Archive for March, 2012

Eulogy for Marjorie Virginia Cook

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Eulogy for Marjorie Virginia Cook by Richard C. Cook An abridged version of this eulogy was delivered at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, Williamsburg, VA, March 17, 2012 On behalf of the family, and especially my sisters Sandy and Christine, we want to offer our heartfelt thanks to all of you for coming today to celebrate [...]

The Challenge of the Spirit

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

“The Challenge of the Spirit” by Richard C. Cook There is something I want to say to each of us that will be taken as a challenge—even a slap in the face—by some of the many “I’s”—or personalities— within ourselves, my own included. But it should be said anyway. And though I acknowledge that what [...]

Challenger Disaster

In January 1986 Cook became the first NASA official to testify publicly on the space agency's prior knowledge of flaws in the solid rocket booster O-ring joints that destroyed Challenger and took the lives of its seven astronauts. He told his story in the book Challenger Revealed, published in 2007. Publisher's Weekly wrote of the book: "Easily the most informative and important book on the disaster."

The Cook Plan

What I am calling the 'Cook Plan' is to pay each resident of the U.S. a dividend, by means of vouchers for the necessities of life, in the amount of $1,000 per month per capita starting immediately as our fair share of the resources of the earth and the productivity of the modern industrial economy. The money would then be deposited in a new network of community savings banks to capitalize lending for consumers, small businesses, and family farming.

Omna Last

The Lite in the Heart can be experienced when there is enough Love awareness and a strong enough energy field for consciousness to enter deep within the Heart to the place where the Atma lives, shining more brightly than a million Suns.