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The Cosmic Doctrine: The Evolution of a Solar System | John Michael Greer

An artist's illustration of a young, sun-like star encircled by its disk of gas and dust. The gas and dust will in time form exoplanets. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle Part 1: The Dawn of Manifestation Part 2: The Forces of (Negative) Evil Part 3: The 12 Rays and the Seven Cosmic Planes Part 4: The Building of the Atom Part 5: Atomic Evolution upon the Cosmic Planes Part 6: The Beginnings of a ...

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What Is Art For? | John Michael Greer

Dec. 5, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- The discussion of the foibles and failures of modern art that appeared here two weeks ago was of course not the last word on that vast and intricate subject. This week ...

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This Flight from Failure | John Michael Greer

Nov. 21, 2018 (EcoSophia) -- A little while back I attended an open house at the newly founded What Cheer Writers Club across the river in Providence. Half coworking space, half social center for the ...

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The Cosmic Doctrine: The Beginnings of a Solar System | John Michael Greer

A.B. Lagrelius and Westphal, adapted by S. Egts. From: ScienceNews.orgPart 1: The Dawn of Manifestation Part 2: The Forces of (Negative) Evil Part 3: The 12 Rays and the Seven Cosmic Planes Part 4: T ...

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The Twilight of the Intelligentsia | John Michael Greer

John Michael Greer. Photo: YouTubeNov. 7, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- I promise, I didn’t time this sequence of posts so that this one would come out the morning after one of the most bitterly fought mid ...

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I wrote this article of my own free will. Or did I? | Mickey Z.

PHOTO: CC0 Public Domain Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 2, 2018 Why am I writing this article? Because I feel like it… right? Well, there’s that — but there’s also the fact that my mother survive ...

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Anti-cancer virus fits tumor receptor like a 'key in a lock' | Nadishka Jayawardena

A cryo-EM map of the receptor decorated capsid in which a single protomer was replaced with the atomic model. Seneca Valley Virus capsid proteins are shown in blue, green, and red, and the ANTXR1 rec ...

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America and Russia: Tamanous and Sobornost | John Michael Greer

Credit: El Pomar Space GalleryOct. 31, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- In the first two essays in this sequence (here) and (here), I sketched out the framework of Oswald Spengler’s vision of the process by w ...

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‘A Cruel Choice’: Why Israel Targets Palestinian Schools | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 23, 2018 Several Palestinian students, along with teachers and officials, were wounded Oct. 15 in the Israeli army attack on a school south of Na ...

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Research shows signaling mechanism in the brain shapes social aggression | Shawn Tan

Credit: Martha Sexton/public domain Oct. 19, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- Duke-NUS researchers have discovered that a growth factor protein, called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), and its recept ...

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America and Russia, Part Two: The Far Side of Progress | John Michael Greer

Credit: Dawid MichalczykOct. 17, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Two weeks ago, in the first part of this sequence of posts, we explored the way that Oswald Spengler’s insights into the cycles of history can ...

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