When I was about 5 years old, I remember occasionally lying awake in bed at night with my eyes closed imagining what the experience of death would be like. I would vividly envision piercing assaults from sharp silver blades, my cherry red blood cascading from cavernous gashes across my abdomen and jugular, agonizing shrieks into the…

*Disclaimer: In reading this blog post you are assuming personal responsibility for your frame of mind. In the event you are searching for a reason to be angry, support for your political views, or feelings of superiority over me or others then I highly recommend you do not venture any further. This post is intended…

In an attempt to take a step back from the more “Woo Woo” topics I’ve been delving into recently, I picked this up from Barnes and Noble in the hope that it would bring me back down to earth. I figured a solid dosage of cerebral-osity would do me some real good. Aside from the obvious…

A part of me cringed after reading this, knowing that I would eventually have to write a blog post about it. It’s not because I completely disagree with the material presented; I don’t. Nor is it because it was badly written; it was crystal clear. The reason was purely because it sounds so freaking cheesy!…

For the past couple years, I must admit my interest in Malcolm Gladwell’s books has been entirely superficial. Whenever I would enter into bookstores I would always steal a passing glance at his books thinking maybe today I will finally read one. Sometimes when I was in the right mood I would even pick one up,…

Doesn’t that title just roll off the tongue? It seems to explain so much about the essence of the book in just 2 words, or I guess 4 if you are picky about it. I was drawn to this book precisely because of the idea the title painted in my head. Yoga suggests a release…

“Thinking about the present as if it were the past.” That’s it. That’s pretty much the entirety of this book packed into one quote. No need to really summarize anything or even discuss it for that matter. Done. Moving on. … But if that’s it then why did I actually enjoy this book? I felt disappointed and…

A family member actually recommended this book to me, and I remember my first instinctual response being “ew, a self-help book.” There seems to be a general stigma that exists against self help books; my guess is that it suggests the person reading it is incapable of helping themselves and therefore weak. On the flip side,…

Let me guess. You came to read this post because you have kinda, sorta heard about quantum mechanics before and you want to brush up on it? Maybe learn a thing or two? Maybe you feel a bit bad that you don’t know that much about it, but then instantly feel better because you remember the…

If I were to sum up this book in one word… or number… it would be 2012. Remember? That one year when we all should have died because some ancient Mayan calendar predicted that natural catastrophes would devastate our way of life? Whether or not people actually believed the hype, there was a subtle sense of urgency that…