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Bios of Me

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  • My overall concept of the self
    
    
  • The range of my particular self
    
    
  • My best attempt at defining and labelling myself
    
    
  • My best attempt at defining what I see as my purpose or role here in life.
    
    
  • Where am I from?
    
    
  • What do I do?
    
    
    • What do I do for a living?
      
      
    • What else do I do?
      
      
  • What do I believe?
    
    
    • My Religious Beliefs
      
      
    • My Political Beliefs
      
      
    • My Philosophical Beliefs
      
      
      • Aesthetics
        
        
      • Epistemology
        
        
      • Ethics
        
        
      • Metaphysics
        
        
      • Politics

Blog

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Books

• My Favorite Books
  
  
• Books I Have Read
  
  
• Books I Want to Read
  
  
• Funny Books
  
  
• Book Reviews & Recommendations I've Written
  
  
• My Amazon Bookstore

My Company

• Emergent Associates, LLC - Personal (Life) Coaching, Group/Organizational/Business Consulting and Training

Contact Me

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Humor

• Funny Books
  
  
• Funny Movies
  
  
• Funny Television Shows
  
  
• Funny Websites & Links
  
  
• Miscellaneous Funny Stuff

Interests

• Appreciative Inquiry
  
  
• Chess
  
  
• Conflict Resolution
  
  
  • Third Hand Solutions
  
  
• Medical Reform
  
  
• The Mind
  
  
  • Addictions
    
    
  • Borderline Personality Disorder
    
    
  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
    
    
  • Evolutionary Psychology
    
    
    • Papers by Clinical Evolutionary Psychologist Dr. Dale Glaebach
      
      
      • What Is Evolutionary Psychology?
        
        
      • Concisely Stated: The Evolutionary Psychological Perspective on the Human Condition
        
        
      • Why Evolutionary Psychology is Necessarily the Ultimate Sexual Science
        
        
      • Evolutionary Psychology and "Natural Morality"
        
        
      • Dr. Dale Glaebach's Recommended Evolutionary Psychology Links
        
        
      • Bibliography from Dr. Dale Glaebach's Evolutionary Psychology Papers
        
        
  • Flow
    
    
  • Gifted Psychology, Education & Other Issues
    
    
  • Glossary of The Mind - Interesting terms associated with the mind and their definitions.
    
    
  • Humanistic Psychology
    
    
  • Hypnosis & Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)
    
    
  • Inner Child Healing
    
    
  • The Internal Family Systems Model
    
    
  • Mnemonic (Memory) Techniques
    
    
  • Narcissistic Personality Disorder
    
    
  • Night Owls
    
    
  • People I have Contacted in the World of the Mind
    
    
  • Personality Types
    
    
  • Positive Psychology
    
    
  • The Repetition Compulsion
    
    
  • Schema Therapy
    
    
• Music Theory, Ear Training and Guitar
  
  
• Politics - See Politics Section of Sitemap
  
  
• Relationships
  
  
  • Imago Relationship Therapy
  
  
• Systems Thinking

Movies

• My Favorite Movies
  
  
• Movie Reviews & Recommendations I've Written
  
  
• Films Category of Blog

Music

• My Favorite Music
  
  
• Music Theory, Ear Training and Guitar
  
  
• Music Reviews & Recommendations I've Written
  
  
• Music Category of Blog
  
  
• Relative Pitch Ear Training

Pictures

• Apollo Alliance Rally Pictures - September 25, 2003 at Power Center in Ann Arbor, MI
  
  
• Dennis Kucinich Troy Community Center Speech Pictures - January 10, 2008
  
  
• Other Pictures of Me
  
  
• Pictures from Claim Democracy Conference and U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. - November 21-24, 2003
  
  
• Pictures of Me at Work in August, 2003
  
  
• Pictures of Trip to Seattle, WA and San Francisco and Sonoma Coast, CA - October 21-29, 2003
  
  
• Pictures With Others I Admire - Pictures of me with Michael Moore, Derrick Jensen, Dennis Kucinich and more.
  
  
• Ralph Nader Bowling Green Speech Pictures - September 10, 2003
  
  
• Y2K Pictures - Pictures of me from the year 2000.

Politics

• Michigan Focus on Reforming Elections (M-FORE) and Ferndale for Instant Runoff Voting (F-IRV) - My election reform groups.
  
  
• My Political Beliefs - From the bio section.
  
