Exactly 70 years after George Orwell’s 1984 came out, most fancy themselves smart to totalitarian doublespeak. But perverse lies need no torchlight or mass rallies, just a tailored suit, complacent…

Data privacy issues can be tricky for libertarians. On the one hand, the shortcomings of government intervention are significant and predictable. Regulations often fail to accomplish intended goals while empowering…

Once upon a time in a land far, far away, there grew a magical fruit. This fruit could be squeezed to produce a very special kind of oil that made…

Years after weight gain was recognized as a side effect of antidepressant therapy, researchers have presented evidence of its contribution to the increase in obesity.  For those patients, who for…

Not that used to being here, as many feel, we have come once again from the vastness of the cosmos with our celestial knowledge roaming wildly inside the alchemy of…

Seems like good people are getting stirred and shaken at the present, once again the calm inside goes haywire and loss of direction kicks in. When the calm inside gets stirred up,…

‘Spirituality takes you away from reality’. Often left-brain subscribing folks love this argument so much that they would pin it to the wall of their finest victories, showing off how…

We  have done a lot of technical changes on the site. We have changed the DNS ( Hosting), upgraded the site security. Technically: The site changed to https (secure site)…

“Am I too much for the world, or is the world too much for me?” Being intense and sensitive— seeing the world through different eyes and feeling the world on…

More people than ever have undertaken a spiritual path of their own, independently of organized religion. “I’m not religious, but I’m spiritual” has become a common expression, and I count…

On Tuesday, February 19th, the Moon will reach perigee, its closest point of approach to planet Earth. On that same day, just a few hours earlier, its surface will be 100%…

More than 3,000 years ago, ancient Egypt, with its myriad gods and goddesses, saw the founding of two monotheistic religions within a century of each other. One is associated with…

Have you ever been startled by someone suddenly talking to you when you thought you were alone? Even when they apologise for surprising you, your heart goes on pounding in…

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Seen from a spiritual perspective, the Entity called God doesn’t make any sense. The Biblical God, who will ‘rain Hellfire upon thee’ if you stray, and who will love you…

A broad new scientific analysis of the cancer-causing potential of glyphosate herbicides, the most widely used weedkilling products in the world, has found that people with high exposures to the…

When a parent dies by suicide, how the children are told casts a permanent shadow on their understanding of life and loss. A frayed leather wallet. A broken watch. Some…

Weeks after my father passed away from cancer in 2010, my newly widowed mother received a bill for US$11,000. Insurance retroactively denied a submitted claim for one of his last…

Big Pharma is pleased… Up to 60,000 cases of depression in UK could be avoided if teenagers stay off cannabis, study says. As many as 60,000 cases of depression in…

For many people, there are few things more rewarding than crossing an item off a checklist. But what if the checklist is about your dream partner? And what if the…

Somehow this is a ‘back to normal winter’ in this particular bay along the Mediterranean Sea, which has its own micro climate of subtropical due to the surrounding mountains which…

I’d like to explain one of the great mysteries faced by spiritual seekers. On the surface this mystery sounds simple. The most basic statement of it is this: You don’t…

A new study finds those who deactivate Facebook are happier than those who don’t. Facebook turned 15 years old this week, and it’s time to quit, new research reveals. Not…