Conflux No.9

	Gallery 1 Somewhere Deep Down
	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.
	Tool Use Is Just a Trick of the Mind Primate brains learn how to use pliers and other implements by treating them as part of the body
	Solving the Carbon-14 Mystery Physicists figure out why the anthropological dating tool decays so slowly
	The Ocean's Biological Deserts Are Expanding Global warming may be driving an enlargement of the sea's least productive regions
	1.   Transforming your consciousness, throwing out all darkness from your inner world and making it radiate with the ultimate, with the absolute ....   2.   Time stops, mind becomes just a shadow; you are no more you, you have become the universe. Unless this happens, you are in misery.    3.   We are one, somewhere deep down, and to find that unity is the greatest rejoicing.   4.   There is nothing more ecstatic than to find the point where everything in existence has its roots, the very source.    5.   Loving the master has only one meaning — that you open up to such a point that the master can hit, and cut like a sword all the barriers to your enlightenment.    6.   You have to cut all your mind activities, you have to cut all your heart feelings. Unless thoughts and feelings disappear, you cannot be absolutely silent.
	Hurt an Organ, Help a Disease? Injured pancreas suggests new source of insulin-producing cells
	Human-Driven Planet: Time to Make It Official? Geologists propose a new epoch recognizing the primary cause of global change
	Scientists Synthesize a Genome From Scratch Stitched-together chromosome a prelude to artificial life
	The moment you leave the body, there are two possibilities: either your consciousness enters into another womb and again becomes imprisoned, or if you are fully aware, you don't enter in another womb, you simply enter into the universal vastness. You become one with the ocean of reality. You will simply disappear, as a dewdrop disappears into the ocean in the morning sun. It leaves no address, it leaves no footprints. It just slips silently into the ocean, without making any fuss, and then the whole ocean is the same.  Millions of buddhas have disappeared in the same ocean, but as far as going is concerned, you are not going anywhere. You are going to be here, without a body, in absolute freedom — no confinement, no limits, the whole sky is yours.                                                                                                           - Osho