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Counterclockwise: When Biology Is Not Destiny

A recurring temptation in psychology is to consider the latest discovery as something final. What could possibly lie beyond mind-body unity? This attitude is deadly, particularly when we already possess the building blocks for a nonlocal view of consciousness

Birthmarks and Reincarnation

“Experimental birthmark” describes an Asian custom: the body of a dying person is marked with a substance, most often soot, so that if the individual is reborn the infant’s body will bear a birthmark corresponding to the placement of the mark on the deceased — a death mark becoming a birthmark.

Distracted Doctoring and the iPatient

The term “distracted” doctoring does not adequately describe healthcare providers who habitually use electronic devices for non-medical purposes during patient care. These doctors, nurses, and technicians aren’t distracted by outside happenings; they’re purposefully deciding to interact with Facebook friends or Twitter followers instead of the patient in front of them.

The Lemon Juice Syndrome and the Hunger Games

Americans who, under the rubric of conservatism, oppose nutrition assistance to children also tend to deny the looming devastation of global climate change, the human costs of an inept healthcare system, the negative consequences of a constricted view of consciousness, and the dangerous costs of denying biological evolution. This is very troubling.

FOMO, Digital Dementia, and Our Dangerous Experiment

The couple thumbing their smartphones while ignoring one another, the moviegoer texting while his smartphone's screen blinds us, and the person who can't stop messaging long enough to keep the checkout line moving are all suffering from FOMO.

Saving Others

Evolutionary biology says we are genetically programed for individual survival. So when Wesley Autrey saw a man fall onto subway tracks in front of an approaching train, why did he leap down and cover the man's body with his own?

The Shannon Error: Trying to Catch Up When You Are Already Ahead

The Shannon Error is a metaphor for the mindless frenzy of modern life. Many of us feel beleaguered, confused, and alone. We are getting farther and farther behind, completely unaware that in many ways we are actually ahead of the game.

The Brain as Filter: On Removing the Stuffing from the Keyhole

The ideological fixation on the physical brain will eventually yield to a transpersonal, nonlocal dimension of consciousness. When this happens within neuroscience, the Source will be recognized and we will wonder how we could have been so blind.

Unbroken Wholeness: The Emerging View of Human Interconnection

Our connections are real, and they are life-affirming. Our connections are not optional; they are obligatory and intrinsic. This implies that we cannot secede from the web of life, even if we try. On this realization our future may depend.

Savants: What They Can Teach Us

Savants show us that it is possible to access transpersonal aspects of consciousness that are currently denied in conventional science. Are the occasional strobe-like bursts of insight, creativity, and epiphany that some people experience reminders of what we are capable of?

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Articles by: Larry Dossey MD

Counterclockwise: When Biology Is Not Destiny

Birthmarks and Reincarnation

Distracted Doctoring and the iPatient

The Lemon Juice Syndrome and the Hunger Games

FOMO, Digital Dementia, and Our Dangerous Experiment

Saving Others

The Shannon Error: Trying to Catch Up When You Are Already Ahead

The Brain as Filter: On Removing the Stuffing from the Keyhole

Unbroken Wholeness: The Emerging View of Human Interconnection

Savants: What They Can Teach Us

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