Way back in 1996 -- almost 30 years ago! -- I wrote a paper called Consciousness As An Active Force. It became the seed from which my book Active Consciousness (2011) grew. The paper talked about...
I, Not Robot
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Active Consciousness
Finding America
When my husband Steve and I embarked on our first voyage across America in September 2021, we thought we were merely looking for a new place to spend our summers, given that we could no longer go to...
What Happened to Silicon Valley?
It's been about a year since I posted my last article, "Looking for America." Steve and I did finally find our new homeland. We moved to South Carolina in September 2022, arriving for good at our...
Looking for America
Let us be lovers We'll marry our fortunes together.. And (we) walked off To look for America -- from "America" - Paul Simon On September 18, 2021, my husband Steve and I loaded up our Prius and its...
What Is Liberation?
It seems like everyone these days is thinking about liberty. Here in the US, people were feeling so much freer after various COVID restrictions were removed in June and July. Now the clamps are...
Something Is Definitely Not As It Seems
It's been a while since I've written, mostly because I've been rather flummoxed over the past few months and didn't know what to say. Doesn't it seem like we're all living in some kind of strange...
Unraveling the Vaccine Debate: Finding the Fulcrum Beneath Polarity
Many of us are growing to realize the dangers inherent in the increasing polarities in our world. Polarity is all about two camps fighting one another on two sides of an issue, each side "othering"...
The Power of Uncertainty
If there's one thing that COVID-times have brought us, it's uncertainty. We wake up each morning wondering what unexpected changes are coming our way. Will there be work, will there be school, will...
How Much Is Too Much?
How much is too much? That seems to be a question that keeps coming up these days, in one form or another. How much surveillance is too much surveillance? How much money is too much money? How...
When Will This All End?
We are all asking ourselves that question right about now! In the first couple of months of our "COVID Adventure," it seemed a bit exciting and even interesting. Of course, there was suffering too,...