We see other countries spending more on defense so we spend more on defense. Other countries see us spending more on defense so they spend more on defense. When karma is spoken of as a wheel and the only way to stop it is to get off the wheel, this example seems apt. It’s also a good… Continue reading Defense Spending
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 on Programming Your Sleep
Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious. —Thomas Edison
Serenity Prayer
The Serenity Prayer—commonly, though uncertainly1 attributed to 20th century American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr— makes a stark call to thinking responsibly: God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. There is a… Continue reading Serenity Prayer
Karma
Robert Anton Wilson (“Cosmic Trigger, Vol. I”), after witnessing his daughter forgive her muggers, gained new insight into the meaning of karma: “Karma, in the original Buddhist scriptures, is a blind machine; in fact, it is functionally identical with the scientific concept of natural law. Sentimental ethical ideas about justice being built into the machine,… Continue reading Karma
Serotonin and Social Status
In his book Genome, Matt Ridley sheds some light on one compound— serotonin— whose levels change in the body based on society: Serotonin levels are not innate and inflexible. They are themselves the product of social status. The higher your self-esteem and social rank relative to those around you, the higher your serotonin level is.… Continue reading Serotonin and Social Status
When Affirmations Make You Feel Worse
Psychologists at the University of Waterloo concluded that [affirmations] make people with low self-esteem feel worse”. —Oliver Burkman, The Power of Negative Thinking So are affirmations best avoided? Let’s parse this out. Affirmations are akin to goal setting. Set an unreasonable goal for yourself and you may feel crummy when you find it out of your… Continue reading When Affirmations Make You Feel Worse