In graduate school, I became intrigued by systems – from quarks to universes – it seems everything exists within a system of larger/smaller entities, each entity affecting others in and out of the system. James Lovelock proposed the Gaia principle that all physical components of the Earth are closely integrated to form a complex interacting... Learn More

I can think of two things that override the vision we have embedded in our Reticular Activating System (RAS). The first one we can do nothing about – the mystery of God/Life/Reality/Universal Light. There are some things beyond our ken, that we are too finite to comprehend. That Reality surpasses all others. Fair enough. Faith... Learn More

Kathleen Murray sent me an email about the Reticular Activating System (RAS), saying it sounded like the movie, The Secret. I don't know for sure what the movie makers were thinking, but it makes sense to me that there is a biological, scientific explanation for why visualization works. The point of departure for me, regarding... Learn More

This happens frequently: I'm looking at my schedule, I don't have enough time between appointments to do what I want to do. On bad-hair days, I either moan distressedly or worry nervously about how I'm going to handle it. Either way, I'm feeling some form of fear, generated by images in my mind – pictures... Learn More

David Howarth, a More To Life professional coach in the UK, and I were chatting the other day about trials and tribulations – knowing when to make a stand and when to surrender. How do you know whether to make a scene or let it go? At the moment, he and his wife are re-constructing... Learn More

There was only one water source that we knew about (late 70s) in Big Bend – Boot Springs. Boot Springs was a misnomer of the first order. It was not a 'spring' – it was a very small pipe sticking about 8" out of the side of a mountain on the south rim of the... Learn More