This one is especially for those Star Trek nerds like me: For the rest of you… #makeitso #LauraValeri #startreknextgeneration #startrekchristmas #picard #mer...

What fascinates me, still now, is what I discovered about the ancient and almost prescient wisdom of Sumerian mystics.  Much of it is tied to the enigmatic w...

The writer of the piece seemed quite frustrated by all the emphasis of Tibetan medicine on chants, magic and astrology.  Phrases from the sacred literature i...

Oh, do I have the event for you! Friday, February the 7th  from 5-7pm Laura Valeri, born in Piombino, Italy, will sign copies of her latest book, Safe in You...

Even though I finished writing a complete and polished draft of my novel The Faithful Son, I’m still reading up a ton on Mesopotamian literature, especially ...

I hear this a lot: “What comes around goes around.” I love saying it. And I love saying, “Bad Karma” and “That’s just karma, dude,” and what I really mean wi...

I do so with a little bit of trepidation because this means revealing to the world how much of an optimistic and earnest fool I really am at heart and I know...

Diwali, the festival of lights.  It helps to have colorful candy and to call your brother, too, as Diwali is a way to welcome luck and prosperity into your h...

Buddhism in Bangkok, Thailand (Photo credit: photo-555.com) Years ago I began to realize that I didn’t have to be a lapsed Catholic. More accurately, I began...

I mean everything, from the extra-curricular basketball team that my coach was so happy to accept me into due to my height (approximately 5’9″), never antici...

Recently, I started to collect these sayings, remedies and superstitions, in part because I’m a bit nostalgic for my past, in part because my forthcoming boo...

article today posted by a friend on FaceBook, and I just had to share what I think about this: A mob stripped, tortured and bound a woman accused of witchcra...

It happens a lot to people: blockages. They start in your mind and move to your body.  The reverse is also true. Usually, I feel really good after I do yoga ...

Cuneiform TI sign Cuneiform TI or TÌL (Borger 2003 nr. ; U+122FE 𒋾) has the main meaning of “life” when used ideographically. The written sign developed fro...

I The film was about a woman philosopher, astronomer and mathematician living in Alexandria, Egypt in 400 A.D.  Her name is Hypatia.  She lived right at the ...

Mata Amritanandamayi is the name of the saint known most popularly as “the hugging saint.”  To her devotees she is merely Amma, a word in Sanskrit that means...