MarieLouiseBosin, MA

This can be a sticky subject for some.  Everyone is a bit confused about the difference.  Let me start at the beginning. When a baby develops in the uterus of a woman, the cells develop around the belly button to create the heart, brain, spinal cord, and limbs.  Around 4-5 weeks in utero, the sex organs develop as indifferent structures.  Sex organs develop as a result of  "chromosomes."  The mother provides X chromosomes and the father provides Y chromosomes.  Whichever chromosomes are most p...

1. Still Seated Body Scan: in this meditation, you become a researcher of self.  Thoughts, feelings and sensations become the center of your concentration.  You become aware of something entering to interrupt your quiet meditation.  You concentrate on that completely until it subsides.  Do not move and do not let your mind wander away from that focus.  When it subsides, return your attention to your breathe. 2. Reclining Consciousness Scan: In this meditation, you scan the layers of your cons...

We have choices, even within a caste system or hierarchical system and even when religion and patriarchy hang over our heads. What ever you decide to do, you have not wasted your time. You learn something important about yourself.  Ancient History told as it happened can offer some great solutions. My friend in India married a man her parents wanted her to marry. He abused her. She went through hell finally spending a great deal of money to get a divorce from him and then married a man who...

Since the inception of our Nation as a Republic, a certain class of citizen has been trying to overthrow our democracy and replace it with an authoritarian fascist regime where government serves only some people. Somehow, we have managed to EXIST as a democracy for 250 years even though we have been regularly under attack, we have survived, primarily because we have a constitution, a rule of law, a federal court system based on equality under the law and congressmen and senators who support th...