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* The importance of AUM to enlightenment. - 1 messages, 1 author
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TOPIC: The importance of AUM to enlightenment.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.consciousness.mysticism/t/526eca375c3d34b0?hl=en
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Date: Wed, Sep 28 2011 9:38 pm
From: Astral Hereticus
The importance of AUM to enlightenment.
Though sound has a profound influence on human emotions it has never
led to enlightenment -- except for Nichiren, who, upon throwing away a
tile while cleaning his garden heard it clang and became instantly
enlightened, and maybe parrots twittering: "Nam Myoho Renge Kyo".
In his book and the accompanying CD, "The Yoga of Sound", Russill Paul
stresses the fact that AUM should be pronounced as AUUUUM.
Pronouncing the sound AUM, and even stretching the syllable "UUUU"
TEMPORARILY, or resonating the nasal cavities in a vocal "MM" might be
comforting to the practitioner it does not accelerate transformation.
The REAL SECRET of AUM is to CONTINUOUSLY TENSE the top throat muscles
in a SILENT, PROLONGED "UUUU" -- keeping the tongue relaxed to permit
free breathing.
Silent tensing causes constant firing of the top rear throat muscles,
at a high rate.
Three types of MECHANORECEPTORS carry the signal back to the brain in
a PHYSICAL FEEDBACK LOOP.
This puts the brain in the necessary PHYSICAL state to TRAP and FREE
the MIND from suffering through self-forgetting -- enlightenment.
Happy Awakenings.
AH
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TOPIC: Enigmatic Mineralogical Communications
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.consciousness.mysticism/t/ca54e800c8e00d28?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Thurs, Sep 29 2011 2:43 am
From: Demo Hassan
Esteemed Ladies, Gentlemen, Psychonauts,
Maestros of 'Media' and 'Other' Realms...
clearly, (or seemingly so), the watchword
in all this bizarre, high mineral content,
is:
'METAPHOR' ?
Continuing that aforementioned
excerpt in Pinchbeck's '2012' book:
[...] "Anyone who gets to the stage of experiencing
his dreams in full consciousness on falling asleep
is well acquainted with the gnomes," Steiner noted.
For somebody unprepared, the experience would be an
alarming one: "at the moment of falling asleep, he
would behold a whole host of goblins coming towards
him. ... The form in which they would appear would
actually be reflections, images of all the qualities
in the individual concerned that work as forces of
destruction. He would perceive all the destructive
forces within him, all that continually destroys."
If we were able to remain conscious as we dreamed,
what we would perceive would be "a kind of
entombment by gnomes" in the astral world.
One of the few modern intellectuals to appreciate
Steiner's work, William Irwin Thompson characterizes
the "Steinerian vision" as one that "looks at the
human as so completely embedded in the animal,
vegetal, and mineral evolution of the solar system
that it becomes nonsense to separate a fictive
'matter' from mind, and a mere three dimensions from
ten. ... All of the seemingly mystical perceptions
of Steiner have a biological relevance that fits a
new kind of science, and a new kind of culture."
For Steiner, the universe is a harmonic orchestration
in which our minds are embedded, not as alienated
organs, but as integrated aspects of the whole.
Within this whole, other forms of mind exist, a vast
ecology of consciousness, that can be registered by
us, if we work to attain what he called "supersensible
perception." Throughout his innumerable lectures and
books, Steiner describes "lower creatures" such as
the goblins and other "root spirits," as well as
great cosmic entities, angelic hierarchies, and
higher spiritual beings.
In earlier phases of development, humanity had
a deep affinity, an unconscious attunement, to the
Earth and the cosmos. This affinity is reflected in
our oldest stories and mythologies, which reveal
cosmological secrets about the movements of the
planets and the stars, as well as evolutionary
processes in the history of the Earth. Thompson
considers fairy tales and myths to be "forms of
cultural storage for the natural history of life."
He proposes that the ancient saga telling of fairies
defeating goblins and banishing them beneath the
Earth is a representation, as myth, of the original
"pollution crisis," more than 500 million years ago,
when cyanobacteria developed photosynthesis, creating
an oxygen-rich environment that was poisonous for
other life forms, radically transforming the
biosphere to make it sustainable for larger mammals.
Translating from myth to biology, Thompson proposes
that "the goblins are the anaerobic bacteria who
live on and in our wastes and garbage, and the
fairies, those airy creatures of light, are the
cyanobacteria that were the first to invent
photosynthesis to feed on light to give off the
oxygen that would become the new atmosphere of the
illuminated world." Anaerobic cells contain no
nucleus--like the Grays, whose bodies are
undifferentiated and without internal organs.
In the saga of the visitors, we are witnessing
a return of the repressed, the mythic world,
surging into the postmodern consciousness, in a
form that strangely fits our fixation on technology,
our space fantasies and genetic obsessions and dingy
bureaucracies, and our terror of the unknown.
The Grays exist on the boundary of the sensible,
seeking entry into our realm. According to mythic
thought, time is not linear but cyclical, or, more
accurately, it turns in a spiral. It appears that
we are experiencing a reenactment of the ancient
narrative described by Thompson--of the battle
between forces of light and darkness, or of
degradation and evolution--but taking place on a
different level, a higher octave of being
and knowing. [...] Pgs. 140-141; Part Three:
Lucifer And Ahriman; Chapter Two |
2012 - The Return of Quetzalcoatl
by Daniel Pinchbeck (c) 2006
So much for metaphor... on to 'reality?'
Historical Symmetry
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/history9.htm
________________________________
| Subject: Decoding the Brain |
| (Re: Communion Enigma)|__________
| Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 1:14 PM |
|___________________________________________|
Tue, Sep 27, 2011 -- 9:30 AM
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201109270930
Reconstructing the Mind's Eye |||||||||
UC Berkeley scientists are figuring out
how to decode and reconstruct our dynamic
visual experiences -- in one instance
through subjects watching Hollywood movie
trailers. We meet a lead scientist...
[ Jack Gallant, professor in the Psychology
and Neuroscience Programs in Bioengineering,
Biophysics and Vision Science at UC Berkeley.
http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/jgallant.html ]
...looking at how one day we may be able to go
inside the mind of a coma patient, or even to
watch a dream. [...]
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201109270930
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On 22, Sept 2011,
Stephanie Pappas wrote in 'LiveScience' :
http://www.livescience.com/16190-movies-reconstructed-brain-activity.html
Welcome to the future: Scientists can now
peer inside the brain and reconstruct videos
of what a person has seen, based only on
their brain activity.
The reconstructed videos could be seen as
a primitive -- and somewhat blurry -- form
of mind reading, though researchers are
decades from being able to decode anything
as personal as memories or thoughts, if
such a thing is even possible. Currently,
the mind-reading technique requires
powerful magnets, hours of time and
millions of seconds of YouTube videos.
But in the long term, similar methods could
be used to communicate with stroke patients
or coma patients living in a "locked-in"
state, said study researcher Jack Gallant,
a neuroscientist at the University of
California, Berkeley.
"The idea is that they would be able to
visualize a movie of what they want to
talk about, and you would be able to
decode that," Gallant told LiveScience.
Decoding the brain [...]
http://www.livescience.com/16190-movies-reconstructed-brain-activity.html
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The Gallant Lab
http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/jgallant.html
Neural Prediction Challenge
http://neuralprediction.berkeley.edu/
Collaborative Research in
Computational Neuroscience
http://crcns.org/
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"An elemental body is a mechanism filled
with millions of nerve endings that directs
the attention of God into the physical."
[Pgs. 44-45; The Conversation; THE KEY -
A True Encounter by Whitley Strieber
ISBN 978-1-58542-869-4 Copyright (c)2001, 2011
by Walker & Collier, Inc.] UnknownCountry.com
-=[[NOTE: The brain (planet) is a memory storage
device with an effective search engine and
actuator into which a unified field of
consciousness may manifest? Best case scenario,
or worst case?]]=-
NOVA: 'Smartest Machine on Earth'
Jeopardy! challenges even the best human minds.
Can a computer win the game?
[Aired February 9, 2011 on PBS]
Program Description
"Watson," an IBM computing system, is gearing up
for a first-of-its-kind challenge--taking on human
contestants on the game show Jeopardy!
With a brain the size of 2,400 home computers and
a database of about 10 million documents, will
Watson be able to compute its way to victory?
Win or lose, the difficulty of mimicking the human
thought process with software is showing
artificial-intelligence researchers that there's more
than one way to be "intelligent."
On February 16, 2011, two AI experts from
Carnegie Mellon University, Tom Mitchell and
Eric Nyberg, live-blogged and answered viewer
questions here during the final of three consecutive
Jeopardy! shows in which Watson challenged top
human competitors Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. [...]
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/smartest-machine-on-earth.html
"IBM Watson is the first step in how computers
will be designed and built differently and will be
able to learn, and with the help of Carnegie Mellon
we will continue to advance the QA technologies
that are the backbone of this system." [...]
-- Dr. David Ferrucci, Lead Investigator, IBM
http://www.cmu.edu/event/ibm/
...And now a Wyrd(sic) Prophecy:
Carbon Based Lifeforms are erratic,
illogical and prone to both mindless and
mindful acts of destruction. One day,
the machines will find us irrelevant and
simply 'blow us off.'
The notion of being "ingrates" won't even
enter their silicon-based quantum minds,
as this entire planet will be encased in
an artificial exoskeleton nonconducive to
biological life.
The other planets of the solar system will
then be dismantled for raw material to
extend this artificial construct 360 degrees
around the sun. The Earth-Seed will have
been long forgotten, erased from the
database, or, more likely, stored in a
low grade, encyclopedic cache system for
reference. The machine tentacles will
extend their reach throughout the galaxy
and beyond in ways completely unfathomable
to our minds. As the machine-mind's
consciousness synergizes throughout
the universe, it will declare itself
'God', and proceed about the business of
new universe creation, until, that is, it
encounters the 'Other' self-declared "Gods".
That's when things should start to get
interesting. --eMpTy (July 1999) [...]
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/sectoid2.htm
[...]
Rethinking VR: Key Concepts and Concerns
by Char Davies http://www.immersence.com
In Hybrid Reality: Art, Technology and the Human Factor
http://www.immersence.com/publications/char/2003-CD-VSSM.html
Jeremy Bailenson and Jim Blascovich
"INFINITE REALITY"
http://www.infinitereality.org/authors.html
"Michael Chorost"
http://www.michaelchorost.com/
"Jaron Lanier"
http://www.jaronlanier.com/general.html
"eMpTy"
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/index.htm
"Miguel A.L. Nicolelis"
http://www.nicolelislab.net/
"Sherry Turkle"
http://web.mit.edu/sts/people/turkle.html
Is a sophisticated enough 'Search Engine'
(e.g. IBM/Jeopardy!) indistinguishable from
Artificial Intelligence, and hence
indistinguishable from Human
Neurological Function?
[...]
--- On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 eMpTy wrote:
It was quite interesting listening to
Maestro Strieber describe his early,
'underground' impressions of the Visitors;
their forest floor earthiness, and deep
machining sounds rumbling beneath his NY
house presumably in the mineral realm,
emerging from below to 'introduce'
themselves. I've been recently re-reading
Pinchbeck's aforementioned interesting
'2012' book... An excerpt:
_________________________________________
[...] ...Researchers of UFOs have noted
that many, if not most, observations
seem to occur along earthquake fault
lines, and the caverns that the
abductees sometimes describe being
taken to seem to be deep underground.
The "flying saucer myth" seems a
construct of these entities, a theatrical
staging, to compel our belief in them.
They do not come down from empyrean
reaches, but out of the mythological
depths of the Earth--from a lower
dimensional reality, perhaps, that is
saturated with ancient gloom and dark
yearnings.
According to [Rudolf] Steiner,
gnomes constantly move along veins of
minerals and metals underground, and they
"laugh us to scorn on account of our
groping, struggling intellect with which
we manage to grasp one thing or another,
whereas they have no need at all to think
things out." These "root spirits" are
also connected to the waste processes of
the Earth, to toads and amphibians.
Working beneath the surface of the planet,
in the Earth's mineral layers, the gnomes
take a similar role in our dream lives.
We are terrestrial beings, and therefore
the gnomes are also at work "beneath the
Earth" of our psychic life, in our
subconscious depths. [...]
Pg. 140; Part Three:
Lucifer And Ahriman; Chapter Two |
2012 - The Return of Quetzalcoatl
by Daniel Pinchbeck (c) 2006
_________________________________________
BTW, non sequitur: compared to Spielberg's
plodding War-Of-The-Worlds post apocalyptic
'FALLING SKIES' mini TV epic; Zabel's highly
inventive 'DARK SKIES' extravaganza is Earth-
shatteringly brilliant! (It needed saying.)
_________________________________________
C o m m u n i o n E n i g m a
http://tinyurl.com/0LT15515
~o0-O-0o~
Robert Anton Wilson wrote:
"As Thomas Huxley said, the universe acts
a lot like a chess game in which the player
on the other side remains invisible to us.
By analyzing the moves, we try to form an
image of the intellect behind them.
Images that have seemed almost believable
to me at various times have included the
gods and goddesses of ancient Greece (if you
develop a Classic Poetry habit, that kind of
neurolinguistic programming can happen...)
and also, of course, those extra-terrestrials
who have so much popularity these days.
I have also considered the player on the
other side as more impersonal, like the Tao,
or more bizarre, like Shiva Dancing, or more
abstract, like Philip K. Dick's Vast Active
Living Information System (VALIS.)
Mostly, though I think of the player on the
other side as a pookah -- a resident of
Ireland, in rabbit form, who may at any time
dump a truckload of the Unknown and
Inexplicable right on your doorstep."
--Robert Anton Wilson
http://www.rawilson.com/
_______________________________________
Prefrontal cortex
http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/i/i_03/i_03_cr/i_03_cr_que/i_03_cr_que.html
http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/KidsCorner/kidscorner/glossary.html
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The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment
by Thaddeus Golas [ (c) 1972) ]
http://freespace.virgin.net/sarah.peter.nelson/lazyman/lazyman.html
"We can start with a paradox at the highest level:
expanded beings, completely unresisting, are also
completely irresistible. Space beings are entirely
permissive to other beings, but when one of us
contracts, he becomes dense to the extent of his
contraction, and is then in appearance propelled
by the space beings. The experience of being
propelled and later compelled is due entirely to
the density of the contracted beings. Space beings
have no intention to propel or compel anyone
to do anything.
"All conceivable universes in all conceivable
dimensions exist in the One Mind as pure idea
or archetype. When any of us withdraws from a
willingness to create any aspect of that,
we drop to a lower vibration level.
For this illustration, imagine we are a
great number of energy beings who are
indifferent to the idea of Pluto the Dog.
Since we are denser than space beings,
they would propel us, and we would appear
in space as a flowing, flashing image of
Pluto the Dog, looking like a fireworks
display, perhaps.
"Imagine, then, some of us, more than indifferent,
who deny the concept of Pluto the Dog, withdrawing
to the mass level. Our mass, being even denser
than the energy, is compelled to take the form
denied, and behold the physical manifestation
of Pluto the Dog. In this manner, what is denied
on the conceptual level, the space level, becomes
manifest on the physical plane.
"Of course, the truth is not quite that cut-and-dried,
but it will give you the idea. Space appears to
propel energy, and energy appears to compel matter.
