http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ This is a personal search for a modern rational spirituality that is truely holistic in that it is coherent with science and internally self-consistent. All existing religions and spiritual movements have some good insights yet fall short of these goals. en Vox Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:36:14 -0800 Copyright 2007 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/busy-with-genealogy.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(SpiritSeeker) http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/busy-with-genealogy.html?_c=feed-rss http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/busy-with-genealogy.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:36:14 -0800 Besides life getting busy one major reason why I have not been posting much is that I have been busy organizing the family genealogy. I inherited the old family pictures when my grandparents died so I recently scanned them and posted them all on F... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/busy-with-genealogy.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398c0ef110001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> genealogy thanksgiving pilgrims http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/the-two-parts-of-the-genesis-flood-myth.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(SpiritSeeker) http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/the-two-parts-of-the-genesis-flood-myth.html?_c=feed-rss http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/the-two-parts-of-the-genesis-flood-myth.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:37:18 -0800 Biblical scholars have long realized that the flood myth in the Bible is compilation of two older but parallel stories, one from the northern kingdom of Israel (called the E source) and the other from the southern kingdom of Judah (called the J so... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/the-two-parts-of-the-genesis-flood-myth.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398bececb0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> religion genesis myth bible flood biblical scholarship flood myth http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/name-mentioned-in-biblical-book-jeremiah-found-in-babylonian-tablet.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(SpiritSeeker) http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/name-mentioned-in-biblical-book-jeremiah-found-in-babylonian-tablet.html?_c=feed-rss http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/name-mentioned-in-biblical-book-jeremiah-found-in-babylonian-tablet.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:52:05 -0700 Some recent news from archeology seems to confirm to the historical accuracy of the book of Jeremiah. The full article can be found in the latest issue of Archeology. Austrian Assyriologist Michael Jursa recently discovered the financial record ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/name-mentioned-in-biblical-book-jeremiah-found-in-babylonian-tablet.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398b9aa4d0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> bible jeremiah archeology. biblical scholarship http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/foundations-of-morality.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(SpiritSeeker) http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/foundations-of-morality.html?_c=feed-rss http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/foundations-of-morality.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 14 Oct 2007 05:06:24 -0700 In an era when many many moral rules seem to be arbitrarily based on culture we need a deeper foundation. Simple observation shows that humans are motivated by various and often different interests and desires. We know now that these interests ar... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/foundations-of-morality.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398b29c640002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> spirituality religion wisdom anthropology morality http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/dirty-bombs-and-the-mysterious-israeli-air-strike-on-syria.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(SpiritSeeker) http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/dirty-bombs-and-the-mysterious-israeli-air-strike-on-syria.html?_c=feed-rss http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/dirty-bombs-and-the-mysterious-israeli-air-strike-on-syria.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:20:47 -0700 Some information is finally beginning to leak out about why Israel bombed a certain place in Syria recently. Some in the U.S. government led by Vice President Dick Cheney believe Israeli intelligence when they claim that the work was nuclear relat... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/dirty-bombs-and-the-mysterious-israeli-air-strike-on-syria.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398b1c5b70005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> israel syria nuclear proliferation http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/irans-nuclear-program.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(SpiritSeeker) http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/irans-nuclear-program.html?_c=feed-rss http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/irans-nuclear-program.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:44:50 -0700 With all the concern about Iran's nuclear program and its potential for nuclear proliferation and war I though I had better start tracking developments more closely in an attempt to cut through the political posturing. A good article on the histo... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/irans-nuclear-program.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398affa1e0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> iran nuclear proliferation http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/good-news---north-korea-to-give-up-nuclear-weapons.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(SpiritSeeker) http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/good-news---north-korea-to-give-up-nuclear-weapons.html?_c=feed-rss http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/good-news---north-korea-to-give-up-nuclear-weapons.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:52:30 -0700 The last few months has seen significant progress with North Korea. Yesterday North Korea agreed to begin dismantling its key nuclear facilities. A good report on that is from the Washington Post here . Today North and South Korea agreed to work t... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/good-news---north-korea-to-give-up-nuclear-weapons.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398af325c0001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> korea world peace nuclear proliferation http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/so-what-is-bush-trying-to-hide.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(SpiritSeeker) http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/so-what-is-bush-trying-to-hide.html?_c=feed-rss http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/so-what-is-bush-trying-to-hide.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:28:27 -0700 The New York Times has just published a post by the A.P. in which a judge has just overturned a Bush Executive order allowing Presidents to prevent the publication of any thing coming out of the executive office. The article is here Here is a cop... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/so-what-is-bush-trying-to-hide.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398ae6be50002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> freedom bushies http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/the-executive-brain-by-elkhonon-goldberg---2001.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(SpiritSeeker) http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/the-executive-brain-by-elkhonon-goldberg---2001.html?_c=feed-rss http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/the-executive-brain-by-elkhonon-goldberg---2001.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:56:05 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/book/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398ade4f60001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398ade4f60001-50si" alt="The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> This is a book mostly about the human pre-frontal cortex by a leading psychological neurologist who escaped from the Soviet Union. So not only will you get some brain information but also the story of the author's professional life. To hear an p... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/the-executive-brain-by-elkhonon-goldberg---2001.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398ae05240005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> neuroscience brain the executive brain http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/see-through-frogs-developed-in-japan.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(SpiritSeeker) http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/see-through-frogs-developed-in-japan.html?_c=feed-rss http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/see-through-frogs-developed-in-japan.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:35:01 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398adc6d50004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398adc6d50004-50si" alt="See-Through Frog" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> This must be frog week. A news post from Yahoo News here reports that researchers in Japan have bred a line of frogs with skin you can see-through. The full article is here since I don't think Yahoo News keeps their news posts up for archival pur... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spiritseeker.vox.com/library/post/see-through-frogs-developed-in-japan.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9710850e4cd500e398adc7760004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> science biology frogs