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Monday, February 8, 2010

Today’s Quote:

“If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.”

– Manusobu Fukuoka

Today’s Most Important Stories & Related Resources:

• Track today’s most important stories here: @sunfellow

Inside Self-Proclaimed Messiah’s Compound In Union County (NewsChannel 10)
Pope’s Letter To Irish Condemns Clergy Sex Abuse (AP)
Monkeys Used To Test Effectiveness Of Childhood Vaccinations (Generation Rescue)
NHNE Vaccinations Resource Page
Acid Syringe ‘Could Spell An End To Dentist’s Drill’ (Daily Mail)
Scientists Identify First Genetic Variant Linked To Biological Aging In Humans (physorg)
Climategate Scientist: ‘I Thought Of Killing Myself’ (Sunday Times)
India Forms New Climate Change Body (Telegraph)
NHNE on Climate Change (news feed, primers, videos, authoritative websites, skeptic-watch websites, blogs, reports)
Google To Add Social Features To Gmail (NYT)

Today’s Most Important Links & Websites:

More On Child Prodigy Akiane (YouTube)
• Akiane Kramarik: WikipediaWebsite
NHNE On Extraordinary Human Capabilities
Esalen’s Center For Theory & Research

Recent Additions & Updates This Website:

Green Police: Audi Super Bowl Ad (video)
• Updated Pulse Cell Phone Resource Page
• Updated James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge Incident Resource Page

Today’s Recommended Books & DVDs:

Subtle Worlds: An Explorer’s Field Notes by David Spangler

Today’s Featured Video: Green Police: Audi Super Bowl Ad

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Sunday, February 7, 2010

Today’s Quote:

“The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured… even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another… and human beings could learn to be human.”

– Benjamin Franklin

Today’s Most Important Stories & Related Resources:

• Track today’s most important stories here: @sunfellow

Avatar: A Lucid Dreamer’s Review (Dream Studies)
Shroud Of Turin: Image Provokes Prayer, Curiosity, Scholarly Disputes (Catholic News Service)
Shroud of Turin Website and sindone.org
Muslims Angry Over U.S. Military ‘Jesus’ Rifles (Fox News)
Brain Functions That Improve With Age (Harvard Business Review)
• What Are Noetic Sciences? ArticleWebsite
Study Says Arctic Ice Melt To Cost Global Economy $2.4 Trillion (ABC News)
Extreme Waves Increase Dramatically In Pacific Northwest (Daily Galaxy)
Netherlands Adds To UN Climate Report Controversy (AFP & NHNE News)
Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health (GQ)
Pulse Cell Phone Resource Page
Airport Body Scanning Raises Radiation Exposure (Bloomberg)
U.S. Food Stamps Set Ever-Higher Record – 32.8 Million (Guardian)

Today’s Most Important Links & Websites:

NHNE On Extraordinary Human Capabilities

Recent Additions & Updates This Website:

• Updated Pulse Cell Phone Resource Page
• Updated James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge Incident Resource Page

Today’s Recommended Books & DVDs:

Subtle Worlds: An Explorer’s Field Notes by David Spangler

Today’s Featured Video: CNN On Akiane Kramarik

For more information about Akiane Kramarik, go here: WikipediaAkiane Kramarik Website.

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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Today’s Quote:

“I find your lack of faith disturbing.”

– Darth Vader, Star Wars

Today’s Most Important Stories & Related Resources:

• Track today’s most important stories here: @sunfellow

Ancient Tribal Language Becomes Extinct As Last Speaker Dies (Guardian)
Embodied Cognition: The Body Takes Abstract Thoughts Literally (NYT)
The Inner Voice Of Unconscious People Can Now Be Heard (New Scientist)
Cat Predicts 50 Deaths In RI Nursing Home (The Telegraph)
James Arthur Ray Arrested In Prescott, $5 Million Bail (AP)
James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge Incident Resource Page
Mormon Historical Documents Create Auction Buzz (Salt Lake Tribune)
NHNE On Joseph Smith & The Mormons
What’s Up with the Gospel of Thomas? (Biblical Archaeology Review)
Avatar: A Chilling Metaphor For European Butchery Of The Americas (The Guardian)
• Beautiful and inspiring: Robert Masters reviews Avatar

