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Karen Lawrence is a freelance writer and administrative consultant based in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Her company, Karen Lawrence Creative Services, provides administrative and organizational support to small business, particularly independent musicians, writers and artists. Karen’s articles and photographs have appeared in regional and national magazines, and when she’s not writing she’s hiking or photographing flowers and wildlife.

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on July 7, 2009 at 10:13 am | Reply Tone Western

Hi Karen. I just happened to read about you and see you are doing some indepth work around the ideas on meditation and neurons. I have just argued in an essay about rational and non-rational mind (well, about art theory really…. and our daily consciousness and Zen no-mind) that the link or connection between spirit and matter is sealed, as the brain is prooven to change with the impact of meditation. I too think this will probably be one of many scientific studies to explain previously hidden mechanisms. Would you like to tell me your ideas around that?
Thanks a lot,
cheers, Tone Western
- on July 15, 2009 at 12:24 pm | Reply Karen Lawrence
  
  I would love to read your essay Tone Western. Is it available online somewhere or could you email it to me at karen.lawrence@yahoo.com? From a psychological perspective, the idea that the “link or connection between spirit and matter is sealed” doesn’t seem far off to me considering our brains have definite perceptual limitations and will sometimes go to extremes to protect and defend us against things it cannot understand or put into context. From a scientific point of view, a book I read recently called “The Way from Science to Soul” by Casey Blood explores the idea that we are nonphysical souls that have physical bodies, and postulates that birth itself initiates what Blood calls the soul’s “forgetting” of the plane from which it came. He contends that spiritual practices like meditation help the soul recognize and remember the spiritual plane of its origination.
on October 5, 2010 at 3:49 pm | Reply Kellie Elmore

i was wondering if you might check out my site I recently opened on the ning network? Its for artsy/creative people. Very new. Just over 100 members so far, but we want to grow! If you go to my blog and click on the “Creative Playground” tab, the site is linked there, its called Social Muze

If not, I understand Just want to get some exposure and advice.

Thanks!
Kellie
- on October 16, 2010 at 12:17 pm | Reply Karen Lawrence
  
  Joined your network Kellie…great design and so many useful tools in one spot! Looks like it will grow into a wonderful meeting ground for creative souls. Once I get a chance to dig around in there I’ll give a little more feedback. Thanks!