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Mind over Matter
Ever heard of “Mind over Matter”? Wondered what it’s all about?
The following incident, extracted and summarized from “The New Scientist” of May 2009, sheds some light on the matter.
Late one night in a small Alabama cemetery, Vance Vanders bumped into a witch doctor who shoved a bottle of unpleasant-smelling liquid under his nose and told him he was about to die and no one could save him.
Once back home, Vanders felt ill and his condition …
Hocus Pocus and Bogus!
I sat in the line of the waiting room, secretly examining those around me. To my left was a shabbily-dressed woman with bloodshot eyes who’d clearly spent the past few days crying. To the right I spotted a balding man who constantly fidgeted. He was trying to put on a calm demeanour and display a brave front, but the stains of sweat rapidly spreading on his shirt betrayed his nervousness. Everybody here, it seemed, had a problem “too huge to cope with” …
Apple Boy
Ask our children:
1. Who comes first, our parents or our friends?
2. How should we treat our parents?
3. What should we do when our parents get old?
Now tell them the story:
There was once a little boy named Hanzalah. His favourite friend was a big apple tree. Every day he would play around the tree, climb its high branches, eat its red apples and rest under its cool shade. He loved the tree and the …
