Conflux No.12

	Gallery 1 The Journey Is Not Long
	One-line abstracts / of science news reports / to flummox your mind / and generate a chaotic flux / of yearning / in your non-existent soul. / And from amidst that chaos / emerge a few beautiful sutras / elucidating the science of the soul. / Yes, the soul does exist, / and only it exists! / That is the whole point.
	Human Embryos Cloned From Skin Cells Advance could lead to embryonic stem cell lines for treating disease
	Can Pac-Man Save Us From Radioactive Waste? Researchers employ chomping strategy to weaken uranium's formerly unbreakable bonds
	Out of Disaster, Shrimp Are Reborn Climate-induced currents can devastate populations yet may help survivors recover
	1.   Unless you have found the depths of your consciousness, you don't have any power — you are just a miserable creature. You don't have even yourself, what to say about power?   2.   The road, of course, is hidden, because it is not outside, like a highway; it is an absolutely private footpath inwards where nobody has ever traveled.   3.   You make the path yourself at the same time as you move inside; it is not ready-made — because nobody else can enter within you, only you can go there.   4.   It is a question only of a single step — the journey is not long.   5.   The moment you close your eyes and start looking inwards, suddenly you are amazed that this is what you have been seeking for many lives, and it is hidden just inside you.   6.   In that silence, in that meditative state, you achieve your own innermost treasure.
	Mmmm … Bacteria Microbes in food may have a profound effect on the body's metabolism
	How to Make a Submarine Disappear Researchers think objects can be made acoustically "invisible"
	Building a New Heart From Old Tissue When newborn cells are transplanted onto "skeleton" of adult heart, it becomes pumping organ in the lab
	Have you ever thought about all the stories that end up with the marriage of the hero and the heroine, with the sentence, "Afterwards they lived happily"? Afterwards! In every story ...  you cannot find a single story in which this "afterwards they lived happily" does not appear; but it is because afterwards is the hell, it is better not to talk about it. All the pleasure is before the marriage; by the time the honeymoon ends, everything is finished. You will be fortunate if your love can survive the honeymoon — two weeks is too much! Two weeks together, just exploring the same geography. One becomes fed up. Just to ask human beings to be together more than two weeks is absolutely inhuman, because then comes misery and suffering; and this misery and suffering is perpetuated by all the churches and the religions. Because if there is no misery and no suffering, who is going to go to the churches? The fellows you find in churches are those who are suffering and asking God, "Why you are so hard on me? Could not you give this woman to somebody else?"                                                                                                          - Osho