How “Fight or Flight” Responses Can Save Our Lives by Gordon DalwoodThe response of “fight or flight” is inborn in all human beings. It is the basis for our survival instincts. When we fear danger we either have the feeling to fight against that danger or to flee from it. This response has protected humans [...]

“The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science” is a book on neuroplasticity by psychiatrist Norman Doidge, M.D. In it, Dr. Doidge explains that the human brain is as malleable as a lump of wet clay, not just in childhood, but well into old age. This has implications [...]

I expected to find, frankly, less research as I dug through hundreds of scientific articles on the naturalness of forgiveness but, boy, was I wrong. As it turns out, a lot of biologists have been trying to figure out what allows human beings to be the cooperative creatures that we are. We’re cooperative with each [...]

I kinda promised to participate in Pax’s International Pagan Values Blogging Month , but as yet have failed to really come up with anything. So this is my late and half-baked attempt. What I value most are human beings. I cannot claim to like them all. But when needed I’ll try to love them. I don’t like to judge even if their world views are removed from my own. Recently I met a guy in a bar a short walk away from my apartment. I was pretty drunk and acting the fool. And for some reason t