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It started out as a fantasy football team name. I was invited to try it out for the first time by my extended family that has a 12 team league, so I decided on a name that everyone in the fam would immediately know was ...

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The Lunar Life Training Sessions is part of the Intuitive Force What If? Series, and depicts human life in space, on the moon through the eyes of various lunar living creatures…

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Every time I feel confused about how how humans behave, what drives a person to speak or act in a way that is confusing to me. Often, I try to imagine what would it be like to observe the Earth in the context of a diffe...

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We hear a lot of Messiah in the Holiday season - beautiful stories and majestic songs. Messiah comes to many of us at this time of year. From Handel's Messiah to the Hallelujah chorus to Linus quoting Isaiah (accurately...

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Not sure why today is the day. Inspiration suddenly hit - I'm searching for a notebook leftover from the archives - hoping for one that was clean and ready - flipping through piles of half-used notebooks, scores of musi...

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Portia and Pru are sitting in a Coffee Shop in Amsterdam. Dressed in the fatigues typical of a commercial or maritime space cruiser, they attract little attention in this tourist spot. It is May, 2056, and there is a lot...

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It had geen a very long weekend, and not the best one - our Anniversary trip to visit relatives in beautiful Monterey was conscripted by a two-year old dealing with one of meny daycare colds. By the time I was heading ba...

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What an amazing gig - we, that is the band that is the Banned of Jeff Berkley & the Banned had a great time at our sold out show, the opening date for this year's Palo Verde concert series, Michael Rennie opened his be...

","url":"https://theuniversechannel.com/the-universe-channel/f/superhero-chair-guy-saves-the-day","title":"Superhero Chair Man Saves the Day!","summary":" What an amazing gig - we, that is the band that is the Banned of Jeff Berkley & the Banned had a great time at our sold out show, the opening date for this year's Palo Verde concert series, Michael Rennie opened his be...","date_modified":"2023-06-20T19:15:23Z"},{"id":"https://theuniversechannel.com/the-universe-channel/f/repeating-history---a-science-fair-computer-from-1812","html_content":"

... history repeats whether we learn it or not. We strive for the same successes again and again - maybe even try and re-create the success of leaving the womb and entering this new space filled with air and bodies and ...

","url":"https://theuniversechannel.com/the-universe-channel/f/repeating-history---a-science-fair-computer-from-1812","title":"Repeating history - a science fair computer from 1812","summary":"... history repeats whether we learn it or not. We strive for the same successes again and again - maybe even try and re-create the success of leaving the womb and entering this new space filled with air and bodies and ...","date_modified":"2023-05-26T17:46:33Z"},{"id":"https://theuniversechannel.com/the-universe-channel/f/row-tow-throw-and-go-junior-lifesaving-and-omer-compassion","html_content":"

I have started taking a \"chair yoga\" class with Jackie Gadd, to try and get better left-right balance for my artistic endeavors, and well as to just generally improve my flexibility and strength. Jackie is an amazing so...

","url":"https://theuniversechannel.com/the-universe-channel/f/row-tow-throw-and-go-junior-lifesaving-and-omer-compassion","title":"Row, Tow, Throw and Go! Junior Lifesaving and Omer Compassion","summary":"I have started taking a \"chair yoga\" class with Jackie Gadd, to try and get better left-right balance for my artistic endeavors, and well as to just generally improve my flexibility and strength. Jackie is an amazing so...","date_modified":"2023-04-27T22:17:40Z"},{"id":"https://theuniversechannel.com/the-universe-channel/f/the-perfect-gig---remake-the-future-and-the-past","html_content":"

That leaves slogging through the present as the only task remaining to get from A to B - from a beautiful memory of a Universe you have already experienced, to an even more beautiful future that you are creating out of n...

","url":"https://theuniversechannel.com/the-universe-channel/f/the-perfect-gig---remake-the-future-and-the-past","title":"The Perfect Gig - Remake the future and the past","summary":"That leaves slogging through the present as the only task remaining to get from A to B - from a beautiful memory of a Universe you have already experienced, to an even more beautiful future that you are creating out of n...","date_modified":"2023-04-13T22:33:55Z"},{"id":"https://theuniversechannel.com/the-universe-channel/f/what-is-the-first-clue","html_content":"

I like to try to see what others see for themselves - it's hard. I don'twant to do this... it's painful. It requires suspend my own sense of self and start all over again. Imagine myself in their position - what sort ...

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Recently it has been discovered that dark matter is just a bunch of bullshit. It is in fact more bullshit by a longshot than the classic image we have of Carrie Fisher as 3-D hologram. We might, in fact, all be 3-D holo...

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When you ask someone to sketch a tree, you will almost always receive a picture that has a brown trunk, branches extending upward and outward, and leaves on the branches. “What is that?” A child might say. “Tis’ a tree d...

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I wrote this song - or should I say this song wrote me - at a time of seclusion and isolation. The chrysalis of my salvation was still not obvious to me, although in my head was still a tiny hint of the feeling of wonder...

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At one time, the entire mass of the universe, before what scientists think was \"the big bang\" - was a volume of near infinitely dense material, containing all of the capability to fuse into elements, combine into molecul...

","url":"https://theuniversechannel.com/the-universe-channel/f/in-the-beginning-there-was-this-really-dense-hot-ball","title":"In the beginning... there was this really dense hot ball","summary":"At one time, the entire mass of the universe, before what scientists think was \"the big bang\" - was a volume of near infinitely dense material, containing all of the capability to fuse into elements, combine into molecul...","date_modified":"2022-12-13T18:09:46Z"},{"id":"https://theuniversechannel.com/the-universe-channel/f/formulating-a-clue","html_content":"

I've been needing to get a clue for the longest time, some say ... when I started to write it down - Clue to Another World was coming to me as a whimsical morning wake-up tune just for me; a song that pokes me out of bed...

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It's about a Stone - a LodeStone-class Space Transport Vehicle, complete with everything YOU need for that LONG trip to, say, Mars Colony? All amenities included - full body VR surround to feed your HEAD - piezo-suit wi...

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Album Release 12022022=(3869)base3

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