Archive for April, 2007

What is our rush? Freeing yourself from pressure.

“It is also good every so often to go away and relax a little for when you come back to your work your judgment will be better, since to remain constantly at work causes you to deceive yourself.” Leonardo da Vinci In her article What’s the rush?, Jenna Avery describes how constantly striving and being [...]

Sensitivity and psychic ability – Jean Houston on perceptual capacity

In our interview, Jean Houston comments about the Theory of Emotional Development of Kazimierz Dabrowski (which talks about levels of excitability or functioning), and about psychic ability in relation to giftedness. Houston agrees that ‘psychic’ has been used in our culture as a pejorative term: “Don’t I know it,” she says with a laugh. “I [...]

Hugh Laurie on feeling emotionally overwhelmed

Hugh Laurie plays Dr. Gregory House on the tv series House M.D. Born in Oxford, England, he was educated at Eton and Cambridge. Besides acting and comedy, he has written a thriller, The Gun Seller, and a screenplay for the film version, and a second novel The Paper Soldier coming in September 2007. [Rolling Stone [...]