Archive | April, 2009

Life Coaching and the Liquidation of Social and Spiritual Capital

Posted on 17 April 2009

Life Coaching–my beloved profession–is part of a larger trend of alienation in our culture. Every coach wants deeply to help others while making a right livelihood for themselves. But inadvertently, we in the healing professions accelerate the larger problems of meaninglessness, empty relationships, alienation, and the commodification of everything in our very attempts to solve [...]

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Think and Grow Egocentric: Deconstructing Napoleon Hill’s Classic Think and Grow Rich

Posted on 14 April 2009

(This is part 1 of a series where I take the classic personal development book Think and Grow Richand deconstruct it’s philosophical and pragmatic foundations. As Think and Grow Rich is a iconic text in the personal development literature, a thorough philosophical deconstruction will allow for a new paradigm of personal development to emerge. In [...]

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The Dangers of Transformation

Posted on 03 April 2009

I don’t recommend just anybody take up the path of deep personal, spiritual, and cultural transformation. Many people have died (usually through suicide or drug overdose), become homeless, gone crazy, lost jobs, lost marriages, lost friendships, been exiled from their communities (spiritual and otherwise), and overall suffered immensely by undertaking a life path of conscious [...]