I have borrowed the title of this blog from Shakespeare’s play, Richard III. Richard III was not a nice man, although the real Richard was probably not as evil as Shakespeare and others have made him out to be. He was the last king of England to actually lead his troops into battle and died in the Battle of Bosworth Field. Shakespeare portrays him as evil, and he may well have been. Medieval kings had a tendency to be corrupt and cruel, and someone I have quoted before, Lord Acton, famously said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts . . . → Read More: Winter of Our Discontent
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 Comments are closed  Blog  Abraham Lincoln, Boston Tea Party, Chinese Revolution, democracy, economic influence, England, evil, fake news, fool all the people, Founding Fathers, French revolution, George Santayana, health care, health insurance, history, human spirit, infrastructure, King, media, met the enemy, national debt, news media, Paul Simon, plutocracy, Pogo, political influence, Republicans, resisting evil, revolution, Richard III, Russian revolution, Shakespeare, Simon and Garfunkel, Slip Slidin' Away, Social Security, tax cut, tax cuts, the man behind the curtain, the States, U.S. election, wealthy, Winston Churchill, Wizard of Oz You may know the old saying, the darkest hour is just before dawn. While the saying isn’t literally true, it serves metaphorical purpose. First Light precedes astronomical dawn and provides the first proof that night is coming to an end. “Political night” has descended in the States, leading many to wonder whether “first light” is right around the corner. Many are hopeful. I’m not so sure. I think we (all of us) need to gain some perspective based on history. The history of humanity has been primarily wars and exploitation. War, of course, is not new. Tribes went . . . → Read More: Gaining Perspective Comments are closed Blog Africa, Bob Dylan, Charles Darwin, Communist Block, Communist Revolution, darkest hour, dawn, Europe, evolution, first light, follow the money, health care, history, humanity, Indo-china, Korean War, Masters of War, Medieval times, natural resources, perspective, Pete Seeger, politics, redistribution of wealth, slavery, stay woke, tribal warfare, tribes, uberwealthy, Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, War in Vietnam, WWII The meetings of the International College of Integrative Medicine always provide new and interesting information about advances in holistic health care. Regular readers of this blog will remember my previous posting about my Adventures in Mesotherapy, when I sought a way to improve my hearing. Although I had not expected another opportunity to improve my hearing acuity at the October 2013 ICIM meeting in Columbus, Ohio (“INNOVATION: Meeting Today’s Medical Challenges”), that’s what happened. Debra and I were attending the ICIM meeting to conduct two sessions on meditation and hypnosis. In addition to our own presentations, we also do . . . → Read More: Adventures in Pulsed Power at ICIM Comments are closed Blog audiologist, chelation, Columbus, death, Diagnostic Face Reading, health, health care, hearing, hearing acuity, hearing loss, heavy metals, holistic, holistic health care, ICIM, improving hearing, International College of Integrative Medicine, learning, MagnaCharger, medical, medical challenges, medical training, Mesotherapy, Ohio, PEMF, pulsed magnetic cellular charger, pulsed power, Samuel Johnson, well-being It has been almost two months since my last blog entry. I have been busy, and a lot has been happening, some of which I thought would make good posts, and some of which interfered with my writing. In that category, if you have been following Debra’s and my SCS posts, you know that Debra needed to have a complete hysterectomy. She is now recovering and still hoping to spend the coming winter in Florida, which she has been thinking of as a “healing garden.” Some of the discussion following the shooting of the children at the Sandy Hook, . . . → Read More: Evidence Procedures, Part 2 Comments are closed Blog argue with reality, automatic weapons, belief systems, beliefs, Byron Katie, children, CO2, congress, debate, defense, defense spending, economic well-being, evidence procedure, fossil fuels, funding, global climate change, global domination, global warming, health care, human activity, industrialized nations, killing, Loving What Is, metamodel, military-industrial, NLP, Norway, reality, religious belief, research, revenue, Sandy Hook, science, scientific, Scotland, shooting, spending, Switzerland, tax code, weapons training, Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp In NLP, one of the central Metamodel questions is, “How do you know?” An honest answer to the question provides information about a person’s “model of the world,” which is essentially a “reality strategy”—the way people decide what’s real. In most cases, what we think of as “real” is more accurately a “belief,” in some cases with very little in the way of supporting evidence. Most beliefs begin, of course, with some evidence in the external environment. Through the natural processes of deletion, distortion, and generalization, beliefs that have a logical beginning can become increasingly distorted over time. 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