I am fascinated by the power of belief. Not only can you affect your physical body via the placebo affect, the entire way you experience life is dependent on what you believe and variant based on the belief in question. * Holding a belief that credits a higher power for…

Who are you? It’s only a scary question because it asks us to define our whole selves as we are in the world. It asks us to be confident in who we are, how we live everyday, how we behave, why we love, what we feel, how we exist. It…

So you’ve mastered meditation, you understand the ins and outs of our crazy powerful minds. Maybe the initial goal was to cure your mental hardships, anxiety or depression, or curiosity simply got the best of you. Whatever brought you to where you are, I deeply congratulate you. Mastering the mind…

Falling into routine is easy. Blinking away months, even years, is a common feeling. It isn’t until we start or end chapters of our lives that we feel connected to the passage of time. Take the beginning versus end of the school year, for example. Starting a semester of school…

Possible worlds was developed by early modern philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and provided an answer to the everlasting question, in a world created by a loving and perfect God, why do bad things happen? Leibniz was a prominent philosopher who wrote over 50,000 documents over his lifetime and contributed heavily…

Pre-established harmony and occasionalism account for causality in abstract, non physical substances; monad interaction and God. While these concepts are distinctly different by name, the essence of the definition behind each concept are similar in terms of their fundamental function to the respective doctrine that utilizes them. Leibniz believed there…