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View Article  Does anyone here read this site via Newsgator?
An RSS tool that runs in Microsoft Outlook?

If so, would you let me know?

Thanks!
View Article  Ken Wilber on Terrorism
For those who haven't read it - here's a quote from the Integral Spirituality presentation (mini-book? study?), about terrorism:

In research for The Many Faces of Terrorism, I looked at the last fifty or so majorterrorist acts around the world, from the Protestant bombing of abortion clinics in the South to Buddhist subway attacks in Tokyo to Sikh separatists in India to Muslim terrorist
acts including 9/11. Astonishingly, they all had the identical psychograph: amber beliefs with red emotional driver.

And they all said exactly the same thing about why they did it (although not using these technical terms): The orange world will not make room for my sacred amber beliefs, and I am going to blow it up every chance I get.

I'm assuming this is going to be the thesis of the book - hopefully with a better sourcing.

This is a theory though that can be confirmed/disconfirmed pretty quickly though, with basic internet sleuthing skills.

Do all terrorists adopt an "amber" view?  Since I'm not into the colors thing - does this mean a Tribalist view?  I always go by Joe Perez's cheat sheet, and I don't see an amber.  What is the descriptive term for amber?

Who has a good non-color way to say the same sentence?
View Article  Lifehack, Audio Books, and lack of time
I ran across this LifeHack article about audiobooks, and it resonated with me. 

"I sleep for 6-7 hours, spend around 1 hour for lunch, dinner and bath, 8-10 hours for my work and 1 hour for commuting. Adding them up, I already spent 16-19 hours on those projects. By spending 2 hours per day for blogging and its preparation (reading, planning etc), time for attending my post-grad courses in human resources management, and time for my girl friend and family - That leaves me less than 3 hours per day to do the rest of things - including self-development."

It's a similar type of situation for me, in terms of lack of time - and then of course, you add an hour of meditation, and then an average of 30 minutes a day on some physical exercise (working out, yoga, running, etc).

Since my commute and my run are combined now (I'm commuting BY running home, for the most part), that helps.

Beginning of this year, I found a way to leverage some of the used time for self-development - by listening to audio books. With some tasks like commuting and bathroom break, I can utilize these times to listen and learn from the audio content

I've done something similar, in that I've put a few things on Audio -I have Eckhart Tolle on CD, and transferred it to the Ipod, and then a few INaked presentations and conversations as well. 

The Eckhart Tolle, and some Poonjaji stuff, is very good, for example, on a bus (if I'm late, don't want to walk).  There's something about moving, without being responsible for your own locomotion, that resonates deeply in terms of a proper understanding of will to Divine Will.  (Maybe this is just me).

Has anyone out there had a lot of positive experiences with books on tape/CD/Ipod?  What works, what doesn't, in your experience? In knowledge, understanding, behavior change, and simple entertainment?