Understanding Change
You appear to be the same outwardly, yet you are like a building whose bricks are constantly being replaced by new ones. Every year, fully 98 percent of the total number of atoms in your body are replaced - this has been confirmed by radioisotope studies at the Oak Ridge laboratories in California.... posted on Feb 03 2004, 1,173 reads

Most Compelling Frontier
In 1971, he was the sixth man to walk the surface of the moon. Traveling back to Earth, through the abyss between the two worlds, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell had an experience for which nothing in his life had prepared him. As he approached the planet we know as home, he became engulfed by a profound sensation "a sense of universal connectedness." His life would never be the same again. H... posted on Jan 29 2004, 2,469 reads

Measuring Emotions
Can you measure anger, love, joy? After 20 years of research, Dr. David Hawkins says yes. In his book "Power vs. Force", he presents a tool for assessing value and motive and creates a "Map of Consciousness" that illuminates the spiritual ladder we must follow as a race and as individuals. Using this method, Dr. Hawkins has made a logarithmic scale ranking of different levels of energy, from sh... posted on Jan 24 2004, 1,154 reads

Simple Religion
Care of the sick originated from religious teachings. The first hospitals were built and staffed by religious orders. Many hospitals even today are religiously affiliated. The first nurses and many early physicians were from religious orders. Not until the mid-20th century did a true separation develop.... posted on Jan 23 2004, 1,346 reads

Gratitude
Recent psychological research that suggests that people who regularly practice gratitude, forgiveness, and an appreciation of material blessings are more optimistic and happier than others.... posted on Jan 17 2004, 1,664 reads

Timeless
More than half of Americans believe in 'anomalous phenomena' like clairvoyance, unexplained coincidence, prayer healing and psychokinesis. Yet mainstream science remains unconvinced. After all, these anomalies appear to fly in the face of everything we know about how mind and matter interact. But that may be about to change. This year, Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, a professor of psychology at the Univer... posted on Jan 03 2004, 1,112 reads

Taking Risks to Blossom
In 1992, there were three schools with courses on spirituality and health, one of them at the George Washington University School of Medicine. Now, well over 65 percent of the medical schools have courses or topics related to spirituality and health.... posted on Dec 27 2003, 1,068 reads

Power of Genius
Matt Savage launched his jazz career by attempting to improve a Schubert sonata. His piano teacher told him that the G-sharp he just played was supposed to be a G-natural. "It sounds better my way," he protested. She replied that only when he wrote his own music could he take liberties with a score. Keen on taking liberties, he became a jazz composer. He released his fifth album this year, making ... posted on Dec 05 2003, 1,320 reads

According to researchers at Duke University Medical Center, cardiac patients who received prayer in addition to coronary treatment had better clinical outcomes than those treated with standard therapy alone. Their results further suggest that studying the therapeutic value of prayer and other noetic interventions appears feasible and warrants larger-scale, more definitive investigations. Noetic i... posted on Oct 17 2003, 677 reads

The author of the famous 'Autobiography of a Yogi', Paramhansa Yogananda, died on March 7, 1952. Conscious during his exit from the body at the time of physical death, his passing was marked by an extraordinary phenomenon. A notarized statement signed by the Director of Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Harry Rowe, testified: "No physical disintegration was visible in his body even twenty days after de... posted on Aug 30 2003, 947 reads