Recollections of my nonexistence

By Maria Popova (brainpickings.org)

“I am convinced that most people do not grow up,” Maya Angelou wrote in her stirring letter to the daughter she never had. “We carry accumulation of years in our bodies and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.” In that same cultural season, from a college commencement stage, Toni Morrison told an orchard of human saplings that “true adulthood is a difficult beauty, an intensely hard won glory.”

It is tempting, for it is flattering, to think of ourselves as trees — as firmly rooted and resolutely upward bound; as creatures destined, in Mary Oliver’s lovely words, “to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.” But even if the highest compliment a great poet can pay a great woman is to celebrate her as a human tree, we are not trees — we don’t branch and root from a single point, we don’t grow linearly; we disbark ourselves at will, at the flash and flutter of a heart, self-grafting every love and loss we live through; our growth-rings are often ungirdled by self-doubt, by regress, by the fits and starts by which we become who and what we are: fragmentary but indivisible. The difficulty of growing up, the hard-won glory of it, lies in the self-tessellation.

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Art by Arthur Rackham for a rare 1917 edition of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. (Available as a print.)

That is what Rebecca Solnit explores in a passage from Recollections of My Nonexistence (public library) — her splendid memoir of longings and determinations, of resistances and revolutions, personal and political, illuminating the kiln in which one of the boldest, most original minds of our time was annealed.

Three quarters into the book and half a lifetime into her becoming, Solnit writes:

2e292385-dc1c-4cfe-b95e-845f6f98c2ec.pngGrowing up, we say, as though we were trees, as though altitude was all that there was to be gained, but so much of the process is growing whole as the fragments are gathered, the patterns found. Human infants are born with craniums made up of four plates that have not yet knit together into a solid dome so that their heads can compress to fit through the birth canal, so that the brain within can then expand. The seams of these plates are intricate, like fingers interlaced, like the meander of arctic rivers across tundra.

The skull quadruples in size in the first few years, and if the bones knit together too soon, they restrict the growth of the brain; and if they don’t knit at all the brain remains unprotected. Open enough to grow and closed enough to hold together is what a life must also be. We collage ourselves into being, finding the pieces of a worldview and people to love and reasons to live and then integrate them into a whole, a life consistent with its beliefs and desires, at least if we’re lucky.

Aldous Huxley and Brave New World: The Dark Side of Pleasure

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Great Conjunction 2020 – Live Views of Jupiter and Saturn from Exeter, UK

Physics at Exeter In late December 2020, the two largest planets in our Solar System, Jupiter and Saturn, will be so close in the sky that they’ll both be visible through a telescope eyepiece at the same time. Such close passes are known as Great Conjunctions. The Great Conjunction of 2020 will be the closest in almost 400 years. In this live stream the Astrophysics Group at the University of Exeter and the Exeter Science Centre try to bring you live views of Jupiter and Saturn from a telescope. We also have a panel of expert speakers answering questions. More information about the event: http://jupitersaturn2020.org#jupitersaturnconjunction Other links: Exeter Astrophysics: http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/physics-astr… Exeter Science Centre: https://exetersciencecentre.org/ Music used in the video clips: Ailien Lullaby by Mikael Hellman Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5721-ailien… License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Discovering The New Land by MusicLFiles Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7129-discov… License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Lost Frontier by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song… License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Relaxing Piano Music by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song… License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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Louise Hay’s “The List”

EVOLVE WITHIN


“The last major revision of this list was in 1988. I still get mail asking for the mental patterns for the latest dis-eases of the moment, such as fibromyalgia; however, I see no reason to add any more patterns. I’ve learned that there are really two mental patterns that contribute to dis-ease: fear and anger. Anger can show up as impatience, irritation, frustration, criticism, resentment, jealousy, or bitterness. These are all thoughts that poison the body. When we release this burden, all the organs in our body begin to function properly. Fear could be tension, anxiety, nervousness, worry, doubt, insecurity, feeling not good enough, or unworthiness. Do you relate to any of this stuff? We must learn to substitute faith for fear if we are to heal. 

