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I treat the world as endless mystery and what people do as endless folly.
  —Carlos Castenada

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Michael May Bloomington, Indiana Sex and the Interior Life - 2012
Dated:01/26/2012

I have decided to expose myself in the New Year.

As a New Year’s Resolution for 2012 I have decided to risk exposing myself by asking dumb questions.  I am particularly resolved to ask dumb questions of those subjects about which everyone else already knows the answer.  

The many smart people who offer thoughts on this web site or in the Discussion Forum often intimidate me.  What if others were to learn how shallow or stupid or uninformed I really am?   I believe this is why many people visit this site, read the insightful or probing commentary and then do the safe thing… nothing!  We keep quiet.  We don’t articulate the same dumb question that the last 150 readers also thought but failed to risk voicing.  Thus it is we and our cyber-neighbors remain stuck on our interior journeys.  
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Maryellen Greulich, Bloomington Indiana Everyday Profundity
Dated:11/18/2011

*****The following Blog is extracted from an earlier submission to the Discussion Forum on “Everyday Profundity.” The classic and universal dynamic it represents motivated us to re-present it here. Please add your own examples of everyday profundity to the conversation in the Discussion Forum.

There’s a piece of motherhood that I still can’t get my head around. It’s the universal nature of birth – that women who have given birth have encountered the same awesome experience over and over again. They experience the complete transformation of their bodies, feel their babies moving inside, experience the anxieties, hormones, cravings, surprises and pains that accompany the most intense moment of their lives that is sure to change EVERYTHING. It’s completely personal, it’s different for every woman, and yet it’s shared. We all enter the world in the same way. It has been accomplished by women since the beginning of our species and continues again and again every day. This one totally personal experience, that rocked my world and changed my life, is an experience that is repeated nearly 340,500 times every day worldwide. I am awed by the completely unique experience of each woman, juxtaposed by the completely ordinary nature of birth.
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Gene Marshall Bonham, Texas The Secular Religious Revolution
Dated:10/06/2011

The Secular Religious Revolution

The most important historical development in the last 200 years was not the splitting of the atom or the invention of the internal combustion engine or the spread of the computer chip, but the advent of a new religious mode.

The most illuminating person that I have known personally, my mentor for 24 years, Joseph W. Mathews, first called this history-changing event  “

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Suzanne Aquila Bloomington, Indiana The Practice of Present-Moment Awareness
Dated:08/29/2011

 ******One of the most important interior relational practices for any of us is that of present-moment consciousness.  Few activities challenge this interior management exercise like long-distance sport.  In the following blog, Sue Aquila, an elite Iron Man Triathlete and coach and member of the Storywarrior Institute, addresses the practice.
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Michael May Bloomington, Indiana Quest for the New Global Metaphor
Dated:07/13/2011

I see the Universe as an infinite number of patterns that whirl and dance around a Still Center.  I imitate the celestial circular motions and partake in a timeless cosmic dance.  I experience reality as order around a center.  I dance to find my centered still point.  My dance gives meaning to life.       
                                —Jena Marcovicci
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