  
• Important Legislation to Support
  
  
• Important Political Issues
  
  
  • Campaign Finance Reform/Clean Money/Publicly Financed Elections
    
    
  • Constitutional "Right to Vote" Amendment
    
    
  • Election Reform
    
    
    • Approval Voting
      
      
    • Instant Runoff Voting: Solving the Problems with Single-Seat Elections in the United States
      
      
    • Proportional Representation: Solving the Problems with Multi-Seat Elections in the United States
      
      
    • Range Voting
      
      
  • Fair Redistricting
    
    
  • Free Airtime for Candidates
    
    
  • Open Debates
    
    
• Important Political Organizations to Support
  
  
• Political Heroes
  
  
  • Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich
    
    
  • Michael Moore
    
    
  • Ralph Nader
    
    
  • Senator Paul Wellstone
    
    
• Political Links
  
  
• Politics Category of Blog

Projects & Activities

• My Current Projects & Activities
  
  
  • Emergent Associates, LLC - My personal (life) coaching, group/organizational/business consulting and training company.
    
    
  • Ishmael Related Projects - Projects related to the work of author Daniel Quinn.
    
    
    • Detroit Ishmael Group
      
      
    • The Friends of Ishmael Society
      
      
    • ReadIshmael.com
      
      
  • Michigan Focus on Reforming Elections (M-FORE) and Ferndale for Instant Runoff Voting (F-IRV) - My election reform groups.
    
    
  • Under the Hill Southeast Michigan Mensa Group - A group for members of Southeast Michigan Mensa in their 20's and 30's.
    
    
• My Past Projects & Activities
  
  
  • Linx Institute - An alternative educational program that I helped design.
    
    
  • Mosaic Magazine - Online magazine that viewed the world through the lens of systems thinking.
    
    
  • Phosl Web Consulting
    
    
  • Secret Project
    
    
  • Toastmasters
    
    
  • World Prosperity - Organization with which I worked on medical reform.

Quotes

• My Favorite Quotes - Categorized by Topic

Support Me

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• Purchase Recommended Products
  
  
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Websites & Links

• Cultural Creative Links
  
  
• Freethinker Links
  
  
• Funny Links
  
  
• Political Links
  
  
• Psychology & Personal Development Links
  
  
• Website Reviews I've Written

Writings and Creative Work

• Articles
  
  
  • "Instant Runoff Voting Makes Advances November 2"
    
    
  • "Make The Choice for More Choices: Vote Yes on Proposal B, Instant Runoff Voting in Ferndale on November 2"
    
    
  • "Working to Make Election Reform a Priority and a Reality"
    
    
• Commentaries
  
  
  • "A Word About the Recent Supreme Court Decision Upholding Campaign Finance Reform" - from December 2003.
    
    
  • "Fix the Election System, Don't Blame Nader" - response to Ralph Nader's vilification as a potential spoiler in 2004 presidential election.
    
    
  • "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?"
    
    
  • "Third Party Inclusion Necessary to Break Major Party Conspiracies of Silence"
    
    
• Essays
  
  
  • How American Idol Changed My Life
    
    
  • My Vision of Connection
    
    
  • The 'Good' Doctor
    
    
  • Hypnosis Past, Present, and Future: Its Medical and Psychiatric Applications
    
    
• Howardisms - Little phrases that I've made up to refer to certain hitherto unnamed common phenomena.
  
  
• Poetry
  
  
  • I Just Met a Girl
    
    
  • Let Go
    
    
  • Sleep On
    
    
  • The Guru and The Goddess
    
    
  • This Child's Eyes
    
    
• Reviews & Recommendations
  
  
  • Book Reviews & Recommendations
    
    
    • Review of Beyond Civilization by Daniel Quinn
      
      
    • Review of Crashing the Party: How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for Presiden by Ralph Nader
      
      
    • Review of I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality by Jerold J. Kreisman, M.D. & Hal Straus
      
      
    • Review of Letters from a Nut by Ted L. Nancy
      
      
    • Review of What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and Career-Changers by Richard Nelson Bolles
      
      
    • More complete list of recommended books in my Bookstore.
      
      
  • Movie Reviews & Recommendations
    
    
    • Review of Office Space by Mike Judge
      
      
    • Review of Pleasantville starring Tobey Maguire & Reese Witherspoon
      
      
    • Review of Roger and Me by Michael Moore
      
      
    • Review of Wag the Dog starring Robert DeNiro & Dustin Hoffman
      
      
    • More complete list of recommended movies in my Movie Store.
      
      
  • Music Reviews & Recommendations
    
    
    • Review of August and Everything After by Counting Crows
      
      
    • More complete list of recommended music in my Music Store.
      
      
  • Website Reviews & Recommendations
    
    
    • Review of Fairvote.org by The Center for Voting and Democracy
      
      
    • Other recommended sites in my Links section.
      
      
• Speeches
  
  
  • "The Four Major Steps of Website Creation: Don't Hesitate, Create Today"
    
    
  • "Third Parties: Bringing Color and Flavor to American Politics"
    
    
• Systems Thinker's LiveJournal Blog
  
  
• Travelogues
  
  
  • Claim Democracy Conference & U.S. Senate Visit on November 21-24, 2003 in Washington, D.C.
    
    
  • Trip to Seattle, San Francisco, and Sonoma Coast, California on October 21-29, 2003