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- It Takes a Village to Raise a Child - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2012 from Rick McBrideIt takes a village to raise a child. Ever think about what that might really mean or where the statement comes from? While there are some who say it originated in Africa, there is no clear proof. Like so many other common sense insights, it may have many origins; indigenes across time and ...
Views: 3158 - Is Karma Absolute? - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2012 from Rick McBrideOr is it relative? I admit I am confounded by this idea called karma. It seems so simple I’m embarrassed to admit such a thing. The source of my confusion comes from other ideas we have about how the universe works that seem to conflict with it; quantum theory, relativity, synchronicity, ...
Views: 1447 - A Metaphysical Interpretation of Constructal Theory - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2012 from Rick McBrideA principle has leaped out of thermodynamics so hot it’s bubbling up in other disciplines as a major law of physics, to wit: “This principle predicts natural configuration across the board: river basins, turbulence, animal design (allometry, vascularization, locomotion), cracks in solids, ...
Views: 1229 - The Medicine Wheel - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2012 from Rick McBrideThe Medicine Wheel is perhaps the single most intriguing symbol of the ancient Americas. It is a physical structure, typically made with stones arranged in a circular pattern, usually on consecrated ground. This configuration is big enough for people to enter, and Wheels built this way tend to ...
Views: 2058 - Oneness - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2012 from Rick McBrideWhenever I get the opportunity to teach a workshop on the Medicine Wheel, or Medicine Shields, or to lecture on Native American Lifeways, I take it. And in each of these I will teach early on what I call the Relationship Exercise, which goes something like this. I begin with a somewhat lengthy ...
Views: 1067 - Opportunity - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2012 from Rick McBrideOnce every so many purple moons I manage to get off a fairly decent article. I can already tell this won’t be one of them. The reason is simple: Like the rest of the non market-gambler, nonpolitico, nonbureaucrat nation, I have been slammed back into the psychedelic, but oh-so-unavoidable, ...
Views: 960 - Ceremony Or Ritual - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2012 from Rick McBrideWhat is ceremony? And what is ritual? Are they the same thing? In some circles, these are two, distinct activities. In others, they are interchangeable. Still in others, there is only confusion. We look in the big dictionary, the three-pounder, and what we read there we could swap one for ... ...
Views: 1184 - Religion v. Spirituality - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2012 from Rick McBrideA sundance brother recently asked my views on the differences between religion and spirituality for possible inclusion in his doctoral thesis. An interesting question, I thought, as the common assumption is that religion is spiritual, that the two terms are interchangeable, even synonymous. To ...
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