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    Joe Perez is a writer striving to take Integral approaches to issues in ordinary life, culture, politics, sexuality, and spirituality. A graduate of Harvard University and The Divinity School at the University of Chicago, his books are Soulfully Gay (Integral Books, 2007) and Rising Up (Lulu, 2006). Read more...

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  • The false idolatrous spirit of progressivism?

    The false idolatrous spirit of progressivism?

    July 18th, 2008 - No Comments

    Chris Dierkes at Indistinct Union writes:

    The Spirit of the Lord, blowing where it will, renews not only the face of the earth but the faces on the earth, the faces of the earth. This is worthy of adoration.

    There is renewal of that which has been forgotten and should never have been. Renewal of that which is held in oppression when the yoke is lifted and that which was enslaved returns to its pristine natural vigor. There is renewal as new creation, re-newing everything that was prior to the truly new.

    Christian Ethics and the spiritual/religious path more broadly conceived should fundamentally be about renewal and re-creation. It is too often about power, prestige, and place. Far too often concerned not with renewal–which may mean letting things die a natural death so others can take its place–but rather with conservation (in the negative sense). Holding on past time.

    But renewal without adoration becomes too easily the false idolatrous spirit of progressivism and worse revolutionary fervor and worse still violence. Change for change’s sake, meeting the new boss whose the same as the old boss, is no answer, no virtue, religious or otherwise. [...]

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    The false idolatrous spirit of progressivism?

    The false idolatrous spirit of progressivism?

    July 18th, 2008 - No Comments

    Chris Dierkes at Indistinct Union writes:

    The Spirit of the Lord, blowing where it will, renews not only the face of the earth but the faces on the earth, the faces of the earth. This is worthy of adoration.

    There is renewal of that which has been forgotten and should never have been. Renewal of that which is held in oppression when the yoke is lifted and that which was enslaved returns to its pristine natural vigor. There is renewal as new creation, re-newing everything that was prior to the truly new.

    Christian Ethics and the spiritual/religious path more broadly conceived should fundamentally be about renewal and re-creation. It is too often about power, prestige, and place. Far too often concerned not with renewal–which may mean letting things die a natural death so others can take its place–but rather with conservation (in the negative sense). Holding on past time.

    But renewal without adoration becomes too easily the false idolatrous spirit of progressivism and worse revolutionary fervor and worse still violence. Change for change’s sake, meeting the new boss whose the same as the old boss, is no answer, no virtue, religious or otherwise. [...]

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    Me, In Dialogue with Ken Wilber

    Me, In Dialogue with Ken Wilber

    June 11th, 2008 - 2 Comments

    I was so nervous the morning of my dialogue with Ken Wilber that it was hard to calm my nerves. Nothing that a screwdriver wouldn’t help me get through. But once it was time for my telephone chat with Ken, I found it rather enjoyable. He’s a great conversation partner and really brought out a wide variety of different angles on my story that I wouldn’t have predicted. Pretty cool experience overall!

    Here’s how Integral Naked introduced my talk:

    The author of one of the most searing, courageous personal memoirs of our time shares how an Integral Approach helped him reconcile a life of fierce inner struggles with what it means to be a gay man in today’s culture, the difference between genuine spiritual experiences and psychotic episodes, and the thorny intersection of homosexuality and Christianity.

    Read more Joe Perez Reads “Soulfully Gay”, Part 1: “God is Gay”

    Joe Perez Reads “Soulfully Gay”, Part 1: “God is Gay”

    June 10th, 2008 - No Comments

    Welcome to the first installment of my new Podcast (audio and video). I’m new at this sort of thing, so unfortunately the production values leave something to be desired. I hope to learn as I go along, so keep watching!

    In this reading, I discuss the following passage from Soulfully Gay, and answer the question: what does it mean to say “God is gay?”

    God made some men gay, because He made them in His image. God made gay men to love in gay ways, because God loves in gay ways. The beauty of gay men reflects the beauty of God. The beauty of gay ways of loving reflects the beauty of God’s gay ways of loving. When someone fears and hates a gay man, he or she fears and hates God.

