After months of concerted effort, we are proud to announce the opportunity to download “The Quantum Activist Workbook“, here at the website. This workbook is written to assist enthusiastic viewers of the documentary film The Quantum Activist to go deep into the exploration of quantum activism. It is dedicated to all present and future quantum activists—a special breed of people … Read More
World Creativity & Innovation Day on April 21
World Creativity and Innovation day will be observed on April 21 across the world and the goal is to build capacity for everyone to be open to new ideas and to make new decisions that make the world a better place and make their place in the world better too, in ways that do not cause harm. The day has … Read More
Meditation can reduce pain: study
Meditation can have pain relieving effects, according a study released in the Journal of Neuroscience Wednesday. For the study, researchers mildly burned 15 men and women in a lab on two separate occasions, before and after the volunteers attended four 20-minute meditation training sessions over the course of four days. During the second round, when the participants were instructed to meditate, … Read More
A road map for harnessing creativity
If you don’t feel particularly innovative, or your organization seems flat-footed and uncreative, blame it on your teachers over the years. That’s the message from Canadian consultants David Weiss and Claude Legrand, who have been tracking innovation in companies and finding it wanting. Your teachers prepared you for a world where analytical intelligence would be dominant. You were taught literacy … Read More
Sages and Scientists 2011 with Deepak Chopra
“If anyone wants to understand what my Dad’s true passion is, this is it,” Gotham Chopra, the film maker and author son of Deepak Chopra, told the crowd of several hundred people gathered at the Sages and Scientists Symposium in Carlsbad, California, last weekend. The Chopra Foundation hosted the annual event, now in its second year. For those familiar with … Read More
Go Easy on Yourself, a New Wave of Research Urges
Do you treat yourself as well as you treat your friends and family? That simple question is the basis for a burgeoning new area of psychological research called self-compassion — how kindly people view themselves. People who find it easy to be supportive and understanding to others, it turns out, often score surprisingly low on self-compassion tests, berating themselves for … Read More