If a scientist names an object, say a star, does it change it's reality in any way? I think not. A star is a star, or as my mother likes to say, "It is what it is," regardless of what some man or woman on earth names it. The words or characters used in any …
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The Will of Love
"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair." ~ William Blake Love intensifies all things. It is the presence of presences; its absence is hatred. All that is consistent with its spirit is drawn nigh unto it. All …
Praise or Persecution
In the face of persecution, you have two options. You can either assume the role of the victim and be overcome by the attack or you can use the energy focused against you to move you closer to your goal. There is only one energy. There is no "good energy" or "bad energy." Energy can …
Out of Position
"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution." - Joseph Addison Fallen human consciousness rejects messengers of truth in the present and reveres …
Relax into the Pressure
The exercise of judgment destroys your capacity of discernment. In no instance is this more self-evident than in the matter of handling pressure. The ability to relax into pressure rather than judge it and consequently react negatively or withdraw from it is one of the greatest keys to unlocking your full potential in living. Increases …
Intelligent Design
The more we have come to understand the body and mind's remarkable ability to maintain balance in a world filled with noxious agents and forces that cause imbalances, the more we seem to have grown afraid as a species of the world around us. This fear drives us more strongly than ever to seek to …
Side Effects
Various systems of medicine have developed around the world and each possesses its own unique character, emphasis and approach. The overall "shape" of each system reflects in many ways the dominant cultural, political, economic and philosophical forces at work in its country of birth, and it is thus that we have the so-called "Eastern" and …
The Four Phases
Principle, purpose, design and control - the four "phases"of truth - are the building blocks of the physical world. Everything in nature, our bodies, minds and hearts included, was crafted in accordance with these fundamental elements. Nature, be it at the hand of Providence or natural selection, is the tangible, physical expression of truth. The …
The Long Run
I attended a lecture many years ago in La Jolla, California given by Peter H. Duesberg, Ph.D., a professor of molecular and cell biology from the University of California, Berkeley. The topic was Duesberg's controversial view on AIDS, which is based on an alternate hypothesis to the dominant one that the medical establishment has pinned …
Branches and Roots
Every once in a while you hear of unusually creative friendships. Such friendships have the dual effect on my consciousness of restoring my faith in humanity and sparking my imagination relative to our collective future. I stumbled across a lovely passage which describes one such friendship between Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in …