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Archive for September, 2009
There Really Are People Working Behind the Scenes — People You Don’t Know — to Provide You With Blessings
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged famine, norman borlaug, obituaries, plants on September 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Why Wasn’t This News on the Front Page?
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged good deeds, landlord, rent on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Landlord goes back to work so that unemployed tenants can stay rent-free
Even the Bad Guys May Do Some Good Works
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged frito-lay, health, humor on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Frito-Lay angrily introduces line of healthy snacks
You May Not Believe in God, but Do You Believe in the Sun?
Posted in Books, tagged god, gregory sam, sun on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Just Assume That Better Communication Is More Possible Than You Can Imagine
Posted in Videos, tagged communication, orchestra, whales on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Initiating a Conversation
The Universe Is Shockingly Beautiful
Posted in Images, tagged hubble, Images, space on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photos done by the Hubble Telescope
An Example of Pronoia in Action on a Large Scale
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged burning man, taz on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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.”
Can You Handle This Much Good News?
Posted in Books, tagged biology, evolution, healing on September 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future (and a Way to Get There from Here) by Bruce H. Lipton and Steve Bhaerman We’ve all heard stories of people who’ve experienced seemingly miraculous recoveries from illness, but can the same thing happen for our world? According to pioneering biologist Bruce H. Lipton and philosopher Steve Bhaerman, it’s not [...]
Sometimes Illusions Are Beautiful
Posted in Images, tagged Art, illusion, kurt wenner on September 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Uncanny chalk murals by street artist Kurt Wenner
Tell Your Own Future
Posted in Web Sites, tagged jonathan zap, oracle on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rob says: “My friend Jonathan Zap has created the Zap Oracle, a source you can use to do divinations for yourself. Because he has such a cagey, interesting, and holy mind, I trust the spirit behind his oracles. “You can cast your own divination by going here and clicking on ‘Try the Zap Oracle.’”
Do You Dare Believe the Universe Loves You?
Posted in Articles & Essays, Web Sites, tagged jonathan zap, oracle on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Catch the Cosmos Doing Something Right Jonathan Zap’s pronoia-oriented oracle card
Don’t Starve Yourself of Beauty
Posted in Articles & Essays, Images, tagged beauty, cano cristales, colombia, river on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The World’s Most Beautiful River
Crisis = Opportunity
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged entrepreneurs, recession, small business on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Are you an accidental entrepreneur?
This Is a Perfect Moment
Posted in Videos, tagged moments, radiolab on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How many perfect moments will you have today?
Need Help Realizing How Absurd Paranoia Is?
Posted in Videos, tagged humor, paranoia on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This Onion news story is only a slight exaggeration
The Sun Is One of the Gods of Pronoia
Posted in Images, tagged alternative energy, solar power, sun on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Surface area of the Earth required to power the world with zero carbon emissions, using solar power alone
