We all strive for high achievement, and when we get there, we want to continually maintain and improve it, as well as avoid obstacles that hinder our growth. But what about the default patterns of behavior hard-wired in our brains...

I don’t mourn for a city. I mourn for people and the land they live on. I mourn for all the beings that have died traumatic deaths, all the lives disrupted, all the trauma created and all the people that...

Image Source   Lessons repeat as needed. You know, these situations when you think – damn, I’ve been here before. Sometimes you’ve been in that place even several times. So why does this madness repeat? It’s not meeting you at...

Time warps for a young surgeon with metastatic lung cancer In residency, there’s a saying: The days are long, but the years are short. In neurosurgical training, the day usually began a little before 6 a.m., and lasted until the...

In high school English I learned a 64-carat word for a common ailment: triskaidekaphobia, or “fear of the number thirteen.” The elevator in my grandparents’ apartment building omitted the thirteenth floor. Apparently the assumption was, nobody would have wanted to...

In The Words of Sam “All of my creations are an attempt to illustrate the layers that make up consciousness as I perceive it to be. I like to start all my work off with a black background; to me...

What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight ? That we laugh ? Cry ? Our curiosity ? The quest for discovery ? Driven by these questions, filmmaker and artist Yann Arthus-Bertrand spent...

The concept of all-sufficiency was an essential knowing in all ancient teachings of self-knowledge. The ancients understood that knowing oneself meant knowing that the divine energy that creates worlds, exists within each of us and can manifest any vision held...

  The more I ponder about life, the more I come to one solid realization: The biggest curse and predicament of modern Man is forgetfulness. Like a creeping malaise, forgetfulness has seeped through all of Man’s being and doing. Individually...

  EMOTIONAL WELLBEING   So many of us were taught conditional love. We have believed for most of our lives that we have to earn love in order to be deserving. We may have felt that we needed to look...

Before Galileo Galilei and Sir Isaac Newton, the Lakota studied astronomy. Many indigenous peoples did. They were natural scientists. What sets indigenous “ethnoastronomy” apart from mainstream western astronomy is native peoples didn’t feel the need to separate their spiritual beliefs...

“The more closely I look, the more obvious it is that the Old Economy fails because it is based on false values, assumptions, and logic. Those who are working to create a New Economy from the bottom-up intuitively recognize and...

If you haven’t read the previous articles in the series, you can do so here: Shadow Work 1: An Introduction Shadow Work 2: Healing the Inner Child Healing Grief This is a powerful time for shedding light onto some aspects...

If you haven’t read the previous article in the series, you can do so here: Shadow Work 1: An Introduction Healing the Inner Child Our feelings and emotions matter far more than we ever imagined. Much of our society has...

An Introduction to Shadow Work The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow. Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow… Welcome to my three-part series on one of the most profound healing practices you can...

3 Ways Your Lifestyle Can Encourage Neuron Growth and Brain Health There are trillions of cells in our body, and like us, they don’t live forever. Neurogenesis is the generation of new neurons (nerve cells that transmit information throughout the...

  The world is facing some huge problems. There’s a lot of talk about how to solve them. But talk doesn’t reduce pollution, or grow food, or heal the sick. That takes doing. This film is the story about various...

There’s a war going on, and it’s not with Iraq. (Or Afghanistan. Or Syria.) This war is on a scale so vast it’s difficult to see, so ancient we’ve taken it for granted. It’s a war that has been gathering...