• five verses on training the mind

    by  • June 26, 2008 • 2 Comments

    I gave ten years to sharpening the axe and weaving the noose I learned to wait with patience while the cogs of life spun to my desired settings You must treat the mind as a body to be cultured before climbing into space the delicate coordination of extraordinary and mundane is the key to opening [...]

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    Global Systems Mapping

    by  • June 20, 2008 • 1 Comment

    Shows roughly how the infrastructure works in a modern society. It’s the “general case” – to really get the detail down requires configuring the diagram for a specific place and time, but I think the rapid overview picture is still extremely useful. A work in progress. Five things on the chart. 1> Six Ways To [...]

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    Surprising

    by  • June 18, 2008 • 1 Comment

    Founder of the Hare Krishnas – surprisingly clear and lucid and direct. No mention (so far) of chanting Gournanga and being Happy. I’d never seen any of his material directly, only filtered by the organization, and he’s more impressive than they make him look.

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    20% of US troops in Afghanistan are on Prozac

    by  • June 5, 2008 • 1 Comment

    http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1811858,00.html I just… I mean… yes, it makes perfect sense. If they’d had prozac in WW2, it might well have been compulsory for all combatants. But still. Just seems like a warning sign, an indicator of really serious problems at other levels of the structure.

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    Global Swadeshi is beginning to cook!

    by  • June 4, 2008 • 0 Comments

    Keyhole Gardening gets a solid thread going. I’m particularly interested in the way that five or six people put in a few minutes each and we wound up, at the end of the day, with a decent amount of information on something that otherwise most of us wouldn’t have known about. I think there’s a [...]

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