Vitamins and minerals in common vegetables. Choosing your cognitive fate. Several people have suggested we pass on a link to the new Sam Harris essay called "Drugs and the Meaning of Life," which was recently re-posted on HuffPo.
I've been reluctant to, largely because the essay is literally one zillion words long and I wanted a chance to digest it first, but I'm on vacation now and finally got a chance to read it. The essay goes on basically in a style like this: Many people wonder about the difference between meditation (and other contemplative practices) and psychedelics. Are these drugs a form of cheating, or are they the one, indispensable vehicle for authentic awakening? They are neither. It seems poor sportsmanship to nitpick an essay that seems so well-intentioned, other than to simply notice that it took Harris one zillion words to basically come to the conclusion, "Your Mileage May Vary. " Haden stares right down the barrel of supposing a world in which currently illegal drugs are regulated by government, and imagines the consequences and benefits.
Help Center. What Happened Next? : Information Clearing House: ICH. Libby, Montana: New Danger Found In Asbestos-Plagued Town. LIBBY, Mont. — For a decade, the people of Libby have longed for the day when they will be rid of the asbestos that turned their town into the deadliest Superfund site in America.
Now they are being forced to live through the agony all over again, thanks to two giant piles of bark and wood chips on the edge of town. An Associated Press investigation found that the federal government has known for at least three years that the wood piles were contaminated with an unknown level of asbestos, even as Libby residents hauled truckload after truckload of the material away from the site and placed it in yards, in city parks, outside schools and at the local cemetery.
The Environmental Protection Agency did not stop the removal of the material until the AP began investigating in early March. "We thought we were coming to an end and now we have this issue all over again," said Lerah Parker, who spread dozens of truckloads of the material around her property. Libby City Councilman D.C. Progeria Studies Shed Light On Rare Premature Aging Disorder.
3 Ways to Find Your Ground and Make your Home More Sacred. Making your house into a home takes more than a knitted afhgan lying alongside the couch.
What makes a domestic structure into a nest is not just about coziness, but alignment. The ancient Chinese tradition of Feng shui has perfected this art, but the roots for finding your center and aligning it with the landscape are common to many prehistoric societies, including the ancestors of Europeans. By aligning our home with the elements, we make it sacred. And it feels really good, no matter your worldview, because it awakens the bodily intelligence.
So says Paul Devereux, archaeologist, consciousness researcher and author of many, many books, including his just published Sacred Geography. Devereux’s body of work encompasses consciousness, culture and archaeology: pretty much my favorite intersection. But before I get into his practical tips, let’s get grounded. The Embodied Cosmology All sacred geometry begins as a mirror projected from the embodied mind The Embodied Landscape That’s reality. Burzynski the Movie.