Dr. Verny provides several suggestions on how to have a healthy mind and body. The term psychosomatic often refers to the psyche affecting the body. He demonstrates that the body also affects the mind. To have good mental health the body must be taken care of, as well. He suggests being honest with yourself about [...]

In this 2017 interview, she describes how the ayahuasca plant is used as a religious sacrament in shamanistic ceremonies throughout several countries in the Amazon basin region. She describes her extensive research interviewing individuals who have used this medicine in North America. Her preliminary results suggest that ayahuasca has significant psychotherapeutic healing potential in many [...]

Laurel describes how we can self-awaken through wordplay. She plays with words that coexist with different concepts that are married through sounds, such as a homonym or pun. She has developed an intuitive “inner-standing” of how language echoes and reflects us. She suggests that the English language is the leading software of the western mind. [...]

Joanne shares that “soul writing” is a form of inspirational writing that is distinct from automatic writing. Soul writing is a method of receiving messages from your intuition, higher self, or the divine. It may be considered a form of channeling. She describes the steps of how to converse with your higher self for guidance [...]

Bernard shares that a meaningful coincidence, synchronicity, and serendipity are a coming together of apparently unrelated events, by cause, in a surprising and unexpected way. The psychosphere – our mental atmosphere – is the medium in which we exchange energy and information. Love and connection seem to increase the probability of meaningful coincidences. They can [...]

David Chalmers, Ph.D., is a former professor of philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is author of The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. Here he points out that most modern attempts to explain consciousness fail to address the fundamental problem of subjective experience — i.e., what it is like to be consciousness. Theories of perception, cognition, information processing, [...]