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Pleasure is a complex and multifaceted concept that plays a significant role in the human experience. Despite its intricacies, we, as humans, devote a substantial amount of our time and resources in the pursuit of feeling good. This essay aims to delve into the salient features of pleasure, highlighting its importance as a motivator, a source of learning, and a fundamental element for our…

Flow: The Key to Optimal Experience Flow is a coveted state of mind in which a person is fully immersed in a task and feels completely focused, energized, and in the zone. This concept was first introduced by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in the 1970s, and has since become a cornerstone of positive psychology. Various blood flow distributions incurred by different Emotions Continue…

A Bing chatbot discussion about Hindu axioms unearthed these gems that were attributed to Krishna as Vishnu incarnate: **”The Key to happiness is the reduction of desires.”**³ This rule of thumb for living life well is a easy fix for instant gratification. Success in life is a measure of the presence we share in the flow of mutual relevance. For all intents and any purpose you may fathom…

Any debate on the safety and efficacy of the novel mRNA technology deployed during the pandemic is moot given that emergency approval was granted meritorious rather than empirical research evidence. Public discourse about the need for traditional vaccines is long overdue, but will soon be self evident given the rising incidence of polio, measles, mumps and rubella in unvaccinated populations.…

Trauma is a term that refers to any event or situation that causes intense fear, helplessness, or horror, and that overwhelms the person’s ability to cope. Trauma can have lasting effects on the physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being of those who experience it. One of the possible consequences of trauma is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a mental health condition that involves…

Feelings are fickle and fleeting in the Grand Scheme of things. Invariably moot to the sense we share in mutual relevance, counterproductive to productivity and insignificant to anyone else. I used to try and fake faux interest to fit in with Social convention. After dutifully learning how to show empathy, handle grief, and successfully mimick concern to the satisfaction of my final year Med…

<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>With high levels of oestrogen in the womb positively linked to autism and autism disorders rising, what are the chances that environmental estrogen from pesticides and fertilizers are causing the problem? <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/autism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#autism</a&gt; <a…

Imagine your mind as a funnel that can only let a trickle of information pass through. The world around you is like a waterfall that constantly pours data into your funnel. How do you cope with the overwhelming pressure of too much information? How do you filter out the noise and focus on what matters? How do you make sense of the chaos and find meaning in the madness? Continue reading Untitled

Flow is more than a mere state of mind It’s a way of being, a way of finding your alignment. To be at peace with the present, with the here and now, the task at hand With the wake and the wake. The talent and the skill to reach beyond the confines of our idealized aspirations, let go of our provenance and heritage to be in the here and now. Regardless what we believe. To be in perpetuity. Flow…

Our handicap of fear and doubt riddled presence duly noted as the reason for our absence from the present it is prudent to mention that we are not solely to blame for the chaos and confusion that plague our senses and beleaguer our day to day discourse. The looming demise of our society was predicted by the ancient sages of former civilizations who dreaded the madness that blight our reason and…

The Vatican Observatory was buzzing with excitement. After years of trying to contact alien life they had finally received a response. The message was sealed and the return address was from an alien civilization that claimed to be devout Catholics. The Pope was flustered and eager to hear the message and share it with the whole world, but in the interest of transparency called for a urgent…

The I Ching, also known as the Classic of Change, is an ancient Chinese divination text and among the oldest of the Chinese classics. It consists of 64 hexagrams, each of which is made up of six lines that are either solid (yang) or broken (yin). The hexagrams are used to interpret the result of a cast and reveal the meaning and fathom the relevance of each line and trigram in turn¹. The…

Robert O. Paxton finds that even though fascism “maintained the existing regime of property and social hierarchy,” it cannot be considered merely a more robust form of conservatism because of its profound and revolutionary changes in power. These transformations reclaim private equity as public property and exchanges citizenship and constitutional rights and responsibilities for participation in…

Pacal the Great is arguably the most well known rulers of Palenque. His reign is regaled in the Temple of the Inscriptions, and his sarcophagus deep within the temple pyramid is one of the most enigmatic of all the ancient Mayan archaeological discoveries. Much like the monuments of the Egyptian Pharoah’s are adorned with written accounts of their reign, the large rock slab that sealed the stone…

Through the ages our attempt at gaining a understanding the universal principles of Daoism from a religious point of view has suffered at the expense of ideological and ontonological differences. This article will explore how these differences obfuscate our understanding of the archane texts we inherited from former and foregone civilizations. (more…) “”