Exploring Concepts of Spiritual Import

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According to wikipedia "conceptual frameworks are a type of intermediate theory that have the potential to connect to all aspects of inquiry (e.g., problem definition, purpose, literature review, methodology, data collection and analysis). Conceptual frameworks act like maps that give coherence to inquiry." I view it as an explicitly stated understanding of what you know to be true. So we go through life making tons of assumptions:… Continue

Added by Todd on May 25, 2009 at 10:49pm — No Comments

My Beautiful Stalker

Have you ever been stalked by beauty? Have you ever had a magnificent work of art continuously revisit your life like a persistent recurrent dream? A symphony, a painting, a novel, a few lines of calculated prose...you know, that stuff that speaks more than the words which sometimes compose them...I have. There's a poem by John Donne entitled "The Expiration." I came across it one fateful undergrad day in the university library as I was vigor… Continue

Added by Todd on April 25, 2009 at 5:47pm — 1 Comment

Rethinking Economic Assumptions

I have recently had the opportunity to participate in a forum wherein the participants have been exploring the foundation of the current global economic system and challenging some of the basic assumptions that may not represent our current understanding of reality. Though I think virtually everybody on that forum is far more qualified and capable of providing meaningful input to the discussion, I wanted to share some thoughts that I posted on my blog. My own formal training in economics was on… Continue

Added by Todd on April 2, 2009 at 2:32pm — 1 Comment

Community Integration or Bust

Spending the last week at the Rainbow Mansion I've had a lot of conversations about the Choza, but also about community development in general. Tonight we were chatting with Raven Zachary who stopped by for a few minutes and he also asked the question "What is the intersection of everybody in this house." Robbie and… Continue

Added by Todd on February 26, 2009 at 6:22pm — 8 Comments

Darwin's Liver, and other lessons from the internal body politic

"Liken the world of existence to the temple of man...among the parts of existence there is a wonderful connection and interchange of forces which is the cause of life of the world and the continuation of these countless phenomena."

‘Abdu’l-Bahá

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Added by Todd on January 25, 2008 at 5:03pm — 6 Comments

Grandma Lilian's lips and the Art of Meditation

I recently spent a few days in Vancouver with a dear mentor and friend of mine, Don Streets, and an amazing and incredibly diverse group of individuals. The event was put on by Lee Brown, a Cherokee gentleman who got his Ma… Continue

Added by Todd on December 21, 2007 at 2:15pm — 7 Comments

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lest me be trapped by my own devices

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Grandma Lilian's lips and the Art of Meditation

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