Is Supernatural Real?
with the finest teachers, without having a clue whether ki was real or not. No amount of explaining or theorizing was sufficient. I had to go through many inner changes first, before some understanding began to dawn on me. I read the gospels in the Bible many times, and each time my understanding had changed. The book had not changed, but I had. This is sacred literature, and it is not wisdom to assume your current understanding penetrates the books full meaning. Dismissing it as myth is trite, and pointless. Wait awhile and read it again, and each time you will see more you had missed. Now when I hear someone say supernatural events do not happen, I find myself wondering; Do you really know the limits of what is possible? Is science complete and its evolution finished? Have you really tested your minds ability to change your reality? What is science for if not to explore the limits of what is possible? Perhaps miracles really are possible. Why write them off as if you know everything already? Alan Ackley ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Babble theory, and comments
Re: From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tower of Babel! Wonderful story. Did this author actually sell a >>book? Yes, John Keel did sell books. The Mothman Prophecies being the most famous. The Eighth Tower in which he suggests some device MIGHT be hidden in a black stone in Mecca, was fun reading, he did also say that it might be almost anywhere in the middle east. He was the director of the Fortean Society, where they keep archives of oddball news items and unexplainables. He has also written a lot about bigfoot and other monster sightings. As a used book dealer I always buy his books when I can, they are a lot of fun. I have a lot of respect for a man who can actually make a living traveling around and interviewing people about fun stories like this. He proved work can be fun. On the Popes death; I have always wondered how, if he is the true successor to Christ, he does not end up being resurrected bodily, as the Bible says His followers will do greater works than He (Jesus), and By their fruits ye shall know them. Seems to me that if he is not healed or raised from the dead, this Roman cult cannot really claim to be the true successors to Christ. Re: From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fundamentally wrong, verging on deliberate distortion and lying when he preposterous Face on Mars, Arctic holes to habitable continents inside our Earth and, recently, an unchallenged fringe nurse decrying the use of vaccines and urging listeners to avoid them, not even a tetanus shot after you step on a rusty object. On vaccines: I ran across a statistic (bearing in mind the statistic that says that 83% of all quoted statistics are made up) that claimed that Christian Scientists, who avoid medical practitioners and vaccines, have the longest life expectancy of any religious group in the USA. Having personal experience with the sheer toxicity of the yellow fever vaccine (31 days in the hospital) I have some small sympathy with those who choose to avoid such injections. Alan Ackley ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
HAARP ufo's?
HAARP; High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program.
It seems Arco owned a bunch of natural gas rights in Alaska, where no one
needed the gas. They lobbied to get this weird thing built; a giant phased
array antenna, fed by its own power plant. The original idea seemed to be
to modulate the electrojet (the stream of electrons and negative ions fed
into the Earth by the solar wind, which is the source of the aurora) Seems
it may have had other uses as well. Apparently a prime use is to heat a
local patch of atmosphere, wherever the thing is aimed (by phase adjusting
the array) and might be used as a weapon or just to make pretty lights and
oddball radar reflections.
I think the HAARP could be used to duplicate some of the UFO phenomena; A
blob of light that moves as if without mass (because it is just a spot where
the air is glowing and heated) and can make sudden impossible seeming turns
and accelerations. The temperature inversions around the heated area could
reflect radar. Certain classic UFO cases may have been tests of using this
effect as a psychological warfare device (one in Spain and another in
Florida). I don't know, but I imagine the possibility of projecting a
gigantic image into the clouds, of Jesus returning with angels and trumpets,
or some such hoo haw. Of course this sort of imaging would be far more
difficult to program into the phased array antenna than a mere blob of
light. It might be possible to use the arrays in Puerto Rico, Hawaii and
Australia in unison.
One of Jacques Vallee's more recent books points to evidence of this sort of
fake UFO, and in Spain, a psychological operation. I believe the book was
called "Revelations", the third book in a trilogy ("Dimensions", and
"Confrontations" being the other two in the trilogy).
Alan.
