May 1, 2012

UNIVERSE WITHIN by Gwen Randall-Young I recently listened to a documentary about parallel universes. The suggestion is that the visible universe could lie on a membrane – combined strings of energy – floating within a higher-dimensional space. Two of these membranes could lie very close together and gravity could leak from one to the...

Apr 1, 2012

UNIVERSE WITHIN by Gwen Randall-Young Sometimes, when relationships end, both parties are in agreement that it is time to move on. Difficult though it may be, it is even harder when it is over for one, but not for the other. When we first fall in love, it is all so romantic. We romanticize the love as well as the other person. We begin to build a new world with...

Mar 1, 2012

UNIVERSE WITHIN by Gwen Randall-Young “What you think of me is none of my business.” – Terry Cole-Whittaker • It is amazing when we stop to think how much of our culture is based on what people think of us or more importantly what we think they think of us or what we want them to think of us. Fashion magazines, beauty products,...

Feb 8, 2012

UNIVERSE WITHIN by Gwen Randall-Young • Imagine a kindergarten class about to have “show and tell”. Every student in the class has a hand up because each wants to be the first to have a turn. When one finally goes first, a few pay attention, but many are thinking about what they will say when it is their turn. Others are just waiting for the...

Jan 3, 2012

UNIVERSE WITHIN by Gwen Randall-Young Back in the 1970s, Jonas Salk wrote a little book called The Survival of the Wisest. This was a shift from the older paradigm of “survival of the fittest.” The concept of the fittest surviving was based on strength, force, aggression, competition and win/lose. In order to survive and thrive, Salk proposed there...