by Alan Briskin | Fate, Spirituality
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 result was
this piece I just sent to The Huffington Post.
by Alan Briskin | Empathy, Fate
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 say our lives have not been punctuated by the darker aspects of fate. How we engage this fate, including unfairness and hard times, is at the core of the soul’s maturation:
My night was like any other night. It was 8PM, time for “close custody count” (all prisons have ‘institutional counts’ wherein they count each prisoner’s body to ensure no one is missing or has escaped. Not being there for count is considered a serious violation).
Read the rest here …
