Is the future ahead of us, or is it behind us?

[goldisheavy]

http://www.physorg.com/news69338070.html

[Aetherous]

[sifusufi]

Thanks GIH,

 

Thought provoking isn't it?

 

Isn't there a leaf that grows in the Andes highlands of Bolivia, Peru and Chile, that has been noticed by Westerners since the earliest days of the Spanish conquest? Not my cup of tea but an interesting thought anyway.

 

Fact,

1454 Through the bull Romanus Pontifex, Pope Nicholas V authorises the king of Portugal to enslave all the Saracen and pagan peoples his armies may conquer.

1493 Pope Alexander VI authorises the King of Spain to enslave non-Christians of the Americas who are at war with Christian powers.

 

I read somewhere the church approved abducting over 5 million West Africans to work in Brazil and beyond. Can't cite it right now, more than likely one of Nestor Capoeira's books.

 

Glad these folk came away unscathed!

 

" Every day sends future to past... every breath leaves me one less to my last" - Pull Me Under - Dream Theater

 

Eternally learning,

Rob

[Apech]

Very interesting article - thanks for posting. I think that understanding spatial cognitive mapping is one of the keys to understanding ourselves.

[~jK~]

http://www.physorg.com/news69338070.html

The future is being shaped in the Now. Where the past is, is obviously not a direction, but a location related to personal experience.