"2009.09.25 Health Insurance is not Health Care"

2009.09.25 Health Insurance is not Health Care

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Transcript from C-SPAN 3 audio clip wherein Dennis Kucinich asks the Executives of the five largest health insurers providers if denial of coverage can result in death:

“And we’re gonna go down the line and I want you to answer this question:
Do you believe that a health insurer’s refusal to pay for a patient’s cancer treatment
can directly or indirectly cause harm or death to that patient?
I’d like to go right down the line, Mr. Collins, and just give me a simple answer,
go all the way down the line and then my question time is completed.
Mr. Collins? “Yes sir.” Pardon? “Yes Sir.”
Mr. Sassi? “Yes sir.”
Ms. Farrell? “Yes.”
Mr. Bloem? “Yes sir.”
Mr. Richards? “Yes, but CIGNA only allow clinicians to make coverage decisions, and these coverage decisions are only based on external scientific evidence.”
The answer’s yes? “Yes.”
Mrs. Reitan? “Yes Sir.”

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These postured suits and ties – give up friendship to make a dime
Well, According to who you serve, yeah you get what you deserve.
The darkness soon subsides,
Being your light to shine

Galaxies Within

When you get out of the light, it's amazing how dark it is
And then the stars explode
Like little dots of light
Expanding throughout space
And into my consciousness

I wonder,
What is it like to look at the galaxies within?
To see the stars move about our interior?

This is what love with you is like...
I go deep inside myself,
Finding myself exploded throughout the sky
Hovering over my sillouehette transfixed.

We've all got to get back home and live our lives tomorrow
Very Important Very Very Important
To be who we are in the lives that we live

For a thing is as it does

And we make love

Like Stars

And this is what the secret death at the end of the world is:
We all hold down the resonance of the stars:
We become the universe,
And our separation,
Hitherto "identity",
Becomes the quantum non-locality of every moment:
Shining like the stars

Galaxies Within.

2009.09.11 - "The Soul Comes Through"

Still Reflecting on the nature of the Soul and its interpenetration with the sensible world. here goes:

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The soul comes through in music, comes through it’s true
The soul comes through in music, comes through me and you
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I’ve been falling down so I can stand up in the sun
I paid attention to the many now I pay it to the One
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Woman of Wisdom take my by the hand
Before I believed – you make me understand
You give me the certainty of my truth
Light up a torch inside my darkness and show me what to do

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The soul comes through in music, comes through it’s true
The soul comes through in music, comes through me and you
Am C
I’ve been falling down so I can stand up in the sun
I paid attention to the many now I pay attention to the One
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Woman of Wisdom take my by the hand
Before yeah I believed - you make me understand
The certainty of love
Light up a torch inside my darkness and show me how to do

Medicine for The Soul

Teaching Plato in World Philosophies at CSU (PHIL 170) and reflecting on the Enchantment, Meaning, and Purpose of life: what Plato calls "the Soul".

According to Plato, The Form of the Good is the true source of all existence, and the Soul is the true source is "our" existence. And now I put 'our' in quotation marks because it is not at all certain that our existence actually belongs to us. Perhaps we're the property of existence, and not the other way around. In either case it benefits us to ask:

What exactly is the Soul? And if the Soul is the well-spring of our very being and life, how can we maximize its force and relevance? In other words, what does it mean to "care for the Soul"?

This is an area of inquiry that is very important, for the health of our Soul dictates the health of our existence, just as the choices we make and the habits and friendships that we form dictate who we are.

There seems to be a lot to say about how to properly care for the Soul, to listen to the Soul's urgings and prompts as they make their way into conscious awareness. Thomas Moore has done much interesting work in Care of The Soul (Harper, 1994). From the standpoint of a psychologist, Moore shows how what we see to be troubling symptoms--those of depression, anxiety, stress--are really often quite healthy indicators that we need to be paying attention to and nourishing our Soul's expression rather than some other apparently important but ultimately insignificant trivialities of "our" lives.

Moreover to the point here: The Soul comes through in many ways. Lets focus on music. The caliber of the musician dictates how proficient, or GOOD, they are making the Soul audible for an audience. And this, like all else in life, requires practice. Good Harpists come about from good practice, as Aristotle says.

My preliminary prayer to this thought is thus:

May all beings become proficient in the expression of their Soul's yearnings. May all musical Souls make music. May all Artistic Souls make Art. And may all Souls find healthy and full expression in their embodiments. Let it be so. Rock and Roll. www.woodstackrecords.com.

"2009.09.04 - I don't care"

This song still needs a lot of work.. but a really cool idea is in there. Listen to it here: : www.woodstackrecords.com/1-song-a-week-for-a-year/ ... It is really about finding your own Truth and Beauty, and finding yourself while you're at it.

"I Don't Care"

I don’t care what your momma told you
I don’t care what your daddy told you
I don’t care what your preacher told you
I don’t care what your TV told you

So blind to the other side.
So blind to the other side.