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Science of the Heart

Biophile — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:17:59 +0000

Researchers are increasingly becoming aware that the heart is vastly more than a pump, that it is in fact full of neurons and generates a powerful electromagnetic field. I often think of the quote “Be the change you want to see in the world” from Gandhi when I think of human-earth relations, because what we forge within our hearts becomes the basis for how we interact with the world. Along those lines I offer this one minute short from the folks at the Institute of Noetic Sciences about heart science.

This is a beautiful example of just how powerfully our hearts influence our interactions with everything. One of my favorite Thomas Berry quotes also comes to mind ~ “Peace with each other through peace with the earth”, meaning that unless we are able to perceive, appreciate, and inhabit a place of peace within ourselves towards the earth that our chances of establishing peaceful relations within human communities are pretty slim. Of course it all starts within…

Always love,
Eric

Ongoing ~ Brian Swimme perspectives

Aether — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:10:54 +0000

I am so in love with Brian Swimme, and am completely unashamed to say so. Every time the man opens his mouth something wondrous emerges to expand on our cosmological appreciation, and this interview from meaning of life .tv is no exception. If you follow this link you will get a very short segment from an hour + long interview by Robert Wright, and you can watch the whole interview below if you have the time. But I selected the “cosmic evolution” clip within the whole program because it contains one of the fundamental perspectives learned from a telling of the great story, that we are literally made of stardust. Every perspective I have encountered that relates this evolutionary fact is glorious, and this is no exception. And Brian once again tries to clarify his meaning on the wedding of science and spirituality that so many people try to pigeon hole him into. Enjoy!

Carl Sagan ~ Pale Blue Dot

Biophile — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:16:18 +0000

I feel like we will forever be indebted to Carl Sagan for many reasons, but in my mind, the most important one was his willingness to consider the meaning of science. In an age when arrogance is such common currency among the scientific establishment intelligentsia, Carl was one of the first to recognize the importance of telling the story of what science teaches us through non-scientific language. His work has made the learnings of astronomy and the immense perspectives it offers us so available to those of us not steeped in the multi-year disciplines necessary for full immersion understandings in astrophysics and the like. Not to mention that Contact was an awesome book, and movie, an all too rare combination.

Pale Blue Dot is Carl Sagan at his best, and a perfect illustration of less is more. Hearing Carl is a stirring experience, and this adds to our collection of available entry portals to the profound and necessary perspectives granted through The Universe Story. Very sharable, and very capable of producing the awe and wonder so essential to the reinvention of our species as an integral member of the earth community.

Enjoy!