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Newsletter Nr. 779
Amsterdam, June 15th, 2019


THE "COSMIC NOOK" - Natural Religion, Part 2 - FEDERICO NICOLA PECCHINI

We live in one of the many galaxies of the Local Group, called the Milky Way. It’s about 200,000 light-years wide, the shape of a barred spiral. Its massive spiral arms contain hundreds of billions of stars and planets, which orbit around its galactic center once every several hundred million years. Our Sun is just an ordinary, average-sized yellow star near the inner rim of the Orion Arm, 26,000 ly away from the center.

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THE SUFFERING SAINT - Reflections of an Uncertain Mystic - DAVID LANE

While religiously we may yearn for certainty and for beliefs that can withstand critical scrutiny, the world we experience upturns are most cherished dogmas. This is particularly true when we put our chosen gurus on inflated pedestals, only to discover to our chagrin and disappointment that they cannot withstand such exalted heights. They like us have cracks in their glorified armor and eventually fall down to terra firma, reminding us anew of Nietzsche's often repeated dictum, “human, all too human.”

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