Ninjas Don’t Get Cold
Last Halloween, my grandson (I’ll call him Mac) came over to spend the night after a rigorous evening of trick-or-treating and consuming his ill-gotten gains. His costume this year was that of a ninja, complete with the usual array of ninja weapons – throwing stars,...
Learning the Real Meaning of Negotiation in the Medina of Tangier
The summer of 1972 was the time between college and grad school, so it seemed a good time to head to Europe for a 2-month vacation. While we were there, we decided to make a short visit to Morocco, to see what it was like. So we took a train to Malaga on the...
Discovering Intentionality at a Gospel Music Concert
The year was probably 1970 or 1971. I was a sophomore or junior in college, and I believe it was a Saturday. My girlfriend and I decided to go over to Berkeley for the day, looking at shops and gawking at the “street people”. Walking around the campus, I discovered...
Discovering Alignment in the California Primary of 1968
If you were to ask anyone for a list of the most pivotal years of the second half of the 20th century, I’d be very surprised if 1968 wasn’t at the top – or very near the top – of that list. That year saw cultural clashes across the globe, with major ramifications. ...
The Structure of Religious Revolutions
In 1962, Thomas Kuhn literally re-wrote the book on how we understand scientific history with his Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Prior to Kuhn, the established wisdom held that science proceeds in a (more or less) steady march from observation, to hypothesis,...
Did Maslow Get it Wrong?
With the exception of Sigmund Freud, there is arguably no psychologist who has had more of an impact on modern culture than Abraham Maslow. Unlike Freud, however, whose occasionally scabrous imaginations have permeated our fantasy lives more than our everyday...