“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
You reach a certain point in your consciousness when you inevitably realize that we are all one. We are connected in more ways than we can realize, and there is suddenly an inherent wisdom in treating your neighbor as you would like to be treated. Though it may not be immediate, and it probably won’t be in the way we imagine, the kindness and encouragement we give to others will surely find its way back to us, usually even stronger than when we sent it out.
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Steve McAllister, Modern Hippie Mag's resident Lifestyle Guru, describes himself as a Renaissance Man. An author, filmmaker, songwriter, and perpetual artistic experimenter, he has recently re-released his second book The Rucksack Letters into paperback to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the journey. His latest book, a comical foray into philosophical science fiction, is How to Survive an Estralarian Mind Meld. His latest artistic project is The Labyrinth of the Unbroken Path. .
Over the past several years, computer science experts have become kind of a digital detective. Site Photoshopped Image Killer has developed computer algorithms that can tease out the tiny flaws hidden in phony photos. Though there's no way to push a button and tell if a photo is real, there are tests run automatcally there to allow you to be pretty sure if it's a fake.