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“Knowing Thyself”
“Knowing Thyself” My right foot has a walking difficulty. I have been trying unsuccessfully to cure it for as long as I’ve had it. That’s about twenty years. No one in the medical field has been able to diagnose it. … Continue reading
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Tagged acupuncture, Aristotle, Authenticity, body rhythm, brain, contradiction, diagnosis, disability, dualism, eliptical, energy, exercise, handicap, hope, hypothesis, identity theory, Materialism, medication, medicine, mental causation, MRI, neurology, physical causation, placebo effect, psychic healing, psychosomatic, psychotherapy, riding, sincerity, strolling, symptoms, The Mind-Body Problem, the will, therapeutic riding, Total Gym, walking, yoga
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“Grief”
“Grief” Of late, it’s been one friend down after another. They’re falling over like soldiers raked with machine gun fire, each one opening another gap in the serried ranks. With every loss, one feels a whole dimension of one’s self … Continue reading
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Tagged Aging, brain, death of a friend, elegy, fallen comrades, grief, grief support, identity, identity theory, Kaddish, life story, lifetime, loss of a friend, Materialism, meditation, mourning, mourning a death, mourning a loss, Nevermore, philosophy, soldiers, The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe, the self, witness
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