We should reject the idea that the mind is something inside of us that is basically matter of just a calculating machine. There are different reasons to reject this. But one is, simply put: there is nothing inside us that thinks and feels and is conscious. Consciousness is not something that happens in us. It is something we do.

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Nia: A Cure for Shame

She'd spent her life loathing her body. Then she discovered the physical -- and sacred -- power of Nia dance.

By Jan Jarboe Russell

I grew up in a Southern Baptist home where dancing was prohibited. In the winter of 1957, I was 6 years old, one of those kids CBS tried to protect by shooting Elvis Presley only from the waist up ( Read more... )