3 X 5's: Index Card Wisdom from Best of Books

CLASSROOM CONSCIOUSNESS Christopher Bache (2024, orig. 2008). The Living Classroom:                                                                              Teaching and  Collective                                                                         Consciousness. Bache (PhD, Brown university in religious studies) has been a professor of religion at a state university of 13k students for 33 years at the time of this writing. He also has been on a spiritual journey most of his life, including a lengthy psychedelic journey which eventually was replaced by a long term meditation practice. ...

LAUGH! Madan Kataria (2018). Laughter Yoga:                                                Daily Practices for Health and Happiness. Kataria is a medical doctor that began laughter yoga in the park with a handful of people...over time, yoga of laughter has grown into a worldwide organization with live in-person and on-line zoom groups that meet daily/weekly Karatria presents a strong case (with research evidence) for the mental, physiological, and emotional benefits of laughter, and laughtger is free...to receive the full benefits takes 15-20 minutes a day. The key attitudinal shift is expanding our conventional idea of laughter as spontaneous natural laughyer resulting from a humorous stimulus in our everyday life to intentionally choosing to laugh for no particular reason, faking the laughter until it turns into genuine laughter ...several activi...

LOST MOTHER Susanne O'Leary (2023). The Lost Mother of Ireland. 6th book in the Sandy Cove series set on the Atlantic coast of the village of Kerry in Ireland...story of Laura the nurse who inherits one of the star light cottages in sandy cove from an older patient who she used to take care of...she moves in and fall in love with the village and the baker Gino who lives on the hill overlooking the wild rose bay...the side story is about a painting that Laura inherited from the same patient that died and the mystery of finding the rightful owner which involves the "lost mother of Ireland" some quotes: never mind all that. These are just things (p. 232) we have a saying in our home, "people over things"--no thing is more important than any person have fun girls, and if you can't be good...well, you know. We'll be careful...(75) friend of my Uncle Ves, Larry Bowen, used to say goodbye with the words, "Be good, and if you can't, be careful" onl...

MAGIC Dean Radin (2025). Science of Magic:                                          How the Mind Weaves the Fabric of Reality Radin has a PhD in psychology and over 300 papers (including original research in peer reviewed journals) and 5 other books. This book provides ample evidence for the reality of magic which include psi (psychic) phenomenon...the effects are "weak" but statistically significant in controlled laboratory settings which over the last 50 years have improved considerably to account for most known methodological issues using double blind studies with valid and reliable measures and often very creative designs...thus, magic is real and can be used for posivite purposes in everyday life. part 4 of the book is the pragmatic part on "doing magic" but only 32 of 275 pages...there are references to other books and websites for those that want to learn m...