I often say to patients that there is no healing other than natural healing. What I mean by that is that all the drugs, and all the surgical techniques used in modern medicine, act directly against pathology. None of them actually stimulate or directly support self-healing. Yet that’s the only kind of true healing to [...]
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Healing occurs naturally
Posted in books, from the consulting room, from the reading room, health, science on February 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The Science Delusion. Rupert Sheldrake
Posted in books, from the reading room, science on February 27, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Rupert Sheldrake’s The Science Delusion takes on the “dogmas” of scientific materialism. It isn’t a polemic. It’s a thoroughly thought provoking book which seeks to get people thinking about the claims and beliefs of those who think that human beings are mechanical “stuff” and nothing more. He outlines ten common beliefs which underpin the materialistic [...]
Are memories stored as material traces?
Posted in books, from the reading room, life, science on February 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Rupert Sheldrake in his excellent “The Science Delusion“, challenges a number of basic tenets (or dogmas) of science as it is most commonly practiced and preached. The key belief he challenges is that everything in the universe is material and mechanical – the universe and everything in it is “stuff”. One of the most thought [...]
21 day Meditation Challenge
Posted in from the living room, life on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Do you have a daily meditation practice? There’s a 21 day Meditation Challenge going on right now, so if you don’t, why not check this out and join in? Here’s the introduction from Day 1 – Only a few decades ago, medical students were taught to view the body as a machine whose parts would [...]
Light at night
Posted in from the dark room, photography on February 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Great Turning
Posted in from the living room, life on February 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Excellent post on the School of Life site about the three stories circulating at present – the first one is “business as usual” ie no need to change what we do or how we live; the second one is “the great unraveling” – it’s all falling to pieces. And the third? The third story is [...]
Snowdrops by starlight
Posted in from the dark room, photography on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On the Cambo Estate, at Kingsbarns in Fife, there’s a magical forest walk you can take at night time just now. Cambo is famous for its snowdrops at this time of year and they’ve lit up the forest and placed a number of art installations amongst the trees. Here’s a flavour of it.
Friendship based money sharing
Posted in from the living room, tagged finance on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s an interesting idea from Okinawa. Apparently the people who live in Okinawa don’t trust banks (are you surprised?). However, in Okinawa, they have an interesting way of sharing money. It’s called a “tasukeai moai”. Here’s an example. A group of 10 friends form one of these groups and they agree the following – To [...]
Never unconnected
Posted in from the reading room, philosophy, science, Uncategorized on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We live with a view of ourselves as separate entities, made up of tiny, distinct, independent parts. This idea, this kind of atomism, has been around for centuries. Now, however, we’re coming to understand that reality isn’t like that. Lynne McTaggart writes in “The Bond” The universe contains an indeterminate number of vibrating packets of [...]
The Fourfold Wisdom
Posted in books, from the reading room on February 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Thomas Berry, in “The Great Work” writes that we can draw on what he calls “the fourfold wisdom” as we face the future together in the world. These are “the wisdom of indigenous peoples; the wisdom of women; the wisdom of the classical traditions; and the wisdom of science”. He captures the essence of the [...]
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