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2 721 21_Autism, Savants, etc.13_Rachel Thomas23_rachelt@MIDSOUTH.RR.COM30_Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:04:46 -0600554_utf-8 From: David S.Devor<br>To: MOCHIN<br>Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 10:42 AM<br>Subject: Autism, Savants, etc.<br><br>A genius explains<br>Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant. He can perform mind-boggling mathematical calculations at breakneck speeds. But unlike other savants, who can perform similar feats, Tammet can describe how he does it. He speaks seven languages and is even devising his own language. Now scientists are asking whether his exceptional abilities are the key to unlock the secrets of autism. Interview by Richard Johnson [...]44_1Mar200512:04:46-0600rachelt@MIDSOUTH.RR.COM
724 180 40_Fw: MOCHIN: approval required (D90896A0)13_Rachel Thomas23_rachelt@MIDSOUTH.RR.COM31_Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:13:47 -0600728_iso-8859-1 ----- Original Message -----<br>From: "SHAMASH.ORG LISTSERV Server (14.3)"<br><LISTSERV@SHAMASH.ORG><br>To: <devor@PROJECTMIND.ORG><br>Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 4:58 PM<br>Subject: MOCHIN: approval required (D90896A0)<br><br>This message was originally submitted by jewishlink@YAHOO.COM<br>to the MOCHIN<br>list at SHAMASH.ORG. You can approve it using the "OK" mechanism<br>(click on the<br>link below), ignore it, or repost an edited copy. The<br>message will expire<br>automatically and you do not need to do anything if you just<br>want to discard<br>it. Please refer to the list owner's guide if you are not<br>familiar with the<br>"OK" mechanism; these instructions are being kept purposefully<br>short [...]45_18Mar200517:13:47-0600rachelt@MIDSOUTH.RR.COM
905 48 41_The Link between Healing and Spirituality14_Jewish Healing20_jewishlink@YAHOO.COM31_Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:48:11 -0800689_us-ascii Healing is synonymous with spirituality. We live in an<br>era that's fraught with uncertainty--fear, terror and<br>rapid technological advances. In such an atmosphere,<br>now and in the past, spirituality has emerged to the<br>forefront of many people's minds.<br>Compare this thought with the fearful and traumatic<br>conditions that the Jewish people have endured<br>throughout the course of history when spirituality and<br>mysticism reached its peak. By engaging into a<br>spiritual style of living, our minds are temporarily<br>distracted from the difficulties of everyday life, and<br>focused on the reality of our Divine presence. One of<br>the main objectives of all [...]42_18Mar200514:48:11-0800jewishlink@YAHOO.COM
954 77 45_Re: The Link between Healing and Spirituality13_David S.Devor13_devor@USA.NET31_Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:39:08 +0200619_iso-8859-1 Dear Wally,<br><br>You write:<br>>Healing is synonymous with spirituality.<br><br>There is surely a connection between the two but I believe<br>that it is grossly misleading to call them synonymous. There<br>are many factors that bear on healing, spirituality being only<br>one of them. I have known highly spiritual people who<br>succumbed to disease and highly unspiritual people who have<br>overcome disease. There are, of course, many factors that bear<br>on healing and the subject is most complex. But to call healing<br>"synonymous with spirituality" is, to say the least, grossly<br>misleading. [...]35_19Mar200522:39:08+0200devor@USA.NET
1032 744 46_PURIM 5765 Purim, Amalek and the Natural Order13_David S.Devor13_devor@USA.NET31_Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:51:28 +0200486_windows-1255 B'S"D<br><br>Purim 5765<br><br>Dear Mochin Friends, PMF Associates and Friends,<br><br>Purim 5765 starts this evening. For Purim, we read the Torah portion<br>exhorting us to remember to eradicate the memory of Amalek. Today,<br>we fasted in solidarity with the Persian Jews of old who also fasted. But<br>they, perhaps the majority of the Jewish People of their time, were facing<br>a death edict by the Persian king and his vizier Haman the descendant of<br>Amalek. [...]35_24Mar200522:51:28+0200devor@USA.NET