Prayer and Practical Fears Apr 08 07:17pm Question: When, after my meditation, I pray for certain things, and then relax, the opposite of the outcome I want to happen pops up in my brain. For instance, if I pray for wealth, then I may picture myself as wealthy for a short time, but then the... Read more

Where Evolution and Genetics Fall Short - Part 2 Apr 04 07:57pm Evolutionary biology isn't a magic science or a privileged one. It brings a preconceived model to a problem. It applies that model without looking to the right or the left. It has a strong bias in favor of material fact instead of abstract... Read more

Where Biology and Genetics Fall Short Apr 03 04:11am Recently quite a few stories have appeared in the media touting new explanations for such diverse things as altruism, generosity, and music. These complex matters, we are told, can be traced to the brain, which is dependent upon genes, and genes in... Read more

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Outlook Mar 18 08:34pm The New York Times once ran a front-page article on the phenomenon of magical thinking. Originally this was a fairly narrow psychological term, applied to schizophrenics and other mentally disturbed patients who believed that their thoughts could... Read more

Do We Have a Self? Mar 11 10:07am We have to use the same words to communicate, and one of the terms we share is "self." Myself, yourself, himself, herself. This everyday word has leaked into spirituality as the Self or higher self, and people have become comfortable with... Read more

Know Your Body, Know Yourself Mar 02 10:22pm Finally knowing your body type is essential to understanding yourself. When you find out what is actually going on inside, you will no longer be bound by society’s notions of what you should be doing, saying, thinking, and feeling. One of the... Read more

Respect Your Uniqueness Feb 29 04:32pm Everywhere you look, your body is doing something unique with every molecule of air, water, and food you take in, guided by its innate tendencies. You have the choice to follow these tendencies or modify them, but to recklessly oppose them is... Read more

How Does Body Type Influence Wellbeing? Feb 27 12:08pm It is a clear October day in downtown Boston (or New York, or Chicago), and the lunch crowd is on its way back to work. Some people are dressed in hats, scarves, and gloves, anticipating winter. Others, wearing short-sleeved shirts, seem to think it... Read more

Why People Get Sick Feb 22 09:37am Most people assume that germs and genes cause disease. The germ theory has brought us a long way, and genetic theory promises to take us even further. But there is still a mystery surrounding why certain people get sick while others don't. For... Read more

Simple Meditation Techniques Feb 21 02:27pm Physical impurities in cells have their equivalents in the mind: fear, anger, greed, compulsiveness, doubt, and other negative emotions. Operating at the quantum level, they can be as damaging to us as any chemical toxin. The mind-body connection... Read more