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		<title>Memory: The Cult of Remembrance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] How many misleading or false beliefs and assumptions do we preserve in our memories? And how many of these false beliefs and assumptions have been assimilated as a result of cultural conditioning? It would be immensely difficult to conduct a statistical inventory of our memories in order to quantify the exact number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemplation: The Mind in the Yoga Sutras -3</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Mental Afflictions- The Origin of Discontent: The purpose of yoga is to provide a pathway out of suffering. All suffering originates in the mind. The mind and body are intimately interconnected, meaning that the intentions of our thoughts manifest themselves throughout the physical structure of our body. An acute painful thought creates a [...]]]></description>
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		<series:name><![CDATA[Contemplation: The Mind in Yoga]]></series:name>
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		<title>Contemplation: The Mind in the Yoga Sutras &#8211; 2</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/5066/contemplation-the-mind-in-the-yoga-sutras-2/</link>
		<comments>http://exploring-life.ca/5066/contemplation-the-mind-in-the-yoga-sutras-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] The Five States of Mind: Pantanjali (2nd century B.C.) is a pioneer of the mind. The uncharted terrain he ventured into was the inner landscape of the mind. His method was the direct observation of his own mind. In this sense, Pantanjali was both scientist and artist of the inner realm of existence. [...]]]></description>
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		<series:name><![CDATA[Contemplation: The Mind in Yoga]]></series:name>
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		<title>Contemplation: The Mind in the Yoga Sutras</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/434/contemplation-mind-in-yoga-sutras/</link>
		<comments>http://exploring-life.ca/434/contemplation-mind-in-yoga-sutras/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Introduction to the Yoga Sutras: The Yoga Sutras written by Pantanjali in 2nd century B.C. is consider to be a foundational yoga text. The word Yoga is derived from Sanskrit root yujir meaning to join or to unite. A second meaning is derived from the root yuj meaning to contemplate. Yoga means to [...]]]></description>
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		<series:name><![CDATA[Contemplation: The Mind in Yoga]]></series:name>
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		<title>Nature of Belief: The Realm of Evidence</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/4903/nature-of-belief-realm-evidence/</link>
		<comments>http://exploring-life.ca/4903/nature-of-belief-realm-evidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[assimilation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We interpret our experiences in life through a complex and often hidden network of beliefs. The human brain is a belief engine; beliefs are the apparatus and raw materials of the mind. They lie at the core of our emotions, determine our subsequent behaviour, and shape the course of our lives. In a basic sense, [...]]]></description>
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		<series:name><![CDATA[Nature of Belief]]></series:name>
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		<title>Emotional Terrain: Grief Transforms Time</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/4478/emotional-terrain-grief-transforms-time/</link>
		<comments>http://exploring-life.ca/4478/emotional-terrain-grief-transforms-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[transience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Grief possesses great agility. It emerges subtlety yet its presence is potent. Grief, I am beginning to understand, cannot be equated to more distinct states of being such as the quality of sadness that results from loss. The dimensions of grief are far more extensive in nature. Loss and absence are, of course, [...]]]></description>
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		<series:name><![CDATA[Emotional Terrain]]></series:name>
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		<title>Mental Degradation: Multitasking</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/2251/mental-degradation-multitasking/</link>
		<comments>http://exploring-life.ca/2251/mental-degradation-multitasking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exploring-life.ca/?p=2251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Multitasking is a Delusion: The extent to which we can sometimes become a victim of our own delusions can be quite surprising. A delusion is a false belief that has been accepted as fact, and is quite resistant to reason or common sense. In other words, delusions are remarkably resilient and durable. They [...]]]></description>
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		<series:name><![CDATA[Mental Degradation]]></series:name>
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		<title>Memory: The Revival of Experience</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/3762/memory-revival-of-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://exploring-life.ca/3762/memory-revival-of-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] What is the nature of our memory? We often associate memory with an ability to remember, recollect, recall, or revive, a mental impression that refers to a past experience. The prefix &#8220;re&#8221; means again and again and therefore repetition; we associate repetition with memory in the sense that we can recall an experience [...]]]></description>
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		<series:name><![CDATA[Memory: Improvizing the Past]]></series:name>
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		<title>Emotional Terrain: Grief &#8211; Exploring Absence</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/3503/emotional-terrain-grief-exploring-absence/</link>
		<comments>http://exploring-life.ca/3503/emotional-terrain-grief-exploring-absence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] In the Time Magazine article New Ways to Think About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg explores some common misconceptions of grief. She proposes that Elizabeth Kubler-Ross&#8217; five stages of grief &#8211; denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance &#8211; are in fact not stages. Kubler-Ross was focused on identifying the stages of grief each of [...]]]></description>
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		<series:name><![CDATA[Emotional Terrain]]></series:name>
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		<title>Mental Degradation: Multitasking and the Inner Athelete</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/3110/mental-degredation-multitasking-inner-athelete/</link>
		<comments>http://exploring-life.ca/3110/mental-degredation-multitasking-inner-athelete/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] In Mental Degradation: Multitasking I explored the possibility that multitasking, or the ability to simultaneously process tasks, is a delusion. What really happens in the brain is a rapid shifting of attention between a series of tasks that creates the illusion of simultaneity. This constant shifting of attention is also the basis for [...]]]></description>
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