Monthly Archives: July 2016
The Non-Monogamous Projection Train
Initiated by a conversation on a train, Amanda Moreno follows her thoughts down several tracks: owning projections, absorbing karma during sex (and processing it), the question of hierarchy, internalized shame by those trying to be monogamous who aren’t, and the real work required in any form of authentic relating if there is to be a true paradigm shift.
Through Ohio, and Deeper Into the Heart
Third night, 2am, Columbus, OH. 30+ cars lining the streets of a suburban neighborhood. Sleeping bags on every inch of floor space in the house of a supporter gracious enough to offer to a place to stay. Guitar music filtering in from the backyard. A group of organizers huddled over laptops at the kitchen table.
Democracy Now! — Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Hillary Clinton made history Tuesday when she secured the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, becoming the first woman to head the ticket of a major party in U.S. history. During the roll call vote at the Democratic National Convention, Bernie Sanders joined the Vermont delegation and moved to give Clinton the party’s presidential nomination by acclamation.
Planet Waves Daily Oracle for Wednesday, July 27, 2016
What most people think of as security is an illusion. Often we structure our lives on false promises and misinformation, structures that are no more solid than cracker. You typically build with different materials than the rest of the world, and have your own succinct basis for evaluating the truth.
Unfinished Business
The lunar last quarter today followed by Uranus stationing retrograde on Friday combine to raise the subject of unfinished business as the Democratic Party gathers where the U.S. was born. As Len Wallick suggests, cleaning up some originating errors and beginning anew can be messy business, but it may be why we’re here now.
Democracy Now! — Tuesday, July 26, 2016
The tumultuous opening of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia began one day after Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned following the release of nearly 20,000 emails revealing how the Democratic Party favored Hillary Clinton and worked behind the scenes to discredit and defeat Bernie Sanders.
Planet Waves Daily Oracle for Tuesday, July 26, 2016
It’s easy to chew everything over in hypothetical form, especially if you live mostly on the Internet. Genuine exploration happens through your physical body. Even if you’re a theoretical physicist, a designer of bridges or professor of philosophy, you don’t really know something for sure until there is an actual experiment performed.