Selected
Articles by Margo Adair
Faith
in the Future
"If we can imagine it, we
can create it. Trust is to society what oil is to machinery. Imagine a world
that ran on trust. Imagine a world where we’ve learned how to be honest
with ourselves, and to each other…where the only safe way of being is
to be honest. Imagine a world where respect was sacred, where intuitions, spirituality,
and emotions were all as valued as the intellect..." READ
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Ground Spirituality and Moving Politics
"Western
culture has taken spirituality out of life and put it in the sky, to be experienced
only through intermediaries like the clergy. Compounding this, knowledge is
defined by science, whose foundation rests on separation of the observer from
the observed. The degree to which the human element enters the scientific experiment
is the degree to which it is invalidated. The message: "Don't trust your
own experience." What is deeply meaningful is not of the world. Value-free
"Facts" form the basis for decisions in the world.
Alice’s Looking Glass
"I never cease to be amazed at the profound nature of consciousness. For me It has been a journey into Alice’s’ wonderland-profound yet ordinary. Ask a question and you already know the answer, make up a story and you find that you have described reality. Contrary to conventional wisdom, I have come to see the imagination as the aspect of consciousness best suited to reveal the truth of the matter...." READ MORE