Last weekend, I read Freedom, The Courage to be Yourself – Insight for a New Way of Living by Osho.*
Osho’s ideas provoked thoughts about limiting mindsets and where they come from:
Do you believe you are a belief system? Maybe more than one?
Maybe you believe you are a Poor, Democratic, Environmentalist, Buddhist, Feminist.
Maybe you believe you [...]

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Reading The Total Perspective Vortex by Christopher S. Putnam at Damn Interesting produced some insights into life and the personal development industry as a whole.
The basic premise of the article is that people who are “Mentally Disordered” may actually be more grounded than those that are “Normal.”
Psychologists Shelly Taylor and Jonathon Brown state that the [...]

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Singularity? That’s a pretty geeky word isn’t it? If you are familiar with it at all, you’re probably an astrophysicist or an astronomy/sci-fi buff. But what does it mean to bloggers? You are creating a new era by creating global, collective, shared, intelligence.
Reason Magazine has a fantastic article with futurists regarding the possibility of a [...]

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Robert Gerzon asks, “Is the unexamined life worth living?”
This famous quote from Socrates has always intrigued me. Does it intrigue you? We are told to live in the present and set goals for the future, so isn’t examining your life living in the past? If you examine your life frequently… are you living in the [...]

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Are you curious about the truth? The truth about reality? What this really is? So am I.
Are you an armchair philosopher? Are the answers your parents gave to you when you were a child… well… a little simplistic?
I have spent most of my adult life with a narrow mind that I closed to certain ideas. [...]

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My 4-year-old son was sitting at the table yesterday having a snack.
Out of the blue, he asked, “Dad, where can I see God?”
Surprised, I said, “Huh? I don’t know.”
He asked again, “Is he in another state or country or something?”
I said, “I don’t know if you have to go anywhere to see him, look around, [...]

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Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it. – Alan Watts
I woke up one morning last week with a strange idea in my head. I don’t know where it came from, but it led to one of coolest “discoveries” I have made so far and I’d like to share it with [...]

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I went to a funeral yesterday. One of Christine’s relatives died suddenly over the weekend. The deceased was dearly loved by many, and the loss was a tragedy. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone that loses a loved one.
But as I experienced the outpouring of love for this individual, I found the ceremony [...]

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Do you ever think about consciousness? I mean your own consciousness? How weird it really is? What is it? What powers it? Where does it come from?
Can a simple thought or perception change reality like it can change a dream?
Did you know that the Indigenous culture of Australia teaches that the time you spend dreaming [...]

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The innate intelligence present in small children amazes me. They have an uncanny ability to cut through the B.S. and get right to the truth. I don’t recall having thoughts like the one in the story below. Do you remember thinking this way?
Around midnight last night, my 4-year-old son was sobbing at our bedroom door. [...]

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