Conflux No.18

	Gallery 1 Losing Your Number
	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 Sweet Success for Embryonic Stem Cells Scientists induce functional pancreatic cells to form in mice, suggesting a way to treat diabetes
	Florida Gives Evolution a Thumbs-Up Board of education adopts historic standards, but some question the wording
	Chilling Lessons from Ice Ages Past Warming climate could do to Antarctic life what 20 glaciations could not
	1.   Your inner being, when it opens, first experiences two directions: the height, the depth. And then slowly, slowly, you start looking around, spreading into all other eight directions.   2.   Once you have attained to the point where your height and your depth meet, then you can look around to the very circumference of the universe. Your consciousness starts unfolding …   3.   The moment someone becomes enlightened — it is not that, in the history of enlightenment, one more enlightened person is added — he simply disappears in the ocean.   4.   Enlightenment simply means losing your number, your personality, your ego, your "I am," and just becoming part of a tremendous isness.    5.   Just look silently and deeply and you will find your master everywhere. The whole existence will become suffused with your master.   6.   When a master dies, he makes the whole existence sacred for his disciples. In the stones they will touch him, in the flowers they will see his colors, in the rainbows they will see his beauty.
	New Horizons Catches a Break Pluto's atmosphere should still be around by the time the spacecraft arrives
	Warm Sea Urchins on Acid Rising temperatures and acidity in the ocean cause deformities and death
	A Grand Diversion in Louisiana Model predicts how much wetlands would benefit from shunting Mississippi River
	You are already ninety percent a buddha; and a hundred percent is not far away. But remember one thing — that even ninety-nine percent will not be close enough. Even ninety-nine-point-nine percent will still be distant. You have to be a hundred percent here and now at the very center of your being, and suddenly there arises within you a new, fresh, eternal consciousness that knows nothing of pain, nothing of death; it knows no beginning and no end. Your potential has blossomed into a lotus.  You must have seen Gautam Buddha's statues: he is sitting on a lotus. That lotus is symbolic of the blossoming of consciousness to its ultimate possibility and potentiality.                                                                                                             - Osho