Category:

Nature v. Science: Nature always, in the long run, wins

I begin to see the similarity between nuclear radiation at Fukushima and the now historic flooding on the Mississippi. In both cases, we are powerless to stop a runaway element — fire, water — from contaminating, devouring, destroying, all that it touches. The Mississippi: Just like wild animals, wild rivers meander. As living beings, they […]

Read More

Tomgram: "Special" Forces not so special . . .

I personally know a Navy Seal. He was a sweet, bright, upright young lad while growing up and his mom and I remain good friends. Now that we’ve both moved elsewhere, she and I phone each other once a year or so. I’m afraid of asking if her son was one of the Seals who […]

Read More

"Primordial Light": Another all-sky image and reflections upon it . . .

Excerpted from an editorial, Primordial Light, at www.ecobuddhism.org. Why Are We Here? Why Ask Now? Descartes’ logic and Newton’s science led us, step by empirical step, towards our extraordinary modern knowledge of the Universe. However they are themselves inherently reductionist, and this has had serious psycho-spiritual consequences. A particularly pernicious one has been to deny […]

Read More

Amateur astronomer photographs the entire night sky

http://skysurvey.org After viewing this site, I challenge anyone to still think of yourself as separate from the universe. Neptune in Pisces: we are one. This is also a Uranus square Pluto story, of how one man broke through (Uranus in Aries) the constraints of corporate life (Pluto in Capricorn) to pursue his individual passion (Uranus […]

Read More

High Strangeness in the solar system — and beyond, and within . . .

I’m happy to see this article, as I was keeping notes myself, wanting to bring this kind of edgy info about earth and sun and solar system into some kind of heightened perspective. I’ve been waiting to read a book I just ordered, Gregory Sams’ Sun of God, about the sun as a conscious being, […]

Read More