If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

Our feet are our body's connection to the earth.

Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.

There's no single more powerful or simpler daily practice to further your health and well being than breath work.

Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their human and ego boundaries to feel greater contact with the supernatural, or with the spiritual, or with the divine, however they phrase it in their terms.

Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and better options for solving problems.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.