Scott, I enjoyed very much the interviews and reading. I am very impressed by your work and your ideas and your thoughts. I am particularly intrigued by the idea of discovering one's own genius or calling. I, as you are, am a tremendous fan of Joseph Campbell and value tremendously his prescription to "follow your bliss." It seems as though I spend much of my time each day examining this very idea and how I might apply it to my own life. It is quite a struggle.
— Norman Boyd

May 30, 2000

Many years ago, more than I care to recall, during my university days — at a time when I was in a Greek fraternity but struggling with wider issues of sibling rivalry (6 brothers, 2 sisters), and my own deeper issues of identity — I read an important book. An important book I chanced upon solely due to its use of the word "fraternity" in the title. I wrote notes and journal entries from it. It inspired me with its rigors of thought, no surmise within it that was not strictly justified by the line of thought, and etc. So, all that to say, thanks for posting your article "On Fraternity, Social Capital and the American Community," to your web site, where I could stumble upon it, almost by chance. It has been the only mention of McWilliams' book I've ever seen other than in my own lists of great books. I hadn't realized it EVER had any currency, but to me it was one of the marvelous books. Keep up the good work.
— Jim Gardner

May 16, 2000

Last night I read your Oct. '99 interview with Sam Keen in The Sun. This was my first exposure, I believe, to your work or Sam's. I connected A LOT with what was being talked about in the article and I set out on the internet to see if I could find some contact info for Sam Keen. Soon, I arrived at your homepage. Now, I think I need to stop and read some of your papers on the web. I think I connect with you, too.

[minutes later, after skimming several documents] OK, overload. You're pushing all my buttons, too. How can I connect with more folks who are interested in discussing a lot of these same things?

Let me back up here a bit a give a bit of my biography. I think my worldview has foundations in that the interconnectedness of all things, the quaker notion that everyone has a piece of the truth, and the fuzziness of it all. That is, if the answers are binary, you're probably asking the wrong question. :) So I'm a multi-issue person. I think about a lot of things. Realizing that both Sam and yourself are busy folks with lots of draws on your attention, I'll boil down my enthusiasm at the moment to a single question :). This is primarily meant for Sam, but you may have pointers as well. I'm hoping you could forward this question to Sam (assuming he has e-mail) and he can answer as he wishes (or not. :).

Question: In researching the benefits of freestyle sports, almost all the interesting information I've found as been on the negative impact of competitive sports. I've collected my resources on those here. However, I prefer to focus on the positive. I'm not particularly against competition. Rather I'm for freestyle activities such as juggling, rock climbing, hackey sack and skateboarding. About the only analysis of found that's related to this is the document called "Sex-Segregation in Skateboarding", linked to from here. Here, the author talks some about the value "female model sports" to some degree, where the female model sport has a lot to do with cooperation. Do you know of other resources where I can learn more about the value of cooperative sports in general or a particular cooperative activity in particular? Thanks for your help and good luck!
— Mark (Richmond, Indiana)

May 10, 2000

My name is Mark Wenzel and I'm a masters student in media at the London School of Economics. Many of us (at a professor's recommendation) have read your paper on teledemocracy and deliberative democracy. It was very helpful — thanks for writing it. I was wondering if you had, or knew of, an updated literature review of e-democracy. Your paper from '94 is interesting but a bit dated. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Sincerely,
— Mark Wenzel (London, UK)

February 19, 2000

I thoroughly enjoyed reading your article "Electronic Democracy," and I have quoted from it for use by my high school seniors who are representing Michigan in the "We, the People: the Citizen and the Constitution" national competition. Our Unit VI questions invariably include some about electronic plebiscites, and if you are not already familiar with the work of the Center for Civic Education, you might find more information on this subject. I have also been actively involved with the Kettering Foundation for years in the National Issues Forums. You people do good work.
— Deb Snow (Michigan)

February 12, 2000

I read the review of Ken Wilber's One Taste on your site and consider it well balanced. Nice point about revealing and discovering. I guess Ken only writes up the results of this discoveries, which he then tries to explain to the readers. Much of the wrestling is hidden from the reader. I am just finishing a book about him in which this dimension is captured too. The trouble is, he keeps adding book after book, and i try to remain up to date. After One Taste we have now several new manuscripts.
— Frank Visser, www.integralworld.net (Amsterdam, Netherlands)