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Astrobiology makes use of physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, molecular biology, ecology, planetary science, geography, and geology to investigate the possibility of life on other worlds and help recognize biospheres that might be different from the biosphere on Earth. Astrobiology concerns itself with interpretation of existing scientific…[Read more]

I think situation was not difficult to understand, but this is just not very important as a question.

There are some type of outlaw behaviour which I personally can admire, but one shouldn’t be too naive. One must be able to calculate possible outcomes of one’s actions.

By the way some of these ladyboys or shemales are quite gorgeous aren’t…[Read more]

The Bhagavad Gita trial in Russia or the Bhagavad Gita court case in Russia was the trial of the Russian edition of Bhagavad Gita As It Is initiated in June 2011 by the state prosecutor’s office in Tomsk, Russia on charges of religious extremism, based on an assessment of the book by scholars of Tomsk State University, which concluded that…[Read more]

The first great experience deserves more detailed description. I was lying in the corridor of a medical center and had horrible head ache and high temperature. Then something happened. I felt myself totally calm and peaceful. It was something unbelievable. All my life I had been anxious about all possible things. And now I felt completely happy…[Read more]

In the course of writing this book I encountered fascinating people, opinions, and intriguing bits of information. The following are typical:
-The country is wracked with fraud and corruption. Connections between the government and ‘oligarchs’ are getting closer all the time. The president won re-election in 1996 with tens of millions of dollars…[Read more]

योगश्चित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः ॥२॥

yogaś-citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ ||2||

When you are in a state of yoga, all misconceptions (vrittis) that can exist in the mutable aspect of human beings (chitta) disappear. ||2||

yogah (योगः, yogaḥ) = (nom. sg. m. from yoga (योग, yoga)) yoga
chitta (चित्त, citta) = (iic.) all that is mutable in human beings;…[Read more]

But my PAO system pales in comparison to the system that Ben Pridmore uses for cards. In the fall of 2002, he quit the job he’d held for six and half years as an assistant accountant at a meat factory in Lincolnshire, spent a week in Vegas counting cards, and then came back to England and spent the next six months watching cartoons, getting…[Read more]

Our approach to the number systems is to start with an axiomatic presentation of the simplest structure, the system of natural numbers, and then, by set-theoretic methods, to construct in succession the integers, rational numbers, and the real numbers. Although this procedure consists of adding the negative integers, then the proper fractions ,…[Read more]

Tesla engaged in reading many works, memorizing complete books, supposedly having a photographic memory. Tesla related in his autobiography that he experienced detailed moments of inspiration. During his early life, Tesla was stricken with illness time and time again. He suffered a peculiar affliction in which blinding flashes of light would…[Read more]

Working memory is a theoretical construct within cognitive psychology as to the structures and processes used for temporarily storing and manipulating information in short-term memory. Many theories exist both as to the theoretical structure of working memory as well as to the role of specific parts of the brain involved in working memory. Most…[Read more]

Hale was a driven individual who worked to found a number of significant astronomical observatories, including Yerkes Observatory, Mount Wilson Observatory, Palomar Observatory, and the Hale Solar Laboratory. At Mount Wilson, he hired and encouraged Harlow Shapley and Edwin Hubble toward some of the most significant discoveries of the time. He was…[Read more]

Pratyahara (Devanâgarî प्रत्याहार) or the ‘withdrawal of the senses’ is the fifth element among the Eight stages of Patanjali’s Ashtanga Yoga, as mentioned in his classical work, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali composed in the 2nd century BCE.
It is a bridge between the bahiranga (external) aspects of yoga namely, yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, and t…[Read more]

On June 4, 2009, David Carradine was found dead in his room at the Swissôtel Nai Lert Park Hotel on Wireless Road, near Sukhumvit Road, in central Bangkok, Thailand. He was in Bangkok to shoot his latest film, Stretch. A police official said Carradine was found hanging by a rope naked in the room’s closet, causing immediate speculation that his…[Read more]

My masters Liao Jan and Liao K’ung once said: ‘When beginning to cultivate (essential) nature and (eternal) life, it is necessary first to develop nature.’ Before sitting in meditation, it is important to put an end to all rising thoughts and to loosen garments and belt to relax the body and avoid interfering with the free circulation of blood.…[Read more]

My masters Liao Jan and Liao K’ung once said: ‘When beginning to cultivate (essential) nature and (eternal) life, it is necessary first to develop nature.’ Before sitting in meditation, it is important to put an end to all rising thoughts and to loosen garments and belt to relax the body and avoid interfering with the free circulation of blood.…[Read more]

My masters Liao Jan and Liao K’ung once said: ‘When beginning to cultivate (essential) nature and (eternal) life, it is necessary first to develop nature.’ Before sitting in meditation, it is important to put an end to all rising thoughts and to loosen garments and belt to relax the body and avoid interfering with the free circulation of blood.…[Read more]

My masters Liao Jan and Liao K’ung once said: ‘When beginning to cultivate (essential) nature and (eternal) life, it is necessary first to develop nature.’ Before sitting in meditation, it is important to put an end to all rising thoughts and to loosen garments and belt to relax the body and avoid interfering with the free circulation of blood.…[Read more]

Is there any hope of this happening to us? Is it likely that there are 4-D beings who, if summoned by the proper sequence of actions, will lift us out of our cramped three dimensions and show us the “the real stuff”? A lot of people used to think so at the time of the Spiritualist movement around 1900. The idea was that spirits were 4-D beings who…[Read more]

The restraint of other mental activities so that everything will appear to be manifestation of bliss and emptiness is the practice of withdrawal, probably so-called because manifestations of bliss and emptiness appear to the sixth consciousness, the mental consciousness, dominating the sense consciousnesses and causing them to withdraw. Through…[Read more]