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Coincidence and Destiny
My book The Source and Significance of Coincidences goes on sale in less than two weeks (!!), but to whet your appetite, here’s another preview of one of the topics it discusses: the role of coincidence in bringing about our destiny. French novelist André Malraux once said, “Coincidence is the language of destiny.” Many of…
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How This Crazy Journey Began…
For all those who have asked me how I got from being an atheist with a PhD in analytic philosophy to being someone who takes seriously children’s memories of past lives…here’s a little of how that crazy journey began. I first started opening up to the possibility of meaning and purpose in the universe six years…
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Do Negative Emotions Sharpen Perception?
Lots of people carry in their heads the image of the tortured artist: the writer/painter/musician whose brilliant artistic achievements spring from a soil rich with personal failures, miseries, addictions, and/or mental illnesses. Writing guru Julia Cameron persuasively argues that creativity does not require depression. Or agony. That well-adjusted artists are, actually, quite successful and productive–maybe even more so than the…