It seems more and more like the holiday season starts October 1st and runs through the beginning of the New Year. Halloween decorations came out in my suburban Austin neighborhood at the beginning of October. Thanksgiving blow-ups immediately followed Halloween around the first of November. The weekend before Thanksgiving,...
Research has shown that our happiness is influenced by the interactions within personal relationships. When someone close is mostly negative, the other person in the relationship can develop low moods, pessimism, anxiety, and general mistrust. Being constantly warned about the things they are doing wrong, hearing distrust and negative...
You go through a break-up, divorce or separation, so you tell yourself and everyone it was meant to be. A loved one passes, and you express they are in a better place. You’re diagnosed with an illness, so you use the old adage ‘everything happens for a reason’. We...
Larry reached out with a whisper request that went as follows: “I recently had a dream where the deceased wife of a close friend told me to tell her husband that she missed him and she loved him. Which, of course, I did. We both cried, and he thanked...
This sounds like something we all need! (tee hee) This whisper came up after a young man who had experienced the Forsyth Crystal Light Table made reference to a science article that he said explains why the light table works. Self-organization is a process where some form of overall...
I was at the gym, wondering about the topic for this week’s whisper, when I became clear about the subject. My thoughts went toward heaven on Earth. At the exact instant, a song by Belinda Carlisle, called Heaven Is a Place on Earth, began to play. The lyrics went...
Division in our country has reached alarming levels. I came across the term ‘competitive reflex’ as I studied to reach some level of understanding the me first movement in our country. What is the competitive reflex? It is the preconscious, visceral impulse to oppose or outdo others, or to...
Attempting to understand the term God’s Will is one tall whisper! The concept of an omnipresent entity made of pure love imposing some type of supreme will on an entire planet seems beyond any human’s ability to fully comprehend. (tee hee) According to some, the will of God falls...
The word ontology comes from the Greek words onto-, which means being or that which is, and -logy, which means the science of or study of. Parmenides of Elea, a Presocratic Greek philosopher, was among the first to propose an ontological characterization of the fundamental nature of reality. Ontology...
Touch as a transitive verb means to bring a bodily part into contact in order to perceive through the tactile sense. The second meaning is to handle or feel gently, usually with the intent to understand or appreciate. Touch used as a noun refers to one of the senses...
