“We must be ‘oned with bliss’ if we are to be aware of it. That aspect of our being by which we may attain this communion—that ‘marrow of the Soul,’ as Ruysbroeck calls it—usually lies below the threshold of our consciousness; but in certain natures of abnormal richness and vitality, and under certain favorable conditions, it may be liberated by various devices, such as contemplation. Once it has emerged, however, it takes up, to help it in the work, aspects of conscious self. The surface must co-operate with the deeps, and at last merge with those deeps to produce that unification of consciousness upon high levels which alone can put a term to man’s unrest.” ~Evelyn Underhill

Becoming one with “bliss”, or more accurately, one with God, is indeed the way to truly expand consciousness to higher levels. It is also true that when our soul is awakened and our consciousness on that level starts to grow, the surface level of consciousness, or ego, is generally unaware of it and may remain so for years. Nonetheless, that spiritual awareness, that Divine Consciousness, may be growing below that surface.

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contributed by Harold Boulette

The eruption of the Bárðarbunga volcano in Iceland, which was happening at the same time as the auroras were filmed. PHOTO: Henry Jun Wah Lee

“An aurora is one of the most wondrous things a person can witness on our great planet. If you happen to live near the North Pole (or the South Pole, in the case of the aurora australis) during the cold winter months, then you’re pretty much guaranteed a front row seat to this atmospheric spectacle.

“Because the intensity of an aurora depends on the amount of solar radiation hitting the atmosphere, catching one of these events during a massive solar flare can be an experience of a lifetime. Just ask photographer Henry Jun Wah Lee, who created this video, which displays the awe-inspiring auroral effects of a monster solar flare that hit the Earth this past March. The flare erupted as a result of the sun’s solar maximum, which is the peak of solar activity in the sun’s 11-year cycle. Because of the flare’s strength, the aurora was viewable in regions that virtually never see the northern lights.

“‘I was fortunate enough to be at the right place at the right time when the solar storm of the decade hit Earth,’ Jun Wah Lee writes of his time shooting his Apotheosis video in Iceland. ‘The sky was covered with auroras so strong, they were visible at dusk. This continued all night until dawn. In the film, you will see rare red, yellow, white, blue and violet purple auroras.’

Read the full article and watch the 5-minute video online at mnn.com.

link submitted by Frieda Nelson

PHOTO: thunderbolts.info

The electric universe concept is not widely known but it has found its way into the Community Communique now and then as a result of Community members finding some of its principles of interest — whether electricity or plasma or mythology. (Not to mention that the producer of many of the films published by the Thunderbolts organization on facets of the electric universe concept is a longtime member of our Community: Gerald Simonson.)

The electric universe concept is still controversial as an alternative to the principles of conventional physics and astrophysics. And its own principles and perspective on the cosmos are generally not found all together in a single synopsis. The article linked to below, “The Electric Universe” by Wal Thornhill, provides this synopsis.

I suggest you read it — especially if you are scientifically trained yourself — and start a conversation in our comments to this posting.

Here is how it opens:

“The Electric Universe”
By Wal Thornhill

“We live in an electric world. Our cities are visible from space at night, blazing with electric lights. The electricity courses invisibly in the darkness over great distances along thin power lines. We find electricity indispensable. Nature does the same since all matter is electrical. Yet astronomy is stuck in the gas-light era, unable to see that stars are simply electric lights strung along invisible cosmic power lines that are detectable by their magnetic fields and radio noise.

“It is now a century since the Norwegian genius Kristian Birkeland proved that the phenomenal ‘northern lights’ or aurora borealis is an earthly connection with the electrical Sun. Later, Hannes Alfvén the Swedish Nobel Prize winning physicist, with a background in electrical engineering and experience of the northern lights, drew the solar circuit. It is no coincidence that Scandinavian scientists led the way in showing that we live in an Electric Universe.

“Why have they been ignored? The answer may be found in the inertia of prior beliefs and the failure of our educational institutions. We humans are better storytellers than scientists. We see the universe through the filter of tales we are told in childhood and our education systems reward those who can best repeat them. Dissent is discouraged so that many of the brightest intellects become bored and drop out. The history of science is sanitized to ignore the great controversies of the past, which were generally ‘won’ by a vote instead of reasoned debate. Today NASA does science by press release and investigative journalism is severely inhibited. And narrow experts who never left school do their glossy media ‘show and tell,’ keeping the public in the dark in this ‘dark age’ of science. It is often said, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.” History shows otherwise that entrenched paradigms resist extraordinary disproof.”

< Read the entire article online at thunderbolts.info. >

This article first appeared in Wake Up World, January 28, 2015.

Link submitted by Robert Petrovich

A Critical Analysis of Chromotherapy and Its Scientific Evolution
by Samina T. Yousuf Azeemi* and S. Mohsin Raza
Copyright © The Author (2005). Published by Oxford University Press.

