http://www.adguk-blog.com/2014/02/dna-analysis-of-paracas-elongated-skull.html
How religions die
Very interesting little piece, found via SchwartzReport, nicely beyond the sterile believer/atheist dichotomy. I believe that religions change because the represent the interface between a culture and the nonmaterial world. Given that cultures change, the nature of the relationship has to change, and therefore the interface has to change or cease to perform its function.
How do religions die?
Do they waste away, or get conquered by something better? Perhaps it is easier to think in terms of gods dying, rather than religions
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/30/how-do-religions-die
If religions are born, they must also be able to die. How does this happen? I think we can discount at once the idea that it happens because people realise that science is better. It’s obvious that the more people try to replace religion with science, the more they reproduce the worst features of organised religion. Continue reading How religions die
The practical use of energies
Always interesting how quickly i can forget what i know, and then unexpectedly remember it.
Today I had two teeth extracted, and implants put in. They came out easily, as i expected, even though one had broken off at the gum line and the other, a bicuspid, had split down its length. I asked the teeth to come out nicely and they did.
After this kind of work, dentists (oral surgeons, actually) expect you to have swelling, severe pain, perhaps some bleeding), the swelling for at least three days, the pain for an indeterminate amount of time. They prescribe ibuprophen and a heavy-duty one the name of which i have forgotten (and have no intention of taking).
The work was finished at 11:40 a.m., and within an hour (while i was waiting at the drug store for the prescriptions to be made up) the anesthetic wore off and the pain started getting pretty bad. I wasn’t enjoying it.
Then – (voila, also duh!) – i remembered and did some energy work on it. I talked to the tissues, said i understood, said it was under control and we were into healing mode, and it became (and remains, at least for the moment) just a background annoyance. I’d be surprised if i have any trouble tonight. Granted, i had taken an ibuprofen, but the pain level dropped like a stone in an instant, rather than gradually. And the swelling, which is supposed to last three days, appears to be almost entirely gone.
Amazing, this energy-medicine stuff.
KZUM radio interview online
Had a nice mid-day chat with Scott Colborn of KZUM radio, Lincoln, Nebraska (www.kzum.org) about Afterlife Conversations with Hemingway. Always good when the interviewer knows the subject and asks good questions — makes the guest look intelligent! We talked last year about my book The Cosmic Internet, and I enjoyed that one too. This program will be available free of charge worldwide by Sunday 1/20/13, at 12 noon Central (1 p.m. God’s time :-)) at http://www.eupradio.net/.
Radio interview Saturday 1-19-2013
You can listen live via http://www.kzum.org . The program will be archived and available free of charge worldwide at http://www.eupradio.net by Sunday 1/20/13, at 12 noon Central. In Lincoln, NE, the program is broadcast live on KZUM Radio, 89.3 FM. Here is the host’s intro:
Hemingway: Helping people to feel
An excerpt from Afterlife Conversations with Hemingway
[May 18, 2010] Papa, I suppose that “The Doctor And The Doctor’s Wife” is built upon your life but is no word-for-word autobiography, even necessarily disguised autobiography — and critics who approach your work go wrong to think so.
That’s right. A writer takes what he knows and tries to render it so that it’s truer than the real thing, so that people who weren’t there can get it even though they weren’t there. So you have to intensify and magnify and simplify and clarify — and you have to do all that without distorting the subject! It’s like Georgia O’Keeffe painting her tiny subjects huge, so you can’t help seeing. Now, this is not a blanket endorsement for Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting style or subject matter. It’s an illustration. She painted tiny things in proportion but huge, so if you glance at it, you have a chance of getting something of what she had seen, and if you looked longer, she had done it so carefully that you couldn’t keep seeing more and more closely into it. My writing, the same idea: The real thing has to be portrayed larger than life, starker, changed in so many ways, if it is going to have the effect on you that the original emotion had on me.
Planetary Spirit interview link
On December 20th, Jeff Ferrinnini and I did a one-hour radio interview on his show Planetary Spirit, which is produced out of Boston. The subject: Afterlife Conversations with Hemingway. I noted at the time that Jeff is a joy to interact with: He reads the book carefully and thinks about what he has read.
The interview is now accessible online. http://www.mediafire.com/?jammb3brgbqtwkb