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Synchronicity After publishing Revolution from Within, I was thrilled to be introduced to remaining family members of one of our heroes in the story, Paul Anderson. You can read about this fortuitous meeting in my post Synchronicity!
The family have shared many beautiful memories with me and, in many ways, done what my extensive reading and study of the historical archives could not … namely brought so many of these people to life in all the complex -
Blog postConnections between Russian spiritual philosophy … French personalism … and Unity Consciousness!
It is amazing to see the Russian people reclaim the ideas, beliefs and worldviews elaborated by The 160 so many years ago. Through perestroika, glasnost’, and vozvrashchenie (Return) official government change through the auspices of Mikhail Gorbachev, Alexander Yakovlev and their fellow co-conspirators inside the Communist Party combined with Dissidents’ -
Blog postAs we transmute the 3-letter organizations who no longer serve us, we the people, globally… let’s take FCC. Instead of Federal Communication Commission (which does not seem to serve the people’s interests and can’t seem to manage much) – how about this simple affirmation:
FREEDOM * CREATIVITY * COMPASSION I was first introduced to this affirmation by the Russian spiritual and personalist philosopher, Nikolai Berdyaev. In his book, The Destiny of Man, Berdyaev anal -
Blog postCreation vs Control by American Kabuki January 10, 2015
It seems that life itself thrives on the knife edge of chaos, which is not randomness at all but structures of very complex energies and influences. Life thrives where choice and love thrives. We have a rich universe of life because of choice and a certain letting go of control by Source – yet Source is within each being as it makes its choices and we’ve seen in recent years Source exerting direct control through [th -
Blog postIn the interests of promoting Unity Consciousness, I had the brain-flash that presenting Western mainstream media postings side-by-side alternative and Eastern viewpoints might be revealing for all of us as we grapple with this current fascination in duality consciousness.
Duality = either / or. Polarity = two sides of a continuum, both valid or… = both / and I leave it to you, the reader, to discern how you want to perceive this information. Unity = recognition -
Blog postNew organizational buzzword for 2015 – Holacracy. It comes with a catch tagline:
“Zappos just abolished bosses”
Given the growing decrepitude of traditional hierarchical organizational models, the inability to communicate effectively across the intransigent silos, bloated bureaucracies, and the knee-jerk defensive responses like “that’s not how we do things here”, “if we didn’t build it, it’s worthless” … that are so toxic to innovation, it is not surprising th -
Blog postPaul B. Anderson, Maynard Brichford, Archivist for the YMCA papers at University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Bean who’s fabulously maintaining the Kautz Family YMCA Archives @ University of Minnesota, Windy Press where Mary Glenn is Senior Editor
Years ago, while researching my Ph.D. thesis, I found it surprising that many of the best archival resources about Russian philosophers were not residing in Russia, but actually held at various US repositories and, of course, Paris. -
Blog postYou have to admit, even if all of this is a construct for some seemingly unknown purpose, this is an incredible world we’re inhabiting. This spontaneous creative Force we’re engulfed in and intrinsically interwoven into is absolutely spectacular despite all the obstacles we encounter.
That there’s an invasive parasitic force at work trying to gum up the works and usurp this magnificent design and claim whatever weirdness it simulates as some sort of alternative reality is absolutely l -
Blog postAlmost two centuries ago, a Russian intellectual from a wealthy family travelled to Western Europe to study philosophy and the Arts. This really wasn’t novel or unusual; at that time most Russians of a certain class had the opportunity at some point in their lives to visit, live, travel in Europe, the Middle East, or Asia and a good number used this time studying and listening to lectures from “the Masters” (Kant, Hegel, Comte…)
So Ivan Kireevsky was in good company as he travelled th -
Blog postABC……GOD. by Sophia Love 2/4/2015
What’s stewing and brewing in this head lately is this:
If
A. The being called “god” has no greater power than I.
And
B. I am the Master of my life, responsible for all of it.
Then
C. What is the difference between a being who imagines itself to be god and a being who imagines itself to be human?
I think that answer may be found in belief, aka knowing.
Titles By Catherine Baird Ph.D.
Revolution from Within: The YMCA in Russia’s Ascension to Freedom from Bolshevik Tyranny
May 7, 2015
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