BOOKS: The Cosmic Doctrine: The Evolution of a Solar System | John Michael Greer

An artist's illustration of a young, sun-like star encircled by its disk of gas and dust. The gas and dust will in time form exoplanets. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle Part 1: The Dawn of Manifesta ...

Network 2018 | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 12, 2018 Forty-two years ago director Sidney Lumet brought to the big screen Paddy Chayefsky's brilliant story of Network. This great s ...

What happened to Connie Converse and Barbara Newhall Follett? | Mickey Z.

Photos: Courtesy of connieconverse.bandcamp.com and Stefan Cooke/Farksolia Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 26, 2018 When a talented man disappears, it’s the stuff of legends. For example, writer ...

An Astrological Interlude: Libra Ingress 2018 | John Michael Greer

Sept. 19, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- The autumn equinox is nearly on us, and with it comes the mainstay of the political astrologer, the ingress chart. Regular readers who’ve been following the discussi ...

Stripped Naked | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Aug. 30, 2018 In the 1997 British film The Full Monty, we have six unemployed men, four of them laid off steelworkers, earning money by putt ...

6 Ways to Make Mister Rogers Proud | Mickey Z.

PHOTO: Gene J. Puskar, Associated Press Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 5, 2018 Confession: I never watched Mister Rogers Neighborhood as a child. I’m not sure why but perhaps my big sister was al ...

Like the seasons, too, we must change… | Mickey Z.

Photo/Collage by Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 20, 2018 Mickey Z.: What other career paths did you consider and why? Kristen H.: I never considered any other career path. *** My fifth ...

The Choice of a Canon | John Michael Greer

May 23, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last week’s post on the spooky dimensions of reading -- the one-on-one encounter, in the silent places of the mind, with another person’s thinking -- sparked a lively ...

Billie Holiday said 'This is America' 80 years ago with 'Strange Fruit' | Mickey Z.

Photo collage: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 20, 2018 Too bad they didn’t have Twitter in 1939 when Billie Holiday first performed #StrangeFruit. Southern trees bear strange fruit, Bloo ...

A Tune for Mountain Dulcimer | John Michael Greer

May 2, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- For some time now I’ve been thinking about one of the core patterns underlying recent history here in the United States. It’s a pattern that can be traced from colonial ...

The public perception of Stormy Daniels, “porn stars” and “hookers.” | Mickey Z.

By DonkeyHotey (Stormy Daniels - Caricature) , via Wikimedia Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 19, 2018 “The reasons a woman only has to make one porn film to be a ‘porn star’ are similar t ...