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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 »
Malcolm
As I wrote the last entry, I began to ask myself: Just how relevant is Maslow’s hierarchy to the planetary crisis? Is it any more than narcissistic navel-gazing by the rich while the planet burns?... More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Malcolm
In my last entry, I outlined the rise and fall of early partnership cultures as described by Riane Eisler. She made an implicit connection between the destruction of the partnership civilization and environmental conditions when... More »
Malcolm
In the last two entries, I introduced Riane Eisler’s partnership and dominator models of society, discussed the nature of trauma, and argued that it could explain the emergence and stability of dominator cultures. The origins... More »
Malcolm
In my last post, I described Riane Eisler’s partnership and dominator models of society and suggested that trauma is the reason we are stuck in the dominator part of the spectrum. In this entry, I... More »
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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