ld be simpler than humans genetically. Plus, amoebas date back
farther in time than humans, and simplicity is considered an attribute
of primitive beings. It just didn’t make sense. The idea of directionality
in nature, a gradient from simple to complex, began with the Greeks,
who called nature physis, meaning growth. That idea subtly extended
from changes over an organism’s lifetime, to changes over evolutionary
time after Charles Darwin argued that all animals descend from a single
common ancestor. When his contemporaries drew evolutionary trees of
life, they assumed increasing complexity. Worms originated early in
animal evolution. Creatures with more complex structures originated
later. Biologists tweaked evolutionary trees over the following century,
but generally, simple organisms continued to precede the complex.
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ection of aircraft and ships • capabilities that were sorely lacking in 1940 • in conjunction with the British and their 10cm cavity magnetron, by means of the basic structure of a program that would develop the radar technology that subsequently had a decisive role in the Allied victory of World War II.
Following on from Dr. Bush’s IDEA of a ”MEMEX” in 1945 • Doug Engelbart, who was best known as the inventor of the mouse, but also came up with the idea of screens, and windows, and "hypertext", clickable links in text that could take you from document to document • IT WAS of course Apple Computers that put together the very first practical and demonstrable version of Bush's ”MEMEX”; developments of which Tim Berners Lee was able to avail himself, to create the Hyper Text Transmission Protocol [http://], the World Wide Web [www] and the concept of a Browser, which became Netscape, to establish THE new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge.
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ntroduces the project, explaining concepts from the best-selling book, "2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl" (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006) by Daniel Pinchbeck, in the author's own voice. Future segments will focus on shamanism, sustainability, alternative energy systems, the Mayan Calendar, quantum physics and synchronicity, and a host of other subjects.
More Episodes at iclips dot net.Directed by Joao Amorim
THE COLLECTIVE MIND-SET of our species MUST acknowledge that we should ACT as the animals we are, that limitless resources are a fool's dream that we can never achieve and that when the cost of an activity outweighs the benefit, we should STOP, in order that LIFE on earth should survive.…
Added by Michael Grove at 13:41 on November 13, 2010
f ever-greater complexification and that we are part of that evolving process. We're aware of the Darwinian notion of biological evolution and accept the scientific evidence about how life has evolved. And some of us are even aware of the notion of cultural evolution, the recognition that culture has been developing over time through a series of stages.
BUT very few of us are really awake to the notion of spiritual evolution.
Seeing evolution as a spiritual unfolding that has an exterior and an interior, and understanding that our own experience of subjectivity is the leading edge of the interior of that creative process, is a very recently emerging idea.
Traditionally, spiritual teachings pointed to a static attainment. The aspiration for enlightenment was the aspiration to come to rest in a steady state—in nirvana, in heaven. But when spirituality is reinterpreted from an evolutionary perspective, it is the aspiration for infinite becoming. The evolutionary impulse is an infinite reaching towards the future that affects the way we think about everything. Now we are no longer looking for spiritual liberation and release beyond the world, or after we die. We realize that the spiritual release is found in unconditionally, radically, and totally embracing the creative process of infinite becoming, as ourselves. It's a very different orientation to spiritual liberation.
~ Andrew Cohen…
ey had the one true path to God and that everyone else was bound for Hell. When Harding was 21 he left. He could not accept their view of the world. What guarantee was there that they were right? What about all the other spiritual groups who also claimed that they alone had the Truth?
Everyone couldn’t be right.
In London in the early 1930s Harding was studying and then practising architecture. In his spare time, however, he devoted his energies to philosophy - to trying to understand the nature of the world, and the nature of himself. Into philosophy at this time were filtering the ideas of Relativity. Influenced by these ideas, Harding realized that his identity depended on the range of the observer – from several metres he was human, but at closer ranges he was cells, molecules, atoms, particles… and from further away he was absorbed into the rest of society, life, the planet, the star, the galaxy… Like an onion he had many layers.
Clearly he needed every one of these layers to exist.
But what was at the centre of all these layers? Who was he really?
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Added by Michael Grove at 18:55 on February 13, 2012