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How You Are God, the Universe Is Friendly … From Solipsism to Transpersonal Reality: Transpersonal Perspective, Part Three — Experience Is Divine

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I Am You, and You Are Me, and We Are We, and We Are All Together: The Radical Rational View of Us and It and the Basis of the Belief of Non-Separation

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From Solipsism to Transpersonal Reality

I Exist

Everything that we say exists is dependent upon our subjective experience of it. So all we really can know exists for sure is a subjective experience of anything. Beyond that, the proposing of anything else as existing is pure speculation. So essentially all that we can know to exist is experiencethat which is, in any particular moment, for oneself—the perceiver or receptor of experience.

This is solipsism, pure and simple of course. But it is the best place of all to start. As W. T. Stace wrote, “The initial position of every mind must be solipsistic,” and further, that while continued investigation might eventually lead to “very…

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Will Lebanon Ever Change?

A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares

I was sitting with my grandma a couple of days ago in her warm kitchen while she cooked me lunch. As the tawouk simmered, she started asking me about my days. It’s not the typical chit-chat to let awkward time pass by. She was genuinely concerned.

A few minutes later, my grandma started going on and on about how she wished God would give me nothing but success wherever I went and whatever I did, how I deserved nothing but the best, etc.

What she said might be a bunch of cliches to you, but it got me thinking. There will come a time, and that time is coming up really soon, where I will probably say goodbye to my grandmother at an airport gate, like many of my friends, and never see her again.

The idea made me terribly sad. I started wondering if I really should go through…

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A Secret To Building The Pyramids Has Been Discovered

Simple answer that eluded people for far too long.

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The secret behind the moving of heavy and large stones to construct the Pyramids, the last remaining Ancient World Wonders, has been discovered and revealed by a team of scientists.

The scientists, consisting of physicists from the FOM Foundation and the University of Amsterdam , believe the ancient Egyptians used a ‘clever trick to make it easier to transport heavy pyramids stones by sledge’: wet sand.

 “The Egyptians moistened the sand over which the sledge moved. By using the right quantity of water, they could halve the number of workers needed,” says a statement released by the physicists.

The dampness of the sand from pouring the right amount of water significantly reduced friction and how much force was required to move the huge stones, which, on average, are approximately 2.5 tons in weight.

The physicists explain that wet sand is twice as stiff and firm as dry sand. This, and the fact…

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Nadine Moussa’s Presidential Plan

A more than refreshing run in Lebanon!

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The following is the English translation of Nadine Moussa‘s presidential plan. Due to high demands, an English translation was urgently needed and the following translation was done by volunteers Pia Francis and Taline Khajikian in response to that need. It was republished here with Moussa’s permission. To suggest mistakes and how to improve them, please send me an email to joey@ayoub.ch

Candidate Nadine Moussa’s Goals for the Presidential Elections

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This presidential plan aims at accomplishing the following goals and sets the path for achieving a long-term vision that aspires to make drastic changes in Lebanon:

  • Achieving national sovereignty across Lebanon
  • Building a state for all citizens based on the reign of righteousness, law and social justice while supporting civil peace
  • Enhancing the sense of patriotism amongst Lebanese people, expatriates, men and women equally
  • Exploiting the natural resources such as gas, oil, water with total transparency and distributing them amongst…

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The Day in a Picture

Self-delusion is a powerful and addicting human behavior. When presented with over-simplistic justifications of why millions of handguns in the US are not a problem and you want to believe that untruth – you delude yourself that the simplistic justification is true – and 10-20 thousand people in US will die from gunshots this year and 20-30 thousand will be injured or maimed by gunshots, as well. The problem is that it is much easier to pull a trigger and kill someone than to stab someone and kill them.

The Last Of The Millenniums

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MERS: Impact of comorbidity on mortality

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UPDATED: 4.27.14, 2215 EST

In my last series of posts, it became quickly apparent that MERS cases who have pre-existing conditions (or “comorbidities”, such as diabetes, heart disease, etc.) are more likely to die than those who are otherwise healthy. I wanted to take a closer look at this finding by conducting some risk analyses on the data I have available to me currently. I looked at three different time frames: from March 2012 (when MERS was first documented) to present; before 3/20/2014 (the onset of the current outbreak in the Middle East); and after 3/20/2014. This is what I found:
RR_alltimeOverall, cases with comorbidities are +80% (p = .0001) more likely to die than those who are otherwise healthy.
RR_preoutbreakPrior to the current outbreak, cases with comorbidities were +70% (p = .0016) more likely to die than otherwise healthy cases – about the same as what we saw above…

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The Rescue

Poetry for Palestine

 

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Deep… deep inside…

In the land of sorrow… where I reside

Where only pain reigns

Passion becomes resistance

Love grows rebellious

And hope stands tall

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Grief runs deep

Cutting through hills and mountains

In the caves and underground

Far beyond my reach

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It was raining agony… that day

Restless… agitated… weighed down

Haunted by my nightmare

You’re never coming home

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Looking up… into sky

Yelling for help

My soul whispers

Here I am God… exhausted… give me your hand… come to my aid

Here I am God… full of sorrow… and anguish…ease my pain

Here I am God… hurt and tired… help me…hold me… heal me

Here I am God… lonely… be my friend and companion

Here I am God… lost… guide me… show me the way

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And like a dazzling morning at the crack of dawn, dispelling all darkness

Like gentle rain drops drizzling over a parched piece of land

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