Learning a New Life©

the Journey From Double Bind to Double Happiness©

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Paradigms Are Seeds

Seeds Hold the Memory of the Future Despite the many disagreements, conflicts and outright wars we are besieged with, I believe there is one thing we can all agree on: seeds are true to themselves. If you plant an apple seed you get an apple tree. No matter who plants it, no matter location, quality…

Paradigms Are Maps: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Paradigm shifting is a traveler’s adventure. And as all seasoned travelers will agree, maps are indispensable. Lots and lots of maps guiding us through innumerable worlds and dimensions explored by billions of people over hundreds of thousands of years. Science put simply, is a systematic pursuit of knowledge and understanding of the world around and…

Paradigms: A Place, A World, A Dimension of Reality

Paradigms are not only maps of worlds, they are also the worlds themselves. They guide us through a world while simultaneously illuminating it, making it visible, palpable, accessible, understandable. When inside a paradigm, one lives and breathes a place; its colors and textures; its tastes and smells. A world with sights to see and places…

Paradigms Are Alive: An Aerial View

Most of us think of paradigms as passive, inanimate collections of ideas and perspectives. We think of them as something that we can work on, craft, but not something that could work on us … or on anything else. But the truth is something quite different. We can indeed work on them, refine and develop…

Paradigms Are Alive: Anatomy & Physiology

The Hidden Power of Paradigms & Their Secret Life With DNA©

Essentials for a New Democracy: Welcome & Table of Contents

Welcome! The Justice Group section of this website aims to provide essential nourishment for becoming educated, skillful, empowered citizens – a critical key to creating an authentic Democracy serving all people and our beloved planet Earth. The site provides resources to further our understanding of current situations and challenges and to enhance our skills…

Essentials for a New Democracy: Preamble, Democracy Old & New

Democracy in the USA Today Democracy Old & New Preamble: a clause at the beginning of a constitution or statute that explains the reasons for its passage. If we sincerely wish to create a truer and more evolved Democracy than anything yet seen in our country — or even in our world — it might be wise…

Essentials for a New Democracy: History, New Perspectives, Contemporary Challenges

History, New Perspectives, Contemporary Challenges History New Perspectives Contemporary Challenges History … Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been…

Essentials for a New Democracy: Civil Liberties/Civil Rights: Basics, Books & Media

Constitution of the United States The whole story … searchable, indexed version http://constitutionus.com/ The First Ten Amendments to the Constitution I. Freedom of Speech, Press, Religion, and Petition Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or…

Essentials for a New Democracy: Civil Liberties/Civil Rights: Communities & Organizations

All Encompassing Women Native American African American LGBT Digital – Online – Internet Descriptions are excerpted from individual sites. All Encompassing … https://www.aclu.org/ For nearly 100 years, the ACLU has been our nation’s guardian of liberty, working in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and…

Essentials for a New Democracy: Election Integrity: Basics, Books & Media

Multi-Media Vocabulary Essays Books Multi-Media Vocabulary … Cross-check: A blatant effort at voter suppression by listing all the names of people in different states, with only similar — but NOT identical — names and declaring them the same person. The names are primarily surnames identified specifically with Black, Latina and Asian people. Once on this cross-check list,…

Essentials For a New Democracy: Election Integrity: Communities & Organizations

All descriptions are excerpted from the original sites. http://www.brennancenter.org/ The Brennan Center for justice at the NYU School of Law is a nonpartisan law and policy institute that seeks to improve our systems of democracy and justice. We work to hold our political institutions and laws accountable to the twin American ideals of democracy and…