SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER… THESE ARE THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE ITS CONTINUING MISSION, TO EXPLORE STRANGE NEW WORLDS TO SEEK OUT NEW LIFE AND NEW CIVILIZATIONS TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE When Star Trek-The Next Generation first premiered in the fall of 1987, the television landscape was very different. [...]

Although the practice of sacrifice has been used in many ancient cultures, its intent was, in some way, to satisfy the demands that the gods were making for repayment of some beneficial effects bestowed on behalf of the people. Over time these sacrifices became physical and included the sacrifice of animals and humans, in the [...]

In a previous essay, I wrote about KARMA as the law of cause and effect. In this essay, I want to explore KARMA as the energy of attraction. By attraction, I’m referring to how elements, whether they be identified as physical elements or thoughts and actions, causes and effects, can be pulled towards each other, [...]

When I was in college, one of the courses that I found most interesting was Medical Anthropology. It covered medical practices from a cross-cultural standpoint. Although it was a reasonable approach, it was also one that was often at odds with the scientific approach that western medicine embodies, primarily because in many cultures, healing is [...]

There is no excuse or logic why so many people in the United States remain uninsured or have no accessibility to medical care. I fail to understand any excuses that try and explain it. In a country so rich, with almost unlimited resources as the United States. Politicians on both sides of the aisle that [...]