So, the graffiti artist who bade us to start thinking must have been seeing what I saw -- a world becoming disconnected from the onslaught of stimulation that is part and parcel of modern life.

If a genie with a magic lamp granted you one request, one wish for something important to change in the world, what change would you ask for?

If you're contemplating an affair or in the midst of one, consider the following: Some affairs are psychologically healthy. That right. An affair can help leverage you out of a destructive or deadened relationship that's beyond the point of renewal.

Here, in Mother India, was a society in which the intuition I'd been seriously pursuing since age 16--the sense that Spirit is higher and more important than anything else--was simply taken for granted.