Conflux No.16

	Gallery 1 Prepared for the New Journey
	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.
	A Baby Planet's First Steps? The youngest extrasolar planet by far may provide clues to how worlds form
	Third Gene Copy Is a Charm A gene triplicated in Down syndrome may provide cancer protection
	Physicists Successfully Store and Retrieve Nothing Researchers trap a peculiar state of the vacuum
	1.   A man who lives life to its totality knows that the moment when death knocks on the door, he will be prepared for the new journey.    2.   All this is one life: to see it is to have authentic eyes, to feel it is to have the real heart.   3.   This whole existence throbs with one heart; there is no question of inferior or superior.   4.   Without entering into your death, you cannot recognize the contrast of being alive; you cannot see the flame unless you are surrounded with darkness.   5.   Although on the screen it appears that there is a beginning and there is an end, existence has no framework; it is not a window, it is not enclosed by death and life.   6.   From the outside it may appear that somebody is born, somebody dies. From the inside, if you are aware, nothing is born, nobody dies.
	CO2 and Pollution Don't Mix Well New model predicts the gas will increase pollution-related deaths
	A Conflicts-of-Interest Handbook for Universities Unveiled With public concern high, ties between academic researchers and drug companies are the target
	New Gene Nailed for ALS Rare mutations linked to devastating disease
	Jesus claimed to be the son of God. All the masters in the East would simply laugh — son of God? In the first place, God does not exist. In the second place, where has this son come from? To the Eastern masters the very idea of God is a fiction, and fictions are not reproductive; they believe in birth control.  Jesus is simply a psychological case, suffering from what psychologists call megalomania — being too big, too great, and monopolizing the whole thing. The only begotten son — not even another sister!  In fact, if you look at the whole story that Christians have been following, God comes to be the uncle at the most, not the father; because it was the holy ghost who made the poor Virgin Mary pregnant. And still you go on calling him `holy' — he is a criminal. If he is holy, then many people would enjoy to be holy. It would be a very simple thing: no need to pray, no need to go to the church — just find a poor girl and make her pregnant and your name will be printed in every newspaper as `Holy Ghost So-and-so'. What kind of holiness is this?  And stupidity upon stupidity ...                                                                                                          - Osho