Marie-Louise von Franz May 6, 2023 In “Answer to Job,” Carl Jung explores the complex relationship between humanity and divinity, drawing on his deep knowledge of religion, mythology, and psychology to offer a radical rethinking of traditional religious concepts. It’s is a must-listen for anyone interested in the Jungian view of the fundamental questions of existence, the nature of God, and the human psyche.
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North Node In Aries, South Node In Libra 2023-2025 – How It Will Influence You
 | Astro Butterfly Jul 10, 2023 |
One day, Alex and Lily found one luscious, perfectly ripe orange. They both wanted the orange. What should they do? Fight over it? The winner takes it all? Or split it in two, so they each get their share?
Or perhaps there’s a different way – a better way?
On July 17th, 2023 the North Node leaves Taurus and enters Aries, and the South Node leaves Scorpio and enters Libra.
When the Lunar Nodes change signs, that’s a big deal for everyone. The Lunar Nodes spend 18 months in a pair of signs, bringing into focus the archetypal themes connected to those signs.
When the Lunar Nodes were in Gemini and Sagittarius (2020-2022) we had Covid and restrictions of movement, especially in international mobility (South Node in Sagittarius) – as well as changes in the way we conduct our everyday lives (North Node in Gemini).
The North Node inflates, and the South Node deflates. The North Node is “more, more, more”, and the South Node is “less, less, less”.
So with the South Node in Sagittarius, we had fewer flights – because flying is long-term traveling (Sagittarius), and more couriers delivering takeaways in the neighborhood (Gemini).
Then, in early 2022, the Lunar Nodes moved into Taurus and Scorpio. The South Node in Scorpio (less, less, less) brought us the energy crisis. The energy became scarce. Energy and shared resources are Scorpio themes. Which of course led to “more, more, more” Taurus, or inflation. Taurus rules money and physical resources.
You got the idea. The South Node usually signals a problem – and then the North Node attempts to find a solution. That’s how the Lunar Nodes work together.
Just because the North Node means “more” this doesn’t mean that the North Node is fundamentally positive, just like the “less” South Node is not fundamentally negative.
“More” can mean more inflation (North Node in Taurus), or more traffic, chaos, and Zoom overwhelm (North Node in Gemini).
If we really want to understand the Nodes we want to go beyond the “North Node is good” and “South Node is bad” paradigm.
The Lunar Nodes are meant to work together. They complement each other. We can’t have one without the other. The Lunar Nodes represent the evolutionary journey of our soul – the cosmic ‘push’ to continuously grow and evolve.
The Lunar Nodes Equation
One equation I like to use to describe the Lunar Nodes is:
Problem (South Node) → Solution (North Node) → Outcome (South Node)
The trigger of a Lunar Nodes transit is always the South Node. Something stops working. Planes no longer fly (South Node in Sagittarius). The energy pipeline is shut down (South Node in Scorpio).
And then we need to do something about it. We need to employ the North Node. The South Node is what we need to ‘sort out’. The North Node is what we do to sort out the South Node problem. We solve the South Node problem with a North Node solution.
And once we solve the South Node problem through the North Node, the outcome is not the North Node, but the South Node. The South Node is the outcome – the ripening karma, for good and for bad.
If what we reap (the South Node) is not what we expect, that’s because there’s something wrong with what we sow (the North Node).
TO RECAP: the Lunar Nodes are where we want to find a balance between the old and the new, where we are called to continuously reinvent ourselves and our lives. The Lunar Node in Gemini-Sagittarius reinvented mobility and education. The Lunar Nodes in Taurus-Scorpio reshaped the economy.
What about the North Node in Aries and South Node in Libra?
Well, this time things get personal. Aries and Libra are the axis of “me” vs. “you”. Aries-Libra is the relationship axis which we could also call the identity axis because nothing shapes us more at a personal level than our close, 1-on-1 relationships.
If we bring in our Lunar Nodes equation, what do we have?
Problem (South Node in Libra) → Solution (North Node in Aries) → Outcome (South Node in Libra).
It’s Not Me, It’s You
The South Node in Libra will highlight the ‘problem’ that needs to be solved.
Where are we too accommodating? Where do we care too much about what others think of us? Where do we leave things unsaid just because we hate conflict?
