When we view art, a complex series of activities go on in the brain, which help us to appreciate it. The aesthetic experience integrates sensory and emotional reactions in a manner linked with their personal relevance. BUT viewing art which we’re told is "fake" DOES NOT stimulate the same type of brain reactions.
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Do US Presidents know a lot more about ETs than they’re willing to admit? Retired New Hampshire state representative Henry McElroy Jr., says that former President Dwight D. Eisenhower had 3 meetings with what we call the Visitors at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. He discovered this from seeing a secret briefing document intended for Eisenhower.
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Tantrism is very little understood in the west, or, for that matter, in the east. But what is it, and how does it relate to the evolution of the human heart and the human soul? In this discussion, Peter Levenda tells us about his journey among the Tantric Temples of Java, and explains the relationship between human sexuality and human spirituality in a frank and mature manner that will enable us to start down a path of renewal of our sexuality as the spiritual experience that it was meant to be.
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Our Milky Way galaxy is so big and so old–it contains at least 100 billion planets–so aliens should have visited us by now (Whitley Strieber thinks THEY HAVE!) This is what’s known as the Fermi Paradox.
In Discovery News, Ray Villard talks about science fiction writer Karl Schroeder, who has come upon a solution to the Paradox. He thinks that aliens have "gone green" and generate no waste products that we can detect. They therefore blend into the galaxy. Villard quotes him as saying that, in their case, "artificial and natural systems are indistinguishable." Villard theorizes that maybe only ecologically-balanced civilizations survive in the long run (that means WE won’t last long!)
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