Well, with all of the little pictures of me everywhere, the ads running on the right side, and the general lack of options for customizing this page, I have decided to move this operation back to Blogger. I guess we'll lose some of the "social networking" stuff, but, I don't know, I'm kind of over Facebook.

So go here: http://burdenofself.blogspot.com/. You'll need to get a Google id if you don't already have one.

Here's the texts I have chosen. I'm not real confident about these: 60s sociology and psychotherapy, hippie Hinduism, American post-Buddhism, Japanese psychotherapy. I think it doesn't really matter what I pick, though -- these are good books, and, you know, you can read other things if you want. We just need a place to start. It would have been lovely to have found good readings for this topic from Reich, Jung, Quakers, cognitive therapists, yoga practitioners, absurdists, and others, but there… Continue

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So, lately I've made a blog for each course as a way to chatter during the days between classes. They've been excellent pedagogically, and, I think, pretty interesting on their own besides (e.g., Empty Selves, Apocalypses). Prior to blogging becoming easy, I created electronic bulletin boards (remember those?) to serve the same function, and prior to that we used carrier pigeons and ham radio.

Anyway, blogs have pretty much been killed by Facebook, so I'm looking at the do-it-yourself Facebook,… Continue