From Richard Dawkins.net – The late great Carl Sagan describes our place in the universe. Not only is Sagan’s voice wonderfully calming, his message here is beautiful and simple – “cherish the pale blue dot.”

Aldous Huxley wrote: “Is there, one wonders, some area in the brain from which the probing electrode could elicit Blake’s Cherubim?” Indeed, it seems we may now be very close to Huxley’s wired bliss –

From Slate,

How to wire your brain for religious ecstasy.

By John Horgan

“Eight years ago, I flew to Laurentian University in Midwestern Canada to test a gadget that some journalists called the “God machine.” The device consisted of computer-controlled solenoids that fit over the skull and stimulate the brain with electromagnetic pulses”[…]

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