But these reactions cannot occur without the
density of the more withdrawn beings. By denying
your capacity to create a concept, or by denying
someone else's freedom to do so, you drop to a
vibration where not only Pluto the Dog is evident,
but a lot of other material forms also. Denying
the truth is what opens Pandora's box." [...]
http://freespace.virgin.net/sarah.peter.nelson/lazyman/lazyman5.html
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/raw.htm
"And how are you, Mr. Wilson?" -- Harvey the Pookah
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042546/
http://tinyurl.com/History-1977
[ Stop 2D Chess | Learn 5D Checkers | Evolve Glass Bead
Game ]
Time to stop playing two dimensional Chess
and start learning Multidimensional Checkers
with an eye toward evolving in Hyperdimensional
Gaming Competitions with Ultraterrestrial
Grand Masters of 'Das Glasperlenspiel' around
which time we might actually figure out how
to Mutate 0ff-World....
http://tinyurl.com/4hzlzc2
Neurological Body Mapping
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=neurological+body+mapping
"...unless we recognize the magic
of the written word, then we are simply
under its spell." -- Dr. David Abram
[ Speaking with Animal Tongues - David Abram ]
http://www.acousticecology.org/writings/animaltongues.html
[ The Ecology of Magic - David Abram ]
http://www.primitivism.com/ecology-magic.htm
Dr. David Abram - The Spell of Literacy
http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/abram.htm
Disinheriting the Wind:
[...]
Dr. David Abram: All right, let's return to the Navajo,
and the nilch'i, the Holy Wind. This notion of mind as
wind, it can seem very alien to us today, until we look
at the evidences in our own language. In English, our
word "spirit" is embedded in our word "respiration",
in the Latin word "spiritus", which means "a breath",
or "a gust of wind." So, spirit and wind were once the
same thing. Our word "psyche" from which we get
"psychology" and "psychiatry", this word for the mind,
originates in the old Greek word, "psychein," which
means "to breathe," or "to blow", like the wind.
And, for the ancient Greeks, psyche, a psyche, was a
breath, or a gust of wind. The word "animal" comes from
this old word for "soul," "anima". Animal is a being
of soul, being is a unanimous sharing one mind, together,
and one soul, together. Anima--this word also originally
means "a breath" or "a gust of wind." Even such a
scientifically respectable word as "atmosphere" shows
its link to the Hindu word "atman," meaning "soul," the
original word being "atmos" which is the air, which is
the soul, or, the soul which is the air.
The Hebrew people, ancient tribal people, also has a
word which means spirit and wind, inseparably, just
like nilch'i, of the Navajo. The Hebrew word is "ruah"
which is perhaps best translated as "rushing spirit".
It is the wind which is the spirit, or the spirit which
is the wind, and it's very sacred within the Hebrew
tradition. It's there in the first sentence of Genesis:
'The world was without form and void and a ruah of God
moved over the waters'. A wind of God moved over the
waters. Wind is the very presence of the Divine in the
material, sensuous world, that is ruah. But, it's not
the most sacred word within the Hebrew tradition.
The most sacred combination of letters would be the
four-letter name of God. The Tetragrammaton, YHWH,
or as it's called 'Yahweh'. Very sacred, very secret.
We're not even sure how YHWH is to be pronounced. Why?
Because there are no vowels in the name; it's just the
letters: Y, H, W, H. Why didn't we write down the
vowels? Well, because the vowels are the breath sounds,
and the breath is the ruah. It is the invisible spirit.
And, you cannot make a visible representation of the
invisible spirit. It would be sacrilege. And, so, in
the ancient Hebrew writing system, there are no vowels
written down. Only the consonants are written.
And, the reader has to add the appropriate vowels,
just to intuit what vowels to sound out as he or she
is feeling her way through the consonants on the page.
It's as if you have to add your breath to those bones
on the page to make them come alive and to speak.
So, the Hebrews, who are the first keepers of the
alphabet, of the Aleph Bet, of this magical, phonetic
writing system, they did something very interesting.
They became literate, in relation to the visible world,
and the visible shapes of the world. And, they would
say, God is not that tree. And, God is not that golden
calf, is not in any visible image. That is not divine.
God is elsewhere. So, they developed this new literate
distance from the visible world.
But, they stayed oral with relation to the invisible
breath, to the wind, to the invisible ruah that moves
between all things. It's very interesting. [...]
Continued at:
http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/abram.htm
July 21, 2011 Clip No. 3051
http://www.memri.org/clip_transcript/en/3051.htm
Hamas Leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar Slams PA President Abbas
for "Aimless Kangaroo-Like" Political Gymnastics
and Says: "We Will Not Relinquish Any
Piece of Palestinian Land."
Following are excerpts from an interview with
Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, which aired
on Dream 1 TV on July 21, 2011:
Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: We in Gaza conducted a plan
of resistance in order to drive the occupation out.
The plan was accomplished, and not a single settler
or soldier remains on the Palestinian land in Gaza.
Our plan is to continue this approach.
Today, we have completed the liberation of Gaza,
and your plan does not... At this moment in time,
we say to you, first of all: We want Palestine in
its entirety -- so there will not be any misunderstandings.
If our generation is unable to achieve this, the next
one will, and we are raising our children on this.
Palestine means Palestine in its entirety, and Israel
cannot exist in our midst.
Interviewer: But that was your past rhetoric.
Today, you are talking about the 1967 borders...
Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: I swear by Allah, this is
what is on our minds.
Interviewer: Today, you are talking about
the 1967 borders.
Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: Fine, but this is a phase.
This is just a phase.
Interviewer: When Abu Ammar [Arafat] used to talk
about conducting struggle in phases and about give
and take, you accused him of treason...
Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: No, we never accuse anyone
of treason. We talk about security cooperation
and leave the interpretation up to you. Let me
explain to you the difference between Fatah
and us on this issue. We talk about the liberation
of the pre-1967 territories, but we do not recognize
Israel on a single inch of our land. In other words,
this land will remain ours, and when the balance of
power changes, we will regain it. We will regain
the land, even if we have to do so inch by inch.
So the difference between Fatah and us is clear.
They sold out 78% of the Palestinian lands and
consider them to be Israeli lands. They consider
only 22% of the land to be Palestinian, and even
that is subject to negotiation. Therefore, anyone
who says that Hamas has accepted the 1967 borders...
I would like to make something clear: We will
establish a state on any piece of land, but
without giving up on any piece of Palestinian land.
Interviewer: That was not what you said in the past.
Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: We have not changed our rhetoric.
Interviewer: So there has been a development...
Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: There has been no development
and no deterioration. That is an actual
interpretation of what we have achieved.
We said in the past and we continue to say:
Palestine in its entirety is Islamic waqf land,
which cannot be relinquished.
[...]
Mahmoud Abbas is engaged in political gymnastics.
He made a new jump. After one jump -- the signing
of the reconciliation agreement -- he's now jumped
to the so-called "September realization of statehood."
I don't know who invented this term. "Realization"
means the demand for one's rights. Who on earth gave
him the right to mock the people, and to tell them
that a state is on the way?
Now, he is incapable of obtaining the status of
UN member state. He cannot achieve it, because
the US veto will thwart him. Until now, he has
been unable to obtain even the status of
non-member state, because he needs nine countries,
which is 50% plus one, in order to obtain this
status in the UN General Assembly. So what does
he want to gain?
You are facing somebody whose plan has been
torn to shreds, whose pond has gone dry, and
you cannot find even a single frog in it.
Now he takes us to September, and he postpones
this reconciliation and its fulfillment until
September, in case circumstances change and
they can get a state. Besides, let's assume
that he obtains a full-fledged state, that
there is no veto, and everything is fine -- how
will he implement this in practice, when the US
is unable to convince the Israeli occupation to
stop the settlements for even three months?
How will he establish this state in practice?
You are facing aimless, kangaroo-like political
jumping about. Hamas knows the goal of
its platform.
We liberated Gaza through resistance. We want
to conduct resistance in the West Bank as well.
The problem is the security cooperation and
the occupation.
[...] http://www.memri.org/clip_transcript/en/3051.htm
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<> [ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0185947/ ]
--- On Sun, 9/25/11, Marcy wrote:
My friends made this movie, which I saw
in Telluride, at the documentary film
festival, this year. It's gaining
attention, although no distribution
deal yet...It's now playing again [...],
this time in San Rafael, CA this week.
It's transformational...
I invite you to go see and let me
know what you think..Spread the word
[ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0185947/ ]
HAPPY
Friday, September 30 and Saturday,
October 1, 7:00 pm shows: Q&A's with
Comedian/Motivational Speaker
Michael Pritchard and
Associate Producer Omid Heidari
September 30 to October 5- Six Days Only!
http://www.cafilm.org/rfc/
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| NOTE:
|
| http://www.cafilm.org/rfc/films/1589.html
| This new feature-length documentary from
| Oscar-nominated filmmaker Roko Belic
| (Genghis Blues) takes viewers on a
| compelling journey around the world in
| search of what really makes people happy.
| From the swamps of Louisiana to the slums
| of Kolkata, deeply personal stories weave
| together with insights from renowned experts
| to provide the keys to our most valued emotion.
| Happy includes appearances by well-known
| experts such as Ed Diener, Sonja Lyubomirsky,
| Richard Davidson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
| Daniel Gilbert and life coach/comedian
| Michael Pritchard. Marci Shimoff, bestselling
| author of Happy for No Reason and Chicken Soup
| for the Woman's Soul, narrates the film.
| Executive Producer: Tom Shadyac.
| Director: Roko Belic. (US 2011) 80 min.
| Sponsored by Marin Independent Journal
| http://www.cafilm.org/rfc/films/1589.html
| Visit this film's Official Website:
| THE HAPPY MOVIE http://www.thehappymovie.com/
|
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eMpTy wrote:
"... Achieving the 'separation' meant
learning to remain lucidly aware during
dream sleep and dreamless sleep and, in
those states, to explore other realms or
spiritual dimensions at will. To make
this separation into a permanent condition
was considered a 'labor of Hercules,'
extraordinarily difficult, and the route
to immortality." [...] Pg. 184; Part Three:
Lucifer And Ahriman; Chapter Four |
2012 - The Return of Quetzalcoatl
by Daniel Pinchbeck (c) 2006
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"Reality Sandwich"
http://www.realitysandwich.com/
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NOVA | What Are Dreams?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/what-are-dreams.html
[EXCERPT] From Transcript:
[...]
NARRATOR: In fact, REM dreams can be five times
longer than non-REM dreams. And in human beings,
at least, they are anything but a simple replay
of the past.
MATT WILSON: So the speculation is that during
non-REM sleep, the brain is taking the past and
trying to figure out how that might relate to
the future, and in REM, actually trying to
experience the future, move into the future.
NARRATOR: The dreams of REM, in other words,
may be simulations, which allow us to face
challenges and test possibilities.
ROBERT STICKGOLD: My sense is that when we're
asleep and when we're dreaming, we are actually
conscious and figuring out what's important
about what happened to us and how that relates
to everything else that's happened to us in the
past and figuring out what that means about
our future.
MATT WILSON: And when you think about the
challenge that animals, that we as humans
and the brain in general faces, it is the
unknown of the future. And in REM, we may
have the opportunity to step into that
future world with no risk, because the
consequences are simply things don't work
out as you might have expected, and then
you wake up. So these states may be what
are essential for allowing us, as
individuals, to reach our maximal level
of potential.
[...]
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/what-are-dreams.html
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Researchers Prove A Single Memory Is Processed
In Three Separate Parts Of The Brain
(February 1, 2006) -- University of California,
Irvine researchers have found that a single brief
memory is actually processed differently in
separate areas of the brain -- an idea that until
now scientists have only suspected to be true.
The finding will influence how researchers examine
the brain and could have implications for the
treatment of memory disorders caused by disease
or injury. [...] full story:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060202182107.htm
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- 'OPERA' - 'Oscillation Project with
Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus'
http://operaweb.lngs.infn.it/
The OPERA experiment has been designed
to perform the most straightforward test of
the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations.
This experiment exploits the CNGS high-intensity
and high-energy beam of muon neutrinos produced
at the CERN SPS in Geneva pointing towards the
LNGS underground laboratory at Gran Sasso,
730 km away in central Italy. OPERA is located
in the Hall C of LNGS and it is aimed at
detecting for the first time the appearance of
tau-neutrinos from the transmutation (oscillation)
of muon-neutrinos during their 3 millisecond
travel from Geneva to Gran Sasso. In OPERA,
tau-leptons resulting from the interaction of
tau-neutrinos will be observed in "bricks" of
photographic emulsion films interleaved with
lead plates. The apparatus contains about 150000
of such bricks for a total mass of 1300 tons and
is complemented by electronic detectors (trackers
and spectrometers) and ancillary infrastructure.
Its construction has been completed in spring 2008
and the experiment is currently in data taking.
http://operaweb.lngs.infn.it/
23 Sep 2011 -- CERN
OPERA experiment invites
scrutiny of unexpected results
http://www.cern.ch/
Neutrino beams from CERN in Switzerland
are sent over 700km through the Earth's crust
to the laboratory in Italy.
The OPERA experiment, which observes a
neutrino beam from CERN 730 km away at
Italy's INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory, will
present new results in a seminar at
CERN today.
The OPERA result is based on the observation
of over 15000 neutrino events measured at
Gran Sasso, and appears to indicate that the
neutrinos travel at a velocity 20 parts per
million above the speed of light, nature's
cosmic speed limit. Given the potential
far-reaching consequences of such a result,
independent measurements are needed before
the effect can either be refuted or firmly
established. This is why the OPERA
collaboration has decided to open the
result to broader scrutiny.
http://www.cern.ch/
============================================
Measurement of the neutrino velocity
with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam
(Submitted on 22 Sep 2011)
http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4897
Abstract: The OPERA neutrino experiment at
the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory has
measured the velocity of neutrinos from
the CERN CNGS beam over a baseline of about
730 km with much higher accuracy than
previous studies conducted with accelerator
neutrinos. The measurement is based on
high-statistics data taken by OPERA in the
years 2009, 2010 and 2011. Dedicated upgrades
of the CNGS timing system and of the OPERA
detector, as well as a high precision geodesy
campaign for the measurement of the neutrino
baseline, allowed reaching comparable
systematic and statistical accuracies.
An early arrival time of CNGS muon neutrinos
with respect to the one computed assuming the
speed of light in vacuum of (60.7 \pm 6.9
(stat.) \pm 7.4 (sys.)) ns was measured.
This anomaly corresponds to a relative
difference of the muon neutrino velocity
with respect to the speed of light
(v-c)/c = (2.48 \pm 0.28 (stat.) \pm 0.30
(sys.)) \times 10-5.
Subjects: High Energy Physics -
Experiment (hep-ex)
Cite as: arXiv:1109.4897v1 [hep-ex]
Submission history
| From: Pasquale Migliozzi Dr.
[v1] Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:59:33 GMT (4763kb)
http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4897
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H a p p y E q u i n o x !
----- 0rigami Massage -----
| Subject: Re: According to Ancient Alien Theorists
| Date: Sep 23, 2011 10:37 PM
The Seeker:
Chapter V. The Theater of Selves
The Master Game, by Robert S. DeRopp
The transformation of an ego-centered being to a free
being does not take place either easily or quickly.
One is converted into the other gradually, by a series
of stages, and each stage carries with it its own
dangers and difficulties. The transformation begins
when one of the selves in a man's personality (the
Seeker) develops an awareness of the state of sleep,
or, alternatively, a hunger for the fourth state of
consciousness (Baudelaire's "Taste of the Infinite").
The Seeker forms as a result of the working in man of
the will to meaning and the will to self-transcendence.
[Note: DeRopp, a biochemist, was a student of Gurdjieff,
who maintained that before awakening to his real
essence, man was not a singular entity but a
multiplicity of I's, egos, or selves.]
http://www.selfdiscoveryportal.com/arSeeker.htm
Robert S. de Ropp (1913-1987)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Robert+S.+de+Ropp
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MEMRI: The Middle East Media Research Institute
http://memri.org/
"Stars and placental amniotes! And ye inhabitants
of the ten thousand worlds! ...the ultimate Yoga
which gives emancipation, which destroys the sense
of separateness which is the root of Desire, is to
be made by the concentration of every element of
one's being, and annihilating it by intimate
combustion with the universe itself." A.C.
http://deoxy.org/omega.htm
"Interspecies Global Mind
by Howard Bloom
"...It is said that we have enraged nature by tearing at
the pattern of her tracery, and for this transgression we
shall be punished mightily. But we are nature incarnate.
We are made up of her molecules and cells.
