Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Today’s Quote:

“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration; I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Today’s Most Important Stories, Information & Links:

• Update on Michael Dowd, author of Thank God For Evolution, and his experience with cancer
• Karen Armstrong: Let’s Revive The Golden Rule (TED)
• Outstanding overview of Ray Kurzweil ideas, predictions, and current pursuits: By 2040 You Will Be Able To Upload Your Brain… (The Independent)
• NHNE on Ray Kurzweil
• Integral Life News: September 2009
• On Integral Life: What Women Want from Christianity
• Integral Life’s Coaching Services
• Lucid Nightmare Podcast by Ryan Hurd (Dream Studies)
• The Fetzer Prize for Love & Forgiveness (awarded during the 2009 Vancouver Peace Summit)
• Watch Vancouver Peace Summit videos here
• Spiritual Women Have More Sex (LiveScience)
• Tens Of Thousands Flock To See The Remains Of A 19th-Century Nun (Independent)

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• Most People Alive Today Will See Dangerous Levels Of Global Warming (triplepundit)
• North Americans Know Less About Climate Change Than Just About Anyone Else In The World (triplepundit)
• NHNE on Climate Change (news feed, primers, videos, authoritative websites, skeptic-watch websites, blogs, reports)
• Vatican Says Sex Abuse In Other Churches “As Big, If Not Bigger” As Abuse In Catholic Church (Guardian)
• N.Y. Health Care Workers Revolt Over Forced H1N1 Vaccine (wcbstv.com)
• New York Requires Health Care Workers Be Vaccinated Against H1N1, Or Be Fired (News Day)
• Military To Get Mandatory Swine Flu Shots Soon (AP)
• NHNE Swine Flu Resource Page
• Merck Employees Had “Hit List” Of Doctors They Sought To “Neutralize” (NaturalNews)
• Fears Rise Over Trauma To NFL Players’ Brains (MSNBC)
• NFL Study Finds Link To Dementia (NYT)
• Brain Scans Reveal What You’ve Seen (Wired)

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• Google posts Google Wave Update (100,000 people receiving invitations to use Google Wave today)
• TV.com Launches WatchList: TV Guide for the Social Media Era (Mashable)
• 18 Apple Inspired Accessories (Design Reviver)

Today’s Recommended Book:

• Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever by Ray Kurzweil Ph.D. , Terry Grossman M.D.

New Additions To Website:

• The Institute of Noetic Sciences on YouTube (23 videos)
• Boulder Integral TV

Today’s Video: The Immortalists – A short film by Jason Silva

A meditation on the will to become immortal… a love letter to science and philosophy that explores the idea of engineered radical life extension and biological immortality featuring Ray Kurzweil among others… by Jason Silva.