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glitched reality continues
Thanks to Nick Lidster for the elevating discussion of Platos cave. I wont claim Ive made it into the light yet, but I believe I may have gotten beyond staring at the shadows Thanks also to Gary Denton for the apology. But I doubt you brought anyone along unless they were trapped in the car with you when you arrived. I agree that you probably wont have any recordings of the previous universe once youve entered into the new universe. Indeed this model seems to fit my experience. I seem to have come here alone into a new universe populated with near duplicates of the people I knew there. I had another slight glitch today. I was searching out someone I had interviewed with (for an elevator repair job) five years ago. He had since retired. At that time I was told that the repair shop covered elevators in many cities (all being on state owned university campuses). Today I was told that the local repair shop only covers this one campus and NEVER had responsibility for other campuses. Apparently this is one more small difference from the universe I previously inhabited. I did a backup visit to the construction company where the temp agency had seemingly been a month earlier. The construction company has been there five years. The secretary appreciated my tale and hummed a nice rendition of a bar from the Outer Limits theme. Theyve built a wall where I talked to the guy last month. I mean it! The floor layout is different! I dont believe I dreamed this, although once I dreamed a Wednesday, then woke up and it took half the day for me to realize it really wasnt Thursday yet. I had to do Wednesday over again. There was an interesting study done of the memories of Titanic survivors. Over the years people seemed to modify their memories to make their own roles seem more heroic or justified. This doesnt seem to apply to my case where the nature of these glitches do nothing to make or break my ego, just odd pointless differences. I read The Bible Code a while back, and wondered if the code, which seemed designed to pass messages into the future, had been used to stabilize a particular timeline. Travelers entering into a new universe could get a copy of the Torah and, decoding it with their computerized time travel decoder rings, might get some numerical indication of how far they were from their original timeline. Bush is mentioned in the Bible Code, along with the Kennedy assassination and Rabins assassination, so I suppose his reign of errors is also somehow emblematic of this timeline. Thanks again for the various comments, from whichever universe. Id really rather not doubt the accuracy of my own memories, but I have less scruples when it comes to doubting the memories of others. Alan Ackley. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Babel theory link
Link to a paper discussing low frequency interference with consciousness; http://www.geocities.com/nwbotanicals1/oak/newphysics/schumann.htm ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
tower of Babel theory
My theory of the tower of Babel; (a modification of the theory in John Keel's "Eighth Tower"). The Babylonians were building a "tower to reach to the sky", and when "God", (or in this case, the Elohim) decided to end this form of human progress, the method used also had the effect of causing multiple languages to occur. Keel suggested that somewhere in the middle east, inside some unspecified stone monument, (the big stone in Mecca?) is a generator which has affected the mentality of mankind from then until now. Undoubtedly using ELF waves (extra low frequency) this hypothetical device must still be in operation, and constantly interferes with human communication abilities contributing to war and strife worldwide. A radar jammer will pick up the radar frequency being used and will then broadcast a signal on the same frequency, but 180 degrees out of phase. Similarly I suspect a device which picks up broadcasts of human consciousness then rebroadcasts a wave 180 degrees (in opposition, to cancel or overrride) out of phase. One possible effect of this is to block human telepathy. If the odds are 50/50 that you will recieve the truth or it's opposite, the telepathic link becomes useless, thus humans must fall back on the backup method of uttering sounds. Hypothesizing that pre-Babel humans were telepathic, but separate tribes also used local verbal signs, then when telepathy was blocked, only the widely variant tribal verbalizations remained. One odd observation relating to this; I've noted when I am meditating or deeply into writing or other deep mental states, I very often find the imagined position of my body to be reversed; ie, I awake to find I am faced North, when in the dream-state I was facing South, 180 degrees out of phase with my actual position. Another aside; for a while in the '70s and '80s some reserchers believed that Russians were beaming ELF at the USA from giant low frequency Tesla coils in Siberia. Rumor had it that a lot of the beams were focused for some unknown reason at Oregon. Of course the HAARP project and other huge phased array antenna sites may also have the ability to generate waves that directly affect the mass consciousness of humans. There is no evidence this is being done, but the capability is growing. I suspect such a use would require massive computers to be controlling the antenna output (such as is being done in Alaska with HAARP). Would hate to see what advanced black magician types might do with this type of stuff. (but, hey, my theory IS that the Babble generator is just such an ancient black project, and still operates.) On the good side; to grow a population with immunity, you subject them to an environment full of the toxin. if we, (humanity) have been in the toxic presence of the Babble generator for thousands of years, perhaps we will or are generating a population that has a natural resistance to such interference. Alan. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
the question of reality glitches
