I’ve long felt that if you have no relationship to nature, you have no relationship to anyone or anything. But that is very different thing than believing that nature is…
Martin LeFevre
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Despite my surname, I come from a family of recent Irish immigrants with long memories. I grew up hearing stories about 19th century anti-Irish prejudice in America, epitomized by “No…
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The upper branches of a large, leafless sycamore hold the last golden rays of the sun. In the deep shade below, the silvery water gently undulates downstream through banks still…
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Do children need to be conditioned? Human conditioning is taken as a given, unquestioned as much as the sun rising in the morning. But conditioning is enslavement, not an immutable…
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Following a meditation under the massive old sycamore, I drop down the short, steep bank to the shallow stream. Standing under and little way away from the tree, I see…
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One of the greatest challenges facing humanity today is how to generate diversity and cohesiveness in a global society beset by the flattening of globalization, the dead-end of Western multiculturalism/pluralism,…
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As Aeschylus said in the 5th century BC, “In war, truth is the first casualty.” The new book by Robert M. Gates, “Duty,” which my local Barnes and Noble librarian…
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On one hand, most neuroscientists now say, “our sense of self is a neuronal illusion.” On the other, they say, “But we make our own purposes, and they’re real.” They…