Flying in a military jet across far northern Canada one night, I encountered as brilliant a display of northern lights, or the aurora borealis, as I had ever seen that provoked both scientific and spiritual thoughts.
As usual, the aurora snuck up on me slowly. At first I thought it merely a line of diffuse clouds and paid little attention. But then it slowly began to coalesce into a long ribbon of light and to dance, or sway, as a window curtain might if blown gently by a breeze, but in very sl
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