Just as religion has helped shape our modern culture,1 religious faith has also helped in shaping the architecture of our personal identity, our perception of ourselves and of the world around us.

Bruce Lipton, scientist, researcher, teacher, and author, is driven by a passion to bring scientific evidence directly to the people his information could best assist: everyone.

Our culture is rife with common expressions which reinforce an idea that we are powerless to truly impact the quality of our lives. We want to believe that we can somehow change our destiny through positive reinforcement or setting goals, yet we are rarely aware of the subtle ways we comply with this limited, illusionary threshold.

Every sixth human being in the world today is an Indian, and every sixth Indian is an erstwhile untouchable, a Dalit. Today there are 165 million Dalits (equal to more than half the population of the United States) and they continue to suffer under India's 3,500 year old caste system, which remains a stigma on humanity. However, Dalits are awakening.

Among educators, the Pygmalion Study is both legendary and controversial. Conducted by psychologist Robert Rosenthal and elementary school principal Lenore Jacobsen in 1968, the study involved giving teachers erroneous information about students' intellectual abilities and then observing the effects of teacher expectations on student performance.

Erin Gruwell's first day of student teaching at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California didn't go so well. The desks in her classroom were covered with gang insignias. Her mentor teacher went out for a cup of coffee and never came back.

My name is Niro. I am a woman who has lived through a powerful, and life-transforming experience. In November 1985, I tested positive for the human immune deficiency virus HIV and was diagnosed with AIDS-related complex (ARC).

When Sir Robert Jones visited the emergency room at St. Peter's Hospital three and a half years ago, the medical staff became immediately concerned about his condition. At 6'6" he could easily carry a certain amount of extra weight, but this was different.

Growing up in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan (an area known in the 1950's and 60's for its resident gangsters and ethnic conflicts) provided Alexander Schauss plenty of opportunities to observe drug addiction first hand

For years people struggling with issues of addiction and substance abuse were told that they only had two options: to continue their addictive behavior, which would grow progressively worse and eventually kill them, or to join a twelve-step program and become completely abstinent.

You can draw your destiny line, the line of your life, with parallels above and below it of different options from your youth to your puberty to your young adulthood, different options, different paths that you took and journeyed on them for a little while.