Faith in what? Faith in life. I believe that we live in a “Yes” Universe. No matter what we choose to believe or think, the Universe always says yes to us. If we think poverty, the Universe says Yes to that. If we think prosperity, the Universe says Yes to that. So we want to think and believe that we have the right to be healthy, that health is natural to us. The Universe will support and say yes to this belief. Be a “Yes” person, and know that you live n a “Yes” world, being responded to by a “Yes” Universe.

If you find yourself with some sort of dis-ease that’s not listed here, become your own investigator and healer. Ask yourself: Is it one of the forms of fear, or is it one of the forms of anger? Are you willing to release those thoughts? Are you willing to replace those thoughts with positive affirmations? Loving yourself will also contribute greatly to healing your body, for love heals.

So how do you love yourself? First of all, and most important: Cease all criticism of yourself and others. Accept yourself as you are. Praise yourself as much as you can. Criticism breaks down the inner spirit; praise builds it up. Look into a mirror often, and simply say: I LOVE YOU, I REALLY LOVE YOU. It may be difficult at first, but keep practicing, and soon you will mean and feel what you say. Love yourself as much as you can, and all of life will mirror this love back to you.

By the way, fibromyalgia is fear showing up as extreme tension due to stress.”

– Louise Hay 

From her book “Heal Your Body” by Louise Hay, use this list and see if you can find the correlation between dis-eases you may have had or are having now and the probable causes that are listed. A good way to use this list when you have a physical problem is:

1. Look up the mental cause. See if this could be true for you. If not, sit quietly and ask yourself, “What could be the thoughts in me that created this?”

2. Repeat to yourself, “I am willing to release the pattern in my consciousness that has created this condition.”

3. Repeat the new thought pattern to yourself several times.

4. Assume that you are already in the process of healing.

Whenever you think of the condition, repeat the steps.

A (CLICK HERE)

ABDOMINAL CRAMPS, ABSCESS, ACCIDENTS, ACHES, ACNE, ADDITIONS, ADDISON’S DIS-EASE (SEE:ADRENAL PROBLEMS), ADENOIDS, ADRENAL PROBLEMS (SEE: ADDISON’S DIS-EASE, CUSHING’S DIS-EASE), AGING PROBLEMS, AIDS, ALCOHOLISM, ALLERGIES (SEE: HAY FEVER), ALZHEIMER’S DIS-EASE (SEE: DEMENTIA, SENILITY), AMENORRHEA (SEE: FEMALE PROBLEMS, MENSTRUAL PROBLEMS), AMNESIA, AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (LOU GEHRIG’S DIS-EASE), ANEMIA, ANKLE(S), ANORECTAL BLEEDING (HEMATOCHEZIA), ANOREXIA (SEE: APPETITE, LOSS OF), ANUS, ANXIETY, APATHY, APPENDICITIS, APPETITE, ARM(S), ARTERIES, ARTERIOSCLEROSIS, ARTHRITIC FINGERS, ARTHRITIS (SEE: JOINTS), ASPHYXIATING ATTACKS (SEE: BREATHING PROBLEMS, HYPERVENTILATION), ASTHMA, ATHLETE’S FOOT

B (CLICK HERE)

BACK, BACK PROBLEMS, BAD BREATH (SEE: HALITOSIS), BALANCE (,LOSS OF), BALDNESS, BEDWETTING (ENURESIS), BELCHING, BELL’S PALSY (SEE: PALSY, PARALYSIS), BIRTH, BITES, BLACKHEADS, BLADDER PROBLEMS (CYSTITIS), BLEEDING, BLEEDING GUMS, BLISTERS, BLOOD, BLOOD PRESSURE, BLOOD PROBLEMS (SEE: LEUKEMIA), BODY ODOR, BOILS (FURUNCLE) (SEE: CARBUNCLE), BONE(S) (SEE:SKELETON), BONE MARROW, BONE PROBLEMS, BOWELS, BRAIN, BREAST(S), BREAST PROBLEMS, BREATH, BREATHING PROBLEMS (SEE:ASPHYXIATING ATTACKS, HYPERVENTILATION), BRIGHT’S DIS-EASE (SEE: NEPHRITIS), BRONCHITIS (SEE: RESPIRATORY AILMENTS), BRUISES (ECCHYMOSES), BULIMIA, BUNIONS, BURNS, BURSITIS, BUTTOCKS

