Bernard Foing at Astrobiology Magazine has written an in-depth essay contemplating what Earth would be like without the moon. (more)

Who are the seven nations now considering abandoning the US dollar, and what might the consequences be? Some say the end of US hegemony. (more)

Dick Cheney has always believed that the President should have unchecked power. It appears he may have gotten his wish. (more)

According to a wide range of reports, several nuclear bombs were "lost" for 36 hours after taking off August 29, 2007 on a "cross-country journey" across the U.S.
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Private mercenary armies, luxury megabases, and exotic weaponry. A glimpse into the Iraq of the future. (more)

Sleep deprivation wreaks havoc on your emotional health and may be linked to depression and anxiety, according to a new study. (more)

For anti-cult crusaders and deprogrammers obsessed with "brainwashing," the Source Family could hardly present a more perfect case study. Here, amidst the wild freedom of early 70s California, was a deeply devoted group of young people, living communally, whose eccentric sexual, spiritual, and financial relationships were commanded by ex-Marine Jim Baker – an enormously charismatic patriarchal figure who presented himself to his flock as both Father and God. (more)

I was Rolfed after having spent nearly a decade in a blur of body pain. I expected temporary relief of my symptoms from the depth of the work, and instead found a permanent shift in my life experience. (more)

Scott Thill's two-part series on the pending collapse of the US economy goes right to the core of the crisis. (more)

[Gender Evolution] • How I moved from "gender-confused" to "gender-playful," and how a strictly binary language of gender can distort more than it clarifies. Share your own experiences with subverting gender in the comments. (more)

Admcadiam's first Conscious Living game, Paradice, combines art, ecological consciousness, and meditation into a board game. (more)

On October 5th, psychiatrist and consciousness researcher Stanislav Grof, M.D., was honored as this year's Vision 97 Award recipient during a ceremony in Prague. "It seems to be my destiny – or karma, if you wish – to be involved in research of areas that are subjects of great controversy in science and society." (more)

Hubble's Ultra Deep Field takes us 47,000 light years away from Earth. [Video] (more)

The National Research Council has just outlined five essential goals for the future of NASA. (more)

By applying Einstein's theories of space-time, astronomers are digging up new ways to measure neutron stars. (more)

If you could make love, have sweaty sublime sex, get down and dirty with any past spiritual teacher, deity, angel, god or goddess in the entire universe, who would it be and why? (more)

Germany gives harsh warning against ELFs.
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For those just emerging into the first, delicate stages of sexual exploration and maturation, there are few or zero resources readily available for quality teachings, healing, and rites of passage. I marvel that the young man found me. I'm certainly not in the yellow pages. (more)

The Positive Soundscapes Project explores relationships between people and their complex sonic environments. (more)

Dove's viral marketing short film "Evolution" exposes the artificiality of beauty ideals [Video]. (more)

A recent scientific study reminds us to laugh and play for a better tomorrow. (more)

An incredible synchronicity washes up onto the banks of lake Michigan. (more)

You need not be a Freemason to bring the wisdom of alchemy into your home. Experience the power of transformation by practicing the near-lost art of fermentation. By fermenting our own foods we physically engage with the transformative powers of nature, watch the processes as they happen, and then ingest them, making them part of ourselves. Today a new fermentation movement is... fermenting. [Note: This article includes a recipe for Daikon radish pickles.] (more)

One of the great Amazonian curanderos, Norma Panduro Navarro, has passed on. [Updated]
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In this interview Harvard scientist Lene Hau tells how she first slowed down and eventually stopped light. (more)

New research suggests that nerve transmitters may use sound, not electricity, to send information throughout the body. (more)