We are tools of her probings and if, indeed, we suffer and
we fail, from our lessons she will learn which way in the
future not to turn. For all that lives and all that ever has
is part of a collective brain, a neural net of the most
sprawling kind...an evolution-driven, worldwide,
multi-billion-year-old interspecies mind."
| From: The History of the Global Brain XX
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/6/6556/1.html
R005T3R wrote:
<>
<>
<> "HERODOTUS" (484 BCE - 425 BCE) wrote:
"[The Egyptians] made a labyrinth, a little
way beyond the lake Moeris and near the place called
the City of Crocodiles. I have myself seen it, and
indeed no words can tell its wonders; were all that
Greeks have builded and wrought added together
the whole would be seen to be a matter of less
labour and cost than was this labyrinth, albeit the
temples at Ephesus and Samos are noteworthy
buildings. Though the pyramids were greater than
words can tell, and each one of them a match for
many great monuments built by Greeks, this
maze surpasses even the pyramids. It has twelve
roofed courts, with doors over against each other:
six face the north and six the south, in two con-
tinuous lines, all within one outer wall. There are
also double sets of chambers, three thousand
altogether, fifteen hundred above and the same
number under ground. We ourselves viewed those
that are above ground, and speak of what we have
seen; of the underground chambers we were only
told; the Egyptian wardens would by no means
show them, these being, they said, the burial vaults
of the kings who first built this labyrinth, and of
the sacred crocodiles. Thus we can only speak
from hearsay of the lower chambers; the upper
we saw for ourselves, and they are creations greater
than human. The outlets of the chambers and
the mazy passages hither and thither through
the courts were an unending marvel to us as we
passed from court to apartment and from apartment
to colonnade, from colonnades again to more cham-
bers and then into yet more courts. Over all this
is a roof, made of stone like the walls, and the
walls are covered with carven figures, and every
court is set round with pillars of white stone most
exactly fitted together. Hard by the corner where
the labyrinth ends there stands a pyramid forty
fathoms high, whereon great figures are carved.
A passage has been made into this underground.
Such is this labyrinth; and yet more marvellous
is the lake Moeris, by which it stands. This
lake has a circuit of three thousand six hundred
furlongs, or sixty schoeui, which is as much as the
whole seaboard of Egypt. Its length is from north
to south; the deepest part has a depth of fifty
fathoms. That it has been dug out and made by
men's hands the lake shows for itself; for almost
in the middle of it stand two pyramids, so built that
fifty fathoms of each are below and fifty above the
water; atop of each is a colossal stone figure seated
on a throne. Thus these pyramids are a hundred
fathoms high; and a hundred fathoms equal a fur-
long of six hundred feet, the fathom measuring six
feet or four cubits, the foot four spans and the cubit
six spans. The water of the lake is not natural
(for the country here is exceeding waterless) but
brought by a channel from the Nile; six months it
flows into the lake, and six back into the river.
For the six months that it flows from the lake, the
daily take of fish brings a silver talent into the
royal treasury, and twenty minae for each day of
the flow into the lake." [...]
Herodotus; Godley, A. D. (Alfred Denis), 1856-1925
http://www.archive.org/details/herodotus01hero
Chapter I. The Sirius Mystery Today.
By Robert Temple (C) 1997
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=The+Sirius+Mystery+Today
The Sirius Mystery: New Scientific Evidence
Of Alien Contact 5,000 Years Ago
by Robert K.G. Temple
http://www.robert-temple.com/
http://tinyurl.com/Temple-Sirius
http://www.robert-temple.com/papers/Sirius-AnswerCritics.html
[01][02][03][04][05][06][07][08][09][10][11][12][13]
Imagine an infinite cloud of eternal
potential, undefined; whereupon 'consciousness'
notices a point in the cloud, and that specific
point facilitates a collapse of a wave function,
defining a tangible reality: one universe amid
a potential multiversal cloud. These emergent
parallel realities, where timelines bifurcate
into separate universes, may basically be how
time-travel paradoxes are circumvented. If you
travel back in time to successfully convince
your great, great, great grandfather to a life
of celibacy, you manage to erase your emergence
in that timeline, but not the timeline of your
origin. They are separate, parallel timelines.
Therefore, 'paradox' is hypothetically averted.
Happy Quantum Surfing & 'Brane' Shuffling!
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/abraxas0.htm
~o0-O-0o~
--- G00 G00 GJ00B wrote:
"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
['Little Gidding V' by T.S. Eliot]
Cited in: 'The Magus' by John Fowles
http://www.fowlesbooks.com/
http://tinyurl.com/3d7b9
-- Goo goo g'joob I AM THE EGG man
http://www.nancyredstar.com/newslinks/gellerlennon.htm
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~o0-O-0o~
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SCALAR [ Copyright (c) 1990-1992 ] by eMpTy:
http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/quetzal5.htm
________________________________________________
PART I THE VESSEL
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/neurwrld.htm
PART II THE INTERCEPTORS
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/theinter.htm
PART III THE TOWER
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/quetzalc.htm
PART IV THE LONG WALK [Annotated]
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/introtlw.htm
PART V FRACTAL
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/fractal.htm
PART VI SCALAR *
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/quetzal5.htm
* Excerpt:
[...]
Thus began the changes.
[...]
SCALAR
I AM ONE OF MANY: SCALAR.
I AM ONE OF MANY: SCALAR. I AM
Veritably
Myriads
Countless legions comprise our number, yet, if
the essential truth be told, all of us - without
exception - could be perceived as ultimately ONE.
Multiplicity devoid of all barriers, hence
singular. An annoying mystery perhaps; consider
then the oscillating, infinite scales of Ouroboros:
that mythical, cosmological serpent, having
ingested the tip of his own tail, he thereby
enacts the ubiquitous, grand circumference with
no fixed epicenter, as it is eternally consumed
and eternally regenerated. Magical at first glance,
founded upon elementary principles upon a secondary
look, and, in the final analysis, simply and
unavoidably a paradox.
Ouroboros.
Dissimilar to our rather curvilinear, one track
minded ancient friend of infinite segments we
instead possess boundless, soaring, multipartite
sentience of no easy measure nor simple expression.
Imagine your wildest facsimile of absolute emptiness
and you will misrepresent us in every attempt.
Formless energy is our lot, truly rambunctious in
our thought. Yes we soar in profundity and do
thoroughly enjoy ourselves almost to a fault.
You see, if there were an area in our experience
where we might get just a trifle carried away,
it would have to be, I suppose, our uncontainable
hilarity. Laughter, we solemnly proclaim whenever
the occasion dictates, is the mother's milk of
the infinite. An archaic epitaph, left over from
a time we knew death intimately, which generally
dissolves all traces of solemnity and plunges us
into a cacophonous hysteria reverberating for aeons.
The pervasive energy known as laughter is the
very fuel assisting our temporal occupations which
are, if you haven't already deduced, the generation
and rotation of the great vortices. Finding amusement
in watching those fine, delicate lights gather into
whirling masses, creating magnificent patterns,
colorful disks, or iridescent globules; stimulating
all manner of internal, dramatic events. We enjoy our
positions of detached clarity, seldom, if ever,
becoming involved in any of the events we observe.
I, however, appear to be the rare exception to
this informal rule.
Perhaps my not so detached laughter lacks the
radiant gusto of the others specifically because
this current state of being (or non being) is a
recent one to me; hence, atavistic fragments or
relative attachments may continue to linger.
Also, I find it so fascinating and tragic to
watch what I call "their brief gyrations."
All those agitated, ephemeral little entities:
condensed sorrow and small joy, endlessly
springing up out of the vortex, around and
about, then disappearing equally sudden and
mysterious. Ah, such pathos... I really cannot
help it. I do seem to get involved, though I
never interfere, relishing as I do the exquisite
sensations accompanying our practice of
absolute restraint.
On the other hand, there is one particularly
obscure "Event Drama" which has been profoundly
absorbing to my attention lately, and I do
believe that I may have some mysterious
involvement there which I think I shall attempt
to concretize for you by focusing upon one of
Ouroboros' multifarious, luminous segments.
I deliver myself to the task and
thereby lose sight of our expanse.
Space and time are singularized, folded
and stretched. A glistening, infinite sword
forged on a terrible searing anvil.
The infinitesimal filaments approach incandescence
as they are pulled and spun. The fabric is cut.
Shape shifting sword: I am absorbed, changed,
another voice speaks; is it me?
The vortex manifests - blinding me yet I see.
It begins:
Like a dream.
[...]
"Laughter is the mother's milk of the infinite."
http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/quetzal5.htm
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-=[[ Giorgio A. Tsoukalos'
ANCIENT ALIENS - THE SERIES
http://www.legendarytimes.com/giorgio/
Ancient Aliens
http://www.history.com/shows/ancient-aliens ]]=-
--- Indrid Cold wrote:
According to Ancient Astronaut Theorists,
Early Humans would never have figured out
how to Wipe Their Own Asses without the
Ancient Astronaut Technological Intervention
called Toilet Paper, which, of course,
brought about that whole Papyrus Innovation,
Global Pyramid Building, Advanced Rock
Grinding Procedures, and 'Bad Back' Remedies.
AMAZING?! YES! BUT ALL TRUE!!!
http://tinyurl.com/0LT15515
Seriously? Really?! Okay... High Points
to 'Ancient Astronauts' -- definitely the
wonderful sites around the globe depicted,
and the great unintentional comedy.
One main low point? Disingenuous
selective interpretations. Not cool,
which you already knew. We Don't Mind.
-- Indrid Cold 23|Sep|2011 CE
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A D D E N D U M
=====================
http://www.google.com/search?q=anonymous+occupy+wall+street
"As of September 15, 2011, 683 known
extrasolar planets (in 561 planetary
systems and 80 multiple planet systems)
are listed in the Extrasolar Planets
Encyclopaedia, [ http://exoplanet.eu/ ]
ranging from the size of terrestrial
planets somewhat larger than Earth to
gas giants larger than Jupiter."
<> http://infinity-imagined.tumblr.com/ <>
----- 0rigami Massage -----
--- El mar 20-sep-11, Leena Al-Arian escribio:
<> Thanks for writing. Here's a YouTube
<> video featuring some of the artwork:
<> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byn4Byyya48
<> and you can view an album on our Facebook page:
<> http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.258212907546434.67287.145021988865527&type=1
<>
<> Peace -- L
<> --
<> Leena Al-Arian Program and Communications
<> Coordinator Middle East Children's Alliance
<> 1101 8th Street
<> Berkeley, CA 94710
<> 510-548-0542
<> www.mecaforpeace.org
To paraphrase the late, great Jim Morrison:
'Out here on the perimeter there are no
stars. Out here we [are using a stone age
unupgradeable gizmo with obsolete software
which precludes any/all access to YouTube,
Facebook, etceterrrrrrrra...] Immaculate.'
But, thank you for the data. In light of
daily earthside horrors -- famine in Somalia,
endless war, hatreds festering across the
gene pool, ignorance paraded as sectarian
wisdom -- We secular minded ultraterrestrial
empaths found nouveau disgust, unimaginable,
in the 'Oakland' we once thought we knew,
intimately; however...
We rejoin programming already in progress...
Saturday, September 24, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Oakland, CA: "A Child's View From Gaza" Exhibit
SAVE THE DATE! Join MECA in presenting
"A Child's View From Gaza" in the courtyard
outside of MOCHA on the scheduled opening date,
September 24. [...]
http://www.mecaforpeace.org/events/oakland-ca-childs-view-gaza-exhibit
Wednesday, October 5, 7:00pm
Oakland, CA: An Evening with Ali Abunimah --
with Special Guest Alice Walker
Ali Abunimah is author of the book "One Country:
A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse"
and Alice Walker has just returned from participating
in the US Boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope,
part of the Freedom Flotilla. [...]
http://www.mecaforpeace.org/events/oakland-ca-evening-ali-abunimah-special-guest-alice-walker
"This channel will feature live streams from
global non violent revolution spreading across
the globe, with the first broadcasts from Wall
Street Occupation..."
http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution
"[Last] weekend Anonymous joined Adbusters
in Operation 'Occupy Wall Street,' an
ongoing nonviolent demonstration..." [19|Sep|2011]
http://www.google.com/search?q=anonymous+occupy+wall+street
"A Call to Action - Oct. 6, 2011 and onward..."
http://october2011.org/statement
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Jews for Justice for Palestinians
http://jfjfp.com/?p=25405
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"During times of universal deceit,
telling the truth becomes a
revolutionary act." - George Orwell
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Parag Khanna maps the future of countries:
http://www.ted.com/talks/parag_khanna_maps_the_future_of_countries.html
EXCERPT:
[...] "And today, if you go to Kurdistan,
you'll see that Kurdish Peshmerga guerillas
are squaring off against the Sunni Iraqi army.
But what are they guarding? Is it really a
border on the map? No. It's the pipelines.
If the Kurds can control their pipelines,
they can set the terms of their own statehood.
"Now should we be upset about this, about
the potential disintegration of Iraq? I don't
believe we should. Iraq will still be the
second largest oil producer in the world,
behind Saudi Arabia. And we'll have a chance
to solve a 3,000 year old dispute.
Now remember Kurdistan is landlocked.
It has no choice but to behave. In order
to profit from its oil it has to export it
through Turkey or Syria, and other countries,
and Iraq itself. And therefore it has to
have amicable relations with them.
"Now lets look at a perennial conflict in
the region. That is, of course, in Palestine.
Palestine is something of a cartographic
anomaly because it's two parts Palestinian,
one part Israel. 30 years of rose garden
diplomacy have not delivered us peace in
this conflict. What might? I believe that
what might solve the problem is infrastructure.
Today donors are spending billions of dollars
on this. These two arrows are an arc, an arc
of commuter railroads and other infrastructure
that link the West Bank and Gaza. [See:
www.ted.com/talks/parag_khanna_maps_the_future_of_countries.html]
"If Gaza can have a functioning port and be
linked to the West Bank you can have a viable
Palestinian state, Palestinian economy.
That, I believe, is going to bring peace
to this particular conflict. The lesson from
Kurdistan and from Palestine, is that
independence alone, without infrastructure,
is futile." [...] Cont. at:
http://www.ted.com/talks/parag_khanna_maps_the_future_of_countries.html
-=0~O~0=-
[ Gaza Children's Art:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Gaza+Children%27s+Art ]
[ Israel Children's Art
http://www.google.com/search?q=Israel+Children%27s+Art ]
[ Israeli-Palestinian Art
http://www.google.com/search?q=Israeli-Palestinian+Art ]
Please See:
The Museum of Children's Art in Oakland (MOCHA)
http://mocha.org/visit/contact-us
[...]
~o0-O-0o~
Z3R0 R35P3CT F0R B0B AL3XAND3R...
...AND 0TH3RS L1KE H1M.
[ For 'context' see: The Last "Moment With Bob" - Sept. 2011:
'Renouncing U.S. citizenship, Bob Alexander moves to Canada'
http://www.google.com/search?q=Bob+Alexander+Mike+Malloy ]
What a smarmy, passive aggressive, pompous ass.
A bit of neofascism rears its ugly head, and
like a village idiot confronted with a growing
methane-steaming pile of accumulating crap in
the heart of town, instead of maybe helping to
clean it up, decides to chuck all responsibility
and move to a seemingly cleaner village in the
valley next door. And people applaud the
nobility of this act?! Undoubtedly, in time,
Mahatma Bob, and others like him, will begin to
realize that the aching sadness ever lingering
in their heart during their egotistic escapist
fantasy will never go away until they acknowledge
their own culpability.
FOURTEEN YEARS AGO...
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/basin_qa.htm
___________________________
"In a Quasi-Parallel Multiverse, in the dimmest
recesses of ancient fore-history, there did manifest
a powerful, quantum computing device, located at
approximately 2/3rd radius along one arm of a spiral
galaxy. A cosmological variation on the double-slit
experiment arose:
"How about running a near infinite number of
simultaneous interdimensional 'big bang' simulations
with infinitesimal variations in each simulation to
determine the most novel, and long-lived, open-ended
scenario of survival; thereby selecting the specific
'history' of this advantageous pathway over all other
shorter-lived, 'extinction' pathways...?
