Reposted from Letter of Note In 1864, after 32 long years in the service of his master, Jourdon Anderson and his wife, Amanda, escaped a life of slavery when Union Army soldiers freed them from the plantation on which they…
Reposted from Letter of Note In 1864, after 32 long years in the service of his master, Jourdon Anderson and his wife, Amanda, escaped a life of slavery when Union Army soldiers freed them from the plantation on which they…
By Mark Wolynn With new discoveries in epigenetics now making headlines, many of us are asking an important question: What are my children really inheriting? Can my baggage, the unfinished business I don’t deal with, pass on to my kids?…
The partner of gain is loss. Fulfilment has no opposite. In fulfilment, loss and gain are one. One morning, I was walking through a park with the children, and I noticed a new quality in the inner world. In the…
Relaxation is a hot product in the dimension of 3rd millennium human. We watch violence and stress in movies to let the body relax. We create casts of twisted news stories of disaster, tragedy and perpetual condemnation and dictate them…
“I took my diamond to the pawnshop, but that don’t make it junk.” Leonard Cohen Is purity weakness? Does it compromise our position and leave us undefended? Popular misconception would have us believe that purity is close to naivety, that…
Somatic Experiencing is a form of alternative therapy aimed at relieving the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental and physical trauma-related health problems by focusing on the client’s perceived body sensations (or somatic experiences). Sessions are normally…
Spiritual awakening is not a rare event, nor is it a permanent state. While the imprint of awakening is left on memory, the experience could be seen as those moments where an underwater swimmer comes up for air, takes a…
There are many voices in the mental field. Some echo an inner calling, some could seem to be telepathic, and some repeat the mantra of suffering of humanity as a whole, as it evolves from generation to generation, and one…
By Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas Kafatos, PhD Opinion piece first published in SFGATE. It takes a lot to overturn the accepted view of reality, but it doesn’t take a lot to begin. The accepted view of reality holds that human…
About a decade ago, two psychiatrists and a team of student psychiatrists asked me if I hear voices in my head. “Why, don’t you?” I answered. They looked grandiosely disapproving and all simultaneously ticked something in their notepads. Oh dear. OK,…