Some friends of mine are of a mind that human development is not only an individual lifelong process, but one that involves humanity as a whole. In other words, as a species we’re not quite done climbing up the evolutionary chain. While not a friend of mine, the cartoonist Gahan Wilson appears to be in [...]
Archive for June, 2008
The Brains You Were Born With
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Biology of Transcendence, Heartmath, neurobiology on June 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
On Becoming Mentally Tough
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged mentally tough, mindscoping, mindsight, mulligan on June 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If, as a renown wisdom teacher once proclaimed, “Our life is the creation of our mind,” it might be worthwhile to spend some time Getting Good (a minimum of 10000 hours worth?) at observing our mind and studying how it works. This point was recently driven home to me last weekend watching Tiger Woods in [...]
Getting By on Half a Brain
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged apoptosis, neurobiology, Parenting on June 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I was born with only half a brain. To make matters worse, my mother smoked a pack-a-day of unfiltered Camel cigarettes and was a bed-ridden alcoholic for virtually all of the first 16 years of my life. So, the damage caused by those unfortunate addictions means that I was actually born with even less than [...]
The Forgiveness Pill
Posted in Forgiveness, Parenting, Pills, Uncategorized, tagged Forgiveness, Neuroscience, Parenting, Pills on June 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In my mind’s eye, I have the pillbox sitting on the desk in front of me. It’s clear and plastic and it has individual rectangular compartments with lids that snap closed. Each compartment has a pill inside. It’s not a red pill or a blue pill, but a small white pill, and instead of the [...]
