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Expanding the Waveform

3 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments BlogBlogBlahBlah

You may have heard about "collapse of the waveform," or something similar.  This is a disputed phenomenon, but studies have been done that basically show through scientific observation that watching or paying attention to stuff affects that stuff.  T...

6 Common Phrases That Show You Lack Confidence

3 Jan 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Dastan

Here's a list of six common phrases that show you lack self confidence. Try avoiding them and people will start to respect you more: "Just": this word is a minimizer. You minimize yourself and your desires/needs. Pay attention when writing emails/SMS...

If you Don’t Transform your Pain...You will Inevitably Transmit it.

3 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Robert Stephens

    “The human mind can never be satisfied; never at rest. Always on the stretch for something new; some strange novelty.” James Klyman   We all suffer. But pain and suffering are the touchstones to freedom. A Journey to understanding and spiritual g...

The Enlightened Self Cannot Hold on to all of the Pains of the Past.

2 Jan 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Robert Stephens

When I turned 50 I needed to renew my US Passport since had been lost or stolen for quite some time. They required me to provide them a list of addresses for each location that had ever lived since birth. In doing so,  I decided to try and recall som...

The Psychology of (Crypto) Gambling

2 Jan 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Piwniczak Pawel

Can gambling be addiction?  Sure thing. It seems different than the substance use addiction and it has indeed its own category - behavioural addiction. Nowadays, growing evidence tells that behavioral addictions is extremely similar to substance addi...

Overcoming Egoic States of Consciousness (Part 1)

2 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Robert Stephens

Where do we turn when we find ourselves unable to deal with serious challenges in life? Most of life’s daily troubles are of our own making. Everybody has unpleasant tasks to complete in life. Life and death decisions must be made.  The human conditi...

Father to Son

28 Dec 2019 3 minute read 1 comment CutterMutter

With my son entering his teens, a letter written to him years ago is now ripe for posting. Hello Son, I write to you today about Education. I don't know when you will start to read this but I hope you read it many times at different stages of your li...

A Darwinian explanation for Cellphone addiction !

28 Dec 2019 3 minute read 0 comments CutterMutter

I write this more as a speculation than a fact and I don’t know how accurate it really is - but going by first principles - it kind of makes sense. Technology may have changed the world unrecognizably in just one generation but human biology is still...

You don't get sober and close all the bars

22 Dec 2019 3 minute read 1 comment acesontop

Blessed are the ones that aren't addicted to anything or don't eat or smoke anything in a compulsive way, because they are the strong ones, and they shall live in Heaven forever, if they don't do that already. Not like we, the addicted ones, will get...

Are We Letting Social Media Change Us?

20 Dec 2019 5 minute read 0 comments BTCparadise

With so many social media platforms now in existence, we have been seeing behavioral changes among users and on what is acceptable with online interactions. Sure we are being innovative with how we connect and socialize with one another online but is...