by Ross Bishop It’s not complicated. Show kindness and compassion. Care about one another. Maybe meditate. On the surface, it seems simple, yet we struggle mightily to put it into practice. Why is that? In the old days, when the Church was in charge, they put this in terms of Heaven and Hell. Heaven was to practice spirituality,Read more
by Ross Bishop As a people, we tend to be self-focused. After all, life is a struggle where, if you are not careful, you can get trampled by the masses who are struggling for their own survival. But what is that all about? Is life really so desperate and fragile that we cannot help the stranger who hasRead more
by Ross Bishop There is a pattern in business organizations (corporations and corporate associations) that becomes noticeable as they increase to a certain size. Regardless of their founding intention, their instinct for self-preservation overwhelms any vestige of concern for interests outside the organization, and this intensifies as the organization grows. Whether it is the tobacco industry, big oil,Read more
by Ross Bishop If you travel around the world - to different cultures and ethnic backgrounds - 8.28 billion people - you would find essentially the same reactions, culturally modified, to the events of childhood. The universality of those reactions tells you that there is a great deal more going on than appears on the surface. We allRead more
by Ross Bishop Imagine every culture as composed of two spheres. In the West, there are the financial-capitalist sphere and the spiritual sphere. They aren’t distinct; they merge all over the place, but for the sake of our discussion, let’s treat them as separate. Each sphere has its core set of values. America has a vast capitalist sphereRead more