- Metta Spencer
- Curriculum Vitae
- Papers
- Video archive
- Alternate links
- 1. Nobody's Grandmother
- 2. Choose Excellent (Real) Problems
- 3. Life assigns your problems
- 4. Taking responsibility
- 5. Fromm, Riesman and me
- 6. Being "too American"?
- 7. Getting Closer to the Truth
- 8. Am I Choctaw?
- 9. Calera, Oklahoma in the Thirties
- 10. Toothpaste and Howard's widdler
- 11. A Switch in a Stocking
- 12. What if Democracy Doesn't Work?
- 13. Please Fix Democracy if You Can
- 14. Religion and Sex in Calera
- 15. Whatever happened to Howard Gardner?
- 16. To California and Hiroshima
- 17. Ted, Herschel, Don, and Glen
- 18. Buddhism & Bigotry
- 19. Growing Up
- 20. Of Loyalty and Loyalty Oaths
- 21. Regret
- 22. A Marriage
- 23. Character Change
- 24. Scientology
- 25. Becoming a Mother
- 26. Single Mom
- 27. Fidelity
- 28. Berkeley in the Sixties
- 29. University Village
- 30. Going to Harvard
- 31. Working at Harvard
- 32. Politics in the Sixties
- 33. Running on Empty
- 34. Home to Berkeley
- 35. Anti-Semitism of Teenagers
- 36. To Toronto
- 37. At Erindale
- 38. Me and God
- 39. My First Toronto Decade
- 40. Canadian Culture in the Seventies
- 41. Popper
- 42. Territorial polities
- 43. Functional constituencies
- 44. Lovingkindness and its Absence
- 45. Love Your Enemies
- 46. What is this Thing Called Love?
- 47. Lust, Limerence & Worldly Love
- 48. Transcendent love
- 49. Epiphany
- 50. Max Weber's Love
- 51. Around the World in 80 Days
- 52. Fifty Thousand Nuclear Bombs
- 53. CANDIS & the Peace Calendar
- 54. Peace campaigning
- 55. Academic Peaceniks of the '80s
- 56. The Science for Peace Greats
- 57. Junkets & Diplomacy
- 58. Meeting Soviet Officials
- 59. Termites
- 60. Barking Dogs
- 61. Deported
- 62. The Kalinins
- 63. House Guests
- 64. Peace & Conflict in the 1980s
- 65. Lots of Acronyms
- 66. Hungary and Poland
- 67. Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia
- 68. Friendship.
- 69. The Importance of Talking
- 70. The Weekly Lectures
- 71. My Family
- 72. Peace Magazine
- 73. My Nonviolence Course
- 74. Am I a Leftist?
- 75. Hips
- 76. Northern Exposure
- 77. The Life and Death of Three Pets
- 78. Socialist Agriculture
- 79. The Prague Connection
- 80. Gorbachev's Sources
- 81. Two Dear Russian Friends
- 82. Why Gorbachev Failed
- 83. The Yeltsin Years
- 84. Organizing Conferences
- 85. Ukraine-Russia Conference
- 86. My Gorbachev Dress
- 87. Science for Peace Part 1
- 88. Science for Peace Part 2
- 89. Science for Peace Part 3
- 90. Science for Peace Part 4
- 91. Science for Peace Part 5
- 92. Science for Peace Part 6
- 93. Science for Peace Part 7
- 94. Science for Peace Part 8
- 95. Science for Peace Part 9
- 96. Project Save the World
- 97. The Future of Peace Magazine
- 98. Shame, Guilt, Democracy, Peace
- 99. Militarism as a Priority
- 100. Beyond the End
- Blog archive
- Event archive
- Family pictures
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July 13, 2022, 11:23
Metta's video memoirs
A series of 5 to 35 minute talks by Metta. Each video is on a separate page (to ensure quick loading), and is an "embedded" version of the original Facebook recordings.
There are 100 chapters altogether. They are linked from this page and also from the sidebar menu (left side of the screen on regular browsers).
Older computer users: If you see a message saying "It looks like you may be having problems playing this video," please ignore. It usually goes away in seconds.
If difficulties persist, try the next page for clickable links to Facebook. NB: you do not need a Facebook account to view videos.
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- Alternate links
- 1. Nobody's Grandmother
- 2. Choose Excellent (Real) Problems
- 3. Life assigns your problems
- 4. Taking responsibility
- 5. Fromm, Riesman and me
- 6. Being "too American"?
- 7. Getting Closer to the Truth
- 8. Am I Choctaw?
- 9. Calera, Oklahoma in the Thirties
- 10. Toothpaste and Howard's widdler
- 11. A Switch in a Stocking
- 12. What if Democracy Doesn't Work?
- 13. Please Fix Democracy if You Can
- 14. Religion and Sex in Calera
- 15. Whatever happened to Howard Gardner?
- 16. To California and Hiroshima
- 17. Ted, Herschel, Don, and Glen
- 18. Buddhism & Bigotry
- 19. Growing Up
- 20. Of Loyalty and Loyalty Oaths
- 21. Regret
- 22. A Marriage
- 23. Character Change
- 24. Scientology
- 25. Becoming a Mother
- 26. Single Mom
- 27. Fidelity
- 28. Berkeley in the Sixties
- 29. University Village
- 30. Going to Harvard
- 31. Working at Harvard
- 32. Politics in the Sixties
- 33. Running on Empty
- 34. Home to Berkeley
- 35. Anti-Semitism of Teenagers
- 36. To Toronto
- 37. At Erindale
- 38. Me and God
- 39. My First Toronto Decade
- 40. Canadian Culture in the Seventies
- 41. Popper
- 42. Territorial polities
- 43. Functional constituencies
- 44. Lovingkindness and its Absence
- 45. Love Your Enemies
- 46. What is this Thing Called Love?
- 47. Lust, Limerence & Worldly Love
- 48. Transcendent love
- 49. Epiphany
- 50. Max Weber's Love
- 51. Around the World in 80 Days
- 52. Fifty Thousand Nuclear Bombs
- 53. CANDIS & the Peace Calendar
- 54. Peace campaigning
- 55. Academic Peaceniks of the '80s
- 56. The Science for Peace Greats
- 57. Junkets & Diplomacy
- 58. Meeting Soviet Officials
- 59. Termites
- 60. Barking Dogs
- 61. Deported
- 62. The Kalinins
- 63. House Guests
- 64. Peace & Conflict in the 1980s
- 65. Lots of Acronyms
- 66. Hungary and Poland
- 67. Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia
- 68. Friendship.
- 69. The Importance of Talking
- 70. The Weekly Lectures
- 71. My Family
- 72. Peace Magazine
- 73. My Nonviolence Course
- 74. Am I a Leftist?
- 75. Hips
- 76. Northern Exposure
- 77. The Life and Death of Three Pets
- 78. Socialist Agriculture
- 79. The Prague Connection
- 80. Gorbachev's Sources
- 81. Two Dear Russian Friends
- 82. Why Gorbachev Failed
- 83. The Yeltsin Years
- 84. Organizing Conferences
- 85. Ukraine-Russia Conference
- 86. My Gorbachev Dress
- 87. Science for Peace Part 1
- 88. Science for Peace Part 2
- 89. Science for Peace Part 3
- 90. Science for Peace Part 4
- 91. Science for Peace Part 5
- 92. Science for Peace Part 6
- 93. Science for Peace Part 7
- 94. Science for Peace Part 8
- 95. Science for Peace Part 9
- 96. Project Save the World
- 97. The Future of Peace Magazine
- 98. Shame, Guilt, Democracy, Peace
- 99. Militarism as a Priority
- 100. Beyond the End