[Part of our ongoing exploration of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow, this essay continues our exploration of Chapter Twelve’s inquiry into the role of love — and its lack — in American culture. The book is available here.] In Part 1 of this inquiry into love, we introduced Br. David Steindl-Rast’s, Dr.Continue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: What’s Love Got to Do With It? Part 2”
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Healing America’s Narratives: What’s My Impact & What Impacts Me?
Part of a series, this essay explores a subheading from Chapter Eleven of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow. Now available. What’s My Impact & What Impacts Me? What’s my impact — what’s the nature of the wake I’m leaving as I swim, paddle, sail, or otherwise make my way along theContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: What’s My Impact & What Impacts Me?”
Healing America’s Narratives: Bullied, Woke, & Canceled in the Polarized State(s) of America
This essay is adapted from Chapter Nine of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow — Now available. An earlier version of this piece, which was a precursor to Chapter Nine, appeared in April 2021. In its healthiest manifestation nowadays, being and/or staying ‘woke’ refers to becoming aware of social justice issues that need to be addressed,Continue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Bullied, Woke, & Canceled in the Polarized State(s) of America”
Healing America’s Narratives: And That’s Not All
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash This essay is adapted from Chapter Eight of Healing America’s Narratives: the Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow — Now available.¹ Both beyond and within the narratives explored in the first five essays in this series — selected excerpts from the histories of women, Native Americans, African Americans, the VietnamContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: And That’s Not All”
Healing America’s Narratives: Lessons Not Learned
Photo (c) Associated Press [Part of a series, this essay is adapted from Chapter Seven of Healing America’s Narratives: the Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow — Now available] In September 2003, six months after the U. S. began bombing Iraq again, Jonathan Schell wrote a long, crystal-clear sentence, employing some 250 words and quite aContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Lessons Not Learned”
Healing America’s Narratives: Dominos, Defoliation, Death, & Democracy
Photo © by Ryan Stone on Unsplash [Part of a series, this essay is adapted from Chapter Six of Healing America’s Narratives: the Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow (available October 2022)] Decades before the 2003 U. S. invasion of Iraq, the United States invaded Vietnam — initially with “advisors” and eventually with bombs, troops,Continue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Dominos, Defoliation, Death, & Democracy”
Healing America’s Narratives: Slavery, Civil Rights, and Whose Lives Matter
Photo © by Robin Jonathan Deutsch on Unsplash [Part of a series, this essay is adapted from Chapter Five of Healing America’s Narratives: the Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow (October 2022)] In the conventional history of the United States, we tend not to hear or read too much about the actual moments of invasionContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Slavery, Civil Rights, and Whose Lives Matter”
Healing America’s Narratives: Trails of Tears and Broken Treaties
Photo © by Boston Public Library on Unsplash [Part of a series adapted from Healing America’s Narratives: the Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow (October 2022). This essay is an overview that scratches the surface of Chapter Four of the book.] Some five-hundred-plus years ago, European explorers began bumping into land masses now known asContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Trails of Tears and Broken Treaties”
Healing America’s Narratives: Fear of the Feminine & the Subjugation of Women
Photo © by Katherine Hanlon on Unsplash [Part of a series, this essay is adapted from Chapter Three of Healing America’s Narratives: the Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow (October 2022)] True for a boy as well, a girl born in 1774, 1862, 1917, 1963, 1971, 2001, 2017, 2022,* or any other year received culturalContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Fear of the Feminine & the Subjugation of Women”
Our Collective National Shadow
[Adapted from Chapter Two of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow by Reggie Marra (October 2022)] In mid-March, 2003 I sat with Animas Valley Institute’s Bill Plotkin and others in Payson, Arizona, for five days of an experience entitled “Sweet Darkness: The Initiatory Gifts of the Shadow, Projections, Subpersonalities, and the SacredContinue reading “Our Collective National Shadow”
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