Rupert Sheldrake - The Morphogenetic Universe

Rupert Sheldrake - The Morphogenetic Universe
Apr 16, 2012 | BroadcastBC



In 1981 Rupert Sheldrake outraged the scientific establishment with his hypothesis of morphic resonance. A morphogenetic field is a hypothetical biological field that contains the information necessary to shape the exact form of a living thing. A presentation at the Biology of Transformation Conference in 2007 http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...

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Plasma Tech: Fascinating Features On Sun Captured By Solar Dynamics Observatory

Image Caption: (Left) Rotating disc in solar
prominence. (Right) Superheated jet striking a
prominence. The jet is emitted to the left of the
prominence and travels in an anticlockwise arc,
striking the top of the prominence. Credit:
NASA/SDO/Li/Smith/Aberystwyth University

Plasma Tech: Fascinating Features On Sun Captured By Solar Dynamics Observatory
July 5, 2013 | Red Orbit | Lee Rannals

Scientists studying the solar atmosphere have spotted some fascinating moving features in the Sun’s sky.

A team using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) telescope on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite has found unusual solar prominences, including: a giant disc that rotates for several hours; feathery streams as long as fifty Earths; a super-heated jet striking the top of a prominence; and twisted ribbons flowing in opposite directions.

Prominences are cold gaseous features on the Sun with temperatures millions of degrees cooler than the surrounding hot solar atmosphere. They can be seen as features extending outwards from the Sun’s surface. Scientists often call prominences filaments when viewed against the solar disc.

Solar prominences help supply most of the material released in coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which are eruptions on the Sun that leads to space weather.

The new observations of a rotating disc caused by turbulence produced at the interface of two gases of enormously different temperatures.

“We think the rotation is produced when hot gases enter a cold medium in an organized fashion. The magnetic field serves as a thermal barrier between the two media. The resulting rotation can last hours,” said Dr. Xing Li of Aberystwyth University.

Li and colleagues observed persistent horizontal motion of feather streamers from a solar prominence over a period of more than 15 hours. They believe the likely cause is a large-scale, slow restructuring of the magnetic field through a process known as magnetic reconnection.

The scientists also observed a jet of superheated gases that were sucked from the coronal cavity surrounding a prominence. They spiraled up a helical path to strike the top of the prominence.

“The feat of the jet hitting the top of the prominence, and the distances involved, is comparable to a ballistic missile hitting a satellite in geostationary orbit!” said Li.

The SDO observations showed counter-streaming flows at under a million miles per hour along a filament channel consisting of many very thin threads.

“These fabulous motions suggest more complex magnetic structures of filaments/prominences than scientists previously thought,” said Li. “These events are beautiful to observe and also set a fascinating challenge to get to the bottom of the physics involved.”

A team of British Geological Survey (BGS) researchers are working on a program to help scientists better understand how space weather caused by activity on the Sun could affect national grids. They are conducting continuous measurements of the background electric field in the UK to help nations be better prepared for interruptions caused by the Sun’s CMEs.

Source: Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online

Bigfoot: more than a definition?

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Bigfoot: more than a definition?
June 19, 2013 | Christine Bruun | Sasquatch Watch©

It is easy to explain to you what Bigfoot is. It is what we don't know that is troubling. According to Merriam-Webster online dictionary definition, the name Bigfoot is derived "from the size of the footprints ascribed to it." It is known by many other names such as Sasquatch, Swamp Ape, as well as a variety of names used by the Indian tribes of the North American continent.

The Encyclopedia Britannica describes it as "a large, hairy human-like creature believed by some persons to exist in the northwestern United States and western Canada. It seems to represent the North American counterpart of the Abominable Snowman, or Yeti."

The Britannica goes on to say that a "British explorer David Thompson is sometimes credited with the first discovery (I 1811) of a set of Sasquatch footprints, and hundreds of alleged prints have been adduced since then." It continues by mentioning the Patterson photographs taken at Bluff Creek, California in 19667, referring to it as a legend.

The Britannica explains that "Sasquatch is described as a primate ranging from six to fifteen feet tall, standing erect on two feet, often giving off a foul smell, and either moving silently or emitting a high-pitched cry." It also states that "footprints have measured up to twenty-four inches in length and eight inches in width." It further explains that "a Soviet scientist, Boris Porshnev, suggested that Sasquatch and his Siberian counterpart, the Almas, could be a remnant of Neanderthal man, but most scientists do not recognize the creature's existence." Fortunately, this concept is changing!

While you might think this is Bigfoot in a nutshell, there is much more to the creature than meets the eye. Indian Nations across the North American continent have legends and folklore featuring Bigfoot that go back to the beginning of recorded history. Since much of the history has been handed down from father to son, mother to daughter, and retold by the storytellers of the Indian People, there is a lot of confusion.

According to Living Myths, authored by Kyle Thompson, "Native American myths could equally be called folktales: They seem to be about ordinary people, not gods. However, the Native American attitude is that everything is animated by divinity. Hence ordinary people, animals and places are divine...Universal principles are held to be more important than individual traits."

According to the livingmyths.com website, "Claude Levi-Strauss, a structuralist anthropologist, saw myths as stemming from a human need to make sense of the world and to resolve cultural dilemmas."

