The Neuroscience of Synchronicity
Seeing the Bothness of Life
Wholeness: Synchronicity reveals that life is not random noise but a meaningful dialogue between our inner and outer worlds.
Details: Neuroscience, quantum physics, and spirituality together show how the brain perceives coincidences as both chance and connection.
Refraction: By practicing bothness, we learn to meet synchronicities not as superstition, but as invitations to awareness and growth.
Oxidative Stress + Healing Pathways
The Body in Trauma
Wholeness: Oxidative stress and the connection between health and social systems.
Details: Trauma’s effect on the body, relationships, social cognition, and the future.
Refraction: Integration of healing interventions and resilience strategies.
Do you feel you act from your heart or from your mind?
Nutritional psych.
How Diet Impacts: neurotransmitter metabolism, inflammation, oxidative stress, mitochondrial function, and epigenetic regulation
Wholeness: Introduction to diet’s effect on the chemical balance of systems in the human body, and their outcomes for mental health.
Details: Define nutritional psychiatry; neuroscience findings; roles in mental health treatment.
Refraction: Offer simple exercises for tuning into interoceptive signals daily.
The Myth of a Silent Mind
Why Thought Stillness Isn’t the Goal
Wholeness: Challenging the cultural and spiritual assumption that a quiet mind equals success.
Details: Research on thought frequency, brain noise vs. productive mental activity, cultural perspectives on mind chatter.
Refraction: Invitation to reframe mental activity as natural and work with it rather than against it.
Reverberating Consciousness
Summary: The Value of Reading Vedic Literature in Sanskrit
"Vedic texts cannot be translated, because in translation, you can translate only isolated values. That is why Veda is not known through reading the books. Veda is known by being totality."— Maharishi
Why Curiosity Outperforms Discipline
Mind Training
Wholeness: How curiosity is a more sustainable motivator than discipline.
Details: Summarized research on intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation; anecdotal evidence.
Refraction: Some curiosity-based approaches to learning and self-practice.