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News Connections
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The Primordial Leap and the Present: Before anything else, we need to come terms with the word itself, not in any final sense, but as a first approach to the matter. What is consciousness? Is it our emotions, our intelligence? Is is equivalent to the term 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'gnosis'? New York Times Of special interest is the powerful society in Afghanistan in ancient
times called the Roshaniya--illuminated ones. There are actually
references to this mystical cult going back through history to the
House of Wisdom at Cairo. New York Times We humans have been trying to accelerate our own evolution for
millennia, and while in some ways we appear to be getting away with
it, biological computing could well test the forbearance of Mother
Nature. The Economist "Nine hundred years after the first of them was proclaimed,
the crusades still resonate - and not just in the Middle East. Jonathan
Riley-Smith, professor of ecclesiastical history at Cambridge University
and the author of several books on the crusades," reflects
on their changing interpretation. The Public Eye Magazine Reconstructionism would eliminate not only democracy but many of
its manifestations, such as labor unions, civil rights laws, and
public schools. Women would be generally relegated to hearth and
home. Insufficiently Christian men would be denied citizenship,
perhaps executed. So severe is this theocracy that it would extend
capital punishment beyond such crimes as kidnapping, rape, and murder
to include, among other things, blasphemy, heresy, adultery, and
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