500 Words on Thursday | Written by Lee Schneider My mother used to do yoga regularly, and once she tried Bikram, the kind of yoga where they dress in hot pants and heat up the room until your eyes melt. She didn’t like the puddles of sweat and got up to leave in the middle [...]
Entries Tagged as 'consciousness'
People are Beautiful
June 3rd, 2010 · → 8 Comments
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Tags:Bikram·empathy·holier than thou·Jeremy Rifkin·parenting·The Empathic Civilization·yoga
Unseen Forces
April 29th, 2010 · → 11 Comments
Written by Lee Schneider Bruce Lipton was telling me about Newtonian and quantum worldviews. Yeah, you can stop reading now. You have better things to do than know why self-help books won’t always help you or the real reason you think you need glasses. You can keep thinking of yourself as a victim of your [...]
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Tags:cancer·Dr. Bruce Lipton·Hay House·hereditary·I Can Do It·LinkedIn·Quantum mechanics
What Your Pets Know
November 5th, 2009 · → 2 Comments
We humans are learning that our pets are pretty smart creatures. Not only have they managed to negotiate free room and board for life, they also help people heal and have learned how to communicate with us using our own language. There’s a border collie who, according to one researcher, can recognize 1500 English words. [...]
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Tags:animal intelligence·helper animals·live longer·pets·post-traumatic stress disorder·ptsd·Rupert Sheldrake·seizure dog
Sexual Selection and Business Contacts
October 1st, 2009 · → 4 Comments
Written by Lee Schneider, founder of DocuCinema What’s the best way to choose a mate? Here’s some good advice. “Look over a sample of males and go for the one with the longest tail.” Actually, that advice works really well for birds. Not so well for people. Scientists speculate that female birds might have had [...]
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Lightness of Being
August 27th, 2009 · → 5 Comments
Written by Lee Schneider, founder of DocuCinema. I’m in New York City spending time in hospital rooms. I have learned two things so far. It’s an outrage that there’s no 72nd Street stop on the Lex Ave line. The closest is 69 Street, which is more of a vague sexual joke than a useful location. [...]
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When Will the Robots Take Over?
July 16th, 2009 · → 6 Comments
There’s enough artificial intelligence out there to write this blog without human intervention. Computers can already beat chess masters by brute computational force. And look! Google Translate can change this into Norwegian: Google oversetter kan oversette denne bloggen. Vel, I kan probably måken thaten up mysefen withouten any programvare.
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Money and Power and Swimming with Sharks
July 9th, 2009 · → 8 Comments
Being meditative and reflective, accepting where you are and preparing to receive abundance are all really easy things to do. You can start by sitting cross-legged on a soft surface and staring into the sun until your eyeballs explode.
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The Spirit Molecule
July 2nd, 2009 · → 12 Comments
When LSD was legal (yes, before 1966 it was legal to do scientific experiments with LSD) the elegant movie actor Cary Grant, of all people, participated in LSD-assisted psychotherapy once a week. Enter DMT, known as the “spirit molecule.” Dr. Rick Strassman believes that this powerful psychedelic is at the root of naturally occurring psychedelic states, including psychosis and mystical experiences.
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In the Flow
May 28th, 2009 · → 9 Comments
Red coffee cup. Book review in New York Times. It bleeds, it leads. The usual way I write this blog is by scribbling things at random, whatever comes to mind, to get myself into the flow. It might be a funny way to start, but I learned to write in newsrooms and it always worked [...]
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Living in a Computer Simulation
May 14th, 2009 · → 5 Comments
Is somebody with a joy stick guiding my hands as I type this? Are they making me want to go across the street to Starbucks right now? Are we all living in a computer simulation? But hold on. Just because you’re in a computer simulation doesn’t mean that your feelings are any less than real, and even if life is only pixel-deep it could have meaning anyway. A look at the concept of maya might be helpful here.
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