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19 September 2026

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  • 15:4615:46, 18 September 2026 Silent Worship (hist | edit) [3,065 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''Silent Worship''' is an unprogrammed Connection Technique practiced in the Quaker tradition, in which participants gather in expectant waiting, laying aside worldly distractions in order to hear God's "still small voice" (1 Kings 19:12) and access the Divine presence within and among them.<ref>Holliday, Marsha D. "Silent Worship and Quaker Values." ''Friends General Conference...")

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  • 15:1515:15, 5 September 2026 Cybernetic Religion (hist | edit) [10,581 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">The '''Cybernetic Religion''' is the secret, unacknowledged system of devotion that governs technologically advanced industrial society. In Erich Fromm's analysis, it is the religion of the Marketing Character and the cybernetic person: a frame of orientation and object of devotion centered on science, technique, and the machine, in which human beings imagine them...")
  • 12:2412:24, 5 September 2026 Industrial Religion (hist | edit) [5,553 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">The '''Industrial Religion''' is the secret, unacknowledged system of devotion that governs modern industrial society. In Erich Fromm's analysis, it is the real religion of the post-Reformation West: a frame of orientation and object of devotion centered on work, property, profit, and power, which reduces human beings to servants of the economic machinery they themselves constructed....") Tag: Visual edit
  • 12:1312:13, 5 September 2026 Secret Religion (hist | edit) [4,733 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">The '''Secret Religion''' is the real, often unconscious, system of thought and action that provides an individual with a frame of orientation and an object of devotion, as distinguished from their official religion—the beliefs they profess but do not actually live by. In Erich Fromm's social psychology, the secret religion names the actual values that govern behavior, motivation,...")

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  • 20:5420:54, 3 September 2026 Wak'q (hist | edit) [2,573 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''Wak'q''' (often rendered wakan) is "the animating force of the universe," "the creative universal force," an "invisible energy or life-force." It is the power that makes things holy, powerful, or beyond ordinary understanding. When the Sioux encountered something difficult to explain—a natural mystery, a vision, a potent medicine, or even a poisonous plant—they called it wak...")
  • 14:4214:42, 3 September 2026 Full Actuation (hist | edit) [3,477 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''Full Actuation''' is the complete realization of an individual's Human Potential, made possible by the full and consistent satisfaction of the Seven Essential Needs. When needs are met, the individual moves toward growth, development, and the progressive unfolding of their innate capacities. When needs are unmet, the individual experiences the 5Ds of Toxic Existence. F...")
  • 12:1112:11, 3 September 2026 Productive Activity (hist | edit) [3,423 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition"> '''Productive Activity''' is, in Fromm's Humanistic Psychoanalysis, a fundamental mode of relatedness in which the individual acts as the active bearer of their own powers, using reason, love, and imagination to realize inherent potentialities. ''It is not to be confused'' with economic productivity, occupational busyness, or the mere expenditure of energy; rather, it denotes an...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:5211:52, 3 September 2026 Pathological Needs (hist | edit) [4,210 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition"> '''Pathological Needs''' are defensive substitutes that emerge when Sane Needs are frustrated by social conditions; they feel subjectively compelling, but their satisfaction produces alienation, character deformation, and blocked development. Each sane need has a pathological counterpart: symbiotic submission or domination and narcissism in place of love; destructiveness in plac...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched

1 September 2026

  • 13:4813:48, 1 September 2026 Circle of Self (hist | edit) [1,238 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">The '''Circle of Self''' (a.k.a. the Sphere of Socialization) is an iconic representation of the complex, connected, and embedded nature of Self/Human nature. We are who we are and what we are because of the totality of relations and the influence/impact they have had on us. </blockquote> ==Concept Map== ===Key Terms=== Lightning Path Human Development Framework > {{#ask:Is...")

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  • 15:1715:17, 26 August 2026 Man for Himself (hist | edit) [19,359 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition"> '''Man for Himself''' (date) is a book by Erich Fromm.<ref>insert chicago notes ref, link to online version if available</ref> It [insert description] </blockquote> ==Concept Map== ===Key Terms=== Erich Fromm > {{#ask:Is a key term::Erich Fromm |format=ul}} ==Overview== [chapter by chapter summary] == Notes == == Quotes == ==Relation to LP == [links to lp conce...")
  • 15:1015:10, 26 August 2026 Erich Fromm (hist | edit) [30,421 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition"> '''Erich Fromm''' (1900–1980) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher best known for synthesizing Marxist social theory with Freudian depth psychology to create a radical critique of modern capitalism and a vision of Humanistic Communitarian Socialism. At the center of his work lay a single question: what does a society do to the pe...")
  • 14:2114:21, 26 August 2026 Virtue (hist | edit) [6,106 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''Virtue''' is a philosophical and ethical term syncretic with the LP term Alignment. In Spinoza’s philosophy, virtue is not obedience to externally imposed moral rules. It is the power to act from one’s own nature or essence under the guidance of adequate understanding and reason.<ref name="spinoza-ethics-iv">Spinoza, B. de. (n.d.). ''Ethics: Part IV'' (R. H. M. Elwes, Tran...")

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  • 04:0104:01, 14 August 2026 Looking Backward (hist | edit) [16,813 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition"> </blockquote> ==Concept Map== ===Bellamy's Terms=== {{#ask:Is a term::Edward Bellamy}} ==Chapter Summary== ===Chapter One — Detailed Discussion=== On inherited wealth and the "magic" of capital. Julian West opens by establishing, with remarkable candor, his own class position: he is a man of thirty who has never worked, who lives "in luxury, and occupied only with the...")
  • 03:4103:41, 14 August 2026 Edward Bellamy (hist | edit) [5,167 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) was an American author, journalist, and social theorist, best known for Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (1888),<ref>Bellamy, Edward. '''Looking Backward: 2000–1887.''' Edited by Matthew Beaumont. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.</ref> one of the best-selling and most consequential utopian novels ever written. Born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, t...")

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  • 15:1315:13, 6 August 2026 Pathologization (hist | edit) [878 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition">'''Pathologization'''refers to labeling natural emotions, authentic needs, and legitimate reactions to toxic conditions as mental illness, moral failing, or personal deficiency — shifting blame from system to individual.</blockquote> ==Concept Map== ===Key Terms=== Human Diminishment > {{#ask:Is a key term::Human Diminishment|format=ul|sort=Has diminishment sort order}}...")

5 August 2026

  • 13:0813:08, 5 August 2026 The Mindset (hist | edit) [1,956 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition"> '''The Mindset''' is Douglas Rushkoff's term for the technocratic worldview of the global elite and their conviction that wealth and technology can always outrun consequence.<ref>Rushkoff, Douglas. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022. https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881066. </ref> Its articles of faith include statemen...")
  • 12:3512:35, 5 August 2026 The Event (hist | edit) [2,055 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{navmenu}} <h1 class="customtitle">{{FULLPAGENAME}}</h1> <blockquote class="definition"> '''The Event''' is the shorthand used by the uber-richand their advisers for a coming civilizational collapse initiated by climate catastrophe, pandemic, social unrest, or systemic breakdown of the money system itself. Coined in Douglas Rushkoff's ''Survival of the Richest,''<ref>Rushkoff, Douglas. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. W. W. Norton & C...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
  • 12:0612:06, 5 August 2026 Über-Crises (hist | edit) [23 bytes] Michael (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to The Event) Tag: New redirect

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