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The Real-Life Whodunits
Every few months, Jerry and I fly out to California (no longer a fun thing to do in current travel conditions) to get neuropathy treatments for me. The treatment, available only at a clinic out there, is innovative and appears … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, above all do no harm, angels still at work, approval for insurance coverage, avoiding gossip, bad guys being bad, bad news believed, betrayal of trust, breaking trust, bringing character down a notch, character loss, company expansion, creative innovator’s vulnerability, credibility of bad news, cunning vs naivete, dealing with a bad guy, dedication and healing, defamation believed, defaming the deserving, defending a treatment plan, defying the norms, desecrating the norms, devils at work, disappointing legitimate expectations, discounting achievement, discounting genius, discouraging the patient, discrediting the creditable, envying the achiever, ethics of healing, evil and good manners, evil’s unpredictability, explaining treatment modalities, Francis Thompson, Francis Thompson’s In No Strange Land, group dynamics, heroes and heroines, hippocratic oath, holistic treatment, ill intentioned objections, Indian wedding, innovative treatment, interfering with a prescribed treatment, jeopardizing recovery, jeopardizing trust, justifying a mode of treatment, kindness in healing, loss of grace, medical breakthroughs, medical ethics, medical frontier, medical malpractice, medical pioneer, minimizing original work, moral courage, moral cowardice, moral damage, moral default, moral disappointment, moral loss, moral reflexes, moral suspense, negative temptation, neuropathy treatment, normative fitness, patients’ rights, personnel relations, pitfalls of success, politics of group relations, politics of ordinary life, politics of social life, powers of darkness, professionalism in healing, real life whodunits, real motivation vs stated reason, reality of evil, recovering moral character, relinquishing improper control, responding to objections, romance of the world, spiritual dangers, spiritual harms, spoiling the picture, spoiling the romance of the world, taking objections seriously, the power to shock, treating evil politely, treatment breakthrough, treatment plan, types of malpractice, undermining character, undermining the boss, undermining trust, uninformed objections, unmanly behavior, unprofessional behavior, unprofessional conduct, upholding the norms, workplace betrayals, workplace transitions
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Boys, Girls, and Metaphysical Monism
By “metaphysical monism” I mean the view that every kind of variety and difference in the world is ultimately unreal. So what’s real? The One. In reality, the many things we experience are One Thing or – more precisely – … Continue reading →
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Tagged above the battle, achieving samadhi, Achilles and the Hare, appearance and reality, ashram attractions, bad guys shouldn’t win, beyond good and evil, change as delusive, clever enemies, corruption in ashrams, credible defamations, damaging fictions, delusion of difference, difference as unreal, fall of the guru, feminine power, feminine vulnerability, finding refuge in a different culture, Gnosticism, Gnosticism in Western culture, human condition as fallen, idealization of women, malicious gossip, metaphysical idealism, metaphysical monism, metaphysical monism and human rights, new age and brainwashing, ordinary common sense, Parmenides, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, personal defeat of the guru, realized masters, refuge in ashram, spiritual dangers, stopping bad guys, the one as sole reality, women's vulnerability, yoga and abuse of power, yoga and ethical abuses, yoga and human rights, yoga and sex asymmetries, yoga and the guru, yoga as protection, yoga for health, yoga sex differences, yoga siddhis, Zeno, Zeno’s paradoxes
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