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Who Has the Power?






As a society, we consistently speak as if we can teach, motivate, inspire, educate and empower other people.



I wonder what it will take for us to understand that we can do none of these things?





Mentor

By: Bill Cumming & Bill McIntosh

Albert C. Boothby was an extremely quiet man. He taught history in a small independent school, nestled in the rolling hills of central New York State. During the late 50’s and early 60’s, he realized that education was the most important issue in the process of leveling the segregated playing field of public education in the United States. Continue Reading →

Awareness by Anthony de Melo

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Anthony de Mello, S.J., an Indian, Jesuit priest died in 1987 when he was fifty-six. If he were still alive, I would have found a way to spend time with him. His writings are, in my opinion, the most important writings of a conventionally trained theologian that I am aware of in all of recorded time. It is conceivable that had he lived, he might now be the “leader” the world of spiritual beings so desperately desire. Awareness is a terrific example. Continue Reading →