I learned the most important lesson of my career while sitting on a toilet seat.

I was fresh out of medical school, just beginning a year of internship, that infamous rite of passage that involves grueling work, sleep deprivation, and an endless stream of sick and dying patients. One...

There's an old saying: "If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then nobody will see it."

We see what we can see, and what we can see is determined largely by our beliefs. If we believe that treasures are always hidden away in secret...

"Cleanliness is almost as bad as godliness."

Imagine: You're feeling so depressed that you visit your doctor and request a prescription for a mood elevator. Instead of writing you a prescription for Prozac or a similar antidepressant, she advises you to get dirty. While...

During my meanderings around the country on tour for my book, The Power of Premonitions, I have been flooded with people's experiences. Some of them make one's hair stand on end. If you're bored with how your world works, try these on for size:

A String of Numbers

I am currently peddling my wares around the nation. My peddling takes the form of an author's book tour, and my wares are my book The Power of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Shape Our Lives (Dutton, 2009).

My dictionary tells me that one of the definitions of...

Bill Clinton famously told Americans, "I feel your pain." Was the prez speaking truthfully or was he, as his detractors claimed, just an oily politician currying favor from suffering citizens?

In the past few years, neuroscientists have discovered that individuals may indeed feel the pain of someone else. This conclusion...

"If people have the ability to sense the future, why aren't they rich?" This is one of the most frequent questions I've been asked by readers of my book The Power of Premonitions. The fact is, some are very rich, and they attribute their wealth in part to their ability...

Spirituality involves an awareness of being connected with something greater than the individual ego or self. This "something greater" has traditionally been called God, Goddess, Allah, Great Spirit, the Almighty, the Absolute, and many other names. Some consider it as the Universe, or as a sense of infinite order and...