and the freedom to be you.
No to collectivism.
Yes to unity.
Some of the groups to which we belong like to argue that we benefit from their existence.
In some cases this is true, but not all.
There appear to be clear and inherent dangers in most ideologies. Not least because they tend to exist at one end of a spectrum, not uncommonly in seeming conflict with those at the other.
Even those who seem to seek a syn...

If you were to consider the mechanisms that you use as coping strategies in life, the things that help you get through life, what would they be?
Family?
Friends?
Animal companions?
Humour?
Connection to a broader reaching or higher order of power or intelligence?
How many of these places and points of connection have been reformed and remade over the course of your life so far? How many ...

In that moment, collapsed on the ground, sobbing uncontrollably, there was a part of me that knew why I was there.
While it was not a formal part of my Chi Gong practice to collapse into a fetal position and sob my heart out, I knew that was what my body wanted to do. And if there was one thing I had learnt it was to trust that sometimes my physical expression was not what my mind was antic...