Today’s Most Important Links & Websites:

• Eckhart Tolle: Solving the world’s problems through forming a conscious connection with Source (video)
• The Great Integral Awakening: FREE 18-part teleseries with many of today’s most plugged in spiritual leaders
Previous Great Integral Awakening FREE Audio Downloads – Murphy, Wilber, Cohen, Hamilton, Beck, Patten, Genpo Roshi
• Must read: “To Think or Not to Think?” by Tami Simon
Ken Wilber and friends respond to President Obama’s State of the Union Address
Integral Life News (January 2010 Issue)
Integral Video Hubs (inspiring, educational, AND FREE videos from various integrally-informed organizations)
Digital Nation: Life On The Virtual Frontier (PBS)

Recent Additions & Updates This Website:

• Updated James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge Incident Resource Page

Today’s Recommended Books & DVDs:

Integral Life Practice Book by Ken Wilber, Terry Patten, Adam Leonard, and Marco Morelli

Today’s Featured Video: The Wisdom Of Will Smith

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Monday, January 18, 2010

Today’s Quote:

“When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’ “

– Martin Luther King, August 28, 1963, Washington, D.C.

Today’s Most Important Stories & Related Resources:

• Track today’s most important stories here: @sunfellow

Atheist Richard Dawkins Aids Haiti, Touts God-Free Giving (USA Today)
U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes (ABC News)
Antarctica Is Losing Ice At An Accelerating Rate (NASA)
Hubble Records Images Of The Earliest And Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen (NYT)

Today’s Most Important Links & Websites:

Google Haiti Page – Make donations, find people, make free calls, news updates, post-earthquake imagery
Haiti Earthquake Relief: 9 Ways To Help Now (Mashable)
Tech & Internet Giants Step Up To Help Haiti (Mashable)
Non-Believers Giving Aid – A Religion-Free Way To Help Disaster Victims

Some of the planet’s most inspiring, mind-tweaking, potentially life-changing videos

Recent Additions & Updates This Website:

Martin Luther King “I Have A Dream” Speech Resource Page
• Updated “The Cove” (Dolphins being killed again in Japan)
• Updated James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge Incident Resource Page
Move Your Money

Today’s Recommended Books & DVDs:

• New near-death documentary: Dying to LIVE
Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences by Jeffrey Long and Paul Perry
The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation by Janice Miner Holden, Bruce Greyson, Debbie James
Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon — Survival of Bodily Death by Raymond Moody and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Today’s Featured Video: Martin Luther King “I Have A Dream” Speech

“I Have a Dream” is the popular name given to the public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. King’s delivery of the speech on August 28, 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. Delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters, the speech is often considered to be one of the greatest and most notable speeches in human history and was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address. According to U.S. Representative John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the President of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, “Dr. King had the power, the ability, and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a monumental area that will forever be recognized. By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations.”

– From Wikipedia

For more information about King’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech, including transcript and links to important website, go here.

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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Today’s Quote:

“You were born an original; don’t die a copy.”

– John Mason

Today’s Most Important Stories & Related Resources:

• Track today’s most important stories here: @sunfellow

Dolphins Being Killed Again In Japan – For more info http://bit.ly/3NcG5
The Underlying Tragedy by David Brooks (How can desperate countries like Haiti REALLY be helped?)
Simple Eye Test Spots Alzheimer’s 20 Years Before Symptoms (Daily Mail)
Scientists Record Massive Spike In Methane Gas Seeping From Arctic Permafrost (Guardian)
Google, Citing Attack, Threatens to Exit China (NYT)
Audiences Experience ‘Avatar’ Blues (CNN)
Oliver Stone’s ‘Secret History’ To Put Hitler ‘In Context’ (Live Feed)
Israeli Robots Remake Battlefield (WSJ)
World’s First Sex Robot (The Sun)
Egypt Tombs Suggest Pyramids Not Built By Slaves (Reuters)
• George Leonard Dies: StoryITPWikipediaIntegral Naked

