Category Archives: Bobbing Around

Bobbing Around Volume 23 Number 11

Posted on 23/05/2024 by Dr Bob Rich

On his worst day, Biden is a thousand times better than Trump. Bernie Sanders For the love of money is the root of all evil: which, while some coveted after, they have … pierced themselves through with many sorrows. St … Continue reading →

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Bobbing Around Volume 23 Number 10

Posted on 22/04/2024 by Dr Bob Rich

We suggest that an Indigenous worldview, that of kinship with nature, should define sustainable practices… We are all Indigenous to this Earth. We are one family. Charles Fletcher, William Ripple, et. al In our current interdependent world, our household is … Continue reading →

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Bobbing Around Volume 23 Number 9

Posted on 23/03/2024 by Dr Bob Rich

For 5 minutes a day or longer, sit with eyes closed, body relaxed, and observe the thoughts of the mind. You don’t have to censor them, or force them to be other than they are, simply observe with non-judgment, and … Continue reading →

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Bobbing Around Volume 23 Number 8

Posted on 23/02/2024 by Dr Bob Rich

Consciousness does not exist because the physical world does; the physical world exists because consciousness does… We think of our minds existing in this world, but it’s actually the world that exists in our minds. Jim Tucker in Return to … Continue reading →

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Bobbing Around Volume 23 Number 7

Posted on 23/01/2024 by Dr Bob Rich

I am too young to drink and this gives me an edge. My opponents wake up with a sore head in the morning and I am fine. Luke Littler, 16-year-old darts champion You should let go of the conceptual illusion … Continue reading →

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Bobbing Around Volume 23 Number 6

Posted on 23/12/2023 by Dr Bob Rich

The wonderful George Monbiot has correctly identified extreme wealth as a mental illness. Quakers seek to live their lives by six social testimonies – peace, simplicity, integrity, community, equality and care of the Earth. The word “testimony” comes from that … Continue reading →

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Bobbing Around Volume 23 Number 5

Posted on 23/11/2023 by Dr Bob Rich

Replace consumption with sacrifice, greed with generosity, wastefulness with a spirit of sharing, an asceticism which entails learning to give, and not simply to give up. It is a way of loving, of moving gradually away from what I want … Continue reading →

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Bobbing Around Volume 23 Number 4

Posted on 23/10/2023 by Dr Bob Rich

We live for a while, attached to a body. But that connection is temporary and has the purpose of learning and growing. My current awareness is a projection of Someone larger. When I was dead, which is our wholly inadequate … Continue reading →

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Bobbing Around Volume 23 Number 3

Posted on 23/09/2023 by Dr Bob Rich

How can we transform our economies from “cowboy-economy” to “space-ship economy”? Sven Åke Bjørke Instead of spending enormous amounts of money planning for a war against each other, the US and China should come to an agreement to mutually cut … Continue reading →

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Bobbing Around Volume 23 Number 2

Posted on 23/08/2023 by Dr Bob Rich

The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived. Antonio Guterres What is, is, and it is OK for it not to be OK. This, too, shall pass. Dr Bob Rich on the worst that … Continue reading →

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