Archive for the 'Humanities' Category

Understanding Memory Lapses

Most people think that memory lapses are for the hopelessly disorganized. This is because some have systems. For instance, the keys go into the key jar.
The point is, compulsive list makers never come home from the supermarket without the items they intend to buy. Imagine their annoyance when eventually they take three trips between [...]

Unique Christmas Gift – For That Special Person In Your Life

Christmas is a very special time. This is a time when you would like to make people who are special to you know how much you love them. The best way to make this happen is by finding a unique Christmas gift for them. By definition, ‘unique’ means something that has no pair, no duplication [...]

Amish Quilting Was Once Thought Revolutionary

When you think of Amish people, you think of horse-drawn buggies, plain clothes, barn raisings, farms and quilts. However, the Amish came rather late to the quilt making. Long after their neighbors were piecing quilts the Amish still used the old German featherbeds and coverlets. There was a good reason for this. Amish communities were [...]

Why We Are Self-Destructive

On a cultural level, most social conditioning, focuses on either repressing desires or permitting only a certain strain of desires. All this results in distorted desires and completely maladaptive emotions like fear, shame, and guilt.
As an organism advances in intelligence, so, too, does its desires. There are the basic desires of the body [...]

The Royal Observer Corps Story – A Hidden Gem of World War II

One of the hidden gems of the Second World War is the story of how local volunteers watching the skies above England, Scotland and Wales helped saved many lives and brought about a change of fortune for the beleagured RAF.
Formed in 1925 in the South East of England, and expanded to cover more of the [...]

Mr Hendrick’s Ingenius Formula For Increasing Charity Donations

“Donate more to charitable causes and increase your own income at the same time…” said Mark Hendricks; a world renowned internet ‘GURU’, in a recent presentation.
Enriching the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves is a function that charitable organisations perform across the world and in some cases under extreme conditions. However, in order [...]

Who Am I?

I feel so strange right now. So many thoughts are racing through my mind. I don’t know why I am anymore. I just know I am.
Existence seems to be unimportant and seems to consist of nothing. I know I have a reason for being, but what is that reason? [...]

Setting Psychic Boundaries part 2

But with anything that you are learning and developing you need to do develop your psychic with balance, and caution. You must put a general statement to the universe of what you would like to handle. You set boundaries for what you can and can’t take in. You clearly define the boundaries [...]

The Dating Game Part II: How to Become the Right Person with a Rewarding Relationship

In Part I of this two part series, I discussed how to find a date, how to perfect your online profile and discussion topics. In this part, I want to discuss relationships and how to succeed in one.
Once you have conquered the dating scene, how do you inspire the person who has [...]

Being on the Team – Becoming Better Friends

Men tend to need physical contact to verify their relationships, while women tend to need an emotional connection to validate theirs. Men need that tactile moment that will break the emotional barrier for them and women need emotional stimulation to break the ice with them.
Men are more visual and women are more auditory. [...]