This is a review of a book I think is insightful, and valuable, but that doesn’t yet seem to have caught on with many readers. Charles Upton’s ‘The Science of the Greater Jihad: Essays in Principial Psychology.’ I titled my Amazon review ‘Beyond transpersonal psychology, towards principial psychology. Exploring a science of the self and […]
The Downward Spiral
depravity
Dispatches from San Francisco, from Baruti M. Kamau at Barutiwa Media
Nigeria, Cincinnati, Atlanta, San Francisco – citizen journalist and entrepreneur Baruti M. Kamau has brought a unique perspective in covering his travels. Writing at Barutiwa.com. these are some of his latest dispatches from San Francisco, exploring its politics, and socioeconomic layout. I hope to share some of his photographs soon on the epidemic of homelessness […]
To speak truth, of pleasure and pain, and all the pretty little horses.
A lullaby goes; Go to sleep, little baby. And when you wake, You shall have a cake, And all the pretty little ponies. All the pretty little ponies. All the pretty little horses. just go to sleep.. An old friend was chatting with me, while we sat in an old coffee shop. We’re talking about […]
You don’t need to understand poetry to be moved by it.
I think that many people are not alone in thinking that they can’t understand poetry. I believe lots of people feel that way. There are many people who truly feel and believe that they don’t understand poetry, further that they can’t understand poetry, and that poetry is something best understood by particularly intellectual people. And […]