First Spiritual Science Church of Denver 5 days ago Sunday Words & Wisdom
Rethinking Genesis – Rev. Richard Hartnett
Message from Lexie Tangney Brown
June 7, 2026 (Facebook.com)
My Father, John Tangney, passed in his sleep this morning in his home with his beloved Rocky by his side.
Please keep him in your thoughts.
Memorial service information will be provided at a later time.
Lexie Tangney Brown is with John Tangney.
I went to space and discovered an enormous lie | Ron Garan
Big Think Dec 14, 2022 Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_… What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here’s what it taught him. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► / @bigthink Up next, Neil deGrasse Tyson: 3 mind-blowing space facts ► • Neil deGrasse Tyson: 3 mind-blowing space … A curious phenomenon often occurs when astronauts travel to space and look out on our planet for the first time: They see how interconnected and fragile life on Earth is, and they feel a sudden responsibility to protect it. Astronaut @RonGaran experienced this so-called “overview effect” when he first saw Earth from space. When he looked out on the planet, he saw an iridescent biosphere teeming with life, all protected by a remarkably thin atmosphere. What he did not see was the thing that society often gives top priority: the economy. For Garan, seeing Earth from space revealed problems like global warming, deforestation, and biodiversity loss are not disconnected. They are the symptoms of an underlying flaw in how we perceive ourselves as humans: We fail to realize that we are a planetary species. Learn more about Ron Garan ► https://www.rongaran.com/ Read the video transcript ► https://bigthink.com/life/overview-ef…0:00 The lie humanity is living 1:28 Escaping Plato’s cave 2:15 What astronaut’s see in space 4:07 The orbital perspective 4:50 The ‘dolly zoom’: gain mental altitude ———————————————————————————- About Ron Garan: Former NASA astronaut, serial entrepreneur, humanitarian, and highly decorated combat fighter Ron Garan racked up 178 days in space and more than 71 million miles in 2,842 orbits between tours on the US Space Shuttle, Russian Soyuz spacecraft, and the International Space Station. During his time in space, Garan conducted four spacewalks in support of ISS construction and maintenance. Prior to those space journeys, he lived and conducted research on the bottom of the ocean in the world’s only undersea research lab, Aquarius. Before reaching the summit of his career, Garan, a former test pilot and graduate of the US Naval Test Pilot School, taught hundreds of elite fighter pilots how to “up their game” as a flight instructor at the prestigious USAF Fighter Weapons School, the Air Force version of TOP GUN. He is the author of the critically acclaimed books: The Orbital Perspective, Floating in Darkness: A Journey of Evolution, and the children’s book, Railroad to the Moon. Garan is celebrated not just for his research in space but also for his humanitarian contribution to life on Earth.
NASA astronaut Ron Garan’s epiphany in space | The InnerView
TRT World Jan 16, 2023 When former F-16 fighter pilot Ron Garan went up into space for NASA, the astronaut came back down to earth a changed man. He explains to Imran Garda on The InnerView why he believes we all need to live with an “orbital perspective” to save us from ourselves. More on Ron Garan: https://www.rongaran.com/trt/00:00 Meet Ron Garan 01:10 How space changed how he sees the world 03:04 Experiencing awe 03:54 “We look absolutely ridiculous from the vantage point of space” 04:41 On colonising other planets 05:56 International space cooperation with Russia 09:15 “War is humanity’s greatest failure” 10:59 Tribalism 13:02 Moving from words to action 14:22 Feedback 15:25 Social media manipulation 18:04 On experiencing spiritual enlightenment after space trips 19:25 Militarisation of space 23:36 Billionaires in space
Substack Live with Astronaut Ron Garan
Marianne Williamson Jun 9, 2026 It was great talking live today with astronaut and social entrepreneur Ron Garan. He has a profound understanding of what it will take for humanity to evolve beyond this critical inflection point at which we find ourselves. Much of what he learned came from epiphanies gleaned while working both at the bottom of the ocean and in the further reaches of outer space. How fortunate we are to have his wisdom among us. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did. You can learn more about Ron Garan at RonGaran.com and Ron Garan.Substack.com, where he is currently publishing his novel Infinite Simplicity. Subscribe to Marianne’s Substack: MarianneWilliamson.Susbtack.com
Akha Bhagat on avoiding “I” and “me”
Before the Trillions, There Was Once Joy in Silicon Valley
Jeff Schechtman 06/12/26 (whowhatwhy.org)
A veteran of three tech eras on how the innocence was lost — and whether AI actually might win it back, through what he calls “enlightened AI.”
Before the trillion-dollar IPOs, before the data centers and the doom, before “Silicon Valley” became shorthand for unaccountable power and unimaginable wealth, there was a teenager with an Atari — a gift from his NASA-engineer father — certain he could build any world he could imagine.