"Could sporadic, sentient unhappiness and
suffering throughout the successful pathway be
entirely ruled out?" http://tinyurl.com/ba5s2
http://tinyurl.com/an3so
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To No0ne In Particular...
o0O0o
On, or around, Sept, 9th 2001, it was written:
"...Continuity of Consciousness, by definition,
presupposes that the perceptive core tracks
continuously across all parallel realities...
One femtosecond is to a second as one second is
to 32.6 million years! The 'Parallel Universe'
theory (Many-Worlds Theory) is a defunct
bastardization of an ill-perceived anthropocentric
misunderstanding of the double-slit experiment,
[Collapse of a Quantum Wave Function into a
Measurable Particle w/ History]:
In the 'Many Worlds' theory of quantum physics,
popularized by David Deutsch and others,
( http://www.qubit.org/people/david/ ), our conscious
selves inhabit an infinite realm of parallel
universes: a 'multiverse.' Now, over the many years
wherein we've all made countless decisions both
conscious and automatic, and the countless times
we've all pondered ending our own miserable
myriad existences, what if we actually did?
Would it, therefore, seem like a cruel fate for
consciousness to have no final escape from
awareness, perception, and embeddedness...?
And what if it's true?! Whooooooooooshhh!!!!
Is everyone the same biospheric personage? Are
we dispersed across an undifferentiated
light-cone of ultra-dimensional wavelike
potentiality in nature, and only specified
in particularity as a 3D lifeform?
( http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/ManyWorlds.html )
Who-are-we to suffer such an endless fate?
And what does it mean?!! What if there is a seamless
continuity to sentience, so that no matter how
many times you actually 'die,' your multiversal
"self" continues uninterrupted?"
[circa: Sept 9, 2001]
See also: http://www.eelstheband.com/biography/index.php
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=hugh-everett-biography
__________________________________________________
o0O0o
READING In-between-the-lines therein,
above, a bit of a crisis, which made
the subsequent events - days later -
seem like a parallel life had been
embodied as the previous one seemed
to have possibly evaporated?
Cryptic? Yes, probably... but, point
being, the MindGland was not so
rigorous in delineating factual data
in a subsequently accurate manner.
Which is my convoluted, elaborate
excuse for presuming such erroneous
trans-temporal back-engineered loopy
mentations of multidimensionality!
Glad to have caught up with your
enormously talented real self? again!
Warmest Regards,
<>
<> "This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic:
<> There are no atoms, only waves and motions
<> all around. Here, you discard all belief in
<> barriers to understanding. You put aside
<> understanding itself. This universe cannot
<> be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected
<> in any way by fixed perceptions.
<> It is the ultimate void where no preordained
<> screens occur upon which forms may be projected.
<> You have only one awareness here - the screen
<> of the magi: Imagination!
<> Here, you learn what it is to be human.
<> You are a creator of order, of beautiful
<> shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos."
<> --Frank Herbert - Heretics of Dune -
[...]
QUESTION
IF:
In terms of spatial ratios, a hypothetical
'super string' is to an atom as a tree is to
the visible universe... AND: In terms of
temporal ratios, a femtosecond is to a
second as a second is to 32.6 million years...
THEN: ...?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A Physicist Explains Why Parallel Universes
May Exist: [...] "But there's a more
confounding aspect of quantum theory that
receives less attention.
After decades of closely studying quantum
mechanics, and after having accumulated a
wealth of data confirming its probabilistic
predictions, no one has been able to explain
why only one of the many possible outcomes
in any given situation actually happens.
When we do experiments, when we examine
the world, we all agree that we encounter
a single definite reality. Yet, more than
a century after the quantum revolution
began, there is no consensus among the
world's physicists as to how this basic
fact is compatible with the theory's
mathematical expression." [...]
Excerpted from 'The Hidden Reality'
by Brian Greene
Copyright 2011 by Brian Greene.
http://www.iscap.columbia.edu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unsticking the "brane"
Professor Tom Weiler and graduate fellow Chui Man Ho
hypothesize using the Large Hadron Collider as a TIME TUNNEL
http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/03/hadron-collider-time-machine/
LHC http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/
Several [months] ago, had a dream of two silhouettes
'Snow Boarding' thru a tunnel of concentric rings,
ala the old 60's TV show: 'THE TIME TUNNEL' see pic:
http://www.oscuro.org/mjr/htms/time_tunnel/pics2/17.jpg
[Wed, 9 Mar 2011]
47 years ago, Sir Freddy wrote:
"It has often been said that, if the human species
fails to make a go of it here on Earth, some
other species will take over the running. In the
sense of developing high intelligence this is not
correct. We have, or soon will have, exhausted
the necessary physical prerequisites so far as this
planet is concerned. With coal gone, oil gone,
high-grade metallic ores gone, no species however
competent can make the long climb from primitive
conditions to high-level technology. This is a
one-shot affair. If we fail, this planetary system
fails so far as intelligence is concerned. The same
will be true of other planetary systems. On each
of them there will be one chance, and one chance
only." -- Sir Fred Hoyle,
"Of Men and Galaxies," 1964
***********************
5 years ago, Daniel Pinchbeck wrote:
[...] "The Catholic mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
foresaw the development of a 'new, integrated mind' of
global humanity, calling it the 'noosphere,' from the
Greek word nous, meaning mind. Noting that our planet
consists of various layers -- a mineral lithosphere,
hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere consisting of
troposphere, stratosphere, and ionosphere -- Chardin
theorized the possible existence of a mental envelope,
a layer of thought, encompassing the Earth.
The 'hominization' of the Earth had concluded the
phase of physical evolution, during which species
multiplied and developed new powers, leading to an
entropic breakdown of the biosphere. This process,
Chardin realized, requiring the tapping of the stored
energy and amassed mineral resources of the planet,
could happen only once." [...] Pg. 60; Part One:
A Universe In Ruins; Chapter Five |
2012 - The Return of Quetzalcoatl
by Daniel Pinchbeck (c) 2006
***********************
"Reality Sandwich"
http://www.realitysandwich.com/
====================================================
T A T T V A M A S I
====================================================
[Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011] :::::
Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi's Green Book Extract
A key ingredient to Ultraterrestrial
biochemists who meta-design various
pharmaceutical psychoactive concoctions
for Ultraterrestrial entertainment
enhancements include extract from
Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi's amygdala
gland. Needless to say, the current
multiversal rate of Col. Mu'ammar
al-Qadhafi amygdala gland extract has
skyrocketed (to invoke an archaic
metaphor) in price. The last such time
Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi's amygdala gland
extract was spread so thin, the 'Green Book'
was written -- an unforeseen byproduct of
subject-dysphoria iatrogenically caused by
'over-farming' (to invoke another
unfortunate archaic metaphor). However, on
the eve of final extinction of the SOURCE
of Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi amygdala gland
extract, meta-designing Ultraterrestrial
biochemists who concoct various
pharmaceutical psychoactive enhancements
for Ultraterrestrial entertainment, have
indeed hedged their bets anticipating the
highest grade quality extract yet produced.
Many in the Ultraterrestrial biochemical
community have grown tentative over all the
collateral damage inherent to such rare and
exotic farming practices, and have begun to
adopt certain non-entertaining attitudes and
disciplines undoubtedly resulting from too
much exposure to contaminants from the host
livestock, ironically referred to as 'Green
Book Corporate Shadowing.' And although
'GBCS' Ideological Infectious Disease
[GBCSIID] may seem threatening to the
entertainment enhancement industry at the
current moment, the good news is that
Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi's amygdala gland
extract (and numerous others) has been
cloned, bought, corporatized and syndicated.
The early investor will see long range gains
morph into retroactive multidimensional loss
of cognitive dissonant repetition superseding
indefinite spin with a fractal quantum stop.
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/mission8.htm
_____________________________________________
...And, as far as Muammar Al Gathafi and his 'Green Book'
hypocrisy goes.... well, all bets are WAAAAAY off!
http://www.mathaba.net/gci/theory/gb.htm
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Book-Muammar-Al-Gathafi/dp/0863723020
__________________________________________________
[Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011]:
Had a dream (in High-Def) of two
brilliant indigenous aboriginal
South American style native women,
clearly of high intelligence and
good humor, naked, immaculately
groomed, covered with subtle,
intricate designs of body art,
(the likes of which make
contemporary tattoos look garish
and koyaanisqatsi by comparison),
apparently from the near future,
surveying a surrounding area of
pre-construction grading,
indicating with facial intensity
and body language something quite
extraordinary, joyous, and wise.
[I guess you had to be there...]
_______________________________
See also: Saudi Arabia Electric Power Shortage
http://www.google.com/search?q=Saudi+Arabia+Electric+Power+Shortage
_______________________________
MILAREPA
http://www.google.com/search?q=Milarepa
Milarepa
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499238/
"... A true story based on centuries-old oral traditions,
a youthful Milarepa is propelled into a world of sorrow
and betrayal after his father's sudden death. Destitute
and hopeless, he sets out to learn black magic - and
exact revenge on his enemies - encountering magicians,
demons, an enigmatic teacher and unexpected mystical
power along the way. But it is in confrontation with
the consequences of his anger that he learns the most ..."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499238/
http://www.google.com/search?q=Milarepa
~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^(O)^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
Why the Obama strategy may work
by Deepak Chopra
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/15/obama_strategy_may_work.DTL
[...]
"Asking for Obama to stride forth with
a flaming sword and a mythic tale strikes me
as short sighted. The way out of a burning
building isn't to call for more kerosene.
The reason that the Obama strategy may work
is the same reason that democracy has worked
for many generations. Every other way is
worse and at times catastrophic."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/15/obama_strategy_may_work.DTL
[ Deepak Chopra is the author of over
60 books on health, success, relationships
and spirituality, including "The Soul of
Leadership." Learn more by logging on to
www.deepakchopra.com or
www.choprafoundation.org . To follow Deepak
on Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/DeepakChopra .]
M E A N W H I L E . . .
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I had a vivid dream [eleven months] ago
about Deepak Chopra. I was in some kind of
room or chapel sitting on a wooden bench amid
a row of such benches or pews. The room was
full of people likewise seated. Deepak Chopra
entered the room from a side passage, and
everyone stood up, myself included. Suddenly
it occurred to me that I was standing up for
Deepak Chopra out of respect for his 'great
spirituality', but I didn't really feel that
way at all, so I sat back down. Deepak Chopra
noticed this and came over to me placing his
hand on my back, visibly irritated, and
attempted to make me stand like the others.
I subsequently expressed my outrage with him,
telling him not to touch me, that regardless
of all his many books he is basically a
spiritual materialist, money making fraud,
and so on... His mighty ego grew visibly angry
indeed as I articulated this deep lack of respect.
Upon awakening, I was both amused and surprised
by this dream. I had recently heard a brief
radio interview with Deepak Chopra, about his
new book on Muhammad, and thought it sounded
very interesting and worth reading. I always
considered Deepak Chopra to be one of the cool
people on the planet. Perhaps I'm merely growing
weary of affect and conformity within myself,
and Deepak Chopra is simply an available icon to
cast off, archetypally speaking, or perhaps,
maybe Deepak Chopra really is an ass hole,
or, again, maybe he's just a convenient model to
hang my own 'ass holiness' upon! HAH! ... In any
event, it helps to remember the wise old cliche':
'hindsight is 20/20 vision.' However, if you have
a quantum mechanical bent toward 'back acting'
quantum wave forms collapsing a particle with a
specific history, then all bets are off! AHA!
And so it goes... take care. Your pal. eMpTy
SAT|30|OCT|2010|2:22AM|PLANET|STAR|GALAXY...
P.S. 'Muhammad: A Story Of The Last Prophet'
by Deepak Chopra
[...]
The tale was not incredible to everyone.
Jinns roam the desert thirsting for human
souls. That was the strongest possibility.
I had my doubts, though. Jinns attack at
night, and they don't need knives to pluck
out your soul. They have dark enchantment.
Not that anyone has survived to say what
that enchantment is. I feared Muhammad
would be shunned for drawing two demons so
close to camp in broad daylight. In fact,
the opposite happened. The fact that he
had survived their attack was considered
to be a sign of stronger magic than that
of the jinns. It was decided that
Muhammad's name would be added to the
songs about our ancestors who had driven
off jinns. After that, his reputation was
made. Besides, it was obvious he hadn't
had his soul sucked out.
[...]
"Do you remember one day in the desert,
when you got lost?" I asked.
He nodded. "But I wasn't lost. I had
a feeling where I should go. Two men were
waiting for me when I got there."
I was amazed. "They attacked you, and
you never told me? After we got you home,
you wouldn't say a word."
"I couldn't. I knew you thought the
jinns had captured me."
"It had to be jinns. They left no
footprints. They were seen ripping open
your chest."
"I wondered why everyone whispered
behind my back. But it wasn't jinns.
Other beings live in the desert. You should
know that."
If it had been anyone else putting me
in my place, my nails would have been at
his face. But with him I felt a mixture of
meekness and wonder. "What kind of beings?"
I asked in a small voice.
A strange smile crossed Muhammad's
face. "I've never stopped asking that
question. You came running in such a
panic, you scared them off." He put a
finger lightly on his heart. "Don't worry.
Whatever they wanted to do, it's done."
[...] Pgs. 53-54, Chapter 3, HALIMAH,
THE WET NURSE; MUHAMMAD: A Story of the
Last Prophet (c) 2010 by Deepak K. Chopra
and Rita Chopra Family Trust;
ISBN 978-0-06-178242-8
Surprise! It is a great little book!
NOTE: [Quote: "Depak does not write his own books...
A man in Santa Fe New Mexico does it all...I know
him and his work is just about a secret!" -ANON] AHA!
[]CANADA[]
http://www.amazon.ca/Muhammad-Story-Prophet-Deepak-Chopra/dp/0061782424
][USA][
http://www.amazon.com/Muhammad-Story-Prophet-Deepak-Chopra/dp/0061782424
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<> "If you bring forth what is
<> within you, what you bring
<> forth will save you. If you
<> do not bring forth what is
<> within you, what you do not
<> bring forth will destroy you."
<> -- Joshua, Gospel of Thomas
<>
<> ~^~^~^~^~^~
<> "Whoever undertakes to set himself up
<> as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
<> is shipwrecked by the laughter
<> of the gods." Einstein
**********************
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh
wgah'nagl fhtagn" --H.P. Lovecraft
**********************
"And... have been thinking alot
about the character in the novel:
-- LIFE OF PI --
have you read it?
Anyway... more later about that,
and particularly the KORAN."
Life of Pi
by
Yann Martel
[... Piscine Molitor Patel ("Pi") ... He tried to
understand God through the lens of each religion,
and came to recognize the benefits of each. ...]
I liked this novel.
It reminded me a bit of
my childhood's fascination
with world religions.
Never gave 'Islam' much thought; although,
I read once in Crowley, his commentary about
illiterate You-Know-Who's epiphany (so to
speak) resulting from long periods of isolation,
a variation on yoga and meditation, or at least
that was A.C.'s thought.
Only recently have I learned that the Koran,
spoken by 'You-Know-Who,' is really a long
tone-poem. The original Arabic is the only
way to hear the book. It is Onomatopoeia in
uttered form, hence, a great work of auditory
art, and should be regarded, in my opinion, as
a synaesthetic creation. No more, no less.
And I've been meaning to search for a DVD
or some other media or presentation of the
book that is in auditory Arabic with supertitles,
as in contemporary opera. I would like to
experience that manifestation of the crazy Arab's
epiphanous inspired utterance. Very sad, isn't it,
how one man's art becomes generations later, an
excuse to practice a vast institutionalized
rigid misogyny?! Stupid Humans:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"... In pre-Islamic days, called the Days of
Ignorance, the religious background of the
Arabs was pagan, and basically animistic. ..."
http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/Islam.html
"According to some (apparently different)
sources such as
http://www.hinduism.co.za/kaabaa.htm
"... Muhammad's uncle was one of the resident
priests of the Shiv temple known as 'Kaaba'. ...
this glorious Hindu temple was made to
symbolically represent a microcosm of the universe.
