Archive for September, 2008
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Beyond the Future
In a recent blog post by Andrew Cohen, he rightly asserts a point so often misappropriated in alternative spiritual circles: Consciousness doesn’t exist or work in mysterious ways outside of or away from the innermost depths of our individual and collective selves. In other words, while consciousness is mysterious in the way it unfolds past [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Chapter 8 - Commitment,Theory & Practice,Writing by Michael McAlister
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Palin’s Shadow
Deepak Chopra compares Sarah Palin to the shadow of Barak Obama in a recent commentary: Palin’s pluck has been admired, and her forthrightness, but her real appeal goes deeper. She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his idealism and turning negativity into a cause for pride. In psychological terms the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Chapter 2 - Grasping,Fundamentalism,Politics,Writing by Michael McAlister
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
What is mind?
Making an interesting observation, Andrew Sullivan links to the final two paragraphs in Michael Miller’s Newsweek article, Sad Brain, Happy Brain. Earlier this year the Annals of Neurology published an article by Sam Harris and colleagues exploring what happens in the brain when people are in the act of either believing or disbelieving. In an [...]
