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  • REALITY
    • The Nature of Reality
    • You never left Home
    • The Self-Aware Universe
    • Univ. Dreaming Itself Awake
    • Is the Universe a Fractal?
    • Evidence That Consciousness Creates Reality: Welcome To The Matrix
    • The Whole of Reality Glows With Life
    • Does time exist? Quantum physics says no
    • Three Scientific Fields That Are Helping to Evolve Humanity’s Worldview
    • Why There Might Be Many More Universes Besides Our Own
    • Paradigms are Made for Shifting
    • The Science of Interconnectedness
    • Distorted Reality – Recalling Different Events After Timelines Merge
    • The Amazing Rise of the Mandela Effect!
    • Expanding Our Awareness to See a Multidimensional Reality
    • The Origin, Purpose, and Destiny of the Earth Game
    • The Next Big Bang – Human Consciousness and the Universe’s Ultimate Secret
    • Reality – Constructing the Separation Game
    • Parallel Realities and the Multidimensional Universe
    • Quantum Phase: Time, Parallel Realities and The Brain
    • The Shift and The Quickening of Manifestation
    • The Three Layers of Your Reality Construct
    • Transcending the Realms of Duality and Separation
    • How to Form Blueprints of Potential Realities
    • New View of Consciousness/Reality >
      • Evolution and Consciousness
      • Life After Death: Verdict
      • Consciousness/Brain
      • When We Die
      • The Body is a Shell
      • Everyone has a Purpose
      • Life: Spiritual Growth
      • The Problem of Evil
      • Multi-Dimension Universe
      • Conclusion and Notes:
    • A Holographic Universe? >
      • The Fractal Holographic Universe: Introduction
      • The Holographic Paradigm : All is One
      • The Spiral and the Holographic Matrix
      • The Unified Field and the Illusion of Time: Understanding the Source of Creation
      • Vacuum Energy: Proof of Free Energy in the Space All Around Us
      • Spiral Vortex – Contemplative Exercise
      • Attention, Intention & the Universe as a Conscious Holographic Information Processor
      • Love Waves In Our Hologram
      • Love, Creation and Morphic Resonance – The Formula for All Matters in The Love Hologram
  • CONSCIOUSNESS
    • The Self-Aware Universe
    • The Relationship between Human Consciousness and Earth Dynamics
    • A Call to Conscious Evolution
    • Electromagnetic Effects on Consciousness
    • Lumen Octave Principles : Language of the Soul
    • A Door Is About To Open!
    • Accessing A Higher Level Of Consciousness (and The Ego: Our Greatest Teacher)
    • Explorers of Higher Dimensions: The Power of Active Consciousness
    • 20 Transformational Truths From Sages Throughout the Ages
    • Mind Over Matter - Consciousness and the Nature of Reality
    • Beyond Space and Time: Quantum Theory Suggests Consciousness Moves on After Death
    • Neurosurgeon Who Doubted Afterlife Now Convinced It's Real
    • A Neurosurgeon’s Journey to Worlds Beyond: An Interview with Dr. Eben Alexander
    • Focus on Possibilities, Not Limitations.
    • Cosmic Consciousness Phenomenon : The Overview Effect
    • We Are Becoming Consciousness ItSelf
    • Dimensions of Conscious Experience
    • Mysterious Light : A Scientist's Odyssey
    • From Science to God
    • ONENESS : Transcending Duality
    • This Body is Not Me
    • The Rise of Empathic Consciousness
    • Your Body is a Projection of Your Consciousness
    • Evidence That Consciousness Creates Reality: Welcome To The Matrix
    • Human Consciousness Is Taking A Quantum Leap: Lifting of the Veil
    • Leading Neuroscientists & Buddhists Agree: “Consciousness is Everywhere”
    • Be Careful, Consciousness Is Listening!
    • Experiencing a Collective Shift Through Personal Transformation
    • The Illusion of Time and Space
    • The Emergence of Connected Consciousness
    • Reality & Experience: Morphic Fields & The Power Of Choice
    • You Are The One – The Universe is Moving Within You
    • Conscious Creation: Becoming an Observer of Your Own Life
    • The War On Consciousness
    • The Multidimensional Self: The Soul, OverSoul, and Beyond
    • The 2020 Parting of the Waves: Which Flow are You Riding?
    • We Have Arrived at the Dawn of the Unknowing
    • The Most Suppressed Technology Today
    • Children/Education >
      • Education and the Death of Creativity
      • A Message From The Children
      • Children of the New Dream
      • It’s Time to Unleash Creativity in Our Schools
    • The Human Heart : The Intelligence of The Heart >
      • Coherence: The Energy and Light from Your Heart
      • The Global Coherence Initiative
      • Enlightenment
    • The Human Brain >
      • The Triune Brain
      • The Split Brain
      • The Holographic Brain
      • Whole Brain Synchronization : Binaural Beats
      • Mysterious Brain Of Daniel Tammet
      • Consciousness/Brain
      • What and Where is Consciousness?
      • The Holographic Paradigm : All is One
      • Electromagnetic Effects on Consciousness
      • Exploring the Nature of Mind and our Holographic Brain
      • Six Intriguing Types of Synesthesia
      • Mysteries of the Pineal Gland Ignored by Mainstream Science and Research
  • HUMANITY
    • The Awakening >
      • The Dark Night Of The Soul >
        • Humanity : Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit >
          • Who Are You?:Deepak Chopra
          • Solar Flares Affect Humans
          • Univ. Unconditional Love
          • A Prayer for the World
          • Overcome the Ego
          • Etheric Antenna: Chakras
