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The Tree of Life: A Review

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Joseph Campbell once said that people aren't so much interested in the meaning of life as they are in having an experience of life. Terrence Malik's latest movie, The Tree of Life, seeks to uncover that experience in us. It is an exercise in being alive in the moment. I say "exercise" because it is two hours and eighteen minutes long. You really have to want to be there. But if you are in a meditative mood and you trust Malick's ability to show you what you're missing whilst you're dreaming … [Read more...]

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Making Things Happen

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There is this person (I'm not naming names) whom I have known for 32 years. She always gets the best parking space. It is as though every store and shopping mall in the country has a sign with her name on it right next to the blue one, about six paces from the front door. It doesn't matter if it's the opening night for Lord of the Rings or Christmas Eve at Toys R Us -- her spot is always there. And if it's not, within 30 seconds someone will pull out, just as she drives up. And it's not as if … [Read more...]

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Healing the Way We See

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Do you have trouble visualizing pictures in your mind? When you read or someone tells you to see your body in perfect health, does it leave you frustrated, feeling like you can't do intuitive healing because you can't visualize? Perhaps you are more auditory in the way you process information, or maybe cognitive, where ideas make more sense than images. Whatever your strength, if you want to try your hand at intuitive healing, your perception will play a key role, because the way we perceive the … [Read more...]

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Take Me to the River

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The word educate comes from the Latin word educare, which means to draw out. This implies that knowledge comes from within us and that facts act as catalysts to activate the knowledge that is already there. This leads us to think that learning is more of a remembering than it is an accumulation of new ideas. Of, course, this flies in the face of the conventional wisdom, which places great importance on deriving knowledge from the world of objective sensory experience. Knowledge isn't … [Read more...]

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