The Free Souls Connection

A Media Community Integrating Spirituality, Democracy, Ethics

The Free Souls Connection is a community of Progressive media producers and users in the areas of Spirituality, Democracy and Ethics.

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  • Allison Peacock
  • Willie Williams Jr
  • Kimberly M. McCollum
  • cwsenn
  • Bob
  • Naomi Silverthorn
  • Arlene Dormio
  • Jen Thomas
  • raincrow
  • Gerard Plourde
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chuck freeman

Keepin’ It Human

“To be rhymin' without a real reason
is to claim but not to practice a religion,

if television is the drug of the nation,
satellite is immaculate reception
beaming in they can look and they can listen

so you see don't believe in the system

to legalize you or give you your freedom
you want rights ask em', they'll read em'
but every flower got a right to be bloomin'
stay human."

I opened a bank account with the local Austin Telco credit union last week, and will close my Wells Fargo accounts i… Continue

Posted by chuck freeman on November 6, 2009 at 9:17pm — 2 Comments

chuck freeman

A Seedling of Hope

"I'm taking a break from politics. I am deeply disillusioned and find I feel better if I don't follow current events right now."

This note is from a friend and dedicated supporter of my fledging prophetic efforts and an ardent yellow dog Democrat. A substantial part of me resonates deeply with this despair.

During the marathon election cycle I perpetually kept one eye wide open with candidate Obama’s political tent revivals. I didn’t chug the hope kool aid. The genetic idealist in me did howe… Continue

Posted by chuck freeman on October 21, 2009 at 11:24am — 13 Comments

chuck freeman

Where Are The Politicians Willing To Shoot The Moon For Good?

“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

This haunting Jewish proverb rings with thunderous truth today in so many countries and arenas. It is tragically, literally illustrated in our struggle for American universal health care.

Help me understand this. Why are political warmongers & dictators the only ones willing to shoot the moon for their cause these days?

Since Korea every “conflict” for which we have sacrificed precious lives has been based on shoot the moon fear and exaggerat… Continue

Posted by chuck freeman on October 8, 2009 at 6:21pm — 8 Comments

chuck freeman

“I Come To You In The Name of the Lord of Hosts”

“I come to you in the name of the Lord of Hosts.”

What an ominous declaration! These days, we educated, sophisticated, skeptical liberals would write the speaker off as a religious right nut case or as a delusional soul in need of proper medication.

You will likely be surprised to learn that this proclamation is from one of the most well know heroes of western lore. This confident boast emanated from the lips of David. You know him as the legendary underdog victor in David and Goliath.

To inv… Continue

Posted by chuck freeman on September 24, 2009 at 3:48pm — 2 Comments

Willie Williams Jr

What Is Beauty?

What Is Beauty?

Posted by Willie Williams Jr on September 16, 2009 at 10:33am — 1 Comment

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Good point, Chuck. So many businesses have lives of their own, which have nothing to do with the humans who work there. I always think of the Terminator movies, where the machines take over. This way lies madness. Banks were one of the first to em...
on Saturday
Chuck, Before my Mom died, I was keeping care of her money, which was in a Bank of America account. So I went to the local bank/Burger King branch and would stand in line and talk to the tellers. They had a big screened TV with Fox News going all...
on Saturday
chuck freeman added a blog post
“To be rhymin' without a real reason
is to claim but not to practice a religion,
 if television is the drug of the nation, satellite is immaculate reception beaming in they can look and they can listen
 so you see don't believe in the system
 to l...
on Saturday
Thanks for your note Bill. I am decrying the "cancers" of capitalism, not capitalism itself. Our practice of capitalism is not "free market" in any sense of the word. It is socialism for the rich - period. There is a way to practice a socially res...
October 23
I may be talking against the wind here, but I must object to using the word "capitalist" as the ultimate pejoritive, for the same reason as I would to the right using the words "liberal," "atheist," or "faggot" similarly. For myself, I am a libera...
October 23
Yes, Chuck, this seems to have plucked the heartstrings! I only hope that the younger ones in the world will also commit to tending this seedling... CA
October 22

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Willie Williams Jr

Beauty

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Bob

The Life of a Galilean Shaman

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Glenn E. Boyd

The World is Turning Blue 1 Reply

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The Free Souls Connection

The Free Souls Connection is an initiative of the Free Souls Project with the intention of cultivating a community of Progressive media producers and users in the areas of Spirituality, Democracy and Ethics.

We invite original written, audio, and video creations in the lineage of Spiritual Humanism, the wellspring of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, forming the basis for a healthy integration of Spirituality, Democracy, and Ethics.

Rev. Theodore Parker expresses this trinity of American values marvelously. “There is what I call the American idea…a democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.”

Come Ministers, Radio Hosts, Musicians, Poets, Bloggers, Cartoonists, Commentators and all artists for the common good!

Let us support, nurture, encourage, and commune with one other and our sacred world.
 

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