Free will is the ability of agents to make choices unimpeded. Factors that might impede choice include metaphysical constraints (particularly forms of determinism such as logical, physical, biological, social or theological determinism), physical constraints (such as the requirements of the laws of science), social constraints (such as threat of punishment, censure, or imprisonment), and mental constraints (such as compulsions or phobias, neurological disorders, or genetic predispositions). … [Read more...]
Free Will: Fact, Faith or Philosophy?
Accepting ‘Otherness’, a Path to Mental Health
"Woman is the other of man, animal is the other of human, stranger is the other of native, abnormality the other of norm, deviation the other of law-abiding, illness the other of health, insanity the other of reason, lay public the other of the expert, foreigner the other of state subject, enemy the other of friend." (Bauman 1991: 8). Modern Illness in Mental Health Societal Mental Health; why Humans need Integration for Health The concept of The Other highlights how many societies … [Read more...]
The Metaneural Network / Electromagnetic Waves
The Metaneural Network Electromagnetic Waves IMAGE The captivity of believing that the physical is all there is to reality, comes from a disregard for and from certain inconsistent assumptions (the conservation of energy). Even the skeptical scientist can not sustain the belief sometimes practiced in the psychological and psychiatric world that there is a nothing which is called illusion or an image called an hallucination which is nothing. The extent of the energy pattern which … [Read more...]
WOMAN of ACTION™ – Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu
A Celebration of Women™ is elated to Celebrate the Life of this powerful female presence that graced our earth, living her life ahead of her times. WOMAN of ACTION™ Chien-Shiung Wu "I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. I disproved one of the then widely accepted "laws" of physics, 'the conversation of parity', by proving that identical nuclear particles do not always act … [Read more...]
The YIN Mind@EVE Revere – ‘Our Innermost Functions’
The Yin Mind looks at the innermost functions of women, the essence of being female. What has been written before, has presented challenges, provocation, perhaps disturbance, to the ideal meant to be affirmed, asserted, expressed and advocated. Now, here, the threshold has been crossed. We enter the substance, the inner physiology, the psychology of the female mind. So often we read, in these pages, about the appearance, the style the presentation of the female form as a canvas upon … [Read more...]