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Barbara Stahura
Freelance Writer
Freelance Writer
by Barbara Stahura
More than half a century ago, theologian Teilhard de Chardin conceived of an emerging web of global consciousness, which he dubbed the noosphere. Many people believe he foretold the Internet, but Princeton physicist Roger Nelson says Chardin was referring to something much more magnificent: a consciousness connecting all life on the planet, a Gaia mind. In 1998, Nelson and a group of colleagues from various anomalies-research fields created the Global Consciousness Project (GCP) to seek scientific evidence for it. (continued)
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This article appeared in the July 2001 issue of Science of Mind. It won a 2001 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from The National Council on Crime and Delinquency.
Another Way of Doing Justice
By Barbara Stahura
By Barbara Stahura
Pinned to the floor of your bedroom by a man’s foot and watching as his accomplices murder your husband and rape your teenage daughter is something most of us, thankfully, will never experience. Even more rare would be for that wife and mother to fight for the rehabilitation of the two offenders who will one day be released from prison and to fight for a life sentence, rather than execution, for the shooter. Yet all this happened to Cheryl Ward-Kaiser, who decided at the outset not to be revictimized by the criminal justice system and to fight for justice, not vengeance, for the people who wrecked her life. In the process, she has restored herself and helped her victims and their families begin their own restoration. (continued)
