Sound Of Sirens

The Dome at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is seen above a field of sastrugi - ridges of snow formed by wind erosion on October 29, 2003. (Bill McAfee/National Science Foundation)

The aurora australis over the Dark Sector at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on June 3, 2008. The Dark Sector is so-named due to the absence of light and radio wave interfence. The bright spot above the ground shield in the foreground is Jupiter. The white streaks of light going up are the Milky Way. (Keith Vanderlinde/National Science Foundation)

After waiting for over two weeks for his mate to return from the sea and relieve him of nest duty, this Adelie penguin’s hunger helps him make the decision to abandon his egg in search of fish and krill in the sea. Photo taken December 12, 2002. Known populations of the Adelie penguin have dropped by 65% over the past 25 years. (Melanie Conner/National Science Foundation)

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Taken from here (where you’ll find the whole series with lots of more stunning pictures!) How small and unimportant we all are. Wow!

‘The elements of nature and the lizards are connected in many different ways, and we are part of nature’s element mix. Thinking we are the center of everything we will be left alone.’

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by Jenifer Galvin - scientist, filmmaker, writer and educator. She uses her background in public health and environmental science to inform her work as a filmmaker.

Jennifer Galvin is a founder of reelblue, LLC (www.reelblue.net) and also a Trustee and Selection Committee Member of the Henry David Thoreau Foundation (www.thoreauscholar.org).

‘The Schumacher College, in partnership with the University of Plymouth, is the first in the world to offer a post-graduate programme in Holistic Science.’

‘Das Schumacher College in Südwest-England ist eine der bekanntesten internationalen Institutionen für ökologische Studien und Nachhaltigkeit, wo namhafte WissenschafterInnen am Kreuzungspunkt zwischen Naturwissenschaften, Politik, Spiritualität und gelebter Nachhaltigkeit ihre Konzepte zur Zukunftsfähigkeit lehren.’

Ich mochte den ersten Eindruck, den ich vom Schumacher College bekam, als wir von Toni Spencer, Researcher und Project Developer des College, empfangen wurden und zusammen aßen. Das Gebäude war kleiner, als ich es mir vorgestellt hatte, die Leute schienen freundlich und offen. Ich sah den Tagesplan, der jeden morgen an eine Tafel geschrieben wird und auf dem unter anderem steht, wer an diesem Tag kocht. An diesem Tag war dafür Satish Kumar zuständig, der Programme Director des College…

Nach dem Abendessen trafen wir uns im Garten mit einigen Studenten zu selbstgemachtem Apple Cider. Die Gruppe des Master Programms für Holistische Wissenschaft ist klein (maximal 13 Teilnehmer) und international. Die Dozentenliste für das Programm ist sehr ausgewählt und inspirierend. Ich kann mir vorstellen, dass dieser Studiengang eine sehr intensive und besondere Erfahrung sein muss.

That was one of the thoughts, that stayed with me after seeing a lecture on the Maya calendar a few days ago.
It’s amazing how the Mayas understood and perceived the development of the universe and themselves, at least from what we - with our mind and culture setup - can grasp of it now.
Ian Xel Lungold has a very peculiar way, it’s fun to watch him. He gives a very structured and comprehensible picture of the whole thing. A lot of interesting thoughts and facts, many things I can relate immediately to, for example to the fact that the mind is just a tool and the role intuition is supposed to play.

It’s a pity that towards the end the guy has to predict what is going to happen within the next years, using the calendar as a tool for prophecy. This is not necessary and takes away a little bit.
Plus I think that he or ‘we’ are not able to understand the calendar completely anyway, it was embedded in a different culture and consciousness.

It gave me an understanding from a different point of view why I feel about our times and culture as I do.

Worth to check it out: click here