Author Archives: Steven Scherling

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. (Wikipedia) “Now I lay me down to sleep” are words … Continue reading →

The Republican Party’s convention is over and Trump’s speech is now being assessed on the Morning Joe Show. What is being discussed is that Trump is “offering himself as the solution” to the problems he sees the U.S. mired in. … Continue reading →

The Republican Party has completed the 3rd day of its convention and it continues to unfold as a TV reality show conforming to the design of “trickster Trump”. Each day has produced “unexpected events” that the media is grappling with … Continue reading →

“I just want my phone call.” The Trickster Archetype is loose in America as 12 shot with 5 dead in Dallas. What is your psychoanalytical analysis of American psychosis? In Coyote’s Dream, Coyote and Raven, both Native American Indian Tricksters, … Continue reading →

For Independence Day Fannie and I drove to Detroit Lakes, had lunch overlooking the lake,  took a stroll along the beach, drove around some lakes, and over to visit a couple that we knew were Republicans and remembering our last … Continue reading →

I am Dances with Selves member of the Fargo Clan of the Lakota Sioux Tribe and am having concerns about the meaning of America’s Independence Day. I have been watching Robert Redford’s series The American West and the episode this … Continue reading →

The recent Power of The Nightmare blog entry, our current nightmare, continues here with Curtis’s film All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (2011), where Curtis brings our nightmare up to the present but along a different but related … Continue reading →

I had a dream last night of working with others to understand the “logic” of our global economic system. After recording the dream, I got up and turned on the TV to watch the morning news on UK’s EC vote … Continue reading →

The MSNBC Morning Joe show began today (6.17) with the issue “American’s moral responsibility in the Middle East?” It is sad to listen to this “so so shallow” uninformed dialogue which could have been an episode in Adam Curtis’s documentary … Continue reading →

Prince Performs “Purple Rain” During Downpour Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show – a synchronicity and a note on Prince’s death. If it Snows in April in Minneapolis, I expect it will be Purple Snow. This is being updated on Monday … Continue reading →