In the current circumstances where so many people are sinking into depression and taking for granted that they are victims of circumstances it seemed appropriate to review and rewrite three of my articles from the distant past when the present didn’t seem to contain so many problems. Our experience of our world largely depends on our attitude, and that includes the laws of Nature that we choose to obey. That is news to many people but once known it helps a lot. Positive thinkers see the options hidden from negative thinkers, for example.

Leonard Feinberg PhD was a visiting Fulbright Professor to the University of Ceylon in 1956. While he was there he witnessed a major annual religious ceremony.

For three months, 24 hours a day, 80 people were strictly vegetarian and performed ritual worship and meditation on the god Kataragama. Their aim was to become so identified with the god that he would occupy their bodies, and enable them to walk a twenty foot fire pit without harm.

When the moment of truth came, Dr. Feinberg found it difficult to breathe within ten feet of the incandescent pit. He couldn’t stand near it either. To the beat of ritual drums the 80 people emerged from their preparation and walked the pit.