Expanding possibilities

If we are to expand possibilities for all, the health of our earth and all the people on it is part of that. Personally, I do not think that nutritional supplements will help. They make nutrition :-

• complicated (only available with those with access to all the info and the time and other resources to understand it)
• expensive (in a study giving fish oil to school children, that one supplement, presumably bought in bulk, cost 80p per day, while school lunch cost 60p)
• a chore we do on our own rather than a meal we enjoy with others. (more…)

Prayer, according to Wikipedia is "the act of attempting to communicate with a deity or spirit "

hum. Next question - how to actually communicate rather than simply attempt.

Ideally, communicate will be two way. The side that probably needs most attention in most of us is receiving. (more…)

According to my dictionary, insight means "penetration with the understanding". Understanding usually refers to mental comprehension.

Our culture tends to rely heavily on our visual sense and conscious thoughts. If we can’t explain something, and explain how we know it, we often think we don’t know. Yet we appear to be able to see and make useful choices about what we see without interpreting it with conscious thought.

Blindsight

This article on the brain’s subconscious visual sense describes how a doctor left blind by two successive strokes successfully navigated an obstacle course — a cluttered hallway. One of the researcher’s comments was  “The more educated people are… the less likely they are to believe they have these resources that they are not aware of to avoid obstacles." (more…)