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Pentagon Behind TV Analysts


To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world.

Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon [...]

Horse Farms & Horse Tales of the Bluegrass


Kentucky’s Bluegrass region is known as the Horse Capital of the World. It is also a uniquely beautiful area that welcomes thousands of visitors each year, drawn by the beautiful and historic horse farms that gave birth to some of the world’s finest horses. This book tells the stories of these farms (such as Calumet, [...]

Joseph Campbell Foundation


The Joseph Campbell Foundation website has been redesigned. The new site is really nice. They’ve done a great job tying together the many sections into a single design. It’s an excellent site to discuss Campbell’s books and ideas. It has an active, intelligent discussion group that has also given rise to several “Round Table” groups [...]

Podcast: The Sense of Being Stared At


Duncan Campbell’s podcast, Living Dialogues, features an interview with Rupert Sheldrake from June 2007. Here is a summary from the website: “As Rupert and I discuss in the this fascinating dialogue, his morphic field theory goes beyond the range of other invisible fields accepted by modern science, such as the field of gravity and electro-magnetic [...]

A Book for Burning?


When Sheldrake’s book A New Science of Life was published in 1981, proposing the theory of morphic resonance instead of DNA as the basis for shapes and behavior in nature, Sir John Maddox denounced it fiercely in an editorial titled “A book for burning?”

Inconvenient Facts in Physics


There is an interesting article on Suppressed Science about the bizarre belief that science has just about gotten it all wrapped up. Many scientists believe that they are somehow on the verge of knowing everything. I know that sounds laughable but this is a real position taken by many within the scientific community. Here is [...]

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