With encroachment of light pollution across globe, pristine skies of my youth have been gradually fading behind yellow-orange glow of ever more street lamps. Where stars once twinkled on a velvet background, only a few hardy garnets of light now poke through misty haze and background neon glow. But Moon is always there, outshining any murk and pollution we cough up into sky.

It's a shame we don't treat sky with same respect we give our national parks. After all, sky belongs to all of us. How many of us really appreciate people throwing garbage into our back yards or littering our parks. Why should we allow others to pollute our natural resources?

These days, I'm getting into lunar photography with digital cameras and more sophisticated CCD cameras. I've posted a few of my images on my website if you'd like to see them. I still find a night under stars with a partially lit Moon high in sky a relaxing and humbling pursuit. The Moon is only object in solar system where we can see real surface detail. I'm so passionate about it that I also wrote an ebook called Observing Moon (http://www.nightskyobserver.com/Observing-The-Moon-eBook.htm).

Growing up during Apollo era, I have to say that those missions played a great part in spurring on my interest in moon. My interest is alive and well and extending in other directions (more on that another time). I hope yours is too.

Onward and upward, as they say!

Gary Nugent has spent more years than he cares to remember pursuing astronomy as a hobby. He runs a number of astronomy based based sites: Night Sky Observer: http://www.nightskyobserver.com The Moon This Month: http://www.nightskyobserver.com/The-Moon-This-Month.htm LunarPhase Pro: http://www.lunarphasepro.com "Photon" Astronomy Ezine: http://www.photonezine.com

The views of a large number of contemporary physical scientists are summed up in essay 'Remarks on Mind-Body Question' written by Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner. Wigner begins by pointing out that most physical scientists have returned to recognition that thought - meaning mind - is primary. He goes on to state: 'It was not possible to formulate laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to consciousness.' And he concludes by noting how remarkable it is that scientific study of world led to content of consciousness as an ultimate reality.'...

The founders of modern atomic theory did not start out to impose a 'mentalist' picture on world. Rather, they began with opposite point of view and were forced to present day position in order to explain experimental results...

The results of this chain of reasoning will probably lend more aid and comfort to Eastern mystics than to neurophysiologists and molecular biologists; nevertheless, closed loop follows from a straightforward combination of explanatory processes of recognized experts in three separate sciences. Since individuals seldom work with more than one of these paradigms, general problem has received little attention...

We now understand troublesome features in a forceful commitment to uncritical reductionism as a solution to problem of mind. We have discussed weaknesses of that position. In addition to being weak, it is a dangerous view, since way we respond to our fellow human beings is dependent on way we conceptualize them in our theoretical formulations. If we envision our fellows solely as animals or machines, we drain our interactions of humanistic richness. If we seek our behavioral norms in study of animal societies, we ignore those uniquely human features that so much enrich our lives. Radical reductionism offers very little in area of moral imperatives! Further, it presents wrong glossary of terms for a humanistic pursuit."

The Minnesota Twins study has been on-going for decades and it has produced some remarkable results that few reports see impact of in reference to very nature of 'humanistic richness' and soulful potentialities. Only once is top researcher allowed to mention ESP. Much as Harvard study I have reported, participants are family members but because they were separated at birth and (in this case) twins - there is a greater connection of ESP or psychic abilities than normal. Isn't this just common sense? Who can doubt it, you might say! Yet most people think ESP is some weird attribute or freak of nature rather than a gift we all have 'within', if they think it exists at all.

The majority of people today do not know about Tesla's 'non-force info packets', 'free energy', 'energy from vacuum machines by Bearden' or what layers of time/space are involved in all psychic phenomena. Thus those who say they believe in ESP are at a loss to explain and they avoid any real involvement with it. The scientists are similarly ignorant of these things and they (after all) are 'experts' like doctors who deny mind-body connection with soul that is vital to psychic utilization. Our present culture DENIED these truly human and fantastic or exquisite depths of being.