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A karmic reunion, featuring the worst selfie ever

In 1975, I was an entering student at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Early on in that journey, I met a young cell biologist in the Department of Physiology who was giving brown-bag lunch talks to staff on his side interest in meditation. I had just learned Transcendental Meditation (TM) before starting at UMMS,…

David and Goliath, and ET

In this retelling of the Biblical saga, David is a local independent film-maker (Randall Nickerson), Goliath is a billion-dollar media mega-corporation (Netflix), and ET is the alien who was the featured “guest” in Randall’s 2022 documentary film Ariel Phenomenon. I discussed that film in my November 2024 blog post (go here and scroll down a…

A hatchet job by the New York Times

A monthly New York Times column on psychology called “Psych 101” recently discussed the best known of energy psychology’s tapping protocols – EFT – in a column entitled “What is tapping, and can it really improve mental health?”. To cut to the chase, the author concludes that “it’s not actually a psychological treatment”, it’s “pseudoscience”…

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