Yesterday, National Public Radio ran a story “Blind Man ‘Sees’” that was extremely interesting from a psychic perspective. It took almost 50 years, but slowly, slowly David Stewart went blind. A former long-time executive at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Washington, D.C., Stewart has a hereditary disease, retinitis pigmentosa, which affects the rods and [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Others have thought about people simultaneously having the same invention or discovery. There have been studies done and papers written about it. Some have pondered the effects a man of ideas has vs. the effects a man of action has on the world. And some have even concluded that when near-simultaneous invention happened, it must [...]
It is possible to completely change a society in a single generation. The nation of South Africa is an example of sweeping changes in a short period of time. Many religions are in currently in need of broad changes in thinking and practice. There is now some evidence that some of these religions may be [...]
An idea whose time has come? From Digging In the Right Place by David Sirota. In a move making health care lobbyists quiver, Washington state Sen. Karen Keiser (D), chairwoman of her legislature’s powerful health committee, this week introduced the nation’s most far-reaching universal health care proposal. Her legislation is the American West’s version of [...]
I remember studying history during my school years and my father constantly repeating “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it”. I have never liked studying history from school approved text books. History books are written by the winners. Despite assertions by Andrew Keen, author of “The Cult of the Amateur: How [...]
I worked at a psychic fair just over a month ago and met Sue. Sue was a Reiki practitioner and we spent some time talking about spiritual topics. I suspect that she was very good at Reiki because whenever she moved her hands I could feel waves of energy that trailed off them; like spreading [...]
I would love to tell you that crop circles have a code and I have broken the code. Even more than that, I would love to tell you that you decode the code yourself. You just print out pictures from the Internet and put them up in a row on a bulletin board and you [...]
The New Year in the United States brings another Presidential election. Significant because three of the last four Presidents have served the two term limit maximum of eight years. I see two problems that prevent us from selecting the best possible government. I believe the current format of head-to-head debates used in Presidential elections highlights [...]