C (CLICK HERE)

CALLOUSES, CANCER, CANDIDA (CANDIDIASIS) (SEE: THRUSH, YEAST INFECTION), CANKER SORES, CAR SICKNESS (SEE: MOTION SICKNESS), CARBUNCLE (SEE:BOILS), CARPAL-TUNNEL SYNDROME (SEE: WRIST), CATARACTS, CELLULITE, CEREBRAL PALSY (SEE: PALSY), CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT (SEE: STROKE), CHILDHOOD DIS-EASES, CHILLS, CHOLELITHIASIS (SEE: GALLSTONES), CHOLESTEROL (ATHEROSCLEROSIS), CHRONIC DIS-EASES, CIRCULATION, COLD SORES (FEVER BLISTERS) (SEE: HERPES SIMPLEX), COLDS (UPPER-RESPIRATORY ILLNESS) (SEE: RESPIRATORY AILMENTS), COLIC, COLITIS (SEE: COLON, INTESTINES, MUCUS COLON, SPASTIC COLITIS), COMA, COMEDONES, CONGESTION (SEE: BRONCHITIS, COLDS, INFLUENZA), CONJUNCTIVITIS (SEE:PINK EYE), CONSTIPATION, CORNS, CORONARY THROMBOSIS (SEE: HEART ATTACK), COUGHS (SEE: RESPIRATORY AILMENTS), CRAMPS, CROUP (SEE: BRONCHITIS), CRYING, CUSHING’S DIS-EASE (SEE: ADRENAL PROBLEMS), CUTS (SEE: INJURIES, WOUNDS), CYST(S), CYSTIC FIBROSIS, CYSTITIS (SEE: BLADDER PROBLEMS)

D (CLICK HERE)

DEAFNESS, DEATH, DEMENTIA (SEE: ALZHEIMER’S DIS-EASE, SENILITY), DEPRESSION, DIABETES (HYPERGLYCEMIA, MELLITUS), DIARRHEA, DIZZINESS (VERTIGO), DRY EYE, DYSENTERY, DYSMENORRHEA (SEE: FEMALE PROBLEMS, MENSTRUAL PROBLEMS)

E (CLICK HERE)

EAR(S), EARACHE (OTITIS: EXTERNAL/EAR CANAL MEDIA/INNER EAR), ECCHYMOSES (SEE: BRUISES), ECZEMA, EDEMA (SEE: HOLDING FLUIDS, SWELLING), ELBOW (SEE: JOINTS), EMPHYSEMA, ENDOMETRIOSIS, ENURESIS (SEE: BEDWETTING), EPILEPSY, EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS, EXOTROPIA (SEE: EYE PROBLEMS), EYE(S), EYE PROBLEMS (SEE: STY)

F (CLICK HERE)

FACE, FAINTING (VASOVAGAL ATTACK), FAT (SEE: OVERWEIGHT), FATIGUE, FEET, FEMALE PROBLEMS (SEE: AMENORRHEA, DYSMENORRHEA, FIBROID TUMORS, LEUKORRHEA, MENSTRUAL PROBLEMS, VAGINITIS), FEVER, FEVER BLISTERS (SEE: COLD SORES, HERPES SIMPLEX), FIBROID TUMORS & CYSTS (SEE: FEMALE PROBLEMS), FINGERS, FISTULA, FLATULENCE (SEE: GAS PAINS), FLU (SEE: INFLUENZA), FOOD POISONING, FOOT PROBLEMS, FRACTURES (SEE: BONE PROBLEMS), FRIGIDITY, FUNGUS, FURUNCLE (SEE: BOILS)

G (CLICK HERE)

