Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
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The Superior Human? >>> Documentary Challenging Human’s Belief That They Are Superior To Other Life Forms
“The Superior human?” is the first documentary to systematically challenge the common human belief that humans are superior to other life forms. The documentary reveals the absurdity of this belief while exploding human bias. Featuring Dr Bernard Rollin, Gary Yourofsky Dr Richard Ryder, Dr Steven Best. Narrated by Dr Nick Gylaw. “The Superior human?” is dedicated to 2012 Earth April (EA) which includes Earth Day and World Lab Animal Day. EA official website : http://EarthApril.GoodEasy.info
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Offshore Psychedelic Healing >>> Proposal for Entheogenic Seastead Resort and Testing Lab
Was the appearance of the white killer whale a sign of humanities need to shift to the oceans? After finding out about seasteading, I found this article on The Institue For Ethics & Emerging Technologies website from Ben Goertzel on his proposal to take shamanic healing to the sea. It is certainly a grandiose idea that would take years if not decades to turn into reality, but one I think, and the white whale may be signifying, is a must needed direction humanity should ...
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Seasteading >>> Government Free Cities In The Ocean Are Next Frontier For Human Civilization
I’m sure a lot of people have heard of seasteading already, but I hadn’t until today. Sometimes I get a bit disconnected from the world living on a farm, which ironically is the beauty of of this budding movement taking cities from land to sea where the next generation of pioneers can peacefully test new ideas for government free from government. The idea of these free floating cities is being spearheaded by The Seasteading Institute. To learn more about the possibilities, limitations, and ...
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As FDA Loosens Stranglehold on Research, Studies Use Hallucinogens to Treat Psychiatric Illness
Truthout recently reported the latest LSD and other hallucinogenic studies relating to psychiatric illness that are starting to loosen the 35 year ban on psychedelic research. The question is…is this good or bad for psychedelic healing? Is something that is probably better understood by shamans in the safe hands of modern scientists? Will big pharma take over and suck the sacredness out of these substances? Or is this the first droplets of the shamanic healing flood I hope will wash us ...
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The God Spots Revealed >>> Scientists Find Areas Of The Brain Responsible For Greater Spirituality
The Daily Mail UK reports new research has indicated that there is no one God-spot in the human brain and that in fact spirituality is stimulated across all lobes in the brain. What’s particularly interesting is that one study of Bhuddist meditators shows that people can learn to minimize the functioning of the right side of their brains (spiritual transcendence is associated with decreased right parietal lobe functioning) to increase their spiritual connections during meditation and prayer. Learn more here: Scientists ...
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Mystifying Singing Plants from Damanhur Eco-Society >>> Video
I’ll never forget the day when I first was opened up to the world of shamanism when I saw Wade Davis speak at UBC in his Massey Lecture series on why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world. One of the stand out moments was near the end when he said “when the shamans were asked by scientists how they knew amongst the thousands of plant species in the rainforest to combine the vine and other plants to create the ...
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Ann Druyan Talks About Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe . . . and Carl Sagan
It is just about as likely you will come across Carl Sagan on any new age, occult-esque blog or website nowadays as it is to come across a hippies selling jewelery on a beach so I tend to not post about him. However, when I came across this old 2003 piece for the Skeptical Inquirer written by Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan’s wife, I felt it was worth sending it out into the electronic abyss once again in hopes that it will make it’s ...
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Free New Quarterly Publication ‘Earth’ >>> The Neo-Hippies Dream Magazine Covering Consciousness, Cosmos, Teepees, Wilderness and More
Introducing the earth’s newest quarterly publication Earth, with articles like ‘Becoming Conscious’, ‘Art Is Magic’, ‘The Wilderness’, ‘You Are The Cosmos’, ‘Back To The Land’, and the holy grail of hippiedom, an instructional piece on building teepees, one could say this is the ultimate magazine for modern hippies…aka mippies. Only a true mippie publication would be free, which is exactly what Earth is being available to order or download for free from their site. However, the pages of Earth deter ...
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Are Wealthy People Evil? >>> New Study Finds Rich People Have Less Compassion Than The Poor
Do you have to have a blackened heart to earn a lot of the green? According to several studies that have been conducted over the last year or so, this is the case with people of a high income. The findings are significant especially in light of the battle between the 1% and 99%, but only really skim the surface of the psychology of socioeconomic class raising many more questions to be examined. Some of these questions might include: Of ...
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Study Finds Suicide Rates Fall When States Legalize Medical Marijuana
I am certainly not one of those people who is relaxed by smoking marijuana, but I still believe professor Daniel Rees who co-authored the study you can read below is on to something. Most people who I know who do smoke marijuana say that they like it because it calms them down…and then there’s Snoop. Look how happy he is! Read about the findings in this article from the The American Indepedent: A University of Colorado economics professor has ...
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Consciousness: Eight Questions Science Must Answer >>> Article
This is interesting, yet I wish there was more mention of how a greater number of scientists are studying altered states of consciousness. All in all, the brain mechanisms of consciousness are being unravelled at a startling pace, with researchers focusing on eight key areas according to The Gaurdian: Consciousness is at once the most familiar and the most mysterious feature of our existence. A new science of consciousness is now revealing its biological basis. Once considered beyond the reach ...
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The Most Astounding Fact About The Universe According to an Astrophysicist >>> Video
“Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” This is his answer.” >>>