here is an interesting video about a brain scientist who has a stroke and then gives her person story on how those effects translate to her life and study. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU 20 min long, heart touching.
Well, I had many other things to post about. Personal developments, leaving Amsterdam and how that felt, further thoughts from the last posts about "Patterns" etc. But instead I have bad news to tell. My mother fell this weekend, breaking her her femur above the knee. Hospitalized, minimum recovery time 1.5 months, operation was yesterday…
The stimulation of awareness is, in my belief, the single most fundamentally important aspect of ourselves we need to develop. Through awareness we ask questions, we learn, we develop our own thoughts, we become educated – wise even. The lack of awareness is the root from which all problems arise. War, environmental problems, disease, suffering,…
hello everyone! Well, in 3 weeks I’ll be moving out of Amsterdam, moving my mother to the south of France – and I will be in Portland Oregon at or around the 15th of April! So now I’m also in a total vortex of rapidly moving water, so much to organize! Crazy times. In parallel…
For quite some time I have been interested in theories that discuss the balancing between right and left brain thinking, and the translation of ideas from one field to another. Ken Wilber’s book [my review] opened up a new domain of philosophical thinking. Through this interest I have heard a great deal mentioned recently about…
Just watched an interesting BBC Horizon program on rational thought. Highlights of the program include: * Loss complex * Post-decision rationalization * Priming * Precognition * Loss complex:
Hello! Well, long silence just then from me. Things have either been shifting so quickly, week-to-week to really pin down a blog report, or I’ve just been very busy working on things! Because of necessity [mothering invention], I finally got my www.chedal.org website back up! It’s a very simple page, nothing fancy, but it serves…
Another book, another accolade. "The last hours of ancient sunlight" by Thom Hartmann, is an excellent book. Amazingly every book I pick up lately has immense value.