You’ll notice a change in the directionality of this blog, it’s now purely focussed around my experience of living the MythoSelf process and working with the teaching of Dr. Joseph Riggio. To give some context to this it’s about how doing what works fundamentally changes who you are. I don’t mean about how you learn [...]
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Avatar
I’ve just come back from seeing Avatar and it’s a great heroic story as long as you’re on the Indian’s side rather than the cowboys (which you should be anyway). And yes the special effects set a new level of achievement. I remember being in the cinema for the 2nd Star Wars film and the [...]
Read the first 35 pages of Joseph’s last book on Google books
You can read the first 35 pages of Joseph’s last book: “Towards a Theory of Transpersonal Decision-Making in Human-Systems” on Google books here: http://books.google.com/books?id=gOaHj6ZO1NcC&dq=%22joseph+riggio%22&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=Du9qd7gpjW&sig=1khv4_5a56Cb-rD1PsZDP4kM7ME&hl=en#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Are you a Hero?
The 2nd season of Heros begins this evening on BBC2 here on the UK (http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/heroes/) what I find interesting about this show, apart from it’s interesting visual style, is that’s it’s all about ordinary people like you and me who find themselves with extraordinary powers… So what would you do with a superpower? The interesting [...]
July Scientific American for FREE
You can get the July issue of Scientific American for free here: http://www.sciam.com/page.cfm?section=redesign&sc=fd_blog? Cover story is The Memory Code: “Researchers are closing in on the rules that the brain uses to lay down memories. discovery of this memory code could lead to the design of smarter computers and robots and even new ways to peer [...]
FIGHT the MIND PARASITES NOW – A call for action!!!
OK, this is not some B movie horror or tabloid newspaper story, it’s REAL. There’s a unicellular organism called Toxoplasma gondii, that HIJACKS THE MIND of it’s host. You can read more by the author of the paper Ajai Vyas published last week in the ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’, more details here: [...]
No Mozart Effect
It’s long been touted that listening to Mozart promotes learning, I must admit though that I’ve always found it distracting or annoying. Last week the German research ministry published a report analysing all the scientific research on music and intelligence concluding that passive listening to Mozart or indeed any other music you enjoy, does not [...]
Whole Foods supermarket coming to Britain
I love travelling to the US to eat. Whether it’s a pulled pork sandwich at the Holiday Inn or something more wholesome… Now there’s a whole new experience coming to us in Britain as the US supermarket chain Whole foods opens it’s first store. From todays Guardian newspaper: http://www.guardian.co.uk/supermarkets/story/0,,2043674,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1 To its fans, the US supermarket [...]
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Will Houdini be there? Remains to be seen…
As someone who also nearly got taken out by a ruptured appendix, I’ve always been fascinated by the ‘apparent’ cause of death of Houdini. From today’s Guardian newspaper: From: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2041311,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1 The family of the legendary escapologist Harry Houdini today announced plans to exhume his body in a bid to discover whether he was murdered. Houdini’s [...]
