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The Five Sheaths or Layers of Human Being 🧘‍♀️

​Annamaya Kosha (The Food Sheath) ​This is the physical body—everything you can touch,see & measure...It is built from the food we ingest ​This equates to Anatomy & Biology...It includes your DNA, bones, muscles, & the microbiome In modern medicine...when a doctor treats a broken arm or prescribes... read more

Does dreamcatcher work or not?

I saw this one while browsing online, and decided to buy. Because I had trouble sleeping for ages ..most often interrupted by bad dreams. But after hanging this one I slept good 😴 without dreams. It just made me think 🤔 .. does this actually work like magic or was it just my mind made me into... read more

Mere Curiosity

After years of meaning to, last month I finally began to step into C.S. Lewis’ world with The Screwtape Letters but I still haven’t finished it (typical me 🥲)… even jumped to a Robert Greene book I'd left hanging three years ago. And yet here I am now, contemplating Mere Christianity—praying I’ll... read more

Very slowly processing 3 pounds of chicken

Also it's nice that if you use ginger paste it basically makes a crispy coating I hate keto so much it's unreal but I can definitely feel it working even if my stomachs not getting smaller I don't know if it's just placebo but I do feel less heavy I'm probably averaging 1200 or less calories a... read more

Help, I think I got back to my Placebo obsession

For my mom's nightmare, my friend's ram memory and ear tolerance, after years, my teenage obsession with Brian Molko, that never quite got away, is fully back.

Debate

The "miracle healing" of spiritual traditions (think Christianity for example) are nothing more or less than what we now call "the placebo effect". Should we not therefore look into how we can utilise the body's ability to self-heal through consciousness?