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Our Lady of Lourdes appears 18 times to a miller’s daughter collecting firewood in a small market town in France. A young woman leads an army through critical strategic victories in the 100 Years’ War, claiming to be guided by divine insight. In the very first hours of the 20th century, a student asks God to fill her with the holy spirit and begins to speak in tongues. Continue reading Is The Human Brain Hardwired for God?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is here today, and getting smarter every year. With both computing power and data collection increasing exponentially, our machines are gaining on us. Within just over a decade from now they will be far more intelligent than we are, according to PHD’s book ‘Sentience: The Coming AI Revolution and the Implications for Marketing’.
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Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown tests one of the company’s burgers. Photo: Misha Gravenor
More protein than beef. More omegas than salmon. Tons of calcium, antioxidants, and vitamin B. In their secret R&D lab, the scientists at Beyond Meat concocted a plant-protein-based performance burger that delivers the juicy flavor and texture of the real thing with none of the dietary and environmental downsides. Continue reading This Top-Secret Food Will Change the Way You Eat
During an interview with the world-renowned spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle, we spoke about the intentional focus the news media gives to violence and tragedy committed on the planet. While these negative occurrences seem to be more and more prevalent, it may be that the worst aspects of humanity are emphasized on the nightly news. Continue reading Spiritual Life in Education: The New Ivy League
A large study coming from researchers at the Uppsala University in Sweden found that drinking milk led to an increased mortality rate and actually made bones more prone to fracturing, not less.(1)
Continue reading Milk Does Not Do A Body Good – Massive New Study Says
Consciousness is the riddle of awareness. You might call it the attention we pay to what occupies our attention. For example, we pay attention or spontaneously react to a man-eating lion just as gazelles and monkeys do. However, it’s the ongoing loop of attention we also devote to how we’re reacting from which the “i” we think of as “us”, somehow emerges.
Continue reading Consciousness quota determines size of your soul