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• The Big Bang Never Happened
  ...en expanded, thinned out, and cooled. The Big Bang model holds that at all times subsequent to the universe's initial moment of creation, the universe has b ...iverse began to develop major problems throughout the 1970's and 1980's as new astronomical observations became inconsistent with more and more of its the
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• 2010-12-29-Sacred Places
  ...s converge have been recognised as significant sacred places since ancient times and many tribes and great spiritual clans worshipped on these sites. Many o ...ational music festival defiles the site at Glastonbury in England, and New York is a city built along these lines.
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• Resilience
  ::1843 CARLYLE Past & Pr. (1858) 79 The Heaviest..has its deflexions..nay at times its resiliences, its reboundings. ...ngitudinal study of resilient children and youth. New York: McGraw-HillNew York: McGraw-Hill
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• Complexity
  ...heory has long been concerned with the study of complex systems (In recent times, complexity theory and complex systems have also been used as names of the ...Emergence: the connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software. New York: Scribner. pp. p.46. ISBN 0-684-86875-X..
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• Intelligence
  ...creating problems—and thereby laying the groundwork for the acquisition of new knowledge." ...g an extemporaneous talk (linguistic) or being able to find one's way in a new town (spatial).
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• Knowledge Representation
  ...widely used. The [[mathematical table]] has been used since [[Babylon]]ian times. More recently, these tables have been used to represent the outcomes of lo ...logies Corp.|"plex" as developed by TheBrain Technologies]] are relatively new in the field of knowledge management but give the user a way to visualise h
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• Skepticism
  ...ntly describes a lasting mindset and an approach to accepting or rejecting new information. Individuals who proclaim to have a skeptical outlook are freq ...d propounded the adoption of 'practical' skepticism. Subsequently, in the 'New Academy' Arcesilaus (c. 315-241 B.C.) and Carneades (c. 213-129 B.C.) devel
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• Fatherhood
  ...solute]] obedience of children to the father".[20] Europe saw the rise of "new [[ideological]] [[hegemony]] of the [[nuclear family]] form and a legal cod Since Roman times fatherhood has been determined with this famous sentence: Mater semper cert
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• Amen
  ...//www.newadvent.org/cathen/01407b.htm] found in the [[Hebrew Bible]] and [[New Testament]]. Its use in [[Judaism]] dates back to its earliest texts. It ha === In the New Testament ===
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• Merlin
  ...goblins, Brownies, Boogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures'', p.440. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-394-73467-X</ref> Merlin matures to an ascendant sa ...imply states that Ambrosius was another name for Merlin. He goes on to add new episodes that tie Merlin into the story of King Arthur and his predecessors
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• Intellectual History
  ;*[[The Enlightenment]]: [[Human rights]], new science, [[democracy]] (scholarly sources; [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]], [[Wilhel ...deas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas''] edited by Philip P. Wiener, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973-74. online
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• Neuroscience
  ...patients dates back to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic Neolithic] times and has been found in various [[cultures]] throughout the world. Manuscript ...ory and motor modalities: how does [[vision]] work? How do songbirds learn new songs and bats localize with ultrasound? How does the somatosensory system
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• Extraterrestrial
  ...us.</blockquote> Michael Archer, professor of biology at the University of New South Wales, Australia, has put it this way:1 ...ferent end-products, a claim first put forcibly by Wallace and echoed many times since. Conceivably, for instance, an evolutionary rerun would fail to give
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• Self Esteem
  ::1667 MILTON P.L. VIII. 572 Oft times nothing profits more Then self-esteem, grounded on just and right Well mana ...opportunities to learn, identify weaknesses and address them, and develop new strategies toward achieving those goals” (Crocker, Brook, & Niiya, 2006).
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• 2012
  ...or [[spiritual]] transformation, and that 2012 may mark the beginning of a new era.[3] Conversely, some believe that the 2012 date marks the beginning of ...ld run out lies some 4.134105 × 1028 years in the future, or 3 quintillion times the scientifically accepted age of the universe.
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• A Course in Miracles
  ...thout Distance - The story behind A Course in Miracles, ISBN 1-58761-108-7 New Age Encyclopedia, 1st ed., Gale Research, Inc. ...7914-3854-6, New Age Religion and Western Culture, State University of New York Press
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• 134:5 Political Sovereignty
  ...of [[nation]] life during the last nineteen hundred years and more. In the times of [[Jesus]] there were only two great world powers—the [https://en.wikip ...n [[subversive]] of the [[sovereignty]] of the territorial [[state]]. Each new and forward [[evolution]] of [[political]] [[sovereignty]] is (and has alwa
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• Prophecy
  ...writers used the term in translations of the [[Hebrew Bible]] and in the [[New Testament]] to refer to religious specialists in Israelite, Jewish, and Chr ...es is often ambiguous or vague, as with the Greek term prophētēs, which at times denotes the oracular mouthpiece for divine speech and at others refers to t
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• Alchemy
  ...sequent heating of the liquid. Now, while sulphur is mentioned hundreds of times [in Greek alchemical texts], there is no allusion to any of its characteris ...human condition. But the successful initiate cannot adequately express his new mode of being in a profane language. He is compelled to use a "secret langu
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• Jane Roberts
  ...s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saratoga_Springs,_New_York Saratoga Springs, New York], where she attended [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skidmore_College Skidmo ...ribed as [[influential]] in starting the trend of "channeling" and other [[new age]] practices such as "dreamwork" and "lucid dreaming".[5]
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