Talking with a friend, a '20s-something friend, the subject of retirement came up... "Now that you're in the workforce, having finally graduated from college, how do you approach the subject of saving for retirement?" His answer surprised me, and got me to thinking. It went something like this: "My concerns are more existential than that. Like, by the time I might be ready to retire, will the Earth even be able to support human life? Retirement is not really that much of a concern for me." Wow! This is big!! And, so, the conversation began. How do we understand the crisis of existence on planet Earth-- its nature, roots, solutions -- and how might we engage with others in conversations that are positive, energizing, and actually might help to move the needle forward. Please join me as, in conversation, we go deep on a number of paradigm-shifting perspectives to fundamental questions regarding the present state and future of this mysteriously intelligent and beautiful planet.

I speak often, openly, about the qualities and powers of the spirit, together with my musings on history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and everything else. Never, however, before this episode have I shared with listeners how I, myself, experience the spirit. In this episode I share how, early in the morning, often I feel the chill of a dawn breeze and, with it, a spirit that awakens and regenerates my soul. How do I understand this?  What allows me to experience the spirit?  And, what I am I to do with the powers of the spirit, now received, during my day, my days, indeed, over the course of my life? In this time of year, when so many honor the Holy Spirit, I offer you this, my own spiritual experience…

In this episode I present listeners with a brief overview of how, together, we might begin to rethink the whole idea of education. The established "education" system ... is dead, period! Therefore, it's time for us -- that's right, you and me -- to develop the capabilities that will be required to create a new system, one that, gradually over time, will empower and inspire future generations of students to take charge of their own education and participate in the progress of society. I'm excited about this initiative, and my hope is that you, too, will take part in what's now starting to become possible. More episodes (and blogs) will follow -- I promise! --  where I will dig deeper -- beyond this overview -- into the depths (and heights) of each concept introduced here!

I was thinking about how to welcome the new year in a world that is disintegrating before our very eyes, and then I stumbled upon this indigenous wisdom. This gratitude, which continues to draw me in, has helped me to regain my footing and illumine the path forward. I, therefore, wanted to share it with you... my dear brothers and sisters in humanity!

This is it, listeners, the culmination of my series of diary entries that examine the phenomenon of modern anger. It's, I think, what we've all been waiting for, the truth we need to overcome the chronic underlying anger that holds us back -- in order that we can begin to engage in the process of advancing toward the vision of what we as individuals and society can become ... individuals who are active agents in the progress of our own lives and protagonists in the furtherance of civilization as it moves forward in the direction of material prosperity and universal, spiritual peace, for all humankind.

Well, so far in this exploration of modern anger, Mr. B has considered various ways that anger is often expressed in society today, the true emotion at the root of modern anger (you might be surprised!), and, most recently, what exactly serves to trigger our feelings of anger. Now, the time has come for Mr. B to explore why exactly,  we react to anger the way we do: Why do we tend to run and hide from feelings of anger? Hmm... Here's a hint. It has something to do with the way that we have been taught to understand the meaning of power in society today!

In this diary entry, Mr. B continues to explore the phenomenon of twenty-first century anger: What triggers anger?!? He's already taken a look at some ways that anger is expressed in society today. He's already denied, then admitted, his own anger. Mr. B has even explored the truth about anger, of what emotion truly lies at the deepest root of this modern phenomenon of anger. (If you haven't already listened to that entry in this series, you may be surprised!). Now, in this episode, it's time to dig just that bit deeper ... into what actually triggers anger, what brings anger to the surface, and into why the frequency and intensity of modern anger, individually and collectively, seem to only keep on rising. 

Well, Mr. B's come  clean: He's finally admitted that, no matter how hard he's tried to deny it... He's still angry!! In this episode, Mr. B does his best to understand that anger is, really, the outward expression of something internal, buried deep within the heart, the essential core of who we truly are -- LOVE. Please join Mr. B as he continues with Part II of his three-part diary exploration of how we, in the twenty first century, experience the emotion of anger. 

Mr. B is about to walk through a door that's "supposed" to remain closed, to enter a space censored out of "correct" public discourse, a place to be avoided and denied ... the bitterness and anger, even contempt, that exists within our inmost selves during these troubled times. In this episode, Mr. B brings this 21st century anger to the surface where an open, direct, and honest discussion of this paralyzing inner state can emerge and the process of healing begin ... in order that our lives -- and the life of society  -- can move forward again.  

What does modern spirituality look like? In this, the third diary entry of his second season, Mr. B moves beyond modern society's censorship of open, public discussion of spiritual questions to consider what it actually  means, today, to walk along a truly spiritual path. This question is important -- as within it lies the potential to unlock not only our own potentials as individuals and but also the capacities of the whole of society for genuine progress -- a question that Mr. B does his best to struggle through in this segment of "Mr. B's Diaries..."