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Role of Religion
Religion conveys stories and symbols that have primal meaning of good and bad, life and death, health and illness. Religion provides a coherent ethic and set of principles by which one conducts one’s life. Religion renders transcendent significance to the self and the self’s actions because religion takes a broad view –not restricted to the…
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Adrift in a Sea of Change
We do not chose our sex, race, genetics, temperament, culture of origin, parents, birth history, and time and place of birth. We may influence our interpersonal environment after birth, but only that which is closely bounded in space and time and already constrained by culture, collective and personal history. We grow by degrees to awareness…
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Consciousness
We did not create the complexity, wonder, and mystery of the world –and even were we to impact this world of perception, we merely inflect and modify, but do not fundamentally ordain its form. And this appears true whether the world is material, as objectively existent other, or idea, as a derivative of Mind. I…
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Time’s How You Look at It
When I lived in New Hope, Pennsylvania, I had a next door neighbor who preferred to remain anonymous. Lindsey claimed her husband had been murdered by a conspiracy of unscrupulous investors who aimed to restrict a patented technology her husband had developed. He had produced a device that enabled rapid aging of organic and inorganic…
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Some Guidelines for Infant Feeding During the First Year of Life
The best food for babies is mother’s milk. This wonderful food is specially designed for babies. Human milk contains immune protective factors, a balance of amino acids, not found in other milks, fatty acids, lactoferrin for biotic health, and other enzymes and micronutrients not remotely duplicated in formula. Human milk changes in its constituents as…
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Cure for Psychological Wear and Tear
Aging and maturity involve cumulative wear and tear, some of which is traumatic. Wear and tear certainly occurs with the body through accidents. Although the body possesses a capacity for self-repair at times the repair is not successful, and the result is scar tissue, arthritic bone, and marked and sagging skin. Such wear and tear…
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College Reunion Blues
My dear ever-loving Alma Mater, the University of Redacted, sent me at least three notices that the Class of ‘XX would celebrate the XXth anniversary of their graduation. I doubt if the language of celebration exactly resonated with my feelings. I wondered if the class of ‘XX were ambulatory. I envisioned platoons of corpulent, gray/…
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Memorial for Harmon S Ephron, MD Full Text
I have special affection for Harmon S. Ephron. I met “Sol” as he was known at a meeting of the Princeton Psychoanalytic Society. His acuity of observation, irony, and joyful humor brought life to a sometimes staid affair. He was, in other words, the life of the party. In the years following our introduction, Sol was my mentor,…
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The Path to Will
Will may be connected with passion, but passion is not enough since passion may be blind. Passion is significant, but must be associated with disciplined practice. Passion alone will not create the works of the artist or the products of the writer. Superior results require practice. Disciplined real-world, practice creates congruent local networks. This is…
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Why Will May Fail
A substantial neuro-physiological and neuro-psychological literature suggests that mind is so organized that at least two general systems organize thought and behavior. In my articles, the first of these systems I term the “logico-linguistic system”, and the second, the “configural system” (van den Daele, 1994). In the Western culture belt, the logico-linguistic system is identified…
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