Prologue

I had planned to write a well-reasoned exposition of Ken Wilber’s ideas and concepts, based on the hypotheses that he puts forth in A Brief History of Everything. But something happened to me on the way to writing this, turning this discussion from what it was intended to be to something much more intensely personal.

What I have done instead is to blend and synthesize Wilber’s concepts with my own thoughts, based on the … [Read more...]

Where Spirit Becomes Soul

As someone attempting to develop a cohesive theory of healing and human potential that incorporates not only biology and biomedicine but also the new sciences (by that I mean quantum theory and modern physics; and complexity theory, systems theory and non-linear dynamics), an image recently came into my mind that fit my line of reasoning.

The specific image occurred to me while I was taking a workshop on guided … [Read more...]

My wife and I have an ongoing lighthearted argument over the mowing of the lawn. We each have our way of doing it and have a hard time accepting the other s method. The last time I was mowing the lawn, I had to go in for a few moments. When I came back I found that she had grabbed the mower and was mowing it her way. I had to virtually beg, plead, cajole and bribe to get the mower back from her.

My wife s way of mowing is the grid … [Read more...]