Month: November 2014
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Alchemy and Sufism
from henrybayman.com: It is known that alchemy originated from Hermeticism. Some have even considered the two synonymous. We have also seen that Sufism is the contemporary form of Hermeticism. This suggests that there should be some affinity between Sufism and alchemy. In the present article, we focus on this subject. The first famous Moslem alchemist,…
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Bad weather delays Japan asteroid probe lift off
from phys.org: Bad weather will delay the launch of a Japanese space probe on a six-year mission to mine a distant asteroid, just weeks after a European spacecraft’s historic landing on a comet captivated the world. Hayabusa2 had been set to blast off aboard Japan’s main H-IIA rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan…
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Houdini and the Supernatural
from thegreatharryhoudini.com: In the 1920s, after the death of his mother, Houdini began focusing his energy on debunking psychics and mediums. Although he eventually focused on proving these people to be fakes, his initial entry into the world of the supernatural began when he attempted to contact his dead mother. However, he found that the…
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US Navy deploys a laser weapon to the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea
from defense-update.com: The US Navy has been operating a High Energy Laser (HEL) weapon in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea since the summer of 2014. The system, afloat on the forward staging base (interim) – USS Ponce (AFSB(I) 15) is the first laser weapon system operationally deployed by the US military. Currently at a…
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Hagel’s Ritual Resignation and ‘The War Ahead’
from 21stcenturywire.com: Another ritual resignation took place today in Washington… Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel (R) threw in the towel today by tendering his resignation to President Barack Obama, amidst all the usual pomp and circumstance at the White House (America’s equivalent to a royal divorce). His swift departure could be for a number of reasons…
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Native American Words of Wisdom
from firstpeople.us: The time has come to listen to echoes from our land…the wisdom and teachings of our Native American Indians. Their words are simple and their voices are soft. We have not heard them, because we have not taken the time to listen. Perhaps now is the time to open our ears and our…
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What Is Esoteric?
from esoteric.msu.edu: Until comparatively recently, there was very little scholarship on Western esotericism as a field. There were, of course, various articles and books on aspects of Western esotericism like alchemy or Rosicrucianism, but there was virtually no sense in the scholarly world that these disparate tributaries of thought formed a larger current of Western…
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Dutch Company Powers Streetlights With Living Plants
from yesmagazine.org: In Hembrug, Netherlands, a crowd stood in a park and looked up into the evening sky, waiting for lights to shine. This month more than 300 LED lights were illuminated by the Dutch company Plant-e in a new energy project called “Starry Sky.” Although the bulbs were ordinary, the electricity running through them…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode136 – Glory Days
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode136 – Glory Days which features brand new sounds from Stars, Damien Jurado, Julian Casablancas + the Voidz, A. Sinclair, Caribou, Oceaán, The Great Depression, The Vaselines, Carl Barât and the Jackals, Angus & Julia Stone, Jerry Lee Lewis, Mike Doughty, Justin Townes Earle and Blitzen Trapper… Download/Subscribe…
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#Solutions: ‘Let’s Encrypt’ Aims to Boost Internet Security
from techtimes.com: Companies are becoming increasingly concerned about security. In this vein, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has partnered with Akamai, Cisco, IdenTrust and Mozilla to create a new service called Let’s Encrypt. Together, the companies are known as the Internet Security Research Group. The group’s goal is to make encryption easier and make unencrypted web…
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#CyberSpaceWar: Norway To Grow Food Crops In Space
from thelocal.no: A team of scientists in Norway are set to research the possibility of growing plants and food crops in outer space, it was revealed on Friday. A new EU-funded research project is set to ‘take-off’ researching how food plants grow in space and how the horticulture could supply space travellers with oxygen and…
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Sumerian King List Still Puzzles Historians After More Than a Century of Research
from theepochtimes.com: Out of the many incredible artefacts that have been recovered from sites in Iraq where flourishing Sumerian cities once stood, few have been more intriguing that the Sumerian King List, an ancient manuscript originally recorded in the Sumerian language, listing kings of Sumer (ancient southern Iraq) from Sumerian and neighbouring dynasties, their supposed…
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In Defence of Theology
from bernardokastrup.com: Theology has been the subject of much bashing by neo-atheists over the past several years. A fresh blog post by Jerry Coyne today seems to encapsulate the essence of their grievance: theology is claimed to be a discipline with no subject of study. Correctly defining theology as “the study or science which treats of God, His…
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PLA has set up Chinese version of ‘PRISM’ monitoring in Hong Kong
from stratrisks.com: The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has established a large-scale signals and information monitoring facility in Hong Kong similar to the U.S. PRISM monitoring program, according to the Canada-based Kanwa Information Center. In a report obtained by CNA, Kanwa, which publishes a monthly magazine on Asian defense issues, said that intelligence experts have made…