Today’s Most Important Links & Websites:

Google Haiti Page – Make donations, find people, make free calls, news updates, post-earthquake imagery
Haiti Earthquake Relief: 9 Ways To Help Now (Mashable)
Tech & Internet Giants Step Up To Help Haiti (Mashable)

NHNE On Near-Death Experiences
Near Death Experience Research Foundation (over 2000 full-text published NDE accounts)
• FREE ebook: Enhance Your Dream Life: Sleep Better, Dream More, Live Your Purpose by Ryan Hurd

Sunfellow Photo Blog – SUPER COOL programs recently highlighted: Skitch. TubeSock. Viveza 2. Data Rescue 3. AppZapper. 1Password.

Recent Additions & Updates This Website:

• Updated “The Cove” (Dolphins being killed again in Japan)
• Updated James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge Incident Resource Page
Move Your Money

Today’s Recommended Books:

The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation by Janice Miner Holden, Bruce Greyson, Debbie James
Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon — Survival of Bodily Death by Raymond Moody and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Today’s Featured Video: Blind Woman Describes Fascinating Near-Death Experience

Vicky Blavon was born blind. In the following Coast-To-Coast interview Vicky describes what it was like to experience sight for the first time. Vicky also describes encounters with Jesus, moving through hellish and heavenly realms, and being told she couldn’t stay on the other side because she was to become a mother and teach unconditional love and forgiveness. Jesus, according to Vicky, also told her to tell others about him and her experience: “let them know of this day and tell them that I AM”…

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For more information on near-death experiences, go here.

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Friday, January 15, 2010

Today’s Quote:

“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

– Confucius

Today’s Most Important Stories & Related Resources:

• Track today’s most important stories here: @sunfellow

Today’s Most Important Links & Websites:

Google Haiti Page – Make donations, find people, make free calls, news updates, post-earthquake imagery
Haiti Earthquake Relief: 9 Ways To Help Now (Mashable)
Tech & Internet Giants Step Up To Help Haiti (Mashable)

• How does mobile fundraising work? http://bit.ly/7mDY08 and http://bit.ly/5ON12z and http://bit.ly/8hsWul

• Integral NHNE: Using Psychotropic Drugs On An Integral Path
Near Death Experience Research Foundation (over 2000 full-text published NDE accounts)
• FREE ebook: Enhance Your Dream Life: Sleep Better, Dream More, Live Your Purpose by Ryan Hurd
• Fed up with slow, crashing browsers? Google Chrome could be the answer – Why Chrome Is So GreatDownload

Recent Additions & Updates This Website:

• Updated “The Cove” (Dolphins being killed again in Japan)
• Updated James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge Incident Resource Page
Move Your Money
The Next US (inspiring story with videos)

Today’s Recommended Books:

The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America by Don Lattin

Today’s Featured Video: The Harvard Psychedelic Club

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THE MIND-EXPANDING ‘HARVARD PSYCHEDELIC CLUB’
By Don Lattin
San Francisco Chronicle
January 5, 2010

Original Link

The following excerpt is taken from Don Lattin’s new book, “The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America”. It’s the story of what happened when three university professors and one ambitious freshman crossed paths in the fall of 1960 at Harvard, where Leary had just begun putting together a controversial psychedelic drug research project. This scene is from a chapter in the middle of the book titled “If you come to San Francisco.” It’s January 1967, and the center of the psychedelic scene has shifted from Boston to Baghdad by the Bay.

The Harvard Psychedelic Club
How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: HarperOne (January 5, 2010)
Language: English

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Timothy Leary could not be stopped. He was determined to secure his position as the “high priest” of the LSD movement. He knew he needed the news media to spread the psychedelic gospel, and journalists knew they needed Leary to figure out what was going on in the early years of the counterculture. Leary’s concern for public relations was on display the night following the Human Be-In extravaganza in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, the event where the former Harvard psychology professor – dressed in white with beads around his neck and a yellow flower tucked behind his ear – first uttered his infamous slogan, “Turn on. Tune in. Drop out.” Leary had just run out to get an early edition of the San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner. He rushed the newspaper over to an apartment in the Haight-Ashbury where Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder and others were in the midst of a post-celebration party.

