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Elisabet Sahtouris

Elisabet Sahtouris, PhD Elisabet Sahtouris is an internationally known evolution biologist and futurist, speaking on all five continents; teaching Living Economies and Navigating our Current Crises. With a post-doctoral degree at the American Museum of Natural History, she taught at MIT, the University of Massachusetts, contributed to the NOVA-Horizon TV […]

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Further evidence that our Universe may be a ‘cosmic hologram’

Just over a year ago, a joint research study by a coalition of teams from four universities in Canada, Italy and the UK revealed the first observational and cosmological scale evidence to support the premise of our Universe being a cosmic hologram. They did so by analysing irregularities in an […]

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Touching for Pain Reduction

Why do lovers hold hands? Because it feels good, brings comfort? It may also be sexually arousing. A recent study published in the Proceeding of the National Academy of science demonstrates that the wave patterns of the lovers’ brains also synchronize, and can result in significant pain alleviation. The study […]

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Can the future affect the past?

Preposterous (def. Collins dictionary) adjective contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd or ridiculous. “a preposterous suggestion”           Synonym absurd, ridiculous, foolish, stupid, ludicrous, farcical, laughable, comical, risible, etc. The Latin origin of the word implies putting “the cart before the horse”.  That the future […]

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Sounds of Silence

  While the tendency in tourism recently has been to offer more activities and stimulation, for some time the Finish tourist bureau has been promoting silence as Finland’s most special natural resource. In Finland, you’re never far from silence. In a city it’s easy to get away into a natural […]

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Social Life among trees?

By Paul Kieniewicz I live in an ancient forest, and often wonder about the relationships between the trees. For the past 80 years nobody interfered with the forest’s growth. No large trees were removed, there was no pest control or forest management. One result was that the forest developed a […]

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Reach for the Stars

By Henryk Skolimowski (SMN) SMALL ASPIRATIONS                              A SMALL PERSON GREAT ASPIRATIONS                              A GREAT PERSON BE GREAT               REACH FOR THE STARS   If you do not reach for the stars You are not fully mature. Small concerns will never make you A great person, but only a fledgling. […]

The Healing Force

Panayiota Th. Atteshli and her father Dr. Stylianos Atteshlis Twenty-one years ago, on the 26th of August 1995, my father left his material body on earth and went to live in the very high heavenly spheres. In commemoration of his teaching and the greatest and most beautiful gift he implanted […]

Beyond Mysticism West and East: Towards a Global Spirituality

Prof Ursula King: Beyond Mysticism West and East: Towards a Global Spirituality My lecture is an invitation to think about mystical spirituality in an inclusive, integral way, transcending all divisions through integration rather than negation. Weaving together different strands from Western and Eastern mystical traditions it will ask about the […]

The Philosophy of Idealism in India and the West

Prof Keith Ward, FBA: The Philosophy of Idealism in India and the West One of the first religious books I read was by Radhakrishnan, who expounds an Indian version of Idealism. Later I came across Hegel, a German Idealist who seemed to have no idea of the depth of Indian […]