May 12Response to Umair Haque“The human race has never experienced anything — anything — like what is now beginning to unfold. The single greatest cataclysm in human history.” — Umair Haque Research over the past four decades has clearly revealed a frequent, forecastable, near-term, scale invariant periodicity of rapid, relatively short-term geomagnetic excursions (reversals)…3 min read
May 7Summer Medicinal PhilosophyIn Classical Eastern medical philosophies (and to a lesser degree in Western ‘folk’ medicine), the first and peak date of each season are different from the modern Western pathologically-alienated abstraction of seasonal transition. …4 min read
May 7Summer Medicinal PhilosophySummer Medicinal Philosophy In Classical Eastern medical philosophies (and to a lesser degree in Western ‘folk’ medicine), the first and peak date of each season are different from the modern Western pathologically-alienated abstraction of seasonal transition. …4 min read
May 6A Summer PracticeExercise 5.3: Sweetening the World Sustainable happiness is the pinnacle of human experience. Having descended to the dark depths of internal existence in the previous four Steps (Reflect, Release, Realize, Refine), we’ve surfaced with something far more valuable than all the stuff, achievement, and sensory stimulation we could ever imagine…7 min read
May 6A Summer ContemplationChapter 13 — Step 5: Revolve “I swear Earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The Earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.” — WALT WHITMAN, A Song of the Rolling Earth “Those that don’t got…13 min read
Apr 6SOLAR MINIMUM / SOLAR MAXIMUM and CMEsSOLAR MINIMUM / SOLAR MAXIMUM and CMEs My standard cut/paste re: solar cycles and coronal mass ejections for the noobies: In January of 2020 the most recent approx. eleven year ‘Solar Minimum’ cycle came to an end and another Solar Maximum cycle began. This progressive ‘waking up’ and firing up…7 min read
Jan 22Chapter 2 — An Age of Uncertainty (for Dave)“Persons living in this modern world who do not know the basic facts that determine their very existence, functioning, and surroundings are living in a dream world. Such persons are, in a very real sense, not sane.” — GERALD HOLTON, Professor of Physics/History of Science, Harvard University “Rocks crumble, make…48 min read
Jan 22Chapter 10 — Step 2: Release (for Dave)“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.” — GREGORY BATESON “Modern society is in an extreme, pathological state of rupture from the reality of the natural world, as is indicated on a daily basis by the…51 min read
Jan 22Chapter 4 — The Precession of the Equinoxes (for Dave)“Actually, the Egyptians do describe the Precession, but in a language usually written off as mythological or religious.” — GIORGIO DE SANTILLANA, Professor of the History of Science, MIT “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” — ZORA NEALE HURSTON As Earth rotates around the sun, it…21 min read
Jan 22Chapter 5 — Ashes, Ashes, All Fall Down (for Dave)“Who would believe this, except it has age as its witness.” — Ovid, Metamorphoses “Giro giro tondo, casca il mondo, casca la terra; tutti giù per terra.” (“Spin around, the world falls, the ground falls; all down on the ground.”) — Old Italian children’s game We are quickly learning in…17 min read
