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Tag Archives: Carl Sagan
In our hurry to conquer nature and death, we have made a new religion of science
By Jonathan Cook Source: Jonathan Cook Blog Back in the 1880s, the mathematician and theologian Edwin Abbott tried to help us better understand our world by describing a very different one he called Flatland. Imagine a world that is not … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Environment, Health, History, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Carl Sagan, Covid-19, culture, Edwin Abbott, environment, Flatland, James Lovelock, Kamran Abbasi, Medicine, Pandemic, Philosophy, Public Health, Religion, Rene Descartes, science, society, Sociology, spirituality, Technocracy, technology, Vaccines
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Carl Sagan’s Thoughts On The War on Drugs
Since today marks the birthday of the late Carl Sagan, we can remember a lesser-known aspect of his greatness by reading (or re-reading) the following 1969 essay he wrote under the pseudonym “Mr. X” published in 1971 in Lester Grinspoon’s … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Drug War, History, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Cannabis, cannabis legalization, Carl Sagan, drug war, Entheogens, Lester Grinspoon, Marihuana Reconsidered, marijuana, Marijuana Decriminalization, Prohibition
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