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		<title>Creative Resilience: The Art of Authenticity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/2023/emotional-terrain-anger/</link>
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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>Nature of Belief: Escaping Cultural Confinement</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/141/nature-of-belief-escaping-cultural-confinement/</link>
		<comments>http://exploring-life.ca/141/nature-of-belief-escaping-cultural-confinement/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/4519/ecopsychology-commodification-nature/</link>
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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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		<series:name><![CDATA[Ecopsychology: Reanimating Our Relationship With the Earth]]></series:name>
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		<title>Ecopsychology: Law of Mother Earth</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/4438/ecopsychology-law-of-mother-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://exploring-life.ca/4438/ecopsychology-law-of-mother-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
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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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		<series:name><![CDATA[Ecopsychology: Reanimating Our Relationship With the Earth]]></series:name>
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		<title>Ecopsychology: Redefining Sanity</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/4448/ecopsychology-redefining-sanity/</link>
		<comments>http://exploring-life.ca/4448/ecopsychology-redefining-sanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Ecopsychology embraces the essential task of healing our relationship with the Earth and with life itself. Ecology is at its core the study of interconnectedness, the exploration of relationships, and the synthesis of belonging. Psychology is the study of the workings of the human mind and how we think, feel, and behave. Ecopsychology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporations: The &#8220;Health&#8221; Food Deception</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/4149/corporations-the-health-food-deception/</link>
		<comments>http://exploring-life.ca/4149/corporations-the-health-food-deception/#comments</comments>
		<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>Education: Losing Your Element</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/3018/education-losing-your-element/</link>
		<comments>http://exploring-life.ca/3018/education-losing-your-element/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>Disaster: Toxic Breath</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/2968/disaster-toxic-breath/</link>
		<comments>http://exploring-life.ca/2968/disaster-toxic-breath/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The end effect of the Gulf Oil Spill disaster will not be known for many years. Some of the effects will be immediate and obvious, while others are far more mercurial and illusive. As with all disasters, a large contingent of people will be employed to distract and counter both the breadth and depth of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effects of Media: The Children of Cyberspace</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/1970/children-of-cyberspace/</link>
		<comments>http://exploring-life.ca/1970/children-of-cyberspace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Brad Stone&#8217;s NY Times article The Children of Cyberspace raises a number of poignant issues regarding our relationship with technology. Heralding in a new type of &#8220;generation&#8221; by some individual claiming &#8220;visionary&#8221; status seems like an all too common occurrence in mainstream media now. Apparently the so-called &#8220;Net Generation&#8221; is now giving way [...]]]></description>
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