This subject took center stage on the question of soul vs spirit. In today’s world, a daemon is a software program designed to alert the sender of an email that is undeliverable. When my mother got the daemon message, she would call to tell me she had a demon!...
After a long absence, I decided to return to the sport of disc golf. Throwing a frisbee is a skill you never lose. In 1996, I was the putting champion at the first annual Texas State Championship. But now it seems I could hardly get a putt to go...
Defiance takes many forms in our world today. Civil disobedience, road rage, and breaking rules are all forms of defiance. We define defiance as a refusal to obey something or someone. Being against the wishes of others is another form of defiance. I am guilty of questioning authority! (tee...
We all know the power of words and have felt the sharp pain of feeling hurt by what someone said. But most have also felt harm by the absence of words. The space between the words can hold a deafening silence. In our world, this is called ghosting. The...
This term is also known as ground state energy. In the quantum world, zero-point energy is a byproduct. Its basis is the fact that subatomic particles don’t react like single particles. Instead they move in waves that rise and fall like the ocean tides. Every fluctuation requires energy at...
I was traveling through Arkansas when I made a stop for gas. To the side of the station was a long waist-high container. Written on the side was “Baby Rattlers”. I approached the stainless steel container with caution to peer over the edge. The box contained rattling toys for...
Social psychologist Daniel Wegner began exploring the Ironic Process Theory while studying thought suppression in 1987. This is also known to many as the White Bear Problem. I guess White Elephant was taken (tee hee). Ironic Process Theory is an abstract idea that says conscious attempts to suppress thoughts...
Martyr complex is a term used by psychologists to describe a person who chooses to feel and act like a victim. A people-pleaser is a close relative to the martyr complex people (tee hee). Both will sacrifice their needs to please others. The difference is the martyr complex comes...
In the early 1900s, Edward Titchener, a British psychologist, described words’ losing their meaning as puzzling and a bit frightening. It was also the first report of semantic saturation in academic literature. When a word is repeated, reactive inhibition can occur. Rapid firing of the word causes brain neurons...
One of Edgar Cayce’s hypotheses was that human consciousness broke off into fractals. In an instant, theses particles of energy (some would call human souls) left ‘at-onement’ with God. The result was some of these souls descending upon the Earth. Their destiny was the experience of inhabiting a three-dimensional...