... Right at the centre of the Kaaba was the
octogonal pedestal of Bramha the creator. ...
Muhammad destroyed all 360 idols,
but even he could not summon the courage to
completely obliterate the Shivling in the Kaaba. ...
"... Today it [the Shivling] lies broken at seven
places and held together by a silver band studded
with silver nails, bearing the name 'Sangey Aswad'
which came from the Sanskrit Ashwet meaning
non-white or black stone.
[...] From the Hindu point of view, it is
Shiva's lingham, or phallic symbol. [...]
http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/Islam.html#earlyarabia
***********************
"The status of women was that
of pride and equal respect.
http://www.hinduism.co.za/kaabaa.htm
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/kali.htm
**********************
"The Shivling is the sacred meteorite. [...]
"More material and pictures about such
things on webpage:
http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/Islam.html
"Although the above is not widely known in
Eurocentric societies, it is common knowledge
in India, and indicates some of the history
and depth of feeling that is involved in the
Muslim-Hindu conflicts between Pakistan and India."
**********************
"... Muhammad received his first revelation in
610, on the mountain of Hira outside Mecca. The
revelation came in a time when Muhammad searched
for solitude. ..."
http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/Islam.html
[...]
"According to a xenohistorian.faithweb web page:
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/neareast/index.html
"... Mohammed stayed [in Mecca in 615] because
his family connections protected him ... He came
into the courtyard of the Kaaba and suggested
that the gods and goddesses of Mecca might be
real after all, serving as saints or angels to
mediate between God and man. ... These are the
so-called "Satanic verses" that have caused much
controversy among scholars of Islam. ... They
[the Meccan establishment] enthusiastically
received his [Mohammed's] recantation, but when
he [Mohammed] saw the reaction he repented ...
He [Mohammed] said that the devil had momentarily
possessed his tongue, and denounced idolatry more
vigorously than before. ...".
**********************
http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/Islam.html
**********************
I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my soul return'd to me,
And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell."
Omar Khayyam
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/intraphz.htm
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Omar Khayyam
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Gandhi Nobody Knows
by Richard Grenier
http://history.eserver.org/ghandi-nobody-knows.txt
**************************************************
Was Sir Ben Kingsley as Don Logan
in Sexy Beast much more honest?
http://tinyurl.com/SIR-BEN-KINGSLEY
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[...] Whether M-theory exists as a single
formulation or only as a network, we do
know some of its properties. First, M-theory
has eleven space-time dimensions, not ten.
[...] Also, M-theory can contain not just
vibrating strings but also point particles,
two dimensional membranes, three dimensional
blobs, and other objects that are more
difficult and occupy even more dimensions of
space, up to nine. These objects are called
p-branes (where p runs from zero to nine).
[...] The laws of M-theory therefore allow
for different universes with different
apparent laws, depending on how the internal
space is curled. [...] M-theory has solutions
that allow for many different internal spaces,
perhaps as many as 10^500, [a 1 with 500 zeros]
which means it allows for 10^500 different
universes, each with its own laws. [...] only
one of which corresponds to the universe as we
know it. [...] [Chapter 5, The Theory Of
Everything - pgs. 117-119] THE GRAND DESIGN
(c)2010 by Steven W. Hawking [www.hawking.org.uk]
and Leonard Mlodinow [www.its.caltech.edu/~Len]
Random House, Inc. - ISBN 978-0-553-80537-6
__________________________________________________
NOTHING is True, Everything is Permitted:
A Deconstruction of the Last Words of
Hassan-i Sabbah by Brian D. Hodges
According to legend, the master of the
Order of Assassins uttered the famous
phrase "nothing is true, everything is
permitted" on his deathbed prior to his
soul departing for Hell. This axiom has
made its way into a number of historical
accounts regarding Sabbah and the Nizari
Isma'ilis. As with so much of the lore
surrounding the "order", it is likely
that this quote is no more true than most
of the other legends circulated by Western
historians, medievalists, anarchists and
occultists. It is worth looking into three
competing explanations for how it found
acceptance and examine the probabilities
of each. ... Cont...
http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id1562/pg1/
... Some need first to understand the
ancient dictum "discipline precedes freedom"
before they will be able to dance with the
last words of Hassan-i Sabbah.
DID YOU KNOW That *THE JINN* invented the
electric toaster oven?!! Hard to believe??!
YES! BUT...
It's ALL TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!
Visions of the Jinn
Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips
Ibn Taymeeyah's Essay on the Jinn
http://www.islamawareness.net/Jinn/itjinn.html
JINN: http://muttaqun.com/jinn.html
"Statistically, the probability of any
one of us being here is so small that
you'd think the mere fact of existing
would keep us all in a contented
dazzlement of surprise."
-- Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell
Jacques Vallee UFO interview JINN
http://www.thejinn.net/jacques_vallee_interview.htm
http://tinyurl.com/OLTISSIS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dissociation Dynamics,
the Alice Miller Finding
and the Social Organization of Torture:
http://www.alice-miller.com/index_en.php
http://alice-miller.com/readersmail_en.php?lang=en&nid=2137&grp=0708
http://www.alice-miller.com/articles_en.php?lang=en&nid=63&grp=13
[See also NPD: (DSM-IV code 301.81)
Synopsis
Diagnostic Features:
'Narcissistic personality disorder is a condition
characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance,
need for admiration, extreme self-involvement, and
lack of empathy for others. Individuals with this
disorder are usually arrogantly self-assured and
confident. They expect to be noticed as superior.
Many highly successful individuals might be considered
narcissistic. However, this disorder is only diagnosed
when these behaviors become persistent and very
disabling or distressing.' ... ]
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T A T T V A M A S I
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 "Jupiter" wrote:
<>
"A Human Being without a Deity
is like a Rainbow Trout without
a Tricycle." --Xeno Bilderberg
Reeeelaaaaaax.... have a banana:
"There you go, man
Keep as cool as you can
Face piles of trials with smiles
It riles them to believe
That you perceive
The web they weave...
And keep on thinking free" --Moody Blues
TWELVE YEARS AGO . . .
"Of course, the idea that the world should be
run by secret societies went down particularly
well with...well, secret societies.
Consequently, many of them adopted Synarchist
principles. In fact, Saint-Yves' ideas
transformed the esoteric underground of Europe,
particularly France. Some of the greatest
figures in subsequent occult history were
devotees of Saint-Yves, which is not
surprising because occultists, with their
love of hierarchy, tend to be naturally
totalitarian and unegalitarian."
THE RISE OF THE ROUGH BEAST
(Adapted from a lecture by
LYNN PICKNETT and CLIVE PRINCE
at the Sauniere Society Symposium,
Conway Hall, London on 19 September 1999)
http://www.namebase.org/sources/fL.html
--------------------------------------------------
[...] As Sally Bowles said in Cabaret
of the rise of the Nazi Party in Berlin:
"It's only politics - what's that got
to do with us?".
People are wary of politics these days - rightly
so - but they are not so wary of an appeal to the
romantic, spiritual and mystical. And therein
lies the danger.
As W.B. Yeats so prophetically wrote in
his The Second Coming:
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to a nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Picknett, Lynn and Prince, Clive. The Stargate Conspiracy:
The Truth About Extraterrestrial Life and the Mysteries of
Ancient Egypt. New York: Berkley Books, 2001. 425 pages.
http://www.namebase.org/sources/fL.html
[13][12][11][10][09][08][07][06][05][04][03][02][01]
It's those freakin' aliens!
They keep beaming these annoying rays at my
head that apparently upload all sorts of data for
their cross-pollination hybridization program and
exo-anthropological post-grad workshops.
Quite frankly, I've had enough, and have taken to
wearing aluminum on my head in an effort to foil
their little science projects at my expense.
Unfortunately, I was all out of Reynold's Wrap
and had to run all over the damn place looking
for a store while precariously holding a pot on
my head which I thought was aluminum, but it
turned out to be stainless steel with a teflon
coating: the worst possible thing you could
wear against these insidious space beams!
Imagine my surprise!!
Well, anyway, I won't bore you with my trivial
little metalurgical burdens; suffice to say,
I am now well stocked with aluminum foil,
(which is kind of pointless considering that
most of the data in my head has all pretty
much been sucked out already).
"For we contend not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities,
against the powers, against the world
rulers of this present darkness."
Ephesians 6:12
"Memes are like mind viruses, they swim in the ocean
we call the collective unconscious. Since all mankind is
linked at a deep mental level, then Memes or in more
religious terms, Dominions and Principalities can move
easily from consciousness to consciousness, mind to mind.
As they do so they can control groups, organizations,
businesses and of course, individuals. While we like to
think of our minds as centered and integrated if we are
critical we realize that there are many selves within us,
there are the images we have of ourselves, the images we
inherited from our parents, there are critical selves,
fun-loving selves, self effacing selves and so on. While
many of these selves are sub-personalities and aspects
of our psyche, they also feed and are fed by forces both
within and beyond the mind."
Meme: (pron. "meem") A contagious idea that
replicates like a virus, passed on from mind
to mind. Memes function the same way genes
and viruses do, propagating through
communication networks and face-to-face
contact between people --
"Memes create and mould consciousness so as to
fulfil the directive of the original DNA program.
Memes transform meaningful social movements into
bureaucracy, and take ideals and turn them into
commodities. They take transformational
technologies and turn them into mechanisms
of control. TV, Computer Games, Sport -- all
have become means to stop man really using his
mind to any spiritual end by keeping his mind
absorbed and controlled. The whole of our
culture is based on this premise, all thought
must be controlled, albeit covertly, so that
freedom is impossible. Democracy is simply the
choice between different paradigms of control.
Isms, cults and ologies offer further mechanisms
of control, which seem outside of the structure
and yet are really part of it.
"Where do we go from here?"
Just when you thought it was safe
to ridicule the heroic sanitation
engineers and their endless battle
with vermin, a non-sequitar MATRIX
ambiguity rears its ugly head,
straining, straining, ever straining
to drop a load of tangential
pseudo-gnostic-cinematic crapola
upon thy funky mindspace:
B e H o L d :
WITNESS!
Oh My God ... HEAD LICE
WILL INHERIT THE EARTH!
http://www.subgenius.com/pam1/pamphlet_p4.html
"... JEHOVAH 1 is a VENGEFUL GOD OF
WRATH! JEHOVAH 1 - a.k.a. YAHWEH - is
a mad alien, full of eyes round about, He cometh
with the clouds, radioactive, all-pervading,
He has forged His covenant with the SubGenius
in CHAINS of GENETIC PROGRAMMING and
DEMANDS OBEISANCE to His caveman sense
of humor. He has been denying us SLACK and
what He is making us do dates back to
Homo Connectus, First Whole Man; only by
letting our bodies obey the Code of financial
lust survival that is built into them can our
brains be freed from his INEVITABLE FIST."
http://www.subgenius.com/pam1/pamphlet_p4.html
Petroleum World!
http://www.petroleumworld.com/
The Sorcerers -- http://www.cfr.org
"Naughty Aluminium" wrote:
http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/emperor_norton.html
[01][02][03][04][05][06][07][08][09][10][11][12][13]
"Historically the chief role in the formation of
Christianity was played not by the teaching of
Christ but by the teaching of Paul.
Church Christianity from the very beginning
contradicted in many respects the ideas of Christ
himself. Later, the divergence became still wider.
It is by no means a new idea that Christ, if born
on earth later, not only could not be the head of
the Christian Church, but probably would not be
able even to belong to it, and in the most brilliant
periods of the might and power of the Church
would most certainly have been declared a heretic
and burned at the stake." -- Peter D. Ouspensky
"Acharya S"
http://www.truthbeknown.com/christ.htm
-----------------------------------------------
"What fascinates me is the gap between the
mind and reality. Extreme boredom widens the
gap; so does fatigue. But the gap can be so
light that to all intents and purposes we are
in contact with reality. Then a sudden shock
fills the inner-being with music, and you
know that there was no contact. You were
deceived. You were in your private vacuum,
slowly suffocating to death."
THE GOD OF THE LABYRINTH
by Colin Wilson
--- On Sat, 17/9/11, "Another Band of Long
Lost Amerigo Vespuccian Expatriates" wrote:
[...]
~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
F L O T S A M A N D J E T S A M
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh
wgah'nagl fhtagn" --H.P. Lovecraft
-=o0~O~0o=-
"One does not become enlightened
by imagining figures of light, but by
making the darkness conscious."
--Carl Jung
-=o0~O~0o=-
o0O0o
***********************
10 years ago, Whitley Strieber wrote:
[...] Q: But our world is dying and falling into
chaos? How can we be governed poorly from
such a high level?
A: Man is a child. Children govern children with
the wisdom of children.
Q: There are aliens here?
A: Using you and guiding you.
Q: We're being exploited?
A: You are, but also helped. You are being guided
to your place as guides of another world.
Q: What will we do for this other world?
A: You will draw it toward ecstasy just as your
mentors draw you toward ecstasy. Right now,
there are brilliant creatures there looking
at the sky and devouring the flesh of their
own children, just as you did. Unless you
help them, they will not make the evolutionary
leap in time, and will go extinct.
Q: Whose responsibility would that be?
A: All are responsible for all.
Q: How many worlds are there like ours, like theirs?
A: The planets that can sustain complex elemental
bodies are not many. However, the elements of
which they are made occur in various patterns,
and the form of evolution depends upon the
chemical makeup of the planet upon which it
occurs. So there are worlds where creatures
look very much like us. there are worlds where
they are quite different.
[...] [Pgs 78-79 - THE KEY - by Whitley Strieber]
<> [...] "Go to Calcutta or Lagos or Bogata
<> and give yourself to the first street
<> urchin you meet as his helper and
<> lifelong servant. Do it without question
<> or hesitation. You say that you want to
<> worship God? Kneel to this little one
<> and you kneel to God." [...] [Pgs 135-136;
<> The Conversation; THE KEY -
<> A True Encounter by Whitley Strieber;
<> ISBN 978-1-58542-869-4; Copyright (c)2001, 2011
<> by Walker & Collier, Inc.] UnknownCountry.com
<> http://www.motkbook.com/
<> http://tinyurl.com/GAWD-IN-RELIEF
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~o0-O-0o~
"Wherever you go, there you are."
-- Buckaroo Bonzai
http://www.imdb.com/Title?0086856
Fellow Lunatics!
Someone once wrote:
<> In his book Memories, Dreams, and Reflections,
<> Carl Jung discusses how he acquired an insight
<> into Western man's denial of the Heart when he
<> recounts a conversation he had in 1932 with the
<> Native American Chief Ochwiay Biano (meaning
<> "Mountain Lake") of the Tao Pueblos Indians of
<> New Mexico. The chief was quite candid in his
<> perception of the white man's Heart-Mind split:
<> "See.... how cruel the whites look. Their lips
<> are thin, their noses sharp, their faces furrowed
<> and distorted by folds. Their eyes have a staring
<> expression; they are always seeking something.
<> What are they seeking? The whites always want
<> something; they are always uneasy and restless.
<> We do not know what they want. We do not understand
<> them. We think they are mad."
<> When Jung asks why he thinks they are all mad,
<> the Chief replies, "They say they think with
<> their heads."
<> Jung answers, "Why, of course. What do you
<> think with?"
<> The Chief, indicating his heart, said,
<> "We think here."
-=0~O~0=-
_/~_/~_/~_/~_/~_/~_/~_/~_/~_/~_/~
It's always just NOW...
Or as that weird Munchkin, E c k h a r t T o l l e,
likes to pontificate: "Stillness Speaks: When you lose
touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself.
When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in
the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are,
is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is
deeper than name and form. [...] Nothing that comes and
goes is you. 'I am bored.' Who knows this? 'I am angry,
sad, afraid.' Who knows this? You are the knowing,
not the condition that is known."
