Life is a game in which the rules change as the game progresses, and you have to know where you are in the game to know what rules to play by. Furthermore, you can’t ever be certain where you are in the game, and the rules don’t always apply ~ Brad Blanton

Meditation can be a purely pragmatic act. It is not a great mysterious or mystical art relegated to the realm of yogis and dudes in loincloths sitting in icy caves.

1/16/2010 How to get 1,000 reviews on Amazon.com. The first thousand copies of Darkness : The Power Of Illumination sold out quickly. Surprisingly, out of 1,000 people who bought the first edition only 3 wrote reviews. Good or bad, only 3 reviews were registered on Amazon.com. So we came up with a new diabolical scheme [...]

“And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.” Maya Deren Maya Deren (April 29, 1917, Kiev – October 13, 1961, New York City), born Eleanora Derenkowskaya, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and [...]

Over 100,000 people have died as a result of Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti. In 1804 Native Haitians defeated French colonists and declared independence. The unifying force behind their improbable revolution? Vodou. So now the question remains, who made pact with the devil? The French who kidnapped people from their home country, enslaved them, tortured, rapped and murdered thousands of innocent men women and children or is it the the descendants of slaves who against all odds maintained and held on to their traditions and beliefs until these beliefs united them to rise up and ultimately earn their liberation from their oppressors ? You choose.

North American fan site ‘Avatar Forums’ has received 2,000 posts under a thread entitled ‘Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible’.

Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, at this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count since [...]

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined. 2009 seems to have been a fairly unfocused year for many, yours truly included. I woke up New Years day at some ungodly hour thinking obsessively about all the unfinished projects on my plate. Then, as if in a sudden flash it came [...]

In my opinion the top 6 books on herbal and natural medicine of all time are as follows: The Nature Doctor Alfred A. Vogel http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Doctor-Traditional-Complementary-Medicine/dp/0879835591/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262505458&sr=1-1 Green Pharmacy: The History and Evolution of Western Herbal Medicine Barbara Griggs http://www.amazon.com/Green-Pharmacy-History-Evolution-Medicine/dp/0892817275/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262505528&sr=1-11   Of Men & Plants: The Fascinating Story of the World’s Most Famous Natural Healer (Hardcover) http://www.amazon.com/Men-Plants-Fascinating-Worlds-Natural/dp/B000GM614Q/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262505677&sr=1-3 [...]