It must be summer, because a new spate of apocalyptic movies has arrived. But though reviewers take comfort in their long and ludicrous history, there’s something different this year. The…
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thoughts on life
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Economic vitality is the basis of political power. America’s economic and political dominance is on the wane in the world, while China is waxing everyone with it rapacious, communistic capitalism.…
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This is the story of how the teachings of an illumined teacher are turned into groupthink by his followers, which in turn become the basis for another religion. I’m referring…
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A neuroscientist named Benjamin Libet made a remarkable discovery at the University of California, San Francisco in the mid-1980’s. After placing electrodes on volunteer’s skulls and forefingers, he asked them…
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As the human crisis intensifies, we can either continue in the false and darkening direction of man, or take the true and illumining direction of humanity. On the individual level,…
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When you are young, the ocean is a place of endless possibilities, great hopes and distant goals. When you are older, the ocean becomes a place of nostalgia, healing, and…
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A young but full-grown deer ambles down and stands in the middle of the stream 30 meters away, drinking and munching on overhanging leaves. An hour later, as a mallard…
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In considering whether the mind is greater than the brain, it may be useful to put the question the other way: Is the brain more than the mind?