Human-Animal Embryos A Step Closer

Found : Human-Animal Embryos A Step Closer | Home | Sky News Scientists have been given the go-ahead to create human-animal embryos. The hybrid embryos will be produced by mixing human cells with animal eggs. Controversially, the embryos will only be 99.9% human. Around 0.1% of the DNA will be from the animal. The Human…

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The Mind Vampires as Hungry Ghosts

Found : Mind Parasites, Energy Parasites and Vampires We have said very little so far about the possible etiology or origin of the mind parasites. One intriguing theory of origin is presented by Dr. Samuel Sagan (clairvision.org). According to this theory, at the time of human death, there are denser, darker fragments of consciousness that…

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Special K could be used to treat depression

Found : Special K could be used to treat depression LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists have unraveled how a horse tranquilizer and hallucinogenic night club drug known as "Special K" can ease depression, researchers said on Friday. Ketamine, which can also cause feelings of detachment, could pave the way for new treatments for people suffering from…

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Gnosticism as critique of Paganism (Snakes & Ladders)

Found : Gnosticism as critique of Paganism (Snakes & Ladders) Embedded within gnosticism's almost maniacal hostility to the ecosystem is a beautiful and compelling cry for freedom, a libertarian drive towards unmediated lucidity and intuitive knowledge. Gnosticism were antinomian – against the law. The gnostic distrust of the world was not simply asceticism, nor simply…

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Bataille on God, Satan and antinomianism

Found : Bataille on God, Satan and antinomianism Kojève’s student Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a sociologist and anthropologist. Drury writes, “In Bataille’s view, the deathlike state of modern life has its source in the undisputed triumph of God and his prohibitions, reason and its calculations, science and its utilitarianism…. The first task at hand is…

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Are We All Aliens? The New Case for Panspermia

Found : Are We All Aliens? The New Case for Panspermia Somewhat lost in the current panspermia revival is the intriguing flip-side of the "ubiquitous life" idea: If life could have come here from somewhere, why couldn't an Earth rock have been dislodged long ago, sending life to another planet or star system? "It is…

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Creation Ex Nihilo or from Wheeler's 'Pregeometry'?

Found : Creation Ex Nihilo or from Wheeler’s ‘Pregeometry’? In a 1975 article entitled Is Physics Legislated by Cosmogony? J. A. Wheeler and C. M. Patton use the term "pregeometry" to refer to "…something deeper than geometry, that underlies both geometry and particles." And they suggest that "For ultimately revealing this structure, no perspective seems…

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Alain De Benoist on Totalitarianism, Polytheism and Paganism

Found : Alain De Benoist on Totalitarianism, Polytheism and Paganism Totalitarianism grows out of a desire to establish social and human unity by reducing the diversity of individuals and peoples to a single model. In this sense, he argues, it is legitimate to speak of a “polytheist social arena, referring to multiple and complementary gods”…

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Transhumanism : The next great threat to human dignity.

Found : Transhumanism : The next great threat to human dignity. In recent years, scientists have mixed the DNA of a jellyfish with that of a monkey, creating a "transgenic" animal that glows in the dark. ("Transgenic" means possessing the genes of more than one type of organism.) Scientists have also inserted spider DNA into…

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