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Tina Beier with “Sound & Fury Book Reviews" offers a favorable review of #Plenum. I like her literary taste!

https://www.youtube.com/c/SoundFuryBookReviews

These kinds of personal stories, well told with emotional authenticity (compare to old-school “trip reports”!), are going to help legalize #psychedelic practice in #Colorado this year. https://coloradosun.com/2022/08/07/microdosing-shrooms-psilocybin-anxiety-depression/

"Oh the joy of missing out.

When the world begins to shout

And rush towards that shining thing;

The latest bit of mental bling–

Trying to have it, see it, do it,

You simply know you won't go through it;

The anxious clamoring and need

This restless hungry thing to feed.

Instead, you feel the loveliness;

The pleasure of your emptiness.

You spurn the treasure on the shelf

In favor of your peaceful self;

Without regret, without a doubt.

Oh the joy of missing out."

—Michael Leunig #dweb

Brian George, whose first book of essays, *Masks of Origin: Regression in the Service of Omnipotence*, is due out from #UntimelyBooks later this year, has a new piece published with Dark Mountain Project.

https://dark-mountain.net/black-gold-plutos-helmet-of-invisibility/

"What happens when the dark forces of the Underworld seep into the 'real world'? Brian George charts the demise of US counterculture in the 1970s, as a shocking vision about power he received at the time has manifested in the following decades.

Well I’m glad all that sunlight and computing power is being put to good use! https://coloradosun.com/2022/06/28/olathe-colorado-crypto-mine-solar #colorado #crypto #shhh! #topsecret

And here is perhaps my favorite:

The Universal Destination of Goods.

"The universal destination of goods is an overriding principle in Catholic social teaching, as it relates to economic ethics, and basically says that the goods of the Earth belong to everybody, without exclusion, without exception, not just to the rich."

"How about this concept of integral human development?”

"It’s very simply the good of the whole person and each person. So each person means you can’t exclude anybody from the common good. But the whole person means you want the development of all people across all dimensions of human flourishing."

"[T]he common good is the good of our shared social endeavors that transcends the good of each individual and can’t be divided into the individual goods that make it up. It’s basically the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We are bound together and community, tied to each other intimately. And that includes the economic sphere."

I grew up Catholic, but left Catholicism behind me when I began reading widely, learning Buddhist meditation, and taking philosophy and literature more seriously, as a young man. That said, as I’ve grow older, I can recognize a lot of value in the Catholic worldview, even if its theology may disagree with me.

“Cathonomics" is one area where we can agree, if this includes the common good, integral human development, integral ecology, and solidarity among its principles.

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-05-13/can-cathonomics-produce-a-just-and-sustainable-world

War/life balance—
How does one achieve
the optimum?

Cold War, Gulf War, War on Terror,
War on Drugs, Race War, Sex wars,
Culture wars, Tweet wars—

War in Ukraine, war in Somalia…
All our lives: war movies, alien invasions
At war with ourselves

And every day, we go back to work
Back to our arts & sciences
Return to our measured critique

While the War Machine rumbles
And the Beast feeds…
And our childrens' futures bleed.

Just had a beautiful conversation with Andrea van de Loo, a writer with the co-op who is working on a memoir that goes back to her childhood during WW2 in Holland, and follows her experiences through the countercultural movements of the '60s, #spiritual communities, #psychedelics, the sexual revolution, and much more. Now entering her 9th decade, Andrea has so much life experience and elder wisdom to share. “The Pressing Stones” will be published by Unimtely Books whenever it’s done!

I’m loving exploring all the interesting instances and individuals using #Mastodon. The #fediverse is much cooler than the tweetsphere. This is how the Internet *used to feel like*. The only difference is, we were innocent then; now we are experienced. I speak for myself, anyway.

And now we have a sales tax license to conduct business from our 'economic nexus' in the state of Colorado. On top of our beautiful new PO Box number (3). We’re officially ready to sell lotsa lotsa books and not get in trouble. Will the ecstasies of adulthood never cease? #allgrownup

I own my own social network, too. It does pretty much the same thing the other one does, without the asinine algorithmic advertising and self-serving billionaire BS—it's just a little bit lonelier, perhaps, at this stage. But that could change...

Hey, want to own your own social network with me?

Cosmos.social is welcoming new members. Social.coop, too. There are many diverse communities in the fediverse, distinct yet interconnected. Pretty cool concept. Take your pick!

#indie #coop #ownership

When are we going to stop poisoning the earth and ourselves? https://coloradosun.com/2022/04/22/forever-chemicals-colorado-fish-samples-pfas

Our new website (still in development) is coming along… https://untimelybooks.com/

"Untimely Books is an indie publisher of literary works that bend the mind, question the contemporary, and reimagine horizons of thought, feeling, and action for an integral age. As an imprint of Cosmos Cooperative (a creative community & member-owned publishing platform) and Metapsychosis (a journal of consciousness, literature, & art), Untimely Books serves as a conduit for diverse forms of writing by Cosmos members, including original works of fiction, poetry, philosophy, essays, and memoir."