by Ray Holland | Dec 29, 2024 | General
The Neuro-gravitational Force of Pain When these systems are stimulated in humans, people always experience intense emotional feelings, and presumably when the systems are normally activated by life events, they generate abundant memories and thoughts for people...
by Ray Holland | Dec 29, 2024 | General
What the Ego (Thinks It) Knows Grasping, Delusional, Righteous Oh the world is a beautiful place/to be born into if you don’t much mind . . . . . . ..its men of distinction/and its men of extinction and its priests/and...
by Ray Holland | Dec 29, 2024 | General
Stories I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s. William Blake Under the sway of gender binary stories, women learn to hide their anger until they will take no more, while men respond, “I guess we are so different that I will never understand you,”...
by Ray Holland | Dec 29, 2024 | General
A Way of Inspiration Looking back, knowing what I know now, I see how dissociation is an outcome of living in a traumatized society. Often pressures start in our families with our parents and siblings with demands that we follow rules and roles, without questioning...
by Ray Holland | Dec 29, 2024 | General
We Are not Cows and Birds Are not Real The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. Buddhist teaching What else I have learned: small egos thrive on circumstances that feel like a crisis. Calamities allow these self-obsessed inner personalities—and their...
by Ray Holland | Dec 29, 2024 | General
Making a Difference Fast forward. Vermont far behind me, I became a supervisor in a drug and alcohol rehab program when crack cocaine and the AIDS epidemic were decimating communities of color in central Florida. As an undergraduate in Vermont, I had wanted to be a...