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Dr. Andrew Weil Talks About Health Care

http://artcoder.gaia.com — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:29:34 GMT

Since 2009 turned out to the be year of America's health care debate, it is no surprise that it seem like every famous person has their opinion of the health care issue.

Dr. Andrew Weil (one of America's most well known doctor) just came out with the book "Why Our Health Matters" in 2009 where he shares his view of America's health care system, what's wrong with it and how to fix it.

I just finished reading it.

New masculine spirituality book

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:18:54 GMT

Hi folks

I invite you to read my new book about masculine spirituality which challenges many of the common assumptions surrounding this subject.

"Numen, Old Men: Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy": http://tinyurl.com/desl9s
Since the early 1990s there have been various waves of interest in what is often described as “masculine spirituality”. While diverse, a commonality among these interests has been a concern that spirituality has become too feminine, and that men’s experiences of the spiritual are being marginalized. Masculine spirituality is therefore about promoting what it perceives to be authentic masculine characteristics within a spiritual context. By examining the nature of these characteristics, Numen, Old Men argues that masculine spirituality is little more than a thinly veiled patriarchal spirituality. The mythopoetic, evangelical, and to a lesser extent Catholic men’s movements all promote a patriarchal spirituality by appealing to Jungian archetypes of a combative and oppressive nature, or understanding men’s role as biblically ordained leader of the family. Numen, Old Men then examines Ken Wilber’s integral spirituality which aims to honour and transcend both the masculine and feminine, but which privileges the former to the extent where it becomes another masculine spirituality, with all its inherent patriarchal problems. Gay spirituality is then offered as a form of masculine spirituality which to a large degree resists patriarchal tendencies, suggesting a queering of spirituality could be useful for all men, both gay and straight.

You can read an excerpt of the book, and the heated discussion is raises here:
http://www.realitysandwich.com/masculine_spiritualities_and_problem_patriarchy

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