Mar 30
Over the years, I’ve collected a pretty big collection of digital audio and video files on Rupert Sheldrake. I’ve been posting most of the videos at nautis.blip.tv. Here are some mp3 files, too. I’ll post more later when I get them all tagged properly.
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Rupert has just returned back home from Hollyhock in British Columbia in Canada. The popular retreat hosted the most recent trialogue with Rupert Sheldrake, Andrew Weil and Ralph Abraham on the topic of “Placebos and Mind-Body Relationships”. Most of modern medicine and science deny the power of the of mind to heal – yet everyone accepts that placebos are often as effective as the “real thing”. How is it that a simple sugar pill can have an effect on the body’s ability to heal? Head over to Sheldrake’s site to listen to the audio from the discussion:
Late one night in grad school, I was up studying way too long. You know the kind of studying where it’s just making things worse by staying up so late. When I get really tired I tend to get a little goofy and laugh at anything. Well, I took a break from studying and went online to check the news and I somehow ended up on a page with a bunch of hamsters dancing and a looped audio clip that sounded like a drunken chipmunk yodeling. I couldn’t stop laughing. The combination of sleeplessness, caffeine, stress, boredom, and goofiness created a perfect storm of about 5 minutes of non-stop laughing. It was just about the funniest thing I had ever seen. In fact, every morning my alarm is set to the drunken chipmunk yodeling song because it is so annoyingly funny that you have to wake up.
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May 12
I few weeks ago I discussed my views on the Gospel of Judas and how the final cannon was decided. I found an excellent audio clip from a lecture on the Canonization of the New Testament by Bart Ehrman (a New Testament scholar) that may help clear up exactly how this happened. You can also read a great article on this here. You can hear the lecture below:
I know that when you visit the Nautis Project you’re probably thinking to yourself, gee, I wonder what Matthew is listening to right now. Well, you no longer have to wonder. Now, thanks to the free iTunes plugin provided by the good folks at Audioscrobbler, you can. All you have to do is click on my personal page to find out.
Audioscrobbler builds a profile of your musical taste using a plugin for your media player (Winamp, iTunes, XMMS etc..). Plugins send the name of every song you play to the Audioscrobbler server, which updates your musical profile with the new song. Cool, huh?
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