Over 50 years ago, Dr. Carl Jung, (psychologist) and Professor W. Pauli, Nobel laureate, physics, concluded that an acausal connecting principle is at work in the universe. Basically when two or more unrelated events come together with a common meaning, which, at times, can be interpreted. This is especially true when number symbolism appears, […]
Pollution Causes Birth Defects to Soar in China
BIRTH defects in Chinese infants have soared nearly 40 per cent since 2001, a government report said, and officials linked the rise to China‘s worsening environmental degradation. The rate of defects had risen from 104.9 per 10,000 births in 2001, to 145.5 in 2006, affecting nearly one in 10 families, China’s National Population and Family […]
World freshwater running out as population grows
When I was in high school, I worked for a local environmental advocacy group – canvassing throughout a warren of suburban neighborhoods on the issue of polluted underground aquifers that ran below those neighborhoods. While it was the kind of door to door work usually relegated to impressionable high-energy high school kids, our tight band […]
Political circus rocks economy
Not too many people are harry at the way things are going in the Philippines these past few weeks. Economists have expressed alarm that these could lead to economic instability. And they said it won’t take long when neighboring Vietnam, a new member to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), is likely to overtake […]
Insulting the Public’s Intelligence
SEVERAL governors and congressmen have already confirmed that they received bundles of cash ranging from P200,000 to P500,000 after attending meetings at Malacanang Palace last week. No official receipts were given for those payments, and presidential spokesman Ignacio Bunye denies that any government funds were involved. Pampanga Gov. Ed Panlilio, the priest-turned-politician who was elected […]
At One With Dual Devotion
The altar in Becca Topol’s living room carries a statue of Buddha and a garden stone painted with the Hebrew word for peace, shalom. In April she celebrated Passover with a "Zen Seder" feast that opened with a modified Haggada narrative comparing Israel‘s exodus from Egypt to Buddha’s liberation from suffering. "I’m a Jewish Buddhist […]