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Sheldrake at the Temple in Thanjavur
Not that I am trying to establish any spiritual or epistemological ancestry in my view of the world … but here is another hero/friend of mine at the Shiva Temple in Thanjavur. You may not know that from 1974 to 1985 Dr. Sheldrake worked at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) [...]
Continue reading...Carl Sagan on Hinduism
Friday, August 17, 2007
I’ve written before about how influential Carl Sagan was in my childhood. Not only his views of science and philosophy but also his views on religion. My interest in Hinduism goes far back into my elementary school years when I discovered that there was a religion that had such a enormous vision of cosmos. I [...]
Continue reading...The Mahabharata
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Here is an episode from the popular Dutch series, Myths of Mankind. When the British ruled India, experienced colonial administrators would advise newcomers to read one book if they wanted to grasp the essence of the place: the Mahabharata. The longest known poem in any language, this 90,000-verse Sanskrit epic remains a favorite of millions [...]
Continue reading...Outer Space and Inner Peace
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
I went to the Smithsonian Air and Space museum this weekend in Washington, D.C. Since I’ve been there about 90 times, you would think that I would get tired of going, but I never seem to. Some of the technology there has been used to destroy, though much of it was done for the good [...]
Continue reading...Man With an Extended Mind
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Documentary film maker, Jes Benstock, met up with Dr. Rupert Sheldrake a few months ago. Benstock was making a short documentary about Dr. Sheldrake and his work on the extended mind. They take part in a series of Sheldrake’s experiments to see if anything really happens. Can we tell if we’re being stared at from [...]
Continue reading...The Tetris Effect
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
As the old saying goes, “we are what we eat.” We are also what we think about. Ever wake up in the morning (or the middle of night) thinking about work, school, or maybe a book you’ve been reading or a video game you’ve been playing? I think we have all done this. I used [...]
Continue reading...MOTD: Mr. Joel Estes
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
I usually see 1 or 2 people every week that do something pretty unbelievable. To celebrate these people and their stupid decisions, I would like to begin a new category called, Moron of the Day (MOTD). I doubt I will have time to post everyday because though there are quite a bit of morons, their [...]
Continue reading...How Do Pigeons Home?
Monday, June 4, 2007
One of the most interesting of Sheldrake’s proposals from the book Seven Experiments is mobile pigeon lofts. He goes into some detail in the book but he also brings up the topic during the Glorious Accident round table discussion. In this clip, he challenges some of the prevailing views and brings the group to laughter [...]
Continue reading...Sheldrake In Washington
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Rupert Sheldrake is going to be in Washington, D.C. this weekend. He’s speaking at the International Conference on Energy Psychology on the topic of Morphic Fields and Morphic Resonance: Implications for Healing and the Collective Unconscious. I have no idea what energy psychology is, but it sounds interesting. Since I’m a Sheldrake groupie I [...]
Continue reading...Smart People Live in Georgia
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Sometimes I just beam with joy that I lived in the intellectual capital of the world, Atlanta, Georgia USA. A place where it’s okay to ban Olympic volleyball on the grounds that there may be some of them contagious homosexual players; a place where we skipped the chapters on Africa, Asia, and South America so [...]
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