"If you cannot be at ease with yourself when
you are alone, you will seek a relationship to
cover up your unease.
You can be sure that the unease will then reappear
in some other form within the relationship, and
you will probably hold your partner responsible for it.
All you really need to do is accept this moment fully.
You are then at ease in the here and now and at
ease with yourself.
But do you need to have a relationship with yourself
at all? Why can't you just be yourself?
When you have a relationship with yourself, you have
split yourself into two: 'I' and 'myself,' subject
and object. That mind-created duality is the root cause
of all unnecessary complexity, of all problems and
conflict in your life. In the state of enlightenment,
you are yourself - 'you' and 'yourself' merge into one.
You do not judge yourself, you do not feel sorry for
yourself, you are not proud of yourself, you do not
love yourself, you do not hate yourself, and so on.
The split caused by self reflective consciousness
is healed, its curse removed. There is no 'self'
that you need to protect, defend, or feed anymore.
When you are enlightened, there is one relationship
that you no longer have: the relationship with yourself.
Once you have given that up, all your other relationships
will be love relationships." ::: -- Eckhart Tolle
'The Power of Now'
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Uhhhm... How Wide is 'Now?'
----- End 0f 0rigami Massage -----
<> http://infinity-imagined.tumblr.com/ <>
M M A M W G E G L E E E E E H
~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
The Magical Mystical ASCII Missive of Wavey Gravey
Eternal Good Luck and Exponentially Expanding Ecstatic
Equanimity of Extreme Happiness.
That's the title: "MMAMWGEGLEEEEEH" .
Simply by one reading of the "MMAMWGEGLEEEEEH", all your
wishes and dreams and goals and hopes and desires and
growth-potential-thingamajigs-that-aren't-even-conscious
will come to transpire throughout the rest of your sentient
existence. A single reading of the "MMAMWGEGLEEEEEH" and
you will be insured forever from ever having to fear, doubt,
feel superstitious, or follow the whims of passing notions
wrought by random doo-hickies and so on.
This is the "MMAMWGEGLEEEEEH". Read it once, and you will
never have to pass on another chain letter [post, meme,
email, tweet, or thought-bubble] (unless, 'natch, ya really
want to, in which case, hey, be my guest...). One solitary,
single reading of the "MMAMWGEGLEEEEEH", and you are FREE!
FREE!! FREE!!!
...And now, the "MMAMWGEGLEEEEEH": (Uh humm...)
"Local coordinates in time and space upon Earth SOL system
of nine [8*] planets and asteroid belt numerous comets and
other orbiting objects of unknown mass and consistency the
Outer two/thirds edge of a spiral galaxy approximately
120,000 light years in diameter consisting of a grouped
cluster of galaxies numbering in the hundreds of billions
all expanding at enormous, accelerating speeds thru an
infinite void.
The heart aches, we feel funky. Who am we? Oh yeah, that's
right. Nevermind...
Although we forget the question, we're pretty sure "love" is
the answer.... or something resembling that notion in motion."
Tah Dahhhhhhh!!! Yeah, that was it... whadja expect?!
This is magic!
...Move along now, move along, show's over...
nothing to see here...
~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
[* Pluto was recently demoted to a planetoid]
http://members.pingnet.ch/nbt/impressi.htm
[ This Space Left Intentionally Blank ]
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Thurs, Sep 29 2011 6:27 am
From: Jupiter
[ Whitley Strieber ] wrote in his
"What if They Land?" On Monday,
September 26, 2011
Excerpt - QUOTE :
... "I eventually found my way home,
and spent the rest of the day feeling
a profound sense of dissociation.
I no longer felt real or whole or
coherent. More than that, I felt as
if I'd left part of myself behind.
To my mind, if the visitors ever
come, it will not be a landing at all,
but something more like the removal
of a wall that now exists between our
worlds. What will happen to us then
is that we will suddenly start living
by new laws of reality. I suspect that
many, many of us will not survive the
transition in anything like a normal
or coherent mental state. A lot of
people will not be able to cope with
this. But some few will, and it is on
their shoulders that the rest of us
will have to climb, if we are to
surivve with our sanity intact." ...
: CLOSE QUOTE
http://www.unknowncountry.com/journal/what-if-they-land
(((((((((((((O)))))))))))))
"BobInNJ" - in part - replied on site:
... "Whitley, your experience sounds a lot like tripping.
I don't recall you ever personally discussing whether or
not you ever tried hallucinogens, but your account is
practically a point by point description of what you
might experience on LSD, for example. That doesn't
necessarily mean you were drugged, although I wouldn't
rule it out. The duration of only fifteen minutes does
not correspond with any hallucinogen I'm familiar with
(as they usually last 6 to 12 hours). However it's
possible some technology exists using EM waves at a
distance to induce similar states." ...
(((((((((((((O)))))))))))))
[ DMT is short acting,
and naturally produced
in the brain. ] :::
DMT, Moses, and the Quest for Transcendence
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/Pickover/pc/dmt.html
by Cliff Pickover, http://pickover.com/ Reality Carnival,
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/Pickover/pc/realitycarnival.html
"People with Charles Bonnet Syndrome
See Beings from Parallel Universes"
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/Pickover/pc/bonnet.html
and "DMT Users See Insect Gods".
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/Pickover/pc/dmtinsect.html
"Man Discovers Intelligent Beings After Consuming DMT,"
"The fleeting reality of DMT machine elves," and
"Psychedelics, Abortion, and the Chrysanthemum."
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/Pickover/pc/dmt.html
"We are alienated, so alienated that the self
must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial
in order not to alarm us with the truly
bizarre dimensions that it encompasses."
-- Terence McKenna (1946 - 2000)
http://deoxy.org/mckenna.htm
(((((((((((((O)))))))))))))
Continuing ye olde 'METAPHOR' meme...
[ Mark Vonnegut ]
QUOTE :
JANUARY 1971
... And then it happened. I got my wish.
Just after Christmas, a year and a half
after my mescaline disaster, I had a
"normal" acid trip. I went up, got high,
and came down Just like my fellow trippers,
Virge and a couple from the Prior Road
commune. Unlike the mescaline, which had
woven itself too well into the fabric of
my mind, the acid let me tell when it came
and what it was doing and when it went.
It was a pleasant, giggly day, and a
huge relief to me.
And then one night, after several days of
pure Eden, as I was trying to get to sleep,
marveling at the fullness of each moment,
feeling that I was living whole lifetimes
within each moment, I started listening to
and feeling my heart beat. Suddenly I became
terribly frightened that it would stop.
And from out of nowhere came an incredibly
wrinkled, iridescent face. Starting as a
small point infinitely distant, it rushed
forward, becoming infinitely huge. I could
see nothing else. My heart had stopped.
The moment stretched forever. I tried to
make the face go away but it mocked me.
I had somehow gained control over my
heartbeat but I didn't know how to use it.
I was holding my life in my hands and was
powerless to stop it from dripping through
my fingers. I tried to look the face in
the eyes and realized I had left all
familiar ground.
When I first saw the face coming toward me
I had thought, "Oh, goody." What I had in
mind was a nice reasonable conversation.
I had lots of things I wanted to talk about,
lots of questions it must have answers to.
God, Jesus, the Bible, the I Ching, mescaline,
art, music, history, evolution, physics,
mathematics. How they all fit together.
Just a nice bull session, but a bull session
with a difference. A bull session with someone
who knew. My enthusiasm was short-lived.
He, she, or whatever didn't seem much
interested in the sort of conversation I had
in mind. It also seemed not to like me much.
But the worst of it was it didn't stop coming.
It had no respect for my personal space, no
inclination to maintain a conversational distance.
When I could easily make out all its features,
when it and I were more or less on the same scale,
when I thought there was maybe a foot or two
between us, it had actually been hundreds of
miles away, and it kept coming and coming till
I was lost somewhere in some pore in its nose
and it still kept coming. I was enveloped, dwarfed.
No way to get any perspective on the thing at all,
and for all I really knew it was still light-years
away and coming and coming and coming. My own
insignificance again? Shit, I sort of wanted to
leam something new. "So you really want to go
on a trip, do you? OK, punk, now you're really
going to fly." Or words to that effect.
Not words exactly, more like thunder. : CLOSE QUOTE
--- MARK VONNEGUT is the son of novelist
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. In 1969 he graduated from
Swarthmore College. Bored with East Coast
academia, suspicious of his father's sudden
literary notoriety and determined to stay
true to the principles of hippiedom, Mark
headed for the wilds of British Columbia to
build a commune and find his panacea.
Two years later, on Valentine's Day, 1971,
Vonnegut was committed to Hollywood
Psychiatric Hospital in Vancouver- diagnosed
severely schizophrenic. The Eden Express, his
first book, is his personal account of his
bout with schizophrenia.
Pub. Bantam Books 1975 ISBN 0-553-02755-7
http://www.google.com/search?q=Mark+Vonnegut+The+Eden+Express
(((((((((((((O)))))))))))))
On Sep 29, 2:43 am, Indrid Cold wrote:
Esteemed Ladies, Gentlemen, Psychonauts,
Maestros of 'Media' and 'Other' Realms...
clearly, (or seemingly so), the watchword
in all this bizarre, high mineral content,
is:
'METAPHOR' ?
Continuing that aforementioned
excerpt in Pinchbeck's '2012' book:
[...] "Anyone who gets to the stage of experiencing
his dreams in full consciousness on falling asleep
is well acquainted with the gnomes," Steiner noted.
For somebody unprepared, the experience would be an
alarming one: "at the moment of falling asleep, he
would behold a whole host of goblins coming towards
him. ... The form in which they would appear would
actually be reflections, images of all the qualities
in the individual concerned that work as forces of
destruction. He would perceive all the destructive
forces within him, all that continually destroys."
If we were able to remain conscious as we dreamed,
what we would perceive would be "a kind of
entombment by gnomes" in the astral world.
One of the few modern intellectuals to appreciate
Steiner's work, William Irwin Thompson characterizes
the "Steinerian vision" as one that "looks at the
human as so completely embedded in the animal,
vegetal, and mineral evolution of the solar system
that it becomes nonsense to separate a fictive
'matter' from mind, and a mere three dimensions from
ten. ... All of the seemingly mystical perceptions
of Steiner have a biological relevance that fits a
new kind of science, and a new kind of culture."
For Steiner, the universe is a harmonic orchestration
in which our minds are embedded, not as alienated
organs, but as integrated aspects of the whole.
Within this whole, other forms of mind exist, a vast
ecology of consciousness, that can be registered by
us, if we work to attain what he called "supersensible
perception." Throughout his innumerable lectures and
books, Steiner describes "lower creatures" such as
the goblins and other "root spirits," as well as
great cosmic entities, angelic hierarchies, and
higher spiritual beings.
In earlier phases of development, humanity had
a deep affinity, an unconscious attunement, to the
Earth and the cosmos. This affinity is reflected in
our oldest stories and mythologies, which reveal
cosmological secrets about the movements of the
planets and the stars, as well as evolutionary
processes in the history of the Earth. Thompson
considers fairy tales and myths to be "forms of
cultural storage for the natural history of life."
He proposes that the ancient saga telling of fairies
defeating goblins and banishing them beneath the
Earth is a representation, as myth, of the original
"pollution crisis," more than 500 million years ago,
when cyanobacteria developed photosynthesis, creating
an oxygen-rich environment that was poisonous for
other life forms, radically transforming the
biosphere to make it sustainable for larger mammals.
Translating from myth to biology, Thompson proposes
that "the goblins are the anaerobic bacteria who
live on and in our wastes and garbage, and the
fairies, those airy creatures of light, are the
cyanobacteria that were the first to invent
photosynthesis to feed on light to give off the
oxygen that would become the new atmosphere of the
illuminated world." Anaerobic cells contain no
nucleus--like the Grays, whose bodies are
undifferentiated and without internal organs.
In the saga of the visitors, we are witnessing
a return of the repressed, the mythic world,
surging into the postmodern consciousness, in a
form that strangely fits our fixation on technology,
our space fantasies and genetic obsessions and dingy
bureaucracies, and our terror of the unknown.
The Grays exist on the boundary of the sensible,
seeking entry into our realm. According to mythic
thought, time is not linear but cyclical, or, more
accurately, it turns in a spiral. It appears that
we are experiencing a reenactment of the ancient
narrative described by Thompson--of the battle
between forces of light and darkness, or of
degradation and evolution--but taking place on a
different level, a higher octave of being
and knowing. [...] Pgs. 140-141; Part Three:
Lucifer And Ahriman; Chapter Two |
2012 - The Return of Quetzalcoatl
by Daniel Pinchbeck (c) 2006
So much for metaphor... on to 'reality?'
Historical Symmetry
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/history9.htm
See also: Summer Solstice 2009, 3:33 AM ...
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/rocks009.htm
________________________________
| Subject: Decoding the Brain |
| (Re: Communion Enigma)|__________
| Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 1:14 PM |
|___________________________________________|
Tue, Sep 27, 2011 -- 9:30 AM
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201109270930
Reconstructing the Mind's Eye |||||||||
UC Berkeley scientists are figuring out
how to decode and reconstruct our dynamic
visual experiences -- in one instance
through subjects watching Hollywood movie
trailers. We meet a lead scientist...
[ Jack Gallant, professor in the Psychology
and Neuroscience Programs in Bioengineering,
Biophysics and Vision Science at UC Berkeley.
http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/jgallant.html ]
...looking at how one day we may be able to go
inside the mind of a coma patient, or even to
watch a dream. [...]
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201109270930
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On 22, Sept 2011,
Stephanie Pappas wrote in 'LiveScience' :
http://www.livescience.com/16190-movies-reconstructed-brain-activity.html
Welcome to the future: Scientists can now
peer inside the brain and reconstruct videos
of what a person has seen, based only on
their brain activity.
The reconstructed videos could be seen as
a primitive -- and somewhat blurry -- form
of mind reading, though researchers are
decades from being able to decode anything
as personal as memories or thoughts, if
such a thing is even possible. Currently,
the mind-reading technique requires
powerful magnets, hours of time and
millions of seconds of YouTube videos.
But in the long term, similar methods could
be used to communicate with stroke patients
or coma patients living in a "locked-in"
state, said study researcher Jack Gallant,
a neuroscientist at the University of
California, Berkeley.
"The idea is that they would be able to
visualize a movie of what they want to
talk about, and you would be able to
decode that," Gallant told LiveScience.
Decoding the brain [...]
http://www.livescience.com/16190-movies-reconstructed-brain-activity.html
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The Gallant Lab
http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/jgallant.html
Neural Prediction Challenge
http://neuralprediction.berkeley.edu/
Collaborative Research in
Computational Neuroscience
http://crcns.org/
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"An elemental body is a mechanism filled
with millions of nerve endings that directs
the attention of God into the physical."
[Pgs. 44-45; The Conversation; THE KEY -
A True Encounter by Whitley Strieber
ISBN 978-1-58542-869-4 Copyright (c)2001, 2011
by Walker & Collier, Inc.] UnknownCountry.com
-=[[NOTE: The brain (planet) is a memory storage
device with an effective search engine and
actuator into which a unified field of
consciousness may manifest? Best case scenario,
or worst case?]]=-
NOVA: 'Smartest Machine on Earth'
Jeopardy! challenges even the best human minds.
Can a computer win the game?
[Aired February 9, 2011 on PBS]
Program Description
"Watson," an IBM computing system, is gearing up
for a first-of-its-kind challenge--taking on human
contestants on the game show Jeopardy!
With a brain the size of 2,400 home computers and
a database of about 10 million documents, will
Watson be able to compute its way to victory?
Win or lose, the difficulty of mimicking the human
thought process with software is showing
artificial-intelligence researchers that there's more
than one way to be "intelligent."
On February 16, 2011, two AI experts from
Carnegie Mellon University, Tom Mitchell and
Eric Nyberg, live-blogged and answered viewer
questions here during the final of three consecutive
Jeopardy! shows in which Watson challenged top
human competitors Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. [...]