Where do we lose ourselves in others just because it’s more comfortable to do “we” rather than “me”?
What we’re looking at here is the stagnant, shadow side of Libra. There’s nothing wrong with being considerate. There’s nothing wrong with prioritizing relationships. There’s nothing wrong with harmony and peace.
The problem is when we’re doing “half-Libra”. The shadow side of Libra is rooted in a lack of balance on the Libra-Aries axis.
We don’t speak up and let our partner get away with bad behavior not necessarily because we prioritize relationships – but because we’re too comfortable in our status quo. “I won’t deal with the pain of conflict, with negative feelings that will eventually arise if I address the issue – instead, I will turn a blind eye and tell myself that I always do things for others”.
It’s something comforting about blaming the other for what goes wrong. It justifies our decisions. It makes us feel good about ourselves. It saves us energy (conflict resolution is very draining).
It’s Not You, It’s Me
Deep inside, we all know it (and hate to admit it): WE are the source of our own misery.
Not because the other is faultless. But because the only person we really have control over is ourselves. It’s up to us what we tolerate and what not. It’s our duty to build boundaries, set expectations and follow through with what’s important to us.
The solution to the South Node in Libra problem is North Node in Aries: having the courage to reclaim our identity.
Taking ownership of who we are. Setting boundaries. Following through with decisive action. Speaking the truth – even if it feels uncomfortable, even if it leads to conflict. To find long-lasting peace, sometimes we need to go to war.
Will this be easy? No! The North Node never comes easy. We will resist the North Node in Aries. Will find millions of reasons to do the same things we’ve been doing.
Yet, with the North Node in Aries, you want to go for it – whatever “it” may mean – a new way, a new you.
There’s Only Us
South Node in Libra is “You win”.
North Node in Aries is “I win”
South Node in Libra + North Node in Aries is “We win”.
When the South Node and North Node work together, we get the best of 2 words: personal growth, creative collaboration, mutual respect, and equal give-and-take in relationships. We have a strong sense of self without compromising the harmony of our relationships.
When the Aries-Libra Nodal pair is activated, a few things can happen:
- Relationships, partnerships and alliances that are not built on healthy foundations, equity and mutual respect will come to a natural end
- Relationships, partnerships and alliances that have healthy foundations will be reinvented to find an even more equitable win-win
- Separate entities that have something in common and are willing to cooperate will join forces
At a global level, some partnerships, global organizations or trade agreements will be restructured. Some entities, organizations, or geographical regions will seek independence. Others may find new alliances.
At an individual level, we will restructure our relationships so that they become an actualized version of who we are, as individuals. We might find things we don’t really like about the “other” – which are really things we don’t like about ourselves.
The North Node in Aries and South Node in Libra will show us that there’s a difference between compromise, and win-win.
When we compromise, we lose something important we value, which in the long term, leaves us empty and life force depleted. When instead we seek a win-win, we gain something by partnering with others. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
But to find that creative win-win, we first need to know what we want. We need to know why we want that orange: is it for the juice, or for the peel? Or for something else?
If the answer is: “I want it all, I want it now”, then that’s perhaps because we don’t really know what exactly it is about that “all” that we want.
How many times did you get something and it went to waste because it was not really what you wanted? Almost all of our disappointments in life – and in relationships – are sourced in a lack of self-knowledge.
When instead we know ourselves, when we know what we want (Aries) this trait becomes very attractive to others. We effortlessly attract that partner (who has also done their Aries homework) with whom we can make orange juice and marmalade – from the same orange.
North Node In Aries Conjunct Chiron
The most important transit the Nodes engage in is the North Node-Chiron conjunction at 16° Aries. The transit becomes exact on February 19th, 2024 but we will feel the influence slowly building up as soon as the Nodes change signs.
We know that the North Node is an evolutionary push forward to rewrite our destiny. And Chiron is the wounded healer – often a signature of a generational wound that has been passed down to us by our ancestors.
Therefore, the North Node-Chiron conjunction is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to “break the generational cycle” and heal our deep-rooted identity wound.
I will write a detailed report about this very important transit closer to the date.
Until then, we have 2 very important transits: Pluto square the Nodes, and Venus retrograde.
