A massive sunspot may be set to erupt, unleashing the most intense form of solar flares that may last for days.

Sunspot AR3089, which is facing Earth, has now acquired a delta-class magnetic field, indicating that it has accumulated enough energy to produce X-class solar flares.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the sunspot has a 5% chance of producing an X-class outburst. If that happens, the flare might cause a severe geomagnetic storm in the Earth’s atmosphere, causing damage to infrastructure and electromagnetic communication systems.

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“Sweetly, it is true, the illuminated mystic may live; but not, as some think, placidly. Enlightenment is a symptom of growth; and growth is a living process, which knows no rest. The spirit, indeed, is invaded by a heavenly peace; but it is the peace, not of idleness, but of ordered activity. ‘A rest most busy,’ in Hilton’s words: a progressive appropriation of the Divine. The urgent push of an indwelling spirit, aspiring to its home in the heart of Reality, is felt more and more, as the invasion of the normal consciousness by the transcendental personality—the growth of the New Person—proceeds towards its term.

“Therefore, the great seekers for reality are not as a rule long delayed by the exalted joy of illumination. Intensely aware now of the Absolute Whom they adore, they are aware too that though known He is unachieved. Even while they enjoy the rapture of the Divine Presence—of life in a divine, ideal world—something, they feel makes default. Sol voglio Te, O dolce Amore. Hence for them that which they now enjoy, and which passes the understanding of other men, is not a static condition; often it coexists with the travail of the heart that Tauler has called ‘stormy love.’ The greater the mystic, the sooner they realize that the Heavenly Manna which has been administered to them, is not yet that with which the Angels are fully fed. Nothing less will do.” ~Evelyn Underhill

Enlightenment Requires Constant Growth

Spiritual Awakening and Enlightenment is not an instant affair. It takes time to achieve some level of consciousness that could be truly considered enlightenment. Yet even then, the job is not done. Nothing will suffice for the awakened Soul except complete unity with God and the All. That takes continuous effort to grow.

Heavenly Peace

As Ms. Underhill notes, the Heavenly peace achieved by the mystic or spiritual adept is not a peace of idleness but continuous activity. The mountain climber is happy upon reaching the top of the mountain, but next week will climb another, probably higher, or otherwise more difficult. To achieve real Spiritual Enlightenment, we must be like that mountain climber. We may be happy with what we have achieved, but we want to continue the process until we reach the ultimate: union with God.

Intensely Aware of the Absolute

Those who are truly awakened spiritually are intensely aware of the absolute. They don’t theorize about what it is. They don’t accept what is written in books as the final word on God, no matter how holy the book is. They know through a direct connection with the absolute, and therefore this awareness is Knowledge, not simply theory or belief.

Sol voglio Te, O dolce Amore

I cannot find a complete translation for this Latin phrase, but the latter half means “O sweet love”. So what Underhill is saying here, is that when one becomes in full contact with the All, with God, they feel an intense Love for God and an intense love coming from God. Love for all is the most important thing we all must learn. This doesn’t mean we have to accept all the horrors of the material world, as some would have you believe. It means we can love the spirit and soul created by God, while not liking the actions of the body and mind. But as Ms. Underhill reminds us, the spirit and soul are active also. We must engage in spiritual development techniques regularly, preferably, daily. We must act on the spiritual level to fix our fallen world, and that means loving it. O dolce amore.

ITER’s fusion energy experiments will take place inside the vacuum vessel of a donut-shaped machine called a tokamak.

The world has been trying to master this limitless clean energy source since the 1930s. We’re now closer than ever.

Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France — From a small hill in the southern French region of Provence, you can see two suns. One has been blazing for four-and-a-half billion years and is setting. The other is being built by thousands of human minds and hands, and is — far more slowly — rising. The last of the real sun’s evening rays cast a magical glow over the other — an enormous construction site that could solve the biggest existential crisis in human history.

It is here, in the tiny commune of Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, that 35 countries have come together to try and master nuclear fusion, a process that occurs naturally in the sun — and all stars — but is painfully difficult to replicate on Earth.

Fusion promises a virtually limitless form of energy that, unlike fossil fuels, emits zero greenhouse gases and, unlike the nuclear fission power used today, produces no long-life radioactive waste.

Mastering it could literally save humanity from climate change, a crisis of our own making.

Read the entire article posted May 30, 2022 online at cnn.com.

link submitted by Gene Savoy Jr.

