A World Wide Human Vision-Mission Statement

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Mar 242011
 

We will die; individually, at the end of our life span; as a species, at the intersection of whatever set of circumstances befall us, whether they be long term decline or short term cataclysm. For me, the fact that all things expire is the single indisputable truth of all existence – a statistic, that to the best of historic and scientific knowledge, and religious article of faith, registers a full 100% compliance to the reality of this statement.  In light of this inevitable truth comes the less certain question: When will our demise occur? Continue reading »

A Spiritual Being, On a Human Path…not the other way around!

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Mar 242011
 

After years of living and seeing what people do in the name of God or the Spiritual Life, I’ve come to a simple conclusion: We are already Spirit!   Whether that is defined merely as the atoms that comprise our bodies, or a more metaphysical belief that we are “children of God.”  Our journey here on Earth as living beings is the only certainty that we can know.  The why of existence, whether projected from religious doctrine or scientific speculation, is still no more than glorified or generalized opinion. Continue reading »

The Dirty Dozen of Isolation

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Mar 232011
 

by Stephen J Cocconi 2009©

To my Men friends and clients:

I have been one of those men who you could say: walked the “road less traveled.” It has seldom been glamorous, yet often perilous both socially and financially. While it has been a most rewarding journey, it has sometimes been lonely and often frightening.

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On Beliefs and Narratives

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Mar 222011
 

My determination and use of any or all belief system(s) is best expressed by author Joan Didion: “we tell ourselves stories so that we can live.” My own conclusion about the human mind is that in absence of other stories or narratives: archetypes, myths, histories, belief systems, or theories; our minds would otherwise take whatever available material and manufacture one for itself.  If for no other reason, to give the Intellectual Center something to do. The mind has a rapacious hunger for input. I suspect, we would be driven mad without stories and beliefs.
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Types of Abuse, Intimidation, and Coercion

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Mar 012011
 

by Stephen Cocconi – Channeling Michael – 1996-2012

Abuse is a vague word. It is vague because there are so many ways in which it can be perpetrated. At its foundation is an experience of pain and suffering that someone is unconsciously transferred; enlisting someone else (almost always less powerful) in the torment as to diffuse it inside themselves. Continue reading »

Anger & Alienation – The Politics of Hate and Hopelessness

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Oct 272010
 

To begin with this is not an article merely of diagnosis or prediction, but one of lament. I offer no grand, nor spiritually uplifting fix for changes to our nation, save one: participate by voting! Continue reading »

Now what? Mature Souls fall backwards to Baby Soul beliefs.

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Aug 312010
 

The admonition of “me first” began when we were infants and in a larger social context, Infant Soul societies. But when the natural inclination for self-preservation is augmented with runaway greed the prognosis for society is not good. In fact, the belief that “economic growth” is capable of being continuous points us to an not-so-healthy analogy: cancer!
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Citizen Of Earth

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Dec 172009
 

I am grateful, either because of luck or divine choice, to have been born in the United States of America!  Growing up in California with its redwoods, Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada made me appreciate nature, being outdoors and cutting edge thinking. Specifically being on the peninsula south of San Francisco, I was witness to and bathed in one of the most altering movements of our time. The theme songs were rock ‘n’ roll; the activities expansive thinking that rejected traditions without accounting for their cost or pretense. It was a time of civil rights, rejection of war, experimentation with drugs and sex, but more importantly asking the question: WHY?
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