She offered to “ask my contacts at IONS if they know of availability”.

She also shared:

The book upon which it was based is available from variius sources like this; https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Heart-Healing-companion-TBS-series-Poole/77132916/bd

The Heart of…[Read more]

Frankly, when I was working at NASA in the nineteen-nineties, my attention was distracted by a less noble motivation, something often labeled, ‘publish or perish’.

At the time, I was working at NASA Goddard’s Space Flight Ce…[Read more]

In the nineteen-nineties, while I was working at NASA Goddard’s space flight Center as the Instrument Specialist for the EGRET instrument on the Compton Gama Ray telescope, I thought of using the extant cable-TV infrastructure for high bandwith…[Read more]

I grew up in Deadwood, SD, and then enrolled at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, intending to major in physics. During my one year there, I was on the varsity wrestling team, and came across Eckankar, which lead me to stop out of college for five years to seriously pursue mysticism.

I…[Read more]

Here is an interesting example of autocosmology that I was involved in. In 1997, I was the lead author on a paper in the Astrophysical Journal (1997ApJ…476..692M) about a quasar in the blazar class named PKS 1622-297. We observed its gamma-ray flux…[Read more]

Careful what you add – I don’t think we have the functionality to delete!

On 3/18/26, Google AI provided this Overview:

Autocosmology is a literary and spiritual genre combining autobiography with cosmology, viewing personal life as a 14-billion-year creative, evolving…[Read more]

Thank you for this great contribution!

I also feel a yearning to extend my lifespan. During my annual medicare-sponsored checkup, two weeks ago I told my general practitioner that I hope to live to be 140 (I’m 71 now). He laughed and responded that this puts a lot of responsibility on his care! He is a great fit for me. He’s from South…[Read more]

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Sarbmeet suggested that rationale and motivation for…[Read more]

Einstein wrote in 1931 about death: …an individual who should survive his physical death is – beyond my comprehension… Such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls. I am sat…[Read more]

BrianThomasSwimme: Welcome. John!

John Mattox: So I’ve been thinking about what happens after we die. Does what we’ve created live on through eternity…[Read more]

There are many additional behaviors in nature without such analogy, e.g., sublimation, the transformation of a solid material directly into its vapor form.

Are there others that do have a compelling human…[Read more]

There are many other processes in nature without such analogy, e.g. sublimation (a solid becoming a vapor), annihilation (e.g. an electron and a positron coming together to annihilate and produce energy).

And…[Read more]

Founding participants included: John Mattox, Stephan Martin, David Ellwood, Sarbmeet Kanwal, and Francie White. Although it is not a requirement to participate…[Read more]

1. Centration
Every being arises as a centered reality with its own integrity, coherence, and inward orientation. From particles to planets to persons, each entity g…[Read more]

Centration means the universe does not evolve as a vague mass, but through countless centers of agency…[Read more]

Founding members include John Mattox,  Stephan Martin, David Ellwood,  Sarbmeet Kanwal, and Francie White. Although it is not a requirement to participate in join this group, we all have PhDs.

We began our discussion with a Zoom meeting on 3/2/26, which was hosted by…[Read more]