Posted on Nov 15th, 2007
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Malcolm
Often personal trauma haunts us until we find a place of healing and forgiveness. And often the trauma of war reaches down the generations and centuries, only to explode again when the time is ripe.... More »
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Posted on Aug 14th, 2007
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Malcolm
In a meandering way, I’m exploring the role of our worldview in creating trauma, and the role of trauma in creating our human predicament. The last entry looked at how our belief that we are... More »
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I began this series of entries with the question “Why is it so hard to change the world?” In response, I argued that a fundamental cause is trauma. The trauma of climate change was probably... More »
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Are there ways of bringing up children that will consistently (if not always!) lead to partnership characteristics such as non-violence, peacefulness, tolerance, caring, sharing, cooperation, gender equality and independence of mind? The answer from a... More »
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Posted on Jul 25th, 2007
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Malcolm
I’ll start this entry with a brief recap of my last few posts. For thousands of years after the last Ice Age, human society over a large part of the planet was peaceful, cooperative and... More »
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Posted on Jun 30th, 2007
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Malcolm
On 21 June I posted some thoughts on why it is so hard to change the world. At the end, I outlined a theory that I’m developing that our human predicament can be explained by... More »
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Posted on May 12th, 2007
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Malcolm
One of our deepest beliefs is that there is a single Truth, or set of Truths, about the nature of reality that we can discover and understand. This is most apparent in proselytizing religions that... More »
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