Can Positive Thinking Help Your Pain? Dec 22 03:52am A tide of media articles over the past few years has made it clear that medicine is putting almost all its future hopes on genetics. But a small study from UCLA offers an intriguing alternative, one that could be just the tip of the iceberg.... Read more

What's My Life Purpose? Dec 13 07:52pm At some point most of us have wondered, "What is my life’s purpose? Why was I born and what did I come here to do?" These timeless questions come from the depths of our true self, which gently takes us beyond the world of appearances to... Read more

Seeing Ourselves in People We Dislike Dec 08 03:37am We are all expressions of the universal field of intelligence that endlessly creates and orchestrates everything in the universe. Each of us is an extension of the same infinite spiri - a single entity with different points of view. Although modern... Read more

Parenting, Neurology and Extreme Behavior in Kids Dec 01 11:04am On a practical basis any parent would want to know if a child who shows signs of negative behavior from infancy (for example, extreme shyness, anger, irritability, unsociability) can improve. And if so, what action to take? Common sense would... Read more

Traits and Genes: Nature vs. Nurture Nov 28 12:27pm In medicine we can't stop with the knowledge that everyone has oncogenes, the genes that trigger cancer, which sometimes get expressed as tumors and sometimes never get expressed at all. We must find out what causes a cancer gene to "light... Read more

The Malleable Brain Nov 24 09:28pm In the past few years neurologists have dismantled, piece by piece, the entrenched view that the human brain is fixed and unchanging in adults. It was long believed that once we grow up, our brains have a set number of neurons performing functions in... Read more

Genes and the Nature vs. Nurture Discussion Nov 17 11:21am Question: How important are genes in the nature vs. nurture discussions? Answer: It's common with exciting breakthroughs in science that perception gets skewed and new facts lead to extreme interpretations. We seem to be in such a phase now with... Read more

Proof of An Afterlife? Nov 13 10:25am Question: Is there proof of an afterlife? Answer: To dispel the common notion, held even by scientists, that the afterlife is a matter of faith that cannot be proved, there is, in fact, a large, even overwhelming body of evidence. Some main points... Read more

Chemical Imbalances: Cause or Effect? Nov 07 09:10am Question: In your opinion should we try to heal a mental chemical imbalance (like depression) naturally or with anti-depressants? Answer: Relying on drugs to solve depression is at best a temporary and imprecise solution. The experience of depression... Read more

Schizophrenia: How to Help Oct 13 10:17am Question: My brother appears to have symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia and hes living along by himself. How can I help him? Answer: It's a difficult situation because he most likely needs some professional help, and it may be problematic to get... Read more