Microcosm, Macrocosm
This image comparison, first featured in The New York Times, definitely gives one something to think about. On the left is a microscopic image of a mouse brain’s neuronal network produced by Mark N. Miller of Brandeis University’s Nelson Lab. On the right is the Max Planck Institute’s computer simulation of the vast dark matter network (purple) connecting visible-matter galaxies (yellow) across the universe. “Together,” observes New York Times journalist David Constantine, “they suggest the surprisingly similar patterns found in vastly different natural phenomena.”

Source: What is Enlightenment

Aug. 20-27, 2007 issue – In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. Link to the Article

Apparently people living in China will no longer be able to reincarnate. The government has decided it can regulate reincarnation to try to squash the Dalai Lama and the Buddhist religion. How can any government believe they can control the spiritual beliefs of an individual or a religion?

Episode Highlights:

• The Alchemy of Sacred Dance
• Painting with the body
• 5 levels of Hawaiian poetry
• The body becomes the conduit
• Acknowledging the alter of the 7 Directions
• and more…

Leilani Petranek’s book:

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