          • Your Aura and 12 Chakras: Keys to the Kingdom
          • The Seven Bodies of Man
          • The Journey
          • A Spiritual Pilgrimage
          • Science of the Soul
          • We are Beings of Light
          • Lumen Octave Principles : Language of the Soul
          • God is Very Much Alive
          • Tao: Your Cosmic Connection and Spiritual Contract
          • The Three Births of the Human Spirit
          • Unconditional Love?
          • The Relationship between Science and Spirituality
          • How Einstein Saw the World
          • Conscious Partnership with Earth
          • Infogr: Control your Dreams
          • Your Cells When You Experience Happiness
          • Aligning the Trinity – Body, Mind and Spirit
          • Being Aware of Our Energy
          • The Greatest Story Never Told
          • The Alchemy of Groups
          • Inevitable Change – Shattering Our Attachment to ‘Sameness’
          • The Biocrystal
          • Life after death: Hospice doctor studies the vivid dreams and visions of dying people that suggest comfort being given from the other side
          • In Life and Death, Love is Our Legacy – The Courage to Open Our Hearts
          • Attuning to the Flow of the Universe
          • Waking Up From Religion
          • Astral Dynamics : The Silver Cord
          • The Spirit World
          • Cycles of Soul Existence
          • The Soul’s Journey After Death
          • Life Between Lives
          • 7000 Souls Recall Their ‘Life’ Between Lives During Regression Hypnosis, The Similarities Are Astounding
          • The Life-Review Process
          • We Are the Universe Becoming Aware of Itself
          • Have You Realized The Profundity Of Our True Nature?
          • Improving Your Connection To Spirit
          • Aligning with Our Soul Purpose
          • Spiritual Inspiration from Albert Einstein
          • Spiritual but Not Religious? Why Spiritual Wellness Does Not Depend on Your Beliefs
          • A Sense of Oneness Leads to Greater Life Satisfaction, Research Shows
          • How to Transform Your Darkness Into Light
          • You Are a Sovereign Being – Start Acting Like It!
          • 5 Steps to Cultivate Patience Within Your New New Normal
          • The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off
          • Chaos Sorcery
          • Science, Spirituality and Religion
          • Shadow Work 101: Just Claim it All
          • Staying Centered in a Wild World
          • How Changing Your Thoughts Changes Your Life
          • Victim or Creator?
          • The “Seer” of all Things
          • Discovering Our Earthly Selves
          • 11 Major Warning Signs From the Universe
          • Living From The Heart
          • Reincarnation: 10 things everyone should know about Reincarnation >
            • Reincarnation: The 35 Steps of Soul Evolution
          • DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid): >
            • DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies
            • Controversial DNA Discoveries
            • Evolution : The Body's Intelligence
            • Evolution is speeding up
            • Human Energy Field and DNA
            • Everything You Are, Have Been And Ever Will Be Is About Frequency, And Your DNA Is The Ultimate Antenna
            • Forgotten In Time: The Ancient Solfeggio Frequencies
            • The Human Genome – Perception Directly Controls Gene Activity
            • Leonardo da Vinci and The New Biology
          • Near Death Experiences >
            • Neurosurgeon Who Doubted Afterlife Now Convinced It's Real
            • The NDE and the Silver Cord
            • Rev. Dr George Rodonaia's Unusual NDE
            • Shared Death Experiences
            • Groups of People Can Share a Single NDE
            • 'Shared Death Experience' Study
          • Akashic Records / Akashic Field / Book of Life >
            • A Database That Contains A Record Of The Soul’s Journey: The Akashic Records
            • Edgar Cayce: Readings from Akashic Records >
              • Edgar Cayce : 'The Sleeping Prophet'
              • The Body - Temple of God ; Chakras
              • Angels and Archangels ; The Christ ; Humanity ; Death
              • Mary Magdalene
              • Moving into the New Paradigm
              • The Future
              • The Book of Revelation
              • Consciousness
              • Human Origins
              • The Past Lives of Jesus
      • The Song of the Soul Group
      • The SupraMental Awakening and Planetary Hope
      • Univ. Dreaming Itself Awake
      • When Awakening Begins
      • The Veil of Forgetfulness
      • Pr. of Personal Transformation
      • Time To Pay Attention To Who You Are/Where You Are Going
      • Before Beginning of Universe .. You Were Still There
      • 2012 Visionaries
      • Awaken, Children of Earth!
      • Time : A Musical
      • Waking Up Is So Hard To Do… Alone
      • Swami’s State of the Universe 2015
      • A Need and An Ecstasy
      • Full Moon In Scorpio - An Invitation To Emergence
      • Something Extraordinary Is Happening In The World
      • 3 States of Mind to Embrace the Coming Energy
      • The Sacred Garden
      • Being Our Experience
      • We were made for these times
      • Are You a Bridge Between Two Worlds?
      • Choose Love – and Be the Change!
      • Timekeepers of the Human Experiment
      • The Starseed Mission: A Practical Guide to the Pros and Cons in One’s Awakening
      • What's the Point of Life? Why are we here?
      • Reflections On The Year That Was 2018
