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Pressing the reset button

by Michael Roach on March 4, 2010

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ShareYou’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 to [...]

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Avatar

by Michael Roach on December 19, 2009

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ShareI’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 battle [...]

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ShareYou 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
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Are you a Hero?

by Michael Roach on April 24, 2008

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ShareThe 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 bit here [...]

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July Scientific American for FREE

by Michael Roach on June 26, 2007

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ShareYou 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 into [...]

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FIGHT the MIND PARASITES NOW – A call for action!!!

by Michael Roach on May 11, 2007

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ShareOK, 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: [...]

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No Mozart Effect

by Michael Roach on April 17, 2007

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ShareIt’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 [...]

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Whole Foods supermarket coming to Britain

by Michael Roach on March 27, 2007

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ShareI 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 chain Whole [...]

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Prefer email?

by Michael Roach on March 25, 2007

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ShareYou can now get all the information posted here via email. Click on “Join my email list” on the top left of my homepage. It’s that easy
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Will Houdini be there? Remains to be seen…

by Michael Roach on March 23, 2007

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ShareAs 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 great nephew George [...]

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