Nowhere is the disconnect between science and spirit felt more intimately than in matters of mental health.

We can speak empirically on this by saying things like, “America spends over $113 billion a year on mental health treatment,” or “depression affects over 14.8 million adults,” but, cold data marginalizes actual human experience, so if you’re suffering, this doesn’t really help much.

The statistical view does, however, tell us that mental illness is epidemic in our culture, that an enormous economy has risen around the mainstream medical approaches to treating mental illness, and that this industry does not appear to be effective in reversing the growing epidemic of mental illness.

What is Madness?

The influential book on Western mental health, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, presently lists some 300 mental disorders that a doctor, psychiatrist or psychologist can choose from when diagnosing a patient.

Given that many of the symptoms of poor mental health are overlapping, like mood swings, depression, and anxiety, psychiatry is a subjective science at best, and the pathological model to matters of the mind and spirit doesn’t always work.

There is, of course, another perspective on mental wellness, one much older than the DSM and theAmerican Psychiatric Association. Many of the world’s indigenous cultures would view our mental disorders not as symptoms of something wrong with a person, but rather as evidence of the arrival of incompatible psychic energies into the person’s life. Energies that must be dispelled or integrated, rather than ignored or subdued. Continue reading →

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In the debate over which diet and lifestyle is the best path for increased health and longevity, there is nothing like real-life indisputable proof such as that found among the Hunza tribe in the Himalayas.

These people, living in an extremely secluded region of the world, practice simple lifestyle habits which allow them to enjoy excellent overall health and lifespans of up to 145 years!

This, and they do it in style, being among the happiest human beings on Earth with near-perfect physiology. Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, blood pressure issues and other common plagues of the Western world are almost unheard of among the Hunza.

This tribe was first written about by Dr. Robert McCarrison in the publication Studies in Deficiency Disease, followed in 1961 by an article in JAMA documenting the remarkable lifespan of the Hunza. As a result of this prior research, Dr. Jay M. Hoffman took a trip to the Hunza valley to study tribal longevity more in depth. His findings were published in the 1968 book HUNZA – Secrets of the world’s healthiest and oldest living people. Continue reading →

Ramses Sanguino, five-year-old son to his mother Nyx Sanguino, has demonstrated some of the most baffling abilities this world has ever seen in existence. The child is able to telepathically read his mothers mind and can read the numbers she writes down in secret.

Not only does he posses telepathic powers, but already knows seven different languages and is an expert at solving incredibly difficult mathematical equations. The only reasoning behind his capabilities is that Ramses is diagnosed with a “high functioning” form of autism. Scientists immediately became fascinated by how remarkable this child presents himself.

Nyx Sanguino began posting various videos of Ramses to show anyone who was willing to watch just how gifted her son really is. Her videos capture the attention of Dr. Diane Powell, a respected neuroscientist and former faculty member at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Powell believes that this kind of telepathy may represent an alternative way of communicating between autistic kids and their parents. In other words, a way for the kids to express themselves the best way that they can. Continue reading →

 Personal transformation is a shift in the way you perceive yourself, which leads to a shift in seeing how our world works. Personal transformation is sometimes called personal development, personal growth or spiritual transformation. Personal transformation looks different for everyone. Everyone grows at their own speed, and when we support each other; the process always goes smoother.

Here is a collection of wisdom from great people from around the world, that can inspire you to spark your own personal transformation…

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”  

? Rumi

“There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather, or ten minutes of plowing.  Continue reading →