Lunar Nodes Square Pluto
Soon after the Lunar Nodes ingress into the Aries-Libra axis, they square Pluto (at 29° Capricorn). The Lunar Nodes square Pluto transit becomes exact on July 25th, 2023.
Pluto squares the Nodes is a transit that evolutionary astrologers call a “skipped step”.
Pluto is at the midpoint of the two Lunar Nodes, so it’s with one foot in the past, and the other in the future. Pluto acts like a bridge, like an evolutionary step forward.
Pluto square the Lunar Nodes’ mandate is to deal with our karmic past, and re-write healthier, more constructive behavioral patterns.
Pluto square the Lunar Nodes will help us understand the subtle ways our identity is shaped by our upbringing, by our family and our formative years. This transit is a huge opportunity to release karmic patterns that we’ve been carrying for decades.
Venus Goes Retrograde
Another very important transit that coincides with the Lunar Nodes ingress is Venus retrograde in Leo.
While the Lunar Nodes don’t make an aspect with Venus retrograde, the Venus retrograde transit is important for different reasons: in the last 18 months, when the Nodes were in the Taurus/Scorpio axis, Venus was the ruler of the North Node (since Venus rules Taurus).
Now that the South Node enters Libra, Venus becomes the ruler of the South Node. A totally different story.
If in the last 18 months, we’ve been encouraged to do “more” of the Venusian stuff, now we are asked to re-examine our approach. Perhaps while the North Node was in Taurus, Venus bit more than she can chew. Now it’s time for some reflection and cleansing.
The shift from the North Node to the South Node approach is quite a disruption for Venus, especially since it coincides with her 40-day retrograde journey.
What does this mean? We all know that Venus retrograde can bring changes in our priorities, values, and relationships. When Venus goes retrograde, we often have a change of heart. And since Venus retrograde coincides with the Lunar Nodes shift, the effect will be even more dramatic.
Things may really change for us when Venus goes retrograde. Even more karmic stuff will be brought to our attention.
The Lunar Nodes ingress, the square to Pluto, and Venus retrograde will really ‘push’ us to deal with some stuff we never wanted to deal with.
This is a cosmic call to release those skeletons in the closet and let go of deep-wired, generational karma that is keeping us trapped in relational models that no longer serve our growth story.
When Venus goes retrograde, we will run a 40-day challenge called “Aphrodite’s Diary” to support you in the reflection and cleansing process. We will share more details about Aphrodite’s Diary on July 18th.
Word-Built World: Steelmanning
See also: Procatalepsis and Principle of charity
A steel man argument (or steelmanning) is the opposite of a straw man argument. Steelmanning is the practice of addressing the strongest form of the other person’s argument, even if it’s not the one they presented. Creating the strongest form of the opponent’s argument may involve removing flawed assumptions that could be easily refuted or developing the strongest points which counter one’s own position, as “we know our belief’s real weak points”. This may lead to improvements on one’s own positions where they are incorrect or incomplete. Developing counters to these strongest arguments an opponent might bring results in producing an even stronger argument for one’s own position.[20][21] It has been advocated as a more productive strategy in political dialog that promotes real understanding and compromise instead of fueling partisanship by discussing only the weakest arguments of the opposition.[21] Others, however, have argued against steelmanning because it still changes the argument given and can result in strawmanning.[22][23][24] As a result, the steelman argument might be met with “Hey, I didn’t mean that”.[25] Others have pointed toward the frequency with which people misinterpret the beliefs of others and how said misinterpretations are condescending. Holden Karnofsky noted that he dislikes engaging with steelman arguments as they “rarely resemble his actual views”.[23][24]
The Mechanics Behind Daydreaming
Asaf Braverm Streamed live on Jul 9, 2023 By nature, our thinking function replays an irresistible stream of associative thoughts called daydreaming. The better we learn to observe ourselves, the more we realize the pervasiveness of this habit. It negatively impacts not only our thinking, but also our other functions. The briefest gap of time, the smallest interval while waiting, or even when our other functions are engaged in meaningful activity, our mind freely wanders in the unbridled realm of daydreams. In this workshop we will look deeper into the dynamics behind this habit, and examine how to discipline it. “Unless you keep the mind busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control it, it throws itself in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination.” – Michel de Montaigne
It’s a ‘Full-Contact’ Haunted House. What Could Go Wrong?
