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No You Can't
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Austerity
April 21, 2011 03:26AM - To Hell and Back
August 20, 2010 04:48PM
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definite studies, the Duke one
even
provided phisical data.
Al…”
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particularly for "not being to
preachy
about it".
Tha…”
January 22, 2012 12:12PM - “So America did have
their AAA rating lowered
despite the debt
ceiling being
reach…”
August 08, 2011 01:48AM - “Hi Tara, thanks for your
thoughts. Your thinking is
exactly
what appears to be
mi…”
June 29, 2011 04:01AM - “None of what you had to
say about the debt ceiling I
have any
problem with as
tha…”
June 27, 2011 08:33AM
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Connection Between Religiosity and Dementia
Recent studies are suggesting that a fundamentalist mindset may put individuals at greater risk of developing dementia in later life.
Note that within the context of the discussion religiosity has nothing to do with whether one believes in a god or not. Instead it is connected to the extent… Read full post »
Did Brandon Bays have Cancer?
AND HOW MAY THIS BE LINKED TO STEVE JOBS DEATH?
I had no intention of researching Brandon Bays on what on initial deliberation did seem dramatically spurious claims—that she cured terminal cancer by positive thinking and a vegan diet. That is until I noticed that the search words… Read full post »
Obama - The Real Message is : No You Can't
High fashion and cosmetics can't hide the hypocracy of the adviceMrs Obama had for us, writes Fazila Farouk
When I first heard that America's first lady, Michelle Obama was coming to South Africa, I thought to myself, "There goes the news - column inches upon column inches are going to… Read full post »
Status Anxiety in the Age of Austerity
Does the job we do define who we are? And, if so, what does this largely Western mantra mean for the generation of youth faced with the prospect of mass unemployment for years to come?
To Hell and Back
About two months ago I received the following OSmail:
I'm writing first and foremost to thank you for your enlightening article on the secret. My brother has been smoking a lot of marijuana, and believes in the secret completely, and is not
… Read full post »Critical Thinking in Action
Yesterday I posted my thoughts about the latest stock market crisis under the heading The Economic Crisis: Why we’re not out of the woods yet.
After significant recovery in world markets over the past year, stock markets around the world, again, dramatically crashed—the Dow Jones… Read full post »
Oprah's Very Bad Week
Created: February 4, 2010 at 2:10 PM
Everyone knows that an appearance on Oprah is a golden ticket to a best-selling book, a successful clothing line, or a huge elevation of your personal brand. In her last full year as a talk-show hostess (Oprah's retiring in… Read full post »
James Arthur Ray Arrested for Manslaughter
by JULIE ROSE
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (MYFOXPHOENIX) -- Self-help guru James Arthur Ray, organizer of last year's fatal sweat lodge incident in which 3 people died, has been arrested on manslaughter charges.Almost four months after three people died, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office ha… Read full post »
Crashing Hopes: Obama's Achiles Heel
Exactly one year after his election, opinion polls showed that Barrack Obama’s popularity was only 33%. That is lowest of any post World War II president one year after winning the election. And this notwithstanding him winning the Nobel Peace Prize, turning around the economic situation,/… Read full post »
Negative Thinking!
Oprah, it's time to come clean about The Secret
Dear Oprah,
Not too long ago, one of your viewers—a woman named Kim—wrote you to announce that she had decided to halt her breast-cancer… Read full post »
Reality as a Horror Movie (Part 2)
Reality as a Horror Movie (Part 1)
The following article was posted in Psychology Today and is an analysis of the James Arthur Ray sweat lodge disaster and prosperity “spirituality” in general. The contents largely echoes my own views on this subject.
[Part… Read full post »
Indoctrination 101 – How James Ray lures his victims
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. – [Stendhal]
To relate Hall’s quote on black magic to The Secret, consider the following quote by Joe Vitale taken from How to Control The "Command Center" In… Read full post »
Forces of Consciousness
“The important thing is to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could be.” – Charles Dubois
What we can infer from our consciousness model is that the mind truly is all that there is on either… Read full post »
Human Consciousness
Time as an Aspect of Expanding Consciousness
The Virtual Reality Suit
Perception is reality. Or is it virtual reality?
That our essential identity has difficulty perceiving its true spiritual nature while experiencing materiality can best be understood using an… Read full post »
Rolling did make contact, but she is NOT OK!
On Monday one of our fellow bloggers, Rolling, (Nabina) left a disturbing comment (refer below) on my blog suggesting that she was being harassed and mistreated by certain members of her community. Since this comment she has not made any comments on any other site with the exception of her last/… Read full post »
The Tension of Opposites
“Compartmentalisation is easy. Integrity is painful.It requires we be fully open to the conflicting forces and ideas and stresses of life.” – [M. Scott Peck]
The irony with regard to modern science is that it now is in a position to prove much of what… Read full post »
Theomania
When you have gone so far that you can’t manage one more step, then you’ve gone just half the distance that you are capable of. – [Greenland Proverb]
As I inferred (first read Lucifer’s Law), the above view is pure unadulterated evil, thriving on the mos/… Read full post »
Lucifer’s Law
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. — [Mary Wollstonecraft]
For me the following is the most disturbing of all the passages in The Secret.
…
The Law of Attraction is a law of
… Read full post »The Genius Factor
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. – [Aristotle]
To further highlight how baseless the many claims in The Secret are I will look a little more closely at one in particular. The following was given attention to in The Deception and there indeed are innumerable/… Read full post »
The Heart versus the Head - The Release
[The Heart of
the Matter] [Growing
Pains] [The Miracle of
Sex]
[Living in the Shadow][The
Release]
“Great souls are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.” – [Emerson]
One can literally define the spiritual journey as… Read full post »
RFK Challenges GDP
While channel hopping I stumbled upon the following speech by Robert Kennedy. My immediate reflection was that forty years on it’s a most appropriate message for a world in turmoil, a world that’s literally lost its soul. And particularly as we’re finding ours
… Read full post »The Heart versus the Head - Living in the Shadow
[The Heart of
the Matter] [Growing
Pains] [The Miracle of
Sex]
[Living in the Shadow][The
Release]
“The people we are in relationship with are always mirrors reflecting our own beliefs… So relationships are one of the most powerful tools for growth…
If we honest… Read full post »
The Heart versus the Head - Growing Pains
[The Heart of
the Matter] [Growing
Pains] [The Miracle of
Sex]
[Living in the Shadow][The
Release]
The Five Layers of Mind
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labour does the body.” – Seneca
An interesting question that arises from The Heart o… Read full post »
The Heart of the Matter
While informing a friend at the University of Cape Town Medical School about my manuscript his faculty at the time wa… Read full post »
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