A friend shared a post recently commenting on how we often have these visions of how our life will turn out and what experiences will surely come – think a beautiful marriage with loving children, a fulfilling vocation, economic security, friends to share these things with etc. – but when life is surprisingly contrary and […]
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Immaterial
We’ve all heard of the placebo effect – in controlled environments practitioners will break up a group and give half of them simple sugar pills, which would have no impact on the illness in question, where the other half would receive the actual medicine that is designed to treat the illness. In as much as […]
Reality Filters
There is a pretty well-known story about Columbus first visiting a new land. The natives could not even see his ship, because they had no conceptualization of what a ship was. Their ‘reality filters’ couldn’t make sense of the information in front of them and, as a result, simply omitted it entirely. Whether you believe […]
Belief
“The man who thinks he can, and the man who thinks he can’t are both right.” – Confucius Belief is a simple concept, yet terribly complex. Allow me to share a personal experience in order to help ground belief into the world we live in. As a teen I was playing basketball with a group […]
Overcoming Chron’s Disease
Let me share my experiences relating to, what western medicine identifies as, Chron’s disease. This, like all challenges I’ve faced in my life, wasn’t something I identified with then, or now. Where I recognized the ailments I was obviously experiencing (hard to miss that acute, inside-splitting pain), it was always temporal – something to move […]
Overcoming Lyme Disease
I remember that little monster perched on my right shoulder, getting his suck on. Plucked him off and sent him on his way without a concern… in Northern California, ticks are everywhere. I was always getting bit – everyone in the area faced it. And I didn’t know of anyone who had problems – nor […]