Month: April 2013

fuckyeahpaganism:

Yemaya (Yemoja, Iemanja) is a Yoruban creation goddess, the mother of the seven seas. She is often depicted as a mermaid, and is associated with the moon, ocean, and feminine mysteries. She is the protectress of women and rules the subconscious and creative endeavors. She governs everything pertaining women; childbirth, conception, parenting, child safety, love, and healing. She oversees deep secrets, ancient wisdom, the moon, salt water, sea shells, and the collective unconscious. According to myth, she originated in Egypt as the goddess Isis, and is said that Nubian slaves who returned to different parts of Africa may have renamed Isis under the new name Yemaya. She gave birth to the 14 Yoruban goddesses and gods. When her uterine broke, it caused a great flood creating the oceans. The first mortal humans were created from her womb.

convertedinvader:

duskenpath:

ancienttimenews:

Physicists Find Evidence That The Universe Is A ‘Giant Brain’

The idea of the universe as a ‘giant brain’ has been proposed by scientists – and science fiction writers – for decades.

But now physicists say there may be some evidence that it’s actually true. In a sense.

According to a study published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, the universe may be growing in the same way as a giant brain – with the electrical firing between brain cells ‘mirrored’ by the shape of expanding galaxies.

NBC:http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49971212/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UTUg3zCLbzk

Original Study: http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121113/srep00793/full/srep00793.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/27/physicists-universe-giant-brain_n_2196346.html

http://www.space.com/18630-universe-grows-like-brain.html

Yup.


“As above, so below.”

Chomsky: The Cruelty That Keeps Empires Alive

Chomsky: The Cruelty That Keeps Empires Alive

amodernmanifesto:

The Swedish novelist Henning Mankell tells of an experience in Mozambique during the civil war horrors there 25 years ago, when he saw a young man walking toward him in ragged clothes.

“I noticed something that I will never forget for as long as I live,” Mankell says. “I looked at his feet. He had no shoes. Instead he had painted shoes on his feet. He had used the colors in the ground and in the roots to replace his shoes. He had come up with a way to keep his dignity.”

Such scenes will evoke poignant memories among those who have witnessed cruelty and degradation, which are everywhere. One striking case, though only one of a great many, is Gaza, which I was able to visit for the first time last October.

There violence is met by the steady resistance of the “samidin” – those who endure, to borrow Raja Shehadeh’s evocative term in “The Third Way,” his memoir on Palestinians under occupation, 30 years ago.