Thursday, April 14, 2011

Consciential Evolution: Personal Effort and Prioritization

We are constructing our future with each second. What we are living through now is a result of our patterns of thought, sentiments, and attitudes of our past — our thosenes. This obviously includes the past of this life and of our previous lives. Life is the way we make it – a product of what we ourselves generate and create. An indisputable reality: it does not matter where we go, we are always with ourselves. We can never succeed in running from ourselves. As a result of this, our lives are made in accordance with our intimate state. We can be in a beautiful and pleasant place, but if we are not internally satisfied, no external comfort can compensate. Living a happy life with nothing but wisdom and fraternity is a sign of higher evolution. Evolution is very democratic. The same rules apply to everybody.

Click here to read the whole article by Nancy Trivelatto at www.iacworld.org

Sunday, April 10, 2011

A Reasonable Argument for God's Existence

"Suppose you took scrabble sets, or any word game sets, blocks with letters containing every language on Earth and you heap them together, and then you took a scoop and you scooped into that heap, and you flung it out on the lawn there and the letters fell into a line which contained the words, 'to be or not to be that is the question,' that is roughly the odds of an RNA molecule appearing on the Earth."

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Friday, April 1, 2011

The Power of Suggestion

Research published last year by psychologists at Harvard and Yale universities raises the possibility that even our weight is susceptible to the power of suggestion. The study looked at the health of hotel chambermaids over a four-week period. Half of subjects were told at the start that their work counted as good exercise that satisfied the recommendations of the US surgeon-general. A month later, they had lost weight and gained other health benefits such as lower blood pressure. Their uninformed colleagues showed no change.

Click here to read the entire article at FT.com