Leary handed the newspaper to Ginsberg, who read the story, headlined HIPPIES RUN WILD, and let out a moan. “That’s ridiculous,” Ginsberg complained. “Like, it was an aesthetically very good scene. They should have sent an art critic.”

Reporting a complaint

Ginsberg picked up the phone and called the newspaper to register his complaint with the night editor at the newspaper.

“What is this nonsense about hippies running wild?” Ginsberg asked the befuddled editor. “Your story has the kind of inaccuracy of tone and language that’s poisoning the community. Is that what you want to do?”

“We sent our hippiest reporter,” the night editor replied.

“I don’t know what kind of hippies you’ve got over there at your place,” Ginsberg said, chuckling. “Besides, what is this hippie business? What does ‘hippie’ mean, anyway? These kids aren’t hippies – they’re seekers. Today was a serious religious occasion.”

Ginsberg promised to come over to the newspaper first thing Monday morning and talk to the reporter about doing a more accurate follow-up story. The editor said that would be fine. They’d see the famous poet at The Chronicle offices on Monday.

“Well, peace,” Ginsberg said, hanging up the phone.

Ginsberg, still dressed all in white, was sitting on a mattress in the meditation room in the apartment of Michael Bowen, one of the Human Be-In organizers. The mattress and the wall behind him were covered with Indian bedspreads. Sitting next to him was Gary Snyder, who had beads hanging over his turtleneck sweater. Most of the people at the party were still in their Be-In costumes, except for Leary, who had taken off his loose white garments and changed into sports jacket and trousers. That way he looked more professorial when the television news crew showed up dragging klieg lights and cables into Bowen’s apartment.

It’s all about visuals

The cameraman turned away from Leary and held a light meter up to Ginsberg’s face. Here was a guy with a bushy black beard, love beads and white robes. Better visuals for a TV news segment on the hippies.

The poet groaned at the TV crew. “Man,” he said, looking at Bowen, “it’s bad enough that you have a telephone in your meditation room.”

Ginsberg lightened up when the TV reporter offered his take on the day’s festivities. “I don’t know why,” the television guy said, “but this whole day strikes me as absolutely sane and right and beautiful. You guys must have put something in my tea.”

“What’s so insane about a little peace and harmony,” Ginsberg replied. “Thousands of people came to the park today, just so they could relate to each other – as dharma beings. All sorts of people – poets, children, even Hell’s Angels. People are lonely. It’s strange to be in a body.”

Gary Snyder nodded. “People are groovy,” he said.

Ginsberg looked into the television camera. “It was very Eden-like today,” he said. “Kind of like Blake’s vision of Eden. Music. Babies. People just sort of floating around having a good time and everybody happy and smiling and touching and turning each other on and a lot of groovy chicks all dressed up in their best clothes and -”

“But will it last?” the reporter asked.

“How do I know?” Ginsberg said. “And who cares?”

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Today’s Quote:

“You become a hero in your own life the moment you commit to knowing your feelings and speaking about them honestly.”

– Kathlyn & Gay Hendricks

Today’s Most Important Stories & Related Resources:

• Track today’s most important stories here: @sunfellow
Haiti Earthquake Relief: 9 Ways To Help Now (Mashable)

Today’s Most Important Links & Websites:

Top Box Office Movies Of All Time
• FREE ebook: Enhance Your Dream Life: Sleep Better, Dream More, Live Your Purpose by Ryan Hurd
• Fed up with slow, crashing browsers? Google Chrome could be the answer – Why Chrome Is So GreatDownload

Recent Additions & Updates This Website:

Move Your Money
The Next US (inspiring story with videos)

Today’s Recommended Books:

Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children’s Memories of Previous Lives by Dr. Jim Tucker
Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation by Ian Stevenson
Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot by Andrea Leininger

Today’s Featured Video: Bill Maher On Ending Abusive Relationships – With Your Bank