Tuesday, July 09, 2002

"It is my opinion that never before have we, as a nation, stood in greater danger of losing our individual liberties as we are today," Serpico said. "We, the people of this great nation, are being punished for the transgressions of our leaders and their consorts."
500,000 to be vaccinated for smallpox
"United Nations weapons inspectors colluded with British secret service agents to spread disinformation about Saddam Hussein's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programmes as part of a campaign to justify military strikes, according to the head of the UN inspection team in Iraq."
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Wednesday, July 03, 2002

"Everything human strikes me with horror" --attributed, by Camus, to a camp survivor
Who's afraid of the International Criminal Court? The US, Russia, China and Israel, of course.

Tuesday, July 02, 2002

History of Guided Imagery

List all the things you just don't want to think about.
How is your life impacting others?
So... what is the life you intended?
--Journaling prompts (and more)
Paperjournal: real-world journal group
5 Year Journal
(No need to actually buy it... just use the ideas you like in your own journal)
Only a few cities dare oppose the so-called "Patriot Act"
BlogComp: Blog Tool Feature Comparison Table
(thanks to Mike!)

Sunday, June 23, 2002

NYC bookstores off the beaten track
"Am I causing someone else to feel pain which I should actually be dealing with myself?" --What Evil Means to Us
The Spirit of Jung
From Psychology to Psychosophy
"The image... is inhabited in its depths by a god and has telos. The image's movement expresses the telos, a kind of manifestation of the god within, and it is followed, not interpreted, with varying skill in the analytical process... the image, although it is a snapshot of a personally inflected archetypal process, is not static. '…the image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy….a vortex, from which and through which and into which, ideas are constantly rushing...'" "As electric media proliferate, whole societies at a time become discarnate, detached from mere bodily or physical 'reality' and relieved of any allegiance to or a sense of responsibility for it...The alteration of human identity by new service environments of information has left whole populations without personal or community values..." --Cyberwork: The Archetypal Imagination in New Realms of Ensoulment