Infinity signs > Quid Pro Quo > You scratch me and I’ll scratch you > An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. I have written extensively about the human mind and health (illness) and how the human mind (under certain circumstances) can distort anything. The major causes of our mind distortions […]
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Ode to Leroy
It was love at first sight! This kind of love can only happen with two beings that have a pretty functional notion of who they are, what they want, and what they need. Honor, respect, integrity, honesty and a clear sense of self are words that come to mind. Of course, these ingredients are necessary […]
Let’s Talk About Money
Some years ago, I was privileged to read a manuscript that was then titled “The Future of Money.” The author was an international banker and had at least worked in Europe, the United States and South America. His observation was that for the current world monetary system to work, we had to have poverty and […]
Letter to President Obama
December 15, 2016 To: President Obama From: Anne Wilson Schaef, Ph.D. Topic: Free Leonard Peltier By now, I hope that you, and all of us, have enough data to prove that the FBI and/or factions of it are not apolitical and perhaps, more than we know, support violence toward people for unjust and political reasons. […]
Goodness
What goodness have I experienced today? My Manager, Pete, let me sleep-in while he visited with his niece. He brought back a fresh breakfast when he returned from his visit. We ate it sanely as we watched the news. We were grateful that those we support in North Dakota who are trying to protect the […]
Dismantling Democracy
The people did not elect a king or a czar! Or did they? The last time I was in Russia, I took a boat trip from Moscow to St. Petersburg. It was lovely as we stopped and explored villages along the way. It seemed like being more in touch with the real Russia. In the […]
What if Hillary Had Gone First
I have never been a big fan of the “what if’s” and “if only’s.” Yet, there is one “what if” that has haunted me for some time and I want to explore it. When Ted Kennedy got the bee in his bonnet that Barack Obama should be the next President and carry on the legacy […]
Even the Best of Us Are Not as Open as We Think We Are
My response to Barack Obama’s article in Glamour, August 4, 2016 on What a Feminist Looks Like – http://www.glamour.com/story/glamour-exclusive-president-barack-obama-says-this-is-what-a-feminist-looks-like I appreciate the progress Obama has made and – – – “he is not there yet!” If the title had been “This is what a Black Male Feminist Looks Like,” I would have been truly impressed […]
Men (and Women) Moving On
To follow up on my recent blog, Thank You Trump Boys, I want to explore some of the myths of what I call the White Male System/Addictive System/ Technological, Mechanistic, Materialistic System. In my first book, published in 1981, as a young second-wave feminist, very early on I realized that we were not just dealing […]
Spirituality
Most native people have no word for spirituality. The reason is not that they have none. They most certainly do. The reason is that spirituality is so omnipresent and involved in everything that it is a given. One does not need to separate it out – – from anything – – because it exists everywhere, […]