Rupert Sheldrake at EU 2013—"Science Set Free" (Parts 1 & 2) Part 1 of a talk by Rupert Sheldrake at the conference ELECTRIC UNIVERSE 2013: The Tipping Point, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Many scientists like to think that science already understands the ways of the natural world. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. The impressive achievements of science seemed to support this confident attitude. But recent research has revealed unexpected problems at the heart of physics, cosmology, biology, medicine and psychology. Dr. Part 2 of a talk by Rupert Sheldrake at the conference ELECTRIC UNIVERSE 2013: The Tipping Point, in Albuquerque, New Mexico: SEE PART 2: The Ten Dogmas Of Modern Science. Are Minds Confined to Brains? chapter 9 Animal psi Rupert Sheldrake. Change the Morphic Field…Change the World! DNA and Planetary Upliftment. Esu Speaks on Change and Creating Reality. see:
Don't Let This Happen to Your Planet Don't Let This Happen to Your Planet March 29, 2013: Ozone stinks. People who breathe it gag as their lungs burn. Yet without it, life on Earth would be impossible. A fragile layer of ozone 25 km above Earth's surface is all that stands between us and some of the harshest UV rays from the sun. To keep track of our planet's ozone layer, NASA is about to launch the most sophisticated space-based ozone sensor ever: SAGE III, slated for installation on the International Space Station in 2014. "The ISS is in the perfect orbit for SAGE III," says Joe Zawodny, Project Scientist for the instrument at the Langley Research Center. SAGE III works by using the Sun and Moon as light sources. "SAGE III is, essentially, analyzing the colors of the sunset to track ozone," says Zawodny. In a remarkable display of international cooperation, an ozone treaty was negotiated only two years later. Because of this agreement, ozone is now on the mend. SAGE III probes Arctic regions, too. Credits: Author: Dr.
The Study Society - Talks and downloads This page contains a variety of material for you to listen to or read. Contact Magazine You can view recent issues of the magazine online:Contact Magazine issue 62, Autumn 2013Contact Magazine issue 61, Summer 2013Contact Magazine issue 60, Spring 2013Contact Magazine issue 59, Autumn 2012Contact Magazine issue 58, Summer 2012Contact Magazine issue 57, Spring 2012Contact Magazine issue 55, Summer 2011Contact Magazine issue 54, Spring 2011Contact Magazine issue 53, Autumn 2010 Open Sunday Meeting Ruth White & Narain Ishaya: ‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’ ‘Every cloud has a silver lining’: Often we are so focused on what we want to happen we miss the lessons and blessings found in what is happening. Ruth White is a teacher of Iyengar Yoga who has developed a unique style of teaching that unites pupil and teacher in an atmosphere of happiness and well-being. Narain Ishaya was born in England in 1969. 2 March 2014 Ruth White, 121 minutes. Narain Ishaya, 71 minutes. Listen to talk Dr B. Dr B.
NASA: Don't Let This Happen to Your Planet 7 Extraordinary Books You Need to Read to Become Ecoliterate Complex networks and their unpredictable nature are rapidly transforming the world around us. The challenge is to learn to live with life, because we are embedded in it. We are systems, nested within systems, nested within systems. Luckily, great minds have seen this ‘crisis of perception’ coming and they have shared their thoughts with us. Thoughts that are inspiring, sometimes shaking the ground beneath our feet and sometimes giving us hope-filled vistas on the future. What is Ecoliteracy? An ecoliterate is someone who has learned (to some degree, in some way) that human life is embedded within larger ecosystems that provide the conditions for it to develop. The (aspiring) ecoliterate could, in my opinion, come a long way in creating his own understanding of living systems, by reading these 7 classic books. 1. It was Gregory Bateson who said ‘All experience is subjective‘. Free PDF-version of Steps to an Ecology of Mind 2. A brilliant and important book. Other Books by Capra: 3. 4. 5.
