I’ve written about how we can get stressed over what might happen, when we jump to conclusions. Here I’d like to focus on one variant of this situation, the one in which we can almost forecast what is going to happen when someone reacts to what we say or do and, as a result, we stop ourselves from acting.
The link between quantum physics and biological processes may have been found. In a Discover magazine article, writer Mark Anderson reports on new experiments that show photosynthesis follows a kind of “many worlds” process, and green tea may improve one’s health through the mysterious process of “quantum tunneling.” There are even intimations that consciousness and quantum mechanics are related.
One of the most powerful mediums of communication in our world is the television. Most of us just turn it off these days with it's endless array of violence, degradation, fear and hopelessness. There are of course a few tidbits of enlightenment, but why do we settle for so little?
Using the Pulitzer and Tony-winning play "Doubt" as an introduction, Stanford author and psychotherapist H.B. Gelatt elaborates on his thesis in this article that to be uncertain is to be wise. He cites play critic, Karen D'Souza who wrote "Doubt probes the dark side of conviction, the point where belief hardens into blind faith. It's about the price we pay for banishing doubt in uncertain times."
COLLABORATION MAKES YOU SMARTER
Two Heads Are Better Than One
H B Gelatt
None of us is as smart as all of us. Kenneth Blanchard
In his 1992 book, Discovering Common Ground, Marvin Weisbord’s main theme was that “the world was moving from experts solving problems FOR people, toward everybody, experts included, improving whole systems.” He said he believed this was the best strategy if you want long-term dignity, meaning and community. It seems like once again we are moving toward that but not there yet.
Since 1997 we have been exploring pros and cons of a wide variety of research findings, concepts, practices, and ideas . . . for more integrally conscious, healthful, wise, mutually empathetic living, aging, dying, and thereafter . . . as they newly emerge from scientific, humanistic, and spiritual communities worldwide. No topic is out of bounds.
"Belief is powerful medicine, even if the treatment itself is a sham. New research shows placebos can also benefit patients who do not have faith in them," writes Swiss psychologist and researcher Maj-Britt Niemi in Scientific American Mind. How could that be? What are your feelings-thoughts-intuitions? Discussion questions used by the IONS New Options Community Group in Amherst, MA can be accessed at http://www.shiftinaction.com/node/3444
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April 28, 2009: NASA's Swift satellite and an international team of astronomers have found a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the universe was only 630 million years old--less than five percent of its present age. The event, dubbed GRB 090423, is the most distant cosmic explosion ever seen.
English-speaking philosophers and psychologists have been trying to understand consciousness at least since John Locke introduced the word into the English language in the 17th century. "But," says psychology professor Henry D. Schlinger in this article, "despite the best efforts of those who've thrown their hats into the ring, we haven't made much progress. Obviously, a different approach is needed." What are your community group's feelings-thoughts-intuitions?
If you are interested in indigenous culture (Shishindi), Bettina Maria Gordon has created a documentary, "All Is Made Beautiful," about the life and work of Oh Shinnah Fast Wolf, a Shishindi elder and medicine woman, who was the recipient of the Temple Award at the 2005 IONS conference in Washington. An introduction to the documentary is at:
