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The Great Resignation: Have You Risen to Your Level of Mediocrity Yet? Are You Wasting Your Life Earning Money That Won’t Make You Happy?

The Great Resignation Continues About 4.2 million people quit their jobs in October, according to data released by the Labor Department on Wednesday. That is a decline from the number of people who quit their jobs in September, but still close to a record high. Job openings also remained near a…

Capitalism

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The Great Resignation: Have You Risen to Your Level of Mediocrity Yet?
The Great Resignation: Have You Risen to Your Level of Mediocrity Yet?
Capitalism

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The Problem With Ayahuasca

“Humankind can not bear very much reality.” ~ T.S. Eliot “It is only the unthinkable that is worth thinking. Who would ever want to think the thinkable?” ~ Derrida Over the past six years, I have received numerous calls asking if I — as a licensed psychotherapist — recommend working…

Ayahuasca

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The Problem With Ayahuasca
The Problem With Ayahuasca
Ayahuasca

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Jul 19, 2022

Are You Optimistic or Pessimistic About the End of Capitalism?

“…owners always think of workers as just another cost to be reduced.” ~ Malcolm Harris “The concrete, physical reality of inequality is visible to the naked eye and naturally inspires sharp but contradictory political judgments. Peasant and noble, worker and factory owner, waiter and banker: each has his or her…

Capitalism

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Are You Optimistic or Pessimistic About the End of Capitalism?
Are You Optimistic or Pessimistic About the End of Capitalism?
Capitalism

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Jul 11, 2022

Generation AirPod: The Avoidants

“Burnout, which often precedes depression, does not point to a sovereign individual who has come to lack the power to be the “master of himself.” Rather, burnout represents the pathological consequence of voluntary self-exploitation.” ~ Byung-Chul Han Thesis: avoidant attachment dynamics exacerbated by a plethora of fatuous Internet personas incessantly…

Depression

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Generation AirPod: The Avoidants
Generation AirPod: The Avoidants
Depression

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Jul 5, 2022

Who Is The Author Of Your Desires?

“No one knows who will live in this cage in the future, or whether at the end of this tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise, or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals, or, if neither, mechanized petrifaction, embellished with a sort of convulsive self-importance.”…

Work Life Balance

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Who Is The Author Of Your Desires?
Who Is The Author Of Your Desires?
Work Life Balance

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Jun 22, 2022

How Tim Ferriss and Richard Wiseman Sinned

“It is still a metaphysical faith upon which our faith in science rests — that even we knowers of today, we godless anti-metaphysicians, still take our fire, too, from the flame lit by the thousand-year-old faith, the Christian faith which was also Plato’s faith, that God is truth; that truth…

Tim Ferriss

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How Tim Ferriss and Richard Wiseman Sinned
How Tim Ferriss and Richard Wiseman Sinned
Tim Ferriss

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Jun 21, 2022

Tatiana Berman’s “The Power of Sound:” Review

“Everything we hear is music.” ~ John Cage “Without music, life would be a mistake.” ~ Nietzsche In the acknowledgements of my 2017 book I thanked Philadelphia Orchestra conductor Ricardo Muti for allowing students to attend the symphony in 1987 for $2. Maestro Muti opened up the universe of classical…

Classical Music

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Tatiana Berman’s “The Power of Sound:” Review
Tatiana Berman’s “The Power of Sound:” Review
Classical Music

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May 20, 2022

“Everything Is Different” by Joy Askew: CD Review

In 1996 a dear friend with very refined musical taste gave me a copy of Joy Askew’s remarkable debut CD entitled “Tender City.” …

Joy Askew

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“Everything Is Different” by Joy Askew: CD Review
“Everything Is Different” by Joy Askew: CD Review
Joy Askew

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May 13, 2022

“Nirankaar” by Snatam Kaur: CD Review

There are a few songs that have made me stop in my tracks upon first hearing them and “Re Man Eh Bidh Jog Kamao” by Snatam Kaur is one of them. Little did I know on that fateful day in 2007 that the song lasted for 32 minutes. It must…

Kundalini

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“Nirankaar” by Snatam Kaur: CD Review
“Nirankaar” by Snatam Kaur: CD Review
Kundalini

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May 6, 2022

“Aum Auku”: CD Review

Aum Akua is the latest release from Grammy winning slack-key guitarist Jim “Kimo” West and Billboard New Age Chart topper Joss Jaffe. This compelling new CD presents unique instrumentation including Indian tablas, Hawaiian percussion, African ngoni (harp), and a bevy of mellifluous guitars over sundry soundscapes. …

Joss Jaffe

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“Aum Auku”: CD Review
“Aum Auku”: CD Review
Joss Jaffe

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Ira Israel

Ira Israel

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Psychotherapist, Career Counselor, Relationship Coach, Author, Esalen & Kripalu Happiness Workshop Facilitator

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