      • I’m Not Going Insane: It’s the Universal Awakening!
      • The Dalai Lama’s Morning Prayer
      • Shedding the Layers in Our Collective Expansion
      • Are You Dimming Your Light?
      • Ready To Go Sane In A Crazy World?
      • The Great Transformation: A World Awakening
      • You are Needed: Reclaiming Humanity’s Light
      • Let The Emergence of a New Humanity Begin!
      • Healing a World Disconnected From Its Imagination
      • The Universe Played its Trump Card! But Is President Trump the Worst Curse or a Blessing in Disguise?
      • The Grand Story of the Deep State, the Current Apocalypse and the Battle of Good vs Evil
      • Winning the War on Consciousness – Humanity’s Grand Awakening from Deep State
      • Moving Beyond Awakening Shock Syndrome
      • The 5 Stages of Awakening – Signposts and Pitfalls on the Path of Consciousness
      • It’s Time to Step Outside the Conditioned Mind
      • Global Games That Tyrants Play – and People Who Agree to be Played With
      • The Only Way for Humanity to Survive What’s Happening
      • Before Every Bright Day Is a Dark Night
      • A Guide to Glide Through the Great Awakening – Spread Hope Not Fear
      • Building a Brighter Future
      • The Revealing of the Nightmare Has Begun! (Article–Video)
      • Destiny in the Making: Lightworkers Were Seeded Exactly for these Times!
    • Ascension/Evolution >
      • The Gathering of the Eagles >
        • Foreword and Introduction
        • PT 1 : Chapt 1 : THE LITTLEST HOBO
        • PT 1 : Chapt 2 : "I QUIT"
        • PT 1 : Chapt 3 : WILL THE REAL POST OP NURSE PLEASE STAND UP
        • PT 1 : Chapt 4 : LAST WEEK I WOULD HAVE SAID YOU WERE CRAZY
        • PT 1 : Chapt 5 : ON THE ROAD AGAIN
        • PT 1 : Chapt 6 : THE SPORTSMAN CAFE
        • PT 1 : Chapt 7 : CHANGE OF LIFE
        • PT 1 : Chapt 8 : IF IT'S TUESDAY, THIS MUST BE HOLLAND
        • PT 1 : Chapt 9: NO SHAME TO BE POOR/Epilogue
        • PT 2 : Chapt 10 : FOR THE HARVEST OF THE EARTH IS RIPE
        • PT 2 : Chapt 11 : THE NEW GARDEN
        • PT 2 : Chapt 12 : "WHAT'S MINE'S MY OWN"
        • PT 2 : Chapt 13 : THE GUIDING LIGHT
        • PT 2 : Chapt 14 : THE PEOPLE
        • The Prince of Hope
      • Residing in the 5th Dimension
      • Vibrational Acceleration
      • Homo Divinicus: to come
      • 5th Dimension Consciousness
      • The Ride Has Just Begun!
      • Raising Your Vibration
      • Spiritual Evolution: Divine Plan
      • Ascension: The Larger Picture
      • 2013: The Gateway of LIGHT
      • The “Seer” of all Things
      • Spont. Evolution Has Arrived!
      • Compassion: Ascension Key
      • Who Are We Becoming?
      • Shifting Paradigms
      • Blueprint for Ascension
      • Ascension Revisited
      • 'The Quantum Leap' by Solara
      • I Surrender to the Infinite that is Within Me
      • Ascension and the Fifth Dimensional Network
      • Why It’s Time To Accept Humanity’s Power of Creation and The Soul’s Journey
      • Transformation
      • “We Are Living In The Most Important Time In The History Of Our Universe”
      • Accelerating Our Collective Emergence into a New Paradigm
      • The Greatest Spiritual Event of Our Time According to Rudolph Steiner
      • Dolores Cannon – THE EVENT Information
      • The Three Waves Of Volunteers
      • Raising Vibrations: How To Be The Change You Want To See In The World
      • The Daily Alchemical Process of Ascension
      • The Universal Ascension Process: Our Journey to Oneness
      • The Golden Rule: A Lesson in Oneness Throughout the Ages
      • As the Coronavirus Sweeps around the World, Our Planet is on the Verge of Evolution
      • The Old World Is Falling Away and Making Way for a New One
      • The Art of Ascension: The 7 Stages of Alchemy
      • 5D Ascension: The Pleiadians and the Toroidal Flow
      • Social Transformation – Like Ripples in an Ocean
      • Do You Have a Calling to Heal the World? How to be an Agent of Change
    • Sandra Walter-Asc. Guide
    • Human Body of Light >
      • Spark of Light At Conception
      • Biophotons: The Human Body Emits, Communicates with, and is Made from Light
      • We Are Beings of Light
      • Are Humans Solar Powered?
      • Cells use light to communicate
      • Your Body Literally Glows With Light
      • Light
    • Ancient Knowledge/Civilisations >
      • Lost Civilizations Existed
      • Houston anthropologist reveals irrefutable proof that recorded history is wrong
      • The Return of the Elder Race & Opening the Gateway of the Fifth Kingdom
      • Quest for the People of the Secret
      • The skeletal remains of giants found all over the world
  • CHANNELLED INFORMATION
    • Archangel Michael speaks >
      • CREATING YOUR PYRAMID OF POWER
      • THE TWELVE SACRED TRIBES OF CREATION
      • THE MICHAEL/MARY CONNECTION
      • A COSMIC VIEWPOINT OF CREATION AND EVOLUTION
      • A RECAP OF THE BEST
      • THE MYSTERY OF THE VESICA PISCIS
      • THE SPIRIT AND THE SOUL AND A NEW PYRAMID OF LIGHT MEDITATION
      • STAGES OF AWARENESS ON PATH OF ASCENSION
      • HOLD STEADY, BELOVEDS
      • WHO YOU ARE
      • VICTIM OR VICTOR?
      • PERFECTING YOUR SKILLS AS A CO-CREATOR
      • THE PATH OF ASCENSION IS THE PATH TO FREEDOM
      • LOVE IS A NATURAL STATE OF BEING
      • 2013 IN REVIEW - A YEAR OF TRANSFORMATION
      • ARE YOU READY TO EMBODY YOUR SACRED FIRE ENERGY?
      • RITUAL OF PASSAGE INTO 5th DIMENSIONAL REALITY
      • CREATING YOUR SPHERE OF HEAVENLY LIGHT
      • SPIRITUAL REUNION
      • ANGELS OF MERCY
      • NEW RAYS OF INDIVID EXPRESSION
