On Cultural Incompetence, Dr. Amaal V.E. Tokars states: “When you look around your place of employment, would you be surprised to see a wide variety of nationalities represented? Many would not. Today, most companies try to preserve some degree of cultural competence, accepting and understanding the value of cultural diversity in the work environment. […]
Native American drums are probably the most recognizable Native American instruments among American Indians and non Native people alike. Drums for generations have been at the center of Native lifestyle, forming what has become the foundation of religion and spirituality as well as social gatherings where a pow wow drum is center stage.
Indian tribes […]
I feel so strange right now. So many thoughts are racing through my mind. I don’t know why I am anymore. I just know I am.
Existence seems to be unimportant and seems to consist of nothing. I know I have a reason for being, but what is that reason? […]
On a cultural level, most social conditioning, focuses on either repressing desires or permitting only a certain strain of desires. All this results in distorted desires and completely maladaptive emotions like fear, shame, and guilt.
As an organism advances in intelligence, so, too, does its desires. There are the basic desires of the body […]
In todays rapidly changing world, we need visionaries. Visionary mothers, visionary educators, visionary leaders, visionary children–visionaries, period!
Many think of visionaries being those who have a special “gift” for thinking big, thinking creatively, etc. But consider that a visionary is simply someone who chooses to walk his or her own heroic path in life, inspired […]