By Jim Selman | Bio
I was playing a trivia game and had to answer
what the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are. I got three out of four,
but had to go to go to Wikipedia to get them all: War, Famine, Conquest
and Death. These traditional Biblical symbols mark the ‘end of time’,
when all things are put right and presumably all karma is erased and
this journey will be complete. In researching each of them, I learned
that ‘conquest’ is best translated in today’s language as ‘corruption’.
The ancient notion of ‘famine’ can also be understood to encompass
epidemics and plagues. ‘War’ represents violence in all forms and Death
is pretty self-evident. These seem to me to be a good list of the dark
side of “The Force” which threatens our way of life and our collective
future.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at The Great Turning
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 By Jim Selman | Bio
There are increasing numbers of theories and
formulas for aging well. As far as I can tell, these fall into a number
of categories that pretty much all revolve around the central question
of “What do you want to do?” This is not a question that my
grandparents spent much time thinking about. Even my father’s
generation is more focused on the question of what needs to be done.
The question of “What do you want to do?” is a modern question that
comes with the fact that we have so many choices coupled with a
somewhat self-centered fixation on ourselves as individuals—the ‘me’
generation. I know very few people who aren’t working on this question.[ Read More]
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By Jim Selman | Bio
I notice lately that a lot of my conversations with older friends
revolve around the question “What do you want to do?” This is usually
followed by a smorgasbord of choices ranging from recreation to
entertainment to ‘just hanging out’. It sounds a lot like the
conversations my children used to have on a Saturday afternoon. It
seems to me that this kind of conversation is about filling time,
rather than intentional or purposeful choices. It is about picking from
available options, rather than creating the game we might create if
there were no constraints. When we were very young, we seemed to be
much more adept at creating games out of thin air with a lot less
effort.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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 By Jim Selman | Bio
Of
all the complaints and fears we hear that are associated with aging,
the number one is boredom. After a lifetime of activity and
accomplishment, it is incredible how many of us move into “elderland”
only to discover that we’re unsatisfied and bored. How can this be?
Granted that we might not be as spry as we once were and some of our
libidos are lackluster, but goodness gracious, do we really expect our
circumstances to make us happy or enthusiastic or interested in other
people and the possibilities of each and every day? [ Read More]
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I was playing a trivia game and had to answer what the Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse are. I got three out of four, but had to go to go to
Wikipedia to get them all — War, Famine, Conquest and Death. These
traditional Biblical symbols mark the ‘end of time’, when all things
are put right and presumably all karma is erased and this journey will
be complete. In researching each of them, I learned that ‘conquest’ is
best translated in today’s language as ‘corruption’. The ancient notion
of ‘famine’ can also be understood to encompass epidemics and plagues.
‘War’ represents violence in all forms and Death is pretty
self-evident. These seem to me to be a good list of the dark side of
“The Force” which threatens our way of life and our collective future. When I think about the state of the world in the context of the Four
Horsemen, it is almost overwhelming. Can we even imagine a world where
these ‘dark powers’ don’t prevail?[ Read More]
Written by eldering at The Great Turning
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 By Shae Hadden | Bio
How often have you caught yourself ‘tuning out’ when listening to a
friend, family member or acquaintance? Or had someone point out that
you aren’t really listening to them? We have all, at one time or another, done so—whether consciously or not. [ Read More]
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action
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