Muting the Question of Salvation
Salvation, the core question in the ancient religious and non-religious philosophies, was insentiently muted by modern philosophies. Central entities in moral philosophies of the past; cosmos, divine and God, were…
Greatest Weapon Against Stress - William James (1842-1910)
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
Temple Grandin (2010) | Movie Review
Temple Grandin, a girl born in 1947, barely uttered a word until she was four. She was born Autistic. She used her autism, the ability to <em>think in pictures</em>, to her advantage and expounded issues that are…
Freedom in Madness (Khalil Jibran 1883-1931)
And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness: the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. Khalil Jibran in <em>The Madman</em>
Normality (Jon Ronson)
There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of…
The Psychopath Test (by Jon Ronson) | Book Review
So, I had lots of hours to burn in London before my flight. And I needed a place with free Wi-Fi. Luckily, there was <em>Waterstones</em> nearby. Tell you what; free Wi-Fi is an excellent marketing strategy. I ended up…
Jon Ronson : Strange Answers to the Psychopath Test
Watch the video Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, illuminates the gray areas between the two by explaining the story of 'the…
I Counsel : Some Reflections
There are hundred shades of OCD, probably more. Obsessions and compulsion have been there, for thousands of years, probably more. And tens of terminologies have been used to describe the phenomenon, probably more. Now,…
Journey Into an OCD Mind
What this write-up is about? Do you or your loved one have excessive fear or disgust with regards to contamination? Do you or your loved one have an uncontrollable urge to hoard useless items? Do you or your loved one…
If Humans Had Printed Expiry Dates
This showed up on New Year’s Eve on my Facebook news feed ‘I wish humans were born with printed expiry dates’. I gave it a thought, and I realized that the one who was wishing so, and those who had ‘liked’ the thought,…