Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.Robert Louis Stevenson

Inner Life Directions

Expanding Reality

Values

  • Fasting and Silicon Valley

    iFasting, Mouth Timer, Grumbli, Foodless Lite, Pizza Prison, Fork Busters. These are the names of companies which are based on a current craze in Silicon Valley: Fasting. Silicon Valley is filled with young, affluent, pampered, intelligent people who, among other things, are always on the lookout of what could improve their comfort, physical, emotional or intellectual—and for many it also includes what (more…)

  • War and Suffering

    The war in Yemen has just entered its fourth year. The war in Syria is 7 years old, the war in Sudan 5, the war in Afghanistan 15. War and suffering go together. For example, in Yemen which has already been called a humanitarian crisis :

    • in March 2017 an outbreak of cholera spread to a million people by the end of the year
    • an estimate of 2 million children are out of school
    • 2 million people, nearly 3 in every 4 people are dependent on humanitarian aid to survive
    • besides cholera there has been dengue fever malaria and diphtheria, while the fear and possibility of those diseases returning is real
    • the destruction of hospitals and infrastructure make rendering aid more difficult

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  • On Religious Freedom

    A military chaplain, the Rev Ronald Apollo, sued the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to be able to practice his religious beliefs and won. BOP wanted all personnel to carry pepper spray, including chaplains, so that if attacked by an inmate they could protect themselves. Apollo challenged the rule and now prison chaplains will no longer have to carry pepper spray. That to some may be just another example of how the Christian right asserts its values on the society, but it is more than that. First of (more…)

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