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/smartest-machine-on-earth.html
"IBM Watson is the first step in how computers
will be designed and built differently and will be
able to learn, and with the help of Carnegie Mellon
we will continue to advance the QA technologies
that are the backbone of this system." [...]
-- Dr. David Ferrucci, Lead Investigator, IBM
http://www.cmu.edu/event/ibm/
[...]
Rethinking VR: Key Concepts and Concerns
by Char Davies http://www.immersence.com
In Hybrid Reality: Art, Technology and the Human Factor
http://www.immersence.com/publications/char/2003-CD-VSSM.html
Jeremy Bailenson and Jim Blascovich
"INFINITE REALITY"
http://www.infinitereality.org/authors.html
"Michael Chorost"
http://www.michaelchorost.com/
"Jaron Lanier"
http://www.jaronlanier.com/general.html
"eMpTy"
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/index.htm
"Miguel A.L. Nicolelis"
http://www.nicolelislab.net/
"Sherry Turkle"
http://web.mit.edu/sts/people/turkle.html
Is a sophisticated enough 'Search Engine'
(e.g. IBM/Jeopardy!) indistinguishable from
Artificial Intelligence, and hence
indistinguishable from Human
Neurological Function?
[...]
--- On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 eMpTy wrote:
It was quite interesting listening to
Maestro Strieber describe his early,
'underground' impressions of the Visitors;
their forest floor earthiness, and deep
machining sounds rumbling beneath his NY
house presumably in the mineral realm,
emerging from below to 'introduce'
themselves. I've been recently re-reading
Pinchbeck's aforementioned interesting
'2012' book... An excerpt:
_________________________________________
[...] ...Researchers of UFOs have noted
that many, if not most, observations
seem to occur along earthquake fault
lines, and the caverns that the
abductees sometimes describe being
taken to seem to be deep underground.
The "flying saucer myth" seems a
construct of these entities, a theatrical
staging, to compel our belief in them.
They do not come down from empyrean
reaches, but out of the mythological
depths of the Earth--from a lower
dimensional reality, perhaps, that is
saturated with ancient gloom and dark
yearnings.
According to [Rudolf] Steiner,
gnomes constantly move along veins of
minerals and metals underground, and they
"laugh us to scorn on account of our
groping, struggling intellect with which
we manage to grasp one thing or another,
whereas they have no need at all to think
things out." These "root spirits" are
also connected to the waste processes of
the Earth, to toads and amphibians.
Working beneath the surface of the planet,
in the Earth's mineral layers, the gnomes
take a similar role in our dream lives.
We are terrestrial beings, and therefore
the gnomes are also at work "beneath the
Earth" of our psychic life, in our
subconscious depths. [...]
Pg. 140; Part Three:
Lucifer And Ahriman; Chapter Two |
2012 - The Return of Quetzalcoatl
by Daniel Pinchbeck (c) 2006
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BTW, non sequitur: compared to Spielberg's
plodding War-Of-The-Worlds post apocalyptic
'FALLING SKIES' mini TV epic; Zabel's highly
inventive 'DARK SKIES' extravaganza is Earth-
shatteringly brilliant! (It needed saying.)
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C o m m u n i o n E n i g m a
http://tinyurl.com/0LT15515
~o0-O-0o~
"...unless we recognize the magic
of the written word, then we are simply
under its spell." -- Dr. David Abram
[ Speaking with Animal Tongues - David Abram ]
http://www.acousticecology.org/writings/animaltongues.html
[ The Ecology of Magic - David Abram ]
http://www.primitivism.com/ecology-magic.htm
Dr. David Abram - The Spell of Literacy
http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/abram.htm
July 21, 2011 Clip No. 3051
Hamas Leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar Slams PA President Abbas
for "Aimless Kangaroo-Like" Political Gymnastics
and Says: "We Will Not Relinquish Any
Piece of Palestinian Land."
[...] http://www.memri.org/clip_transcript/en/3051.htm
The Middle East Media Research Institute
P.O. Box 27837, Washington, DC 20038-7837
Phone: [202] 955-9070 Fax: [202] 955-9077
E-Mail: memri@memri.org
Search previous MEMRI publications at our
website: http://www.memri.org
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<> [ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0185947/ ]
--- On Sun, 9/25/11, Marcy wrote:
My friends made this movie, which I saw
in Telluride, at the documentary film
festival, this year. It's gaining
attention, although no distribution
deal yet...It's now playing again [...],
this time in San Rafael, CA this week.
It's transformational...
I invite you to go see and let me
know what you think..Spread the word
[ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0185947/ ]
HAPPY
Friday, September 30 and Saturday,
October 1, 7:00 pm shows: Q&A's with
Comedian/Motivational Speaker
Michael Pritchard and
Associate Producer Omid Heidari
September 30 to October 5- Six Days Only!
http://www.cafilm.org/rfc/
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| NOTE:
|
| http://www.cafilm.org/rfc/films/1589.html
| This new feature-length documentary from
| Oscar-nominated filmmaker Roko Belic
| (Genghis Blues) takes viewers on a
| compelling journey around the world in
| search of what really makes people happy.
| From the swamps of Louisiana to the slums
| of Kolkata, deeply personal stories weave
| together with insights from renowned experts
| to provide the keys to our most valued emotion.
| Happy includes appearances by well-known
| experts such as Ed Diener, Sonja Lyubomirsky,
| Richard Davidson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
| Daniel Gilbert and life coach/comedian
| Michael Pritchard. Marci Shimoff, bestselling
| author of Happy for No Reason and Chicken Soup
| for the Woman's Soul, narrates the film.
| Executive Producer: Tom Shadyac.
| Director: Roko Belic. (US 2011) 80 min.
| Sponsored by Marin Independent Journal
| http://www.cafilm.org/rfc/films/1589.html
| Visit this film's Official Website:
| THE HAPPY MOVIE http://www.thehappymovie.com/
|
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eMpTy wrote:
"... Achieving the 'separation' meant
learning to remain lucidly aware during
dream sleep and dreamless sleep and, in
those states, to explore other realms or
spiritual dimensions at will. To make
this separation into a permanent condition
was considered a 'labor of Hercules,'
extraordinarily difficult, and the route
to immortality." [...] Pg. 184; Part Three:
Lucifer And Ahriman; Chapter Four |
2012 - The Return of Quetzalcoatl
by Daniel Pinchbeck (c) 2006
***********************
"Reality Sandwich"
http://www.realitysandwich.com/
============================================
NOVA | What Are Dreams?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/what-are-dreams.html
[EXCERPT] From Transcript:
[...]
NARRATOR: In fact, REM dreams can be five times
longer than non-REM dreams. And in human beings,
at least, they are anything but a simple replay
of the past.
MATT WILSON: So the speculation is that during
non-REM sleep, the brain is taking the past and
trying to figure out how that might relate to
the future, and in REM, actually trying to
experience the future, move into the future.
NARRATOR: The dreams of REM, in other words,
may be simulations, which allow us to face
challenges and test possibilities.
ROBERT STICKGOLD: My sense is that when we're
asleep and when we're dreaming, we are actually
conscious and figuring out what's important
about what happened to us and how that relates
to everything else that's happened to us in the
past and figuring out what that means about
our future.
MATT WILSON: And when you think about the
challenge that animals, that we as humans
and the brain in general faces, it is the
unknown of the future. And in REM, we may
have the opportunity to step into that
future world with no risk, because the
consequences are simply things don't work
out as you might have expected, and then
you wake up. So these states may be what
are essential for allowing us, as
individuals, to reach our maximal level
of potential.
[...]
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/what-are-dreams.html
============================================
Researchers Prove A Single Memory Is Processed
In Three Separate Parts Of The Brain
(February 1, 2006) -- University of California,
Irvine researchers have found that a single brief
memory is actually processed differently in
separate areas of the brain -- an idea that until
now scientists have only suspected to be true.
The finding will influence how researchers examine
the brain and could have implications for the
treatment of memory disorders caused by disease
or injury. [...] full story:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060202182107.htm
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- 'OPERA' - 'Oscillation Project with
Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus'
http://operaweb.lngs.infn.it/
The OPERA experiment has been designed
to perform the most straightforward test of
the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations.
This experiment exploits the CNGS high-intensity
and high-energy beam of muon neutrinos produced
at the CERN SPS in Geneva pointing towards the
LNGS underground laboratory at Gran Sasso,
730 km away in central Italy. OPERA is located
in the Hall C of LNGS and it is aimed at
detecting for the first time the appearance of
tau-neutrinos from the transmutation (oscillation)
of muon-neutrinos during their 3 millisecond
travel from Geneva to Gran Sasso. In OPERA,
tau-leptons resulting from the interaction of
tau-neutrinos will be observed in "bricks" of
photographic emulsion films interleaved with
lead plates. The apparatus contains about 150000
of such bricks for a total mass of 1300 tons and
is complemented by electronic detectors (trackers
and spectrometers) and ancillary infrastructure.
Its construction has been completed in spring 2008
and the experiment is currently in data taking.
http://operaweb.lngs.infn.it/
23 Sep 2011 -- CERN
OPERA experiment invites
scrutiny of unexpected results
http://www.cern.ch/
Neutrino beams from CERN in Switzerland
are sent over 700km through the Earth's crust
to the laboratory in Italy.
The OPERA experiment, which observes a
neutrino beam from CERN 730 km away at
Italy's INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory, will
present new results in a seminar at
CERN today.
The OPERA result is based on the observation
of over 15000 neutrino events measured at
Gran Sasso, and appears to indicate that the
neutrinos travel at a velocity 20 parts per
million above the speed of light, nature's
cosmic speed limit. Given the potential
far-reaching consequences of such a result,
independent measurements are needed before
the effect can either be refuted or firmly
established. This is why the OPERA
collaboration has decided to open the
result to broader scrutiny.
http://www.cern.ch/
============================================
Measurement of the neutrino velocity
with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam
(Submitted on 22 Sep 2011)
http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4897
Abstract: The OPERA neutrino experiment at
the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory has
measured the velocity of neutrinos from
the CERN CNGS beam over a baseline of about
730 km with much higher accuracy than
previous studies conducted with accelerator
neutrinos. The measurement is based on
high-statistics data taken by OPERA in the
years 2009, 2010 and 2011. Dedicated upgrades
of the CNGS timing system and of the OPERA
detector, as well as a high precision geodesy
campaign for the measurement of the neutrino
baseline, allowed reaching comparable
systematic and statistical accuracies.
An early arrival time of CNGS muon neutrinos
with respect to the one computed assuming the
speed of light in vacuum of (60.7 \pm 6.9
(stat.) \pm 7.4 (sys.)) ns was measured.
This anomaly corresponds to a relative
difference of the muon neutrino velocity
with respect to the speed of light
(v-c)/c = (2.48 \pm 0.28 (stat.) \pm 0.30
(sys.)) \times 10-5.
Subjects: High Energy Physics -
Experiment (hep-ex)
Cite as: arXiv:1109.4897v1 [hep-ex]
Submission history
| From: Pasquale Migliozzi Dr.
[v1] Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:59:33 GMT (4763kb)
http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4897
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The Seeker:
Chapter V. The Theater of Selves
The Master Game, by Robert S. DeRopp
The transformation of an ego-centered being to a free
being does not take place either easily or quickly.
One is converted into the other gradually, by a series
of stages, and each stage carries with it its own
dangers and difficulties. The transformation begins
when one of the selves in a man's personality (the
Seeker) develops an awareness of the state of sleep,
or, alternatively, a hunger for the fourth state of
consciousness (Baudelaire's "Taste of the Infinite").
The Seeker forms as a result of the working in man of
the will to meaning and the will to self-transcendence.
[Note: DeRopp, a biochemist, was a student of Gurdjieff,
who maintained that before awakening to his real
essence, man was not a singular entity but a
multiplicity of I's, egos, or selves.]
http://www.selfdiscoveryportal.com/arSeeker.htm
Robert S. de Ropp (1913-1987)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Robert+S.+de+Ropp
[|]|[|]|[|]|[|]|[|]|[|]|[|]|[|]|[|]|[|]|[|]|[|]|[|]
"Stars and placental amniotes! And ye inhabitants
of the ten thousand worlds! ...the ultimate Yoga
which gives emancipation, which destroys the sense
of separateness which is the root of Desire, is to
be made by the concentration of every element of
one's being, and annihilating it by intimate
combustion with the universe itself." A.C.
http://deoxy.org/omega.htm
"Interspecies Global Mind
by Howard Bloom
"...It is said that we have enraged nature by tearing at
the pattern of her tracery, and for this transgression we
shall be punished mightily. But we are nature incarnate.
We are made up of her molecules and cells.
We are tools of her probings and if, indeed, we suffer and
we fail, from our lessons she will learn which way in the
future not to turn. For all that lives and all that ever has
is part of a collective brain, a neural net of the most
sprawling kind...an evolution-driven, worldwide,
multi-billion-year-old interspecies mind."
| From: The History of the Global Brain XX
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/6/6556/1.html
"HERODOTUS" (484 BCE - 425 BCE) wrote:
"[The Egyptians] made a labyrinth, a little
way beyond the lake Moeris and near the place called
the City of Crocodiles. I have myself seen it, and
indeed no words can tell its wonders; were all that
Greeks have builded and wrought added together
the whole would be seen to be a matter of less
labour and cost than was this labyrinth, albeit the
temples at Ephesus and Samos are noteworthy
buildings. Though the pyramids were greater than
words can tell, and each one of them a match for
many great monuments built by Greeks, this
maze surpasses even the pyramids. It has twelve
roofed courts, with doors over against each other:
six face the north and six the south, in two con-
tinuous lines, all within one outer wall. There are
also double sets of chambers, three thousand
altogether, fifteen hundred above and the same
number under ground. We ourselves viewed those
that are above ground, and speak of what we have
seen; of the underground chambers we were only
told; the Egyptian wardens would by no means
show them, these being, they said, the burial vaults
of the kings who first built this labyrinth, and of
the sacred crocodiles. Thus we can only speak
from hearsay of the lower chambers; the upper
we saw for ourselves, and they are creations greater
than human. The outlets of the chambers and
the mazy passages hither and thither through
the courts were an unending marvel to us as we
passed from court to apartment and from apartment
to colonnade, from colonnades again to more cham-
bers and then into yet more courts. Over all this
is a roof, made of stone like the walls, and the
walls are covered with carven figures, and every
court is set round with pillars of white stone most
exactly fitted together. Hard by the corner where
the labyrinth ends there stands a pyramid forty
fathoms high, whereon great figures are carved.
A passage has been made into this underground.
Such is this labyrinth; and yet more marvellous
is the lake Moeris, by which it stands. This
lake has a circuit of three thousand six hundred
furlongs, or sixty schoeui, which is as much as the
whole seaboard of Egypt. Its length is from north
to south; the deepest part has a depth of fifty
fathoms. That it has been dug out and made by
men's hands the lake shows for itself; for almost
in the middle of it stand two pyramids, so built that
fifty fathoms of each are below and fifty above the
water; atop of each is a colossal stone figure seated
on a throne. Thus these pyramids are a hundred
fathoms high; and a hundred fathoms equal a fur-
long of six hundred feet, the fathom measuring six
feet or four cubits, the foot four spans and the cubit
six spans. The water of the lake is not natural
(for the country here is exceeding waterless) but
brought by a channel from the Nile; six months it
flows into the lake, and six back into the river.
For the six months that it flows from the lake, the
daily take of fish brings a silver talent into the
royal treasury, and twenty minae for each day of
the flow into the lake." [...]
Herodotus; Godley, A. D. (Alfred Denis), 1856-1925
http://www.archive.org/details/herodotus01hero
Chapter I. The Sirius Mystery Today.
