Britain in Palestine | Peace & Integration Forum
About four years ago, in Newbury England, local Muslim, evangelical and progressive (PCN) Christian, Quaker, and other friends came together to found the Forum. Beliefs differ considerably, but participants have a common…
Happiness is not more money
Money cannot buy happiness. Some say it’s a “wisdom” carefully invented by the poor as in the Fox and the grapes fable. Some believe the idea is supported by research. For most, it does not matter. Most have…
The Recipe of Happiness
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. <em>Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi</em>
What Happiness is Not ?
Defining happiness is as arduous as accomplishing it. Hundreds of different understandings of happiness exist in philosophy, psychology, religion, biology etc. Most people seem to have an understanding of happiness…
American Psychological Association Guilty of War Crimes?
A watchdog analysis released on Thursday (30th April 2015) examines the complicity of American Psychological Association in “Enhanced” Interrogation Programs in Guantanamo, Abu Ghuraib and elsewhere. According to the…
Recommended Philosophical Movies and TV Shows
List of Philosophical Movies and TV Shows that I have thoroughly enjoyed, in no particular order. Philosophy is a term with an array of meanings; I have enlisted compositions that question existence and force to ask…
Could Psych Evaluations have prevented Flight 9525 Calamity ?
Suicide does not seem like an apt word to describe the incident of Germanwings flight 9525. The co-pilot deliberately locked the captain out of the cockpit, and activated the descent that drove the plane into French…
The Psychology of Migraine: Not just another headache
Spring 2002, that’s when it all started. I was in boarding school. Nothing dramatic happened prior to it; no physiological change, no mental trauma, no depressive spell. It was like every other day, when it seemed like a…
One Grand Retraction
Writing it out, that has been my way of organizing my thoughts. I have been doing that for over a decade now. I have been writing for magazines, newspapers, websites and blogs, until recently, when I abruptly stopped. My…
Philosophy Hijacked by 'Age of Competition'
"...the increase of human power over nature has become completely automatic, uncontrollable and blind, because it everywhere exceeds the conscious will of individual. And , this is, quite simply, the inevitable result of…