Can Virtual Bodyswapping Make Us More Empathetic and Tolerant?
Alex Pietrowski – Can virtual bodyswapping help us rise above strong stereotypes and prejudiced beliefs etched into our minds?
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The Rise of Empathic Consciousness
Kingsley L. Dennis – The accelerating changes occurring across our planet right now will have no alternative but to force a mind-change on a global and individual level…
When All Else Fails To Heal You – Understanding the Empath
Dave Markowitz, Prevent Disease Waking Times If you’re dealing with symptoms that no one can diagnose, much less treat effectively, maybe there’s someplace else you’ve yet to look. I’ve been in alternative medicine for twenty years; in 2012 I started attracting clients who had already done everything they and others knew to do for their …
Trained for Violence: How Video Games Affect the Brain
Christina Sarich, Staff Writer Waking Times The brain is a very adaptable organ. It has the cognitive ability to adapt to stress, whether real or imagined, but do violent video games and movies actually help us to adapt to a sadistic world, or help to create one? Gamers and researchers have been on both sides of this …
Minds Don’t Create Morality, Morality Creates Minds
Michael Forrester, Prevent Disease Waking Times People often think that something must have a mind to be part of a moral interaction. However, the present research suggests that minds do not create morality but that morality creates minds, which fires further debate on the illusion of self. Commonsense morality in our society is more tolerant of …
Detoxing the Money Programming
Ida Lawrence, Contributor Waking Times Empathy for the poor and the homeless comes from somewhere, just like with all things, ‘been there… done that’ gives you the feeling of a particular experience. You have felt the disdainful glare… and it makes you tender hearted when the homeless man approaches. No matter that it might be …
Six Habits of Highly Empathic People
Roman Krznaric, Greater Good Waking Times If you think you’re hearing the word “empathy” everywhere, you’re right. It’s now on the lips of scientists and business leaders, education experts and political activists. But there is a vital question that few people ask: How can I expand my own empathic potential? Empathy is not just a way to extend …
In the Presence of Suffering
Charlie Veitch The Love Police Suffering creates empathy and tolerance. It is mostly through suffering that we experience the fissures and limits of knowledge, of coping. Through the pain of loss or grief we see that every single human being on the planet is capable of despair, and in this mutual despair, we understand concepts …