I don't often think about the Atlantis story, but it came to mind recently as a part of a story that I started writing. I needed something like that as a plot device. Well, to make a longish story brief, I didn't find Atlantis, but I am 99% certain that I have figured out where Tartessos is, and one theory is that Atlantis was based on Tartessos. But the location of Tartessos was uncertain until earlier today, when I found it. I was looking for a good Bronze Age, or so, setting for ...
Updated 10-30-2014 at 04:03 PM by PeterL
Contents so far: C. Jung Ram Dass Thich Nhat Hanh da Vinci Rumi Alan Watts [B]C. Jung [/B] “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.” [COLOR="#0000FF"]“The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.” [/COLOR] “The decisive question for ...
Updated 10-31-2014 at 05:27 PM by NikolaiI
It might simply be that most of the magazine articles that are written about evolutionary anthropology are written by journalists who don’t know much about evolutionary Anthropology, but I still find it annoying to read things like this article about genetic evidence of interbreeding between so-called modern humans and Neanderthals around sixty thousand years ago. http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/201...g-habits-video The basic ...
Some quotes of Watts, da Vinci, Jung and Ram Dass, born in England, Republic of Florence, Switzerland, and America, respectively. :) "To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.” ― Alan Wilson Watts "And many make a trade deceiving the foolish multitude, and if no one comes to unmask their deceits, they punish it." ...
Updated 10-27-2014 at 11:50 AM by NikolaiI
New light; Smile to your Sorrow Let me go- let me go to the lake of dreams, where light is shadow and darkness seems to shade delight - The growing flowers In hidden night Reflect the hours In carefree ways. Sing softly, now, then Of glittering days, And peace within. I nothing am - and glad I came - Thy little lamb, She knows thy name. Fate ...