Author: shelleylieber
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Can you forget everything you’ve ever learned?
Why you might want to
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What If…?
A poetic reflection on the human purpose
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Shifting paradigms requires mindset changes at every level because…
How You Do One Thing Is How You Do Everything
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We didn’t start the fire. But we’re burning down the house.
From Billy Joel to Talking Heads to Old Sam
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New Paradigms Offer Alternate Milestones
What happens when a new moon, solar eclipse, and Chinese New Year (Year of the Fire Horse) follow on the heels of Saturn entering Aries?
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The Winter of My Birth
In the year I’ve chosen to mark passage of time by season rather than calendar, I find the season of my birth has remarkable parallels to the present.
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Escape the Patriarchy: 1984–2024 and Beyond
In light of recent political and social developments in the United States, I offer this think piece I published in April 2022. I’ve added an update at the end to bring the message to current events in 2026. —SL
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Patriarchy Escape Route
Every paradigm is a container. A system based on values and beliefs. Outgrowing a container is a biological certainty.
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Escape the Patriarchy Challenge
Are you ready to ditch social media, billionaire-owned platforms, and patriarchal institutions that control access to what you want?
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Why create a challenge?
In practice, the patriarchy has become an agent of oppression, discrimination, and polarity. There is no fixing it. It needs to be replaced. So, I’m done with a system that cannot self-correct. I’m walking away.