Let's see how I go after a day of many blood-tests and glucose jelly beans.
- The Northern Star Polaris, whose vibrations were thought to be dying away, appears to have returned to life.
- Did campfire rituals separate modern humans from Neanderthals? I love a good driftwood bonfire on the beach.
- Folklore: the links with our past that we must preserve.
- Hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian boat entombed at Giza will be put back together again. "You can smell the past," said Zahi Hawass. No, that's FOX.
- Tourism is damaging Machu Picchu and the temples of Angkor Wat.
- Bolivian relics could shed light on 3000 years of Andean culture.
- The Shaman's Last Apprentice by Rebekita shares her incredible journey into the heart of the Amazon (available to order from her website).
- Ancient Mayan healing traditions, or New Age commercialism?
- Psychedelic research is emerging from the 40-year drug war dark ages.
- The Truman Show Delusion: psychiatrists are treating patients who believe they're the subject of a reality tv show. My ad break never ends.
- More than half the Amazon rainforest may be destroyed by the year 2030.
- Dead birds are falling from the sky in Western Australia. I hope it's not this.
- British SAS trains dogs to parachute into enemy territory. They even get cat tags.
- We don't need oil: 5 electric cars you can buy today.
- A white humpback whale has been sighted off the east coast of Australia.
- Nick Redfern wishes he could join the expedition to explore Siberia's Lake Baikal.
- Be careful Nick, you might get sent to Camp Skeptic to be healed of woo-woo. This one time, at Skeptic Camp...
- Skeptic Peter Huston thinks UFO research is mostly harmless and other cliches.
- UFO researcher Robert Hastings is dismayed at the public apathy regarding UFO sightings at military installations.
- James Fox, producer/director of the brilliant Out Of The Blue UFO documentary, needs our help to make a sequel.
- Edgar Mitchell spills the beans on UFOs and ET visitation on Aussie radio.
Thanks Greg, Kat and the other cat.
Quote of the Day:
Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.
Senator Robert Kennedy, 1966
Nice One!
Be careful Nick, you might get sent to Camp Skeptic to be healed of woo-woo. This one time, at Skeptic Camp...
LOL!
Kind regards,
Greg
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You monkeys only think you're running things
Ok on the campfire rituals
Ok on the campfire rituals article -- I recommend Professor Robin Dunbar's research. I posted his article at my blog -- http://mothershiplanding.blogspot.com
Basically Dunbar states that the difference between ritual and Neanderthal burials is that ritual required a level of intention. He says that around 500,000 years ago the level of intention went to the 5th order which means that it's established that a person knows they are part of a group which believes in a third level of consciousness which the group is a part of. He says this actually just evolved from primates relying on group cooperation and it's a means to stop free-riders in a group. But more importantly ritual creates a very strong endorphin buzz for healing. Language is a "cheap" form of social glue whereas ritual (using music and dance as meditation) is a crucial form to our evolution.
The above article relies on research showing that meditation literally is a "glue" to connect neurons in the brain as learned information -- and this is why even science, at its fundamental level, is a religion. Ufology is the cutting edge religion of science.
Columbian relics
Shouldn't that be "Pre-Columbian relics"?
Yep
It should read that, but it doesn't. Now it reads something else entirely.
Ancient Mayan Healing Traditions?
With the opening of Auriga in the first quarter of 2009, residents of Capella Bahia Maroma will be afforded an experience once reserved for Maya royalty.
How ironic, that this place promises to give their clients a relaxing and soothing healing experience, and yet they chose to build it at a place called Bahía Maroma. Maroma means "somersault" or "tumble". Does the name "Bay Sommersault" inspire relaxation to you? ;-)
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It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie