Category Archives: Truth

On Not Waiting for Superman

Michael Meade, mythologist and storyteller, says there are three layers of human interaction: “If the First Layer of human interaction is the common ground of manners, kind speech, polite greeting, and working agreements; if the Third Layer is the area of deeply shared humanity, the universal brotherhood and sisterhood of all people, of the underlying, […]

February 11, 2017 – 6:34 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Choices, Conflict, Truth | Comments (3)

On Abuse of Human Freedom

I asked that divination tool, The I Ching (The Book of Changes) what to do in the wake of last week’s shocking election results. It told me first to keep still (Hexagram 52. Kên | Keeping Still, Mountain) for awhile, with movement in the second line, suggesting there is an unstoppable trajectory to the situation, […]

November 14, 2016 – 6:37 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Changing the World, Choices, Conflict, Fate and Destiny, Healing, Listening, Power, Transformation, Trust, Truth | Comments (12)

Love, Truth and Thinking for Yourself

The political scene in the United States is so deeply frustrating. We are polarized, embattled, insulted and insulting, tired of fear but still feeling it — often as a kind of midnight despair and powerlessness. What the hell happened? Now we are so easily outraged, contemptuous and seemingly desperate for radical change that means our […]

February 27, 2016 – 4:36 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Love, Self-Knowledge, Truth | Comments (3)

On Fairy Tales

Often we can see someone else — a friend, perhaps — living out their untrue story, and we want to help. The other person says something like… “I’m an outsider — that’s just my nature!” — a story of feeling separate “Whatever room I’m in, I’m the smartest one there!” — also a story of […]

February 3, 2015 – 4:57 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Changing the World, Listening, Truth, Wounds | Comments (6)