The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. — [Bertrand Russell]

As an agnostic I certainly don’t have a problem with anyone choosing to be an atheist. It however has been my experience that many of the atheists I… Read full post »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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?

About two months ago I received the following OSmail:

After significant recovery in world markets over the past year, stock markets around the world, again, dramatically crashed—the Dow Jones… Read full post »

Created: February 4, 2010 at 2:10 PM

By Jessica Grose

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 »

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 »

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 »

Think Negative!

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 »

[Part I] [Part II]

Reality as a Horror Movie: The Case of the Deadly Sweat Lodge (Part 2)

How far can "transformational thinking" take us?

By Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D.… Read full post »

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 »

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. – [Stendhal]

Consider the following quote by Joe Vitale taken from How to Control The "Command Center" In Your Prospect’s Mind.

Shaping Spacetime

“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 »

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 »

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 »

Dialectic Progress

“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 »

 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 »

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.

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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 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 »

 [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 »