40–The Labyrinth — Dancing Ground of the Goddess and Warrior

The myths and symbols of the labyrinth offer one of the richest sources of information on the “original provocation” from which the most powerful archetypes–mother goddess, warrior-hero, and chaos monster–arose in ancient times. Introducing the labyrinth, Discourse #40 will be followed by a further Discourse bringing to light additional nuances…

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Discourses on an Alien Sky #40 | The Labyrinth — Dancing Ground of the Goddess and Warrior

The myths and symbols of the labyrinth offer one of the richest sources of information on the “original provocation” from which the most powerful archetypes–mother goddess, warrior-hero, and chaos monster–arose in ancient times. Introducing the labyrinth, Discourse #40 will be followed by a further Discourse bringing to light additional nuances…

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Methane on Mars

Apr 12, 2019 Did decaying organic material lead to methane emissions? According to a recent press release, measurements taken from orbit correlate to the detection of methane  in the regolith of Mars by NASA’s Curiosity mission. This is the first time an in-situ measurement was confirmed from orbit. Methane is…

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Charge Exchange

April 11, 2019 Earth and the Sun share an electric circuit. “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”— Charles Dudley Warner The Magnetospheric Multiscale satellites were launched March 12, 2015 on a mission to study Earth’s electromagnetic fields. The MMS constellation, as well as the Geospace…

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Black Heart

Apr 10, 2019 Holes in space and time? “We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.”— Hannes Alfvén…

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Electric Lightning

Apr 5, 2019 Astronomical phenomena are better understood using an electrical perspective. Previous Pictures of the Day reported that there are twin lobes of gamma rays extending beyond the Milky Way’s core. The formations are about 65,000 light-years in diameter, and are thought to indicate that Birkeland currents are creating…

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