This is just from the ‘A’ section – go to the Butterflies and Wheels website for more.
Acceptance
Nice, warm, cooperative way of evaluating ideas, much better than argument.
Accuracy
Exploded concept. Foolish, Platonic notion that we can get our facts straight.
Alphabet
The opposite of the Goddess. “But one pernicious effect of literacy has gone largely unnoticed: writing subliminally fosters a patriarchal outlook. Writing of any kind, but especially its alphabetic form, diminishes feminine values and with them, women’s power in the culture.” [Leonard Shlain, The Goddess and the Alphabet]
Alternative
A wonderful thing. Because it’s the opposite of everything. You have the regular, normal, boring thing, like medicine, or scholarship, or education, and then you have the alternative kind, which does whatever the opposite is. Normal medicine relies on testing, so dear alternative medicine relies on guesswork and hunches and an inner voice. So much more spiritual.
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