      • EARTH’S SEED ATOM RECORD-KEEPER CRYSTALS
      • ENHANCING YOUR POWER TO MANIFEST
      • THE ILLUSION OF FEAR
      • BECOMING SOUL-INFUSED PERSONALITY
      • DOWNLOADING YOUR NEW DIVINE BLUEPRINT
      • DECISION TIME : THE FUTURE IS NOW
      • YOUR LIGHT CLOAK OF MANY COLORS AWAITS YOU
      • WILL YOU BE AMONG THE CHOSEN?
      • BECOMING A PRACTICAL MYSTIC
      • FINE-TUNING YOUR SPIRITUAL AWARENESS
      • SPIRITUAL PHILOSOPHY FOR EVOLVING HUMANITY
      • PYRAMIDS OF LIGHT - THE LIGHT PATHWAY OF RETURN
      • OPENING THE SEVEN SEALS OF GOD-CONSCIOUSNESS
      • DEMYSTIFYING DEATH
      • WE 0FFER YOU A STREAM OF LOVE/LIGHT FROM OUR HEART TO YOURS
      • EVOLUTION OF THE BODILY FORM AND ASCENSION IN CONSCIOUSNESS
      • THE SEARCHLIGHT OF THE SOUL * YOUR TWELVE RAY CREATOR WHEEL
      • ACCESSING YOUR HIGHER POWER POTENTIAL
      • WHAT IS SPIRIT?
      • INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE BECOMES WISDOM
      • THE FIVE KINGDOMS/DIMENSIONS FOR THIS ROUND OF EARTHLY ASCENSION
      • THE LAW OF RESPONSIVE RETURN
      • EMBRACING THE POWER OF LOVE
      • WARRIORS OF LIGHT: PROACTIVE, LOVINGLY ASSERTIVE
      • THE LAW OF ATTRACTION
      • OPEN LETTER TO ASCENDING STARSEED SOULS
      • AVATARS * ASCENDED MASTERS * GREAT BEINGS OF LIGHT
      • BECOMING AN EMISSARY OF LIGHT
      • HARMONIZING THE PHYSICAL * EMOTIONAL * MENTAL BODIES
      • THE FIERY FORCES OF CREATION ARE SWEEPING THE EARTH
      • A VISION FOR THE FUTURE
      • UNIFIED SPIRITUAL AWARENESS
      • ARE YOU A STARSEED WAYSHOWER?
      • THE NEXT LEVEL OF SPIRITUAL AWARENESS
      • THE PHYSICAL VESSEL: A WONDROUS, SACRED CREATION
      • RELATIONSHIPS AND YOUR SACRED UNION
      • ARE YOU READY FOR LIBERATION?
      • PERFECTING YOUR SKILLS AS A COCREATOR
      • CREATING A 'NEW EMPOWERED YOU'
      • SEEKING PEACE FROM WITHIN
      • THE ECSTASY OF SACRED LOVE
      • ACCESSING THE EARTH’S MEMORY SEED ATOM CRYSTALS
      • ARE YOU READY TO MAKE A COMMITMENT?
      • EMBRACING ALL FACETS OF GOD CONSCIOUSNESS
      • OPENING THE PORTAL TO YOUR SACRED HEART
      • ARE YOU READY?
      • THE SPIRALING PATH OF ASCENSION
      • YOU ARE IN THE MIDST OF A SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION
      • YOU ARE A STAR OF COSMIC SACRED FIRE
      • ENHANCING YOUR PERSONAL GOD ESSENCE
      • YOUR CONNECTION TO YOUR HOLY MENTAL SELF
      • THREE GOD RAYS: DIVINE WILL * DIVINE LOVE * DIVINE INTELLIGENCE
      • THE POWER AND MAJESTY OF THE ELEMENTS
      • DEVELOPING NON-ATTACHMENT
      • ENHANCING YOUR POWER TO MANIFEST
      • THE EMPOWERING GIFT OF FORGIVENESS
      • THE EVOLUTION OF THE SOUL
      • THE NEW AGE OF SPIRITUAL/HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
      • THE ESSENCE OF CREATION
      • THE MEMORY SEED ATOMS WITHIN YOUR SOUL
      • THE FAST TRACK TO SELF-MASTERY
      • THE JOURNEY OF THE SOUL
      • NEW RAYS OF INDIVIDUALIZED EXPRESSION
      • WHAT ARE YOU DOING WHILE WAITING TO ASCEND?
      • THE RETURN OF THE GODDESS * OUR HEAVENLY MOTHER
      • INTEGRATING YOUR NEW DIVINE BLUEPRINT
      • A NEW CYCLE OF CREATION IS IN PROGRESS
      • KEEPERS OF THE VIOLET FLAME
      • TRAVERSING THE LAST SUB-PLANES OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION
      • IT IS TIME TO SHINE YOUR LIGHT AND SHARE YOUR VISION
      • YOU, THE WAYSHOWERS, ARE THE HOPE OF THE FUTURE
      • A GLIMPSE BEYOND TOMORROW
      • THE CELESTIAL WINDS OF CHANGE ARE SWEEPING THE EARTH.
      • ADAMANTINE PARTICLES AND HOW TO USE THEM EFFECTIVELY: A REVIEW
      • THE VOICE OF SPIRIT IS CALLING
      • A WONDROUS CREATION: THE PHYSICAL VESSEL
      • ARE YOU A STARSEED LIGHT UPON THE PATH?
      • LAW OF THE CIRCLE * LAW OF THE TRIANGLE
      • TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR DESTINY
      • A COSMIC MOMENT OF OPPORTUNITY
      • YOU ARE A “WHITE FIRE SEED ATOM” OF ALL THAT IS
      • BECOMING A SOUL-INFUSED PERSONALITY
      • AN OVERVIEW OF THE “STATE OF THE EARTH AND HUMANITY”
      • SEEKING PEACE AND SERENITY FROM WITHIN
      • FINE-TUNING YOUR SPIRITUAL AWARENESS
      • YOUR SPARK OF DIVINITY IS IMMORTAL AND ETERNAL
      • HOLD STEADY, BELOVEDS
    • Archangel Uriel >
      • Be The Energy for an Ascending Earth
      • The Balance of Creator and Co-Creator
      • In the Acceleration
      • The End of the Journey is a New Beginning
      • You Are Embodied Perfection
      • The 5 Dimensions of Will
      • Shine From Your Radiance
      • A Time of Expanded Light from Archangel Uriel
    • The Angels, through Satya >
      • Who Is Your Angel ?
      • How to dialogue with the Angels
      • The Love
      • The Joy, the Smile and the Gratitude
      • The Nature and the Breathing
      • The Awakening of the Soul
      • Recognize and express own Essence
    • Through Sal Rachele >
      • The Founders >
        • Moving to the Next Level
        • The Founders on the Nature of Timelessness
        • The Founders on the Precession and Galactic Cycle
      • Leah and Sananda >
        • Extending God’s Creation into the Physical
    • Ra and Q'uo: The Law of One >
      • Ra : Ra's History
      • Ra: Before the Veil of Forgetfulness
      • Ra : Wanderers
      • Ra : Harvest
      • Ra: Session 14 of the Law of One
      • The Universe According to Ra
      • Ra's Work on Earth
      • Q'uo : Ascension
      • Q'uo : Jesus the Christ and the Buddha
      • Q'uo : Angels
      • Q'uo : Primary Development of the Creation'
      • Q'uo : Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine
      • Q'uo : Are you doing what you came to do?
    • Seth >
