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You might think Burning Man is a silly, dust-caked hallucinogen playground for people who should never be naked. You’d be right. But it’s more than that: Burning Man 2013 proved to be a place for reconciliation between the Winklevii and the co-founder of Facebook.

A growing number of Americans are giving up their office jobs to go into farming, as the Karen Weintraub reports.

We are one

We just have the same feelings

at different times

 

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We are currently looking for an additional ayahuasca workshop facilitator to join us at the Temple of the Way of Light to work closely with our Shipibo healers and guests.

To my understanding, everybody should have free access to land for food and shelter, if she or he wishes so.
To separate people from the land and the possibility to feed and protect themselves in a self-governed manner, by turning the earth into private property, to me is a crime committed on man and on nature.
It means denying a human being the natural right to life.
It means driving a human being into labor for money.
It is an exploitation of human beings and of the land.
This has to be clearly understood.

Reconciling Science and God....There is a reason for re-examining how science managed to separate mind from matter and man from God. By steady new examination of the deepening fissure between intellect and consciousness, this odyssey re-unites what science has sundered, the interior man and his union with creation, the co-creation of the divine. This is a journey of the mystical science behind science.

The idea of the "utopian" community has a long, storied history (and a largely unsuccessful one at that), from the fictional island dreamed up by Sir Thomas More to present-day attempts to build the perfect urban ecosystem.

"I had risked everything I knew for a glimpse of the divine and every now and again I would be party to incandescently light and brilliantly radiant  encounters. Returning back to the ‘Modern word’  I get the impression (and maybe I am wrong) that the average Joe thinks ‘spiritual people’ are somehow nicer, a little closer to God and a little more balanced. This would be the wrong assumption."

The Simplicity Institute seeks to facilitate the rapid transition away from growth-based, consumer societies toward sustainable and more rewarding societies based on material sufficiency. We seek to understand what a society would look like if it were based on this ‘simpler’ way of living and how we might get there.

She's a successful law professor and a Sunday school teacher, with a host of family and friends. But her interpersonal calculus centers on how to manipulate and outmaneuver the many people in her life.

Russell Brand gives an interview on The Jonathan Ross Show 2nd February 2013. Had to edit out 4 mins of the interview near the end due to a copyright block.

I believe that when we can base our actions on empathic responses to what we feel -- as opposed to judgments that we make -- our entire perspective will shift.

At last year's Burning Man, a prominent tech investor was attacked by ninjas. "They were just a bunch of people dressed up as ninjas, riding around on bikes," says Garry Tan, Y Combinator partner...

An individual, he says, "is not an atom but extends as far as all the entities that it perceives and with which it is in relation."

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Even if we're all connected to the same entity in the network, that entity is different for each of us. I am connected to the MIT Media Lab and Ethan Zuckerman is connected to the MIT Media Lab, but the Media Lab means something very different to each of us. Instead of seeing this difference as proof of the Media Lab, we should focus on the overlapping connections of monads. "We should abandon the key principle of impenetrability of entities and understand any 'whole' as the highlighting of some of its overlapping items." 

Forensic psychologist Scott Fraser studies how we remember crimes. He describes a deadly shooting and explains how eyewitnesses can create memories that they haven't seen. Why? Because the brain is always trying to fill in the blanks.

If you’re poor and trying to make a living for yourself and your children, the certain friction that you will encounter at uncertain intervals creates an atmosphere of constant risk.

You don’t know exactly when your attempts to improve your family’s livelihood will get derailed, but you know for sure that they will.

And if you’re not poor, but you want to build systems, solutions, and companies that empower or serve the poor, then the certain friction you will encounter at uncertain intervals creates an atmosphere of constant struggle.

You don’t know when your attempts to improve the lives of others will get derailed, but you know for sure that they will.

So when I’m driving through the rural towns and I see men who should be working just sitting with their friends, drinking in the middle of the day or milling about chatting but most certainly *not* working…well, I can understand that reaction. Why invest your time and energy in building a business when the power’s just going to go out and drive away customers and you’ll inevitably have to watch your profits walk out the door in the form of bribes?

Have you ever been judged for being authentic? Have you ever been judged for being a light in a dark room, for not conforming, for telling the truth or  for looking different. Have you been judged ...

the new earth project is a pioneering planetary initiative which intends, through the power of numbers, to demarcate a line-in-the-sand between humanity and over-reaching big-government. this historic sovereignty movement will define a world shaped by conscious people, and bring about healthy, joyful and prosperous lives for all it's residents, members and affiliates. people around the world, in all walks of life, are finally realising the artifice and fundamental injustices of our current model of reality. we are rising up and demanding that overbearing government stand down. none of us wish for our world to be coloured any further by the engineering of drone-wars, surveillance-culture, forced-vaccinations, food- stamps, corporate-insanity and media-manipulation. we reject the wholesale manipulation of our information and our livelihoods and are ready for a different civilisational download... one determined by humans with open hearts, open minds and a sense of reverence for all living beings. the new earth project is the unified sovereignty movement offering not just an exit-strategy from the wage-slavery paradigm - but also the means by which we can realise heaven on earth, in our world - in our time. 

Researchers pin down the contentious notion that ideas from the strange world of quantum mechanics underpin plants' skill at harvesting sunlight.

George Zimmerman followed Trayvon Martin because he perceived him as dangerous. The defense argues he was, the prosecution argues he wasn’t.

Please pass the kale chips.