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.

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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.

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Mud buildings are remarkably good at keeping us cool in summer and warm in winter, and withstanding extreme weather. In the search for more sustainable buildings, architects are returning to this overlooked, age-old construction material.

In Yemen’s ancient walled city of Sana’a mud skyscrapers soar high into the sky. The towering structures are built entirely out of rammed earth and decorated with striking geometric patterns. The earthen buildings blend into the nearby ochre-coloured mountains.

Sana’a’s mud architecture is so unique that the city has been recognised as a Unesco World Heritage site.

“As an outstanding example of a homogeneous architectural ensemble reflecting the spatial characteristics of the early years of Islam, the city in its landscape has an extraordinary artistic and pictorial quality,” Unesco writes in its description of Sana’a. “The buildings demonstrate exceptional craftsmanship in the use of local materials and techniques.”

Even though the buildings in Sana’a are thousands of years old, they remain “terribly contemporary”, says Salma Samar Damluji, co-founder of the Daw’an Mud Brick Architecture Foundation in Yemen and author of The Architecture of Yemen and its Reconstruction. The ancient structures are still inhabited today and most remain private residences.

Read the entire article posted July 5, 2022 at bbc.com.

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“All the Christian Kabalists understood well the Eastern root idea: The active Power, the ‘Perpetual motion of the great Breath’ only awakens Cosmos at the dawn of every new period, setting it into motion by means of the two contrary forces, and thus causing it to become objective on the plane of illusion. In other words, that dual motion transfers Cosmos from the Eternal Idea into that of finite Manifestation, or from the Noumenal to the Phenomenal plane. Everything that is, was and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their Ideal form. They existed as Ideas, in the Eternity, and when they pass away, will exist as reflections. Neither the form of Man, nor that of any animal, plant, or stone has ever been created only on this plane of ours. It expanded from the sublimated and supersensual essence into its grossest appearance. Therefore, our human form has existed in the Eternity as astral or ethereal prototypes; according to which models, the Spiritual Beings (or gods) whose duty it was to bring them into objective being and terrestrial life, evolved the protoplasmic forms of the finite Egos from their own essence.” ~H. P. Blavatsky

Perpetual Motion

The only motion that can truly be considered perpetual is the motion that happens on the spiritual level since only the spiritual is eternal. No matter how hard you try to make a physical object have perpetual movement, you can never be totally successful because the object itself will eventually decay or somehow be destroyed. So what Blavatsky is calling the “perpetual motion of the Great Breath” refers to the breath of God, which isn’t breath in the physical sense, but a spiritual kind of breath, namely the constant flow of Divine Light from God that gives life to everything spiritual.

Dawn of a New Period

Blavatsky says, quoting, I think from some ancient source, that this Perpetual breath only awakens the Cosmos at the dawn of a new Period. That is a vague way to put it since a period can be anything from a second to a billion years. Most spiritual writers would say “Ages” rather than “Periods” so people understand that we are dealing with a long period of time. In Cosolargy, we call these Ages “Suns”.

So what Blavatsky is saying is that the spiritual energy from the Breath of God changes the Cosmos at the beginning of each age. The breath of God, or Divine Light, is there always, but how much of it reaches us through the sun varies with each age. We are now fortunate enough to have the promised Sun of Righteousness shining down upon us as we are at the beginning of a new age.

Contrary Forces on the Plane of Illusion

The Plane of Illusion is the physical world where things are never quite what they appear to be. It is the level of duality, and therefore contrary (or opposite) forces such as hot and cold, male and female, light and dark, etc.

Everything Eternally Is

This is true only on a spiritual level. We all know that physical things change, decay, and die or rot away. I don’t know what point Blavatsky is trying to make by saying that everything “eternally is,” but to those who care only about the physical (or the phenomenal as Blavatsky calls it), nothing is eternal. The important thing to understand is that we humans have the unique ability to awaken our spiritual faculties while still living in physical form and uniting the physical, mental, and spiritual Self into one whole. Then, and only then, do we become truly immortal.

Existed as Ideas

It is also true that everything that God created existed first as ideas in God’s thought. Some say that God’s thought is all that really does exist. In any case, it is no different for other beings given the creative ability of God. The Demiurge could not have created the realm of matter without first forming the ideas mentally. Likewise, humans don’t create without first forming ideas in the mind. Most of us understand that, but what we don’t realize is that we create far more of the world around us than we usually think (though probably less than those who are fans of manifesting). Our thoughts, combined with the thoughts of all the other people on earth, are largely responsible for the environment we live in here. If we are sending out mostly thoughts of anger, greed, jealousy, etc. we will have a world that reflects that. If we learn to send out thoughts of peace, joy, harmony, etc., then we will get a world that reflects that. Let’s hope that happens soon.