GALLSTONES (CHOLELITHIASIS), GANGRENE, GAS PAINS (FLATULENCE), GASTRITIS (SEE: STOMACH PROBLEMS), GENITALS, GLAND(S), GLANDULAR FEVER (SEE: MONONUCLEOSIS), GLANDULAR PROBLEMS, GLOBUS HYSTERICUS (SEE: LUMP IN THROAT), GOITER (SEE: THYROID), GONORRHEA (SEE: VENEREAL DIS-EASE), GOUT, GRAY HAIR, GROWTHS, GUM PROBLEMS

H (CLICK HERE)

HALITOSIS (SEE: BAD BREATH), HANDS, HAY FEVER (SEE: ALLERGIES), HEADACHES (SEE: MIGRAINE HEADACHES), HEART (SEE: BLOOD), HEARTBURN (SEE: PEPTIC ULCER, STOMACH PROBLEMS, ULCERS), HEMATOCHEZIA (SEE: ANORECTAL BLEEDING), HEMORRHOIDS (SEE: ANUS), HEPATITIS (SEE: LIVER PROBLEMS), HERNIA, HERPES (HERPES GENITALIS) (SEE: VENEREAL DIS-EASE), HERPES SIMPLEX (HERPES LABIALIS) (SEE: COLD SORES), HIP(S), HIP PROBLEMS, HIRSUTISM, HIVES (URTICARIA) (SEE: RASH), HODGKIN’S DIS-EASE, HOLDING FLUIDS (SEE: EDEMA, SWELLING), HUNTINGTON’S DIS-EASE, HYPERACTIVITY, HYERGLYCEMIA (SEE: DIABETES), HYPEROPIA (SEE: EYE PROBLEMS), HYPERTENSION (SEE: BLOOD PROBLEMS), HYPERTHYROIDISM (SEE: THYROID), HYPERVENTILATION (SEE: ASPHYXIATING ATTACKS, BREATHING PROBLEMS), HYPOGLYCEMIA, HYPOTHYROIDISM (SEE: THYROID)

I (CLICK HERE)

ILEITIS (CROHN’S DIS-EASE, REGIONAL ENTERITIS), IMPOTENCE, INCONTINENCE, INCURABLE, INDIGESTION, INFECTION (SEE: VIRAL INFECTION), INFLAMMATION (SEE: “ITIS”), INFLUENZA (SEE: RESPIRATORY AILMENTS), INGROWN TOENAIL, INJURIES (SEE: CUTS, WOUNDS), INSANITY (PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS), INSOMNIA, INTESTINES (SEE: COLON), ITCHING (PRURITIS), “ITIS” (SEE: INFLAMMATION)

J (CLICK HERE)

JAUNDICE (SEE: LIVER PROBLEMS), JAW PROBLEMS (TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT, TMJ SYNDROME), JOINTS (SEE: ARTHRITIS, ELBOW, KNEE, SHOULDERS)

K (CLICK HERE)

KERATITIS (SEE: EYE PROBLEMS), KIDNEY PROBLEMS, KIDNEY STONES, KNEE (SEE: JOINTS), KNEE PROBLEMS

L (CLICK HERE)

LARYNGITIS, LEFT SIDE OF BODY, LEG(S), LEG PROBLEMS, LEPROSY, LEUKEMIA (SEE: BLOOD PROBLEMS), LEUKORRHEA (SEE: FEMALE PROBLEMS, VAGINITIS), LIVER, LIVER PROBLEMS (SEE: HEPATITIS, JAUNDICE), LOCKJAW (SEE: TETANUS), LOU GEHRIG’S DIS-EASE (SEE: AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS), LUMP IN THROAT (GLOBUS HYSTERICUS), LUNG, LUNG (ERYTHEMATOSUS), LYMPH PROBLEMS

M (CLICK HERE)

MALARIA, MASTITIS (SEE: BREAST PROBLEMS), MASTOIDITIS, MELLITUS (SEE: DIABETES), MENOPAUSE PROBLEMS, MENSTRUAL PROBLEMS (SEE: AMENORRHEA, DYSMENORRHEA, FEMALE PROBLEMS), MIGRAINE HEADACHES (SEE: HEADACHES), MISCARRIAGE (ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS), MONO, MONONUCLEOSIS (PFEIFFER’S DIS-EASE, GLANDULAR FEVER), MOTION SICKNESS (SEE: CAR SICKNESS, SEASICKNESS), MOUTH, MUCUS COLON (SEE: COLITIS, COLON, INTESTINES, SPASTIC COLITIS), MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, MUSCLES, MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS (SEE: EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS), MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (SEE: HEART ATTACK), MYOPIA (SEE: EYE PROBLEMS)

