Aug 13, 2013 | Daily Bread, Tom Taffel Articles
Medicine’s Great Secret: The Placebo and Nocebo Effects By Tom Taffel * Photo – Animal Magnetism Unmasked Emergence International Conference, Seattle,...
Jun 6, 2013 | Daily Bread, Tom Taffel Articles
Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited. Mary Baker Eddy (The First Church of Christ,...
Feb 27, 2013 | Articles, Tom Taffel Articles
As an undergraduate at Rochester Institute of Technology, I was required to take a course in statistical analysis. Although the course was rather forgettable, one concept intrigued me: “Poisson Probability,” the work of Siméon-Denis Poisson in the 1830s. Poisson was...
Dec 18, 2012 | Articles, Tom Taffel Articles
What if you were to resolve things into thoughts and not think of a sunset as a daily event which takes place at a predictable time, but as an experience, a different dimension, unbounded by time; a quality of beauty and not a predictable, measured event? Wouldn’t...
Nov 8, 2012 | Articles, Tom Taffel Articles
This election was one of the most important in my lifetime. With so much at stake, I turned to the Christian Science Hymnal for comfort and healing. Hymn 292, “The Dutch Hymn of Thanksgiving” with words by Maria Louise Baum, gave me hope and joyous expectation...
Jun 10, 2012 | Articles, Tom Taffel Articles
“God: The Producer and Director” By Tom Taffel Christian Science Sentinel June 19, 1971 Volume 73, Number 25 There were almost too many reasons why I couldn’t make a motion picture for Pan American World Airways. I was a college student without financial...