10 Questions Still Baffling Scientists Science has done a terrific job of answering some of the world’s most difficult questions, but certain mysteries still elude researchers. How does gravity work? Can your pet fish really predict an earthquake? Why do we yawn so much? Here’s what we don’t know and how close we are to figuring it out. 1. Theories about why we yawn are as common as grumpy toddlers at nap time, but two explanations seem plausible after experimental tests. But if yawns are our brains’ way of kick-starting their efficiency, why is yawning contagious? That’s not the only theory floating around, though. 2. Here’s what we know: Humans really do spontaneously combust. It’s far more probable than the competing idea—that methane gases build up in the intestines and are sparked from inside the body by a mix of enzymes. 3. When a new drug enters clinical trials, researchers need a control group against which to compare its effects. 4. In theory, this idea makes a lot of sense. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Peter Sloterdijk in English [updated July 2013] | Te Ipu Pakore: The Broken Vessel Peter Sloterdijk (b.1947) is the coming man in philosophical anthropology (or rather, on the comeback after his first brush with fame in the 80s) — though his work is translated more often in French and Spanish than in English. His Sisyphean Spheres trilogy (1998, 1999, 2004), a decade in the making and as yet untranslated in English, seems to have prevented his work becoming more broadly known in the Anglo world. This has begun to change over the past year, as his hyperbolic philosophy has returned parabolically, as it were, his motifs of anthropo-technology, spherology and atmoterrorism having found their moment in this time of genetics, globalization and global warming. (Note that some of these texts are subscription only — I include these for my own reference and for those who have institutional access to journals.) Texts already translated into English (in chronological order) Critique of Cynical Reason, trans. Thinker on Stage: Nietzsche’s Materialism, trans. “Analytic Terror.
The Oh-My-God Particle by John Walker January 4, 1994 Fly's Eye The University of Utah operates a cosmic ray detector called the Fly's Eye II, situated at the Dugway Proving Ground about an hour's drive from Salt Lake City. The Fly's Eye consists of an array of telescopes which stare into the night sky and record the blue flashes which result when very high energy cosmic rays slam into the atmosphere. From the height and intensity of the flash, one can calculate the nature of the particle and its energy. On the night of October 15, 1991, the Fly's Eye detected a proton with an energy of 3.2±0.9×1020 electron volts.[1,2] By comparison, the recently-canceled Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) would have accelerated protons to an energy of 20 TeV, or 2×1013 electron volts—ten million times less. All evidence points to these extremely high energy particles being protons—the nuclei of hydrogen atoms. Microbial Mass How Fast? How fast was it going? And thus, approximately: v = 0.9999999999999999999999951 c Quicktime
Philosophy of the Acrobat: On Peter Sloterdijk | World's best info-graphics show us the value of body parts, surname distribution and what makes a great novel Information Is Beautiful Awards celebrated the best data graphicsGraphics showed anything from the monetary value of a human brain to the most common Alaskan surnames By Graham Smith Published: 15:55 GMT, 2 October 2012 | Updated: 16:29 GMT, 2 October 2012 A map of the human body that lists the value of each body part; a map of the U.S. that marks the most popular surnames; and a graphic that shows what plot details make a great novel. These were just three of the entries at the Information Is Beautiful Awards ceremony in London last week, celebrating the most ingenious methods of making numbers and facts visually interesting. The body parts map provides the price in sterling for every limb, organ and gland based on the growing industry of human tissue recovery. The researchers calculated the values from prices charged by human tissue recovery agencies that collect body parts for research. If you could do away with your brain altogether, expect to be paid £10,707 for all its parts.
5 Mind-Blowing Books That Are Worth The Struggle To Read Books are obstacle courses for the mind. By confronting us with paradigm shifting ideas they challenge us to stretch our capacity for understanding. And when we succeed, they will open up a world which we couldn’t see before. And then, in this unfamiliar world, we find ourselves having new thoughts and breaking new rules, using new magic and exploring new possibilities. And finally we must come to the conclusion, when we absorb ideas too big for our former selves, we change and we grow and burst like a butterfly out of our old shells that don’t serve us no more. You Must Change Your Life – Peter Sloterdijk In this dazzling display of historic inquiry Sloterdijk delves deep into our human tendency to experience ‘vertical tension’ – the call to outgrow oneself and leave behind our old deficient selves. Darwin’s Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere – Richard M. Nietzsche and Zen: Self Overcoming Without a Self – André van der Braak Discover the fallacies of the ego!
Symmetry in the universe: Physics says you shouldn’t exist Illustration by Alex Eben Meyer You’re almost unfathomably lucky to exist, in almost every conceivable way. Don’t take it the wrong way. You, me, and even the most calming manatee are nothing but impurities in an otherwise beautifully simple universe. We're lucky life began on Earth at all, of course, and that something as complex as humans evolved. But even so, I have news for you: It's worse than you think. Your existence wasn’t just predicated on amorousness and luck of your ancestors, but on an almost absurdly finely tuned universe. Worse still, the laws of physics themselves seem to be working against us. My physicist colleagues and I like to pretend that the laws of physics are orderly and elegant. The history of physics, in fact, is a marvel of using simple symmetry principles to construct complicated laws of the universe. The long-overlooked 20th-century mathematician Emmy Noether proved the centrality of symmetry as a physical principle. Everything is kinda the same? Very.
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