M.J. Rose

They’re oddly beautiful aren’t they? But how or why do you think these trees grew this way? If it was from human intervention, it’s hard to imagine the reason for such alteration…

“In a tiny corner of western Poland a forest of about 400 pine trees grow with a 90 degree bend at the base of their trunks – all bent northward. Surrounded by a larger forest of straight growing pine trees this collection of curved trees, or “Crooked Forest,” is a mystery…”

For the whole story, click here.

A riveting History Channel piece on the mystery of 12,000 year old Gobekli Tepe (we’ve blogged on this incredible ancient find, here.)

Göbekli Tepe, is a hilltop sanctuary erected on the highest point of an elongated mountain ridge in southeastern Turkey, 500 miles away from Istanbul…

Enjoy!

Does reality conform to the explanations we impose upon it? What about the universe and creation itself? Imagine so…

Science Needs to Ask: ‘What Is Consciousness?’

by Deepak Chopra (HuffPost)

“Anyone who equates myth with superstition would claim that we live in a world that has gone beyond mythology. Science is proud of vanquishing superstition, and a certain vocal contingent of atheists use science to bolster their belief that God is pure superstition. However, mythology is harder to vanquish that that. It crops up in new guises, because myths aren’t superstitions. They are mental templates, operating assumptions, the beliefs that bolster a world view and, above all, a way to explain nature. In any infinite universe, the human mind finds ways to tell a story that will bring the infinite within reach, and myths serve that function.

Sometimes myths are so strong that they pen reality in, building a fence around it and forcing every natural event to stay inside the fence. When God or the gods were the cause of earthly events, the fence was tight and inescapable. But the rise of quantum theory a century ago revealed that even stronger fences were hemming in our sense of reality. We explained the universe through matter and energy governed by physical laws. In the pre-quantum world this scheme wasn’t theory; it was reality, pure and simple. Everything inside this fence acted the same way. It operated by cause and effect. It never went faster than the speed of light. It conformed to mathematical formulations. It excluded the mushy emotions and shifting moods of subjectivity. Science claimed to have found a model for nature that was based on reason alone. How strange, then, that reason was actually the seed of a new mythology, and even stranger, that this rock-solid system is crumbling all around us…”

For the complete article click here to go to HuffPost.