BEING HUMAN
Regardless of our frame of reference—DNA, experience, culture, family, thought patterns, beliefs, values, or emotions and feelings—each and every human being is unique. At the core of all this difference is the self, with a subjective mind, exploring the world from the inside out, a protagonist ready for action.
Living Life
With Passion, We Live and Love: Research, Prose, Verse and Music
By Alex Bennet and Cindy Lee Scott
Ah, life! What is it all about? Certainly, “love” is a good and wise answer. Only, in different situations we use the word love to mean so many different things. And while we like to think of ourselves living in a field of love—and indeed that may be the case—there is a driver in human emotions that, when coupled with love, gives us purpose and moves us beyond ourselves toward a greater good. That driver might be called passion. Through prose, verse, and music--and the lens of nature and nurture--this book explores the lives of two sisters who met for the first time at the ages of 70 and 69.
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Architect of Invisible Harm: How Microaggressions Unmake a Person by Alex Bennet
This book began with a question so simple it almost disappeared before I could catch it. Why does a person fall apart over something so small? Not asked cruelly. Asked genuinely. Perhaps you've asked it yourself. Perhaps standing in a meeting watching a colleague's face close down after a comment that seemed perfectly innocent. Perhaps watching your child come home from school carrying something they couldn't name. Perhaps--and this requires honesty--after someone reacted to something you said in a way that confused and maybe frightened you.
This book is for all of you, and for me. It is a book about architecture. About how things are built--invisibly, incrementally, by many hands, over time--until one day the structure either stands magnificently or collapses completely. and how we look at the collapse and ask "what happened?" when what we should be asking is "what was being built all along?"
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The Crucibles of Trust by Alex Bennet
Crucibles of trust—challenging situations, tests, or moments in relationships—are underpinnings for continued growth. As we reflect on examples, whether interpersonal challenges, institutional trials, or universal crises, it becomes apparent that trust is the cornerstone of human expansion and progress. In the midst of this understanding, we begin to recognize that trust is both a path and a destination, reflecting its dual role in both the journey of life and the outcome of personal and collective endeavors.
Trust is a fluctuating continuum as we live through life, with crucibles of trust emerging at the interpersonal level, often expanding into the institutional level, and sometimes reaching into the universal level, where they can challenge our very purpose and meaning, and cosmic or divine trust. Building on our Equilateral Triangle of Life (self purpose and identity, relationships, and existence and sustainability), we navigate these crucibles armed with our individuated five human trustables—belief and faith, experiences, environment, infinite learning, and chosen behaviors. Each journey through this network of entangled pathways, sparked by moments of profound vulnerability and strength, is rich with the potential for deep change, offering the legacy of organisms who choose faith and trust over fear and collectively arise stronger. Review by Dr. Moria Levy
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Living Questions
The first five chapters of this book related more to important concepts about learning and the brain. some readers may just want to surf to the magic of hemispheric synchronization and metamusic which is the second half of the book. We invite you to join us on this journey.
What Is Enough? A Living Question by Alex Bennet
Expectations don't discriminate. They visit the struggling and the accomplished with equal persistence. They don't check your bibliography before whispering their familiar doubt. they don'ty review your contributions before suggesting you might have fallen short of some imagine standards.
And who is doing the whispering? When we trace that thread carefully--through family, culture, religion, profession, peers--we almost never arrive at a real person with a real face who is genuinely keeping score. We arrive at a ghost. A composite phantom assembled across a lifetime from fragment sof other people's fears and unlived lives and projected hopes--dressed in the clothing of expecttion and mistaken for truth.
This ghost has been haunting human consciousness for as long as we've been social creatures capable of measuring ourselves against others. It speaks fluently in the language of not quite and should have been and what will they think. It learns to mimic our own voice so perfectly that we forget it was ever anyone else's thoughts at all. and we wonder, Am I enough?
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Living Questions (The Series)
We live our lives surrounded by questions--not the kind that appear on tests or in philosophy textbooks, but the everyday puzzles that emerge as we navigate relationships, choices, and the unexpected moments that shape our days. These are the questions that don't have clean answers but deserve throughtful explortion. This series of small books takes on these living questions, one at a time, with the curiosity they deserve.​
Living Questions Q1: Is it "taking advantage of "when it's given freely?
by Alex Bennet
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The phrase "taking advantage" carries weight. It suggests exploitation, manipulation, someone getting more than they deserve at another's expense. but what happens when we apply this loaded term to situations where someone genuinely offers something freely?
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Living Questions Q2: Is Creativity Still Yours When AI Helpe Co-create it?
by Elaine Satterfiel with Claude Sonnet 5
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Elaine Satterfiel asks that question the way she asks most things worth asking--through story. Through a grandfather who playe guitar by ear. Through a cat named Bobbie who deserved a book of her own. Through the actual, lived experience of drafting these very chapters alongside an AI, and not always being sure afterward which sentence was whose.
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Living Questions Q3: Why Do We Have to Pay for Stuff?
by Gage Powell & Jedidiah Hill
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Nine-year-old Gage asked his parents this question after they said no to a dirt bike he really wanted. He didn't get the bike. He got something else instead: a question that wouldn't leave him alone. What follows is one kid's honest, funny, surprisingly deep dive into where money actually comes from, why gold became "valuable" in the first place, whether we could ever just share everything instead, and what money might look like by the time today's readers are grown up.
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The Poetry of Cindy Lee Scott
How does one become a poet? As Cindy Lee Scott begins “Looking back, what an incredible life I’ve had! It is most definitely overwhelming when reflecting on all the magnificent, as well as difficult, times I’ve been through. Yet, here I am still embracing life, fighting my battles, and growing in this never and ever-ending story of me. Dramas and comedies, sadness and elations, melancholy and exuberance, failures and victories, all forming the person I’ve become.”
Painting the Reality of My Soul: A Life Journey of Verse
by Cindy Lee Scott with Alex Bennet
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This anthology of the work of Mountain Quest Poet Laureate Ciny Lee Scott includes personal stories written by the poet herself as well as objective thoughts added by Professor Dr. Alex Bennet. As you will discover, although these two authors met just a few years ago and have only spent one week together, there is a special connection between the two, which provides a real-lie study of nature versus nurture.
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Rising Consciousness through Disruption and Corruption: An Uplifting Journey of Verse by Cindy Lee Scott
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"I am not a person that is particularly drawn to politics. I get easily frustrated with the games and behind-the-scenes antics that consistently plague the government. This collection of prose an poetry motifs represent my journey searching for truth and, ultimately, discovering the beauty that can be found in change, not only politically but inwardly. I ask myself: What is freedom's definition in these changing times? And what can I do to help ensure the freedoms we so cherish?​"​
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Chair Bear: Poetic Learning for the Young
by Cindy Lee Scott
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When her children were small, Cinddy Lee Scott was consistently looking for ways to teach them the wonders that were awaiting them. She iscovered the power of poetry, and began writing children's poems, which helped them become the people they are today.​
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The Space Between Breaths: Life, Laughter, an Letting Go
by Cindy Lee Scott
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These tired hands started to sort lyrics and verse from younger times, when I still could stand. And now, what's in my heart is all that is left, free flowing through the pen in my hand. The brightest light and some of the greatest journeys have come when suffering seems unbearable. Hold on, endure, know this too shall pass.​
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