M.J. Rose

“Snowball is a medium sulphur crested Eleanora cockatoo and he loves to dance and sing. He loves the Back Street Boys. No one taught Snowball to dance, he just heard this song and suddenly felt like dancing. We’re all jealous because he can outdance each one of us…nobody likes a show off! When he’s really in the mood, he dances and sings. And at the end of the performance he takes a bow or two or twenty!!”

Click here to enjoy the show (from Bird Lovers Only blog).

I have always believed that the great Sphinx is much more ancient than the Egyptologists claim. Perhaps as much as 10,000 years old, or older – the Sphinx may have been carved to resemble an unknown being, person, god, or animal before it was recarved in a pharoah’s image long after its creation…

Author, lecturer, and guide, John Anthony West agrees –

“Egyptian civilisation was not a development, it was a legacy”

West’s (and his colleague’s) theories are discussed in an article from Cosmic Log by Alan Boyle:

“Rethinking the Sphinx: After years of fighting the critics of his controversial theory on the age of the Great Sphinx, John Anthony West wants them to join him[…]”

For a very intelligent listening experience tune in to skeptiko.com’s podcasts. Skeptiko explores controversial science with leading researchers and their critics. The following is the introduction for a particularly germane interview with Dr. Neal Grossman, associate professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, in which he discusses how people of both scientific and religious mindsets are often threatened by research into near-death experience –

Dr. Neal Grossman explores near-death experience research, consciousness, academic paradigms and why many religious groups are unfriendly toward near-death experience research: “Both the scientistic type and the devote religious person have something in common, they both think belief in a spiritual reality is a matter of faith… To the religious person the very idea that some of their religious beliefs might be capable of being investigated by science to determine whether they are true or false is threatening… This is the kind of mindset that’s deeply threatened by near-death experience research because the concept of God, and the afterlife and how it works is very, very different from what they want to believe…

Listen.

For more of Grossman’s ideas, read his article from IONS Review – Who’s Afraid of Life After Death?