Rob says: “People keep finding animals we never knew existed. Among the new discoveries: the Wobbegong shark, the Tongian White-eye bird, and the Green Tree Skink, which has green blood.”
Archive for April, 2008
New Species Revealed
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged biology, discoveries, species on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rationalists Find Soul
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged afterlife, science, soul on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Scientists offer evidence that humans have a life after death.
The article was published in Lancet, an influential British medical journal.
Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge and Play Is More Important Than Belief
Posted in Podcasts, tagged environment, erik davis, imagination on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The Imagination And The Environment” by Erik Davis
“The imagination is a pivotal interface between human beings and the natural world.”
Rob says: “A talk by one of my fellow lobbyists-for-the-imagination, Erik Davis”
A Strong Dose of Pure Pronoiac Evidence
Posted in Books, tagged david wolfe, living, magic, pronoia on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Amazing Grace: The Nine Principles of Living in Natural Magic by David Wolfe and Nick Good
Rob says: “This book is offered by the same company that publishes my books. My publisher says that David Wolfe is the ’second most pronoiac person in the world’ after me.”
Towards a New Spirituality in Art
Posted in Articles & Essays, Web Sites, tagged Art, modernism, remodernism on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The Remodernist Manifesto” by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson
post at shwing.com
remodernism page on myspace
We don’t need more dull, boring, brainless destruction of convention . . . We need an art that integrates body and soul and recognizes enduring and underlying principles which have sustained wisdom and insight throughout humanity’s history.
Towards a New Spirituality in Poetry
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged Art, karma, Poetry, postmodern on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The Kosmic Karma of an Integral Poet” by Paul Lonely
Dear postmodern and contemporary artists of the world: You’re trying too hard. Most of you seem to be dead set on becoming the next ‘mad genius.’ And, quite frankly, it’s cliché . . . It’s high time for a group of integral artists to transcend the [...]
Breakthrough Emotions
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged compassion on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Scientific American says “You Can Learn to Be More Compassionate”
Making Beautiful Possibilities out of Absurd Impossibilities
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged impossible, science on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
10 Impossibilities Conquered by Science
Never Say Never
Posted in Books, tagged impossible, michio kaku, physics on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
IMPOSSIBLE! Preposterous! These words are often thrown about when people declare certain things to be scientifically ridiculous. Aliens cannot reach the Earth in spaceships, they proclaim, because the distance between stars is too great. Telepathy [...]
Genius Run Wild
Posted in Web Sites, tagged lectures, talks, ted on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers
We May Be Mutants
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged brain, superpowers on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Does the Human Brain Possess Potential Superpowers?
The Science of Peace-Mongering
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged peace, science, war on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Has Science Found a Way to End All Wars?
Given adequate food, fuel, and gender equality, mass conflict just might disappear.
Blessercise
Posted in Books, tagged blessings, john o'donohue on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings by John O’Donohue
Pronoiac Guidelines from a Master Player
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged buddhism, thich nhat hanh on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thich Nhat Hanh tells the loving truth
Reverse Greed
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged happiness, money on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Money Buys Happiness — If You Spend It on Somebody Else”