What Superheroes Mean

 
It always amazes that some people seem to think that good works can somehow magically appear in a corrupt world without idealism and dreams of courage and daring.

When the Unreal Seems More Real

"The way in which we use this power (of memory and prediction) is apt to destroy all its advantages," Alan Watts said.

Corporate News Media Polishes Its Blind Spots

The corporate news media has already ignored the Republican use of torture, the Republican war of lies that murdered several hundred thousand innocent people in Iraq, and the Republican Wall Street deregulation that caused the 2008 global financial crash. 

So why not this too?

At the Boundary of Conscious and Unconscious

“Yogis describe the breath as lying precisely at the boundary between the body and the mind,” observed psychotherapist Stephen Cope. “Most of us have experienced the shallow breath of terror, or the long deep sighs of melancholy…

“Breath connects the inside of the body with the outside world — taking the outside world in, and expelling the inside world out.”

Here and Now, Not There and Then

The overwhelming of our inner reality by the demands of the outer world, in ways never before possible, is a central problem of the 21st century.

Outer communications technology must be counterbalanced by — and ultimately tamed by, and enhanced by — inner mental technique.

'Forgive and Forget' Will Get Us Killed This Time

Republicans always cry "Unity!" after the disasters they’ve designed rain down on our heads. They want some breathing space to plan the next fascist attack they intend to launch against us.

Kevin McDermott, Post-Dispatch: “Years before President Donald Trump’s MAGA army barreled through the U.S. Capitol, bashing windows and beating guards and waving a Confederate flag and ultimately ending five lives, much of America, left and right, seemed to agree on one thing: Too many of us had failed to ‘understand’ Trump’s supporters…

“Sorry, but anyone who can look around at this point and continue to support this treasonous president is deplorable… As the fever in our politics finally breaks, Trumpism doesn’t need to be ‘understood’ any more than white supremacy or Nazism or any other toxic philosophy does. It just needs to be defeated."

Ban Fox News from All U.S. Military Bases