N (CLICK HERE)

NAIL(S), NAIL BITING, NARCOLEPSY, NAUSEA, NEARSIGHTEDNESS (SEE: EYE PROBLEMS, MYOPIA), NECK (CERVICAL SPINE), NECK PROBLEMS, NEPHRITIS (SEE: BRIGHT’S DIS-EASE), NERVES, NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, NERVOUSNESS, NEURALGIA, NODULES, NOSE, NUMBNESS (PARESTHESIA)

O (CLICK HERE)

OSTEOMYELITIS (SEE: BONE PROBLEMS), OSTEOPOROSIS (SEE: BONE PROBLEMS), OVARIES, OVERWEIGHT (SEE: FAT)

P (CLICK HERE)

PAGET’S DIS-EASE, PAIN, PALSY (SEE: BELL’S PALSY, CEREBRAL PALSY, PARKINSON’S DIS-EASE), PANCREAS, PANCREATITIS, PARALYSIS (SEE: PALSY), PARASITES, PARESTHESIA (SEE: NUMBNESS), PARKINSON’S DIS-EASE (SEE: PALSY), PEPTIC ULCER (SEE: HEARTBURN, STOMACH PROBLEMS, ULCERS), PERIODONTITIS (SEE: PYORRHEA), PETIT MAL (SEE: EPILEPSY), PFEIFFER’S DIS-EASE (SEE: MONONUCLEOSIS), PHLEBITIS, PILES (SEE: HEMORRHOIDS), PIMPLES (SEE: BLACKHEADS, WHITEHEADS), PINK EYE (SEE: CONJUNCTIVITIS), PITUITARY GLAND, PLANTAR WART, PNEUMONIA (SEE: LUNG PROBLEMS), POISON IVY, POLIO, POST-NASAL DRIP, PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME (PMS), PROSTATE, PROSTATE PROBLEMS, PRURITIS (SEE: ITCHING), PRURITIS ANI (SEE: ANUS), PSORIASIS (SEE: SKIN PROBLEMS), PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS (SEE: INSANITY), PUBIC BONE, PYELONEPHRITIS (SEE: URINARY INFECTIONS), PYORRHEA (PERIODONTITIS)

Q (CLICK HERE)

QUINSY (PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS) (SEE: SORE THROAT, TONSILLITIS)

R (CLICK HERE)

RABIES, RASH (SEE: HIVES), RECTUM (SEE: ANUS, RESPIRATORY AILMENTS (SEE: BRONCHITIS, COLDS, COUGHS, INFLUENZA), RHEUMATISM, RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, RICKETS, RIGHT SIDE OF BODY, RINGWORM, ROOT CANAL (SEE: TEETH), ROUND SHOULDERS (SEE: SHOULDERS, SPINAL CURVATURE)

S (CLICK HERE)

SAGGING LINES, SCABIES, SCIATICA, SCLERODERMA, SCOLIOSIS (SEE: ROUND SHOULDERS, SPINAL CURVATURE), SCRATCHES, SEASICKNESS (SEE: MOTION SICKNESS), SEIZURES, SENILITY (SEE: ALZHEIMER’S DIS-EASE), SHIN(S), SHINGLES (VARICELLA), SHOULDERS (SEE: JOINTS, ROUND SHOULDERS), SICKLE CELL ANEMIA, SINUS PROBLEMS (SINUSITIS), SKELETON (SEE: BONES), SKIN, SKIN PROBLEMS (SEE: HIVES, PSORIASIS, RASH), SLIPPED DISC, SNORING, SOLAR PLEXUS, SORE THROAT (SEE: QUINSY, THROAT, TONSILLITIS), SORES, SPASMS, SPASTIC COLITIS (SEE: COLITIS, COLON, INTESTINES, MUCUS COLON), SPINAL CURVATURE (SCOLIOSIS KYPHOSIS) (SEE: ROUND SHOULDERS), SPINAL MENINGITIS, SPINE, SPLEEN, SPRAINS, STERILITY, STIFF NECK (SEE: NECK PROBLEMS), STIFFNESS, STOMACH, STOMACH PROBLEMS (SEE: GASTRITIS, HEARTBURN, PEPTIC ULCER, ULCERS), STROKE (CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT/CVA), STUTTERING, STY (SEE: EYE PROBLEMS), SUICIDE, SWELLING (SEE: EDEMA, HOLDING FLUIDS), SYPHILIS (SEE: VENEREAL DIS-EASE)

