As a special Halloween post, I'd like to touch on the tradition of All Hallows Eve, the eve which precedes the liturgical period in the Western Christian calendar when lost souls are remembered. Mumming or guising came from a host of influences, which we won't discuss here. Wikipedia does that nicely. One of the reasons for dressing up was to ward off evil spirits that were said to come back on the eve of the Hallows. With regards to the mindset, which we often like to disc

Lao-Tzu once reminded us that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. To move in any direction, a literal or figurative first step must take place, lest the laws of inertia hold fast. The first step begins in the mind, where a thought will grow from a simple idea to a platform of departure, or what one could call a mindset. It is simple to create a separation between the mental, cerebral processes, which can be very primitive to complex in nature, and the