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By Victor LaValle
- Published Oct. 6, 2021 Updated Oct. 21, 2021
REPRIEVE
By James Han Mattson
Why do people enjoy being scared?
This is a pretty common question for those of us who write horror, or stories tinged with horror, and maybe for those who design roller coasters too. Why do some people take pleasure in terror?
It’s a question that could be posed to many of the characters in James Han Mattson’s insightful and gripping novel “Reprieve.” The story is set largely in Lincoln, Neb., and its focus is a place called the Quigley House, a “‘full-contact’ haunted house.” What does that mean? It’s an experience about a thousand times more intense than the fun little haunted houses that pop up every Halloween, where you wind through a maze of cheap plastic figures and badly amplified sound effects.
The owner of the Quigley House, John Forrester, describes the experience this way: “People might leave with cuts and bruises and minor shocks, nothing major. Everything is timed, everything is staged, everything is choreographed, but people don’t necessarily know that — they think there’s a chance they can be hurt, and because of this, something in them changes, they become entirely new people, primitive.”
It should be noted that Forrester is offering this description as part of his deposition in a criminal case. As you might imagine from the term “full-contact haunted house,” not to mention the basic needs of a novel, something has gone wrong during one of the haunts. Someone has been hurt far beyond the impacts of the “choreographed” events. What happened? Who was harmed? Who caused harm? Mattson’s novel answers these questions, but has a lot more it wants to explore. Like why the visitors, who are called “contestants,” and the house employees would participate in such an ordeal at all.
Along with Forrester, Mattson’s cast includes Kendra Brown, a Black teenager who moves to Nebraska with her mother in the wake of her father’s death; Bryan Douglas, her cousin, who already lives in Nebraska and becomes her lifeline when she arrives; Jaidee Charoensuk, a Thai exchange student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; and Leonard Grandton, a white hotel manager who does business with Forrester.
I’ve noted the races of each character because questions of race are paramount to Mattson’s novel. On the surface, “Reprieve” is a story about an attack at a haunted house, but Mattson is also investigating questions of identity and power, namely who in this story controls fears and who is subject to them. Thankfully, the answer isn’t as simple as having the Black and Thai characters suffer as victims of the powerful while the white characters serve as the abusers. Instead, nearly everyone here takes turns in these roles, being harmed by the greed and prejudices of others and then displaying their own not long afterward. And yet, the novel doesn’t pretend each character is equally at fault; there are, after all, degrees of power and powerlessness. The haunted house at the center of the narrative is an excellent touch because the ideas of danger and harm become material, frightening and imminent. At times, the reader is trapped in Quigley House with the contestants, in scenes that are genuinely unnerving.
Early on, Mattson name-checks a number of horror greats: Clive Barker and Stephen King, for instance. Like those writers, Mattson takes time acquainting the reader with the people who will eventually endure great pain and hardship. So we get a great deal of background on Kendra, Jaidee and Leonard in particular. Much of it is interesting and meaningful, but I would say, as one might find with Barker and King, there is such a thing as too much back story.
Another way to say this is that I kept wanting to return to the terrors of Quigley House. I wanted to see who survived and who didn’t. Of course, I cared about who did or didn’t make it out only because Mattson did such a fine job of making these people feel real and their pasts so satisfyingly complex. Still, their histories could have been trimmed down here and there, and nothing would have been lost.
Why do people enjoy being scared? I want to return to that question because there’s another, more profound question tucked behind it: Why do people like being manipulated?
When we read or watch a horror story, or a romance, or a thriller, we usually know how it’ll turn out. Same as when we climb aboard a dizzying roller coaster. We know how it will end, but we want to be taken on the ride. We trust that it’s just a ride and that’s why we can enjoy it. People want to be manipulated, to experience the emotional blitz of relinquishing power, as long as they can trust that the experience will be safe and that they can eventually reclaim control. But what if the person at the top doesn’t have your best interests in mind? What if, in fact, that person is happy to abuse and manipulate others to hold on to power and fortune? How might those around such a leader become warped, their worst impulses unleashed? In his sly way, Mattson turns his novel into a portrait of current events. And they have, indeed, been terrifying.
Victor LaValle’s latest novel is “The Changeling.”
