Recently, I’ve been practicing a form of the Buddhist Metta Bhavana, or Loving Kindness Meditation. In it, I concentrate on projecting unconditional love and good wishes to all life forms. It feels so powerful that I was thinking it may have a beneficial effect if many people were to synchronize the practice and send powerful thoughts and feelings of love and compassion to specific groups of people.
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For thoughts on Bombing Syria, click the flower:
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I live the United States of America, a nation with a pervasive vengeful god culture. As such, we believe that God exists to punish evil, and that we are His instrument to do so on Earth. A bit dramatic, I know. But even when we elect a president specifically because we are tired of endless war, we can’t seem to go more than 10 years without clamoring to bomb someone.
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This is my 2007 thesis for Lesley University's Masters of Education in Curriculum Design, focusing in Conflict Resolution and Peaceable Schools:This is a short paper I wrote in response to the standard assignment of finding and writing about sites on the internet:This is a paper I wrote in 2003 before the advent of Obama:Here's an example of how I can take a perfectly good book & ruin it with academic gibberish:This is my 2006 report on the structural violence of institutional racism and poverty that produce an inadequate and unequal public school system in the United States. The case study is of Central High School in Providence, Rhode Island:
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