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This post explores how we interact and includes how we have been treated as we engage with the US right-wing, especially with former president trump.
I have long felt our inability to reflect on Self and Others in a way that is useful is a great cultural problem. We are not taught to be REFLECTIVE and EFFECTIVELY ENGAGE. Reflexivity was developed to explore these skills.
This is the ability to be intrapersonal, to look within, and to be interpersonal to be aware of others as we engage.
This entry was greatly inspired by a tarot read by Gregory Scott and, second, a hearing of Dine/Navajo Elder Pat McCabe recently at the School of Mythopoetics. You are invited to join us. I have heard Pat often, and this time felt new as life often does.
As many know and some judge me for it, I study narcissism deeply, and I feel I have greatly benefited. I benefited not only in my own obsessive love that perhaps stunted finding my own voice but also from understanding the right-wing politics and trump plaguing the US and the World now. Narcissus can love no one but…