    Read more Joe Perez on KUOW The Beat

    Joe Perez on KUOW The Beat

    June 10th, 2008 - No Comments

    Originally posted on June 22, 2007.
    The foundation of our lives sometimes crumble. Hear me talk with Dave Beck…
    “Plants shape our lives more than you might think. Next time on the Beat, we take a trip to the Washington Park Arboretum. Also, Seattle author Joe Perez tells us how Harvard, Sex, Drugs and Integral Philosophy drove [...]

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    The gas nozzle speech

    The gas nozzle speech

    July 17th, 2008 - No Comments

    “Let America produce again.”–Sen. Larry Craig

    Read more The change we must change

    The change we must change

    July 16th, 2008 - No Comments

    “Gosh I’m tired of divisive exchange,
    And I got one or two things
    to say about change
    Like the change we must change

    Read more John McCain vows to get more familiar with the Internet

    John McCain vows to get more familiar with the Internet

    July 15th, 2008 - 2 Comments

    “What we have to do now is embrace this new technology …” — John McCain

    Read more Very bad news

    Very bad news

    July 10th, 2008 - No Comments

    “You have AIDS.”

    “AIDS. You know, your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words. On labels. That you believe they mean what they seem to mean. AIDS. Homosexual. Gay. Lesbian. You think these are names that tell you who someone sleeps with. They don’t tell you that.”

    “No?”

    “No. Like all labels, they tell you one thing, and one thing only: where does an individual so identified fit in the food chain. In the pecking order. Not ideology. Not sexual taste. But something much simpler. Clout.” — from “Angels in America” by Tony Kushner

    Read more Did Jesus Christ rise from the dead? I read from my journal, Soulfully Gay

    Did Jesus Christ rise from the dead? I read from my journal, Soulfully Gay

    July 8th, 2008 - No Comments

    Reading from Joe Perez’s Soulfully Gay:

    Wednesday, Dec. 31

    Literal belief in a resurrection is not important to me, nor to a great many spiritual people. Nor, apparently was it important to the authors of the Gospel of Mark, which does not include the resurrection and overall leaves the impression that Jesus’s disciples were still very much struggling with what to think of Him after he was crucified.

    There are many myths in countless religions and folktales of human or divine figures that rose from the dead. In my own opinion, Christianity’s belief in Jesus’s resurrection is but one of the most popular examples of such a myth. Belief in a literal resurrection is akin to insisting that fairy tales really happened. If something never happened – and I very much doubt the historical reality of the resurrection and appearances of Jesus – no amount of insistenct that it did will make it so…. [...]

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    Thanks to all my 2,700 visitors in June

    Thanks to all my 2,700 visitors in June

    July 5th, 2008 - No Comments

    On June 6, I relaunched my Weblog after an extended period of lethargy/semi-hiatus. I’m still tinkering with the blog template, design, and overall editorial plan, but I feel that I’m on track to making this Weblog an important part of my writing endeavors. My goal is to provide virtually daily content to my readers on topics related broadly to “sex, culture, politics, spirit” with an Integral slant.

    Now begins the slow march from obscurity and invisibility to fame and fortune. Yeah, right. Some writers say that fewer than 2 percent of Americans have reached a truly integrated level of consciousness. I don’t claim to know the precise number of Integrally aware folks. However, I believe that Integral remains very marginal in our culture (though it probably has a disproportionate relative influence).

    I will count this Weblog a success if I can provide an alternative voice in the national (US) dialogue advocating for more comprehensive, inclusive, and evolutionary perspectives on life. My first month’s traffic figures indicate that I have a long ways to go before this Weblog becomes more than an extremely tiny blip on the blogosphere’s radar screen. My Web server logs for joe-perez.com show approximately 2,700 unique visitors who visit an average of 2.18 times and read 3.82 pages on each visit. That comes to approximately 90,000 hits and about 790 MB of bandwidth. (SiteMeter, notorious for underreporting actual traffic, has dramatically lower numbers.) Let’s see where it goes from here.

