News Briefs 13-02-2013
Posted by Rick MG at 10:06, 13 Feb 2013I think I remember how to post the Grail news, it's like riding a bike. Although that's what Albert Hofmann said...
- There's still birthday cake leftover from yesterday for Charles Darwin & Abe Lincoln. Both men would be 204 years old and a day.
- The blobfish is one creature that missed the evolution memo.
- Rupert Sheldrake sets science free (Amazon).
- Government crusade against comic books was based on lies.
- Skeptiko hosts Chaos theory pioneer & DMT researcher Ralph Abraham.
- Brain rhythms help you avoid going bump in the night.
- Russell Targ talks about the Reality of ESP (Amazon/Kindle).
- Radford University students get their very own psychomanteum.
- Michael Prescott examines the Near Death Experience of Peter N.
- Soviet shamanism: thankfully there are more shamanists than communists in Siberia today.
- Collection of shaman stones found in Panama cave.
- Excavations of a Swiss dolmen grave reveal Neolithic rituals.
- Limestone chapel of queen Hatshepsut opening to the public.
- Australia's best fossil deposits buried by beaurocratic red tape.
- NASA's 'crazy' robot lab, where even making toast is an adventure.
- I missed the UFOs in Melbourne recently, I was staying at a hotel.
Tip o' the hat to Rob Brezsny, David Metcalfe, & three huzzahs to Perceval for covering the news during my alien abduction Cirque du Soleil training.
Quote of the Day:
I cannot endure to read a line of poetry. I have tried to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have almost lost my taste for pictures and music. I lament this curious loss of my higher aesthetic tastes. . . My mind seems to have become a machine for grinding general laws, out of larger collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive.
~ Charles Darwin
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4 August 2008
12 weeks 1 day
http://www.cryptozoonews.com/ketchum-213/
Fecal Propellant time.
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Rev.Drjon
http://drjon.livejournal.com/
18 September 2007
7 hours 30 min
I work quite a bit with stones and crystals. On the most fundamental level they can very readily alter the human vibration and thereby jolt one out of ordinary orientation into something more exotic. A shaman is really getting other perspectives and this doesn't necessarily require supranormal abilities. It is quite a revelation at first to realize how much the material world can affect our perspective, and once you start doing the dance with crystallized matter then you start paying more attention to the material world as you pass through its differing densities on a daily basis.
Not all matter takes you higher - sometimes it will slow you down which can be very timely if you have got into a higher domain than you can handle for any length of time without starting to get too enervated. Stones and crystals are just particularly dense nodes of matter that will tweak you vibrationally more emphatically than say a loaf of bread, but a loaf of bread will leave an imprint on you too. Everything does.
1 May 2004
1 day 4 hours
Naming your freshly-minted "scientific" journal DeNovo is pressing it a little, no?
I will set back and consume a blueberry muffin or two and wait for someone else to blow the 30 bucks on the download.
5 June 2006
4 days 3 hours
Good for you Chuck, now go die
2 May 2004
13 hours 15 min
Anyone else find Darwin's quote interesting, particularly in light of Richard Dawkins? Darwin lamented how rationalism was killing his "higher aesthetic tastes", and the Dawk in recent years has lamented how higher aesthetic tastes kill rationalism. Curiouser and curiouser!
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@levitatingcat
18 September 2012
10 weeks 2 days
What I found interesting about Darwin's quote was that he assumed that enjoying Shakespeare was somehow "higher." Setting aside Shakespeare's value (I've been reading "The Rape of Lucrece," and a lot of it is piffle), why should we place aesthetics above rationalism? To me, they're both part of human brain activity, and complement, rather than compete...
2 May 2004
13 hours 15 min
I don't get the impression Darwin was putting aesthetics above rationalism -- he wanted a balance, and focusing entirely on one was having a negative effect on the other. That's how I read it, anyway. The Dawk on the other hand makes no ambiguities about what he thinks is higher! ;-)
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