Practicing Zen Without A License is a treatise of religion and philosophy as written by Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams in the year 2450 AD. Or something like that. Wisdom and practicality lurk beneath the bad jokes and worse puns and purposeful disregard for convention and grammar, or as OB Wanda (Roshi) would have it, "dialect, slang, anecdotes, wild-ass metaphors, jokes, free association, word-music"
Practicing Zen Without A License is a treatise of religion and philosophy as written by Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams in the year 2450 AD. Or someth...
Having been raised in the protestant tradition and educated in the field of science, I developed an interest- and a need- to come to terms with the discordance between religion and science These verses convey my evolved answers to such questions as:: what is life? what is the nature of the Universe? is there a God? what is humanity's purpose? can we find salvation? The result is a custom made religion, a set of beliefs which satisfies my soul
Having been raised in the protestant tradition and educated in the field of science, I developed an interest- and a need- to come to terms with the di...
Jack Butler's Jujitsu for Christ--originally published in 1986--follows the adventures of Roger Wing, a white born-again Christian and karate instructor who opens a martial arts studio in downtown Jackson, Mississippi, during the tensest years of the Civil Rights era. Ambivalent about his religion and his region, he befriends the Gandys, an African-American family--parents A. L. and Snower Mae, teenaged son T. J., daughter Eleanor Roosevelt, and youngest son Marcus--who has moved to Jackson from the Delta in hopes of greater opportunity for their children.
As the political heat...
Jack Butler's Jujitsu for Christ--originally published in 1986--follows the adventures of Roger Wing, a white born-again Christian and karat...
Jack Butler's "Broken Hallelujah: New and Selected Poems" is a celebration that refuses to explain away pain and trouble, or to oversell the very transcendence it seeks. Its poems are always musical, whether formal, improvisational, or written according to the music of speech itself.Butler understands poetry more nearly as the essence of that speech than as one of its products, the heart of the ways we know each other. Some of these forms are as old as English, but the voice stays immediate; and whether dark or hopeful, comic or sober, passionate or calm and knowing, these poems speak with...
Jack Butler's "Broken Hallelujah: New and Selected Poems" is a celebration that refuses to explain away pain and trouble, or to oversell the very tran...
Family therapy has become a well-established treatment modality across many mental health disciplines including clinical social work, psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and counseling. This book tells the story of how family therapy began based on the work of one of the pioneers of family theory and therapy, Murray Bowen, M.D. Bowen's psychiatric training began at the Menninger Foundation in 1946. It was during the later part of his eight years at Menninger's that he began his transition away from conventional psychoanalytic theory and practice. Bowen left Menninger's in 1954 and began a...
Family therapy has become a well-established treatment modality across many mental health disciplines including clinical social work, psychology, psyc...
