• Consider supporting Wikipedia

    Every so often I drop off a few bucks to support Wikipedia. I got this email thank-you note which they suggested I may want to share with some friends, so here it is. Dear Frank, Thank you for donating to the Wikimedia Foundation. You are wonderful! It’s easy to ignore our fundraising banners, and I’m…

  • Jim Price: Trailblazing

    This from Jim Price, well worth reading. Trailblazing the Human Condition explores how our efforts and adaptations contribute to expanding shared knowledge. When we are trailblazing, I believe we are adding to the field of human knowledge through morphogenic resonance, furthering the education of humanity through a shared unseen field.  This essay is the fourth…

  • How to be happier

    My friend John King sends me this, which I hereby pass along to you. It isn’t flashy but it is memorable. https://www.upworthy.com/scientists-discover-one-of-the-greatest-contributing-factors-to-happiness-youll-thank-me?c=upw1  

  • 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.…

  • Michael Ventura on his friend’s last quest, part two

    MICHAEL VENTURA LETTERS AT 3AM – HE TOOK THE CAT TO TEXAS: Part 2 Austin Chronicle – Oct. 4, 2013 “It is my very strong feeling that real pacifism, real positive political change, cannot be effectively motivated by guilt, but must come instead from a joyful reverence for life, from a fervent desire to make…

  • Rupert Sheldrake: Wikipedia Under Threat

    Wikipedia Under Threat by Rupert Sheldrake Wikipedia is a wonderful invention. But precisely because it’s so trusted and convenient, people with their own agendas keep trying to take it over. Editing wars are common. According to researchers at Oxford University, the most controversial subjects worldwide include Israel and God. This is not surprising. Everyone knows…

  • Inconvenient evidence from Brazil

    You have to love real science — that explores, considers, tentatively explains, and keeps exploring. (This, as opposed to the zealots who think of themselves as crusaders for rationality — actually, usually in effect technology-worshipers, who adhere to any established theory as long as it is established. They then turn on a dime to support…

  • Where Do We Find Hope When A Peacemaking President Is Assassinated?

    This came to me by way of PEERS. To subscribe to its email list, http://www.wanttoknow.info/subscribe Confronting the John F. Kennedy Assassination Where Do We Find Hope When A Peacemaking President Is Assassinated? By James W. Douglass, author of acclaimed book JFK and the Unspeakable I believe this experiment we are doing into the dark truth…

  • You Never Imagined Any Such Power

    Cambridge University Press is publishing The Letters of Ernest Hemingway in a multi-volume series. Volume Two contains his letter from 1923 through 1925. (Pretty important years!) I’m loving volume two of the letters. You can learn a  lot from someone’s letters. Consider this from July, 1923, in a letter to Greg Clark of the Toronto…

  • The essence of the inner life — beyond tag lines

    Paul Rademacher looks at the challenges of describing the spiritual quest to a society that thinks in terms of advertising slogans. He starts with the Public Relations  guy  at a conference who asked him “what is the benefit of consciousness and spirituality?” “He was young, intelligent and on the cutting edge of marketing. It was…