At our third conference, EU2014: All About Evidence, Dwardu Cardona presented a reconstruction of Earth’s cosmic history distilled from the universal mytho-historical record. He describes how the strongest scientific validation comes from space itself, as new instruments display extraordinary electromagnetic detail across the cosmos, confirming that this is indeed an Electric Universe.

Dwardu Edward Cardona (1937–2016) was born, raised, and educated in Malta. In 1959, he emigrated to Canada and soon began to study catastrophism and the Solar System’s cosmic history. Dwardu was the Senior Editor for Kronos, Editor of Aeon, co-founded the Canadian Society for Interdisciplinary Studies, and consultant for the UK-based Chronology and Catastrophism Review.

As an author, Dwardu published well over a hundred articles, notably on the Saturn theory. His legacy lives on through his five esteemed books—God Star (2006), Flare Star (2007), Primordial Star (2009), Metamorphic Star (2011), and his final opus, Newborn Star (2016).

Watch the entire video online at youtube.com. (26:22)

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“As a spirit, you are a part of God or the InfiniteForce or Spirit of Good. As such, you are an ever-growing power that can never lessen, and must always increase. … Every struggle of the mind—be it struggle against pain, struggle against appetite, struggle for more skill in doing in the doing of anything, struggle for advance in any art or calling, struggle and dissatisfaction with your failings and defects—is an actual pushing of the spirit to greater power, and a greater relative completion of yourself,—and with such completion, happiness.

“There is more of you today, and more of every desirable mental quality belonging to you, than ever before. The very dissatisfaction and discontent you may feel concerning your failings is proof of this. If your mind was not as clear as it is, it could not see those failings. Only now, in looking at yourself, you may have swung too far in the opposite direction; and, because your eyes have opened to certain faults, you may think these faults are increasing.

“They are not. The God in yourself—the ever-growing power in yourself—has made you see an incompleteness in your character, yet that incompleteness was never so near a relative completion as now.

“You may have discovered under your house a cavity full of vermin and bad air. You were much worse off before the cavity was found, repulsive as it may be to you; because now that it is found, you will make sure it is cleansed.” ~Prentice Mulford

Part of God

Prentice Mulford was more a teacher of the mind than one of the spirit, yet much of what he says applies to spiritual development as well. His saying that we are part of God is a good example of that. It is not our physical bodies or even our minds that are from God and therefore part of God, it is our spirit. That is why awakening the spirit and soul is so important in spiritual development. One thing that some people forget in reading that however, is that a PART of God is not the same thing as saying we are God. A break pad may be part of a car, but without the thousands of other parts, it isn’t a car, and would never claim that it is as such a claim is egotism at its worst.

Ever Growing Power

Here, I must disagree with Mulford. While in our youth, we are constantly learning and therefore growing mentally, as we age, we can lose much of that. It is why doctors and therapists today recommend the elderly do things like working word puzzles or trying to solve riddles. Such activities slow, or even stop, the deterioration of our mental faculties.

Second, on the spiritual side of it, most are not growing at all. The vast majority have spirits that remain in a dormant state as they have made no effort to awaken them, or have only used ineffective methods to awaken them. And even those who have been in spiritual development for years can backslide, or be completely turned away from the spiritual by the Forces of darkness. It is why we must always be vigilant once we start on the path of spiritual growth, and why being part of a spiritual community is so helpful. In a community, we can help each other, and protect each other, from the manipulations of the dark ones.

Disatisfaction and Discontent

It is true that dissatisfaction and discontent with where you currently are, mentally or spiritually, is actually a sign of growth, of learning. The person who is never dissatisfied never grows. It is an unfortunate part of human nature that we only make an effort to change when we are not comfortable with where we are. People who never question their own actions, beliefs, and thoughts never grow. Those who don’t accept the need for any kind of spiritual development while living in the physical world never grow spiritually, in this world or the next.

Cavity of Vermin

Mulford is also correct in saying that we are better off knowing and recognizing a cavity of vermin under our house as we can then do something about it. Psychiatrists say that when one recognizes that they have a mental problem, they have made the first step in curing it. The same is true of mental and spiritual development. We are held back by the vermin of false beliefs and practices. To really grow in those areas, we must be able to push aside all preconceived notions, and see what the actual truth is. Of course, when it comes to the spiritual, we must first awaken the spiritual faculties with the Light of the Spiritual Sun.

Compare the sharpess and level of detail captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope (left) and the James Webb Space Telescope (right).

