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In 1946, only 8,000 homes, all of which were in the USA, had television.

As a child growing up in El Salvador, I remember anticipating the afternoon Disney cartoons. My younger brother, Erwin, and I would sit behind TV trays, eating corn tamales “con crema”, faithfully waiting for the “snow” to stop and the [...]

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I’m reading an article titled, Cosmological Challenges: Are we alone, and Where? The author is Martin Rees, former professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge.

The next frontier for the next fifty years in science, he claims, is to “seek firm evidence for, or against, the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence.”

Are we alone in [...]

of mystic warriors traveling by camel over the most
hostile terrains for the chance to guide others towards the mystic…

Is it proper to conclude that in very broad strokes Western Culture is –oh, how shall we say it? — better, superior, improved over many other cultures and worth saving? Or is an Islamic future for Europe just as good/bad?

So here’s my question: What were your favorite topics of conversations had here at “into the mystic…” for 2005″? For you long time contributors, what would be your top 5 (or 10) “must read” picks for new readers and subscribers?

A paradox of life in the 21st century is that we live in an age of isolated connectivity or connected isloation.

What’s next? Will the “thinker” become conscious? What will signal the shift from “global thinker” to “global mind”? What do you think?

Is two or three gathered by the calling of Christ to reach people (Mission), who share the Lord’s Supper (Missional Community), and baptize converts (Missional Activity) a church? What more than this is necessary? Or is this too much? Or is it something other than these elements?

This movement may be more akin to an evolution of the human race than to a migration. Is mankind in a transitional phase of evolution from Homo Sapiens Sapiens to some as yet unnamed new species of man? If so, we are Homo Electronicus Migratus, an intermediate humanoid between the species we were and that which we are becoming. The famous Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise once said to a twentieth century earthling who mistakenly thought Kirk was from outer space, “I’m from Iowa. I just work in outer space.” In the same way, many among us are from the future, we just live and work in the present. And in the future, man has evolved from earthling to cyberling.

What are the keys to hosting a kingdom party in which spiritual conversation can be had?