At the Techonomy conference in August 2010, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt said that through artificial intelligence Google can predict human behavior and that if we show Google 14 pictures of ourselves, it can even identify who we are—a boastful statement, but not far from the truth.
The ordinary human …

A new study was done to see if the placebo effect is greater in homeopathy than conventional medicines. Researchers went through literature to match homeopathy trials to conventional trials.  These trials matched classical homeopathy trials.  In classical

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Today I hit a mini-milestone in my efforts to be active and healthy: I ran for 35 minutes straight. Wahoo!

This is something only I’ve done a few times in my life, and all those times were in the 6 weeks in which I followed Bill Phillips brilliant Body

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Arnica Montana is also known as Leopard’s bane, wolf’s bane, mountain tobacco and mountain arnica. Its orange-yellow flowers and the rootlets are naturally therapeutic. It’s grown in herb gardens found across many European countries.  It has been used

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Hemmorhoids is a skin conditon that causes painful and swollen veins in the rectum area.  These veins can become itchy and painful when sitting.  There may also be pain during bowel movements.

Homeopathy has a wide range of

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  Homeopathy is a system of medicine developed well before vaccines came on the market.  Homeopathy is an all natural form of alternative medicines that uses diluted substances to treat a disease. 

Vaccines are made from a weakened microbe of the disease such as whopping cough. 

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There are so many things you are attached to . . .  so many ideas you have about who you are, what you stand for, and how people will remember you. You are attached to your identity, your beliefs, your thoughts, your relationships. You are attached to all the …

I’m back from a longish trip around my little corner of the universe with dad, celebrating his retirement with a trip overseas to visit his daughter. How lucky am I?
Last time dad came to England, I was living in London which made for a mostly urba…

While vacationing in Acadia, Maine, I recently found myself strongly drawn to carvings and pictures of bears in the shops and on signs and so forth. And once, while hiking, I thought I heard a bear (they have a distinctive shuffle). I meditated on this, and …

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From Ya Nafsi, Ya Nafsi to Ya Ummati, Ya Ummati

The famous Persian Sufi, Bayazid of Bistam (Bistami), saw in a moment of unveiling that the Pole (spiritual king) of the age was none other than the town’s humble ironsmith.
Bayazid was amazed, for…

A great master recipe for a vegetarian stew, packed with easy-to-find and inexpensive fresh vegetables and their frozen counterparts. Low carb. Weight Watchers 0 points or 1 point.~recipe & photo updated 2007 & 2010~~such a favorite recipe, rep…

Bismillahil Wahhab, wa Ni’mal Razzaq
In the Name of God, the Bestower, the Best of Provider

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Injustice, no matter in what form it comes: whether social, political or economic injustice - is shun in the most unambiguous message across all faith trad…