This is #29 in a series of month-end reflections on the state of the world, and other things that come to mind, as I walk, hike, and explore in my local community. Chart above is my own inventi...
https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2024/04/26/its-all-chemistry-isnt-it/
my synopsis of the some of the elements that might comprise one’s Ikigai; any misunderstandings about ikigai here are mine For those unfamiliar with the ancient Japanese concept and philosophy ...
https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2024/04/24/your-ikigai-a-self-awareness-compass/
New Yorker cartoon by the late Charles Barsotti When I was a young child, I would look at my parents and other adults interacting with each other, with a mixture of bewilderment and amazement. ...
https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2024/04/21/childhood-conditioned-to-pretend-to-know/
OK, yes, I suppose this article is a bit of a rant, again. Sometimes I can’t help myself. I blame my conditioning. (Not all workplaces are like this.) from GapingVoid.com by Hugh Macleod ...
https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2024/04/18/the-horrible-lessons-of-workplaces/
If I were invited to talk to a group of students (of any age) today, to explain why everything seems to be hopeless and falling apart, this is what I think I would tell them. When I was young and...
cartoon by Michael Leunig When I look back at what the world seemed to be like, in my youth in the 1960s, it sometimes seems as if nothing has changed at all. We’re still fighting the same batt...
https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2024/04/14/links-of-the-month-april-2024/
Another annoying post about radical non-duality. But cool title, no? Dave’s four worldviews, 1951-???? Since I started listening to, and speaking with, the radical non-duality speakers shown on...
https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2024/04/11/the-crag-and-the-chasm/
Since I’ve come to the (tentative) conclusion that we have no free will (and that in fact there is no ‘self’ to have free will), it’s utterly changed the lens through which I see the worl...
https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2024/04/09/acceptance-forgiveness-gratitude/
Over the years I’ve written several articles summarizing some of the most amazing things I’ve learned about the natural world, using the “several short sentences” format (though I confess...
https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2024/04/07/several-short-sentences-about-evolution/
image by Layers on Pixabay (this is the same image Tim used to illustrate his post) I‘ve mentioned before that I battled severe depression and then debilitating anxiety for much of my life. Ove...
https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2024/04/04/the-value-of-therapy-when-you-have-no-free-will-no-self/