T (CLICK HERE)

TAPEWORM, TEETH, TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT (SEE: JAW PROBLEMS), TESTICLES, TETANUS (SEE: LOCKJAW), THROAT, THRUSH (SEE: CANDIDA, MOUTH, YEAST INFECTIONS), THYMUS, THYROID (SEE: GOITER, HYPERTHYROIDISM, HYPOTHYROIDISM), TICS/TWITCHES, TINNITUS, TOES, TONGUE, TONSILLITIS (SEE: QUINSY, SORE THROAT), TUBERCULOSIS, TUMORS

U (CLICK HERE)

ULCERS (SEE: HEARTBURN, PEPTIC ULCER, STOMACH PROBLEMS), URETHRITIS, URINARY INFECTIONS (CYSTITIS, PYELONEPHRITIS), URTICARIA (SEE: HIVES), UTERUS

V (CLICK HERE)

VAGINITIS (SEE: FEMALE PROBLEMS, LEUKORRHEA), VARICELLA (SEE: SHINGLES), VARICOSE VEINS, VASOVAGAL ATTACK (SEE: FAINTING), VENEREAL DIS-EASE (SEE: AIDS, GONORRHEA, HERPES, SYPHILIS, VERTIGO (SEE: DIZZINESS), VIRAL INFECTIONS (SEE: INFECTION), VITILIGO, VOMITING, VULVA

W (CLICK HERE)

WARTS, WEAKNESS, WHITEHEADS (SEE: PIMPLES), WISDOM TOOTH/IMPACTED, WOUNDS (SEE: CUTS, INJURIES), WRIST

Y (CLICK HERE)

YEAST INFECTIONS (SEE: CANDIDA, THRUSH) 

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Quantum Entanglement

Einstein’s Quantum Riddle

Join scientists as they grab light from across the universe to prove quantum entanglement is real.

PREMIERED: 1/9/19
RUNTIME: 53:12
TOPIC: PHYSICS + MATH

Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance,” but today quantum entanglement is poised to revolutionize technology from computers to cryptography. Physicists have gradually become convinced that the phenomenon—two subatomic particles that mirror changes in each other instantaneously over any distance—is real. But a few doubts remain. NOVA follows a ground-breaking experiment in the Canary Islands to use quasars at opposite ends of the universe to once and for all settle remaining questions. (Premiered January 9, 2019.)

