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Unless we’re physicians or psychologists, we don’t often engage or fully understand the monumental connected reality of genetics, matter, energy, structure and relationship that enable us to be born and simply exist. From this beginning place, we’re flung into all those other connected realities that make up the total experience of living on this earth […]
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Unless we’re physicians or psychologists, we don’t often engage or fully understand the monumental connected reality of genetics, matter, energy, structure and relationship that enable us to be born and simply exist. From this beginning place, we’re flung into all those other connected realities that make up the total experience of living on this earth […]
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The word “symmetry” leads to questions about meaning, like when we encounter words like “democracy” or “love”. The word symmetry basically means “agreement in dimensions, proportions, and arrangement”. Things that strike us as being symmetrical definitely seem to fit this criteria. We assume that measuring the dimensions, proportions, and the arrangement of something will determine […]
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We live in a complicated world. We live complicated lives within a complicated human landscape. Our complicated lives are made more complicated by the complicated biological, ecological, zoological, psychological, socio-economical, political, technological, and cosmological realities we interact with every day. “Interact” may be too kind of a word to use in many of these cases. […]
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After a time, he allowed the students to exist the bus, still blindfolded, he asked the group to make their best guess for the direction of the university campus, and point their fingers in that direction. Surprisingly, a significant number of the students pointed in the correct direction. He replicated the experiment the very next […]
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The compass is a simple ancient device made of natural magnetic material, mounted in free suspension, to interact with the awesome power of the earth’s electromagnetic field. Whether it’s a fourth century Chinese lodestone compass or a modern-day magnetometer, the principles of the compass are universal, enduring, and deeply philosophical. The compass represents, to us, […]
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A denotation is the objective, largely agreed-upon meaning of a word that can be found in the dictionary, while a connotation is the subjective, personal meaning of a word. But paradoxically, neither are necessarily correct or incorrect. Denotation: If you’re a Scrabble or Boggle player, there’s a good chance you’ve called someone out on making […]
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Who are you – butterfly or tornado? Albert Einstein is the father of modern theoretical physics – master of light and gravity, splitter of atoms, bender of space… Generations have been influenced and altered by the overwhelming power of his scientific discoveries. Einstein was inarguably a force of nature – a tornado. Steve Jobs was […]
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Who are you – butterfly or tornado? In 1963, Edward Lorenz was a meteorologist, a mathematician, and a recognized father of Chaos Theory. The scientific definition of “chaos” is when the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future. Chaos Theory, which was of Lorenz’ invention, seeks to articulate […]
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Very soon, 100% of our digital lives will be stored and monitored inside the cloud. Anyone that has an iPhone is probably using or very tentatively using the fingerprint ID feature on the phone. Fingerprint ID technology is perhaps the most familiar biometric utility that we encounter. Apple has promised that your fingerprint information is […]
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We love our personal technology. We love it in all its forms – desktop, handheld, mountable, wearable, drivable, virtual, and imaginable. General technology is difficult to love. Just like a great cheeseburger is much easier to love than the greedy industrial food complex that made it possible. If general technology means the underlying technological foundations, […]
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The following 12 questions come from an article titled 50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind: What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world? Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you’re doing? If the average human lifespan was 40 years, how would you […]
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E. L. Doctorow, the famous American author, was mentoring a young writer who was very interested in understanding the secret of Doctorow’s celebrated literary success. The renowned author shocked the student when he shared his fundamental process for writing. He said: Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see down […]
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Dr. Gary Francione, a committed vegan, is considered one of the fathers of the abolitionist theories of animal rights, which basically argues that all sentient or self-aware beings, like animals, share the right to life, with us, and should not be treated as property or product. Other abolitionists believe that all animals, although not persons […]
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Why do we try so hard to impose simplicity on such a complex idea? All of the simple if/then formulas for love, no matter how seductive or poetic they are, must be questioned, because love is complexity. What are your own formulas for the meaning of love? Do they appear to be working out? In […]
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We are inundated, overwhelmed and irretrievably smitten by thoughts of love. We are made willing and vulnerable to the images, words, and expressions of love in popular media and the day to day culture that surrounds us. Movies, television, popular music, advertising, social media, food, sports, clothing, many popular and unpopular causes, and so many […]
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Photosynthesis is the process in which plants convert light energy into chemical energy that can be used to fuel its activities. But what about this idea that when plants are praised and spoken to positively, they thrive and grow? MythBusters once conducted an experiment in which they got hold of 60 pea plants and divided […]
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In the movie, What the Bleep Do We Know!?, a reference is made to how the molecular structure of water can be affected by the words, thoughts and feelings it is consistently exposed to. This isn’t something they pulled out of thin air. It is based on the studies of Dr. Masaru Emoto, a Japanese […]
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The story of the star is one of the most significant in the whole Bible, not just as an extraordinary standalone mythic phenomenon, which it is, but also as a trigger event for the literal birth of a whole spiritual movement that now influences over two billion people worldwide. Without predispositions or prejudice, archeoastronomers have […]
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Archaeomythology, archeoastronomy, medical archeology, and geomythology have all gradually transformed what was once a one-dimensional wall between science and myth into a multi-dimensional window that allows scientific principles, recorded history, human imagination, and cultural identity to exchange freely between modern and ancient mankind. This free and fearless exchange of the modern and the ancient in […]
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Opening the window between science and myth can bring new clarity about the importance of engaging the question of mystery. Our modern attitudes often make it difficult to engage myth, but when thinkers engage myth as mystery, they cease to be judges. Ancient myths are basically portraits of the imagination and experience of our ancestors. […]
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Our popular but simple judgments about myth are kind of a smug, self-securing firewall to the apparent ignorance and backwardness of ancient people. We protect our intellectual security against such ancient ignorance by believing nothing when it comes to myth. Could this firewall to the ignorance of our ancestors be an unintended barrier to the […]
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What is synchronicity? Synchronicity is a remarkable or unique concurrence of events that are not connected by cause, but may be connected by means. The seventh TQ podcast is a continuation of our fifth gathering in January, and features highlights from presenter Frederick Tamagi, as well as the music of Victor Wu. You can listen […]
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What is coincidence? Coincidence is a remarkable or unique concurrence of events without any apparent causal connection. We’ve become so accustomed or conditioned to living in intellectual safety that we’ve been duped into believing that if our personal stories of coincidence can’t be empirically understood any other way, then a purely personal validation of their […]
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Have you ever had something synchronistic happen to you, and if so, have you ever wondered why? Have you ever had anyone say to you that things happen for a reason, and if so, what was your first response? The fifth TQ podcast is a continuation of our fourth gathering in December, and features highlights […]
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Have you ever had something synchronistic happen to you, and if so, have you ever wondered why? Have you ever had anyone say to you that things happen for a reason, and if so, what was your first response? Sometimes these incidents are convenient, like when a parking space opens up just when you drive […]
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We can choose to examine a faraway object in the night sky with binoculars or a telescope. Or we can choose to examine a very tiny object with a magnifying glass or a microscope. Sometimes we don’t intentionally choose the option that will provide more clarity. Sometimes it’s just easier not to. Like Alice in […]
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We’ve known for over 150 years that electrical impulses passing through a conductive medium generate an electromagnetic field, and evidently, the heart is now known to be a significant conductive medium. Is there a connection between the heart’s EM field and Picasso’s famous and spontaneous centaur drawing? The second TQ podcast features highlights from our […]
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It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. – E.L. Doctorow The first ever TQ podcast features highlights from our first gathering. You’ll hear clips from our presenter Frederick Tamagi, as well as music from our arts and music host […]
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