The problem I was having with my comments not getting imported properly was promptly addressed by Ryan at Disqus. I should note that they are providing a free service - I haven’t paid them a dime yet, though I’m using them on three sites now - and his support was free, fast, personable, and on-target. (Are you listening, Google?)

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I just discovered these this morning. (Thanks, Marsh!) I haven’t had time to watch them all, but I’m so blown away by the quality of the first one - and I’ve found Bill Whittle to be so outstanding overall, in the past - that I’m going to go ahead and post the full series here.

What do you think of his presentations?

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Fellow Adyashanti student Margo, at A Peaceful Human Race, has an excellent new post titled “the other side of peace,” which does a good job of exploring the paradoxical nature of peace.

It’s a topic that interests me, as I’ve long been fascinated by the fact that peace sometimes requires something that looks an awful lot like war - and perhaps, ( Read more... )

I’ve implemented the Disqus commenting system here, and imported my old Mudita Journal comments to the new system. It looks like not all the comments got imported successfully but I may not have have time to investigate why. (Sorry about your two recent comments, Svein! Feel free to re-post.)

I’ve also tried to install integration with Facebook, so ( Read more... )

With my recent work on The Atlasphere, the Atlas Shrugged Movie site, and other projects, I realized yesterday it was time to bite the bullet and give Mudita Journal an updated design as well. It was looking pretty dated in recent years. My most recent overhaul was in 2006.

I’ve been posting less here during the past year since my divorce - as one ( Read more... )

I haven’t written much on Mudita Journal about the concept of enlightenment, but it’s been in the background for me for several years, ever since I discovered the teachings of Adyashanti (and Eckhart Tolle, before him).

Perhaps I should write a post about it, sometime, for the benefit of those who are unfamiliar, who see it as a “mystical” concept ( Read more... )

I was contacted today by a fellow student of Adyashanti’s teachings, who lives in Albuquerque and was wondering about the status of the group I had tried starting there, years ago.

It turns out she has a blog as well, called A Peaceful Human Race. Reading it, I was moved by this post:

for the last couple months, i’ve been reading the gentle art of ( Read more... )

Hans Schantz and I have launched a new blog exclusively devoted to covering the Atlas Shrugged movie, at Atlas-Shrugged-Movie.com.

For those not already familiar with Hans, he has done some excellent work already covering the Atlas movie, including interviewing screenwriter Brian O’Toole and creating an excellent Atlas Shrugged chronology, ( Read more... )

I got an e-mail from a friend this morning saying he’s found my list of movie recommendations really valuable lately. This inspired me to add links to the trailers for all my 5-star movies. I hope others will find this list useful as well…

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Received this e-mail today:

My name is Randi Fredricks and I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California. I am conducting my doctoral dissertation research on the effects of water fasting on depression. I have done a lot of investigation in this area and believe that my research will show that water ( Read more... )