part of something larger
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Size Matters
Small things are difficult to see. The smallest things are difficult even to imagine. We are missing life at its smallest, overlooking living things that came before us and make us possible. We need to look inside the box more… Continue reading
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Your Inner Fish
Most people accept the idea that we are descended from earlier primates. But descended from fish? That might seem to be a stretch. In Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (2008), Neil Shubin makes a… Continue reading
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Near-Death Experiences: what they tell us about THIS life
Lots of buzz this week about “Heaven Is Real: A Doctor’s Experience with the Afterlife” by Dr. Eben Alexander, in Newsweek. The Harvard Medical School neurosurgeon changed his mind about the afterlife after getting a taste of it during a… Continue reading
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The Part-of-Something-Larger Experience
Roger Housden’s post about “Secular Spirituality: An Oxymoron?”, on his blog and on Huffington Post, is a rich description of the common perception that one is participating in, and yet is separated from, a wholeness that is greater than oneself.… Continue reading
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