      • Seth Speaks about God
      • Creation of Matter
    • Through channel Ken Carey: >
      • The Awakening (that we asked for)
    • Kryon : Who is Kryon? .... and Who are We? >
      • The Future is Quantum | An interview with Lee Carroll
      • About Channelling
      • Light
      • Your Soul is Part of the Creative Source of the Universe
  • EARTH
    • EARTH articles: >
      • Earth Changes and 2012
      • The Relationship between Human Consciousness and Earth Dynamics
      • Earth: Geologic Primer
      • Infogr: Yellowstone
      • Healing Mother Earth
      • Earth's Inaudible Voice
      • The Mysteries of Water
      • Oceans:Shocking Decline
      • Geobiology : Earth Energies That Affect Our Lives
      • Scientists warn that Earth faces severe water shortages within a generation
      • Our Oceans Are Dying
      • Infrasound: "There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres"
      • Is Science Finally Catching Up to What the Ancients Knew About Crystals?
      • Can our Intentions Heal the Water?
      • Does Mother Nature Know What She is Doing?
      • The secret life of trees: Thinking, caring and using the 'wood-wide web' to communicate
      • Scientists find jet stream in Earth’s core
      • Scientists: Earth’s Magnetic Fields Carry Biologically Relevant Information That ‘Connects All Living Systems’
      • Waking Up to the Sacred in Nature and Reclaiming Our Earth Soul
      • Conscious Partnership with Earth
      • Honoring The Solstice
      • Vietnamese farmer discovers a spectacular world
      • Humanity is Waking Up to the Intelligence of Nature
      • The Earth and all its Life is a Sacred Gift
      • Will we be the People of the Great Change?
      • Caring for Our Sacred Earth
    • EARTH/SPACE articles: >
      • Space Weather >
        • Tracking Space Weather from the Sun to the Earth (NASA)
      • Plasma, Plasma, Everywhere
      • Unusual Sounds Reported Worldwide - What Are They?
      • Do 'Outside Forces' Affect Earth?
      • Speed of the Earth?
      • Planetary Challenges and Spiritual Evolution
      • PlanetoPhysical State of the Earth and Life
      • Spirals : Earth/Space
      • Space-Time Vortex
      • Electromag. Spectrum
      • Solstices and Equinoxes
      • Earth/Sun Connection
      • Breach in Magnetic Field
      • Change in Earth's Gravity
      • Moon : Effects on Earth
      • Plasma tubes surround Earth
      • Infographic : EARTH/SPACE
      • Infographic : Evolution of Food in Space
  • OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
    • THE SUN - Our Star >
      • The Sun : Solar Activity
      • Infogr: Sunstorms! / Solar Flares
      • How Solar Flares Affect Humans
      • Mystery of the Sun's Corona
      • Massive Plasma Waves Sweep the Sun
      • Lately, the Sun has been behaving a bit strangely
      • Scientists predict rare 'hibernation' of sunspots
      • Scientists Prove Existence of ‘Magnetic Ropes’ that Cause Solar Storms
      • Sun/Earth Relationship
      • Magnetic Portals connect Earth to the Sun
      • Images From Sun’s Edge Reveal Origins of Solar Wind
      • Total Solar Eclipse 21 August 2017
      • The Awakening Solar Intelligence
      • Revealing the physics of the Sun with NASA's Parker Solar Probe
      • Surprising stillness ensues when the solar wind hits Earth's magnetosphere
    • Infogr: Jupiter and Venus
    • Infogr: Solar System
    • Infogr: Asteroid Belt
    • Evolving Solar System / 2012
    • Galaxy, Solar System and Harmonic Resonance
    • Magnetic Bubbles at Edge of Solar System
    • The Seven Bodies of Man
    • Our Solar System's Tail
    • Water in the Solar System: Water, Water, Everywhere!
    • Something is Affecting the Entire Solar System
    • Solar system replica built by space enthusiasts in Nevada Desert - 11km (7 mi) wide
    • Jupiter : 'Brand-new and unexpected' discoveries
    • The Helical Dynamics of the Solar System
  • MILKY WAY GALAXY
    • Infogr: The Milky Way
    • Infogr: Galaxy Full of Planets
    • Massive Outburst in Neighbor Galaxy Surprises Astronomers
    • Sirius and Human History
    • Earthquakes on Stars in the Milky Way
    • Betelgeuse : Supernova?
    • The Corrugated Galaxy : Milky Way Galaxy may be more enormous than ever imagined
    • Interconnected stellar nurseries form the largest gaseous structure ever observed in the Milky Way galaxy
    • Galactic Centre : >
      • Strange Rumblings at the Centre of our Galaxy
      • Massive Outflows Pouring Out Of Milky Way’s Center
      • Milky Way’s Black Hole Shows Signs of Increased Chatter
      • Scientists Identify Cosmic Energy Accelerator at the Galactic Center
  • UNIVERSE
    • The Unified Field and the Illusion of Time: Understanding the Source of Creation
    • The Universe Is A 'Giant Brain'
    • The Self-Aware Universe
    • The New Cosmology
    • How Large is Universe?
    • Laniakea: Our Home Supercluster
    • The Interdimensional Universe
    • Universe : YouTube videos
    • Electric Universe/Plasma Cosmology >
      • What is Plasma?
      • Plasma; 99.999% of Universe
      • Plasma, Plasma, Everywhere
      • Elect. in Space: Hannes Alfvén
      • Aether: True Electric Current?
      • The Simple Electric Universe
      • The Electric Universe
      • Exploring Electric Universe
      • Comets and Electric Universe
      • The Electric Universe - A Synopsis
      • The plasma universe and Max Planck's musical space-time revisited
  • 2012 PROPHECIES and the coming changes
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The Restless Earth :
A Geologic Primer


