Hidden Truths: Going Beyond Common-Sense Reality (Part 2)
By Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas Kafatos, Ph.D., and Subhash Kak, Ph.D. Although everyone as a practical matter accepts "reality as given" - the world presented by the five senses - that common-sense version of the world was radically undermined over a century ago with the advent of relativity and

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Hidden Truths: Going Beyond Common-Sense Reality (Part 1)
By Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas Kafatos, Ph.D., and Subhash Kak, Ph.D. Despite their many divergences, science and philosophy are both led forward by reality. This is inevitable if facts, concepts, axioms, and other mental models are to be reliable. There are two ongoing projects, thousands of yea

posted 1:00:39pm Mar. 03, 2014 | read full post »

Radical Well being: Where We Need to Go (Part 2)
 Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD There are two reasons why radical well being hasn't captured the imagination of the general public. As we saw in the first part, people all too often let their health go and then depend on the standard medical approach of drugs and surgery. Takin

posted 11:10:09am Feb. 24, 2014 | read full post »

Radical Well-Being: Where We Need to Go
By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD As far as our health goes, America is about a little of this and a lot of that. The little is self-care, the lot is drugs and surgery. Thirty years after a mind-body revolution took place in medicine and fifty years after the Surgeon General launch

posted 12:06:35pm Feb. 17, 2014 | read full post »

Next for the Gay Rights Movement - Filling the Spiritual Dimension
It's taken decades for gay activists to achieve the most basic right that every minority deserves: equality under the law. In principle one might say that the battle has been won, even if some states are dragging their heels and some groups mount fierce resistance. Thirty years ago it took mass prot

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