WELCOME TO OUR BLOG
Welcome to the SevenPonds.com blog – a community-driven extension of SevenPonds.com! I hope you find comfort and community in the resources and stories featured here. I’m always happy to hear from readers and can be reached at suzette@sevenponds.com.
FEATURED
-
The Spiritual Symbolism of Cardinals: Many believe that the bright red birds indicate the death of a loved one -
Meaning-Focused Grief Therapy: Imaginal Dialogues with the Deceased: Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, explains this process in a Q&A ahead of a workshop he will co-present in April -
Flawed Kidney Function Test Discriminated Against Black Patients: Race-based criteria has been removed from kidney functioning tests
-
Categories
Tag Archives: Science
Smithsonian Artist Captures Images of Dried Tears
Rose-Lynn Fisher saw tears of "grief, joy, laughter and irritation" in extreme detail through her photo series
Smithsonian photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher just revealed her new project, which is titled “Topography of Tears.” Celebrated for her mind-blowing, microscopic images of honeybees, this photo series is a collection of, yes, tears—tears from over 100 volunteers that were also captured … Continue reading
Can Scientific Research Lead Us to the Spirit World?
Dr. Gary E. Schwartz studies mediums and how they channel lost loved ones
Mediums are nothing if not reflections of our own proclivities. Do we believe them, or do we scoff incredulously at their messages from the otherworld? You may have watched John Edward on TV and disregarded his work as finely crafted … Continue reading
“Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers” by Mary Roach
Discover the scientific approach to life after death
Mary Roach’s “Stiff” is by no means a book that was meant for the masses to enjoy. The incredible detail with which the author documents the important work that corpses have done in the name of science is intensely morbid. … Continue reading
Buddhism and the Eastern Middle Ground
In Buddhist tradition, our death falls into a plane of existence that continues even after our final breath
The relation of life to death, what happens after the end, what we do with the years we have and what we leave behind, remains perhaps the most consistently affecting and important issue plaguing human life. Religions throughout the ages … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Perspectives
Tagged Buddhism, Christianity, Death, Freud, Heaven and Hell, Karma, Psychology, Reincarnation, Science, Six Realms of Existence
Leave a comment
Do You Want to Live Forever?
Aubrey de Grey is out to prove we can
I was recently introduced to Aubrey de Grey, who’s on a mission to show us how we can live forever and raise the funding needed to start the research process to do so. Sound crazy? Well, if given the chance … Continue reading
Posted in Sharing Suzette
Tagged Aging, Aging and Elder Care, anti-aging, Aubrey de Grey, Blade Runner, Death and Dying, Future, Living Forever, Nanotechnology, Physics, Physics of the Future, Raymond Kurzwell, Rejuvenation Research, Research, Science, SENS Foundation, SevenPonds, TEDMED, Western Medicine
3 Comments
The Science of Death
How we measure life through time and space
As each of us reaches a point in life where our own mortality begins to signal our radars, the measure of our life by “time” becomes ever more important. Each of us has our own personal sense of time and … Continue reading
