Insight (Page 77)

Our government spied on the Soviet Union for decades, but now that the cold war is over, theyre aiming their sights on us.

The April 2001 issue of Popular Mechanics reveals that two powerful intelligence gathering tools the U.S. created to eavesdrop on the Soviets are now being used to monitor Americans. One system, known as Echelon, intercepts and analyzes our phone calls, faxes and e-mail, looking for key words.

The other system, Tempest, can secretly read the displays on personal computers, cash registers and automatic teller machines. Whitley Strieber was personally warned by a government agent 15 years ago that the data on his computer was being read in this way.
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A national culture of violence and large schools that breed alienation are behind the U.S. school shootings, according to Jerome Freiberg of the University of Houston. They happen most often at large rural or suburban schools, “where people would never believe it would happen.” He spoke at an international conference on school violence held in Paris on Tuesday.

According to Freiberg, the average child has witnessed 8,000 murders, through television, video games and the internet, by the time he finishes elementary school.
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Taken together, two recent scientific studies offer powerful evidence that the soul persists after death, and that souls can be communicated with.

The first of these studies was conducted by Dr. Peter Fenwick, a consultant neuropsychiatrist at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and Dr. Sam Parma, a clinical research fellow at Southampton Hospital. The study has been published as “A qualitative and quantitative study of the incidence, features and aetiology of near death experiences in cardiac arrest survivors” in the peer-reviewed medical journal Resuscitation 48 (2) (2001) pp. 149 – 156.
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SACREDNESS & SUSTAINABILITY: A REFLECTION ON THE 2000 CENTURY HRH The Prince of Wales BBC Reith Lectures, May 2000

In this extraordinary lecture, Prince Charles makes a stirring argument that we must re-introduce the sacred into our society if we are to survive.

He gave this talk at the conclusion of the annual Reith Lecture series.

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Sustainable development is a matter of enlightened self- interest. Self-interest is a powerful motivating force for all of us, and if we can somehow convince ourselves that sustainable development is in all our interests then we will have taken a valuable first step toward achieving it.
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