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Electric Revolution

We All Know We Don’t Know

I enjoy doing yoga on the beach because I can easily pause to look seaward and skyward to soak in eternity, or glance closer in to bond with my friends, all the sand flies and seagulls around me. Today I got to thinking how small and insignificant we are—they and me. Then I thought, they […]

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Nov 20, 2015 by Carl Abbott
Filed Under: Who Are You Series Tagged With: balance, civilization, ego, Electric Revolution, emotion, enlightenment, evolution, hunter gatherer, instinct, knowing, mysterious sameness, placebo, religion, symptoms point of view, thinking

Who are you? (Part III)

Recent posts, Who are you? and Who are you? (Part II), examine the losses of emotional security and comfort caused when our civilized way of life replaced our primal ancestral way. Common sense, personal experience, and timely mid 20th century ethnographic research verifies this. (See The Harmless People p.426) This post and the next cover […]

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Aug 1, 2015 by Carl Abbott
Filed Under: Who Are You Series Tagged With: Agricultural Revolution, civilization, comfort and security, Electric Revolution, evolution, family, history, meta-story, religion, symptoms point of view, the old way, thinking

The Trans Tribal Tao

Much in the Taoist worldview marches to the beat of a different drummer. So much so that if one has to ask “How so?”, one may not be genuinely ready to know how so. Anyway… Marching to the beat of a different drummer often boils down to feeling, acting and/or thinking outside-the-box, which can at […]

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Feb 18, 2012 by Carl Abbott
Filed Under: Observations Tagged With: civilization, Electric Revolution, religion, symptoms point of view, trans-tribal, tribal, what is tao

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