This article, together with its images, is reproduced from the website of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Seattle USA, so its emphasis is on the US Pacific Northwest region.  However, most of its content relates to the Earth as a whole, and the article is extremely interesting - and very relevant in these times.    http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/geo_history_wa/The%20Restless%20Earth%20v.2.0.htm


Our Beautiful Home:
Earth - The Blue Planet


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The beautiful blue planet. The Earth is a giant heat engine constantly working to expel its inner heat into the cold universe that surrounds us. (Image: NASA)
































Transfer of Heat by Convection
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Irregular convection cells transfer heat from the Earth’s core to the surface. Convection is the driving heat engine that powers the motion of the Earth’s great tectonic plates. Plate tectonics is the Earth’s way of expelling heat to space, thus fulfilling its obligation to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.



































































Mid-Ocean Spreading Ridges
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Mid-ocean ridges forming divergent plate boundaries. The Atlantic Ocean is growing at the expense of the Pacific Ocean, where oceanic plates are being destroyed by subduction. (Image: Marie Tharp)

Hot Spots

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Hot spots are single plumes of molten rock ascending from the mantle into the overriding lithosphere. Such plumes have built the Hawaiian Islands* and the volcanic features of Yellowstone National Park. (Image: USGS)




Continental Volcanic Arc

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           Oceanic-continental convergence

Cross-section through an active subduction zone adjacent to a continent. Note the continental volcanic arc rising parallel to the subduction zone.
(Image: USGS)

Island Arc

Oceanic-Oceanic Convergence
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Cross-section through an oceanic subduction zone. The older lithospheric plate dives beneath the younger, lighter plate. Partial melting of the descending plate produces hot plutons of molten rock moving toward the surface. When they reach the surface, they erupt to form a chain of volcanic islands.
(Image: USGS)
Geologic processes that operate on a global scale have profoundly affected the Pacific Northwest.  By understanding just a few of these processes, you’ll be equipped to tackle Washington’s geologic history.

We place special emphasis on the basic processes of plate tectonics responsible for the evolution of Washington and the Pacific Northwest.  Finally, we introduce the geologic time scale – a chronology of Earth and life history.

Internal Structure of the Earth
In composition, the Earth is made of three nested spheres.  At the center of the Earth, a body of intensely hot iron and nickel forms the core.  A less dense and much larger middle sphere is made of materials rich in iron, magnesium and calcium and comprises the mantle.  The outermost layer is a thin veneer of lighter rocks and is called the crust.  The crust beneath the oceans is composed of heavy, dark volcanic rocks such as basalt.  Continental crust is composed mostly of lighter rocks rich in silica, such as granite. 

The Earth’s interior also has distinct physical layers without regard to composition.  The outer layer is comprised of a rigid sphere called the lithosphere (“rocky sphere”).  The lithosphere includes the upper, solid part of the mantle and all of the crust.  The lithosphere is floating above a zone known as the asthenosphere (“weak sphere”). The asthenosphere behaves as a hot, ductile plastic.

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Internal structure of the Earth showing both compositional
(core, mantle and crust) and physical layers (lithosphere and asthenosphere).
(Image: USGS)

To fully understand how the Earth changes, it is important to appreciate the basic distinction between crust and lithosphere.

The crust (both continental and oceanic) is the thin layer of distinctive chemical composition overlying the mantle. Very different processes form oceanic crust and continental crust.  Oceanic crust is much thinner (typically 4 – 5 miles thick) and heavier than continental crust, which can range from 21 to nearly 30 miles thick.

The lithosphere, in contrast, is the rigid outer layer of the Earth.  It differs from the underlying asthenosphere by its physical and mechanical properties rather than its chemical composition.  The lithosphere responds essentially as a rigid shell whereas the asthenosphere behaves as a very thick fluid.  The diagram above illustrates both the chemical and physical layers within the Earth.

Earth on a Slow Boil: Transferring Heat by Convection
As you go deeper into our planet, the conditions of pressure and temperature steadily increase.  The rocks become hotter and denser the deeper you go. The weight of all the overlying rocks causes the increase in pressure.  The decay of heavy radioactive elements like uranium deep in the core produces the increase in heat.

Nature is always uncomfortable with any unequal distribution of heat.  It constantly works to equalize any temperature difference in the most efficient way possible.  The Earth has a basic obligation to the laws of physics to transfer its internal heat into the cold universe that surrounds us. 

Because the interior of the earth is hot and under great pressure, it transfers much of its internal heat by a phenomenon called “convection.”   Convection is the process by which hot materials rise, move laterally, cool, and then descend, in a cycle.  You can see convection operating in a pan of boiling water.  When water reaches a rolling boil, hot water rises in the center, cools as it spreads across the surface, then descends along the outside of the pan to complete the cycle.  These cycles are convection cells. 