REPRIEVE
James Han Mattson
406 pp. William Morrow. $27.99.
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Victor LaValle Likes to Stare Directly at His Deepest Fears
“People sometimes ask why I want to read horror at all, let alone write it,” says the horror novelist, whose new book is “Lone Women.” “So much writing glances off the hardest and worst experiences, but horror confronts the worst that happens. … A good horror novel doesn’t lie to you.”
Credit…Rebecca Clarke
What books are on your night stand?
“The Black Guy Dies First,” by Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris; “The Survivalists,” by Kashana Cauley; “Mott Street,” by Ava Chin.
What’s the last great book you read?
“The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination From Harry Potter to the Hunger Games,” by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
(Contributed by Michael Kelly, H.W.)
Event called The Game: Empowerment, Oneness, Unity, Cooperation, Abundance, Love, and Faith
The Ashland Culture of Peace Commission along with UN NGO Pathways To Peace are two of 36 organizations that have come together to create on Earth by 2030. It’s a moonshot for humanity and is designed to literally change the world. Humanity is ready and we’re going for it! You’re invited to an information session to learn how you can participate.
The Game is built around seven unitive actions: Empowerment, Oneness, Unity, Cooperation, Abundance, Love, and Faith. These actions have been combined with robust social change tools honed and tested in hundreds of cities with millions of people during the almost four decades since 1986. When The Game is brought to a community and combined with these social change tools it creates a Peace on Earth Zone. This begins with a conversation and moves to the collaborative how.
To learn more about The Game and how to bring it to your community attend the Peace on Earth information meetings on Wednesday, July 19 from 5 to 6:30 pm PDT and 8 to 9:30 pm ET. If you can’t attend, register to receive the recording. Special Peace on Earth information meetings can be arranged for organizations of 25 or more people. Zoom registration: https://poe.earth/info-july-19
The Game and Peace on Earth Zones have been successfully piloted over the past four years by 1,500 plus people in nine countries: Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Morocco, South Africa, and the United States. They have achieved remarkable results with over 10,000 actions taken and awe-inspiring personal and community transformations. The Game is now ready to be brought to scale. The first phase is a global online version of The Game from August 2 to September 20, 2023. Zoom Registration https://poe.earth/global-game
(Contributed by Sara Walker, H.W.)
Tarot Card for July 11: The Four of Disks
The Four of Disks
The Lord of Power represents the time when we achieve a stable level of material balance – at least for that moment in time. At the purely mundane level, it might come up after we had settled into a new home, or undertaken major improvements. The card is, at this level, much concerned with asset security and material bounty.
One thing to bear in mind about attaining the mundane value of this card – though you have achieved one level of material stability, you cannot either cling to this, nor take it for granted. Become too smug and you’ll find yourself losing the sense of safety and balance which has occurred. The human being is not naturally given to stagnation…
On a more spiritual level this card holds sway over crystals and semi-precious stones – it might be hard to see the cross-reference to the asset security I mentioned in the previous paragraph – but on a mundane level, we’re often talking bricks-and-mortar and the security derived from being safe within our homes – at this more subtle level, we’re still talking rocks!! But this talking we’re relating to the amount of energy we can all gain from crystal-work.
Some crystals teach us calmness, or emotional balance, simply by giving off their unique energies. Other crystals can be programmed to assist us in various self-development tasks, and in protection, healing and cleansing. So if this card comes up in your reading with cards like the Hierophant, the Star, the Moon or the Priestess, consider that perhaps you’d help yourself with a little crystal work!
(via angelpaths.com and Alan Blackman)
Book: “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”
Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
Caroline Myss
Building on wisdom from Hindu, Christian, and Kaballah traditions, this comprehensive guide to energy healing reveals the hidden stresses, beliefs, and attitudes that cause illness.
Anatomy of the Spirit is the boldest presentation to date of energy medicine by one of its premier practitioners, internationally acclaimed medical intuitive Caroline Myss, one of the “hottest new voices in the alternative health/spirituality scene” (Publishers Weekly). Based on fifteen years of research into energy medicine, Dr. Myss’s work shows how every illness corresponds to a pattern of emotional and psychological stresses, beliefs, and attitudes that have influenced corresponding areas of the human body.
