Nancy Jewel Poer

If we are to live through these times in world history, we will need to recognize the increasing and often irrefutable moments when the spirit enters into human affairs. There is fierce resistence in many souls to give such recognition. But if we can wake up to such awareness it can be an invaluable source of strength and hope for us all. This capacity to know life is woven through with participation from other realms, (both positive and negative), will become absolutely i

I cannot let this President’s Day pass without taking the opportunity to share my deep and continuing love of Abraham Lincoln and gratitude that this remarkable man was our president at one of the most critical times in the nation’s history. His is an admirable life by any standard. Experiencing the continuous deaths of those near and dear would be a major theme of Lincoln’s life. When he was three, his baby brother died in infancy. While his parents were pioneering a homeste

It’s as old as sin. Humiliation and dominance of another human being. Not human really. It is behavior at the animal level but worse because there is some degree of human consciousness behind it that knows better. Texas traffic officer Encina dragging Sandra Bland from her car is only one more visible example that has made it onto film. He clearly provokes her, threatens her. He can’t stand it because she is not passively submissive to him. On a near empty wide highway, Enci