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by Bill Walz Creating art can be a very healing experience. It can be quite therapeutic to take what is inside and bring it forward into some representation or manifestation in the world, and psychotherapeutic theory holds that when we make conscious that which is unconscious, we can begin toContinue Reading

by Max Hammonds, MD More than 2.5 million Americans die every year. Most people would like to avoid being in that group and live a long, healthy life, but aren’t sure how to do it. Is it a matter of bad genetics? Limited access to health care? Let’s look atContinue Reading

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by Max Hammonds, MD A recent online health service noted: “40% of cancers are due to avoidable life choices… Tobacco causes 23% of [cancer] cases in men and 15.6% of cases in women. The next largest cause of cancer in men was lack of fruits and vegetables in their diets…”Continue Reading

by Bill Walz “Already we are the Buddha. There’s just no doubt about that. How could we be anything else? We’re all right here now. Where else could we be? But the point is to realize clearly what that means; this total oneness; this total harmony; and to be ableContinue Reading

by Bill Walz “Everything is as it can be.” ~ Alan Watts, philosopher/theologian Eckhart Tolle advises us “our suffering is in our resistance to what is.” The “what is” of life contains the entire spectrum of possibility from the sublimely beautiful to the unfathomably hideous, from the birth of aContinue Reading

“As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes.” ~ Bhagavad-Gita As important as this is to realize, I would like to take the discussion of karma to a subtler level, the level of the evolution of consciousness. The cause andContinue Reading

by Max Hammonds, MD News Flash! The largest report on lifestyle and colon-rectal cancer ever published concludes that Americans can largely prevent the disease by maintaining a healthy weight, being physically active, drinking less alcohol, consuming only moderate amounts of red meat and avoiding processed meats. Really!?!? The American InstituteContinue Reading