When did we forget an unreflected wonder of light the unbothered bliss of wet air on skin the uncomposed mystery of a human hand?
When did we forget an unreflected wonder of light the unbothered bliss of wet air on skin the uncomposed mystery of a human hand?
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…
Even when hell freezes over, it is still here. We can numb ourselves to DREAD for a while, but sooner or later we will move through its precincts in processes of expansion and liberation. In a traumatic environment (in which natural…
‘To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal’ . William James Dr. Pim van Lommel, a renowned cardiologist, is the first medical practitioner to have undertaken a full, systematic study of near-death experiences (NDEs). As a cardiologist,…
Although we might believe that our suffering is a private affair, this haunting, background agony could also be the cry of the separate selves of generations long passed. Is your terror of abandonment an epigenetic marker left by a great…
Imagine that there is an infinite love in the space around, between, behind and before all objects, all feelings, all sensations. How would it be if the secret to all we are, and all we can ever be is not…
“They fuck us up, our Mum and Dad, they don’t mean to, but they do.” ~ Philip Larkin Research showing epigenetic evidence of the transition of trauma through generations, from parent to child, is getting a lot of attention. It can…
Fear. It’s an ungraspable kind of suffering in which we reflexively shrink back from life. It separates us from the environment, narrows the perceptive view, freezes the flow of feeling, contracts the mind, and blinds us to inner resources. Yet…
Why do good people do bad things? How is that sometimes we’re swept away on a flood of negative emotion and later apologize, saying “I wasn’t myself”? How do despots persuade the people to murder on their behalf, to sacrifice…
Historically, we believed that the brain stops growing after childhood. In this decade, science has established that this is not true. The brain is constantly evolving and open for transformation. Significant changes in brain mass, connectivity and performance can be…