That teenager was Matthew Stepka, and the world he helped build is the one we’re all now straining to make sense of.
This week on the WhoWhatWhy podcast, Stepka — early internet-café founder, McKinsey alum, nine-year Google veteran who shepherded many of the company’s mission projects including the first self-driving cars, and now an investor in what he calls “enlightened AI” — walks us back through the Valley’s reinventions and asks what each one cost.
It’s a conversation about corporate reasons for being. Tech, nearly alone among industries, has always needed one — a reason its products are not merely lucrative but good for society. Stepka was inside the rooms where those stories were told without irony, and where they curdled into punchlines.
He’s candid about how the land of the nerds, where you felt you could solve any problem, drifted into something harsher.
But this is no eulogy to a more innocent age. It’s an argument that the innocence is recoverable — that AI might amplify our humanity rather than hollow it out. Stepka would rather be called hopeful than optimistic. The difference, it turns out, is the whole story.
As today’s headlines fill with the SpaceX IPO, here’s a longer view.
- Jeff Schechtman Jeff Schechtman’s career spans movies, radio stations, and podcasts. After spending twenty-five years in the motion picture industry as a producer and executive, he immersed himself in journalism, radio, and, more recently, the world of podcasts. To date, he has conducted over ten thousand interviews with authors, journalists, and thought leaders. Since March 2015, he has produced almost 500 podcasts for WhoWhatWhy.
The dark side of AI – Exploitation of humans and nature
DW Documentary Jun 10, 2026 Magical, autonomous, all-powerful: Artificial intelligence fuels our dreams and nightmares. While tech companies promise us a better future, AI is already causing serious harm. Huge data centers and server farms are required for AI programs to function. These are paving over landscapes and consuming immense amounts of water and electricity — mostly from fossil fuels, and thus dirty energy sources. Millions of low-wage workers worldwide are busy feeding data to, and training, the algorithms for AI programs — often at the expense of their mental and emotional health. These workers, many of them young and living in the Global South, are exposed to all manner of harmful content to train AI models to detect such material.
Featured Books from New Thinking Allowed
Arthur Versluis clearly and tautly argues that mysticism must be properly understood as belonging to the great tradition of Platonism. He demonstrates how mysticism was historically understood in Western philosophical and religious traditions and emphatically rejects externalist approaches to esoteric religion. Instead he develops a new theoretical-critical model for understanding mystical literature and the humanities as a whole, from philosophy and literature to art.
Mossbridge reveals how awakening begins not with external revelation but with inner truth. She demonstrates that you already know how to release fear, deepen compassion, and live from a higher awareness. In the second part of the book, Dr. Mossbridge then brings these capacities into her own disclosure about what appears to be a U.S. government-run gifted student program that seems to have been interested in psychic abilities as well as other forms of unusual cognition.
One of the hardest hurdles facing people in intuition is trusting what they get. It’s easy to second-guess and wonder if your inner guidance is intuition or imagination. Henry Reed’s process moves you into trust and confidence. Your own wisdom, accumulated from your life experiences, is stored in memories. Henry shows you how to work with your memories to make powerful connections to your own wisdom. Everything is drawn from within.
IC 443 Jellyfish Nebula
In this deep-space remnant known as IC 443 Jellyfish Nebula, plasma physics becomes visible history, as shock fronts from a stellar explosion propagate through interstellar hydrogen, compressing and exciting gas until it radiates in structured filaments of crimson light. Roughly 5,000 light-years away, the expanding debris field preserves both the thermodynamic violence of a supernova and the quiet reconfiguration of surrounding molecular clouds, offering a natural laboratory for studying how energy redistributes itself across galactic environments. (Featured image from New Thinking Allowed)
“An Ordinary Insanity” film
An Ordinary Insanity Film Jun 4, 2026 In this 29-minute documentary, renowned whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg provides a powerful wakeup call about the global threat posed by nuclear weapons and advocates how we can dramatically reduce the real and present danger of nuclear annihilation. Before he released the top secret Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, Ellsberg was a nuclear war planner with access to classified information on U.S. nuclear strategy. Filmed one year before his death at age 92, Ellsberg speaks with clarity and urgency about the dangers we face, noting, ”I’ve long said that to my last breath I will be doing what I can to postpone and avert the risk of nuclear war.” With ongoing conflicts heightening global nuclear tensions and with the recent end of the New START treaty potentially triggering a renewed arms race, AN ORDINARY INSANITY is a timely film to help mobilize broad public concern and action for arms control and nuclear disarmament. PLEASE SHARE ONLINE & SCREEN AT PUBLIC EVENTS. Visit the film website for more information – https://www.anordinaryinsanity.com
