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  • Replace the Gospel of Money: An Interview With David Korten

    Dean Paton: Tell me how somebody who was an organizational management specialist, and then a new-economy thought leader, made this leap into what is as much a spiritual proposition as it is a political one—that Earth is a living organism,… Continue reading

  • Mega-Earth Discovered

    There is a new class of planet out there that astronomers are calling the “mega-Earth”. It is an object with a hard surface like our own world but much, much bigger. The necessity for the new designation follows the discovery… Continue reading

    Mega-Earth Discovered
  • Upon the Depths of Uncertainty

    Consider metaphysical thinking as the building up of vessels allowing us to explore the oceans of reality. Their hulls carry the provisions of our accumulated knowledge. Their rudders direct course by the pole star of the “Why not?” Their sails… Continue reading

    Upon the Depths of Uncertainty
  • Daodejing 11

    #11* Thirty wheel spokes sharing one hub. The empty space in the middle has the usefulness to a cart. Knead clay to make a vessel. The empty space in the middle has usefulness to the vessel. Cutting the door and… Continue reading

    Daodejing 11
  • Picturing Doomsday: All the Asteroids that Could Destroy Life on Earth

    It’s no surprise that NASA is keeping track of all potentially hazardous objects, or PHOs, that surround our planet. If it’s closer than 4.6 million miles away and larger than about 350 feet in diameter, NASA’s watching it. And if… Continue reading

    Picturing Doomsday: All the Asteroids that Could Destroy Life on Earth
  • NASA – Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn

    Pasadena, Calif. — An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission. NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged the feature over two decades ago. The fact… Continue reading

    NASA – Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
  • How Saturn’s tiger moon got its stripes | New Scientist

    Here is the story of how Saturn’s geyser moon got its stripes. Once upon a time, in the blackness of space, there lived a giant gas ball known for his vanity. Unlike most of the other denizens of the solar… Continue reading

    How Saturn’s tiger moon got its stripes | New Scientist
  • Daodejing 8

    #8* The highest good is like water: Water is good at benefitting the 10,000 things yet never contends. Dwell in the place that the majority dislikes; thus, be close To Dào . Be good at dwelling in place; Be good at… Continue reading

    Daodejing 8
  • Bright Blue Dot

    In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. It is only one footprint in a mosaic of… Continue reading

    Bright Blue Dot
  • Daodejing 4

    #4* Dao is empty yet when used, it seems never endless. Bottomless, yet it seems like the progenitor of 10,000 things. [Blunt the sharpness, Remove the distractions, Soften the light, Blend with the dust.] [1] Formless, yet it seems like existence.… Continue reading

    Daodejing 4
  • Sunflowers: See a dozen great photos | Earth | EarthSky

    All of these photos came from EarthSky Facebook friends. We asked you to post your sunflowers pics, and wow! Here are a dozen of them – sunflowers from all around the world. via Sunflowers: See a dozen great photos |… Continue reading

  • Jesus of Siberia | Vice

    Deep in Siberia’s Taiga forest is Vissarion, a cult leader who looks like Jesus and claims to be the voice of God. He’s known as “the Teacher” to his 4,000 followers, who initially seem surprisingly normal. Over time, however, their… Continue reading

    Jesus of Siberia | Vice
  • piercing intension

    the earth shifts even as the waters reach up and outward to the blazing stars themselves shaggy headed snake writhing and heaving holding tightly in its coils the resting sun where all principles await discovery thunder listens for the best… Continue reading

    piercing intension
  • Daodejing 25

    #25* There is a thing born of Nature before Heaven & Earth. Soundless, formless Independent, unchanging Always turning, never stopping. Regard it: the Mother of All. I do not know its name, reluctantly I call it the Great Way (Dao).… Continue reading

    Daodejing 25