Wisdom of Ages

The origin of mankind's search for meaning pre-date living history. Most Western scholars would argue that our search for reason originated between being able to talk and the ability to write. Some say emerging consciousness the nature of our evolutionary heratige and harken back to a time long before our species committed to a bipedal means of ambulation. Anciently Greek philosophers are often accredited by their use of the word logos, meaning to account or reason, to define their understanding of life, a term that was included in the official lexicon of philosophy around 500 BC. The claim refutes mounting archeological evidence dating back a thousand years hence that document Vedic texts with knowledge that was inherited as a living memory, and its origins lost in antiquity. Given the discrepancy between East and West it is no surprise to find that there is no collective reason that can resolve our most vexing concerns such as what is the meaning of life and answering the quest...

Many of us may remember some experience where we were engaged in an activity, and in the blink of an eye it seemed as if hours had elapsed. This experience is referred to as flow, and a few years ago it was the subject of a lot of research that resulted in another, more descriptive term called 'optimal experience'. The reason why such a relatively strange human quality attracted enough attention to become the subject of research, is that such experiences are frequently remembered as “the best time of our life”. One of these experiments aimed to examine the different user experiences that facilitate the occurrence of flow, simply by asking research subjects to describe their flow experience. By analyzing the feedback they formulated the following qualities that are common to the flow experience. Challenge – The activity must be challenging, but not so much that it discourages people from participating. Skill – To complete the activity, a participant must use some kind o...