by Dan Green There is the argument that the taking of drugs is an effort to shortcut the way to either mystical or visionary experiences, and, perhaps, spiritual. Some argue it is a cheat, sidestepping personal effort, and therefore laziness. Ironically, the word acedia (also accidie) pronounced ‘acid-ia’ as in ‘acid’ as in LSD, means a spiritual sloth, once noted as a … [Read more...]
Can CBD Oil Help You With Long-Term Health Conditions Like Fibromyalgia
CBD (cannabidiol) is a compound found in Cannabis plants that does not have psychoactive properties. That means it won’t get you high, but it still has many of the health benefits associated with Cannabis. Because it doesn’t get you stoned, it is able to be used by children and others who are unable to use medical marijuana. Cannabidiol oil and other products made with CBD … [Read more...]
Metonic Cycle
Depiction of the 19 years of the Metonic cycle as a wheel, with the Julian date of the Easter New Moon, from a 9th-century computistic manuscript made in St. Emmeram's Abbey (Clm 14456, fol. 71r) For astronomy and calendar studies, the Metonic cycle or Enneadecaeteris (from Ancient Greek words meaning "nineteen years") is a period of very close to 19 years … [Read more...]
Plato’s Number 5040
The whole of number has every possible division, and the number 5040 can be divided by exactly fifty-nine divisors, and ten of these proceed without interval from one to ten: this will furnish numbers for war and peace, and for all contracts and dealings, including taxes and divisions of the land. These properties of number should be ascertained at leisure by those who are … [Read more...]
Why Water Is The Essence Of Good Health
Water is vital for all cell function. It helps your brain to produce hormones and neurotransmitters, your joints to stay lubricated, your skin to keep cool through sweating or respiration, and your body to excrete waste. It is little surprise the Center for Disease Control and Prevention places an emphasis on drinking plenty of fluid as upwards of 75% of Americans suffer … [Read more...]
The Evidence for Global Cooling
by Anthony Bright-Paul President Donald Trump comes in for a lot of stick, but there is one area where he is undoubtedly completely right. And that area is Anthropological Global Warming and man-made Climate Change. Every tweet of his and every action denotes that he is a Skeptic through and through. The evidence that Climate Change is man-made is so flimsy that even the … [Read more...]
Intelligent live is common in the Universe
The belief that intelligent life might exist elsewhere in the universe was not subjected to a truly scientific enquiry until recently. Yet it undoubtedly antedates recorded history ... To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. -- Metrodorus of Chios In space … [Read more...]
The Dance of The Deva – Starling Murmurations
by DAN GREEN One of Nature’s most spectacular sights is that of a starlings’ murmuration, the event when anything from thousands to millions of starlings gather and flock in one area and put on a wonderful aerial display that is both absolutely captivating and mesmerizing. Watching these rapidly assembled moving forms and shapes, it is sometimes possible to identify a giant … [Read more...]
Creation matches Geology, What The…. How?
Warning: the following article by Charles Marcello may be shocking to many of you... Is this all coincidence or a scam, you decide! Does the Creation Story from the Bible match Geology? by Charles Marcello Just about everyone has heard of the creation story, well how many people do you think have turned that creation story into a mathematical equation? I believe the … [Read more...]
The Polymerase Chain Reaction
PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) Allows Researchers to Measure Gene Activity Biologists rely on the relatively recent polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique to study DNA - its sequence, mutations, and structure. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the basis of life. It contains the code necessary for the transcription of RNA, which is translated into proteins. The DNA code … [Read more...]
Talking With Tors – Is Consciousness Everywhere?
by Dan Green There is now more esoteric, occult, mystical – call it what you will – literature available than there ever was, and all at the touch of a fingertip. You can read at leisure about almost anything of this nature as attested to by its author. It would be less complicated if everybody all agreed on everything but clearly, owing in the main to interpretation, this … [Read more...]
Avian Eye – the High Technology of Nature
Image Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/35110249@N05/ VISION - Introduction Vision is the most important sense for any animal, and especially for birds. Good eyesight is essential for safe flight, and this group has a number of adaptations which give visual acuity superior to that of other vertebrate groups. The avian eye resembles that of a reptile, with ciliary … [Read more...]
Small Pale Blue Dot…
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...]