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Auguries of Innocence

BY WILLIAM BLAKE

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower 
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand 
And Eternity in an hour
A Robin Red breast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage 
A Dove house filld with Doves & Pigeons
Shudders Hell thr’ all its regions 
A dog starvd at his Masters Gate
Predicts the ruin of the State 
A Horse misusd upon the Road
Calls to Heaven for Human blood 
Each outcry of the hunted Hare
A fibre from the Brain does tear 
A Skylark wounded in the wing 
A Cherubim does cease to sing 
The Game Cock clipd & armd for fight
Does the Rising Sun affright 
Every Wolfs & Lions howl
Raises from Hell a Human Soul 
The wild deer, wandring here & there 
Keeps the Human Soul from Care 
The Lamb misusd breeds Public Strife
And yet forgives the Butchers knife 
The Bat that flits at close of Eve
Has left the Brain that wont Believe
The Owl that calls upon the Night
Speaks the Unbelievers fright
He who shall hurt the little Wren
Shall never be belovd by Men 
He who the Ox to wrath has movd
Shall never be by Woman lovd
The wanton Boy that kills the Fly
Shall feel the Spiders enmity 
He who torments the Chafers Sprite
Weaves a Bower in endless Night 
The Catterpiller on the Leaf
Repeats to thee thy Mothers grief 
Kill not the Moth nor Butterfly 
For the Last Judgment draweth nigh 
He who shall train the Horse to War
Shall never pass the Polar Bar 
The Beggars Dog & Widows Cat 
Feed them & thou wilt grow fat 
The Gnat that sings his Summers Song
Poison gets from Slanders tongue 
The poison of the Snake & Newt
Is the sweat of Envys Foot 
The poison of the Honey Bee
Is the Artists Jealousy
The Princes Robes & Beggars Rags
Are Toadstools on the Misers Bags 
A Truth thats told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent 
It is right it should be so 
Man was made for Joy & Woe 
And when this we rightly know 
Thro the World we safely go 
Joy & Woe are woven fine 
A Clothing for the soul divine 
Under every grief & pine
Runs a joy with silken twine 
The Babe is more than swadling Bands
Throughout all these Human Lands
Tools were made & Born were hands 
Every Farmer Understands
Every Tear from Every Eye
Becomes a Babe in Eternity 
This is caught by Females bright
And returnd to its own delight 
The Bleat the Bark Bellow & Roar 
Are Waves that Beat on Heavens Shore 
The Babe that weeps the Rod beneath
Writes Revenge in realms of Death 
The Beggars Rags fluttering in Air
Does to Rags the Heavens tear 
The Soldier armd with Sword & Gun 
Palsied strikes the Summers Sun
The poor Mans Farthing is worth more
Than all the Gold on Africs Shore
One Mite wrung from the Labrers hands
Shall buy & sell the Misers Lands 
Or if protected from on high 
Does that whole Nation sell & buy 
He who mocks the Infants Faith
Shall be mockd in Age & Death 
He who shall teach the Child to Doubt
The rotting Grave shall neer get out 
He who respects the Infants faith
Triumphs over Hell & Death 
The Childs Toys & the Old Mans Reasons
Are the Fruits of the Two seasons 
The Questioner who sits so sly 
Shall never know how to Reply 
He who replies to words of Doubt
Doth put the Light of Knowledge out 
The Strongest Poison ever known
Came from Caesars Laurel Crown 
Nought can Deform the Human Race
Like to the Armours iron brace 
When Gold & Gems adorn the Plow
To peaceful Arts shall Envy Bow 
A Riddle or the Crickets Cry
Is to Doubt a fit Reply 
The Emmets Inch & Eagles Mile
Make Lame Philosophy to smile 
He who Doubts from what he sees
Will neer Believe do what you Please 
If the Sun & Moon should Doubt 
Theyd immediately Go out 
To be in a Passion you Good may Do 
But no Good if a Passion is in you 
The Whore & Gambler by the State
Licencd build that Nations Fate 
The Harlots cry from Street to Street 
Shall weave Old Englands winding Sheet 
The Winners Shout the Losers Curse 
Dance before dead Englands Hearse 
Every Night & every Morn
Some to Misery are Born 
Every Morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight 
Some are Born to sweet delight 
Some are Born to Endless Night 
We are led to Believe a Lie
When we see not Thro the Eye
Which was Born in a Night to perish in a Night 
When the Soul Slept in Beams of Light 
God Appears & God is Light
To those poor Souls who dwell in Night 
But does a Human Form Display
To those who Dwell in Realms of day

Source: Poets of the English Language (Viking Press, 1950) (poetryfoundation.org)

How to watch the Jupiter and Saturn ‘great conjunction’ of 2020

On 21 December, the planets will align, appearing closer than they have since the middle ages, in what is being called a ‘Christmas kiss’

On 21 December, the December solstice, the the planets will look like a giant star as Jupiter and Saturn’s 12 and 29 year orbits bring them together.

