The paper focuses on sectors, methods, and spheres of the space activity of private companies, to provide empirical analysis of space applications and implications for global security. Special emphasis has been given to private companies offering access to satellite imagery and satellite remote sensing, as well as companies entering outer space with new and prospective capabilities as space mining. The article explains the rising importance of geo-intelligence, space surveillance and telecommunication for global security and new kind of security challenges and vulnerabilities such as environmental problems in outer space or technological challenges to security. The author argues that profit-oriented companies play crucial role in new security environment in the US, efficiently changing the law and practice. Finally he points out that new and growing market for subcontractors in space applications raises questions on growing dependence on private resources in traditional sphere of state activity, namely security, in this case provided from and through the outer space.
This article applies the esoteric tourism, which is becoming increasingly popular new form of tourism. Esoteric trips include places of power – areas that emanate certain energy that impact positively on human and stimulating. The article defines the concept of the esoteric and esoteric tourism, characterized and listed the most interesting places of power and stone circles occurring in Poland and abroad, which are esoteric tourism destination.
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Artykuł dotyczy turystyki ezoterycznej, która staje się coraz bardziej popularną nową formą turystyki. Trasy ezoterycznych wycieczek obejmują tzw. miejsca mocy – obszary, które emanują specyficzną energią, oddziałującą na człowieka pozytywnie i stymulująco. W artykule zdefiniowano pojęcie ezoteryki oraz turystyki ezoterycznej, scharakteryzowano i wymieniono najciekawsze miejsca mocy i kamienne kręgi występujące na świecie i w Polsce, które stanowią cel turystyki ezoterycznej.
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