I have often thought that there should be at least one day set aside for personal reflection. Two days come to mind: my birthday and December 31st. Although birthdays are more personal and I do reflect on that day anyway, I have chosen Dec 31st to be the day more appropiate for me as my [...]

“To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heart-ache [...]

Although these forms of divination have all been around for centuries, they exist because people have a need to know what their future holds. Perhaps they think that the future – something that doesn’t exist yet – is already set and fixed, that if they know what it may be, that they will in some [...]

This is the subject I have had the most trepidation writing about, mostly because there is such strong feelings about it. Reincarnation, seen by the West as totally conflicting with Judeo-Christian Theology, has been so misunderstood especially here where it’s been associated more with people who have rejected the commonly accepted theology of heaven and [...]

When I refer to education, what I’m talking about is more than just what schools do. That is just one part of it. I’m expanding education to include how a culture, a society, or a country educates the newer generations on the culture itself. Schools as we know them now teach reading, writing, arithmetic, history [...]