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In an article published by CNN on 9.1.2012, Deepak Chopra explains that the brain is dynamic and ever-renewing itself and how brain functions can be improved through the mind. Whatever we pay attention to is registered in the brain and drastically shapes its structure.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. He is the great danger. And we are pitifully unaware of it. We know nothing of man… far too little. His psyche should be studied – because we are the origin of all coming evil. Carl Gustav Jung

More and more wake-up calls are reaching us. More and more individuals speak up. Here’s Abby Martin (of Russia Today, US Edition) taking a look back at Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’ and its application to today’s society.

Among the horrors we read about in the media on a daily basis, a little reflection on the response of Spanish passer-by’s upon hearing this unconventional rendering of Beethoven’s eternal master piece.

Listening to people speak, I have often wondered why so many make random, commonplace statements and query them at the same time. Their voice ups and the sentence becomes a question rather than a statement.

Music by Johann Strauss immediately inspires to revel and waltz with abandon. The overture to ‘Die Fledermaus’ is one of those everlasting masterpieces one listens to with joy. Now here’s a performance with an unusual conductor, Edward Yudenich, at the time seven years old, yet already conducting like a maestro and with totality!

The hunt for terrorists hasn’t ebbed even though the main character, bin Laden, is no longer on the scene. On the contrary, some agencies are coming up with more and more creative ideas on how to identify a terrorist. Don’t miss Frank Zappa’s quote at the bottom!

BBC reports the exciting discovery of a planet whose skies are illuminated by four different suns – the first known of its type. This exciting finding was made by two US volunteers, Kian Jek of San Francisco and Robert Gagliano from Cottonwood, Arizona, by using the Planet Hunters website.

“How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.” ― St. Augustine of Hippo, 354 – 430 AD

In an article published in ‘The Speaking Tree’ (a Times of India publication, New Delhi) on October 7, 2012, widely acclaimed painter Pratiksha writes about the power of love.

An inspiring call to face and embrace the challenges before us, to create a field of love to surround our planet, to meditate, to awaken: “We can create love on this earth – all you have to do is look within.”

A recent article by Nicholas D. Kristof in the New York Times finally addresses the fact that common chemicals in our environment “may be even more harmful than previously thought. It seems that they may damage us in ways that are transmitted generation after generation, imperiling not only us but also our descendants.