Wendy Tremayne
www.gaiatreehouse.com and www.swaporamarama.org
Rightness of Roses
October 18th, 2006
Roses are right violets are wrong. Huh? That doesnt sound right. Roses and violets are natural phenomena. They are impervious to narrow categories made by the minds of man. Roses are never right, violets are never wrong, they just are. We can likely find ourselves in agreement about this, even though the same type of thinking gets us into heaps of trouble every day as we judge the world around us in dualistic terms.
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Dismiss Whatever Insults Your Soul
October 18th, 2006
I was chatting with a good friend who is creating a database that will store safety information for all chemicals. We got to talking about how this was an important issue because the FDA, the agency that would regularly monitor such things, can no longer be relied upon to oversee consumer health. Corporate interests have found their way on to the FDA boards resulting in consumer health regulations that are bent to allow these corporations to sell us whatever they wish regardless of the implications to human health.
Consumer or Creator?
October 18th, 2006
By now most of are aware of the destructive force of consumerism. Its been well documented that mass production of unnecessary goods converts quickly to landfill and contributes additional toxicity to an already dangerously polluted planet. We know that the consumption demands of wealthy countries like our own perpetuate the mistreatment of the people of poorer nations. These are examples of just a couple of the negative effects of consumerism. But since these issues are well covered by a host of thinkers, I thought I’d spend some time focusing on the consumer, you and me. More specifically what we have lost along the way and what there is to gain by wrestling fee of consumerisms hold. Read the rest of this entry »
Fear & Beauty
October 18th, 2006
I know a man who lives in a world of fear. His life is composed of it. To know him is to witness a series of events that put him in danger and at the short end of the stick always getting the bad end of a deal or ‘ripped off.’ No one could convince him that the world is any other way because it is not so for him. He speaks the truth when he says that the world is unsafe and unfair - his truth. Read the rest of this entry »
Beautiful Losers: Renunciation & Transcendence
October 18th, 2006
Sometimes I bump into a concept made poisonous by the events of history. Here’s one, renunciation. Ouch! It almost hurts to hear the word as the mind conjures up images of suffering and loss. Transcendence on the other hand brings to mind fluffy images of floating upwards. Perhaps the later can shed light on the former as I take a stab at applying transcendence to renunciation in search of morsel of insight to feed the seeking heart. Read the rest of this entry »
“That Which Transpires Through That Which Appears”
October 18th, 2006
Religion is a funny strange thing. I was raised with one, a fairly random occurrence. I inherited a faith from my family as most people do. And as a child does I went through the motions of ritual and behavior with those around me falling into my proper cultural stall. Read the rest of this entry »
Leaving Fingerprints
October 18th, 2006
What do we do when when the world before us does not fit our unique form? Do we adjust to fit a container made by hands that are not our own? Or do we design a world that reflects our uniqueness?
Capitalism, Thief Of The Idea
October 18th, 2006Through the ages cults of a magnificent variety have offered seekers ways to revivify the human adventure. But the structure that dominates the planet, an old and hearty one, limits this experience by propagating systems of oppression and blandness. Power seekers hope to co-opt ideas - namely the idea of what it is to be human. We are now asked: Are we limited and mechanistic or unbounded and creative? To create the new is the task of our time as humanness is being commodified as quickly as you can say “MTV’s Real World.”