July 18, 2007

• Varieties of Religious Experience:

  Reminder Reuters News Agency, Wed., July 18, 2007, 3:48 PM EDT By Mauricio Savarese SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The flames from Brazil's worst plane crash were contained around dawn on Wednesday, but the smell of smoke and death wafted over travelers at Sao Paulo's airport as a reminder of disaster.... The airport resumed flights on an alternate runway. Despite the deterioration of Brazil's air safety record over the past year, Guilherme Braghetto, 72, showed little concern for his son, whom he brought to the airport for a flight to Goiania. 'I feel for those who lost loved ones, but I don't think lightning so strong will hit twice,' he said. On September 29, 2006, a Boeing 737 operated by Brazilian carrier Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes crashed after clipping wings with a Legacy business jet over the Amazon rainforest, killing 154 people.

   
  Elsewhere:
  
  Log24, Sept. 28, 2006:

  
  

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  Log24, Sept. 29, 2006:

  "...consonant intervals
  as an example of alleged
  'perceptual universals.'

  Related material on universals
  suitable for today, the Feast of
  St. Michael and All Angels:
  Shining Forth...."

  The New Yorker, issue dated
  July 23, 2007, page 42:

  "While out-of-body experiences
  have the character of
   a perceptual illusion
  (albeit a complex and
  singular one), near-death
  experiences have all the
  hallmarks of mystical
  experience, as William
  James defines it...."

  -- Oliver Sacks,
  "A Bolt from the Blue"

  The New Yorker, issue dated
  July 23, 2007, page 70:

  

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