What do we really want from religion? Palliatives? Therapy? Comfort? Do we want reassuring fables or an understanding of our actual circumstances? Dismay that the Universe does not conform to our preferences seems childish. You might think that grown-ups would be ashamed to put such thoughts into print. The fashionable way of doing this is not to blame the Universe -- which … [Read more...]
Global Obesity and the Hidden Teaching of Buddhism
by DAN GREEN It is both known and accepted that Buddha taught his pupils in accordance to their ability to comprehend and that profoundly deeper teachings and dissertations were reserved and made available to those whom he decided were able to receive them. I should like to try to unveil one such hidden aspect of Buddha’s teaching as its explanation is now most timely. It … [Read more...]
Strike Back Against Spam Calls and Robocalls
Mobile phones are now the singular port of call for communication, entertainment and safety. But most of us are being hounded by spam calls at home, or work, in the car, while we are having dinner or even when we are trying to get some sleep. Unfortunately with so many cellphone numbers being collected in databases and made available to companies, it has become so much easier … [Read more...]
Hemp Your Way to Health
Healing Power of Hemp - Roger Snow's Incredible Story ... "After 30 years of supplying myself with sufficient ordinary food (mostly starches) to be able to work 16 hour days farming, as well as building and installing machines for local food processing plants - I was a fifty year old wreck. I had high blood pressure, high blood sugar, chronic prostate inflammation, several … [Read more...]
Crystal Skulls
Many skeptics feel that the crystal skulls are probably of a much more recent vintage than their accompanying stories suggest. This, they believe, is the best way to explain their existence, since no one could have created them without technologies available only within the past century. Skulls are humanity's foremost symbol of death, and a powerful icon in the visual … [Read more...]
Natural Methods That Have Been Used to Treat Cancer
Whether a person has breast cancer or even the rare but often deadly mesothelioma, finding the right ways to treat each particular cancer is clearly important. While there are a number of drugs on the market used for this purpose, some people do not want to put more chemicals into their body. Finding a natural way to treat this horrible disease can be a bit easier said than … [Read more...]
The Red and the Bent Pyramid at Dashur
The Great Pyramid has lent its name as a sort of by-word for paradoxes; and, as moths to a candle, so are theorisers attracted to it. The very fact that the subject was so generally familiar, and yet so little was accurately known about it, made it the more enticing; there were plenty of descriptions from which to choose, and yet most of them were so hazy that their support … [Read more...]
MIND MECHANICS AND MYTHOLOGY
by Ashley Cowie Myths and heroes, angels and demons, monsters and nightmares all come from our collective unconscious. Parapsychology, alchemy and occult religious concepts can contribute to our understanding of the collective unconscious. These apparently fringe ideas are the bedrock to the scientific models of Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), the Swiss psychiatrist who … [Read more...]
What is the meaning of life?
There are many Answers... All you need is love The Beatles knew what was up. When it comes down to it, there's nothing more important than love. It's what humanity has spent the last however many hundreds of thousands of years developing as an evolutionary advancement. It's what guides the best actions. Its absence is what guides the worst. I think there's something … [Read more...]
The Metaphorical Universe – We are Spiritual Information
By Ron O. Cook Deep within the psyche of all humans lives a desire for recognition of one's existence and prowess. In order to fulfill this desire within mankind, one finds the first step to position for recognition of who and what we are here in Time/Space or physicality. That step is the act of leveraging all physical aspects for power and control in every event sequence … [Read more...]
Lincoln and Kennedy – Strange Coincidences
U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy are a piece of American folklore of unknown origin. The list of coincidences appeared in the mainstream American press in 1964, a year after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, having appeared prior to that in the G.O.P. Congressional Committee Newsletter. Martin Gardner examined the list in an article in Scientific … [Read more...]
Cognitive Illusions
Cognitive illusions arise from interaction of perceived reality with assumptions about the world (prior knowledge), leading to "unconscious inferences". Cognitive illusions rely on stored knowledge about the world (depth, rabbits, women) and are also under some degree of conscious control (we can generally reverse the perception at will). The way you look at an object can … [Read more...]
Physiological Illusions
Physiological illusions, such as the afterimages following bright lights or adapting stimuli of excessively longer alternating patterns (contingent perceptual aftereffect, CAE), are the effects on the eyes or brain of excessive stimulation of a specific type - brightness, tilt, colour, movement, and so on. The theory is that stimuli have individual dedicated neural paths in the … [Read more...]
Visual Illusions and Brain Teasers
An optical illusion is any illusion that deceives the human visual system into perceiving something that is not present or incorrectly perceiving what is present. -- Wikipedia Discover the world of optical illusions where your eyes and your brain can fool you. Here you will find some of the best illusions and brain teasers around (and related … [Read more...]
How many people have ever lived on earth?
Estimates of "the total number of people who have ever lived" published in the first decade of the 21st century range approximately from 100 to 115 billion. According to estimates by demographic researchers at the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), as of 2015, there have been 108.2 billion who have ever been born. Taking away the roughly 7.4 billion who are alive today, we … [Read more...]
12 and Prime Numbers
A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. A natural number greater than 1 that is not a prime number is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime because 1 and 5 are its only positive integer factors, whereas 6 is composite because it has the divisors 2 and 3 in addition to 1 and 6. The … [Read more...]
Pyramids – Ancient Batteries?
by Robert Bruce Baird In the Madre de Dios region of Brazil near Peru there are twelve battery laid out pyramids with berms of earth piled around to reflect energy (perhaps). I think Berlitz covered them or David Hatcher Childress - who ever it was said the foreign investigations were stopped and it isn't a case of being unreachable as many links will say as they talk … [Read more...]
SCOTLAND’S CATASTROPHIC COMET CONSPIRACY
by Ashley Cowie In 1945 a hyper-excentric catastrophist published the most bizarre conspiracy theory of all time. Plato's legendary Atlantis thrived in Scotland before being destroyed by a comet impact, and in ancient times the capital city Edinburgh was the real Jerusalem. Movies such as Armageddon and Deep Impact have engrained the concept of Earth being obliterated … [Read more...]
The Thought Police
Anthony Bright-Paul In order to understand the workings of the thought-police there is no better place to start than with the Trial of Galileo. Read this introduction to article The Trial of Galileo by Doug Linder (2002) In the 1633 trial of Galileo Galilei, two worlds come into cosmic conflict. Galileo's world of science and humanism collides with the world of … [Read more...]
Empirical Evidence of Man-made Global Warming?
by Anthony Bright-Paul There is no empirical evidence of man-made Global Warming whatsoever. There never has been and there never will be. Oh yes! There is a theory and plenty of scientists have an ‘opinion’ on the matter. But opinion is not science. A great number of apparatchiks also ‘believe’ that that the Globe is getting hotter and hotter and indeed only today I read in … [Read more...]