Daily Archives: February 26, 2010

Buddha in Your Brain

BREAKING up is hard to do. Even after our worldviews have betrayed us, they still cling like burrs to our psyche, despite all reason.

Recall the insistent flat earth and geocentric crowd, and creationist belief that the Earth is only ten-thousand years old. The list is long.

Ideas of new age healers and psychics, too, can be wildly exaggerated, and even the bibles of modern science are littered with the remains of failed sacred cows.

Until recently, for example, it was asserted that the brain cannot grow new cells — when they’re gone, they’re gone!

The cliché that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks may be obsolete because now, science confirms, adult brain cells keep growing after all! Continue reading