Skeptics versus Believers: The Grip of Magical Thinking

Many conspiracy theorists claim that behind the scenes of world history, secret societies like the Illuminati or Freemasons have worked tirelessly to create artificial dualisms in belief systems. The goal? To keep humanity polarized and fighting straw dogs while they pursued their quest of world domination. I don’t have the historical expertise to prove or…

Yoga and the Biology of Transcendence: Part One

“The yogis have said for ages that spiritual practice changes the brain, and they have a very systematic method for doing so… The Yoga Sutra is a manual for how to do this”.       Joan Shivarpita Harrigan, director of Patanjali Kundalini Yoga Care(How to Boost Brain Power, Yoga Journal, October 2008) According to Yogic tradition, a…