-Caveat Lector- http://www.ecologystore.com/econews14.htm COMET LEE AUGUR OF CHANGE? By EcologyNews Service reprinted with permission of the author By Geri DeStefano, PhD & Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd EcoNews Service http://www.ecologynews.com Vancouver, BC VANCOUVER - Question for 1999: Are Comet Lee and the seer Nostradamus the year’s greatest memes, or are they augurs of transformational change? Or a bit of both? Artist David Brin tells us that “Memes are raw ideas. Pure concepts which, like conquering genetic codes, seem capable of thriving in and via host organisms, this time human minds. “What would such a "living idea" be like? Well, for one thing it would survive by making its host think about it. In contemplating a concept, you in effect keep it alive. For example, some time ago I read a notion -- the very one we're discussing now -- the notion of memes. You could say this idea was successful at "infecting" me, because I've continued thinking about it, giving it continued existence, or "life." “But a virus or bacterium that just sits inside its host doesn't accomplish much. An effective pseudo-organism must do more. It must reproduce. “How would a living idea proliferate? “By getting its host not only to think about it, but to make and spread copies... by telling other people! And now, if you've been paying attention, you'll realize that's just what I've been doing the last few minutes for one particular meme... the meme of memes! By telling you about it, I am doing the memic equivalent of coughing on you. Infecting you with the transmissible, self- replicating notion of these infectious ideas. If it's a successful self- replicating notion, some of you will go out and tell others about it. And so on.” Comets, the ancients said, augur change. If that is true as metaphor or as reality what more auspicious a beginning for a comet to appear than the very time that seers like Michel de Notredame (Nostradamus) and prophetic traditions like the Aztec calendar say may inaugurate a period of great cosmic change on our planet. The last total solar eclipse of the century took place on August 11, 1999, and two days later, on August 13, came the Aztec calendar Day of Destiny. Why the Day of Destiny? That was the date on which one module of time in the Aztec Calendar ended, and another began. According to researcher John Mini, the Day of Destiny indicated “a major cataclysmic event that will transform values. Sources of stability break and fall apart. There's an overthrow of old political structure, and a rebirth of a new order. There's a possibility of a global financial meltdown and a massive redistribution of wealth that accompanies a new financial system.” Mini, author of Day of Destiny, tells us: “The Aztec shamans taught us how there's going to be a tremendous confluence of ecological, economic, social, political and psychological forces that are going to come together like a tidal wave on August 13, 1999. They say we can use this tidal wave to manifest our dreams, wishes and goals. It's a day where we can turn our dreams into reality.” Now, this tidal wave of change was not (yet) literal and actual. But was it metaphor, a sign from ancient sciences for the forces of universal transformation acting in our lives? For on August 11, 1999 the day of the solar eclipse and Grand Cross and two days before the Day of Destiny, Comet Lee emerged from the other side of our Sun, on reported trajectory 77 millions miles from Earth. In its brief journey behind the sun, Comet Lee spawned both a vocal disagreement in comet research about the nature of comets, and a roller coaster ride among interpreters and believers in the Nostradamus comet of 1999. Comet Lee had lessons for all. The saga of Comet Lee [C/1999 H1] began with its first discovery on April 16, 1999 by Steven Lee, an amateur astronomer and night attendant at the Anglo-Australian Observatory in New South Wales, Australia, while at a Star Party with other aficionados. Lee, who sports a Rip Van Winkle-like beard and sandals, seemed both modestly pleased and irritated by his discovery of a comet, ensuring his astronomical immortality. Although Comet Lee’s discovery scenario was chillingly similar to one of the Hollywood Deep Impact movie plot-lines, Lee himself apparently had no idea that his Comet Lee might move into public notoriety as the possible King of Terror prophesized in the 1500s by Nostradamus. King of Terror refers to a now-famous Nostradamus quatrain. Nostradamus [Michel de Notredame, 1503-1566, a learned physician and astrologer to the French court] tells us in his quatrain, Century 10, Quatrain 72: Francais: L'an mil neuf cens nonante neuf sept mois, Du ciel viendra un gran Roy d'effrayeur. Resusciter le grand Roy d'Angolmois. Avant apres Mars regner par bon heur. English translation: The year 1999, seventh month, [September, under modern calendar] >From the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, Before and after Mars to reign by good luck. Interpretation is the heart of hermeneutics, the study of