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be® is a new site from General Eclectic, it is designed to support and archive content ideas for an upcoming magazine, first edition due NY25
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Here are a selection of articles, curated videos from YouTube, and many other relevant, aggreeable and satisfying posts from various sources.
‘Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.’
Cleopatra / Shakespeare
On Being Podcast
The people who gather around On Being are part of the generative narrative of our time. In all kinds of lives, in all kinds of places, they are healers and social creatives. At human pace, they are enlivening the world that they can see and touch. In generational time, they are stitching relationship across rupture. […]
Good Stuff
In Be, we select relevant and ethical products and services that will help improve ‘quality of living’. Avoiding the use of unsustainable plastics and synthetic materials, simple ideas, solutions and amenities that are affordable, sustainable, reusable, and long lasting. Ecofiltro Website and Purchase
On Emotional Health
Aeon | Psyche Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts. Browse, scroll and navigate through the two sites within Sparky, or visit and/or subscribe safely to Aeon at psyche or aeon directly.
Just Thinking …
Empathy over conflict, it’s all a matter of perspective Social Perspective – there are only two ways of responding to any challenging social circumstance or situation, positively or negatively, these are basic responses in individuals within the wider community, especially when feeling vulnerable or under threat. Human nature being what it is, usually tends towards the negative, as in […]
Asleep while Awake
The image above: Come Hell or High Water by COCO AMARDEIL more about this image below Sleep – In a Nutshell What Happens When You Sleep? Written by Eric Suni Last Fact Check – October 30, 2020 Medically Reviewed by – Dr. Ealena Callender Home /Sleep Topics/ What Happens When You Sleep? When you sleep, […]
Sean Scully at Sant Cecília
Please see the earlier video below which was made at and by the Museu de Montserrat and is more direct by way of a depiction and sense of place and intervention by the artist. In July 2016, during a visit by Sean Scully to the Romanesque church of St. Cecilia, a video was recorded in which […]
Broken Promises 2024
The Price of Certainty By Daniele Anastasion · Video published by NYT Nov. 1, 2016 on Vimeo As we bear witness, in 2024, to the continued and almost unbelievable polarisation of politics in the United States, the gulf grows wider. As promises are broken, too many people desperate for certainty are led to believe that […]
Navigating the Nonsense
Lesson 1 Ways to find the truth through evidence and Finding the truth amidst a sea of misinformation can be challenging, but here are some strategies to help you navigate through it:
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge
Charles Darwin
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Wisdom begins with Wonder
Socrates – ergo…
Enlightenment begins with Experience – Consciousness begins with Curiosity
Awareness begins with Appreciation