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The Power of Reconciliation and Forgiveness

Posted on Nov 15th, 2007 by Malcolm : Green Man 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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Meaning, Purpose and trauma

Posted on Aug 14th, 2007 by Malcolm : Green Man 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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Individualism and violence

Posted on Aug 8th, 2007 by Malcolm : Green Man Malcolm

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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Partnership parenting

Posted on Aug 1st, 2007 by Malcolm : Green Man Malcolm

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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Is domination human nature?

Posted on Jul 25th, 2007 by Malcolm : Green Man 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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Dominator v partnership societies and relationships

Posted on Jun 30th, 2007 by Malcolm : Green Man 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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The Danger of TRUTH

Posted on May 12th, 2007 by Malcolm : Green Man 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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