Whatever does not evolve within Nature is condemned to extinction, to be replaced by something more in keeping with universal harmony. What then is the evolutionary purpose of a human being’s existence after one has managed to escape from the animal herd and become independent? Clearly, it is the evolution of one’s consciousness so that one can reach the point of transforming oneself into a spiritual human being. Has this goal been accomplished, or is humanity heading for destruction?
What is certain is that very few individuals in the history of the world have fulfilled Nature’s primordial requirement by reaching a superior level of humanity. The rest seems only to be interested in making war, destroying, corrupting, or experiencing an orgasmic pleasure in life even at the cost of slavery or total destruction.
In this manner the human being has become, at the level of the species, a corrupted animal, with natural instincts dirtied by passions, and unable to raise oneself up to a real human condition. continues »

Now that 2009 is ending, the time is right to ask yourself: what have you really done for yourself this year? Maybe you will say that you achieved many things, a, b, and c, and that you are very satisfied because of that.  Perhaps, the other letters of the alphabet did not let themselves be conquered and you feel frustrated because of all the things that got away from you.
Your list of achievements will probably be long and generous perhaps you will even decide to treat yourself to a holiday at some privileged place of the planet.  Your love life is doing well, financially your are stable, and your health is not too bad.
Your children, if you have any, are behaving themselves, your partner is wonderful.  Soon you will be able to move into a bigger house and install a Home Theater with a giant High Definition Full plasma screen and a games room for your children so they will install their console table and be able to fully enjoy all that this technology can do.
All in all, the world isn’t that bad, global warming is nothing more than a game.  If you are lucky enough to have an outdoor space or yard perhaps you’ll put up a hammock and savor your own satisfaction.
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With Christmas and New Year approaching I can’t avoid trying once again to offer a gift to all who read this article.  I say “trying” because it takes two to make a gift:  the one giving and the one receiving, and the latter often is not able or simply does not want to receive it.
I am only a modest philosopher and therefore my offering is not of the material kind.  It is just a small piece of wisdom extracted from the nature of earth and the heavens using the tools of “significant” cognitive capacity, the skills of higher consciousness that come from processes of cognitive perception at an increased level of vigilance.
Irreverently, my perception in this case was not inspired by the great philosophers, but instead by two well-known magicians, or more accurately “illusionists”:  the celebrated Harry Houdini, who died in 1926, and the North American Chris Angel, who levitates at will and constantly eludes death.
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                                                                        Dario Salas Sommer
I have always been fascinated by Chinese culture, by its high level of comprehension of nature, its philosophical conception of human existence and the imperative of striving for spiritual and moral perfection.  A profound mysticism cuts across its endeavors, deeply influenced by the teachings of Confucius, of whom I am a great admirer, y by other philosophers and scientists such as Lao Tze.  I therefore was deeply pleased by the recognition that I recently received from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
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Extreme poverty, war, depletion of non-renewable energy resources, global warming, delinquency, terrorism, violence, all are the work of Man, not of Nature: clear evidence of a global dislocation in education which focuses on material progress and excludes human development.
There are many in the world who possess a good formal education; intelligent people who, paradoxically, tend to behave foolishly when they apply their knowledge to daily life.  continues »

A group of Chinese scientists from the University of Science and Technology of Shandong has succeeded for the first time in directing by remote control the flight of a pigeon.  The work team, part of the Center for Technological Research of the Robotic Engineering Department of that university, developed an electronic technology that had already been used with mice to implant a series of micro-electrodes n the bird’s brain, through which they stimulated different zones of the brain.  In this way, they forced it to fly to the left or the right, up or down, according to the whim of the remote control.  According to the specialists who participated in the experiment, the electronic impulses simulated the signals generated by the brain to control the movements of the bird’s body, so that it obeyed them as if they were coming from its own brain.  This is the first experiment of this type that has been applied successfully to a pigeon.  The objective is to “improve the mechanism” in order to “apply it in the future in a more practical form,” although no one has yet specified what that may be.  In fact, this initiative is pretty disturbing when we consider that the micro-electrodes could be implanted in a human being.
 
EFE (Spanish news agency) News – February 2007