| Spirituality, Environment | 6 Jul 2008 |
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| Event Horizon by Tony Ellis | Comment (0) |
Event horizon: a boundary in space time used to describe the apparent edge around a black hole, beyond which nothing can be seen.
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I was on the phone recently with my friend Doug in San Francisco discussing the calamitous weather in the Midwest and the current wildfires in California. “What’s next,” he quipped, “plagues of locusts?” “Well, we’re certainly overrun by bugs in Iowa,” I
| Spirituality, Politics | 20 Jun 2008 |
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| It's Only Words by Tony Ellis | Comment (0) |
Sifting through the usual well thumbed magazines in the waiting room at Dr. Love’s Alternative Health Clinic (yes that is his real name) I stumbled upon an interesting pamphlet someone had left. Originally published in 1875 by the Rev. John Wesley Hanson, it was an 88-page treatise (with comprehensive footnotes) on the meaning of two Greek words, Aion and Aionios, as translated and used in the
| Spirituality | 14 Jun 2008 |
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| One Heart or Two? by Tony Ellis | Comment (0) |
During Dennis Kucinich’s 2004 presidential bid I was asked by one his party organizers what I thought might be a good rallying call for his campaign. “No more lies,” I suggested. One of the big political issues then was (and still is) the Iraq War. Kucinich was claiming, quite rightly as it now turns out, that the war was entered into on false pretences. Unfortunately, at the time not enough
| Spirituality | 5 Feb 2008 |
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| Across the Universe by Tony Ellis | Comment (0) |
On February 4th NASA beamed The Beatles’ song Across the Universe literally “across the universe”. The next day, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Transcendental Meditation about which this song was written, left this world and entered into heaven. It was an accidental but fitting tribute to the man who opened universes within the minds of millions across the world, including
