One of my favorite working neuroscientists is V.S. Ramachandran at the University of San Diego. He reminds me a lot of Nobel Prizewinner, Eric Kandel, someone who loves to investigate anomalies and who is acutely aware of the role that intuition and play play in scientific discovery. He can’t remember where he parks his car, [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Growing Our Gandhi Neurons
Posted in Uncategorized on June 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The Two Perilous Questions
Posted in Uncategorized on June 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Way back in the day (the early 1990s), two respected psychologists in Northern California let their curiosity and perhaps their own woundedness drive their research interests. They wondered what factors contributed to the unfolding of the sacred in women’s lives – how they weathered the disruptive processes of being transformed from a child of God [...]
Why (many) Men (fathers) are Such Lousy Listeners
Posted in Uncategorized on June 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In most of the educational and training venues where I’ve studied and trained, I have almost always been part of very large male minority. From grief counseling, to marriage and family systems classes, to transpersonal psychology study, I have invariably ended up in rooms where women outnumbered men ten or fifteen to one. Many of [...]
The Stink of Commerce
Posted in Uncategorized on June 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been poor and I’ve been rich, and I have to say that rich smells different. Money represents happiness in the abstract, once removed; a perfect pursuit for those of us incapable of direct happiness. Thus, having a lot of money carries particular challenges, many of which are outlined in the book, We Gave Away [...]
