During the period I was writing the comparison between Donald Trump and Gorgeous George, I by chance was reading Bob Dylan's memoir and saw his story about meeting Gorgeous George... It struck me that George was a Trickster figure, evoking different responses depending on the context. For awhile now, I have been thinking about the nature of fate and destiny, particularly from the perspective of the mythologist Michael Meade. Now I saw an opportunity to put it together. The re

Insight-Out is an extraordinary program founded by Jacques Verduin, a man I met briefly in Assisi, Italy as part of a larger global network of innovative initiatives supported by The Fetzer Institute.  Insight-Out is an in-prison rehabilitation program and includes the one year GRIP program - Guiding Rage into Power - for San Quentin inmates. Here is one story recently showcased in their newsletter.  It concerns a lesson most of us would rather avoid, but none of us can sa