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		<title>Awareness: Natural Resilience</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] The embrace of life is not without struggle. Obstacles and challenges are inevitable companions as we make our way through time. Our approach to the emergence of turbulence in life partially determines the character of our personal narrative. There is no life that avoids adversity. The story of our life is influenced and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aging: From Ageism to Age Affirmation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Ageism is prejudice or discrimination against older person simply because of their age. More specifically, ageism is a belief that older persons are unworthy, incompetent, low is status. The term ageism, coined in 1969 by gerontologist Dr. Robert Butler, is modeled on the pattern of racism and sexism. Butler states: “Ageism allows the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Qualities: Authenticity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] We live in an age of instantaneous global communication. We also live in an age of mass somniloquence. Each of us secretly desires the intimacy and art of a deeper more compelling conversation that authentically explores the alluring mystery of being alive. When we engage in authentic conversation we explore and exchange our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional Terrain: Anger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Anger is a strong emotional reaction in response to a perceived provocation or injustice. The emotional reaction consists of an often unintended improvisatory abyss of displeasure, irritation, resentment, outrage, and enmity. Anger is an extreme reaction that takes our body and mind to the very edge of a threshold in which rationale thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belief: Cultural Confinement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Culture may be viewed as a universal tendency for people within stable geographic populations to create sets of beliefs, values and expectations that serve to create a sense of social coherence. It may be that culture is an offspring of the innate human need to belong. Perhaps culture originated as groups of people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecopsychology: The Commodification of Nature</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Nature is a vast system of interaction between all life forms and organic material of the planet that provides the foundation for existence. From this perspective, it the destruction of the planet is equivalent to the destruction of life. Capitalism is an economic and political system that embraces the notion of private ownership [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecopsychology: Law of Mother Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Bolivia is posed to create a law that grants nature equal right to a humans, and have also suggested that the United Nations adopt a Proposal Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth. The proposal originates in an eco-sensitive set of presuppositions that redefine our relationship with the earth and dramatically alters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecopsychology: Sanity</title>
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		<title>Deception: &#8220;Health&#8221; + &#8220;Food&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] One of the most basic principles of all corporations is that they are allowed to intentionally lie and deceive the public without being responsible for their actions. A great deal of this deception takes place in what we might call a gray zone, or a place in which there is some degree of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mechanization: Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do schools kill creativity? This is the opening question of an interesting interview with Sir Ken Robinson, an &#8220;expert&#8221; on creativity and innovation. The answer is deceptively simple: &#8220;Yes, of course they do.&#8221; Though this may sound somewhat sarcastic, the reality of schooling is the systematic obliteration of the individual including their creativity, and their [...]]]></description>
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