“. . . Contrary to accepted scientific theory, which assumes that each element is a unit, Ghadiali (1927) concluded that ‘the chemical elements are colour compounds’. His results can be proved by any of the sophisticated equipment of modern science. ‘A specific disease thus constitutes a specific imbalance of colour waves and by implication, chemical imbalance.’ Ghadiali found that by treating the body with a particular color vibration, one could effectively reintroduce the appropriate biochemical elements into the body; he referred to this as color chemistry, certainly a new field of study. His results as published in the first decade of the twentieth century were advocated by Klotsche in Colour Medicine: color medicine not only can heal the diseased frequency of the body but also can introduce actual chemical elements/vibration into the body in a non-toxic form.”

— from A Critical Analysis of Chromotherapy and Its Scientific Evolution

Read the entire article online at:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1297510/

link submitted by Michael McIntyre

Dirk Trauner, Professor of Chemical Biology and Genetics at LMU, has helped develop a method which, in principle, enables all types of neuroreceptors to be controlled by light.
PHOTO: sciencedaily.com, image courtesy of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (LMU)

Light can be used to control biological events with unmatched temporal and spatial precision.

Dirk Trauner, Professor of Chemical Biology and Genetics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (LMU), has helped develop a method which, in principle, enables all types of neuroreceptors to be controlled by light:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140226132836.htm

This second link is a publication by Trauner, et al. and is more scientific and reliable:
“A Roadmap to Success in Photopharmacology”:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26103428

links and comments submitted by Michael McIntyre

This artist’s impression shows the surroundings of a supermassive black hole, typical of that found at the heart of many galaxies. The black hole itself is surrounded by a brilliant accretion disc of very hot, infalling material and, further out, a dusty torus. There are also often high-speed jets of material ejected at the black hole’s poles that can extend huge distances into space. Observations with ALMA have detected a very strong magnetic field close to the black hole at the base of the jets and this is probably involved in jet production and collimation. PHOTO: European Southern Observatory

Astronomers have revealed an extremely powerful magnetic field, beyond anything previously detected in the core of a galaxy, very close to the event horizon of a supermassive black hole.

This new observation helps astronomers to understand the structure and formation of these massive inhabitants of the centers of galaxies, and the twin high-speed jets of plasma they frequently eject from their poles. The results appear in the 17 April 2015 issue of the journal Science.

< Read the entire article posted online April 16, 2015 at sciencedaily.com. >

link submitted by Frieda Nelson

NASA’s EUNIS sounding rocket examined light from the sun in the area shown by the white line (imposed over an image of the sun from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory) then separated the light into various wavelengths (as shown in the lined images – spectra – on the right and left) to identify the temperature of material observed on the sun. The spectra provided evidence to explain why the sun’s atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface.
PHOTO: NASA

“The sun’s surface is blisteringly hot at 10,340 degrees Fahrenheit — but its atmosphere is another 300 times hotter. This has led to an enduring mystery for those who study the sun: What heats the atmosphere to such extreme temperatures? Normally when you move away from a hot source the environment gets cooler, but some mechanism is clearly at work in the solar atmosphere, the corona, to bring the temperatures up so high.”

< Read the entire article online posted by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center at sciencedaily.com. >

link submitted by Frieda Nelson

PHOTO: lifeadvancer.com

Those that have attempted to convince the world that the Sun, the Earth’s primary source of energy and life causes cancer, have done so with malicious intent to deceive the masses into retreating from the one thing that can prevent disease. — Dave Mihalovic, Naturopathic Doctor and writer.

“Truth is, we’ve been systematically lied to about the sun and skin cancer for years. This video presentation explains fully. How many know that there is no definitive proof that the sun alone causes skin cancer?”

< Read the whole article posted by Paul Fassa on August 14, 2014 at lifeadvancer.com. >

link submitted by Paul Schmittendorf

Earth’s Moon, as imaged by the Galileo mission. photo: NASA/JPL/USGS

“New research indicates that ultraviolet photons emitted by the sun likely cause water molecules on the lunar surface to either quickly desorb or break apart. The fragments of water may remain on the lunar surface, but the presence of useful amounts of water on the sunward side is not likely.”

< Read the entire article posted June 17, 2014 by the Georgia Institute of Technology at sciencedaily.com. >

links submitted by Frieda Nelson

Nebulosa NGC1333, one of the stellar formation regions where formamide has been detected. PHOTO: NASA

One of science’s greatest challenges is learning about the origin of life and its precursor molecules.

Complex organic molecules such as formamide, from which sugars, amino acids and even nucleic acids essential for life can be made, have been found to appear in the regions where stars similar to our Sun are born.

< Read the entire article posted online April 16, 2015 at sciencedaily.com. >

link submitted by Frieda Nelson