On the December solstice in 2020, Jupiter’s and Saturn’s orbits will bring them together in a ‘great conjunction’. Photograph: Jon G Fuller/VW Pics/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Helen Sullivan@helenrsullivan Mon 14 Dec 2020 (theguardian.com)

This year, stargazers will have the chance to see a Christmas “kiss” beneath interplanetary mistletoe when Jupiter and Saturn will appear closer to one another and brighter than they have in 800 years in an event known as a “great conjunction”.

What is happening and how rare is it?

On the 21 December solstice, the planets will look like one brilliant star as Jupiter’s and Saturn’s 12- and 29-year orbits bring them together. The last great conjunction was in May 2000, but its position in the sky meant it was difficult to see. The great conjunction of 1623 (when Galileo Galilei was still alive) was also hard to spot because, the Perth Observatory explains, it appeared close enough to the sun that it would have been “lost in the sun’s glare”.

“You’d have to go all the way back to just before dawn on 4 March 1226 to see a closer alignment between these objects visible in the night sky,” according to Patrick Hartigan, an astronomer from Rice University in Texas.Starwatch: ‘Christmas star’ is the closest great conjunction in almost 400 yearsRead more

That is suspiciously near to Christmas day. Is there any relation to the Star of Bethlehem?

Funny you should ask. The Star of Bethlehem that guided the three wise men to the place of Jesus Christ’s birth may have been a great conjunction, too. As the Encyclopaedia Britannica explains, several conjunctions occurred “within 10 years of the chronological point now taken as the beginning of the Christian era”.

One of these was a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, which in 7BC were within one degree of each other three times in eight months. The Star of Bethlehem could also have been Venus and Jupiter, which in 2BC, “would have appeared to observers in Babylon to have merged just before setting in the general direction of Bethlehem to the west”.

How can I see it?

In 2020, the celestial phenomenon will be visible from anywhere on Earth, but conditions will be best near the equator, according to Hartigan. The Christmas “kiss” – as astronomer Dr Brad Tucker from the Australian National University has called it – will appear low in the western sky for roughly an hour after sunset.

Nasa said people should look for them low in the south-west in the hour after sunset when “the two giant planets will appear just a tenth of a degree apart – that’s about the thickness of a dime held at arm’s length.”

Tucker explained what to look for as “a thin crescent moon and two bright objects right next to it”.

Fans can start practising now, because the planets are already edging closer together. All that is required are a night with clear skies and a vantage point with a clear horizon – no buildings or trees in the way, according to the Cambridge Independent.

Jupiter is the larger planet, and those with very good eyesight – or a pair of binoculars – will be able to distinguish it from Saturn. To others, the planets will appear as a single star. Planets tend to shine more steadily – or twinkle less visibly – than stars, so that might help you differentiate.

Enough science. What does this mean for my horoscope?

So you want to know what astrological havoc – or magic – the meeting of these planets might portend for your future.

According to astrology superstar Susan Miller, “The Grand Conjunction sets the tone for the ethos for the next 20 years affecting the arts, music, theatre, literature, entertainment, designer fashion, food, music, mathematics, science, politics, and the government agenda. In other words, everything!”

6 big ethical questions about the future of AI

Genevieve Bell|TED Salon: Dell Technologies (ted.com)

Artificial intelligence is all around us … and the future will only bring more of it. How can we ensure the AI systems we build are responsible, safe and sustainable? Ethical AI expert Genevieve Bell shares six framing questions to broaden our understanding of future technology — and create the next generation of critical thinkers and doers.

This talk was presented at a TED Salon event given in partnership with Dell Technologies. TED editors featured it among our selections on the home page. Read more about TED Salons.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Genevieve Bell · Professor, anthropologistGenevieve Bell works at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development.

Ring out, wild bells

Alfred Lord Tennyson – 1809-1892

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
   The flying cloud, the frosty light:
   The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
   Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
   The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind
   For those that here we see no more;
   Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.

Ring out a slowly dying cause,
   And ancient forms of party strife;
   Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
   The faithless coldness of the times;
   Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes
But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
   The civic slander and the spite;
   Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
   Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
   Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ring in the valiant man and free,
   The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
   Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.

(via poets.org and Gwyllm Llwydd.)