Here are the pages we have added or revised most recently. The site covers a lot of ground—the twelve centres, the workshops, the meditations and what it all means for a human life—so this is the quickest way to see what has changed.

Have a look around. We welcome you with open hearts; please welcome us with open minds.

The Serotonin Surprise

By: Gary Greenberg	Posted: 7/1/2001		Page Views: 5,078
You have to accept that there's a structural change in your brain when you take drugs like Prozac.
Estimated reading time: 13 minute(s) (2882 words)

Jacobs's bright blue eyes stand out even more than usual against his white hair and beard when he remembers what happened next. As soon as we showed that serotonin could promote neurogenesis, immediately I said, 'This could have implications for depression.' In fact, this little finding provides as good a theory of depression as anything else that's out there. That theory, simply stated, is that depression is linked to neurogenesis. In a depressed patient, the brain stops making new neurons; when neurogenesis resumes, the depression lifts.

How To Live

By: John D. Jorgenson	Posted: 2/13/1981		Page Views: 5,201
Advice from a man facing the end of his life.
Estimated reading time: 2 minute(s) (427 words)

If I had my life to live all over again I'd try to make more mistakes next time, try not to be so damn perfect. I'd relax more, I'd limber up, I'd be sillier than I'd been on this trip. In fact I know very few things I would take so seriously. I'd be crazier and I'd certainly be less hygienic. I'd take more chances, I'd take more trips, I'd climb more mountains, I'd swim more rivers and I'd watch more sunsets. I'd burn more gasoline, I'd eat more ice cream, and fewer beans. I'd have more actual troubles and fewer imagined ones, because ninety percent of things we worry about actually never happen.