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A simple visual exercise can train attention, calm the nervous system, and ease entry into meditation. It uses an image with a repeating pattern that has a hidden 3D form, called a stereogram. To see this image, the eyes have to relax focus.

Many people met this in Magic Eye books. The same mechanism is useful in training the brain to loosen…[Read more]

What if the answer to the growing population problem lies in land we just don’t know how to cultivate? Desert forestry is an interesting agricultural science that uses various land engineering techniques to collect water from seasonal monsoons and redistribute it through drier periods. Nature does this the best, so people are experimenting with…[Read more]

We talk a lot about cycles. Larger cycles, such as the Yugas or Astrological Ages, take thousands of years to complete. Smaller, generational cycles take roughly 80 years to complete. These smaller cycles often include a destabilization phase where old structures strain under new conditions, followed by a rebuild phase where new systems form and…[Read more]