Anatomy of the Spirit also presents Dr. Myss’s breakthrough model of the body’s seven centers of spiritual and physical power, in which she synthesizes the ancient wisdom of three spiritual traditions-the Hindu chakras, the Christian sacraments, and the Kabbalah’s Tree of Life-to demonstrate the seven stages through which everyone must pass in the search for higher consciousness and spiritual maturity. With this model, Dr. Myss shows how you can develop your own latent powers of intuition as you simultaneously cultivate your personal power and spiritual growth.
By teaching you to see your body and spirit in a new way, Anatomy of the Spirit provides you with the tools for spiritual maturity and physical wholeness that will change your life.
About the author
Caroline Myss
Caroline Myss was born on December 2, 1952 in Chicago, and grew up with her parents, and two brothers, one elder and one younger, in the Melrose Park, Illinois neighbourhood near Chicago. Caroline was raised a Catholic, and attended the Mother Guerin High School, River Grove, Illinois, run by the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana in 1974, and started her career in journalism in Chicago.
In the course of her career, she interviewed Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., the author of the famous book, On Death and Dying, which inspired her to pursue a Master’s degree in theology from Mundelein College, Chicago, which she completed in 1979. She also claims to hold a Ph.D in “intuition and energy medicine”, but the degree was granted by Greenwich University, a now-defunct correspondence school that was never accredited to deliver higher education awards by any recognized government accreditation authority.
She started giving medical intuitive readings in 1982 and co-founded a small New Age publishing company, Stillpoint Publishing in Walpole, New Hampshire, where she also worked as an editor in 1983, next she began consulting with holistic doctors, which in 1984, led to her extensive collaboration with Dr. Norman Shealy, an M.D. schooled at Harvard, and the founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, with whom she later co-authored, “Aids: Passageway to Transformation,” in 1987, followed by “The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses that Promote Health and Healing,” in 1988. Deriving from her practice as a medical intuitive, she started writing books, in the field of energy medicine, and healing, all of which became New York Times Best Sellers.[18] Starting with Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (1996), which overlapped seven Christian sacraments with seven Hindu chakras and the Kabbalah’s Tree of Life to create a map of the human “energy anatomy”; this was followed by Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can (1998), which explored the reasons people do not heal through her concept of “woundology.” Her next book, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential (2002) dealt with the issue of finding “Life Purpose,” while describing Sacred Contracts as “a set of assignments that our soul had formed around before incarnation”. She has since appeared on the The Oprah Winfrey Show numerous times.
By 2000, she discontinued doing private medical intuitive readings, and instead started teaching it, through her workshops, seminars, radio shows and guided tours. She tours internationally as a speaker on spirituality and mysticism, and lives in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago. In 2003, she started the Caroline Myss Educational Institute, with Wisdom University in San Francisco.
Her 2007 book, “Entering the Castle” draws upon the writings of Saint Teresa of Ávila, a 16th century Carmelite nun, who wrote her most important work, The Interior Castle, towards the end of her life.
(Goodreads.com)
Book: “The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution”
The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution
Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott
A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-needed antidote from the team that brought you Coddling of the American Mind.
Cancel culture is a new phenomenon, and The Canceling of the American Mind is the first book to codify it and survey its effects. From the team that brought you the bestselling Coddling of the American Mind comes hard data and research on what cancel culture is and how it works, along with hundreds of new examples showing the left and the right both working to silence their enemies.
The Canceling of the American Mind will change how you view cancel culture. Rather than a moral panic, we should consider it a dysfunctional part of how Americans battle for power, status, and dominance. Cancel culture is just one symptom of a much larger problem: the use of cheap rhetorical tactics to “win” arguments without actually winning arguments. After all, why bother refuting your opponents when you can just take away their platform or career?
The good news is that we can beat back this threat to democracy through better citizenship. The Canceling of the American Mind offers concrete steps toward reclaiming a free speech culture, with materials specifically tailored for parents, teachers, business leaders, and everyone who uses social media. We can all show intellectual humility and promote the essential American principles of individuality, resilience, and open mindedness.
(Goodreads.com)
William James on the greatest revolution of our generation
“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives”
― William James
William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James is considered to be a leading thinker of the late 19th century, one of the most influential philosophers of the United States, and the “Father of American psychology”. Wikipedia