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“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” - C.G. Jung


Hi %FIRSTNAME%

When I ponder the landscape of modern human social life there are two words that pop to mind immeditately:

Weird
Nuts

Having lost our essential reference point, our connection to all of nature, we are like a rudderless ship.

Morality has been replaced with market value, honesty with expedience and substance with shadow.

Our definitions of beauty, worth, quality and what it means to be a human being are bedouins, wandering in the desert, racing towards one mirage after another, dying of thirst.

Where do we find solid ground in this desert landscape of illusions?

How do we learn to discern between intrinsic value and the overly photoshopped images of people who

do not exist except in the imagination of some deluded ad agency art director who never never emerged from boyhood?

The photoshopped images of beauty on billboards and tv are just the tip of the iceberg. There is a universal crisis going, from which no one is exempt.

The deep seated self-rejection, taught from the podium and pulpit, from the cradle to the grave, is embodied in almost every message received in the media.

It is an afront to human dignity. It makes the need and desire for genuine self-love and acceptance unnecessarily difficult. But, more importantly, it makes it an absolute necessity that we participate in the most radical of acts... self-acceptance.

Self-acceptance is a revolutionary act and maybe the most revolutionary of all.

Join us in the revolt!


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