    Thanks to all my visitors for making joe-perez.com a part of your Internet voyages. Extra love for those who comment and e-mail! I hope you keep coming back.

    P.S.: If you have any ideas for improving your Weblog reading experience, or if you want to help out in any way (guest bloggers? contributors?), please don’t be shy. Just comment or drop me a line.

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    The false idolatrous spirit of progressivism?

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    July 18th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    Chris Dierkes at Indistinct Union writes:

    The Spirit of the Lord, blowing where it will, renews not only the face of the earth but the faces on the earth, the faces of the earth. This is worthy of adoration.

    There is renewal of that which has been forgotten and should never have been. Renewal of that which is held in oppression when the yoke is lifted and that which was enslaved returns to its pristine natural vigor. There is renewal as new creation, re-newing everything that was prior to the truly new.

    Christian Ethics and the spiritual/religious path more broadly conceived should fundamentally be about renewal and re-creation. It is too often about power, prestige, and place. Far too often concerned not with renewal–which may mean letting things die a natural death so others can take its place–but rather with conservation (in the negative sense). Holding on past time.

    But renewal without adoration becomes too easily the false idolatrous spirit of progressivism and worse revolutionary fervor and worse still violence. Change for change’s sake, meeting the new boss whose the same as the old boss, is no answer, no virtue, religious or otherwise. [...]

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    The gas nozzle speech

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    July 17th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    “Let America produce again.”–Sen. Larry Craig

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    Thoughts on defining the New Age

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    July 16th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    Terry Mattingly, the religion journalist, inquires in to the definition of the New Age. On the GetReligion blog today, he asks:

    I know that the Associated Press Stylebook does not contain an entry that offers any insight into what is and what is not “New Age philosophy.” That’s the kind of vague religious term that cries out for specific information that lets the readers decide whether the label is appropriate. Or did the Levys use the term to define their beliefs? We do not know.

    I am also aware that there are more than a few people blending Judaism and Buddhism — since entire books have been written on the topic. There really are sincere believers who call themselves “JUBUs,” short for “Jewish Buddhists.” However, once again, I am not sure this is a label that the Levys would accept.

    Then there is the issue of Pentecostalism — by definition, a Christian movement — showing up in this list. What spiritual activities or beliefs led to the inclusion of this loaded term in the seemingly grab-bag list of faiths attributed to this grieving couple? The reporters need to show us why these words are accurate, in the case of the Levy family.

    GetReligion has some regular readers who are practicing pagans or neo-pagans, which are two other terms that journalists tend to toss about from time to time. How do you feel about the term “New Age”? Do you think it has any actual content and, if so, what are the specifics? What are the essential beliefs and rites that reporters should investigate? [...]

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    Retiring “Darwinism”, “Darwinist” and “Darwinian”

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    July 16th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    Olivia Judson has a smart op-ed in The New York Times today. She writes:

    I’d like to abolish the insidious terms Darwinism, Darwinist and Darwinian. They suggest a false narrowness to the field of modern evolutionary biology, as though it was the brainchild of a single person 150 years ago, rather than a vast, complex and evolving subject to which many other great figures have contributed. (The science would be in a sorry state if one man 150 years ago had, in fact, discovered everything there was to say.) Obsessively focusing on Darwin, perpetually asking whether he was right about this or that, implies that the discovery of something he didn’t think of or know about somehow undermines or threatens the whole enterprise of evolutionary biology today.

    It does not. In the years ahead, I predict we will continue to refine our understanding of natural selection, and continue to discover new ways in which it can shape genes and genomes. Indeed, as genetic data continues to flood into the databanks, we will be able to ask questions about the detailed workings of evolution that it has not been possible to ask before. [...]

