Today's destination: Marakoopa Cave in Mole Creek Karst National Park, Tasmania. 15 minutes drive away. This cave would have taken hundreds of millions of years to form the way it is today. Water

The latest leg of our journey: Tasmania (Aussie slang "Tassie", Aboriginal Palawa), Australia. Australia is a notably relaxed place, with vast amounts of sparsely inhabited land. Tasmania feels even more

Since November 2017, we have opted to travel Australia rather than reside in Newcastle ("Newy"). We have been driving south from Newy, down the South Coast, and made a month-long stop in Bateman's Bay

My life so far has been relatively travel-intensive, and I have spent the past three years in Australia pursuing a PhD in cognitive neuroscience. A PhD tends to have high demands on time, and I've tended

In the video below, I describe my general intentions behind undertaking a practice of reciting 200,000 of the Saturn harmonizing mantra. I also briefly recapitulate and reference a Caltech study on the

In response to a question posted on social media: "Why do some just awaken one day, while others strive their whole adult lives trying, yet don't feel they are awakening?" This is not an uncommon reflection

In response to my first post on yoga and the brain, I received a thoughtful question from a reader: "Why would my brain want to love saying Om?" We have often heard (or heard of) yoga students or

[Originally published on US News Health, 4 September 2013] I began my journey as an aspiring neuroscientist determined to understand the basis of what makes us human. What was our most fundamental