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“Branding” is a term that has the connotation ‘to make a scar in an slave’s or animal’s flesh in order to declare ownership’. We would do well to question it as deeply as @[1051396398:2048:Krista] suggests… with and for each...

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“To give one example: when I first arrived to begin my fieldwork among the Kalahari hunter-gatherers, I expected to find them occasionally hunting giraffe. I had seen the film made in the far western Kalahari by John Marshall, a film called “The...

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‘The Drama Triangle’ is a model of an exceptionally common human tradition where people play the roles of Persecutor, Rescuer and Victim (the most prized role) in transactions that are generally catastrophically malformed. Youtube (and other social media...

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The powers of language and declarative thought too easily pre-empt their sources in dreaming, imagination, and… particularly… mystery. Human societies know far less than 1% of the nature of being, life, identity or form… so we should realize that...

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This is the man who led me to my first Zen instructor (@[729696849:2048:John Tarrant]) so many years ago.