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New Horizons wakes up for historic Pluto encounter

New Horizons woke up from hibernation on December 6, 2014 after a 4.8 billion km voyage (3 billion miles) and almost nine years after launch. The spacecraft is now preparing for a six-month encounter with Pluto that begins in January 2015. 

This mission will complete the initial reconnaissance of the Solar System and help us understand worlds at the edge of it by making the first reconnaissance of the dwarf planet Pluto and by venturing deeper into the distant, mysterious Kuiper Belt – a relic of Solar System formation. 

The US National Academy of Sciences has ranked the exploration of the Kuiper Belt – including Pluto – of the highest priority for Solar System exploration...

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10 Quotes on the Native American Understanding of “Ownership”

“Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”

Before the Europeans arrived in North America, the Algonquian peoples that lived there – otherwise known as the Native American, First Nations and Inuit cultures – knew nothing of the idea of “ownership”. The idea that land could actually be owned was not part of their culture, and many of the practices that were built into their way of life reflected this. Young children were often encouraged to give away their most highly-valued possessions as gifts, and ceremonies during which the adults would give away all of their material items were common. Anyone who acquired a large number of possessions became of concern to the tribe.

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Advanced Energy, Including Solar And Wind, Now Employs 430,000 Californians

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You know what’s great about advanced energies like energy efficiency, solar, and wind? They create a lot of jobs. And not bullshit part time minimum wage jobs that have dominated the economic recovery since the great recession of 2008, but honest middle class jobs.

According to the California Advanced Energy Employment Survey, advanced energies provide 431,000 jobs in California, which is a 5% growth since 2013. Even more good news: the Golden State’s clean energy industries are slated to grow by 17% in 2015, adding another 70,000 jobs. California’s unemployment rate is 7.4%, higher than the national average, so those jobs are likely welcome.

“Now we also know that California is on the way to half a million people employed in the advanced energy industry by next year,” says Graham Richard...

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Fascinating Study Shows How Emotions Are Mapped On The Human Body

love-depression-emotionalsEmotions coordinate our behavior and physiological states during survival-salient events and pleasurable interactions. Even though we are often consciously aware of our current emotional state, such as anger or happiness, the mechanisms giving rise to these subjective sensations have remained largely unresolved. Brilliant research by Finnish scientists has mapped the areas of our body that are experiencing an increase or decrease in sensory activity when we experience a particular emotion.

Depending on whether we are happy, sad or angry, we have physiological sensations that are not located in different areas of the body. We overlook this reality from one day to the next (the famous “lump in the breast” generated by anxiety, the feeling of warmth that pervades our face and our cheeks particularly when we feel the shame…), and do not consciously realize how much the location of these body areas activated by our emotions and how they vary considerably depending on the nature of the emotion.

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The Top Five Ways To Induce Lucid Dreaming

Source: www.wakingtimes.com | Original Post Date: September 24, 2012 –

Lucid dreaming doesn’t work for everyone, but those that do find themselves able to induce lucid dreams largely rely on a few popular methods. While most of these lucid dreaming tips rely only on mental preparation and self-coaching to induce lucid dreams, there are lucid dream gadgets, such as the lucid dreaming mask, that also assist in controlling your dreams. Read on to learn more:

1. Reality Check

One of the fundamentals of learning to lucid dream is the reality check. While a successful reality check may induce lucid dreaming on its own, it is also an integral part of many other lucid dreaming techniques. Thus, it is a good place to begin when first attempting to enter a lucid dream.

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10 Movies That Can Transform Your Understanding Of Life

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Every movie has the ability to affect its viewer differently. Some films evoke wonder and excitement, while others provoke fear or sorrow, but a commonality among all films is a prevailing message or theme.

Some films can summon such profound questions, that it changes the way you perceive life as you once knew it. The following list contains 10 unique movies that do just that.

10) Donnie Darko

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Richard Kelly’s cult-classic Donnie Darko stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a troubled, sleep-walking teen who is insistent in challenging authority and who is often visited by Frank...

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You Are Courting Life

You are the Wonder of the World. Now I have said it. Look how far you have come! Aren’t you eons ahead from where you used to be?

You perhaps used to be selfish, and now you aren’t so much. Once upon a time, you knew so little, and now you know more, much more. You have doubled, tripled, quadrupled, and so forth, your growth. You are miles ahead. Confess, isn’t this true? You are a changed person. I will go so far as to say that you are a new person. Once you didn’t know anything that you know now, and now you know a lot. Once you knew nothing, and now you know something.

Do you have a ways to go? Most certainly, and you are getting here. Right and left, hand over fist, you are getting here, beloveds. You are way ahead of where you used to be. You are just beginning to catch up to yourself, up to realizing yourself for who you really and are meant to be. You never were the dolt you saw yourself to be, nor were you ever meant to lag behind or drag your feet. You do realize, don’t you, that you are meant to be – yes, I will say it -- wondrous.

You are just fine now in My book. There is a lot to like about you. I like it all. So like it. Like yourself. I am very glad to make your acquaintance. I more than like you. I love you. However, I will be happy if you begin by liking yourself instead of berating yourself for all your misdemeanors.

