Surfing the Tao

If you spend time investigating any of the strange and even disturbing elements of our present global reality, it’s easy to become disheartened or even anxious or desperate.  It’s not uncommon to feel this way and if you have, you’re not alone.  I spend a lot of time sifting through quite a bit of difficult [...]

From The Plan to Disappear Canada by Murray Dobbin, “If the machinations going on in this country regarding so-called “deep integration” were instead a communist conspiracy to take over the country (you will, of course, have to try hard to imagine this) the news media would be blaring the story.
Pundits would pontificate, editorialists would [...]

National Study on the Internet: Passing on a request from a researcher at Stony Brook University in New York, who is doing a study about how people process information they encounter on the Internet. It takes about 10 minutes to complete the survey, and you can choose to enter a raffle for a [...]

A few days ago the area surrounding our volcano here on the Big Island, Kilauea, experienced a sudden and unusual flurry of small earthquakes. Yesterday our local newspaper, West Hawaii Today, reported on the front page that the lava had actually stopped flowing out of the Pu’u O’o vent. This is noteworthy because [...]

Antarctica is truly the last frontier. Its distance and inaccessibility easily lend itself to speculation and rumor. Beginning with enigmatic ancient maps, which some believe show the southern continent as it looks without ice and snow, its existence has remained shrouded in mystery as well as ice. Many theorize Atlantis is to [...]

[Inspired by Aura at Encounters with the Unexplained]
Hawaii is a gorgeous place to live, most would agree. The weather is unbeatable, the people are full of aloha and the beach is always close by. I suppose some might say it has its downsides too – things tend to be more expensive, and it [...]

Wordpress users may know what I’m talking about when I say it’s always thrilling to find a great plugin. Here’s to Sean over at Geek with Laptop for making my Archives dream come true.

It turns out that the father-in-law of the man infected with a treatment-resistant strain of TB who got on an airplane [...]

“Striving to increase awareness of our spiritual natures as well as the news, technologies and agendas which influence them.”
Well it’s obvious there is quite enough material to keep us busy on the “news, technologies and agendas” part of that mission statement. It’s the “increasing awareness of our spiritual natures” part that can be challenging, [...]