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    The change we must change

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    July 16th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    “Gosh I’m tired of divisive exchange,
    And I got one or two things
    to say about change
    Like the change we must change

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    John McCain vows to get more familiar with the Internet

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    July 15th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    “What we have to do now is embrace this new technology …” — John McCain

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    Expelled by the New Atheism

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    July 15th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    Freddie at L’Hôte says he’s not religious in any way, but the New Atheism has no appeal to him:

    The new atheism has made its challenge, then. And here is my answer. I don’t believe in God, in any meaningful way. I am not a Christian or a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or a Jew, or whatever else you will. In questions of public policy I feel religion has no place, and rational discourse has to rule. I don’t want religious artifacts in the public square, I don’t want creationism taught in public schools, and I don’t want any religion privileged in any way by government. I am, in most every way that matters, a natural ally of atheism.

    But atheism has expelled me. It has expelled me because it has in its heart contempt and loathing and fear of the other. So I reject it. I don’t reject all atheists; many atheist are uninterested in ridiculing the religious– they simply want to be left in peace, and not have religion forced on them or on the law. That, to me, is a principled atheism, and one I am happy to coexist with. But this new atheism, this anti-theism, has only contempt at its heart, and I reject it as thoroughly as it has rejected me.

    Very well put. I would express the point this way: Principled atheism is, in itself, noble. It is merely a rejection of all that is religious that is worth rejecting, not merely to negate, but to affirm the positive role of science, rationality, skepticism, secularism, and tolerance. I think you can tell more principled atheists from their less mature cousins by their degree of willingness to “coexist” with religionists without ridicule, contempt, or hatred. [...]

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    Howard Fineman Hearts John McCain

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    July 11th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    I don’t have a particular beef with Howard Fineman. At least I didn’t, until today. But a sentence in his Newsweek op-ed “Gaffe Alert!” just makes my skin crawl.

    His piece opens with a few lines detailing what a wonderful week it was shaping out to be for John McCain: a “nicely staged” campaign event in Denver, a “tightly focused message” on the economy, the fresh energy of a “re-launched campaign”, and a renewed McCain “back in the game”. Then, oops! Phil Gramm makes a gaffe.

    Okay… Big Bad Gramm put his foot in his mouth. Asinine. He should keep his mouth shut. Fine.

    Fortunately, Fineman says, John McCain is above all that, untouchable even in a moment of distress. Fineman writes:

    Senator McCain, cringing, immediately distanced himself from Gramm and his comments.

    There’s just one little problem with this sentence. It’s a bald face lie. [...]

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    Obama’s “move to the center”: an untrue but helpful narrative

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    July 10th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    New York Times columnist Gail Collins pours cold water over the left’s disappointment with Barack Obama:

    Think back. Why, exactly, did you prefer Obama over Hillary Clinton in the first place? Their policies were almost identical — except his health care proposal was more conservative. You liked Barack because you thought he could get us past the old brain-dead politics, right? He talked — and talked and talked — about how there were going to be no more red states and blue states, how he was going to bring Americans together, including Republicans and Democrats.

    Exactly where did everybody think this gathering was going to take place? Left field?

    When an extremely intelligent politician tells you over and over and over that he is tired of the take-no-prisoners politics of the last several decades, that he is going to get things done and build a “new consensus,” he is trying to explain that he is all about compromise. Even if he says it in that great Baracky way.

    Of course, not all of us who preferred Obama to Clinton did so under the delusion that he was some sort of left-wing Reagan, an ideologically pure politician who would fight for every pet cause of the left. We did so perfectly well knowing that he was pretty non-ideological, supporting policies that are mainstream Democratic priorities (ending the Bush tax cuts, ending the Iraq war, achieving universal healthcare, appointing non-wingnut judges to the Supreme Court, etc.) We regarded his ability to appeal to independents and non-ideological Republicans as a strong asset.

    But I think talk of the “Obama’s move to the center” narrative is probably necessary, a positive development in the campaign. Thanks to the National Journal’s rating of Obama as the Senate’s most liberal (a claim that always seemed overblown to those of us who have read his books and followed his career), and a relentless effort by every Republican to paint Obama as an extremist, Obama was fast getting pigeonholed very unfairly. His recent reminders of his basically moderate-left, compromising, practical attitude are needed to undo some of the damage that has been done.

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    Very bad news

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    July 10th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    “You have AIDS.”

