I am currently reviewing the literature in Preventative and Behavioral Medicine. The following 1993 article is well worth a read. Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. Over the course of fourteen years, more […]
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Reposted from Orion. Wendell Berry LET US BEGIN BY ASSUMING what appears to be true: that the so-called “environmental crisis” is now pretty well established as a fact of our […]
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I strongly recommend Darwin’s Blind Spot, a new book on the importance of cooperation in evolution. This morning, we feature a description from the publisher and an excerpt from the book. […]
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Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. Over the course of fourteen years, more than six thousand people have attended the stress reduction program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. In doing so, […]
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Interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. This interview is reposted from Tricycle Magazine. Editor-at-large Joan Duncan Oliver spoke with Dr. Kabat-Zinn in September 2002. She writes: Can Buddhist practice liberate us […]
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Recently, two popular scientists have written in support of atheism. They are Richard Dawkins, FRS, Charles Simonyi professor of the public understanding of science at Oxford University, and Daniel C. Dennett, professor of […]
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We continue from our earlier series: See: 1) The Macroscope, 2) Looking through the Macroscope. J. de Rosnay The fundamental concepts that recur most often in the biological, ecological, and […]
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L. W. Nicholson At this time in our history, the human species is finding it ever more difficult to maintain some degree of synchronization between the two worlds in which […]
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This morning’s essay is reposted from The Yellow Times. Humans have always had three choices. They can act adverarily, neutrally or synergically. Throughout history all governments have been dominated by adversary-neutral processes. John […]
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Joël de Rosnay The atom, the molecule, the cell, the organism, and society fit one within the other like a series of Russian dolls. The largest of these dolls is […]
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