Jul
15
2022
How to live to 100
I was at a gala evening not long ago, seated next to a prominent scientist, a lovely woman who is working on a breakthrough treatment. She’d heard my talk earlier that day about my Power of Eight® work, and was very accepting and open-minded, but admitted, in her own words, that she was ‘spiritually autistic.’
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8
2022
Solving the puzzle of cancer
Moshe Szyf, an Israeli-born professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and his research team at McGill University in Montreal, are convinced that they have discovered the cure for cancer.
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1
2022
Thinking away depression
True clinical depression, like most illness these days, is considered largely the fault of a bad toss of the dice. The entire edifice of standard treatment for depression rests upon the theory that depression results from a chemical imbalance within the brain, considered to be largely hereditary.
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24
2022
Brenda Dunne, Visionary
Recently, I got word of the passing of Brenda Dunne on June 16. She transitioned peacefully after a short illness and, in the words of her son, Jeff, had decided that it was time to move onto her ‘next great adventure.’
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16
2022
Keeping the glass half full
Want to live to 90 or beyond? If so, have a good look at the nature of your thoughts about your own life, and whether you tend to think the glass is half empty or half full.
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1
2022
Thinking away Alzheimer’s disease
In the late 1990s Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist and psychologist at the University of Wisconsin’s Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, flew eight of the Dalai Lama’s most seasoned meditators to his lab in Wisconsin. There, Davidson attached hundreds of EEG sensors to each monk’s scalp in order to record electrical activity during meditation from a large […]
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27
2022
Greeting death with a smile
It was a bad day for an 87-year-old Canadian man we’ll call Sam. But his death accidentally offers all the rest of us a great sense of comfort about what happens to us at the very point when we die.
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17
2022
Backward glances
How do premonitions occur? And a bigger question: why are there so many good studies of retro-intention, as I wrote about in my blog Changing what Already Happened?
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13
2022
Changing what already happened
One of the most basic assumptions about intention is that it operates according to a generally accepted sense of cause and effect: the cause must always precede the effect. If A causes B, then A must have happened first. This assumption reflects one of our deepest beliefs, that time is a one-way, forward-moving progression.
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6
2022
Crazy ladies
Many years ago I read an article in Esquire by Nora Ephron entitled ‘Dealing with the, uh, Problem,’ about the early days of the feminine-hygiene spray business. Ephron was investigating how Alberto-Culver managed to convince women, as a rival company had done in its advertising that her “trickiest deodorant problem isn't under her pretty little […]
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