It’s fall, and I’m doing one final rake to get the straggler leaves off of my lawn. I noticed a tendency of leaves to settle in gaps where there is no grass. Leaves on lawns make a less favorable situation for the growth of grass, and leaves gravitate to where there is already no grass…… Continue reading How Leaves on Your Lawn Predict Your Future
Author: Dan Pouliot
A New Hampshire native, Dan received his BFA in Oil Painting from UNH; his digital works are in multiple permanent collections. Dan’s been a positive psychology student/practitioner, a blogger, an amateur Remote Viewer, and now a novelist. His dual passions for anomalous cognition and positive thinking set the stage for his debut young adult novel, Super Human, published by PortalStar Publishing. Dan describes Super Human as The Karate Kid meets Escape to Witch Mountain.
Edison, Invention and Sleep
“…a man does need his rest, and Edison was not above the occasional catnap — provided it was not devoted solely to sleep. Like most people, he noticed that insights and brainstorms often occur at the edges of sleep — when the border guard of the prefrontal cortex is going off duty and the more… Continue reading Edison, Invention and Sleep
Gene Mutation, Thus Evolution, is Not Random
When we think of Darwinian evolution, one supposition come to mind: gene mutation (evolution) is random.
Expectations of Food, Excercise and Beneficial Effects
Dean Radin discusses his recent double-blind study of serving tea “treated” with good intentions. Radin: The bottom line is that if you believe/expect that you are consuming a specially treated substance, that belief alone will strongly influence your mood. But if the substance is also intentionally “treated,” then it will influence you even more. And… Continue reading Expectations of Food, Excercise and Beneficial Effects
Truth in Opposites in Three Stories
I have been reading Healing Back Pain by John E Sarno, M.D. He created a diagnosis, Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS). In short, there are real pains in the body that are the result of emotional tensions, and our medical establishment misdiagnoses them, at least in part because they are uncomfortable prescribing psychological treatments for physical… Continue reading Truth in Opposites in Three Stories
Our Doubts are Traitors
“Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.” —William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure