Archive for October, 2007

Prayer, Meditation, Brain Plasticity

Posted by soulscode on 22 Oct 2007 | Tagged as:

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 treated with traditional medicine, ranging from traumatic [...]

High science: study says marijuana saves memory

Posted by soulscode on 22 Oct 2007 | Tagged as:

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 on its head. The rat-lab experiement suggests that an ingredient in grass promotes neuron growth in [...]

A man, a can, a plan: Ramadan

Posted by soulscode on 18 Oct 2007 | Tagged as:

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:

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’

For two years, Byron Katie was so maniacally depressed she rarely got out of bed. A mother of two boys and a teenaged girl [...]