Cisco Aguilar @CiscoAguilar7

I just logged on to Sharecare (you.sharecare.com) to find out what my RealAge is according to them. This is their attempt to evaluate my biological age in contrast to my calendar age, based on large number of questions. My result was quite encouraging: whereas my calendar…

The third pillar on my health maintenance program is, of course, sleep. Here I find myself struggling with the typical old-age slumber issues, worsened by my idiosyncratic restlessness and the disturbing effects of low-intensity pain in my right side, especially the knee and hip,…

Besides overhauling my nutritional intake, I quickly realized that sufficient activity and physical exercise levels will have to be clearly delineated and adhered to if I am to maintain quality of life henceforth. Early during the past year, I came across Jon Kabat-Zinn's "Full…

As the anniversary of my wife's death approaches, I am assessing my year-long response to her passing. I will compare it with Mulford's ideas and thereby plot the course ahead. Let me clarify at the outset that we both considered each other soulmates. Our earthly marriage lasted…

As I continue distilling guidance from Prentice Mulford's writings, I come now to his concept of perpetual renewal, by which he meant the spiritual requirement to continually move from the old to the new, symbolically dying to our old selves each day to embrace a new and fresh…

With this post, I am finally wrapping up the nutrition side of my three-pronged effort to radically improve my health with a view to longevity and quality of life during the last phase of my life. I am including here three images depicting the main elements of my routine lunch:…

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Returning to my current nutritional modus operandi, I'll discuss lunch and dinner in this post. While I have breakfast four hours into my day at 8:00 am, lunch and dinner follow at four-hour intervals, i.e., noon and 4:00 pm. In order to fulfill the vegetable requirements from…

Furthering my inquiry on the effects of profanity use, I asked Claude 3 Opus what would have been Prentice Mulford's views on the subject: "Given Prentice Mulford's philosophy that our thoughts and words powerfully shape our reality and spiritual development, he would likely see…

Inspired by @BrianRoemmele's post on the rise of profanity, I asked Claude 3 Opus the following question: Would you consider the rise of profanity a devolution of language, since it makes language more imprecise and conversation more dependent on emotional outbursts rather than…

For the last several months I have been fine-tuning my meals to fulfill the 24 "servings" recommended by Dr. Michael Greger on his very popular "Daily Dozen" checklist. I believe I now have an excellent working model appropriate for my taste and needs that covers the entire list.…

I spent both yesterday and today intently applying Mulford's basic tenets to my personal life as best as I could. The results are extremely promising. Both days showed significant progress on all fronts during the morning and early afternoon, but a gradual deterioration began…

According to Mulford, my ever-present thoughts are forces as real as the physical ones. The degree to which I exercise control over my thoughts, as well as the direction and persistence of my diverse trains of thought, combine to bring real-world consequences affecting me…

On reading Prentice Mulford's "Thoughts Are Things," I first encountered his summary of what I am, that is, a spiritual entity using a physical body temporarily and at the same time a part of the Ultimate Reality, God, the Infinite Force of Good. As such, even though my physical…

Recognizing that nutrition is at the very foundation of my physical and mental health, I embarked on a progressive assault on my eating habits a year ago. Since most of them had become entrenched after decades of practice, making modifications wasn't an easy task. Very slowly at…

After a lot of experimentation during the past year, I have settled on a three-pronged approach to radically improving my health status: nutrition, activity, and rest. On the nutrition front, I have slowly drifted toward a fully vegetarian diet, except when someone else may be…

Sometime back, I was exceedingly intrigued by a close-to-one-hour-long recording played by @BrianRoemmele while testing the setup he now uses to transmit here 50s Sci-Fi works that he's using to train his Intelligent Amplifier LLMs. It took some investigating, but I finally…

Symbiotic relationship. Giraffes keep guard during the day when they could see predators coming from a long way, when the giraffes run away, the zebras would heed the danger and run. In turn, the zebras guard the herds at night, when they could better see the enemy approaching.

Tumble weed.

Drone swarm with advanced collision avoidance.

Building a house with Lego-like blocks.