Category Archives: Science

* Karma basics

November 12, 2014Get on your feet, Homelessness, Justice, Poverty, ScienceChronic lateness, Defects of character, Delayed sleep phase syndrome, Jamarion Lawhorn, Karma, Reincarnation, SchizophreniaWilliam Tell

We begin with Galaxian’s comment on “Jeanette:”

Schizophrenia is not a karmic matter. It is an organic disease just as much as cancer is. I don’t see how anything someone did in a previous life, or early in their current life, would bring this horrible thing on them. Anybody can develop this condition at any time, although it usually starts in young adulthood.

I gather we are both familiar with this disease.

It’s a mistake to condemn a person on the basis of his or her lot, and also can be highly misleading to say she or he “deserves” it.

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* Disgusting smells provoke conservatism

November 10, 2014Clippings, Homelessness, OUR BEST POSTS, ScienceAffordable housing, Conservativism, Dual diagnosis, Race, self-esteem, Upward mobility, Wealth creation, White privilegeWilliam Tell

Bookmarks:
Disgusting smells provoke conservatism • Race and upward mobility • Affordable housing issues in Baltimore

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* Reducing our carbon footprint – by design

November 1, 2014OUR BEST POSTS, ScienceAir conditioning, Architecture, CO2 emissions, Global warming, Green roofs, Greenhouse gases, HVAC, Public schools, Schools, The Homeless BloggerWilliam Tell

I don’t hold with those who want to blame global warming wholly on American industry and American cars. The slashing-burning of hundreds of square miles of Amazon rain forest each day, and the air pollution in Mexico City and Beijing, show the need for a global response.

There are two principal ways human beings can reduce greenhouse gases: (1) covering more land with green plants that will consume carbon dioxide from the air; and (2) reducing our carbon dioxide emissions.

Some simple considerations of architecture address both concerns.

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* Noise

October 29, 2014Get on your feet, Science, SqualorChaos, Harmony, Noise, Peacemaking, Silence, The Homeless Blogger, TohuWilliam Tell

Noise, in general, is chaotic or random sound.

Danny personifies noise.

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* Coming abstractions

October 25, 2014ScienceAmbrose Worrall, Centeredness, Emmet Fox, Happiness, Karma, Presence, Take things in stride, The Homeless BloggerWilliam Tell

On Friday, July 25, I emerged from my devotional time exceptionally centered, and I stayed that way for hours. Nothing like this has happened to me before. It raised a number of new questions and resurrected many old ones.

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* Rainbows

August 27, 2014Bible, OUR BEST POSTS, Science, The Way of PeaceWilliam Tell

(Originally published 2013-07-04 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reblogged 2019-10-02.)

Baltimore is more likely than other places, to have weather when you can see rainbows. We are coming now into a period when this is especially so. We will probably have another such time again in September.

The key to seeing rainbows is, three things have to happen at the same time:
(1) The sun is shining
(2) while it rains, and
(3) there is blue sky somewhere.
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* “Francis” and the phonograph

August 2, 2014Get on your feet, Motivations, OUR BEST POSTS, ScienceAndreas Osiander, Copernicus, Emotional intelligence, EQ, ReincarnationWilliam Tell

Today is my youngest brother’s 65th birthday, and a good occasion for me to pay tribute to him as an inspiration and role model.

He’s six years my senior. We have two other brothers, one 7½ and one 9 years my senior.

Let’s see if I can compose this before my Net access runs out for today, 45 minutes from now.

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x Prayer primer

July 26, 2014Bible, OUR BEST POSTS, Science1 Corinthians 12, Auras, Fluorescence, Jesus, Matthew 5:14-16, Prayer, Prophecy, Spiritual healing, Talent, WisdomWilliam Tell

All my life, I’ve been fascinated with things that glow in the dark. Where does the light come from? This is now fundamental to my understanding of prayer, and of my vocation.

The picture shows what I take for the latest advance in the world of fluorescent materials. Here are germanium nanoparticles in a colorless colloidal (gelatinous) suspension, being irradiated by ultraviolet light. By virtue merely of where they are and what they are, the invisible light that shines on these particles is changed into visible light.

The nanoparticles catalyze that process: they do no work of their own, expend no energies of their own, and take no active part in the process; but it won’t occur without them.
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* Un[b]locking the spirit

July 12, 2014Bible, Science, The Way of PeaceAuras, Chakras, Edgar Cayce, Jesus, Mark 5:30, Mark 9:2-3, Meditation, Prayer, Serotonin, Silence, The TransfigurationWilliam Tell

Pray for yourself first.

When you pray for someone, you become a channel through which the Holy Spirit (or “Life Force”) flows to address that person’s needs. (See Mark 5:30.) You may or may not perceive this flow as it happens.

The Spirit must first address any deficiencies in the channel itself, before it can optimally address the other person. In particular, the Spirit must address any emotional imbalances that may exist in the person who intends to pray. Without this adjustment, at best the Spirit’s flow will be constricted; at worst, the channel may project his or her own needs (e.g. anxieties, aches and pains) onto the patient.
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* The wandering will

May 31, 2014Get on your feet, OUR BEST POSTS, Poverty, Science, The Way of PeaceAltruism, Cosmology, Darkness and light, Empathy, Evangelism, Free will, Jesus, Karma, Paul BloomWilliam Tell

A vector in a three-dimensional space.

I envision the emotional or spiritual world as a ten-dimensional space, in which a vector (arrow) beginning at the origin (the center of the space) depicts a person’s emotional state at any point in time. The vector’s length indicates the intensity of one’s emotions at a given moment, while its direction indicates what kinds of feelings those are — equal parts joy and sadness, for example, or some anger and much love.

These are the energies one is emanating at that moment, the kinds of light or darkness one creates.
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