Gabor Mate is a doctor and best-selling author. His totems are Gautama Buddha, Yeshua (aka Jesus), Karl Marx, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. Beethoven's in there too.

Famous for booze-soaked ballads in the 70s and creative musical weirdness ever since, the legend is now sober. 

A black diamond examination of the intersection of these two systems.

Certain parts of your brain become less active, with interesting results.

At their best, musical Sevens infect their audiences with a joy so full and pure that it touches on the divine.

Do you have a blog you've been neglecting? It's probably happening to you.

This charity pays fair trade prices to Ugandan women for bead jewelry.

What were people listening to then? Will you recognize the songs or the artists?

There's a great deal of significance to this thing we use as a quick, easy reference.

What function do they serve? Sandra Maitri offers answers in her book The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram.

Songs from artists various Beams readers listed as being underrated.

What exactly is going on in our heads when we give in to a craving?

It wasn't just one mind that birthed that classic movie scene.

What does it mean to actually "think"? How often do we do it?

About Beams and Struts, collective intelligence, and why this is the most exciting time to be alive in human history.

This meme exploded (in the good sense) and then exploded (in the bad sense) in about a month. Here's what happened.

Sixes question authority, look for guidance, play in established musical styles and defend the underdog.

Are you new to Beams and Struts? If so, welcome! And here are links to a variety of our best loved and most read articles.

A short summary of something this big bad corp is trying to splooge into our bodies.

In Alberta, the hobbits are creating Mordor instead of destroying it.