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Category Archives: epoche
The importance of social connection to feeling safe
Our sense of safety and social connection are intrinsically interlinked, creating feedback loops that allow us to not only form healthier connections with others but to combat loneliness and be more gracefully alone. Dr. Stephen Porges calls the ventral vagal … Continue reading
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Tagged health, nervous system, polyvagal theory, safety, social connection, vagus nerve, yoga
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Bubbles of mine
Oh how soon I’m in dance with the Other
And the One skips right into the We.
Bubbles of mine, bubbles of mine,
Linger awhile, dear sister, dear brother
For so few abide with me.
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Move over Mr. Burns: how the institutional imperative explains state and corporate corruption
Most of us are governed by institutions, and when they go bad we suffer serious consequences from entrusting them with our welfare. I came across a term recently that set off a whole series of lightbulbs in my head. The … Continue reading
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Tagged corruption, FDA, financial crash, institutional imperative, management, Warren Buffet
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Leave it broken
Along a sombre winter roadI felt this life a heavy loadA robin blown upon a treeBegan to sing, it seemed, to me. “Stay the hand that would repairThe heart’s old wounds, Each cut and tear.Hear the deathless love well spokenStay … Continue reading
drawing a blank
The blank pageDishevels my thoughts Sends them reeling Ten directions The blank canvas,Unravels my mind, Sends me teemingTo times gone, and to become But there is nothingNothing more disarming than the look You laid upon me When I told youThat … Continue reading
The future is China
From predatory boardroom practices to draconian public health measures, Orwellian technologies, state-corporate partnerships on censorship and surveillance, Digital ID’s to social credit scores, China’s ways are quietly going global. PHOTO: Qilai Shen We may prefer to forget that China operated … Continue reading
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Tagged China, covid, politics, quarantine, social credit, surveillance, technocracy, Zero-Covid
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Pieces of me
Pieces of meCrumbling down like bits of an abandoned houseThere goes another broken tileA shard of shattered window glassAn historic stone. With each gesture of deconstructionLess and less remainsOf what bound it all togetherIn that seeming entityA house, a life, … Continue reading
See no evil, farewell to the good
Why imagining evil is key to our very survival We need to rediscover our capacity for imagining evil, not just in the mind of an individual but at scale. If we do not, evil will consume us as it has … Continue reading
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know the risks
Heart attacks are all the ragetrending high among the fittest of the fitno one is safe defibrillators in the playground headlines warn us to ‘know the risks’ sleeping too muchsleeping too littlesleeping on the left sideor is it the right?going … Continue reading
The wisdom of the letting go
I was listening to a talk by the English bard, Malcolm Guite. If the mossy time of ancient stones, their mysterious placement mute to the clamouring conquests of intellectual certainties that frame modernity could produce a human interloper, it would … Continue reading
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subincontinentia 