Archive for October, 2007

Prayer, Meditation, Brain Plasticity

Posted by soulscode on 22 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Minor Miracles, Psych 101

Researchers that once commercialized software to help kids overcome learning disorders have tackled an even bigger business: a homeopathic way of beating brain problems.

According to a recent story in Portfolio.com, a company called Posit Science “…hopes to develop programs that will tackle a wide array of problems previously […]

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High science: study says marijuana saves memory

Posted by soulscode on 22 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Addiction, Minor Miracles, Psych 101

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Guess the heads who were passing joints in the freezing cold before class in highschool behind the wall of the Machine Shop weren’t so dumb, after all :)

Maybe *we’re* dumb. A study done at the University of Saskatchewan turns Cheech & Chong pot wisdom […]

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A man, a can, a plan: Ramadan

Posted by soulscode on 18 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Religion Gets Funny

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Coca-Cola celebrates Ramadan (originally uploaded by ferrous).

Commercial Christendom and holy Islam cross paths in a Coke can :)

 


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The New Female Mystics and the Anti-Me Generation

Posted by Soul's Code on 01 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Byron Katie, Female Mystics

A vanguard of self-schooled female mystics are doing an end-run around the mainstream self-help and New Age movements — and are advancing a radical, 21st century spirituality. Call it the ‘Anti-Me Generation’
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For two years, Byron Katie […]

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