“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.” ~ Unknown It’s been said that we really only fall in love with three people in our lifetime. Yet, it’s also believed that we need each of these loves for a different reason. Often our first love is when we are young, in high school even. It’s the idealistic love—the one that seems like the fairy tales we…
Not Just Bees, Trees are Dying Off at an Alarming Rate with Little Public Attention
In the background of modern life, as people go on debating politics and working for a living, something dreadful is happening to the eco-systems which support us. Major disasters like the ongoing radioactive leak at Fukushima, the apocalyptic fires burning throughout Indonesia, even bee colony collapse disorder, seem to fall out of view in day-to-day life, as we seem to have lost our power and will to directly participate in the…
Carl Sagan’s Ambitious College Reading List
Carl Sagan continues to influence the minds of generations through his legacy. But what books influenced Sagan, igniting his passion for astronomy, cosmology, astrophysics, and astrobiology? Thanks to the Library of Congress’ Carl Sagan Archive, we have accessed approximately forty titles from the no doubt voluminous collection of reading material he had digested throughout his education. You can see the original handwritten version below: (Scroll down for the typed copy) Sagan…
Tesla vs. Einstein: The Ether & the Birth of the New Physics
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an electrical inventor, well known as a competitor of arch rival Tom Edison. Where Edison’s inventions include the light bulb, the microphone in the telephone and the phonograph, Tesla’s inventions include fluorescent lighting, the AC hydroelectric power system and wireless communication. Tesla is therefore mostly billed as an inventor. The fact is, Tesla was also a physicist who studied in college such courses as analytic geometry,…
How To Exit The Reincarnation System
We have all heard about the tunnel of light that our soul follows upon leaving the physical body, but what is the true meaning of the life review? Why does a life review almost always involve having us continuously looping back into this 3rd dimensional reality, and what can we do to stop these cycles of reincarnation? Commonalities Within The Near Death Experience Just about every person who has a near death…
The Island People of Melanesia Have DNA That is Not Found Anywhere Else on Earth
As scientists, researchers and scholars have retraced the evolution of mankind over the centuries, there have been two other humanoid species that mankind has been found to be most closely related to: Neanderthal and Denisovan. Now, evidence has surfaced that the island people of Melanesia might just have DNA reflecting involvement of a third species that the world has never seen before. Currently, researchers think that this mystery DNA originated…
Is it Natural for Humans to be Monogamous? Why Do So Many of Us Cheat?
At some point in your lifetime you may have to ponder the rightness or wrongness of cheating on a significant other. Whether you’re the one who’s doing the cheating or you’re the one being cheated on, there are intense emotions and feelings attached to both, and sometimes it’s hard to figure out wrong from right. As we can probably all agree, society has instilled within almost everyone that a monogamous,…
Here’s Everything You Wanted to Know About the Cosmos
Long ago, humanity conquered the globe. Spreading from sea to sea, humans have traveled to the deepest recesses of the planet and harnessed the power of Earth’s natural forces. We have dominated the Earth and, in so doing, we forever altered the course of life on our world. If that’s not enough, we have visited other worlds, traveled to the most distant edges of our solar system, and glimpsed the reverberations of the very…
Harvard May Have Pinpointed the Source of Human Consciousness
In Brief A study of 36 patients with brainstem lesions revealed that the majority of those in comas had damage in a specific area of the brainstem, while most conscious patients did not. The identification of the areas of the brain responsible for consciousness could lead to new treatment options for patients in comas or vegetative states. Human Consciousness Human consciousness has been defined as awareness, sentience, a person’s ability to…