Humanity and the world around us
- Baraka
Without words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on “where,” but on “what’s there.”
It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests; several hundred monks do a monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint; whole villages dance. The film moves to destruction of nature via logging, blasting, and strip mining. Images of poverty, rapid urban life, and factories give way to war, concentration camps, and mass graves. Ancient ruins come into view, and then a sacred river where pilgrims bathe and funeral pyres burn. Prayer and nature return. A monk rings a huge bell; stars wheel across the sky.
- The Top 10 Principles of Individual Evolution
(http://www.topten.org/content/tt.BA7.htm)
Category: Personal Development: Basic (BA7)
Originally Submitted on 8/28/96.
Are you entirely satisfied with who, what, or where you are now? Most of us aspire to be or have something different than we enjoy at present. “Becoming” is a part of this life, and that’s what evolution is all about–becoming more than you are, or appear to be, at present. Here are ten principles that may guide you in your quest.
1. Whatever you are experiencing at this very moment is appropriate to your need to grow.
- Why bother?
That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about, and it’s not an easy one to answer. I don’t know about you, but for me the most upsetting moment in “An Inconvenient Truth” came long after Al Gore scared the hell out of me, constructing an utterly convincing case that the very survival of life on earth as we know it is threatened by climate change. No, the really dark moment came during the closing credits, when we are asked to . . . change our light bulbs. That’s when it got really depressing. The immense disproportion between the magnitude of the problem Gore had described and the puniness of what he was asking us to do about it was enough to sink your heart.
- Awakening the Divine Within
The film examines the re-emergence of archaic techniques of ecstacy in the modern world by weaving a synthesis of ecological and evolutionary awareness,electronic dance culture, and the current pharmacological re-evaluation of entheogenic compounds. Within a narrative framework that imagines consciousness itself to be evolving, Entheogen documents the emergence of techno-shamanism in the post-modern world that frames the following questions: How can a renewal of ancient initiatory rites of passage alleviate our ecological crisis? What do trance dancing and festivals celebrating unbridled artistic expression speak to in our collective psyche? How do we re-invent ourselves in a disenchanted world from which God has long ago withdrawn? Entheogen invites the viewer to consider that the answers to these questions lie within the consciousness of each and every human being, and are accessible if only we give ourselves permission to awaken to the divine within.
- Earth’s Hum Sounds More Mysterious Than Ever
Earth gives off a relentless hum of countless notes completely imperceptible to the human ear, like a giant, exceptionally quiet symphony, but the origin of this sound remains a mystery.
Now unexpected powerful tunes have been discovered in this hum. These new findings could shed light on the source of this enigma.
The planet emanates a constant rumble far below the limits of human hearing, even when the ground isn’t shaking from an earthquake. (It does not cause the ringing in the ear linked with tinnitus.) This sound, first discovered a decade ago, is one that only scientific instruments - seismometers - can detect. Researchers call it Earth’s hum.
- Earth Songs
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN
to the INSPIRE VLF radio receiver
at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL.
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(Requires Quicktime. It’s free, too!)You can hear sferics, tweeks, whistlers and other VLF radio sounds at any time of the day, but the hours around dawn and dusk are generally best. Nighttime is also better than daytime. In Huntsville, AL, where our online receiver is located, dawn happens at about 1200 UT and dusk is ten hours later at 2200 UT. Please read the Science@NASA story “Earth Songs” to find out what these strange sounds represent.
- Envisioning a World Without Men
Scientist Says Female-Only Reproduction Is Only a Few Years Away
By NICK WATT
LONDON, April 28, 2008—
Imagine a world without men: Lauren Bacall but no Bogie, Hillary Clinton but no Bill, no Starsky or Hutch.
This isn’t just an unlikely sci-fi scenario. This could be reality, according to Bryan Sykes, an eminent professor of genetics at Oxford University and author of “Adam’s Curse: A Future Without Men.”
“The Y chromosome is deteriorating and will, in my belief, disappear,” Sykes told me. A world-renowned authority on genetic material, Sykes is called upon to investigate DNA evidence from crime scenes. His team of researchers is currently compiling a DNA family tree for our species.
- The Rules for being Human
When you were born, you didn’t come with an owner’s manual; these guidelines make life work better.
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s the only thing you are sure to keep for the rest of your life.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called “Life on Planet Earth”. Every person or incident is the Universal Teacher.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation. “Failures” are as much a part of the process as “success.”
- Planetary Breakthrough
by. C.B. Willis (http://www.worldtrans.org/spir/planetbreak.html)
May 17, 1994
(C) Copyright 1994 by C.B. Willis. Redistribution rights granted for non-commercial purposes.
Starting Points
The planetary situation as a whole is getting worse in almost every respect except for the astounding pace of technological development and scientific discovery.
When polled, many Americans say that they feel our country has gone off track.
Few people recognize themselves as spirit, or understand the potentials of spirit.
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