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The Mystery Thrives

Pronoia for the Poor

One man’s difficult quest to build schools in the wildest parts of Pakistan
and Afghanistan

Culture of Fear

Our propensity to panic about everything from child abductions to mobile phones does not come from the fact that modern life contains more risks than ever before — on the level of everyday reality, the opposite is the case.

Life Can’t Stop Flowering

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Nominate your favorite intelligent optimist — and see others’ nominations

Rob’s Good News Challenge

Rob says: “Sources of good news are proliferating. In fact, their increasing abundance is proof that there’s no longer any excuse for steeping yourself in the perverse life-hating obsession that infects the mainstream media.

“Here’s my challenge to you: For the period of one week, I dare you to refrain from sucking in the nihilism that pours out of mainstream news sources. Instead, for those seven days, get all your news from the pronoiac websites below.”

Sun of gOd: Discover the Self-Organizing Consciousness That Underlies Everything by Gregory Sams

What if the sun is a conscious, living organism?

Read an excerpt here.

Initiating a Conversation

Burning Man is a temporary autonomous zone where self-expression is more important and interesting than self-aggrandizement, and where nothing is bought and sold.

“Once you are free,” said Baudrillard, “you are forced to ask who you are.”

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