Interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. This interview is reposted from Tricycle Magazine. Editor-at-large Joan Duncan Oliver spoke with Dr. Kabat-Zinn in September 2002. She writes: Can Buddhist practice liberate us […]
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We each view reality from our own unique perspective, only a community of minds can show us the truth.
The Denial of God and Purpose
Recently, two popular scientists have written in support of atheism. They are Richard Dawkins, FRS, Charles Simonyi professor of the public understanding of science at Oxford University, and Daniel C. Dennett, professor of […]
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We continue from our earlier series: See: 1) The Macroscope, 2) Looking through the Macroscope. J. de Rosnay The fundamental concepts that recur most often in the biological, ecological, and […]
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L. W. Nicholson At this time in our history, the human species is finding it ever more difficult to maintain some degree of synchronization between the two worlds in which […]
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This morning’s essay is reposted from The Yellow Times. Humans have always had three choices. They can act adverarily, neutrally or synergically. Throughout history all governments have been dominated by adversary-neutral processes. John […]
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Joël de Rosnay The atom, the molecule, the cell, the organism, and society fit one within the other like a series of Russian dolls. The largest of these dolls is […]
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This morning we feature an introduction to an important book published in 1975. This book is also from our Understanding in Time library. Joël de Rosnay Microscope, telescope: these words evoke the […]
Continue readingTerraforming the Cosmos (1,000 BC to 2300 AD)
This morning we complete our twenty-one part series on the global brain from an important book by Howard Bloom. See: 1) Biology, Evolution and the Global Brain, 2) Creative Nets […]
Continue readingThe Scientific Basis for a Synergic Economy
Yesterday, we introduced GIFTegrity as a synergic alternative to both the Adversary economic system of Coercion and the Neutral economic system of Capitalism. Timothy Wilken, MD The human condition of INTERdependence […]
Continue readingInterspecies Global Mind
This morning we feature part twenty of our series on the global brain from an important book by Howard Bloom. See: 1) Biology, Evolution and the Global Brain, 2) Creative Nets […]
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