Tag: science
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Hermeticism and the Golden Fleece
from alchemywebsite.com: Every century and upon every continent a handful of exceptional men are born who possess the innate ability to read the signatures of nature directly, to see immediately into the mystery of continuous creation and to know pristine reality revealed by the power of imaginal identification. Such vision differs radically from twentieth century…
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Why Bad Science Is Like Bad Religion
from huffingtonpost.com: In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. My concern here is with the bigger picture. I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of…
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Micro-Psi and String Theory: How Occultists Beat Physicists to the Punch
from blog.world-mysteries.com: In few, if any, science textbooks or records of Nobel laureates will you find the name of a bona fide and publicly acknowledged occultist or clairvoyant. This, however, is not because such individuals never contributed anything to the history of science. On the contrary, it is due to a profound hubris and acute…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode226 – Plane Hacking, Genetic Editing, Peak Obesity
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode226 – Plane Hacking, Genetic Editing, Peak Obesity Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Fearing United Plane Was Hacked, FBI Pulls Security Expert Off Flight Feds Warn…
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Intuition: Delusion or Perception? Toward a Scientific Explanation of the Akashic Experience
from newdawnmagazine.com: The intuitions reported by mystics, poets, artists, ordinary people, even scientists, often go beyond the range of sensory perception. In the reductionist culture inspired by classical science, they are dismissed as mere delusion – classical empiricism claims that there is nothing in the mind that was not first in the eye. However, the…
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Polytheism and Science: Coagulation
from polytheist.com: According to the Platonists, the procession or emergence of being begins with a distinction within a deity, any deity, between Their existence (hyparxis) and Their power(s) (dynamis/dynameis), that which Damascius characterizes as “the very first of all distinctions and which is all but absorbed in indeterminacy, so that the second seems to be…
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Metaphysics and the Limits of Science
from theguardian.com: Is physical science – as some people say – omnicompetent? Can it (that is) answer all possible questions? If, for instance, we ask why human beings sometimes behave so appallingly – or how we know that they shouldn’t behave so appallingly; or what is the best way to deal with inner conflicts; or whether depression…
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The Spiritual Secrets of Sound
from zengardner.com: If you think of universal reality as a cosmic satellite radio transmission, we are all frequencies that are being picked up from the same transmitter. This satellite radio (aka: God/the Universe/love/all-that-is) offers an endless amount of stations all at once, and you can dial in to any frequency that feels best. Simply put, think…
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Replanting the Wasteland of the Transhuman Agenda
from ishtarsgate.com: I know it sounds like something out of a really bad L Ron Hubbard science fiction pulp novel, but if you put together all the scientific research coming out recently, what you’re left with is what’s known as the Transhuman Agenda. The Transhuman Agenda appears to be a global project of eugenicists to…
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The occult obsessions of Britain’s greatest scientist Sir Isaac Newton
from dailymail.co.uk: He laid the foundations of classical physics and is considered to be one of the greatest scientists of all time. But Sir Isaac Newton was also deeply interested in the occult and applied a scientific approach to the study of scripture and Jewish mysticism. Now Israel’s national library, which contains a vast trove…
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6 Surprising Scientific Findings About Good and Evil
from MotherJones.com: Maybe you already know the famous hypothetical dilemma: A train is barreling down a track, about to hit five people, who are certain to die if nothing happens. You are standing at a fork in the track and can throw a switch to divert the train to another track—but if you do so,…
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Science and Spirituality: The Teachings of U.G.Krishnamurti
from Well.com: Are there any points of contact between science and spirituality? The following paper discusses some issues commonly raised in regard to the relationship between science and spirituality. In particular, I wish to examine the issue of the apparent similarities (or symmetry) between statements made by scientists and those made by mystics concerning the…
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The Complex Life of Giordano Bruno
from machineslikeus.com: Giordano Bruno was a 16th century philosopher, theologian, and monk who was an early supporter of Copernicus’s heliocentric model of the universe. He was also burned at the stake by the Catholic church in 1600 at the age of 42 after being found guilty of heresy by the Roman Inquisition. That combination of…
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The Great Matrix of Being
from metanexus.net: Understanding Natural Hierarchies: Our European ancestors once understood the universe to be a Great Chain of Being. All the entities of the world — animal, vegetable, mineral — were hierarchically organized. At the bottom were metals, precious metals, and precious stones. Then came plants and trees, followed by wild animals and domesticated animals.…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode196 – Hunger Games Thai Style, Van Gogh’s Ear, DIY Internet
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode196 – Hunger Games Thai Style, Van Gogh’s Ear, DIY Internet Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: ‘Hunger Games’ Salute Used as Protest in Thailand Thailand Junta:…