Most people have heard of mindfulness. Like meditation, it has become a fairly common term in general use. It has also become more accepted in western psychology as having therapeutic benefit. Many books have been written on the topic, and yet there remains much confusion in terms of just what ... … Read entire article »

Several things characterize countries of the Third Word, whatever precisely “Third World” means. The first is corruption. America is rotten with it, but American corruption is distinct from corruption in, say, Guatemala or Thailand, being less visible and better organized. Several major differences exist between the usual corruption in the Third World ... … Read entire article »

A while back, I was trying to think of a word to describe the fact that a democracy is essentially a concept that relies upon the lowest common denominator in a population’s thinking… to determine decision-making for all. A change in the existing spelling worked all right for me personally ... … Read entire article »

Getting a medical check-up from an MD or going to the hospital when facing a health emergency is probably the most dangerous thing one can do. Indeed, the field of medicine can only be called a medical Mafia, with its godfather, Don Industrio — the pharmaceutical industry — and its ... … Read entire article »

The power elite isn’t using legal force on a whim. The escalations they have made recently provide us with insights into their collective psyche. And what we can see there is … fear. With the attacks on Internet websites Megaupload and Bodog we find what we call the Internet Reformation is ... … Read entire article »

Originally, scholars had free access to the state of the art knowledge of the time. However, beginning around the 1940’s, knowledge was gradually split into two streams. Total knowledge was restricted and reserved for the elite members of the ruling class. General knowledge, which was a modified and censored version ... … Read entire article »