The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept

In this presentation at the Free Your Mind Conference, I talk about personal empowerment, confronting fear, and how to build healthy self esteem. I share a some personal stories about suffering from anxiety and depression growing up and how martial arts and studying philosophy cured me of it. I discuss

Evidence of the effectiveness of martial arts in producing affective, cognitive and behavioural benefits has come from a number of studies. Improvements in self-esteem (Fuller, 1988), a more positive response to physical challenge (Richard and Rehberg, 1986; Trulson, 1986), greater autonomy (Duthie, 1978), emotional stability and assertiveness (Konzak and Boudreau,

Yes, the government can use your phone, your computer and even potentially your television to spy on what you are doing inside your own home.  On Tuesday, Wikileaks released thousands of documents that prove what virtually every “conspiracy theorist” in America has been saying for years about government spying.  And

"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots." - Erich Fromm http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/13/14597434/elon-musk-human-machine-symbiosis-self-driving-cars

"Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul. "Artless art" is the artistic process within the artist; its meaning is "art of the soul." All the various moves of all the tools means a step on the way to the absolute aesthetic world of the soul. Creation

“The two great values to be gained from social existence are: knowledge and trade. Man is the only species that can transmit and expand his store of knowledge from generation to generation; the knowledge potentially available to man is greater than any one man could begin to acquire in his