I’ve been thinking some about reincarnation and karma recently. The older I get, and the more social neuroscience I study, the more open and hopeful I become. Being aware of previous incarnations may simply be a function of how powerfully connected and integrated our brains (and hearts?) have become during this current lifetime. Those of [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Karmic Benefits and Social Neuroscience
Posted in Uncategorized on April 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »
How to Rewire Your Brain’s Wisdom Circuits
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
There seems to be a great hue and cry in the wake of the current global economic downturn, that while we have great quantities of information at our fingertips, what we aren’t so easily able to extract from all this data … is wisdom. Nevertheless, wisdom, it turns out, presents an identifiable signature in our [...]
The Power of How
Posted in Uncategorized on April 12, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I hate it when people give me advice, especially the unsolicited variety. It’s almost like they manage to activate a switch in my brain that works to disconnect much of my neural circuitry. I often immediately begin dissociating. My eyes glaze over and my mind begins traveling to all sorts of strange places. Something similar [...]
The Betrayal of Human Potential
Posted in Uncategorized on April 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When I was in my early twenties, just for fun one day I took the entrance exam for Mensa, the high I.Q. group. To my surprise, I found the test engaging but not terribly difficult – their test asked the kinds of conceptual questions that I was generally good at getting right. When I received [...]
