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Bestselling author Eric Metaxas address industry leaders at the National Religious Broadcasters dinner in Nashville, Tenn., on Sunday, March 3, 2013.

March 7, 2014|12:27 pm

An FDA panel is currently reviewing a procedure that would allow a child to inherit genetic material from three different people.

If that sounds like one too many to you, congratulations! Your moral intuition is more highly developed than that of many scientific researchers.

The procedure, pioneered at Oregon Health and Science University, involves replacing defective mitochondria in a woman's egg with healthy mitochondria from another woman.

To understand the controversy, you have to understand that every human carries two kinds of DNA: chromosomal DNA, the iconic "double helix," to which both your father and mother contribute equally, and mitochondrial DNA, which serves as the power source in cells and is only passed on by your mother.

If this proposed procedure is approved, the result would be children with DNA from three different people.

Not surprisingly, this procedure is being justified as a therapeutic measure. As the Washington Post put it, "scientists think [the procedure] could help women who carry DNA mutations for conditions such as blindness and epilepsy."

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WISDOM ARCHIVES : Greater Community Spirituality (Chapter Five) What Is Human Purpose? – Video

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UFO ALIEN ET 2014 Greater Community Spirituality (Chapter Eight) Part Two Who Is Wisdom Meant For? – Video

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Celtic spirituality topic of Lenten study

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BRUNSWICK Celtic Wisdom will be the topic of a Lenten Study Group meeting Wednesdays during Lent at 10 a.m. at the Church of the Good Samaritan in Brunswick.

The class will meet in the chapel or the parlor at Pilgrim House, 9 Cleaveland St., through April 16.

Open to the public and led by Vicar David Bellville, the class will examine the early and later origins of Celtic spirituality. Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom, by John ODonohue, will be used as a study guide.

ODonohue is an Irish poet and Catholic scholar. Anam Cara (Gaelic for soul friend) takes readers through the landscape of Celtic spirituality. It invites readers into the world of spirituality where there is no distance between oneself and the eternal.

The Celts never separate the visible from the invisible, the human from the divine, and believe that in all things there is a soul. Many persons are discovering the depth and vibrancy of Celtic spirituality, the wisdom of the past and the roots of Celtic spirituality, said Bellville in a news release.

The Church of the Good Samaritan, an inclusive church in the Anglican tradition, meets Sundays at 4 p.m. for evening prayer or Eucharist in the chapel.

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Blending science and spirituality

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Amit Goswami, Ph.D., is no stranger to thinking on another level. Melding quantum physics with philosophy and spirituality, he has gained a following of those who believe that the key to enlightenment can be found in theories often relegated to the laboratory. Made famous by his appearance in the documentary What the Bleep Do We Know?, Goswami has taken his theories around the world.

Goswamis talk this weekend is titled "Quantum Creativity in the Time of Crisis and Paradigm Shifts.

VCREPORTER: What does it mean to be "quantum conscious"?

DR. AMIT GOSWAMI: It is the ability to live in two domains of reality, a domain of potentiality which is unconscious and a manifest domain where we have subject-object awareness.

What does it mean to go from the "primacy of matter to the primacy of consciousness"? Does this reflect a need to move from materialism?

Scientific materialism is based on the idea that all are matter and material interaction in space and time. Instead, quantum physics says there is the domain of potentiality outside of space and time where we now have experimental evidence that communication is instantaneous. This interconnectedness, details show, is our capacity of knowing consciousness. When consciousness chooses from the material possibilities, actuality collapses and we have subject-object awareness. So we say consciousness is primary, manifest matter is created from it.

In your book Quantum Creativity you discuss the aha! insight. What is the "aha!" insight?

A discontinuous transition in thought comes with a surprise, hence the aha. Quantum physics explains this as a quantum leap of thought. It is similar to the quantum leap that electrons make when they go from one atomic orbit to another.

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Rebecca’s Picks: Departing Space Station Commander Provides Tour of Orbital Laboratory – Video

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Record-Setting 33 Tiny 'Cubesats' Launched From Space Station

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A record release of 33 CubeSats from the International Space Station ended Friday after a methodical series of deployments of miniature Earth imaging satellites for San Francisco-based Planet Labs Inc.

