Author Archives: Steven Scherling

Dao De Jing Chapter 3

If no one esteems the best, men will be fee from contention. If no one values the precious, men will be free from illegal gain. If men see nothing to desire, their minds will be fee from confusion. Therefore, the … Continue reading

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Following One’s Bliss to The Dark Side of the Moon

I was up early (12.06.12) to write my ritual morning page and felt a need to re-organize my web-link logs (an excuse, maybe) and came across Joseph Campbell’s idea “follow your bliss.” The first video clip I watched was Terence … Continue reading

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A Creative Individual A Daoist

I have been meaning to straighten up my home office, get many books back on the shelf and into some organization. However, I have been having interesting experiences as I step over and sort through them, stopping to pick one … Continue reading

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Dao De Jing Chapter 2

When beauty is universally affirmed as beauty, therein is ugliness. When goodness is universally affirmed as goodness, therein is evil. Therefore: being and non-being are mutually posited in their emergence. Difficult and easy are mutually posited in their complementariness. Long … Continue reading

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Dao De Jing Chapter 1

The Dao that can be spoken of is not the Dao itself. The name that can be given is not the name itself. The unnameable is the source of the universe. The nameable is the originator of all things. Therefore, … Continue reading

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The I Ching on President Obama Forward

President of the United States Barack Obama Dear President Obama, On November 7, 2012, after your re-election, I asked the I Ching a question about moving forward. The question I posed to the I Ching was: What of President Barack … Continue reading

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Time Synch – Online Intime

Time Synch – Online Intime! I am now making an effort to blog Online Intime.

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Modern Times The University Factory

In past issues of the HPR we began examining capitalism with a learning model presented in The Mathematics of Faith and in the second essay Kapitalism on the Couch our psychoanalysis of capitalism began. The third essay, Kapitalism: It Nature … Continue reading

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Deep Jesus, Us?

The HPR June 9th editorial Save Jesus, Us! by Ryan Gustafson caught my attention – for sure it is “scary” to hear the Rev. Jerry Falwell’s call to “blow them [terrorists] all away in the name of the Lord?” It … Continue reading

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Kapitalism: Its Nature

In the preceding HPR essay, Kapitalism on The Couch (April. 23, 2009; http://www.hpr1.com), capitalism was nudged up onto the analytical couch of Karl Marx and Carl Jung. Our analytical dialogue begins by examining the nature and logic of capitalism, which … Continue reading

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