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Aldous Huxley’s The Ulimate Revolution

Aldous Huxley’s The Ulimate Revolution

“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because [...]

February 26, 2011 Featured Slider, Lectures 0 Comments

Sugar: The Bitter Truth (It’s More Addictive Than Cocaine)

Sugar: The Bitter Truth (It’s More Addictive Than Cocaine)

Recent studies have shown that sugar is more addictive than cocaine. This lecture by Robert H. Lustig, University of California professor of pediatrics specialized in endocrinology, covers the perils of sugary foods.
Lustig does a great job clarifying what he thinks are the reasons behind the current obesity epidemic and sure doesn’t fail to prove his [...]

August 13, 2010 Lectures 0 Comments

David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain

David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain

The inside story on transcending the brain, with David Lynch, award-winning film director of Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and Mullholland Drive and long-term practitioner of Transcendental Meditation. The lecture also features John Hagelin, Ph.D., a Quantum Physicist featured in What The Bleep Do We Know? and Fred Travis, Ph.D., who is the Director of the [...]

August 8, 2010 Lectures 0 Comments

Creativity and Imagination: Bring On The Learning Revolution

Creativity and Imagination: Bring On The Learning Revolution

Sir Ken Robinson’s 2006 TED talk on how modern schools kill creativity really struck a chord with me the first time I watched it. In the brief 18 minute talk, Robinson explored how we can reform the modern school system to more effectively develop children’s natural powers of creativity and imagination.
He recently returned to TED [...]

June 14, 2010 Lectures 0 Comments

Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were all born with a brain built essentially like anyone else’s. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ways that changed history. With the new breakthroughs in neuroscience, combined with insights from thousands of years of contemplative practice, you, too, can shape your own [...]

June 13, 2010 Lectures 0 Comments