by David Andrew Wiebe | May 27, 2016 | The Question Podcast
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Photosynthesis is the process in which plants convert light energy into chemical energy that can be used to fuel its activities.
But what about this idea that when plants are praised and spoken to positively, they thrive and grow?
MythBusters once conducted an experiment in which they got hold of 60 pea plants and divided them into three greenhouse groups on a rooftop.
The first group of plants was exposed to a soundtrack that featured loving praise. The second group was played cruel insults. The final group was not given a soundtrack. I watched a little bit of the show, and the hosts were also shown verbally praising the plants and hurling insults at them.
They conducted the test over the course of 60 days, and what they found was rather interesting. They discovered that the silent greenhouse performed the poorest of all, with lower biomass and smaller pea pods compared to the other greenhouses.
Interestingly, they found no major difference between the greenhouses that were exposed to the two soundtracks. Whether it was loving praise or cruel insults, the soundtrack appeared to have a positive effect on the first two groups of plants exposed to sound.
This is somewhat of a narrow study in the sense that they only experimented with one type of plant and only over the course of 60 days.
In this episode of The Question podcast, you will hear highlights from David Andrew Wiebe’s presentation on Words, and the music of Frederick Tamagi.
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by David Andrew Wiebe | May 20, 2016 | The Question Podcast
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In the movie, What the Bleep Do We Know!?, a reference is made to how the molecular structure of water can be affected by the words, thoughts and feelings it is consistently exposed to.
This isn’t something they pulled out of thin air. It is based on the studies of Dr. Masaru Emoto, a Japanese author, researcher and entrepreneur.
Dr. Emoto was born in Yokohama Japan in 1943. He graduated from Yokohama Municipal University and began his studies on water in the mid-90s.
Emoto believed that water is the “blueprint of our reality”, and that emotional vibrations could change the physical structure of water. He claimed that water exposed to positive speech and thoughts would create visually pleasing crystals, while negative thoughts would results in ugly crystal formations.
It is said that 70 to 80% of the Earth’s surface is water. You might be able to think of something else that consists of 70 to 80% water – our bodies.
This causes one to wonder whether or not there is any connection between the words we speak and the lives we live. If words, thoughts and feelings can change the molecular structure of water, then what are the implications for the things we say to ourselves and to the people we routinely come into contact with? How do the things we say affect our lives?
Are words beacons of creative power, or are they mere devices of communication?
In this episode of The Question podcast, you will hear highlights from David Andrew Wiebe’s presentation on Words, and the music of Frederick Tamagi.
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by David Andrew Wiebe | May 11, 2016 | The Question Podcast
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The story of the star is one of the most significant in the whole Bible, not just as an extraordinary standalone mythic phenomenon, which it is, but also as a trigger event for the literal birth of a whole spiritual movement that now influences over two billion people worldwide.
Without predispositions or prejudice, archeoastronomers have engaged the story of the star based on their own revised definition of myth as a valid ancient perspective, as a scientific and historical background, and as an invitation to explore.
Where everyone must start is the single account of this amazing start in the Bible itself, from the book of Matthew 2:2-10:
“Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his start when it rose and have come to worship him.”
When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together all the people’s priests and teachers of the law, he asked where the Messiah was to be born. “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:
“But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rules of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.”
Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”
After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the start they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed.
This is the one account of this in the Bible.
The ancient crime scene testimony focuses on three key statements:
- From the time of King Herod
- Magi from the east
- We have seen a star in the east when it rose
In this episode of The Question podcast, you will hear highlights from Frederick Tamagi’s presentation on “The Real Star of Bethlehem,” and the music of Joel Pearson.
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by David Andrew Wiebe | May 11, 2016 | The Question Podcast
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Archaeomythology, archeoastronomy, medical archeology, and geomythology have all gradually transformed what was once a one-dimensional wall between science and myth into a multi-dimensional window that allows scientific principles, recorded history, human imagination, and cultural identity to exchange freely between modern and ancient mankind.
This free and fearless exchange of the modern and the ancient in order to better understand the nature of truth is like exploring a new dimension of living memories rather than merely visiting an old museum of dead artifacts.
Opening the window between science and myth is like first drawing an accurate factual outline in black and white, and then suddenly discovering an unlimited palette of new colors, tones and hues with which to articulate a deeper identity.
The courage of the scientific community to examine myth as a new alternative source in the ongoing search for truth contradicts our modern attitudes towards myth. But for many of us, our outright rejection of myth is our way of being scientific and safely segregated from the ignorance and backwardness of our ancestors.
Declaring something a myth is not a very kind expression. A deep cynicism, or even a mockery of what we judge to be absurd beliefs, especially those beliefs that emanate from an ancient culture. Like so much in our world of polarizing ideological conflict, we are sadly becoming conditioned to our own narrow reality and the conditioned reflex to judge anything outside of that reality.
But for the new scientists of geomythology, archeoastronomy, and the like, declaring something a myth implies neither the truth nor the falseness of an ancient story. This is because scientists understand, that for ancient cultures, a myth was by definition considered true in that it embodied that particular culture’s way of looking at the world and making sense of the world in that time.
Engaging myth is in direct opposition to our very popular, very simple and very judgmental view that myths are always false by definition. Our natural reflex is to reject myth as an impossibility. The reflex of new science is to embrace myth as a mystery.
In this episode of The Question Community podcast, you will hear highlights from Frederick Tamagi’s presentation on Science & Myth III as well as the music of Joel Pearson.
You can listen to part one and part two here.
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