Before the age of enlightenment comes the Kali Yuga, which is sometimes spelt Yurga. It is the age (yuga) of destruction. Kali was the wife of the Brahmin god Shiva (Siva). She has many names, including Parvati, Uma, Gauri, Durga
Health care reform is a hot topic today, as it has been for much of America’s history. Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, warned in 1787 that medical freedom needed to be included in the American
According to a study published by a team of psychologists, musicians playing different parts of a duet aren’t just syncing time — they synchronise brainwaves. Johanna Sänger of Berlin’s Max Planck Institute for Human Development gathered 32 guitarists and arranged
In its Financial Stability Report (FSR), the Bank revealed that the big four lenders – RBS, Lloyds, Barclays and HSBC – may need to take £15bn of extra provisions on consumer loans and European debt, “a further £4bn-£10bn” to cover
The Catholic Church has established an exorcist hotline in Milan, its biggest diocese, to cope with demand. Monsignor Angelo Mascheroni, the diocese’s chief exorcist since 1995, said the curia had also appointed twice as many exorcists to cope with a
New cigarette packaging, featuring graphic tobacco warning images, is set to become mandatory in Australia, amid an ongoing row over tough new legislation. Amid allegations of dirty tricks by Australian tobacco companies, and despite a spate of legal battles, all
On a mission to become the first to document all 39 species of birds of paradise, the photographer Tim Laman and ornithologist Ed Scholes have spent nearly a decade sleeping in tents and dangling from the rainforest canopy. Pictures: Here
The United Nations General Assembly voted Thursday, by an impressive margin, to upgrade Palestine from its status as an “Observer Entity” to an “Observer State,” a change greeted by celebration in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and with an
Last month, a group of Australian scientists published a warning to the citizens of the country, and of the world, who collectively gobble up some $34 billion annually of its agricultural exports. The warning concerned the safety of a new
It’s time to add Mercury to the list of worlds where you can go ice-skating. Confirming decades of suspicion, a NASA spacecraft has spotted vast deposits of water ice on the planet closest to the sun. Temperatures on Mercury can reach
For the first time in living memory, New York has spent a day entirely without violent crime. The city police department’s chief spokesman said that Monday was the most bloodshed-free 24-hour period in recent history. Not a single murder, shooting,
Researchers from Yale and NIMH have recently found ketamine to be extraordinarily useful in treating major depression by restoring damaged neurons. The psychedelic anesthetic has been popularized as one of the best reputed substances to instigate out-of-body experiences. Unique within the entheogenic
The United Nations has voted overwhelmingly to recognize a Palestinian state, but the Palestinians still face enormous limitations: They don’t control their borders, airspace or trade, they have separate and competing governments in Gaza and the West Bank, and they
The hidden power of metaphysics is that it offers the story behind the story. I’m asked sometimes what is metaphysics? It’s the study of unseen energies and other realities. The term metaphysics is derived from the Greek Ta Meta ta Physkia which means “the
