What lies behind us or what lies before us are small matters when compared to what lies inside us.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inner Life Directions

Expanding Reality

  • Nate Parker and The Issue of Rape

    I’ve just finished reading several articles about the Nate Parker controversy relating to his having been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 1999 when still a teenager and while being a student at Penn State ( one of the most thoughtful was one in Slate). Parker was cleared and his co- writer, Jean Celestin,…

  • PS on Private Prisons Post

    Last week as you may have read the Justice Department issued a memo stating that contracts with private prisons will be phased out. Federal prisons are a small percentage of the whole prison system, which is mainly under the jurisdiction of the states. But federal prisons do manage detention camps for illegal immigrants, camps that…

  • “Survival of The Nicest”

    I ran across “ Survival of the Nicest” (published by The Experiment in 2014) at least a year ago and then somehow forgot about it until I read about it again in a newsletter I receive. It’s not the kind of book one should forget, it speaks about how altruism could actually help human kind…

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