In my mid-30s, I got ill with a range of multiplying symptoms: a bad gut, hormones causing havoc, eczema and hives, cystitis and constant infections, and allergies, it seemed, to everything in the world.
On this weekend of thankfulness, I’ve been thinking recently of the power of pressure – challenges, sorrows, struggles – and their extraordinary power to help us.
Since the killing of 1,400 people in Israel on October 7, and the bloody reprisal in Gaza, I have held two live Peace Intention Experiments for peace and justice in both Israel and Gaza and that entire part of the world.
Conventional psychiatry isn’t working. That’s the conclusion of no less an eminent figure than Dr Anne Harrington in her book Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness.
All of us have been horrified and heartbroken by the events in Israel and Gaza. I’m calling on my entire community to turn our thoughts and prayers into action for this beleaguered corner of the world.
Imagine a giant manufacturing plant with a central office and large numbers of energy centers used to power the rest of the plant, so large and sophisticated that they are host to thousands of simultaneous chemical and electrical processes. Then imagine that there are 40 trillion of these extraordinary manufacturing plants sitting cheek by jowl, […]
Life isn’t working the way it once did — and we all know it. Most of us throw up our hands and cry, “What can I do? What can any one person do to change anything?” What you must realize is the incredible power that you — and each of us —already hold to make […]
Ever since a physicist named Ibn al-Haytham developed the scientific method more than a thousand years ago, scientists have attempted to take apart the universe like one vast radio to examine its component parts.
In 1948, just three years after the end of the Second World War, an earlier pandemic than Covid gripped America. Tens of thousands of people were struck down by the polio virus, and with no cure in sight and a vaccine still to be developed, thousands died. Those who survived were often left crippled—just as […]