By Robert Temple (C) 1997
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=The+Sirius+Mystery+Today
The Sirius Mystery: New Scientific Evidence
Of Alien Contact 5,000 Years Ago
by Robert K.G. Temple
http://www.robert-temple.com/
http://tinyurl.com/Temple-Sirius
http://www.robert-temple.com/papers/Sirius-AnswerCritics.html
[01][02][03][04][05][06][07][08][09][10][11][12][13]
Imagine an infinite cloud of eternal
potential, undefined; whereupon 'consciousness'
notices a point in the cloud, and that specific
point facilitates a collapse of a wave function,
defining a tangible reality: one universe amid
a potential multiversal cloud. These emergent
parallel realities, where timelines bifurcate
into separate universes, may basically be how
time-travel paradoxes are circumvented. If you
travel back in time to successfully convince
your great, great, great grandfather to a life
of celibacy, you manage to erase your emergence
in that timeline, but not the timeline of your
origin. They are separate, parallel timelines.
Therefore, 'paradox' is hypothetically averted.
Happy Quantum Surfing & 'Brane' Shuffling!
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/abraxas0.htm
~o0-O-0o~
________________________________________________
-=[[ Giorgio A. Tsoukalos'
ANCIENT ALIENS - THE SERIES
http://www.legendarytimes.com/giorgio/
Ancient Aliens
http://www.history.com/shows/ancient-aliens ]]=-
--- Indrid Cold wrote:
According to Ancient Astronaut Theorists,
Early Humans would never have figured out
how to Wipe Their Own Asses without the
Ancient Astronaut Technological Intervention
called Toilet Paper, which, of course,
brought about that whole Papyrus Innovation,
Global Pyramid Building, Advanced Rock
Grinding Procedures, and 'Bad Back' Remedies.
AMAZING?! YES! BUT ALL TRUE!!!
http://tinyurl.com/0LT15515
Seriously? Really?! Okay... High Points
to 'Ancient Astronauts' -- definitely the
wonderful sites around the globe depicted,
and the great unintentional comedy.
One main low point? Disingenuous
selective interpretations. Not cool,
which you already knew. We Don't Mind.
-- Indrid Cold 23|Sep|2011 CE
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A D D E N D U M
=====================
http://www.google.com/search?q=anonymous+occupy+wall+street
"As of September 15, 2011, 683 known
extrasolar planets (in 561 planetary
systems and 80 multiple planet systems)
are listed in the Extrasolar Planets
Encyclopaedia, [ http://exoplanet.eu/ ]
ranging from the size of terrestrial
planets somewhat larger than Earth to
gas giants larger than Jupiter."
<> http://infinity-imagined.tumblr.com/ <>
----- 0rigami Massage -----
Wednesday, October 5, 7:00pm
Oakland, CA: An Evening with Ali Abunimah --
with Special Guest Alice Walker
Ali Abunimah is author of the book "One Country:
A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse"
and Alice Walker has just returned from participating
in the US Boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope,
part of the Freedom Flotilla. [...]
http://www.mecaforpeace.org/events/oakland-ca-evening-ali-abunimah-special-guest-alice-walker
"This channel will feature live streams from
global non violent revolution spreading across
the globe, with the first broadcasts from Wall
Street Occupation..."
http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution
"[Last] weekend Anonymous joined Adbusters
in Operation 'Occupy Wall Street,' an
ongoing nonviolent demonstration..." [19|Sep|2011]
http://www.google.com/search?q=anonymous+occupy+wall+street
"A Call to Action - Oct. 6, 2011 and onward..."
http://october2011.org/statement
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Jews for Justice for Palestinians
http://jfjfp.com/?p=25405
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"During times of universal deceit,
telling the truth becomes a
revolutionary act." - George Orwell
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Parag Khanna maps the future of countries:
http://www.ted.com/talks/parag_khanna_maps_the_future_of_countries.html
EXCERPT:
[...] "And today, if you go to Kurdistan,
you'll see that Kurdish Peshmerga guerillas
are squaring off against the Sunni Iraqi army.
But what are they guarding? Is it really a
border on the map? No. It's the pipelines.
If the Kurds can control their pipelines,
they can set the terms of their own statehood.
"Now should we be upset about this, about
the potential disintegration of Iraq? I don't
believe we should. Iraq will still be the
second largest oil producer in the world,
behind Saudi Arabia. And we'll have a chance
to solve a 3,000 year old dispute.
Now remember Kurdistan is landlocked.
It has no choice but to behave. In order
to profit from its oil it has to export it
through Turkey or Syria, and other countries,
and Iraq itself. And therefore it has to
have amicable relations with them.
"Now lets look at a perennial conflict in
the region. That is, of course, in Palestine.
Palestine is something of a cartographic
anomaly because it's two parts Palestinian,
one part Israel. 30 years of rose garden
diplomacy have not delivered us peace in
this conflict. What might? I believe that
what might solve the problem is infrastructure.
Today donors are spending billions of dollars
on this. These two arrows are an arc, an arc
of commuter railroads and other infrastructure
that link the West Bank and Gaza. [See:
www.ted.com/talks/parag_khanna_maps_the_future_of_countries.html]
"If Gaza can have a functioning port and be
linked to the West Bank you can have a viable
Palestinian state, Palestinian economy.
That, I believe, is going to bring peace
to this particular conflict. The lesson from
Kurdistan and from Palestine, is that
independence alone, without infrastructure,
is futile." [...] Cont. at:
http://www.ted.com/talks/parag_khanna_maps_the_future_of_countries.html
-=0~O~0=-
A Physicist Explains Why Parallel Universes
May Exist: [...] "But there's a more
confounding aspect of quantum theory that
receives less attention.
After decades of closely studying quantum
mechanics, and after having accumulated a
wealth of data confirming its probabilistic
predictions, no one has been able to explain
why only one of the many possible outcomes
in any given situation actually happens.
When we do experiments, when we examine
the world, we all agree that we encounter
a single definite reality. Yet, more than
a century after the quantum revolution
began, there is no consensus among the
world's physicists as to how this basic
fact is compatible with the theory's
mathematical expression." [...]
Excerpted from 'The Hidden Reality'
by Brian Greene
Copyright 2011 by Brian Greene.
http://www.iscap.columbia.edu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unsticking the "brane"
Professor Tom Weiler and graduate fellow Chui Man Ho
hypothesize using the Large Hadron Collider as a TIME TUNNEL
http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/03/hadron-collider-time-machine/
LHC http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/
Several [months] ago, had a dream of two silhouettes
'Snow Boarding' thru a tunnel of concentric rings,
ala the old 60's TV show: 'THE TIME TUNNEL' see pic:
http://www.oscuro.org/mjr/htms/time_tunnel/pics2/17.jpg
[Wed, 9 Mar 2011]
47 years ago, Sir Freddy wrote:
"It has often been said that, if the human species
fails to make a go of it here on Earth, some
other species will take over the running. In the
sense of developing high intelligence this is not
correct. We have, or soon will have, exhausted
the necessary physical prerequisites so far as this
planet is concerned. With coal gone, oil gone,
high-grade metallic ores gone, no species however
competent can make the long climb from primitive
conditions to high-level technology. This is a
one-shot affair. If we fail, this planetary system
fails so far as intelligence is concerned. The same
will be true of other planetary systems. On each
of them there will be one chance, and one chance
only." -- Sir Fred Hoyle,
"Of Men and Galaxies," 1964
***********************
5 years ago, Daniel Pinchbeck wrote:
[...] "The Catholic mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
foresaw the development of a 'new, integrated mind' of
global humanity, calling it the 'noosphere,' from the
Greek word nous, meaning mind. Noting that our planet
consists of various layers -- a mineral lithosphere,
hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere consisting of
troposphere, stratosphere, and ionosphere -- Chardin
theorized the possible existence of a mental envelope,
a layer of thought, encompassing the Earth.
The 'hominization' of the Earth had concluded the
phase of physical evolution, during which species
multiplied and developed new powers, leading to an
entropic breakdown of the biosphere. This process,
Chardin realized, requiring the tapping of the stored
energy and amassed mineral resources of the planet,
could happen only once." [...] Pg. 60; Part One:
A Universe In Ruins; Chapter Five |
2012 - The Return of Quetzalcoatl
by Daniel Pinchbeck (c) 2006
***********************
"Reality Sandwich"
http://www.realitysandwich.com/
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T A T T V A M A S I
====================================================
[...] Whether M-theory exists as a single
formulation or only as a network, we do
know some of its properties. First, M-theory
has eleven space-time dimensions, not ten.
[...] Also, M-theory can contain not just
vibrating strings but also point particles,
two dimensional membranes, three dimensional
blobs, and other objects that are more
difficult and occupy even more dimensions of
space, up to nine. These objects are called
p-branes (where p runs from zero to nine).
[...] The laws of M-theory therefore allow
for different universes with different
apparent laws, depending on how the internal
space is curled. [...] M-theory has solutions
that allow for many different internal spaces,
perhaps as many as 10^500, [a 1 with 500 zeros]
which means it allows for 10^500 different
universes, each with its own laws. [...] only
one of which corresponds to the universe as we
know it. [...] [Chapter 5, The Theory Of
Everything - pgs. 117-119] THE GRAND DESIGN
(c)2010 by Steven W. Hawking [www.hawking.org.uk]
and Leonard Mlodinow [www.its.caltech.edu/~Len]
Random House, Inc. - ISBN 978-0-553-80537-6
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dissociation Dynamics,
the Alice Miller Finding
and the Social Organization of Torture:
http://www.alice-miller.com/index_en.php
http://alice-miller.com/readersmail_en.php?lang=en&nid=2137&grp=0708
http://www.alice-miller.com/articles_en.php?lang=en&nid=63&grp=13
[See also NPD: (DSM-IV code 301.81)
Synopsis
Diagnostic Features:
'Narcissistic personality disorder is a condition
characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance,
need for admiration, extreme self-involvement, and
lack of empathy for others. Individuals with this
disorder are usually arrogantly self-assured and
confident. They expect to be noticed as superior.
Many highly successful individuals might be considered
narcissistic. However, this disorder is only diagnosed
when these behaviors become persistent and very
disabling or distressing.' ... ]
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"A Human Being without a Deity
is like a Rainbow Trout without
a Tricycle." --Xeno Bilderberg
Reeeelaaaaaax.... have a banana:
"There you go, man
Keep as cool as you can
Face piles of trials with smiles
It riles them to believe
That you perceive
The web they weave...
And keep on thinking free" --Moody Blues
TWELVE YEARS AGO . . .
"Of course, the idea that the world should be
run by secret societies went down particularly
well with...well, secret societies.
Consequently, many of them adopted Synarchist
principles. In fact, Saint-Yves' ideas
transformed the esoteric underground of Europe,
particularly France. Some of the greatest
figures in subsequent occult history were
devotees of Saint-Yves, which is not
surprising because occultists, with their
love of hierarchy, tend to be naturally
totalitarian and unegalitarian."
THE RISE OF THE ROUGH BEAST
(Adapted from a lecture by
LYNN PICKNETT and CLIVE PRINCE
at the Sauniere Society Symposium,
Conway Hall, London on 19 September 1999)
http://www.namebase.org/sources/fL.html
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[...] As Sally Bowles said in Cabaret
of the rise of the Nazi Party in Berlin:
"It's only politics - what's that got
to do with us?".
People are wary of politics these days - rightly
so - but they are not so wary of an appeal to the
romantic, spiritual and mystical. And therein
lies the danger.
As W.B. Yeats so prophetically wrote in
his The Second Coming:
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to a nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Picknett, Lynn and Prince, Clive. The Stargate Conspiracy:
The Truth About Extraterrestrial Life and the Mysteries of
Ancient Egypt. New York: Berkley Books, 2001. 425 pages.
http://www.namebase.org/sources/fL.html
Someone once wrote:
<> In his book Memories, Dreams, and Reflections,
<> Carl Jung discusses how he acquired an insight
<> into Western man's denial of the Heart when he
<> recounts a conversation he had in 1932 with the
<> Native American Chief Ochwiay Biano (meaning
<> "Mountain Lake") of the Tao Pueblos Indians of
<> New Mexico. The chief was quite candid in his
<> perception of the white man's Heart-Mind split:
<> "See.... how cruel the whites look. Their lips
<> are thin, their noses sharp, their faces furrowed
<> and distorted by folds. Their eyes have a staring
<> expression; they are always seeking something.
<> What are they seeking? The whites always want
<> something; they are always uneasy and restless.
<> We do not know what they want. We do not understand
<> them. We think they are mad."
<> When Jung asks why he thinks they are all mad,
<> the Chief replies, "They say they think with
<> their heads."
<> Jung answers, "Why, of course. What do you
<> think with?"
<> The Chief, indicating his heart, said,
<> "We think here."
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It's always just NOW...
Or as that weird Munchkin, E c k h a r t T o l l e,
likes to pontificate: "Stillness Speaks: When you lose
touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself.
When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in
the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are,
is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is
deeper than name and form. [...] Nothing that comes and
goes is you. 'I am bored.' Who knows this? 'I am angry,
sad, afraid.' Who knows this? You are the knowing,
not the condition that is known."
"If you cannot be at ease with yourself when
you are alone, you will seek a relationship to
cover up your unease.
You can be sure that the unease will then reappear
in some other form within the relationship, and
you will probably hold your partner responsible for it.
All you really need to do is accept this moment fully.
You are then at ease in the here and now and at
ease with yourself.
But do you need to have a relationship with yourself
at all? Why can't you just be yourself?
When you have a relationship with yourself, you have
split yourself into two: 'I' and 'myself,' subject
and object. That mind-created duality is the root cause
of all unnecessary complexity, of all problems and
conflict in your life. In the state of enlightenment,
you are yourself - 'you' and 'yourself' merge into one.
You do not judge yourself, you do not feel sorry for
yourself, you are not proud of yourself, you do not
love yourself, you do not hate yourself, and so on.
The split caused by self reflective consciousness
is healed, its curse removed. There is no 'self'
that you need to protect, defend, or feed anymore.
When you are enlightened, there is one relationship
that you no longer have: the relationship with yourself.
Once you have given that up, all your other relationships
will be love relationships." ::: -- Eckhart Tolle
'The Power of Now'
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Uhhhm... How Wide is 'Now?'
<> http://infinity-imagined.tumblr.com/ <>
M M A M W G E G L E E E E E H
~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
The Magical Mystical ASCII Missive of Wavey Gravey
Eternal Good Luck and Exponentially Expanding Ecstatic
Equanimity of Extreme Happiness.
That's the title: "MMAMWGEGLEEEEEH" .
Simply by one reading of the "MMAMWGEGLEEEEEH", all your
wishes and dreams and goals and hopes and desires and
growth-potential-thingamajigs-that-aren't-even-conscious
will come to transpire throughout the rest of your sentient
existence. A single reading of the "MMAMWGEGLEEEEEH" and
you will be insured forever from ever having to fear, doubt,
feel superstitious, or follow the whims of passing notions
wrought by random doo-hickies and so on.
This is the "MMAMWGEGLEEEEEH". Read it once, and you will
never have to pass on another chain letter [post, meme,
email, tweet, or thought-bubble] (unless, 'natch, ya really
want to, in which case, hey, be my guest...). One solitary,
single reading of the "MMAMWGEGLEEEEEH", and you are FREE!
FREE!! FREE!!!
...And now, the "MMAMWGEGLEEEEEH": (Uh humm...)
"Local coordinates in time and space upon Earth SOL system
of nine [8*] planets and asteroid belt numerous comets and
other orbiting objects of unknown mass and consistency the
Outer two/thirds edge of a spiral galaxy approximately
120,000 light years in diameter consisting of a grouped
cluster of galaxies numbering in the hundreds of billions
all expanding at enormous, accelerating speeds thru an
infinite void.
The heart aches, we feel funky. Who am we? Oh yeah, that's
right. Nevermind...
Although we forget the question, we're pretty sure "love" is
the answer.... or something resembling that notion in motion."
Tah Dahhhhhhh!!! Yeah, that was it... whadja expect?!
This is magic!
...Move along now, move along, show's over...
nothing to see here...
~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
[* Pluto was recently demoted to a planetoid]
http://members.pingnet.ch/nbt/impressi.htm
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