THE AUTHOR, Loren R. Mosher, holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.D., with honors, from Harvard Medical School, where he subsequently received his psychiatric training.  He is now Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, and Director of Soteria Associates, 2616 Angell Avenue, San Diego, Calif. 92122, (858) 550-0312, Fax (858) 558-0854. See www.mosher-soteria.com.

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occupywallstreet:

“The struggle is not only social, economic and political—it is STRUCTURAL. No matter what side you are on, it is worth listening to what they have to say.”

- George Takei after visiting occupy wall street.

pococcupywallstreet:

To those who want to support the Occupation of Wall Street, who want to struggle for a more just and equitable society, but who feel excluded from the campaign, this is a message for you.

To those who do not feel as though their voices are being heard, who have felt…

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I could be….

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Westboro church protests HS down the street? Lets sound’em em out with a gay party mob! I love Long Beach! - Why should of did this instead of passing a law against them at funerals. 

defy-gravity:

hellanne: (by i.am.rebecca)

Noam Chomsky, “Class War: The Attack on Working People”

Let’s set the focus back on the ones really responsible for the problem. Change the substance and #OCCUPYWALLSTREET September 17th!

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Art piece found in an empty office inside the Central Arizona Shelter Services Employment Service department. 

The conflict resolution methods of a culture of occupation will be different from those of a culture of inhabitaiton. The Okanagans of what is now British Columbia, to provide a counterexample, have a concept they call En’owkin, which means “I challenge you to give me your most opposite perspective to mine. In that way I will know how to change my thinking so I can accommodate your concerns and problems.” The Okanagan writer and activist Jennette Armstrong  told me why her people developed this and similar technologies: “We don’t have any fewer problems than you guys getting along. But we know that whomever we’re having trouble with, their grandchild might marry our grandchild. So we have to accommodate one another. I have to ask myself how I can change to accommodate you. At the same time, because you, too, are Okanagan, you will be asking how you be asking how you can change to accommodate me. We’re going to be leaning toward one another.” She talks of how all the people in her community share one skin, They share that skin with all of the people  who came before, and all who will come after. This applies in a sense to their nonhuman neighbors as well.

This complex of beliefs is infecting our sense of what we consider a self. Who are you? Who, precisely, is the you that you consider you? Chances are good it’s what Catherine Keller called the separative self, an isolated monad cut off from all others by psychological, spiritual, and existential barriers much stronger than skin. If your goal is to attempt to minimize acknowledging damage to yourself as you exploit others, this sort of self is just the ticket. If your goal is to inhabit relationships, this self is a really bad idea.

If you do believe you are a separative self, or act as though you believe you are a separative self, whom, exactly, are you cut off from? Do you consider your self to include your family? Your friends? The air you breathe? The water that acts as intermediary between all of those? Are these all part of you? Are any of these part of you?

Or maybe you include only the parts of you that end at your finger tips. Or maybe you include even less that that. Maybe not even your emotions. Maybe not even your dreams. Maybe nothing but your thoughts. And maybe not even those.

I just got a note from a friend who put it well, “People never leave or even look outside the bubbles they create to meet their own immediate gratification. This is how we’re taught to live: it’s the city model on a micro level. These hallow beings (be they cities or people suck in everything from around them and create a wall of aggression to keep outsiders outside. The more hallow and empty they realize they’ve become on the inside, the more fiercely they attack, disable, and devour their surroundings. It occurs to me that in a very real sense, we cannot hope to create sustainable culture with any thing but sustainable souls.”

Se continued, “People see that the culture—and the same is true for many of our relationships—is broken in so many ways, and so unsustainable, but are terrified to probe too deep, because they think if it—civilization, their intimate relationship, whatever—crumbles, there might be nothing left. This is how we enter into these bubbles of perception—they form our earliest passage from a world of love to a world of fear and denial. It begins with wanted connection. And then we settle for something less, because we think alternative is nothing at all. But our truth is still there—all of it is still there. We could wake up any time and reclaim the whole of our existence.