Certain American politicians and media figures are fond of repeating the slogans of America as “the wealthiest country in the world” – and of course if has “the most powerful military the world has ever seen.” Certainly we know the US spends more money on weaponry than all other countries combined. Such patriotic boasting surely [...]
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This over one hour long documentary features discussions by Jeremy Narby, a Canadian anthropologist living in Switzerland, who has made an extensive study of the indigenous use of ayahuasca in South American cultures. He has written one of the most interesting books about ayahuasca – The Cosmic Serpent – DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. [...]
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Under the somewhat misleading title Drug hallucinations look real in the brain, science writer Arran Frood reported in the New Scientist on a study using the functional MRI brain scanning technique to look at the brains of users of ayahuasca. The researchers compared the brain scans of volunteers under three conditions: (1) looking at pictures of [...]
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The following passages are by Peter Phillips, the Sonoma State College professor of communications who founded, and for many years directed Project Censored. This is an annual compilation, by students in classes on media, of the most significant under- or unreported stories in the year, that has been a tremendous resource for anyone who really [...]
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The molten core of several Fukushima Daiichi reactors is sinking through the Earth’s crust and appears to be in the early stages of a “China Syndrome,” according to Uehara Haruo, architect of Fukushima Daiichi’s Reactor No. 3 and former president of Saga University, in an interview on 11/17,2011. He stated that considering 8 months have [...]
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I am as appalled as most people by the astonishing amount of worldwide violence that is the daily staple of our news media. It seems as non-violent peacemaking efforts are few and far between and rarely seem to show dramatic successes. So I was surprised, impressed and heartened when I learned of statistical social science [...]
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