The CubeSat constellation, released in pairs over a 17-day period, included 28 satellites for Planet Labs and five spacecraft for private engineering research firms and institutions in Lithuania and Peru.

The deployments began Feb. 11 as the CubeSats sprang out of pods mounted on the end of the space station's Japanese robotic arm.

The CubeSats were launched to the orbiting complex in January inside an Orbital Sciences Corp. Cygnus cargo craft. Astronauts transferred the payloads, sealed inside more than a dozen NanoRacks deployers, to the space station's Kibo laboratory and through an airlock to the vacuum of space. [Tiny Satellites Launch From Space Station (Photos)]

NanoRacks LLC, a Houston-based company providing commercial research opportunities on the space station, sponsored the CubeSat deployments for Planet Labs and other customers. Spaceflight Inc., a firm specializing in launch services for small satellites, partnered with NanoRacks to provide the CubeSat launch opportunities.

"This is the beginning of a new era in space commerce," said Jeff Manber, NanoRacks CEO, in a press release. "We're helping our customers get a two year head start in space. They don't have to wait around for a dedicated launch to space but can instead catch the next rocket to space station. We want to thank NASA and JAXA for being wonderful partners, as well as Spaceflight Inc., for their help with customers. Without these organizations, this couldn't have happened."

The 28 CubeSats for Planet Labs will return imagery of Earth with a resolution between 3 and 5 meters, or between 10 and 16 feet. Planet Labs constructed the satellites, each about the size of a loaf of bread, at the company's San Francisco headquarters.

The Planet Labs constellation, known as Flock 1, will monitor natural disasters, deforestation, agricultural yields and other environmental changes. The company says the satellites will allow scientists and the public to track changes to Earth's surface at an unprecedented frequency.

It is the largest fleet Earth observation satellitesever launched.

Because the satellites were deployed from the International Space Station, the Flock 1 constellation is limited to observing Earth between 52 degrees of the equator.

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Refueling in space could extend satellites lives and spacecrafts travels

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Just as with a car, regular maintenance will extend a satellites lifetime and ensure that a problem like running out of fuel doesnt cut its usefulness short.But reaching a satellite to deliver much-needed services can be difficult and expensive when a satellite is orbiting the Earth.

NASA is testing a few tools that would make it much easier to repair and refuel satellites even those that were never designed to receive maintenance. The agency just successfully tested a robotic arm refueling system on the ground and is now gearing up to bring it to the International Space Station for further tests.

With more than 400 satellites in space that could benefit from robotic servicing, we thought a refueling test was the best place to start, NASA Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office associate director Frank Cepollina said in a NASA post. We wanted to demonstrate technologies that build life-extension capabilities and jumpstart a discussion about new ways to manage assets in space.

NASA tests its robotic refueling arm on Earth. Photo courtesy of NASA.

NASA names extended human exploration as one inspiration for the project. If we refuel spacecraft once theyve left Earth, it could help them travel farther than theyve ever traveled before. Like the satellites, their use wouldnt be limited by how much fuel they can pack into their hull.

MIT expanded on that idea this week with a proposal to store extra rocket fuel in space. Researchers there focus on spacecraft traveling between the Earth and moon, where they could meet up with a refueling depot to pick up an extra tank of fuel. Ships heading back to Earth could drop off any extra tanks for future ones to pick up. The tanks would be transferred by a robot or astronaut.

That kind of flexibility could help lunar exploration missions visit more remote parts of the moon, which earlier lunar missions passed up due to the larger amount of fuel that would have been needed.

Daisy-chaining fuel depots even farther into space could allow missions to venture much farther than they do today and ease travel to planned destinations like Mars.

Whatever rockets you use, youd like to take full advantage of your lifting capacity, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics professor Jeffrey Hoffman said in the release. Most of what we launch from the Earth is propellant. So whatever you can save, theres that much more payload you can take with you.

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