    “AIDS. You know, your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words. On labels. That you believe they mean what they seem to mean. AIDS. Homosexual. Gay. Lesbian. You think these are names that tell you who someone sleeps with. They don’t tell you that.”

    “No?”

    “No. Like all labels, they tell you one thing, and one thing only: where does an individual so identified fit in the food chain. In the pecking order. Not ideology. Not sexual taste. But something much simpler. Clout.” — from “Angels in America” by Tony Kushner

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    Internet quiz: I’m 80% Buddhist, 75% Pagan, 70% Hindu, and … uh … I’ll stop there.

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    July 10th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    I’m not surprised by the results of an Internet quiz telling me that Buddhism is the right religion for me. Sigh.

    Which is the right religion for you? (new version)
    created with QuizFarm.com

    You scored as BuddhismYou scored as Buddhism. Your beliefs most closely resemble those of Buddhism. Do more research on Buddhism and possibly consider becoming Buddhist, [...]

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    In memory of Jesse Helms

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    July 9th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    “You mess with us, and you wake up with a condom on your house.”

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    My problem with Christian Individualism

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    July 8th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    Andrew Sullivan sums up his argument with the Social Gospel variety of Christianity — which he equates with a cooptation of Christianity by socialism and redistributionism, a position he says Obama leans towards — in this way:

    [I]t isn’t about encouraging charity; it is about the enforcement of “charity” by the strong hand of the state. And in so far as it forcibly takes people’s property from them, it also diminishes their capacity for real charity.

    Now, saints are very rare.

    And the kind of voluntary communism of which Merton speaks likely only in monasteries and religious orders. In the world as it is, there should be some mandatory public provision for the poor, the sick and the indigent. But it should be a safety-net to avoid specific social evils, not a system of redistribution to construct some notion of “social justice” (see Chapter 6 in “The Conservative Soul”). In the end, the social Gospel can make Christianity less, rather than more, likely. The state cannot experience faith; and it cannot express charity. Only individuals can. One by one. (emphasis mine)

    Is it really so self-evident that only individuals, and not collective entities, are capable of “experiencing faith” or “expressing charity”? And that Christianity is essentially a religion concerned only with the individual soul, the I-Thou relationship between One Supreme God and The Individual Soul? Andrew Sullivan, like many Christians, thinks so. But this assumption has been fundamentally questioned by many Christian theologians at least since the late 19th century (including the early but not the later Reinhold Niebuhr), and is explicitly disavowed by liberation theology, arguably the most significant paradigm shift in theology in the past 40 years. Today, many Christians believe that groups as well as individuals embody the Spirit and have a role in salvation (Matthew 18: “For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”) [...]

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    Did Jesus Christ rise from the dead? I read from my journal, Soulfully Gay

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    July 8th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    Reading from Joe Perez’s Soulfully Gay:

    Wednesday, Dec. 31

    Literal belief in a resurrection is not important to me, nor to a great many spiritual people. Nor, apparently was it important to the authors of the Gospel of Mark, which does not include the resurrection and overall leaves the impression that Jesus’s disciples were still very much struggling with what to think of Him after he was crucified.

    There are many myths in countless religions and folktales of human or divine figures that rose from the dead. In my own opinion, Christianity’s belief in Jesus’s resurrection is but one of the most popular examples of such a myth. Belief in a literal resurrection is akin to insisting that fairy tales really happened. If something never happened – and I very much doubt the historical reality of the resurrection and appearances of Jesus – no amount of insistenct that it did will make it so…. [...]

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    The nature of loving-kindness

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    July 8th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    “I was just reflecting on the nature of Metta…”

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    Whole Write: We are all Eucharists now

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    July 7th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    A stream of consciousness meditation …

    I sat down and ate.

    Avoiding?

