Eastern vs. Western Spiritual Traditions

The Hindu or the Vedic tradition has been around for at least 5,000 years.  Buddhism has been around for over 2,500 years.  Judaism has been around for over 3,000 years.  Christianity has been around for over 2,000 years.  Islam has been around for about 1,500 years. Christianity has about 2.4 billion adherents. Islam has about […]

Heaven is Now, IF you are open to it.

When I was much younger, if someone had said to me that Heaven is Now, here, today, I would have laughed at them, for I could see that this world is not heavenly or perfect.  I would have agreed with most people that this world is HELL and that, at best, the most we can […]

Demonstrating Love

If you care about someone we want them to be healthy and happy.  Yet, as it has been said, we are our own worst enemy.  So for the most part, each of us is the one who is creating our own unhealthy life and making ourselves unhappy.  The person who loves us will engage our […]

Another Day, Another Shooting

I just heard that there is an active shooter situation at our local high school, Boulder High School, here in Boulder, CO. It is exciting as I try to learn what is going on, but part of me has this ho-hum attitude, just another day and another shooting. I was going to add “in America” […]

Do We Really Want to Get Along?

Do we all want to get along? Getting along means not confronting the status quo. Getting along means the ruling classes maintain their domination of the masses. But maybe the masses benefit from having the ruling classes dominate them. Some people still need and want to be dominated by the ruling classes. And SOME people […]

Guest Post: Climate Anxiety: How to Relax and How to Help

This is a guest post Adam Cook that I think is pretty good. It’s easy to feel discouraged or hopeless about climate change. Studies have found that we’ve just left the hottest decade in over 100,000 years, so anxiety about our planet’s future is unsurprising. To carry on despite the grim predictions surrounding us, it’s important […]

Dealing with Extremism

Somebody just pointed out that OUR problem is not being Left or Right, it is EXTREMISM of being either the Left or Right. Boulder is more Left and has more extremist lefties and Colorado Springs is more Right and has more extremist right-wingers. So my question is/was how can we personally, locally, engage extremism in […]