Artificial Intelligence and Living the Present Moment

“Is using artificial intelligence to write your blog post like using a calculator to solve a math problem?” ChatGTP, Google’s BARD, and Microsoft’s Bing AI are all the buzz on the internet. These conversational artificial intelligence programs will answer your questions, write blog posts, create new stories with prompts, and much much more. What is …Read More

Qigong for Balance ~ Mantak Chia

According to Mantak Chia, an internationally celebrated master of inner alchemy and Qigong, the key to good health, longevity, and even abundance, is balancing the positive and negative energies that exist both within us and in nature.  Ideally, if we can achieve balance — internally and with the natural world — our body, our life, and all of our existence …Read More

The Game of Propaganda

“Every one of us is exposed to propaganda techniques every day. They’re designed to persuade us to accept ideas, buy propositions and products, or spur action. Parents and teachers use them to guide behavior. Advertisers and media sell us stuff. Religious leaders use them to inspire (and fill collection plates) and, of course, politicians rely …Read More

Story Factor ~ Annette Simmons

“People don’t want more information. They are up to their eyeballs in information. They want faith—faith in you, your goals, your success, in the story you tell.” ~ Annette Simmons, The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion through the Art of Storytelling The objective thinkers are looking for cold hard facts, bullet points, and numbers. …Read More

Asian American Storytopia

A Message from Asian American Storytellers in Unity (AASIU): Last year, when the world shut down and anti-Asian violence increased, a group of Asian American storytellers began meeting weekly to provide support and friendship to its members. From this beginning, Asian American Storytellers in Unity grew into a collective whose mission is to promote and …Read More