    Eating. And Spirit. What do I know about eating and Spirit? Spirit eats the world. Spirit consumes all, a monster making atoms and electrons into a feast, trillions of tiny particles like so much what germ, so many grape nuts, so many grains of wheat, so many — I see a meal composed entirely of tiny grains of sand — like oatmeal, llike cream of wheat, the world is the grain in the bread of the mill of time, and Spirit the eater of the fantastic meal of the universe. Stars for lunch, the galaxies for dinner, and the universes as a bedtime snack. Not just a billion stars, or a trillion galaxies, or trillion trillion universes, but the total of all stars that ever were, and the trillions that are yet to be, the galaxies birthed countless eons ago and galaxies to be born egos from now.

    The universe offers itself to Spirit as a sacrifice. Take me, it says. Feed on my flesh, for then we shall live once more in you.

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    Adam Carolla on atheism

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    July 7th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    “I am not an agnostic. I’m an atheist. I don’t think there’s no God. I know there’s no God, the same way I know many other laws of our universe. I know there’s no God. And I know that most of the world knows that as well. They just won’t admit it. Because there’s another thing they know. They know they’re going to die, and it freaks them out.”–Adam Carolla

    I have most recently discussed the relationship between religion and the denial of death here.

    Thanks to Positive Liberty for the link.

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    Some churches are good for your mental health. Others, not so much.

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    July 6th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    A variety of studies have shown that religion is linked to positive mental health and reduced mortality rates, but a new study suggests that the type of congregation makes an important difference. Catholic, Mainline Protestant, and Evangelical congregations are positively associated with increases in longevity, but Fundamentalist and Pentecostal congregations are more problematic. The implications of the study, according to Science Daily:

    Because religious congregations play such an important role in shaping community well-being, Blanchard and his co-authors believe that the orientation of Catholic, Mainline Protestant and Evangelical congregations have important lessons to teach us about what it takes to improve community health and longevity.

    “Policymakers and citizens, whether religious or not, should realize that socially engaged faith communities can enhance the well-being of society,” said Blanchard. “In this era of faith-based initiatives, our findings highlight the critical importance of religious organizations to the social service infrastructure.”

    It appears that the study only included Christian churches. What would be very interesting is how different world religions compared in terms of contribution to mental health. If the critical factor is the degree of other-worldliness, then one would expect many Islamic congregations to contribute negatively to health, but worldly religions such as Confucianism and Shintoism would probably make a positive impact.

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    The Forer effect

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    July 6th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    “Do you really think astrologers, palm readers, and the like can really tell everything about you?”

    Thanks to Julian Walker for the link.

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    Thanks to all my 2,700 visitors in June

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    July 5th, 2008 by Joe Perez


    On June 6, I relaunched my Weblog after an extended period of lethargy/semi-hiatus. I’m still tinkering with the blog template, design, and overall editorial plan, but I feel that I’m on track to making this Weblog an important part of my writing endeavors. My goal is to provide virtually daily content to my readers on topics related broadly to “sex, culture, politics, spirit” with an Integral slant.

    Now begins the slow march from obscurity and invisibility to fame and fortune. Yeah, right. Some writers say that fewer than 2 percent of Americans have reached a truly integrated level of consciousness. I don’t claim to know the precise number of Integrally aware folks. However, I believe that Integral remains very marginal in our culture (though it probably has a disproportionate relative influence).

    I will count this Weblog a success if I can provide an alternative voice in the national (US) dialogue advocating for more comprehensive, inclusive, and evolutionary perspectives on life. My first month’s traffic figures indicate that I have a long ways to go before this Weblog becomes more than an extremely tiny blip on the blogosphere’s radar screen. My Web server logs for joe-perez.com show approximately 2,700 unique visitors who visit an average of 2.18 times and read 3.82 pages on each visit. That comes to approximately 90,000 hits and about 790 MB of bandwidth. (SiteMeter, notorious for underreporting actual traffic, has dramatically lower numbers.) Let’s see where it goes from here.

    Thanks to all my visitors for making joe-perez.com a part of your Internet voyages. Extra love for those who comment and e-mail! I hope you keep coming back.

    P.S.: If you have any ideas for improving your Weblog reading experience, or if you want to help out in any way (guest bloggers? contributors?), please don’t be shy. Just comment or drop me a line.

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