Love is higher than opinion.
Humanity will not collapse because of wrong ideas…
but because of the inability to live together.
Two people can hold entirely different worldviews,
different beliefs,
different truths…
and still remain united;
if love is present.
But the moment love disappears,
even identical opinions become a source of conflict.
This is the real crisis of our time.
We think the problem is disagreement.
It is not.
The problem is that opinion has been placed above the human being.
We no longer ask:
“Can I understand you?”
We ask:
“Are you right or wrong?”
And in doing so,
we sacrifice the very thing that makes evolution possible:
human fellowship.
Dr Steiner was clear:
All talk of progress, development, or spiritual advancement is meaningless
if we cannot learn to truly meet one another.
Because no spiritual path,
no knowledge,
no ideology,
has any value
if it separates human beings instead of connecting them.
Love does something thinking alone cannot:
It creates a space
where differences do not have to be eliminated…
but can be held.
This is higher than tolerance.
It is an active force.
A power that allows truth to emerge between people,
instead of being imposed by one over another.
And this is the task of the future:
Not to force agreement.
But to develop a consciousness
strong enough to carry differences without division.
Because only then can truth become alive.
Persephone’s descent into the underworld is more than myth
it’s a story of initiation
When Persephone was taken by Hades
only Hekate heard her cry
Not the distant gods
but the one who stayed and walks in shadow
Hekate became the torchbearer
The guide between worlds
The presence that sees in darkness
Persephone returns not as a victim
but as Queen of the Underworld
And Hekate remains beside her
guardian of thresholds
keeper of the path
This is the truth
We don’t avoid the descent
We learn to see within it
@UnplugOrPerish Are the recent changes in the Schumann resonance originating from the earth or outside of it (i.e. solar flares)? or combination of both or even something else?
Went down the rabbit hole on this. Your brain treats a physical book like a landscape. It builds a spatial map of the text, the same way it maps trails, rooms, and city blocks. When you scroll on a phone, that map breaks apart.
Seven large-scale research reviews and direct brain scans confirm what you already feel.
A 2023 study in PLOS ONE attached brain-activity sensors to children’s heads while they read the same text on paper and on screen. Paper reading produced fast brain waves, the pattern linked to focused attention. Screen reading shifted the brain into slow waves, the pattern linked to mind wandering and daydreaming. Same kids. Same words. Measurably different brain states.
A separate 2022 study from Showa University in Japan scanned the front of the brain, the area that manages focus and comprehension, during phone versus paper reading. Smartphones sent that region into overdrive, meaning the brain was straining just to keep up with basic processing. Paper reading produced a moderate load that triggered natural deep breathing, which helped regulate brain function and sustain focus. The phone suppressed that breathing pattern entirely.
Since 2017, researchers have published seven major reviews combining hundreds of individual studies. Six of seven reached the same conclusion: people understand less on screens. A 2018 review of 54 studies and 170,000+ participants, literally titled “Don’t throw away your printed books,” found paper outperformed screens across the board for non-fiction. A 2024 follow-up with 49 more studies confirmed it. The gap has grown steadily every year since 2001. Being a “digital native” doesn’t help.
The best explanation is how your brain tracks where you are. Your short-term memory can only juggle about 7 things at once. A physical book gives you constant location cues: the weight shifting from right hand to left, where a paragraph sits on the page, how thick the remaining pages feel. Your brain hands off the “where am I in this text?” job to those physical signals, leaving more room for actually understanding what you’re reading. On a phone, every screen looks identical. Your brain has to track position and process meaning at the same time, and something gives.
A Norwegian eye-tracking study analyzing 25,000+ individual eye movements found screen readers processed text more shallowly. The students had no idea they were reading differently.
In 2019, nearly 200 reading scientists from 30+ countries signed an open letter warning that screen reading was degrading deep comprehension. Since then, Scandinavian countries, among the most digitized school systems on Earth, have started putting physical books back in classrooms.
I don't think whole body SAR can be meaningfully be compared to local SAR in a very small area (i.e. head, ears, thyroid gland), which cannot dissipate the energy over the entire body mass. I'm only pointing out that this study does not reach the conclusion that EMF from AirPods are benign or beneficial.
@zanehkoch I think proximity to the emitting device (i.e. direct contact to skin close to the brain and major glands like the thyroid) is the major factor that is not captured here where the study only looks merely ambient exposure
@Rainmaker1973 Maybe someone should mention how migros wiped out the only the true organic supermarket Al Natura at end of last year by withdrawing their distribution and logistics network in favor of building their own fairly measly organic offerings. A huge loss tbh