Timothy Leary along with Ken Kesey were the founding fathers of the Hippy Movement of the 1960s. He was a professor at Harvard University. He started his research with LSD (legal at the time) among prison inmates and alcoholics. Later he would experiment on himself, friends and volunteer students. In his later years he became […]
Baruch (or Benedictus) Spinoza is one of the most important philosophers—and certainly the most radical—of the early modern period. His thought combines a commitment to Cartesian metaphysical and epistemological principles with elements from ancient Stoicism and medieval Jewish rationalism into a nonetheless highly original system. His extremely naturalistic views on God, the world, the human […]
I recently read that in a blog I was visiting. I refuse to caress his ego so I did not respond. By the time I was 13, I had read every book in the two public libraries in my hometown. My mother had to check out the books for me because of my age. I […]
Colin Wilson is an English philosopher who has authored, co-authored and edited 114 books. He has written both fiction and non-fiction. I have read about a dozen of them. He quit school at the age of 16. He worked in factories and various occupations. In his spare time he read books. He was first published […]
Though he courageously fought for his country in World War II earning a Purple Heart, upon his return home from the war, Williams was savagely beaten by a group of angry whites at a bus station for drinking from a water fountain marked for “Whites Only”. They had beaten him so badly, they thought he was dead. They […]
In 1964, Chisholm ran for and was elected to the New York State Legislature. In 1968, she ran as the Democratic candidate for New York’s 12th District congressional seat and was elected to the House of Representatives. Defeating Republican candidate James Farmer, Chisholm became the first black woman elected to Congress. Chisholm joined the Congressional Black Caucus in 1969 as one of its founding […]
“Jean and Greenlee” by Heidi Foley IT’S SIMPLE Simple, uncomplicated, so easy to understand, that place where magic happens when we might not expect it to. And in that place that’s hidden away, that secret secret spot known only to us, we find shelter from the storms that threaten; we find harmony and sweet connections; […]
before the advent of cyber-space, people made friends in lotsa different ways…maybe one of your friends had a friend you didn’t know…the two of you were introduced, you either liked them or not; or maybe it took awhile to like them…or maybe you liked them right away but changed your mind after getting to know […]
“Transcendent of the Blues” by William Tolliver WITHIN THESE BAYOU BLUES Dancing in the dark to that familiar dusky song, caressing the strings of broken hearts, somber melodies drifting painfully through the tortured darkness of this Saturday night, lyrics laced with sadness and broken dreams, invading every corner of that smoke-filled room of hazy blue; […]
He was probably the most liberal of all the Kennedy brothers. He had communications skills that allowed him to talk to everybody whether rich or poor. He probably would have been the Democratic Nominee and Nixon would have been defeated by another Kennedy. Another “what if” in American history. “If we believe that we, as […]
