Quote of the Day – We are Shaped by Our Thoughts
9 September, 2010 at 09:19 | Posted in quote of the day, Spirituality | 4 CommentsTags: Buddha, cultivation, quote of the day, Spirituality
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” ~ Buddha
Classical Views in Science Challenged – A New World View is Evolving
9 September, 2010 at 09:03 | Posted in Science | 2 CommentsTags: Science
By Yi Fu
[PureInsight.org] In 1982, French physicist Alain Aspect and his team successfully performed an experiment that proved the existence of a phenomenon in quantum mechanics called “quantum entanglement” among particles at the submicroscopic level [1]. In quantum mechanics, two or more particles having the same origins seem to have some kind of entanglement correlation even though they may be spatially separated from each other. This entanglement correlation does not disappear no matter how far the distances between the particles are. If one particle is acted upon, the other particles reflect the effect immediately. Quantum entanglement has been experimentally verified in many labs around the world. Many scientists consider the discovery of quantum entanglement as among the most important discoveries in the past several decades. Although people still do not understand the precise meaning of it, it has already made a deep impact on the fields of philosophy, science, and religion. It is also challenging the current western scientific world’s mainstream views.
I. The Universe Is an Inseparable Whole
The finding of quantum entanglement showed a great limitation in the current mainstream view of the western science world. Since the times of Descartes, Galileo and Newton, the dominant world view of western science has been that the universe is like a huge machine. It has no consciousness nor purpose. The interactions among its components are limited by time and space (i.e. they are local activities) and the whole can be understood by studying the individual components, since the whole is simply the sum of all the individual components. This type of science is also known as Newtonian or classical science. Newtonian science was developed in accordance with these views. One divides materials into smaller and smaller micro-objects and, by studying these individual objects, one tries to understand the whole. A typical example is in the manufacture of machines, in which a whole machine is composed of all its components. This type of scientific view even considers human bodies as machines. Western medicine is based on this method “treat the head if one has a headache; treat the foot if the foot is in pain.”
Quantum entanglement supports the existence of “spooky action at a distance,” which was considered suspect by Albert Einstein. Quantum entanglement surpasses the four dimensional space we live in and is not limited by it. It is nonlocal and tells us that, in some dimensional spaces in the universe, there exists the possibility of some kinds of interaction among all things.
Read more: Classical Views in Science Challenged – A New World View is Evolving | Pureinsight
Chinese film on 1960 labor camps cheered in Venice
9 September, 2010 at 09:00 | Posted in Culture, slave labor camps | Leave a commentTags: film, labor camps
By Silvia Aloisi
VENICE (Reuters) – A powerful Chinese film on the plight of political prisoners condemned to forced labor camps in the late 1950s wooed critics in Venice on Monday, with some tipping it as a strong contender for the festival’s top prize.
“The Ditch” tells the little-known story of some 3,000 people deported for “re-education” to labor camps on the edge of the Gobi desert, in western China, and struggling to survive extreme climate and acute food shortages.
Billed as right-wing enemies by the government for even mildly criticizing the Communist party or simply because of their background, many died of starvation, disease and exhaustion in the ditches that served as dormitories.
Director Wang Bing spent three years tracking down survivors and wardens of the Jiabiangou and Mingshui Camps for the film, a surprise entry in the main competition line-up that was only revealed on Monday.
“For 10, maybe 20 years, independent Chinese cinema has focused above all else on the social problems of the poorest working classes in contemporary China,” Bing says in the production notes.
“The Ditch is perhaps the first film to deal directly with contemporary China’s political past, talking as it does about the ‘Rightists’ and what they endured in the re-education camps. It’s still a taboo subject.”
The film, warmly applauded at a press screening, is unlikely to be released in its home country, where authorities remain sensitive about how such topics are portrayed.
Still, Bing said he hoped the film would be an opportunity for younger Chinese like him — he was born in 1967 — to learn about their country’s past.
“I wanted to talk about our history, past events that can be criticized because of the way in which the Chinese suffered, and show them so that people can reflect on them,” he told reporters, speaking through a translator.
DOCUMENTARY STYLE
Shot like a documentary, The Ditch focuses on the last three months of life in an annexe camp where the 1,500 prisoners who had survived until then were moved in 1960, as drought ravaged the whole of China.
Read more: Chinese film on 1960 labor camps cheered in Venice – Yahoo! News
When Sinkholes Strike
9 September, 2010 at 08:50 | Posted in China, Nature | 1 CommentTags: China, Nature, sinkholes
By Michelle Yu
Epoch Times Staff
Zhong Zhixing, the waitress of Zhou’s Restaurant in a small town in southwest China, was serving a dish of taro chicken when half of the restaurant floor suddenly sank 12 inches with a deafening rumble.
“Earthquake!” was the first thought that came to the petrified waitress. But before she could react, the other half of the restaurant floor also sank.
After that it was pandemonium as the 80 or so customers, in shock, screamed, and dashed for the exit. Zhong was barely aware of what went on during the next few seconds. When she managed to collect herself, she was already being pushed out the door by the crowd, shaking uncontrollably, the dish of taro chicken still in her hands. Around her, people were crying and trying to flee from the site as far and as fast as they could.
Read more: When Sinkholes Strike | China | Epoch Times
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Ica’s Engraved Stones: A Prehistoric Library?
9 September, 2010 at 08:43 | Posted in Science | Leave a commentTags: archaeology, Science
The drawing on this stone shows a dinosaur eating a human that led some people to think that there were humans 65 million years ago. (Courtesy of Eugenia Cabrera/Museo Cabrera)
By Cornelia Ritter
Epoch Times Staff
ICA, Peru—At first sight, the small Peruvian town of Ica, situated in the Nazca Desert about 5 hours by bus from Lima, has nothing extraordinary to offer. But after one step into Museo Cabrera, a museum that houses engraved stones of Ica, a different world emerges.
Over 10,000 stones of varying sizes fill the museum. They all have a black, smooth surface on which figures are engraved. Lifting them, you would find them much heavier than everyday stones of similar size.
Dr. Javier Cabrera Darquea, who collected and studied the stones for 37 years, got a small stone as a gift for his birthday. Surprised by its weight and design, he started collecting and studying the stones.
Eugenia Cabrera C., director of the museum and daughter of Dr. Cabrera, said that her father conducted an analysis on the stones and found that they are a common type of rock called andesite, coated with a special layer on the surface, which made them black and smooth and probably gave them the extra weight.
He speculated that the layer may have been soft at first, which allowed people to draw the figures on it, and later became hard. To this day, the coating is still on the stones, allowing us to see the figures.
OBSERVING A COMET: This Ica Stone depicts a person wearing a headdress, observing a comet through a telescope. (Courtesy of Eugenia Cabrera/Museo Cabrera)
Read more: Ica’s Engraved Stones: A Prehistoric Library? | Epoch Times
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