Within the Earth, irregular convection cells within the mantle transfer heat from the core to the surface of the planet.  This mechanism is the driving force behind both heat transfer and the global processes of plate tectonics.

Plate Tectonics: Geology’s Unifying Theory

Tectonics is concerned with movement in the Earth and the forces that produce movement.
Plate tectonics is the theory that the Earth's lithosphere (outer rigid shell) is broken into a dozen or so rigid "plates” that float on the hot, ductile mantle like slabs of ice on a pond. Much of the Earth’s ancient history is the result of plates rifting into pieces to form new ocean basins and converging back together to form mountains and giant continents.

Plate tectonics is the great unifying theory of geology. Virtually every part of the earth's crust and every kind of rock relates to the plate tectonic conditions that existed at the time it formed. There is very little in geologic history that makes sense except in the light of plate tectonics. 

The Great Tectonic Plates
The rigid lithospheric plates differ in size, direction of motion, and in the type of crustal rocks included in the plate.  Some plates (such as the Pacific Plate) are completely covered by oceans and are made of oceanic crust.   Other plates (such as the North American Plate) carry continents and adjoining pieces of the ocean floor.

The tectonic plates move ponderously about the Earth’s surface about as fast as your hair grows.  Convection cells operating within the mantle power their motion.  The entire jigsaw puzzle of plates interconnects at a global scale, and no single plate can move without affecting its neighbors.  As we’ll see, the activity of one plate can profoundly change the behaviour of other plates on opposite sides of the Earth.   [emboldened text is my emphasis - Messenger]

The map below shows the global distribution of lithospheric plates.  Notice how the North American plate includes both continental rocks and oceanic rocks of the Atlantic Ocean.  The Pacific Plate, in contrast, carries only oceanic crust.

Closer to home, notice the Juan de Fuca Plate offshore of Washington and the Cocos Plate adjacent to Mexico and Central America.  As we’ll see, the Juan de Fuca and Cocos plates are the last remnants of a once huge oceanic plate (called the Farallon Plate) largely destroyed beneath the North American continent.  The Farallon Plate and its descendants played a major role in the geologic evolution of Washington and the Pacific Northwest.

The Great Tectonic Plates

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Distribution of the major lithospheric plates of the Earth.  These plates move ponderously about the globe, powered by convection in the underlying asthenosphere.  (Image:  USGS)

Plate Boundaries            
There are three types of boundaries between the tectonic plates:

1) Divergent boundaries - mid-ocean spreading ridges that generate new oceanic crust.  Because the plates are pulling apart, these are “extensional” boundaries.

2) Convergent boundaries - where one lithospheric plate dives under another in a process called subduction.  These are “compressional” boundaries. 

3) Transform boundaries - where plates slide horizontally past each other along giant faults.  California’s San Andreas fault is the best-known transform plate boundary.

Mid-Ocean Spreading Ridges
Most plates diverge (move away from each other) at mid-ocean spreading ridges.  The mid-ocean ridges are undersea mountains more than 12,000 feet high and 1,200 miles wide.  Molten rock moving upward by convection reaches the surface along these ridges and releases much of the Earth’s internal heat.  Near the surface, the oceanic lithosphere is mostly basalt, a black, fine-grained volcanic rock.

As molten rock rises to the surface, the entire oceanic lithosphere moves away from the spreading centre.  In this way, new ocean floor constantly forms and slides away from either side of the ridge as solid plates of the lithosphere.  This process is responsible for the phenomenon known as “seafloor spreading.”

Hot Spots
When convection rises as a single plume rather than along a linear spreading ridge, the result is a “hot spot.”  On the surface, hot spots erupt as volcanoes of dark, basaltic-type rocks.  The source of the molten rock is probably at the core-mantle boundary. Hot spot volcanoes often form long chains that result from the relative motion of the lithosphere plate over the hot-spot source

The Hawaiian Islands* are our best-known modern examples of hot spots derived from mantle plumes.  Another well-known example is the hot spot beneath Yellowstone National Park today.  As we’ll see, hot spots have played a major role in creating some of Washington’s volcanic regions.
*Update:  See scientists' latest views on the creation of the Hawaiian Islands at the end of this article.

Subduction Zones: The Ultimate Fate of Oceanic Crust
A subduction zone is a boundary where two tectonic plates collide and, because of differences in density, one dives beneath the other.  Plates carrying oceanic rocks move across the face of the planet until they run into an obstruction, typically a continent. Continents are made of lighter rocks such as granite.  When the two plates collide, the heavier oceanic rocks sink downward (are subducted) underneath the lighter continent.  Where the ocean plate dives underneath the continent, a deep trench forms adjacent to the edge of the continent.  Trenches within subduction zones are the deepest depressions of the Earth.

Continental Arcs
When the floor of an oceanic plate subducts beneath a continent, high pressures, high temperatures and high water concentrations combine to melt some of the lighter minerals in the descending plate.  These molten rocks form bulbous bodies (like in a lava lamp) of silica-rich magma called “plutons,” named after Pluto, the Greek god of the underworld.  Many plutons never reach the surface.  Rather, they cool and crystallize into bodies of granite deep beneath the Earth’s surface.  Some plutons, however, make their way to the surface and erupt as a chain of volcanoes rising along the edge of the continent.  Geologists call the arc-shaped belt of plutons and volcanoes a “continental arc.”  The modern Cascade volcanoes are a classic modern example of a continental arc.

