John Redden RH
A Collection of Reflective Essays, Articles & Hildegard
All articles are categorized from the most recently written to the oldest.
Divine Knowledge
I have been noticing a change in the flora in the parks in Toronto and in the countryside outside the city. Many years ago I was teaching a gardening course and a student in the course had a special map. It was a publication of a botanical study in Ontario.
Cosmological Vision of Hildegard von Bingen
The word “holistic” is relatively new to the lexicon of medical science. It was coined to describe an integrated form of perceiving and acting in a way that was generally associated with the subject of health. Holistic health is usually the way the terms appear in context. We say someone
Choose Nurturing
In our day-to-day communications with one another, language alone can convey vast amounts of information. What gives our interactions depth and dimension is the subtext of the subtler messages that accompany speech. Consider the significance of scratching one’s head when trying to remember something. We are literally trying to access
“How” Do You Do?
Politicians and advertisers act on the premise that perception is stronger than truth. For example, look at the methods and resources used to sway public opinion on a daily basis. Why do we have heated debates and constant inundation through the various media outlets on matters of style? Can we
Approximately Adjacent to the Truth
In our last discussion we brought up the concepts of “magical thinking, placebo, acculturation, cosmology and the order of healing methods i.e. word, herb, knife.” Since then, there came screaming news headlines about how the drug, Prozac, has been shown to be no more effective than a placebo. What this