00023 – Respect and Authentic Dialogue
What does respect have to do with honest and authentic dialogue? It strikes me as a spandrel to inject the necessity to dodge the potential offense persons might take at the examination of ideas. While I agree that a wholesome and mutualistic pursuit of the most reliable map we can render to more effectively negotiate a journey toward a more abundant experience, those cultural rules that demand fealty to “respect” are sometimes a means to oppress, obfuscate truth, maintain stratified social hierarchies and the like. I emphasize the word sometimes.
00024 – What Defines the Experience of Being
What are the factors that define what we experience as “being”? Are we completely defined by environmental influences, or do we have a voice in shaping what we are?
The Wisdom Of Life 