Whitley’s wonderful meditations are now available for reading on our transcriptspage, which can be accessed from the gray “What’s New” box, top left on our homepage. Learn the secret of meditation: Your failure is really your success! His fascinatingcommentaries on The Key can also be read there.
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Twin X-class solar flares erupted from two different enormous sunspots that have appeared on the surface of the sun at the same time. Coronal mass ejections from the X-1 class explosions are expected to reach earth on October 28, possibly causing significant magnetic storms. Auroras are likely to be visible as far south as the northern tier of US states.
Coming at what should be the declining end of the solar maximum, the extremely high level of solar activity presently being observed is unusual, and the presence of two sunspots this large on the solar surface at the same time has rarely, if ever, been recorded before.
The flare in the illustration accompanying this article is large enough to enclose thirty planets the size of the earth in its arch.
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Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, along with Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense, are asking people to sign a petition supporting the bipartisan McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act, which will soon come up for a vote. You can click on the same link to read a summary of the bill, which would cap greenhouse emissions. Over 200,000 people have signed the petition so far, and they hope to reach their goal of 300,000.
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The assistant director of Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion Of Christ” has been hit by lightning twice while shooting the film near Rome, and the actor playing Jesus has been hit once. Neither actor Jim Caviezel nor assistant director Jan Michelini were badly hurt. The film’s producer Steve McEveety says, “I’m about a hundred feet away from them when I glance over and see smoke coming out of Caviezel’s ears.”
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