About Me: Dorian Sagan

This poem appeared on the Upaya Newsletter 07/26/2010

Dorian Sagan, son of astronomer Carl Sagan and biologist Lynn Margulis, offered this wild and cogent poem at the Lindisfarne Fellows meeting…

My name is Dorion Sagan.
I am so grateful and therefore, as we learned yesterday, happy to be here.
I am a writer.
I am an animal.

Doga class relaxes dogs and their owners at West Palm Beach studio

By LIZ BALMASEDA
This article first appeared on Palm Beach Post Staff Living  Monday, July 20, 2009
A Yorkie walks into a yoga class and the instructor says “down dog.” The Yorkie looks at the two Malteses stretching on adjacent yoga mats, then looks at the instructor and responds: “Who are you calling dog?”
That Yorkie is Napoleon, [...]

Soothe Back-to-School Anxiety, Teach Kids to Relax

SUNDAY, Aug. 23 (HealthDay News) — Children who are nervous about the new school year can relax by practicing “mindfulness” during anxious moments, researchers say.
Experts at Duke University, in Durham, N.C., recommend mindfulness, which is a technique borrowed from meditation, to help children transition into the new school year and deal with many academic and [...]

Suboxone: Miracle or Menace?

(PDF Version Suboxone: Miracle or Menace by Steven Scanlan, MD)

One addiction trades for another as the FDA-approved detoxification drug, Suboxone becomes America’s worst nightmare. Known as the “miracle drug,” Suboxone is estimated to be 25 times more potent than morphine.
Steven R. Scanlan, M.D. is board-certified in Psychiatry and board-certified in Addiction Medicine by ASAM. He [...]

In search of SLEEP in LITERATURE

THIS POST FIRST APPEARED IN WORD SEARCH with Adair Jones
**** In search of sleep in literature ****
Posted in Musings…, Rediscovered, Wanderings by adairjones on November 8, 2009

Sleep in Literature

The oblivion of sleep is a parallel of death.  Time stands still.  In sleep, we remain in the cocoon of eternity.  And yet, [...]

TO NAP OR NOT TO NAP

To Sleep, Perchance to Dream (Shakespeare’s Hamlet)
Woman to Woman

By Marion Bond West and Julie Garmon, July 05, 2010

Phone conversation, two weeks ago.
“Julie, what’s wrong? You don’t sound too good.”
“I’m just tired. I’m not old enough to be this tired every day.”
“Why don’t you take a [...]

The Ceaseless Society

This post first appeared on SOF Observed, the blog site for Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippet: religion, meaning, ethics

Shiraz Janjua, Associate Producer
I’m not going to lie. I’m really enjoying Jon Kabat-Zinn. His Google talk introduced me to some very simple techniques that I’ve been using lately to help me fall asleep faster. Bedtime is [...]

Mindfulness Meditation Helps Cancer Patients and Caregivers

This post first appeared in UPAYA newsletter 06/28/10 and AJC—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 11-23-09

Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN, is an associate professor at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and a faculty member of Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University. She also is a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar.
The words, “You have cancer,” [...]

A juxtaposition of God and the human brain

This post first appears on Scientific American Guest Blog Section on May 27, 2010 08:30 AM in Basic Science |

Michelangelo’s secret message in the  Sistine Chapel
By R. Douglas Fields
 

At the age of 17 he began dissecting corpses from the church graveyard. Between the years 1508 and 1512 he painted the ceiling of the Sistine [...]

Is anonymity the final shame frontier in addiction?

All About Addiction
Helping addicts get their lives back.
by Adi Jaffe

Adi Jaffe is a doctoral student at UCLA working toward a Ph.D. in psychology. See full bio

June 17, 2010, Addiction

Without anonymity, would the stigma of addiction disappear?
Published on June 17, 2010

I’m a drug addict and a sex addict , [...]

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