by Jack Adam Weber | Oct 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
Without poetry, and especially a poetic perspective of living, our insatiable hunger over-consumes the world. Ironically, this threatens our very survival to put food on our plates. This is because a poetic orientation to nourishment and beauty allows us to satiate...
by Jack Adam Weber | Oct 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
There ‘s no shortage of truly disheartening and scary events unfolding these days, at the behest of human beings. There are few, if any, tidy solutions. There are a million debates about which facts are correct. I therefore try, in my understanding and in my...
by Jack Adam Weber | Jun 18, 2022 | Featured, Uncategorized
So much of healing relies upon being honest, whether it’s informing ourselves about a physical ailment we suffer, the pain we endure and store away through trauma, the reality of others’ suffering, or the steep perils of the climate crisis. That honesty is...
by Jack Adam Weber | May 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
There are times in life when we have to be alone. If we cannot be alone, then we cannot plumb the depths of our souls and work out the dark places that have a stranglehold on our sovereignty, our deep belonging to life. Yet, unless we don’t also become intimate...
by Jack Adam Weber | May 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Magical thinking: Magical thinking, or superstitious thinking, is the belief that unrelated events are causally connected despite the absence of any plausible causal link between them, particularly as a result of supernatural effects. For every magical belief, an...
by Jack Adam Weber | Mar 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
We process emotional pain along the same neuro-circuitry we do physical pain. Why is this so mind-blowingly significant? Because to alleviate physical pain and injury our instinct is to resist and move away from the source of the injury. If the hot stove or the sharp...
