Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Quote of the Day --  “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think,  then what to think –  rather to improve our minds,  so as to enable us to think for ourselves,  then to load the memory with thoughts of other men.”  ~ Bill Beattie -- Conscious Discussions Talk Radio --  * Airs live @ 10-11 AM (Pacifc)  - all episodes are archived indefinitely within moments after they air live, and are available for you to listen to later on at any time of day. Sign up via itunes for the Conscious Discussions Radio show: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id262138144   Joining us today: Ray Arata who had gone through his share of life struggles on his path to finding his true self and becoming a whole person; his family’s addictions, divorce and remarriage, being a father, and career transitions. Today ...

-- Celebrating Household Managers - Society has grown so 'advanced' that we look down on those of us who choose to be nurturing Household Managers. Somehow this work force is seen as slothful folks who live off the work of others, or are incompetent in the workplace altogether. Society then contradicts itself by acknowledging the growing strain on the medical, policing and financial support systems due to increased stress, pollution and poor nutrition in today's civilized world. Worried politicians view our ever-growing need to import food as a potential disaster in the event of worldly catastrophes - and scientists tell us their numbers indicate we are actually overdue for a catastrophe. Society will 'tsk-tsk' at the children who have been raised by non-family members (including televisions and computers), because no one has the energy or the time to raise them properly. We have the audacity to be bewildered at the drop out rate in our cold and sterile public sch...