A lot of people have asked me how I’m doing, since I had a brain hemorrhage on October 16 and almost died. I’ve felt the wind of mortality blow past me, and once that happens, you’re never quite the same again, because you know that death really will come for you one day. I often think of the lines in the Emily Dickinson poem: “Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.”
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Some of our ancestors, who lived in Indonesia as recently as18,000 years ago, had tiny brains that were only about athird the size of modern human brains, yet they were capableof advanced thinking equal to our own. Scientists arecalling them “hobbits,” after the little people in the popular films andbooks.
The journal Science reports that the tiny people who oncelived on the island of Flores in Indonesia were a uniquespecies. They were the only ones to inhabit the island for100,000 years, before they became extinct?possibly due to avolcanic eruption that occurred around 12,000 years ago andcould have shot enough ash into the atmosphere to preventthe sun from reaching their crops. They could also have beenwiped out by the arrival of modern humans.
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There are enough supervolcanoes on Earth to wipe out much ofthe planet and they may “wake up” much sooner than wethought. Supervolcanoes explode with a force that isthousands of times that of a normal volcanic eruption.Earthquake experts once thought it would take hundreds ofthousands of years for the reservoirs of molton rock (calledmagma) lying beneath a supervolcano to build up enoughpressure to cause an eruption, but a new study shows thatthe time between eruptions can actually be only tens ofthousands of years, meaning many of them are long overdue.
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In her latest diary, Anne Strieber writes about what it’slike to come back from death and how it feels to heal. Shealso has an interesting revelation about her recent neardeath experience with her cat. To read her new diaryentry, click here. Toread her diary entry about her NDE with her Siamese cat Coe, go to “The Love That Led Me Home.”
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