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When Nature Goes Awry, Part Two -
Joel Hendon (18,567)     
Joel Hendon   
In our part one of this subject, we dealt with the phenomena of conjoined, or "Siamese" twins. But our article, today has a similar but even somewhat more drastic departures from the norm in developing fetuses. There are certain genetic errors which cause weird things in some babies. It seems... ( added 247 days 20 hours ago.) |
When Nature Goes Awry: Part One -
Joel Hendon (18,567)
Joel Hendon
The natural laws of physics are such that should produce consistent results and will, until something causes a breach of the rules. It is most astounding and even shocking sometimes to see what can result when a small shift in any given process occurs. Part one of this series deals with... ( added 325 days 23 hours ago.) |
American Indians and Plants in the Great Basin of North America: An Ancient Relationship -
Peter Jones (160)  
Peter Jones
American Indians and their ancestors have been living and subsisting on the natural plants of the Great Basin for thousands of years. Over time, as American Indians seasonally harvested the natural floral resources, and the resources accordingly responded to this process, a symbiotic relationship... ( added 2 years 100 days ago.) |
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Deceptive Distinctions and Dissonance: On Connotations of the Term Indigenous -
Hasan Shafie (16)   
Hasan Shafie
This paper is my personal reflection on the processes by which we are giving form and meaning to the word ‘ indigenous’ or adibashi , and set it in motion to work. The Bangla term upajati (tribal) has recently been replaced by another term adibashi (indigenous) and gained wide acceptance in the... ( added 2 years 299 days ago.) |
DESECULARIZATION IN BANGLADESH: Deracinating the Fundamentalists Resurgence -
Hasan Shafie (16)
Hasan Shafie
The emergence of radical fundamentalism as a major social movement, across a wide spectrum of countries including Bangladesh, is a great surprise to both theologians and to social scientists. The eminent sociologist of religion Peter Berger observes that the ‘world today, with some exceptions …... ( added 2 years 299 days ago.) |
The Stunning Civil Rights Parallels Between American Slavery and Abortion -
 - Robin Calamaio (161) 
Robin Calamaio
The war to recognize the civil rights of the preborn human is already in progress. This will prove to be the great civil rights issue of the 21st century, and the preborn will win on civil rights grounds. The abolition of American slavery has laid much of the groundwork. Here are three parallels.... ( added 252 days 1 hour ago.) |
When So Much Changes We Cannot Stay the Same -
Michael Gaffley (62) 
Michael Gaffley
People of color are often ridiculed because they have to make excuses. I agree that some of the excuses are lame to say the least. However, they can play the race card, the health card, the poverty card, or the overcrowding card. The fact is that some of the excuses are legitimate. Excuses like... ( added 292 days 5 hours ago.) |
How To Fall In Love With a Thai Bar Girl -
Marc Holt (829) 
So you have come to Thailand, visited a bunch of bars, and found the girl of your dreams in one of them. She bangs like a dunny (dunny -- Australian slang for 'toilet') door in a hurricane, does everything you ever wished a girl would do for you, and you are "in love". Good for you. Now let's... ( added 3 years 135 days ago.) |
Who Was the Mysterious Queen Nefertiti? -
Rob Mabry (928)
In 1924, a bust of a beautiful woman was put on display at the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. The bust depicts a woman with a long, slender neck and possessed of great beauty. In fact her name, Nefertiti, means the beautiful one has come. Despite her vast beauty and the rise of her legend in modern... ( added 129 days ago.) |
How Great Is Man??? -
- revruc1 (276) 
revruc1
How often have we valued ourselves no more than a "Microscopic Dust mite," in the presence of an "Omnipotent" God, as God is? Could we be so microscopic that we are living at the end of a "Prickle Tip (Needle Point)?" Surely we can say, that we are not so important. We may be able to say, we are... ( added 189 days 1 hour ago.) |
Splitting of Time - 7 Intercalary Months -
- Clark Nelson (269)
Seven extra lunar months were the chosen standard practice that matched with the seven-day week. Middle Eastern calendars likely intercalated 7-months as 209-days of l/s separation time. The 360-day length of year was common in very early prehistory. Extending the single l/s calendar year to the... ( added 1 year 16 days ago.) |
Interview with Shipibo Shaman Enrique Lopez - Part 1 -
- Howard G Charing (279) 
Howard G Charing
An interview with Shipibo Shaman Enrique Lopez. Interviewed at Mishana November 2007, by Peter Cloudsley and Howard G Charing. I was born in a Shipibo community called Roaboya which is on the River Ucayali about 10 hours downstream from Pucallpa. Roaboya means the place where the Koto monkey... ( added 1 year 334 days ago.) |
Preparation for the Ayahuasca Experience -
- Howard G Charing (279)
Howard G Charing
General Information about Ayahuasca After being virtually ignored by Western civilization for centuries, there has been a huge surge of interest in Ayahuasca recently. There is a growing belief that it is a kind of ‘medicine for our times’, giving hope to people with ‘incurable’ diseases like... ( added 2 years 155 days ago.) |
Communion With The Infinite - The Visual Music of the Shipibo tribe of the Amazon -
- Howard G Charing (279)
Howard G Charing
The Magical Art of the Shipibo People of the Upper Amazon Underlying the intricate geometric patterns of great complexity displayed in the art of the Shipibo people is a concept of an all pervading magical reality which can challenge the Western linguistic heritage and rational mind. These... ( added 2 years 181 days ago.) |
Mermaid Mythology - Origins -
Vincent Carlucci (105)
I think that people who are unfamiliar with mermaid stories will be
surprised by them. Most probably think that the mermaid is a passive,
vulnerable creature like the mermaid in the movie "Splash". Nothing
could be further from the truth. These are powerful beings with... ( added 3 years 7 days ago.) |
Male / Female Domination and Cultures -
riz (99)
There is much need in any society or culture to maintain balance among all people of its nation. Societies with unbalanced male and female domination system experience difficulties and complications. Different nations have different cultural systems all over the world regarding male and... ( added 3 years 279 days ago.) |
La Mesa Norteña, San Pedro Cactus and the Spiritual Tradition of northern Peru - Part 2 -
Howard G Charing (279)
Howard G Charing
PART 2 Shamans from different cultures and traditions have been using psychoactive plants since the dawn of human emergence. These plants have been used traditionally for guidance, divination, healing, maintaining a balance with the spirit or consciousness of the living world. Howard G. Charing... ( added 1 year 346 days ago.) |
Shipibo Ayahuasca Shaman Leoncio Garcia Interviewed. -
- Howard G Charing (279)
Howard G Charing
We interviewed Shipibo maestro Leoncio Garcia, a man in his mid seventies but with the appearance of a man twenty years younger. Again a testimonial to the youth giving qualities of Ayahuasca and the plant medicines of the Amazon Rainforest. Interviewed at Mishana Private Retreat Centre, Amazon... ( added 2 years 151 days ago.) |
African Bags in Legend and Mythology -
Henrietta Timmons (4,163)
Bags have a rich history in Africian myth and legend, ranging from proverbs ("What is left in the bag is superior to what has been taken away" - Mossi proverb) to stories of heroism and triumph over adversity.
Cunning heros have used bags, hidden in their clothing, to complete impossible tasks... ( added 3 years 68 days ago.) |
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