Miscellaneous
And now in other news...
Dissatisfaction with ever-bigger media companies stimulates growth of alternative news sources. Marco Visscher | November 2003 issue Earlier this year, an American Senate committee asked media tycoon Rupert Murdoch to justify the fact that each week his radio stations dedicate over 300 hours to Read More...
Sex and the single duck
A distressing story of abduction, racial prejudice and murder -- all in the name of protecting biodiversity. David Cox | November 2003 issue New Labour’s ever-growing army of critics have yet to accuse it of genocide. They should. The United Kingdom’s caring government proposes to exterminate Read More...
Stop the race to the bottom
How can you be too expensive when you make less than $1.50 an hour?Anita Roddick | November 2003 issue Selina lives and works in the port city of Chittagong in Bangladesh. She works a 13 to 14 hour daily shift. During the busy season, she works a gruelling nineteen-and-a-half hour shift every Read More...
Do the test
The following experimental exercises will help you to test your own personal relationship with the field of endless possibilities. Do not be surprised if the results are not what you expected. But you will find that your results will improve with practice. The whole idea is to practice and to Read More...
Quantum leap into adulthood
Physicist and philosopher Danah Zohar predicts that insight into the Zero Point Field could lead to a quantum leap in consciousness. | November 2003 issue In her book ‘The Quantum Society’, the American physicist and philosopher Danah Zohar concludes that the problems facing our society are in Read More...
The field of meditation
When 1% of a city's population engages in meditation the results can be surprising.Tijn Touber | November 2003 issue More than 40 studies over a period of 20 years (at 160 universities and private institutions in 27 countries) have shown that transcendental meditation (TM) not only have a positive Read More...
The healing field
Living organisms constantly interact with the collective blueprint of their species' health.Tijn Touber | November 2003 issue The German doctor Frits-Albert Popp was the first to build an instrument capable of measuring photons (light carriers) and could even count them one at a time. He believes Read More...
The secrets of pigeons
Rupert Sheldrake looks for answers to the inexplicable behaviours of animals -- including humans.Tijn Touber | November 2003 issue How to pigeons always manage to fly straight home, no matter where they are dropped? How do they find their way back even if they’ve been sedated and taken hundreds Read More...
Water loves Mozart
Japan's Masaru Emoto demonstrates that sounds, words and even thoughts appear to have an effect on water.Tijn Touber | November 2003 issue Water has a memory and is influenced by its environment, contends Japan’s Masaru Emoto in his book ‘The Message From Water’. In the book he describes Read More...
Child seeks parents
Attention is the best antidote for materialism. Lisette Thooft| November 2003 issue Once when my son John was around 13, he was sitting in the living room watching television. It was a daily soap opera that he ab-so-lute-ly had to see so he could join in with peer group discussions. Another stupid Read More...