The Ojibwa call him Ragaru and many feel that he appears to warn of danger-- a disruption in the harmony. The increasingly frequent sightings seem to bring dire warnings for the Indian People. Perhaps this powerful entity, who many believe can change form, is trying to get our attention. Is it bringing the message that we have been charged with caring for and protecting the earth and we are not honoring this sacred trust?

Many of the Indian Peoples believe that Bigfoot is more than flesh and blood. He seems to represent a spiritual concept. His role I the Indian People's society is complicated, for his hold on them is more spiritual than physical. They allude to the elusive nature of the creature by explaining that those who seek him out, no matter what their motives, will not be able to see him.

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Rupert Sheldrake at EU 2013—"Science Set Free"

Rupert Sheldrake at EU 2013—"Science Set Free"
Jan 22, 2013 | ThunderboltsProject

A talk by Rupert Sheldrake at the conference ELECTRIC UNIVERSE 2013: The Tipping Point, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Many scientists like to think that science already understands the ways of the natural world. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. The impressive achievements of science seemed to support this confident attitude. But recent research has revealed unexpected problems at the heart of physics, cosmology, biology, medicine and psychology.

Dr. Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 80 scientific papers and 10 books, including Science Set Free (September 2012).

Phenology and nature's shifting rhythms - Regina Brinker

Phenology and nature's shifting rhythms - Regina Brinker
Jan 10, 2013 | TEDEducation

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With rapidly rising global temperatures come seasonal changes. As spring comes earlier for some plant species, there are ripple effects throughout the food web. Regina Brinker explains how phenology, or the natural cycles of plants and animals, can be affected by these changes.

Lesson by Regina Brinker, animation by The Leading Sheep Studios.

Rupert Sheldrake - The Science Delusion

Rupert Sheldrake - The Science Delusion
Jan 9, 2013 | RedIceRadio

British biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, is the author of more than 80 scientific papers and ten books and is best known for his groundbreaking theory of morphic resonance. In this program we discuss Rupert's latest book "The Science Delusion." He begins with an overview of the ten dogmas of science. According to these dogmas, all of reality is material or physical, the world is an inanimate machine, nature is purposeless, free will is an illusion, notions of higher orders of consciousness and absolute "God" awareness exists only as ideas in human minds, which are themselves nothing but electrochemical processes imprisoned within our skulls. These powerful assumptions, have led science down the wrong path according to Rupert. He explains how originally the scientific field held a kind of Cartesian dualistic view of spirit and matter, which eventually was replaced solely by matter. The scientific view that matter is "dead" and has no soul or spirit is dangerous, argues Sheldrake. Later, we talk about the Large Hadron Collider, the most expensive scientific project in the history of mankind. Rupert explains that the results in the search for the "Higgs field" and the so called "God particle" might very well be influenced by the intention of the scientists performing the experiment, also known as the observer's effect. Lastly, Sheldrake tells us about the biotech bubble and shares his opinion on what alternative fields of science he would like to see funded.

http://www.sheldrake.org/homepage.html

Secular Britain is ruled by religious bureaucrats

© Mike Wilkinson
Joseph Devine, the Catholic bishop of Motherwell,
who admonished David Cameron
over his support for gay marriage.

Secular Britain is ruled by religious bureaucrats
Dec 16, 2012 | Nick Cohen

Why is the church still such a force in our society when most of us disregard its clerics' teachings?

A few months ago, Suffolk police stopped me for driving over 30mph. My excuse that East Anglia was so flat it was impossible not to break the limit did not wash, and they sent me on a speed awareness course. Very good it was too. After surveying the human cost of bad driving, I resolved never to speed again. Unfortunately, the instructor was over-fond of his own voice and his lecture went on for hours. "I hope he winds up soon," I whispered to the woman next to me. "I am meant to be speaking to the National Secular Society."

She was a little astonished and a little amused. "A National Secular Society? Why does Britain need a National Secular Society? Surely the secularists have won?"

It can feel that way. The number of people who say they have no religion jumped from 15% in the 2001 census to 25% in 2011. If the remaining 75% were believers, this leap in free-thinking would be significant but not sensational. But those who say they are religious are not faithful to their creeds, or not in any sense that the believers of the past would have recognised. Church attendance is in constant decline. Every year that passes sees congregations become smaller and greyer. As striking as the fall in religious observance is the public's near total disregard for the teachings of the clerics and prelates, who could once claim to be society's moral guides.

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Rudolf Steiner - The Polymath Philosopher

Rudolf Steiner - The Polymath Philosopher - 108morris108



The depth and spectrum of Steiner has to put him in the league of the world's greatest people.

From Wikipedia: Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner[2] (25/27 February 1861[3] -- 30 March 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist.[4][5] Steiner gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher. At the beginning of the 20th century, he founded a spiritual movement, Anthroposophy, as an esoteric philosophy growing out of idealist philosophy and with links to Theosophy.

Steiner led this movement through several phases. In the first, more philosophically oriented phase, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and mysticism;[6] his philosophical work of these years, which he termed spiritual science, sought to provide a connection between the cognitive path of Western philosophy and the inner and spiritual needs of the human being.[7]:291 In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, the movement arts (developing a new artistic form, eurythmy) and architecture, culminating in the building of a cultural centre to house all the arts, the Goetheanum. After the First World War, Steiner worked with educators, farmers, doctors, and other professionals to develop numerous practical initiatives, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophical medicine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner