By Chris Chaplin, msc INTRODUCTION It has been said, “A healthy church is a missionary church”. This might lead us to an end of the “managing decline” approach to leadership, in favour of looking for signs of life in the Spirit. A General Conference is a good opportunity to...
Science & Spirituality, Ecology, Cosmology
Peter Russell, The Global Brian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjjQTX9kmS8
The Physiological Response Created by Hugging
About the Author: Josh Richardson is blogger, healer, and a constant pursuer of the natural state of human consciousness. http://themindunleashed.org/2015/01/8-ways-science-reveals-hugging-creates-physiological-response-equivalent-drugs.html **This was originally featured on Prevent Disease Hugs make you feel good for a reason and it’s not just the loving embrace that gives us that warm feeling in our...
Our Home the Earth in Perspective
Here’s three clips to help get ourselves in perspective. We really are so tiny a part of the whole. Makes you wonder what all the fighting is about.
God vs Science
‘Let me explain the problem science has with religion’. The atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new students to stand. ‘You’re a Christian, aren’t you, son?’ ‘Yes sir, ‘the student says. ‘So you believe in God?’ ‘Absolutely.’ ‘Is God good?’ ‘Sure! God’s good.’ ‘Is...
How Wolves Change Rivers
When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable “trophic cascade” occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do wolves change rivers? George Monbiot explains in this movie remix. “When we try to pick out...
Geneticist on GMO Dangers
In 1999 Canadian Geneticist David Suzuki said, “We are performing a massive experiment. The results will only be known after millions of people have been exposed to (GMO foods) for decades…Any politician or scientist who tells you these products are safe is either very stupid or lying. The hazards...
The Galaxy Song
The Galaxy Song from Monty Python’s ‘The Meaning of Life’ https://youtu.be/buqtdpuZxvk Whenever life gets you down, Mrs Brown and things get hard or tough and people are stupid, obnoxious or daft and you feel that you’ve had quite enough . . . ……. just remember that you’re standing on...
Spirituality and Happiness
Study Suggests That Spirituality Is Key To Kids’ Happiness January 13, 2014 by Arjun Walia at http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/01/13/study-suggests-that-spirituality-is-key-to-kids-happiness/#sthash.D6wcTfaN.dpuf A professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, and his colleagues Ben Coleman and Judi Wallace have conducted a study which suggests that spirituality is key to children’s happiness....
The Only Choice – Sustainable Living
We only really have one choice. That choice is to live more sustainably. I’d be very imprudent to live outside of my budget. I’d quickly go broke and end up destitute. So how is it that we have this idea that the resources of our home, this planet, are...
Supermoon
Sunday night June 23rd, 2013 As the moon rose tonight over Western Port Bay, it was an eerie red colour and quite large and bright. The photo shows how the sky was lit up as if it was twilight. The moon was at its closest proximity to the earth this...
Intention: faith or science?
Intentionality & The Field of God’s Love Firstly let us consider the nature and exploration of the science of Intention. Secondly let us consider particular intentions being held in the Field of God’s Love – that is to say intentions being held in prayer. Physics names and explores empirically what we know by faith...
The Universe Story
“We have a new story of the universe. Science has given us a new revelatory experience. It is now giving us a new intimacy with the earth.” Thomas Berry, Dream of the Earth “The earth was once molten rock, and now sings operas.” Brian Swimme, The Universe...
Ecological Marriage
Chief Raoni cries
Belo Monte Dam approved The chief Raoni cries when he learns that Brazilian president Dilma released the beginning of construction of the hydroelectric plant of Belo Monte, even after tens of thousands of letters and emails addressed to her and which were ignored as the more than 600,000 signatures....
Wangari Maathai dies
Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, has died of cancer at the age of 71, her family announced Monday. “It is with great sadness that the family of Professor Wangari Maathai announces her passing away on at the...
Enter
Lyrics by Carmen Pearson. Lyrics from the Voices of Gaia CD I find the rhythm of the forest, enter into it. Become the breath, become the earth within the breath. I find the rhythm of the ocean, enter into it. Become the wave, become the water within the wave....