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People come to me and ask, "If we meditate, what will happen? What will be the result?" Remember, meditation can never be result-oriented; you simply meditate, that's all.

Everything happens but it will not be a result. If you are seeking the result nothing will happen; meditation will be useless.

When you seek a result, it is the mind; when you don't seek a result, it is meditation. Kick the pot and walk out, meditate and walk out; don't ask for the result. Don't say, "What will happen?" If you think about what will happen you cannot meditate. The mind goes on thinking about the result; it cannot be here and now, it is always in the future. You are meditating and thinking, "When will the happiness come? It has not come yet."

If you forget the result completely, if there is not even a flicker in the mind for the result, not a single vibration moving into the future - when you have become a silent pool, here and now everything happens. In meditation cause and effect are not two - cause is the effect; the act and the result are not two - the act is the result - they are not divided. In meditation the seed and the tree are not two -, the seed is the tree.

-Rajneesh

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Congress Bars The EPA From Getting Advice From Actual Scientists

The United States House Of Representatives has passed a bill designed to prevent qualified, independent scientists froma dvising the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA. Instead, these scientists will be replaced by industry affiliated choices who may or may not have any actual expertise in the field on which they’re advising, and whose paychecks may come from organizations and companies that oppose EPA actions.

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How to Discover Your Mission in Life

HJ: When you know your mission, everything suddenly falls into place and your life really begins to becomes incredible.  Knowing your mission gives you context and clarity and is a key component of living a fulfilled life.  But be forewarned.  Mission’s change and evolve.  What is right for you now may not be in 5 years of even 5 months.  That is why it is important to cultivate your power of intuition to be able to tune into your inner wisdom and flow with the fluctuations that occur over your lifetime.  Nothing is static.  Change is the only constant.  Remember, you only need to know the next step, not the entire journey…

- Truth

How To Find Your Mission

By Alex Lickerman | Happiness in This World

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From Ancient Egypt To Modern Science: The Forgotten Link

The ‘Scientific Revolution’ describes the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century watershed in the basic attitude to the scientific method, laying the foundations for the modern technological age. Starting when Copernicus went public with his heliocentric theory in 1543, and ending when Isaac Newton published Principia Mathematica in 1687, textbooks say there was a window of just 150 years when European thinking was transformed from superstition to science.

But that’s not the way it was. In reality, science owes its origins to beliefs that the high priests of modern science such as Richard Dawkins would regard as even more irrational than Christianity. Far, far worse to them would be the fact that the particular ‘superstitions’ in question were unprecedentedly influential.

In fact, the Scientific Revolution was driven by a very specific magical philosophy and cosmology, set out in a set of texts that inspired all the pioneers of science, directly or indirectly.

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The Light of heavenly dawn is brightening the sky.

Me:   Good evening dear Saul.  Thanks for your last message.  I have just finished reading Elie Wiesel’s book “And the Sea is Never Full,” the second of his autobiographical ones, it has left me feeling rather drained and tired.  Can you give me a hug, a loving energy replacement boost so that we can commune?  That is if you are presently free to commune.  Thank you.

Saul:  Good evening John, of course we can commune.  I’m always available, in fact all of us in the spiritual realms, the non-human realms are ALWAYS available to answer your calls, the calls of any human who chooses to address us, any time and in any language.  We are here for you all, always, just call.

Me:  Dear Saul, Thank You.  You and Jesus keep telling me this, and still I doubt, and I keep needing reconfirmation.  So again, Thank You.

Saul:   John you are most welcome.  Relax a moment then we can start.

Humanity is getting the message:  Whatever the question Love is the only answer.

Many are gathering together all over the world to put this message into action on an enormous scale by intending to be loving in every moment.  And that intent has become extremely powerful and will continue to grow because it is the collective will of humanity.  Nothing can resist it, because once Love is recognized, as It has been, Its loving embrace is utterly irresistible.

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Youth In Revolt: America Rises Up Against Police State And Drug War

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Young people are tired of the police state that America has transformed into following the passage of the Patriot Act. The true implications of the Patriot Act, which was passed following the 9/11 attacks, are now being showcased in Ferguson, MO and all over the country in a small town near you.

Militarized police forces that see the US public as the enemy now have the weapons to wage war on American streets.

This militarized mentality has spread among the police thanks to the post-9/11 all-encompassing national security state that the U.S. has become. Every move is recorded by the NSA, police locking people away for victimless crimes, cops gunning unarmed people down in the street; these are all symptoms of authoritarianism. The battle in Ferguson, ignited by the killing of Mike Brown, has kicked off a national movement of young people willing to challenge this police state.

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Report: 81% Of GM Crops Approved Without Adequate Safety Studies

Source: www.naturalsociety.com | Original Post Date: November 21, 2014 –

What’s a recipe for environmental mayhem and the destruction of human health? The approval of genetically modified organisms by governments worldwide without any scientific safety studies. A new study published by the risk-assessment journal Environment International states that of the GM crops approved for planting and marketing globally, 81% were not studied for possible health and environmental safety risks.

Nevertheless, the biotech industry keeps touting GMO ‘benefits’ like a narcissistic madman on steroids. This chest beating continues – despite a complete lack of published, peer-reviewed research supporting the safety of genetically modified organisms.

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