The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world.
Vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, is one of India's most ancient techniques of meditation. It was rediscovered by Gotama Buddha more than 2500 years ago and was taught by him as a universal remedy for universal ills, i.e., an Art Of Living. This non-sectarian technique aims for the total eradication of mental impurities and the resultant highest happiness of full liberation. The technique is taught at ten-day residential courses during which participants follow a prescribed Code of Discipline, learn the basics of the method, and practice sufficiently to experience its beneficial results. http://www.dhamma.org/en/index
Helps think about extraterrestrial water.
Massive ‘ocean' discovered towards Earth's core
A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has been discovered deep beneath the Earth's surface. The finding could help explain where Earth's seas came from.
The longevity of Australian Indigenous oral tradition
A most helpful integrative starting point for thinking about ethics, leadership, and the unity of knowledge and wisdom. Asks and answers twelve questions.
Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality
by Anthony McWatt
Philosophy post-grad Seminar, University of Liverpool, February 12th 1998.
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I am beginning to detect a growing trend towards changing the capitalist economic model from one in which profit is the only priority to one in which wellness is the priority, and profit must be made within that paradigm.
SPIEGEL Interview with Naomi Klein: ‘The Economic System We Have Created Global Warming'
Phi Beta Iota: Naomi Klein suffers from the same fragmentation of understanding that all activists suffer, but the emerging convergence of her concerns along with those of Richard Wolff, combined with the emerging possibilities for electoral reform and a holistic open source activist tool-kit, suggest that between now and 2020 predatory capitalism will be capped and authentic democracy will rise again.
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The fact that this ancient map could have been made with some sort of arial technology is quite a thought, isn’t it? Even if this isn’t an option, who had the technology to undertake such an accurate geographical survey in Antarctica a couple million years ago? How would they have known to detail the map as if it were taken from above, with knowledge about the earth’s shape?
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