Historically, stars have been important to civilizations throughout the world. They have been part of religious practices and used for celestial navigation and orientation. Many ancient astronomers believed that stars were permanently affixed to a heavenly sphere, and that they were immutable. By convention, astronomers grouped stars into constellations and used them to track the motions of the planets and the inferred position of the Sun.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Best of TMK
-
In this lecture, Terence McKenna talks about the tragic situation we humans have placed ourselves in, and ways in which the boundry dissolut...
-
Approaching the Eschaton is based on selected remarks by Terence McKenna in a recently released interview conducted in 1998 in Hawaii by Joh...
-
Eschatology (from the Greek ἔσχατος, Eschatos meaning "last" and -logy meaning "the study of", first used in English aro...
-
logos had a semantic field extending beyond "word" to notions such as, on the one hand, language, talk, statement, speech, convers...
-
We glorify the creative potential of the individual, the rights of the individual. We understand the felt-presence of experience is what is ...
No comments:
Post a Comment