of us resonate with that sentiment?
Inside The Mind of God
The Implicit (what is not expressed) may have occurred before the expansion of the Big Bang. A circular (or spherical) expanding boundary from a singularity can only occur if there are relationships across it. If there are no differences (in perspective) across a boundary, then neither the expansion, nor the boundary nor the relationship …
Codependent Relationships/Meditation
Codependency definition: excessive psychological reliance on a partner. Here we look within the individual mind and trade the word “partner” for “template”. How many of us have ever been in a codependent situation? All of us, I hope. Because I believe templates (see Love and Loss) don’t just form within our brains in …
Love and Loss
Is there a difference between reaching into the past to find someone you loved but can no longer reach and reaching into the future to find someone you love (or might love), but might never meet? Let me give you an example. People around me are forever mourning the loss of touch with a …
God
Where, might you ask, do I stand on the existence of God? I ask back: Does a businessman accept that any system can be managed effectively by both top down and bottom up leadership and organization? I believe in both. The bottom up is, perhaps, the natural selection way relationships or boundaries have of creating …
The Union of Opposites 