Click here to support the Daily Grail for as little as $US1 per month on Patreon

News Briefs 21-06-2004

No matter whether your day is really long, or really short, there’s still plenty of news. TDG serves both hemispheres with equality…

  • Rupert Sheldrake gets funky with his latest column for the Daily Mirror, “Sexual Telepathy“. Somehow I can’t see Marvin Gaye singing that…
  • Meanwhile, Timothy Good says that aliens have been living on Earth for a long time….and we’re not the ones running the place. Douglas Adams was on to something…
  • Ghostly activity may be on the increase in Wisconsin.
  • Sylvia Browne says she’s a telephone. I think James Randi may have called her worse.
  • David Booth, the disposable prophet of the apocalypse.
  • Documentary shines light on the sex magick of former conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
  • 3CPO and Astroboy are to be inducted in the Robot’s Hall of Fame. Wonder if there’ll be a jam as good as Prince’s induction into the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame?
  • SpaceShipOne takes off for the 100km mark today – but is it a historic flight or just stunt-flying? Would you climb aboard for the first flight? Even if you don’t make launch time, here’s a viewer’s guide.
  • Astrobiology has posted the final instalment of the Great Terraforming Debate. The previous five articles are linked from the bottom of the page if you haven’t been keeping up.
  • Should we rename Comet Wild 2 to ‘Dark City‘?
  • Eckankar, a New Age religion that emphasises spiritual development.
  • Adding a chromosome may be just the trick for gene therapies to treat genetic diseases. 46&1 is just ahead of me.
  • WHO lists Europe’s top 5 child-killers.
  • Future cities to swelter in summer.
  • Stonehenge built by Welshmen? I don’t think so, otherwise it would have been called Styphonddggehengyrrrrre or similar.
  • Regardless of who built it, Stonehenge always has plenty of friends come the Summer Solstice. Let’s hope they stay friendly to the old girl.
  • The White Mountain treasure still inspires searchers.
  • Hilltop sites in Arizona functioned as communications hub over 100s of kilometres.
  • Whassamada Torquemada? Vatican downsizes the Inquisition. Is that like neo-Nazis downsizing the Holocaust?
  • The problem with restoring Cairo’s Islamic archaeological treasures.
  • Archaeologists seek to unlock answer to mystery anchors.
  • Identical twins break arms identically.
  • Trackers to search for Sydney’s mysterious black panther.

Quote of the Day:

Like Marks, I am a sceptic, but of a different kind. His scepticism is directed towards anything he regards as “paranormal”, taking as normal that which lies within the limits of current scientific understanding. My scepticism is directed towards the assumption that we know enough to proclaim what is possible and what is not.

Rupert Sheldrake

Editor
  1. one way wind
    Hi,

    Sexual telepathy does it possibly work one way too ?

    ” Fear accomplishes nothing but destruction. Fear is the greatest enemy of all that exists on Planet Earth. Fear is bondage, fear is not freedom”

    1. Pheromones work in both direc
      Pheromones work in both directions, reguardless of what’s coming at them.

      Your tagline about fear is wrong toxilogic. Fear is what keeps us alive. Without it, we would not respect that which would easily consume us. Respect is a by-product of fear. It is inherent in us all that we should respect(fear) that which would consume us. “Fear of the unknown”, has driven many to understand that which others would have left unknown. Fear is a tool in nature.
      You need it.
      -dd

      1. Fear
        I think you have fear and awe mixed up with each other, Digital Dragon.

        To be in awe of that which is beyond understanding and maybe even belief is inherent in our natures but to be in fear of it is not.

        For many years I lived in fear……..because that was the way I was raised.

        I feared God and what He could/would do to me if I sinned.
        I feared the loss of loved ones.
        I feared death.

        Finally I confronted death when I had a serious illness and I also confronted loss.

        I survived both, and decided that I would no longer fear anything on this earth or apart from it.

        Death comes to us all, and pain is always just a blink away.Why fear it!

        The sun will still shine and the birds will still sing,and my dogs
        will still love me.

        I am in awe though that the sun shines and the birds sing and the dogs love this old person who is nothing to look at and owns little.

        Tell me now what I should fear.Maybe there is something I need to know.

        Shadows.

      2. Hi D.D.

        Many global citize
        Hi D.D.

        Many global citizens have no respect for president bush and his administration, yet they fear what further disasters they could unleash.
        Fear of the unknown is totally irrational. Fear is no tool of nature, the zebra doesn’t fear the lion, only when latter moves to hunting mode it will try to evade the lion.
        Fear freezes action (rabbit in the spotlight), at best it will cause regression into previous (cultural) or physical (amygdala driven) states.

        Fear accomplishes nothing but destruction. Fear is the greatest enemy of all that exists on Planet Earth. Fear is bondage, fear is not freedom”

      3. Is there anything to fear…but fear itself?
        Hi DD:
        But What If…

        Fear is not what keeps us alive – But Fear is that which creates the process of a slow and painful succession of little deaths, leading to the ultimate defeat?

        Can Fear be seen as a healthy form of respect?
        How can one truly respect out of fear?
        It’s not possible.

        The opposite effect of a fear lost is a freedom gained.

        To recognise and respect danger and to treat it with caution is one thing – to fear it is a totally different way of being. Fear often swallows reason whole – we are not at our best when fearful – we are at our most illumined when free from the shackles fear so readily bestows upon us!

      4. On the subject on fear
        Hello everyone. I enjoyed your comments on what your take is on fear, and how you have lived and delt with it. I would like to add a few more comments on the subject.

        You can’t underestimate the power of fear.

        We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

        Anxiety is fear of one’s self. It is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

        Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

        -dd “Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Mobile menu - fractal