The James Webb Space telescope has the sharpest perspective on otherwise invisible light in the universe.

The highly anticipated first science images by the world’s premier space observatory aren’t expected until this summer. But recent test images captured by the telescope during its final commissioning phase are providing a glimpse of what’s to come.

“These are the sharpest infrared images ever taken by a space telescope,” said Michael McElwain, Webb observatory project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, during a news conference Monday.

Webb will be able to peer inside the atmospheres of exoplanets and observe some of the first galaxies created after the universe began by observing them through infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye. The images were taken after the successful alignment of the telescope’s massive golden mirror segments. The test images show the clear, well-focused images that the observatory’s four instruments are capable of capturing.

Read the entire article posted May 9, 2022 online at cnn.com.

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“When the inward and God-seeing man has attained to his Eternal Image, and in this clearness, through the Son, has entered into the bosom of the Father; then he is enlightened by Divine truth, and he receives anew, every moment, the Eternal Birth, and he goes forth according to the way of the Light, in a Divine contemplation. And here [is where] our highest blessedness consists.

“You should know that the heavenly Father, as a living ground, with all that lives in Him, is actively turned towards His Son, as to His own Eternal Wisdom. That same Wisdom, with all that lives in it, is actively turned back to the Father, that is, towards the very ground from which it came forth. … But where this wonder is understood and tasted without amazement, there the spirit dwells above itself, and is one with the Spirit of God; and tastes and sees without measure, even as God, the riches which are the Spirit itself in the unity of the living ground, where it possesses itself according to the Way of the uncreated essence.” ~John of Ruysbroeck

Man’s Eternal Image

Why would Ruysbroeck say that something happens when “man has attained to his Eternal Image”? He says that because our Eternal Image is our soul, not our physical body. So when the Bible says that we were created in God’s Image, it has two meanings. One is that it is our soul which is in the Image of God, not our body, and two, created in His image is also a way of saying that God creates everything by forming an image of it in His mind. It is the same way we, as God’s children, create. The difference is that when God creates an image of something in His mind, that thing now exists, whereas, when we create, say a statue in our mind, we still have to go throw the process of carving the statue. So when Ruysbroeck writes of one who has “attained his Eternal Image,” he means a person who has awakened their spirit and developed it into a conscious soul.

Divine Truth

One who has fully developed his or her spiritual faculties does know Divine Truth. This is not found by reading any book or listening to any person speak. It comes from oneness with God and oneness with the All. Such people don’t have to guess at what is true and what is false, they know. This is the Knowing that the Gnostics call Gnosis.

Way of Light

Ruysbroeck says that we achieve this Eternal Oneness and Enlightenment by “going forth according to the Way of the Light.” He is correct that this is the way to spiritual awakening, and eventually full enlightenment, but how does one go forth “according to the Way of Light”? Ruysbroeck couldn’t be specific because of restrictions in his time, but today we can say that this Way of Light is to practice Spiritual Sun-gazing with the Spiritual Sun, which requires instruction from a knowledgeable teacher. It also requires one to be fully devoted to God.

Sees Without Measure

Ruysbroeck adds that one who has achieved this level of enlightenment “ tastes and sees without measure, even as God”. This is possible because when we have achieved oneness with God, then naturally we see, hear, and know everything that God does.

The sun becomes two; left looks to the right; the suns come together as two become one.

The sun becomes two; right looks to the left; the suns come together as two become one.

Look to the North; the suns come together.

Look to the South; the suns come together.

Look to the East; the suns come together.

Look to the West; the suns come together.

Back to the Source, the suns come together.

Two become One, as the suns come together.

This poem was contributed by consociate Bruce KLanzelmeyer

The Egyptians may have the most famous mummies, but they’re not the oldest. The Chinchorro people of Chile’s Atacama Desert were the first to mummify their dead – 7,000 years ago.

In Chile’s Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, mummies have been found that pre-date the Egyptians’ by 2,000 years. So while the Egyptians may be the most famous culture to mummify their dead, it turns out they weren’t the first to do so.

“The Chinchorro are the very first people that inhabited the north of Chile and the south of Peru,” said Bernardo Arriaza, a physical anthropologist with the University of Tarapacá. “They are the pioneers of the Atacama Desert.” And, he added, they are also the first known culture in the world to mummify their dead, starting around 5,000 BCE.

Read the entire article online at bbc.com.

link submitted by Gene Savoy Jr.