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    Breaking Free from the Grand Religion that Ensnares Us All

    by Jacqueline Jannotta April 11, 2022
    Drive-in movie screen with light going up to the infinite sky

    The Muslims have Mecca, where millions gather every year for the Hajj. The bulk of Christianity has the Vatican, overflowing with believers at Christmas and Easter. And the world has Hollywood, where every year during “award season” entire city blocks are cordoned off as industry devotees prepare to worship the gods and goddesses worthy of the golden statues named Oscar, Emmy, or Grammy.

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    Tired of a Polarized Country? You Can Help Change It.

    by Jacqueline Jannotta January 31, 2022
    January 31, 2022

    When I started this blog, I promised myself I wouldn’t use any lightning-rod words that tend to send people scampering off to their narrow cultural corners. That included names of…

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    Yes, And…

    by Jacqueline Jannotta October 6, 2021
    October 6, 2021

    At the height of the 2020 BLM protests, I commented on a thread in an Italian-American Facebook group that sparked fury. Statues of Christopher Columbus had been vandalized across the…

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    Don’t Box Us In

    by Jacqueline Jannotta June 14, 2021
    June 14, 2021

    Overheard at the doctor’s office recently: “Do you identify as Caucasian or non-Caucasian?” A secretary was screening a patient over the phone with what’s become a common question—one I hadn’t…

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    The Gun Problem and a Silver Bullet Remedy

    by Jacqueline Jannotta April 23, 2021
    April 23, 2021

    I never shoot the breeze anymore, even in the middle of a casual conversation. You won’t see me sweating bullets under any circumstances. And nothing can trigger me, although it…

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    Becoming People with Expanded Consciousness

    by Jacqueline Jannotta December 29, 2020
    December 29, 2020

    The experience I describe in Awaken Your Sleeping Genie led me to know that the power of intention is real. And as stories like mine become more common, it’s easy…

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    Awaken Your Sleeping Genie

    by Jacqueline Jannotta December 11, 2020
    December 11, 2020

    I’ve always had a nagging sense that we humans hold far more power than we realize—yet we keep it out of reach, always just around the bend. For me, when…

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    Becoming Better—Literally—Using the Power of Our Minds

    by Jacqueline Jannotta November 14, 2020
    November 14, 2020

    Every time the nurses or doctors came into my daughter’s hospital room, they shuffled through her chart, puzzled. “Did they forget to mark her oxycodone, her painkillers?” they would ask.…

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    Designing a Better Map to Guide Us

    by Jacqueline Jannotta October 15, 2020
    October 15, 2020

    Every now and then my petulant 14-year-old daughter will extract herself from the latest viral TikTok video and declare her thoughts about a real-world issue. This week she surprised me…

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    Reframing the Apocalypse

    by Jacqueline Jannotta September 12, 2020
    September 12, 2020

    Earlier this week, an intense windstorm knocked out our power for several hours. Today is the third day of an orange sky casting an eerie pall over Portland, as wildfire…

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