On reality glitches; Aside from proving anything, I have a question or three; 1) Can the past be changed? (or does time have more than one dimension?) 2) If so, can it be changed so that two or more people have differing memories? 3) What effects do recording have? The people who know me well know I have an unusual memory for details. Now I dont expect strangers to know this, and really should have expected people to doubt my accuracy. In fact I think this is what happens to most reality glitches. People doubt their own memories, and other people doubt them, then everyone ASSUMES that there is a single constant reality. But what if this is not so? Hey, I admit I have no final proof at this point. I have yet to conduct my follow up visit to the construction company. BUT the point here is not whether I have attained proof, its to discuss the possibility that there are pockets of alternate reality that go unobserved precisely BECAUSE we distrust our own and others memories; unobserved because there is as yet no proof. The point is to perhaps come up with some testable theory. Because of my detailed memories I have come to believe that such glitches do occur, only recently it has been bugging me and I wonder if there is some sort of solvable problem here. In David Brins Earth there were many scenes involving people wired with cameras constantly downloading stuff to the internet. I thought of this and wondered what might have been the result if I had a recorded record of what I had seen and been told in the various agency offices. In fact what is the result (in a quantum sense) of recording events? Does this make the event more stable in everyones reality? If everyone started recording entire days, would this cause provability of glitches, or actually prevent them? After all, once youve decided to observe something . When the bag tear glitch occurred, there was a lot of precipitation happening, so I was only riding the one bike that had fenders. This is certain. The other bike had been dropped and had a tear in the bag resembling the one observed on the other bike. Admitting this just adds doubt to what at this point appears only to be a tale. No one messes with my bikes but me. There is no proof. No one agrees who gave my brother the chess set 35 years ago for xmas, but I remember this as the first such glitch I observed and have wondered ever since. The roller derby truck rolled under the couch and vanished from all known realities forever. Again, I am asking, not to convince anyone or to claim I have proof. This is really about questioning the stability of what we perceive as a single world. Is there a way of constructing/conducting an experiment to illuminate this? You open the box and the cat is dead. Later you see the cat alive. Was it dead, or did you dream it? If you had no independent witnesses or recordings, youd be hard put to prove anything. I suspect that the universe with the cat alive will contain only recordings of the living cat. Though some would say that the cat was in BOTH states until the box was opened. Does someone else remember the other state of the cat? We just wouldnt know unless we ask, and then someone will say it mustve been a different cat, or you were dreaming, or sipping fog or something. Well, it was raining. -- Alan. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
reality glitches
Hi Everyone, David Brin mailed me the contact info for this mailing list group a few days back, and although Ive no idea how this will connect with any past discussions, I thought Id toss this little pebble in the pond; I had a weird reality glitch reminiscent of the Matrix movie; Last month I visited Westaff, a temp agency I used to work for, at 29th & Valmont where they had been for a decade. They had lost all my records during their computer upgrade, done 1 year ago. I would have to re-interview with them and fill out all new forms. I figured I'd wait until I got back (now) to do that. I went in there yesterday and they weren't there, there was instead a construction company in that suite. I called Westaff on the phone later to find out where they had moved and they said they had moved FIVE YEARS AGO!!! Then they said they had lost all my records in last year's computer upgrade and I'd have to reapply. Their new office is at 30th and Pearl.WHERE WAS I LAST MONTH? In a different universe? Emmet Fox (a metaphysical writer) says external reality is just an appearance; a reflection of the REAL inner reality of consciousness. Am I observing reality change as my meditative inner work progresses? (that was my thought) Or is someone (angels, Suzanne suggested) reprogramming the "reality" matrix (Steve related it to the "Matrix" movies) behind the scenes? There was a second glitch that appeared yesterday! I locked the two bicycles I brought here to the support bars of the backyard swingset. To protect the leather seats I tied a heavy duty plastic bag (from Performance bikeshop) over each seat. I've only been riding one of these bikes so far. I take off the bag and stuff it in a little pouch in my saddle bag, so I can reuse it that night. Thursday night I noticed the bag had a 2 inch tear in it which I figured had happened the previous (very windy Wednesday) night. I rotated the bag so the tear was underneath the seat and kept reusing it. Then last night (Friday) as evening came around I remembered to cover the seat before sunset. I took out the SAME BAG, and looked for the tear so I could again rotate the bag so the tear would be underneath. THERE WAS NO TEAR. Emmet Fox says that reality only changes when consciousness changes. I am suspecting this as evidence that my consciousness work is actually having an effect on external reality. My working hypothesis is that each of us has a partially private "reality bubble" and that such glitches only affect a local area. That is that there is not a second ENTIRE UNIVERSE, only small part of the universe was affected by the appearance of the second reality, encompassed by the few people (or only me?) who were aware of the difference. I speculate that we distrust our memories and usually gloss over such glitches. This may be how God provides us each with our own karma, that there is some slack that allows our private reality bubbles to differ in minor details. I refuse to consider the possibility that Im just off my rocker, so my brain has gone to the more palatable considerations involving multiple universe theories. It bothers me to think that I generated an entire universe, and I prefer to believe that there was only a local bubble duplicating a small section of the universe. I have a very accurate memory and refuse to doubt my perceptions. Today Im going back to the suite where the construction company is to ask if they know anything about the prior tenants. So, what do you think? Local bubble? Another universe? Matrix glitch? Alan A. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
