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Bedtime Stories for Your Inner Child

Bedtime Stories for Your Inner Child

These three inspirational fables offer powerful parables in a playful format inspired by children's books.

2020

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In Memoriam Alexei Navalny

The hero, knowing that he is doomed, returns home anyway

1 min readFeb 17, 2024

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In Memoriam Alexei Navalny

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Why God Made Trump

It has been revealed that God made Trump. Why is that? Theologians have come up with what they call the Tower of Babel hypothesis.

2 min readFeb 1, 2024

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Why God Made Trump

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The Expat Writer

This is the expat writer, unwelcome in his own country…

1 min readJan 28, 2024

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The Expat Writer

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Does Democracy Thrive On Dominance?

Democracy means that power is held by the people. Actually, by some people.

1 min readJan 7, 2024

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Does Democracy Thrive On Dominance?

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Mindfulness, Embodied

The sculptor is honing his blade on the sharpening stone. It’s a gesture he has done so many times in his long life.

2 min readDec 21, 2023

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Mindfulness, Embodied

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What Is It Like To Be A Mindful Lemming?

The phrase feels like a contradiction in terms: we think of lemmings following each other into collective suicide as they jump off a cliff.

3 min readDec 14, 2023

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What Is It Like To Be A Mindful Lemming?

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Buddha’s Deepest Teachings

It is said that Buddha had special teachings that he reserved for those of his followers who were truly enlightened.

1 min readNov 28, 2023

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Buddha’s Deepest Teachings

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Atheist, Agnostic, Secular Humanist & Spirituality

Why should I define myself based on whether or not I believe in God if the very question of God feels unanswerable?

2 min readNov 22, 2023

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Atheist, Agnostic, Secular Humanist & Spirituality

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Samsara

A mythopoetic take on Buddhist philosophy

1 min readOct 23, 2023

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Samsara

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Descartes & Mindfulness

Descartes’ famous Cogito Ergo Sum was, in fact, a transcription error of his experience as a meditator.

2 min readOct 7, 2023

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Descartes & Mindfulness

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Serge Prengel

Serge Prengel

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Serge Prengel is a therapist. He is the author of Bedtime Stories For Your Inner Child and other books. See: http://activepause.com/books

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