Matthieu Ricard, author of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill and The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet among others, has come to my attention again. One of the blogs listed on my list of  "favorites" (see the right sidebar here), Integral Options Cafe, owned by William Harryman, and which often cites articles, or reviews

Several years ago I acquired the audio CD put out about Wayne Dyer's book The Power of Intention and treasured it, not only because I tend to like his work a lot, but also because there is a good amount of valuable material in it, and because, as I mention in my article Keeping Your Energy High, I generally have a number of CD's in my car, and even if my trip os only 5 or 7 minutes long, I will

A recent article at CBS with several videos, caught my attention.Nine years ago, along with eight other patients, Kaitlyne McNamara, a college student who was born with Spina bifida which caused her bladder to fail, received a new bladder grown from her own cells outside the body. She says the procedure changed her life. "I never even knew I could get this far. I'm just living a normal adult life

Deepak Chopra, founder of The Chopra Center for Well Being, pioneered The Soul of Leadership program at corporate conferences and the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern).Watch Deepak Chopra - Soul of Leadership in Entertainment View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.comThe Soul of Leadership program defines a leader as the heart and soul of any group -- the person who fulfills the deep

When things happen to you in life, which meaning do you choose to give them? Are they meanings that make life even harder, or are they meanings chosen by you that make life better, or easier?Willard Barth has come up with a series of very brief videos to walk you though a process he went through himself over the course of his life as he learned how to make life better and easier. He speaks a

Big topics. Your dreams, your visions, your ideas, your goals...In this video presentation from the DVD Seminar Series (three parts, each part is about 35 minutes long), Bob Proctor, success coach par excellence relates his own journey, and refers the viewer to many of the practices that, according to Bob, need to be in place if you want to turn your dreams into goals and then achieve them.Bob

I've added a new website to the list of links I recommend, and it is Mind and Life Institute, with their October 2009 conference "Educating World Citizens for the 21st Century: Educators, Scientists, and Contemplatives Dialogue on Cultivating a Healthy Mind, Brain, and Heart" in Washington, DC with full participation of the Dalai Lama.They also have a blog, and it is there that I found the video

Once again the organization TED brings us forward thinking.In this 4 minute video, Gever Tulley shows us how kids can be taught valuable life lessons at his 6-day immersion "Tinkering School"When given tools, materials and guidance, these young imaginations run wild and creative problem-solving takes over to build unique boats, bridges and even a rollercoaster! If you have trouble viewing the

Another newsletter I read that comes from Gaia brought the trailer of a wonderful movie to my attention. You can watch the trailer here and the entire film online here, or purchase it for home viewing.Isha, a spiritual teacher from Australia, works with seekers from all paths (including prisoners in Uruguay, where she lives today), and shares her message of enlightenment through uncompromising

A wonderful article in New Scientist this week poses the question of whether chaos in the brain leads to a greater level of order, or synthesis.Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brainHAVE you ever experienced that eerie feeling of a thought popping into your head as if from nowhere, with no clue as to why you had that particular idea at that particular time? You may think that such fleeting

"Did you bring your brain?“At the many lectures he gives worldwide, Ilchi Lee often begins with this question. Having struggled to focus in his childhood and overcome this handicap later, he developed a great trust in and knowledge of the human brain. By utilizing the brain's full power, he believes, humanity can achieve its potential and resolve the serious problems we are facing. Though the

Once again TED brings us persuasive and intelligently presented information.This time "Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system

It should not surprise you that I am once again blogging about TED, the wonderful organization that brings us so many informative, fascinating, cutting-edge, and sometimes even amusing and made-for-musing videos with speakers from every profession and walk of life.The one I am focusing on today is with Nancy Etcoff speaking to us about the surprising science of happiness. Ted has much to say

The Institute of Noetic Sciences brings occasional brief videos to help change our world one minute at a time. These videos are all called The One Minute Shift and I have blogged about them here in the past (see below).The latest one features Bruce Lipton, famed cellular biologist who is convincing the world bit by bit that there is not such thing as genetic predeterminism.Do our genes control

Once a month I host a Mind Expansion Group at my home. Twenty - thirty of us gather (and the group is always shifting as we are a pool of well over 100) to listen to a speaker discourse about some subject of interest, we then have a group discussion about it, followed by a convivial dinner together.This month's topic was about permaculture, genetically modified foods, about fossil fuels, about

Joachim de Posada shares a landmark experiment (at Ted.org) on delayed gratification -- and how it can predict future success. With priceless video of kids trying their hardest not to eat the marshmallow. If you have difficulty viewing the video here on my blog, go directly to the website by clicking here.Here's what TED has to say about him: Joachim de Posada's infectious energy and humor have

Today's speech in Cairo: President Obama speaking to the Muslim world.If you have trouble viewing the video on this blog, click here to view it on C-Span

As always, TED brings us fascinating talks. In this case, we are shown an incredible animation of the inner workings of our cells. The hundreds of thousands of micro-machines inside of each of the trillions of cells in each of our bodies, do some jaw-dropping work. Finally, it is so much easier to imagine what Bruce Lipton refers to when he talks about this micro-universe inside of our bodies.In

Another inspiring - and awe-producing - one-minute video from the Institute of Noetic Sciences: their One Minute Shift series.This one is with Deepak Chopra talking to us about The Wonder of YouIf you experience difficulties with the video, view it on YouTube by clicking here

You may have seen that I am on Twitter and one of the reasons I am there, is because it is a time-efficient and easy way to follow people such as Deepak Chopra, the Dalai Lama, Marianne Williamson, Jack Canfield, Tony Robbins, and many others.Not only is it possible to follow people such as the ones I have mentioned, but I can also keep time-efficient tabs on the international press, raw fooders