A Spirit Guide Explains What The Afterlife Is Really Like…
What the afterlife is really like according to a spirit guide channeled in trance by April Crawford:
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What Is Life’s Future in the Cosmos?
President of the Royal Society, England’s Astronomer Royal, Lord Martin Rees brings a lifetime of cosmological inquiry to a crucial question: What if human success on Earth determines life’s success in the universe? He thinks that civilization’s chances of getting out of this century intact are about 50/50. Please enjoy this incredibly educational seminar by cosmologist and astrophysicist Martin Rees presented by The Long Now Foundation – an organization that concerns itself with long term thinking:
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“Life’s Future in the Cosmos”
(From longnow.org) President of the Royal Society, England’s Astronomer Royal, Lord Martin Rees brings a lifetime of cosmological inquiry to a crucial question: What if human success on Earth determines life’s success in the universe?
He thinks that civilization’s chances of getting out of this century intact are about 50-50. He is hopeful that extraterrestrial life already exists, but there’s no sign of it yet. But even if we are now alone, he notes that we may not even be the halfway stage of evolution. There is huge scope for post-human evolution, so that “it will not be humans who watch the sun’s demise, 6 billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.”
This talk was given at Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, California on Monday August 2, 02010
(For a high def video of this talk and of all the talks presented by The Long Now, click here to purchase a membership in the organization for $8/mo. There are lots of perks.)
The Buddhas That Once Watched Over the Bamiyan Valley
Even in rubble they are mysterious and beautiful – new discoveries are made about the destroyed Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan…
(Even statues can experience reincarnation!)
Destroyed Buddhas Reveal Their True Colors
by Andrew Lawler
True colors. This artist’s conception shows how the Bamiyan Buddhas may have appeared after their construction in the 6th century C.E.
Ten years ago tomorrow, the Taliban began to systematically destroy the great Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan—two giant statues that watched over the Bamiyan Valley for 1500 years. Now, extensive studies of the rubble have revealed new details about the creation and appearance of these statues, including their original colors.
Bamiyan was an important monastic complex at a time when Buddhism began to spread from India and Pakistan into Central Asia and China. But dating the massive statues—38 and 55 meters high, respectively—that were carved into the sandstone cliffs has proved problematic. Based on the style of the robes, art historians have long believed the monuments were made as early as the 3rd century C.E.
But the new analysis indicates that they were made a few hundred years after this. Drawing on organic material in the clay layers in the rubble of the destroyed Buddhas, a team led by Erwin Emmerling of the Technical University of Munich in Germany used mass spectrometry analysis to date the smaller Buddha to between 544 C.E. and 595 C.E. and the larger Buddha to between 591 C.E. and 644 C.E. These later dates may show that the complex remained vibrant longer than scholars once thought, even after the advent of Islam in Afghanistan starting in the 7th century C.E…
For the complete article please click here to go to Science Now.
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