“We have come as far as we have because we are the cleverest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. But if we are to continue to exist, we will require more than intelligence. We will require wisdom.”
— Sir David Attenborough
Gratitude to the universe and to all friends everywhere for so many kind wishes. My cardiac surgery went well -- better than expected. I'll update properly next week. Meanwhile, I'm home, surrounded by love, am enjoying a great reawakening of energy and intend to dive into writing Chapter 21 of my new book tomorrow. Happy Summer Solstice!
Congratulations, @POTUS!
President Trump achieved what the experts said was impossible. Through strength, resolve, and decisive leadership, he secured another historic victory for peace, stability, and American leadership on the world stage.
When others doubted, President Trump delivered.
President @realDonaldTrump continues to make the world safer, today reaching a historic peace deal with Iran.
His leadership, along with his direct engagement with allies and adversaries alike, will be recorded in history books for centuries to come.
Evidence of exceptional ability and asking how they solved hard problems down to the brass tacks level is what matters.
Those who actually deserve credit know the details of the solution, because it was so hard it got seared into their brain. The phonies and posers who falsely claim credit will flounder at the second or third level of detail.
Fifty years of research. One digital academy. The wait is finally over. Welcome to Kosmogonia. 👇
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What the ancient sacred sites may represent is not simply religious architecture or astronomical observation - Randall Carlson argues they are the outlines of a lost technology. A system that drew on the dynamic forces operating between the Earth and the heavens above - forces that ancient builders understood well enough to organize entire civilizations around, and that produced something which may have looked nothing at all like the industrial fossil fuel civilization humanity has built in the last few centuries.
The reason that civilization remains so difficult to find in the archaeological record is, Randall argues, a problem of imagination as much as evidence. Archaeologists are looking in a mirror - searching the ancient world for the remnants of something that resembles what we have built. Skyscrapers. Aircraft. The physical signatures of a scientific culture organized around mechanical technology and energy extraction. But if an advanced ancient civilization drew on entirely different principles - the electromagnetic and geological dynamics between Earth and sky, the fault line energies, the moving water, the resonant properties of specific stone - its remnants would look nothing like what modern archaeology is trained to recognize. Freeing up the thinking from the search for replicas of ourselves is, Randall suggests, the prerequisite for actually finding what was there.
Most of us spend years trying to change outcomes without examining the internal framework producing them.
This article gets to the root by examining and then stripping away the conditioning that keeps you from becoming fully yourself and finding your bliss.
Great read @thedankoe !
“I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say, ‘Okay, you're not that good. You just reached the level here.’ I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.”
— Quentin Tarantino
You won't get torn down by other winners; only they know how hard it is to get to the top.
It's only anklebiters who spend time trying to punch up at you.
The Moon's surface lacks two elements that any sustained human presence would require - carbon and nitrogen. Without them, food production and atmospheric processing become impossible. What the research Randall Carlson is citing suggests, however, is that the Moon may not be as resource-poor as that deficit implies.
Carbonaceous chondrite asteroids - some of the most carbon-rich objects in the solar system - have been impacting the lunar surface throughout its history. Each impact delivers a payload of organic material, and the question that numerical modelling is now being applied to is how much of that material survives the impact itself rather than being vaporised or scattered. If sufficient quantities of asteroid-delivered carbon and nitrogen have been preserved in the lunar regolith, the raw material baseline for a self-sustaining human presence becomes significantly more viable than the Moon's indigenous chemistry alone would suggest. The supply chain, in other words, may already be in place - deposited over billions of years by the same cosmic bombardment that pulverised the surface into the resource-rich rubble Randall has discussed elsewhere.