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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)

22. July 2008

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)

It’s hard to believe that it has taken modern science 200 years to catch up to Lamarck. One of the common threads on Nautis Project has always been the incompleteness of a biological theory of evolution, morphology, and memory. It is these gaps in our knowledge that people like Lamarck, Darwin, Bergson, and Goethe tried [...]

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The Art Of Dying: Dogs Know

2. July 2008

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The Art Of Dying: Dogs Know

From Britian’s Daily Mail, “Cats who know exactly when they are going to be taken to the vets. Dogs who sense their owners’ whereabouts - even if they are miles away. And birds who seem to mourn the deaths of those around them… our pets and other animals have always been intuitive [...]

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Black Tide of Occultism

15. June 2008

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Black Tide of Occultism

I’ve been thinking about a conversation I had last summer. Some friends and I were discussing Richard Dawkin’s book, The God Delusion, with Rupert. As always, Rupert’s ideas are well thought out and always seem to come out of left field - at least to me. This got me thinking… There are people everywhere that [...]

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Panda Earthquake Detector

24. May 2008

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Panda Earthquake Detector

From reuters.com, “It’s been well-documented that animals are better than we are at picking up little changes in the surrounding world. Watch your dog lose his marbles 30 minutes before a thunderstorm arrives and you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. It only makes sense then, that the pandas at Wolong National Nature Reserve near [...]

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Six Earths

22. May 2008

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Six Earths

One Minute Shift - We’re Ready. This is the winning video from the Institute of Noetic Sciences 3rd YouTube contest. Produced by 13-year-old Shannon Leonard and his friends, this video expresses a heartfelt call from youth who are ready to make the change to living more sustainably. They pointedly ask if we’re ready to do [...]

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Canine Cognition and Behavior Grant

5. May 2008

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Canine Cognition and Behavior Grant

The University of Florida’s Canine Cognition and Behavior Lab has received a research grant to investigate the human-animal bond and its implications for human consciousness research. Dr. Clive Wynne is the lead researcher on the project, “I am thrilled to be involved with what I hope will be the definitive study into how dogs know [...]

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Sheldrake Skypecast

29. April 2008

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If you are a Skype user and would like join a live conference call to discuss Rupert Sheldrake’s theories and experiments feel free to join in. If you have any related experiences (a dog that knows when you are coming home, being stared at from behind, etc.) you would like to share or new ideas [...]

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The Skepticism of Believers

29. April 2008

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This year The Edge asked leading thinkers, “What have you changed your mind about? Why?” This is a great question. You should check out some of the answers. Here is Rupert Sheldrake’s answer to the question: I used to think of skepticism as a primary intellectual virtue, whose goal was truth. I have changed my mind. [...]

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Podcast: The Sense of Being Stared At

17. April 2008

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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 [...]

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Inconvenient Facts in Physics

14. April 2008

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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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