Island Arcs:  Volcanoes from the Sea
When two plates carrying oceanic crust collide, the winner is usually the younger of the two because plates grow colder and denser with age.  The older, denser plate subducts beneath the younger plate and begins melting at depth.  Molten rock from this subduction rises to the surface to erupt as an arc-shaped chain of volcanic islands.  These chains are “island arcs”.  The volcanic islands of Japan are a modern example of an active island arc system.  As we’ll see, ancient island arcs played a major role in Washington’s geologic history

The Plate Tectonic System
The illustration below shows how all three types of plate boundaries (convergent, divergent and transform) operate as part of a vast global system.  New oceanic lithosphere forms at divergent plate boundaries such as mid-ocean spreading centers and continental rift zones.  The lithosphere and oceanic crust descend along subduction zones located either at continental boundaries or in convergence with other oceanic crust.  In both cases, a volcanic arc at the surface reflects the partial melting of the subducting slab at depth and the upward movement of magma bodies (plutons).  The creation and destruction of oceanic lithosphere occur at about the same rate on a global scale.

Types of plate boundaries

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 Artist's cross-section illustrating the large-scale interaction of the main types of plate boundaries.  (Image: USGS)

The Supercontinent Cycle
As the continents have moved through time, they have repeatedly collided to form “supercontinents.”   Most of the rocks that make up continents are insulators -- they are reluctant to transfer thermal energy.   Eventually, heat builds up beneath the continent.  The continental crust swells, stretches, and finally ruptures.  New ocean floor begins to build within the rupture zones.  Fragments of the supercontinent spread as the ocean plate grows along a new seafloor spreading center.

Because the Earth is a sphere, the moving continental fragments inevitably reassemble about every 500 million years.  As we will see, the creation and destruction of giant continents has played a major role in the geologic history of Washington and the Pacific Northwest.

The most recent supercontinent was Pangaea.   It formed about 300 million years ago when the isolated continents collided. The creation of Pangea meant that only one large continent existed on the Earth, balanced by one large ocean called Panthalassa (Greek for "all seas"). Beginning about 230 million years ago (and still going on today), the present Atlantic ocean formed and began spreading.  Pangea broke apart completely, and the continental fragments are now scattering across the globe. 

The modern Atlantic Ocean is spreading at the expense of the Pacific.  As North America moves westward, the Pacific Ocean basin is getting smaller along subduction zones (convergent plate boundaries) under North and South America, and Japan, as western North America and Asia get closer together. Sometime in the future the Pacific ocean will close completely and Asia and North America will collide to form yet another supercontinent.

Before Pangaea, yet another supercontinent called Rodinia existed between 1.2 billion and 750 million years ago. It also formed from the accumulation of isolated continents, only to fragment 350 million years after its formation. There is growing evidence that even older supercontinents predated Rodinia early in Earth’s history.

This supercontinent cycle – the assembly, rupture, breakup, spreading and reassembly  -- has left an indelible record on the geology of the Pacific Northwest. 


A Chronology of Earth History : The Geologic Time Scale

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The modern geologic time scale, widely used in North America. 
(Image: Geological Society of America)

Geologists think of time very differently from most people.  The Earth is nearly 4.7 billion years old.  Washington’s geologic history goes well beyond a billion years.   The most recent plate tectonic cycle that built the Pacific Northwest began 200 million years ago.  Clearly, we need a different type of calendar to order geologic events that occurred so long ago.

The geologic time scale has evolved over the last 200 years as geologists began to order events in Earth history.  The geologic time scale developed in the 1800’s, based on the history of life preserved in fossils.  Each division of the time scale marked significant changes in the fossil record, such as the extinction of certain life forms and the appearance of new ones. 

Since the 1950’s, the modern science of geochronology has used the decay rates of radioactive isotopes to put absolute ages on the geologic time scale.  The time scale is a working document, often amended in detail as our ability to date rocks improves.

http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/geo_history_wa/The%20Restless%20Earth%20v.2.0.htm





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Scientists say source of Hawaii volcanism found
Posted on May 28, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

For years, researchers have debated whether or not the Hawaiian hot spot — the active volcanic region that created the islands — is fueled by a plume of hot magma rising straight up from the Earth’s depths. Not so, new research finds. Instead, a giant, deep thermal anomaly hundreds of miles wide located far west of Hawaii is what feeds the island’s volcanoes, scientists find. “Conventional wisdom believes that the plume may come all the way from the boundary of Earth’s core.” said researcher Qin Cao, an MIT seismologist. “Seismologists have been searching for evidence to support or invalidate this deep-rooted plume model, yet a lot of debate still exists.”

To find out more about the magma feeding the Hawaiian volcanoes, researchers used seismic waves that bounced off rocks in the mantle layer to image activity beneath Hawaii, a technique adopted from oil and gas exploration. Instead of a narrow vertical plume of magma beneath the islands driving volcanic activity, scientists discovered that a thermal anomaly about 500 to 1,250 miles (800 to 2,000 kilometers) wide and about 450 miles (725 kilometers) deep and far to the west of the islands apparently triggered their volcanism. “Our result doesn’t support the picture that Hawaii is fed directly by a deep-rooted mantle plume rising from the core-mantle boundary,” Cao told OurAmazingPlanet. “Instead, it may be fueled by a secondary plume from a large pool of hot materials trapped on the top of the lower mantle.” (The mantle is the layer of high-pressure and temperature, flowing rock between the Earth’s core and crust.) “Numerous similar secondary upwellings can be generated from this hot pool, too, due to thermal instability,” Cao added. “So an interesting question to ask is, ‘Are there any other secondary-plume-generated volcanoes around this area of Pacific seafloor several hundreds of kilometers away from the big island of Hawaii that have gone unnoticed so far, or which have since been subducted (recycled back into Earth’s deep interior) deep beneath Japan and the Philippine Sea Plate farther west?’”

This research suggests that any volcanism seen in the interiors of tectonic plates — instead of at their borders, as is usually the case — need not originate from plumes rising all the way from the Earth’s core, but could arise from the boundary of the upper and lower mantle. –Discovery News
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