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  • Native American Healing Traditions: From Sacred Ceremonies to Modern Medicine

    Native American healing practices represent sophisticated medical systems that have contributed over 200 drugs to the U.S. Pharmacopeia—a legacy largely unacknowledged in mainstream healthcare. Today, a pivotal shift is underway: in October 2024, Medicaid began covering traditional healing services in Arizona, California, Oregon, and New Mexico, marking federal recognition of practices that have sustained Indigenous…

    Peter

  • The Democratization of Publishing: From Gutenberg to WordPress

    This site runs on WordPress, an open source software that powers almost half of all the websites on the internet, and today marks the annual WordPress “State of the Word” address. The Power of Language and the Word Throughout human history, control over language and the written word has been synonymous with power itself. In…

    Peter

  • Frontiers of Freedom, Pathways of Peace: JFK’s Message for Today

    President Kennedy’s “Strategy of Peace” speech at American University in June 1963 remains one of the most visionary articulations of how nations might transcend cycles of conflict and mistrust. Speaking in the shadow of nuclear brinkmanship, Kennedy proposed a fundamental reorientation of how we think about security, not through the abandonment of strength but through…

    Peter

  • The Power of Organized Communities: How Grassroots Action Creates Change

    Margaret Mead captured a fundamental truth about social transformation: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” This principle remains as relevant today as when she first articulated it, particularly as communities seek to reclaim agency over their health, education, and…

    Peter

  • Cultivating Innovation: Structure, Flow, and Creative Genius

    The relationship between invention, innovation, and genius reveals itself not as a lightning strike of isolated brilliance, but as a cultivated garden where ideas cross-pollinate under careful tending. Genius, in this light, becomes less about innate superiority and more about developing a particular orientation toward problems—a willingness to sit with uncertainty, to play with possibilities,…

    Peter

  • The Wisdom of Give and Take from Native People and Game Theory

    Giving and receiving in balance creates wealth that lasts. This simple truth connects the oldest earth wisdom with today’s most advanced economic theories. Indigenous peoples worldwide lived this understanding for thousands of years. Now, mathematical models called game theory prove the same idea using numbers and equations. When people can interact many times, working together…

    Peter