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Book club’s current title – Opening to Channel

Posted in Book Group, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 18, 2008| 2 Comments »

Are you interested in bringing the wisdom of your Higher Self or a high being of love and light into your everyday life? If so, this book is for you!

A Novel Paradigm, an online book discussion forum, will begin reading and discussing this book on Sunday September 21st. Please visit the site for complete details.

Hope to see you there!

Jerome

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Online book group A Novel Paradigm has a new home!

Posted in Book Group, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 5, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Many, many thanks all who participated in the reading and discussion of Living with Joy at the fledgling online book club, A Novel Paradigm.

Early on we realized the limitations and general barriers to usability inherent in Google Groups, the initial venue I chose. Knowing a change was needed, I solicited feedback from the group and looked into a few different options. In the end I chose to migrate the group here to WordPress, for a few reasons:

  • Ease of access – no registration required to view or comment means one less user ID and password to remember.
  • Blogs are ideally suited to conversation – functionality like having the most recent entry on top, being able to create different categories and pages (including nested pages), and the new polling feature here on WordPress all seemed like a great fit.

So without further ado, I’d like to present A Novel Paradigm, v2.0. 🙂

Though still under construction, I’d like to invite everyone reading to visit the site and vote on a title you’re interested in reading and discussing! If none of the five titles I’ve listed interest you, please suggest another in the space provided.

The poll will close Sunday September 14th, and we’ll begin reading the new title Sunday September 21st.

Thanks again – looking forward to more transformative and empowering reading and discussion.

Love and Light,

Jerome

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The danger in scapegoating

Posted in Opportunities for Growth, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 25, 2008| 2 Comments »

Scapegoating is what we do when we don’t want to look at the deeper issue. It’s easier than looking in the mirror and seeing where our own growth has been stunted, and is more gratifying than accepting responsibility and owning our personal growth. It’s also what we do when we want to draw attention away from ourselves and our actions and distract onlookers with something else. This tried and true technique has been used throughout history by individuals, organizations, and governments.

As individuals, we often use those closest to us – those who we claim to love the most – as our scapegoats. I’m definitely guilty of this. This is dangerous, because those who love us will only take so much.

What is the root of scapegoating? Is it fear? If so, fear of what? Fear of being perceived as a failure if we don’t shift the blame elsewhere?

How can this fear be overcome?

This morning while looking at the stats for this site, I saw another example of scapegoating. Someone made their way here by entering the following phrase in a search engine:

“When a child uses drugs what sin is that?”

What is the real issue here? What is the fear that keeps the parent from admitting the real issue? Is it more important for the parent to tell the child what sin s/he is committing, or to look at what caused the behavior?

For me, asking these kinds of questions is the most challenging aspect of personal growth. It’s always easier to see where someone else falls short than to take a long hard look in the mirror.

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