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Creating Favorable Conditions in Orlando

In October, just before Hurricane Matthew threatened Orlando, Florida, the organizers of the annual Magnet conference—the most prestigious and highly attended nursing conference in the USA—invited us to speak on the benefits of the TM

Promila Bahadur: Empowering Girls and Women through Computer Literacy

When Promila Bahadur was a child growing up in Lucknow, India, she learned at an early age to help those less fortunate. “One time a servant came to me and asked me for food,” she

Women Artists and the Freedom to Create

This Autumn, the work of women artists will be pervading the art scene from gallery exhibitions to solo shows in museums. Women have always been artists—expressing themselves early on in forms from weaving to ceramics—and

Report from Greek Refugee Camps: An interview of Stacey Hurlin

Anastasia (Stacey) Hurlin is a mother, an educator, an artist, and an activist; in her case, activist means being an unhesitating proactive mother to the world. She has a keen perception of the remarkable good

Anna Bruen: Inner Silence, Multitasking and Sustainable Living

As a child, Anna Bruen had an unusual hero: Rachel Carson, the marine biologist who wrote Silent Spring, the startling treatise that alerted the nation to the dangers of DDT. Now 30, Anna finds herself

TM Works for Social Workers

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. – Jane Addams, founder of the social work profession in the

Resort to Consciousness

Every informed adult knows that we are in a serious position right now: US election data reveals a stunning disparity in the philosophy and politics of our nation’s population; the world suffers from an ongoing

Singing the Song of Life

I came from a musical family and had been performing since I was a teenager, and I sang every single day and night. I can’t relate to it now, but I can remember being happy only when I was singing. Outside of singing there were only tiny, tiny moments of happiness. So I had to sing all the time.

When I learned the Transcendental Meditation technique in 1974, I could…

Is Providing Education for Girls Enough?

At an event in Morocco in late June, First Lady Michelle Obama stated that 62 million girls around the world today are being denied a basic education. This is an incalculable loss to humanity. Statistics show that one educated girl in a family can break the cycle of poverty in just one generation; more than sixty…

Gun Control and Impulse Control

Every day we hear about gun violence and it’s self evident that something needs to be done. The question in the media is: are people responsible and guns merely proximate causes? (e.g., “Stop blaming the guns and start blaming the person.”) Whether or not we regulate access to guns*, a more fundamental solution is to reduce violent tendencies and deal with the growing lack of impulse control in our society that leads to violence of all kinds.