Here he points out that the earliest known Buddhist texts emerged several hundred years after the Buddha lived. Therefore, to better understand the origins of Buddhism, he relies upon artistic and architectural evidence – particularly the stupas of Buddhism, to which there are few textual references. Buddhism appears to have influences both from central Asia [...]

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Bernardo has launched a new organization, #EssentiaFoundation, and has produced some wonderful short videos that can be viewed at https://youtu.be/Nls4o_mR-sY and https://youtu.be/wJG6yL4ncK8.

Here he compares the standard, Newtonian view of time with other approaches. Einstein, for example, described the past and the future as stubbornly persisting illusions. Hermann Minkowski, who taught Einstein, referred to time as the fourth dimension. P. D. Ouspensky, the Russian philosopher who worked with G. I. Gurdjieff, postulated a six-dimensional universe with three [...]

Here he describes fifteenth century France into which Joan of Arc was born. It was a time of enormous social disuption and turmoil. England and France were engaged in what is now known as the 100 Years War. The Catholic Church was divided with different claimants to the title of Pope. He describes the visions [...]

Here she describes a gradual process through which she became aware of communications with the deceased. She describes her work learning from James von Praagh, Lyn Buchanan, Whitley Strieber, Tom Campbell, and others. She points out that her psychic sensitivities were sharpened as the result of traumatic and dangerous experiences, such as a stalking.

Jeanne Achterberg, former President of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, was author of Imagery in Healing and Woman As Healer.  She discusses the holographic model of the brain and suggests that mental images mediate between the conscious intentions and the physiology of the body.  She points out that imagery has been used in healing since [...]