I realize that when I started teaching I was a disembodied ghost presenting abstract concepts. I have finally learned that that really isn’t teaching…. students are not going to care about the little generalizations you give them for purely abstract reasons. They need to see humanly why they are important. I have learned that the primary resource you have as a teacher is yourself, your whole self, mind and spirit and body, and unless you are willing to teach with your whole self, with everything you have, you are not really going to teach at all. Robert Bellah
The Trouble with Atheists
Atheists are locked in mortal combat with the “Church God.” But there’s more to human spirituality than the celestial patriarchs of our typical religious institutions.
Editing the Bible for patriarchy – How Church scribes diminished and devalued women in the early elite Christian Church
The bible is generally seen as a politically conservative, even regressive, document. Indeed, sociologists generally dismiss scriptural sources as little more than fevered delusion. In fact, as we can see in this short analysis about women in the Bible, the Bible was more progressive than Church patriarchs would have you believe.
Misappropriating the World’s Spiritual Teachings
Right-wing elites often use the bible to justify their beliefs and actions. However, in many cases, their reading, if they actually read it at all, is selective and misinformed. The example in this article demonstrates how elites misread, misappropriate, and weaponize the spiritual teachings of this world to suit their own economic and political agendas.
Quantum Change Book Recommend
“Quantum Change” by Miller and Baca is a book of case studies revealing and analyzing the healing and transformative power of Connection Experience
Covid-19 — Not the “Chinese” flu, the .01 percent flu
Murdering the Mi’kmaq for Canada
Doing their dirty work. The “Scalp Proclamations.” Aristocrat offers money for murdering the Mi’kmaq
What is Money?
Think you know what money really is? Think again. Discover the true nature of money and why your undersnding of money is probably mystified and confused.
The Mystical Shaman Wise One Maria Sabina — My Observations
A few observations on the famous Mazatec Wise One Maria Sabina
Competition – bad for you, bad for the planet
We’ve all been taught that competition is good for us, and good for the planet. Maybe it’s time to reconsider
The Toxic and Repressive Culture of the Catholic Church
A Catholic priest gets fired for calling out abuse in the Church.
Abraham Maslow’s Two Hierarchies of Need
Can psychologists get anything right? After seventy years they still get Maslow’s Hierarchies wrong.
The Seven Essential Human Needs – Basic Statement
In order to enter Growth Mode, humanity must meet the Seven Essential Human Needs of all living beings
Are you a toxic alpha wolf or a connected human being?
An examination of the importance of creating a lived environment where all our essential needs are met, using wolves as illustration.
Thomas Szasz and the Myth of Mental Illness
A review of the sociological classic, “The Myth of Mental Illness.”
How environment creates the “alpha” male
According to Dr. Mech, the man who coined the term “alpha male,” being alpha may not be what it is cracked up to be.
Can Sociology Help Someone Studying to be a Police Officer?
Sociology has a suprisingly wide purview and relevance. It can even help you be a better policeman.
The Family – Netflix Docuseries
Here is an awesome, and incredibly disturbing, documentary on how fascist power is wielded and developed. In this series, “The Family” (which is a secretive group of powerful white males remarkably like those portrayed in The Handmaid’s Tale) is exposed.
What did Einstein Say about Religion?
Einstein had a few things to say about religion and human spirituality, and he gets dragged into religious discussions from time to time. This video takes a close look at what he really thought.
Schooling the World
School is cool. School is rules. School makes you into a tool. School is fun. When you’re done. You’ll fit in like everyone.
Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing my People
If we change our story about alcohol, if we stop accepting it as natural, normal, and necessary, if we stop telling ourselves that alcohol is medicine, that it dissolves grief, maybe we won’t have to stand at so many gravesides and mourn so many senseless...
The Seven Essential Needs
In order to grow up healthy, strong, and connected, humans have to have all their essential needs met. In this paper we take a look at the seven essential needs and discuss some of the implications and actions needed to move forward as individuals and as a happy and fully functional planet.
Rocket Scientists’ Guide to Money and The Economy
The best book you'll read in a really long time Rocket Scientists' Guide to Money and the Economy by Mike Sosteric was one of the best books that I have read in a really long time. Reading that book made me feel very ignorant about my idea about what was...
Working Class Hero
As soon as you’re born, they make you feel small…They hit you if you’re clever and they despise the fool…till your so fucking crazy you can’t follow their rules. A MAGA, Yellow Jacket, Proud Boy, working-class hero is something to be…
What is Sociology?
What is Sociology? According to Dr. Sosteric, Sociology is the study of the world we create. Find our more by reading his insightful article.
Parable of the ISMS (a.k.a. You have two cows)
A modern, critical update on the classic “you have two cows…” political parable. Suitable for classroom use.
Margaret Sanger’s Message to the Poor
Eugenicists are often portrayed as crazed racists whose primary concern is racial and ethnic purity. This is certainly the popular face of eugenics, but in reality, eugenicists are more concerned with eliminating the degenerate poor, regardless of what race they belong to, then simple “racial hygiene. ”
Grade One
Our daughter, Vayda, recounts her grade one experience at the hands of a teacher she now understands was an emotional/psychologically bully. #metoo #soistayed #mybully
The times they are a changin – Bob Dylan
This song is most certainly talking about the collective awakening that was occurring in the 60s and 70s, before The Family, with the assistance of Hollywood and the actor Ronald Reagan, shut it down. As anybody reading these lyrics will attest, we’re living through another “time changing” moment.
The Importance of Human Touch
Here is something for parents and their children (that's all of us) to consider. Being held and touched in a loving and affectionate manner helps us develop healthy genetics, and increases our life potential. Although the research is nascent and early stage,...
The New Arms Race, The Third World War (WWIII)
After decades of prophecy and prognostication, WWIII has, unfortunately, arrived.