prophecy, and the interpretation of Nostradamus’ quatrains is a refined art. In his 1996 book, “Nostradamus 1999: Who will Survive?” (Llewellyn, 1996), Paulus took a novel approach. Nostradamus, he tells us, randomly reshuffled his quatrains in order to hide their meaning and avoid investigation by the then Inquisition. Paulus had painstakingly reassembled the quatrains in the order of meaning that Nostradamus may have originally intended. The prophetic scenario that Paulus described was itself an alternate reality of natural chaos and human fear. A meteor in the tail of a comet striking Earth in September, 1999, causing a tidal wave that engulfed both coasts of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the coasts of the Pacific Rim. This devastation is followed by several years of a “debris winter,” with the Sun barely visible. And then comes a 27-year World War III, described in the quatrains almost battle by battle. Along with other students of Nostradamus, Paulus interprets the “King of Terror” as the comet that triggers a period of human tribulation. The comet, the quatrains say, becomes visible shortly after the solar eclipse of August 11, 1999, when it emerges from the glare of the Sun. Nostradamus tells us that many will see the brightness of the comet, but few will understand its significance. For, again by deciphering Nostradamus quatrains, Paulus told us that within the tail of the comet will be hidden a meteor, about one- quarter mile in diameter. The comet approaches Earth in late August and early September, appearing almost as brilliant as the Sun, giving the illusion that we have two suns. It is then perhaps in late September 1999 that a cataclysmic collision between the meteor and the Earth may take place, the equivalent of 130,000 Hiroshima bombs. Interpreting the quatrains, Paulus believes the meteor may land around the North Atlantic Ridge, close to the juncture of the North Atlantic and African tectonic plates. The result is a tidal wave, 2000-3000 feet in height, which swamps the Atlantic coasts, and submerges half the British Isles under the sea. Travelling under the North Pole, the tidal wave engulfs the coasts of cities and countries along the Pacific Rim. Massive earthquakes, set off by the meteor’s landing at a tectonic juncture point, magnify the destruction. Nations are devastated. Cities within 200 miles of the coastline are destroyed. Our interdependent global economy is shattered. Humanity is set back to a medieval economy. Oh, and Nostradamus quatrain also says the King of Terror brings back the King of the Mongols, a world leader who will wage decades of world war among the power blocs of nations. Paulus suggests the King of the Mongols might be an Islamic military- religious figure, known as the “Mahdi”. Other students of Nostradamus suggest that the entire quatrain the King of Terror and the King of the Mongols refers to this war-like world leader who first appears on the public scene in September 1999. One Nostradamus scholar believes the Kings of this quatrain refer to Islamic nuclear missiles in a Pakistan-Indian or other war. Another interpretation raises the spectre of a war launched by the Chinese (“Mongols”). The Taiwan-China confrontation began, coincidentally on July 9, 1999. Still other observers believe the “King of Terror” refers to electromagnetic pulse (“EMP) mood management and mind control weapons that can affect the moods of target human populations. These same EMP weapons can be used for tectonic warfare - triggering earthquakes in a target enemy's territory. Perhaps the great Taiwan earthquake(s) that defused this face-off were in fact triggered by acts of tectonic warfare? The consciousness school of Nostradamus interpretation tells us his quatrains are to be understood on the symbolic level. Nostradamus is really telling us about individual and collective transformation; about our collective evolution. Interpret Nostradamus as though it were the contents of a dream the dark and conflicted products of our subconscious minds seeking expression. In this context, for example, Nostradamus reference to “Mars” in his King of Terror quatrain is really to a transformation of the human experience to positive evolution. Another student notes that “terror” in Nostradamus time meant “enlightenment, and that the King of Terror may in fact be an agent of enlightenment. Then again, parapsychological research tells us that psychics can accurately access events in the future (precognition), as well as events in the past (retrocognition). Like other psychics, Nostradamus may have been in fact accessing visions about cataclysms of the past, rather than events of the future. In other words, the key word in interpreting Nostradamus is, you guessed it, uncertainty. Will we have a comet? Will we have a bloody global warrior? Are we really talking about the deep transformation of the human subconscious? Will we have none of the above? Take your pick. So what does this dark vision have to do with Comet Lee C/1999 H1? One independent research organization, The Millennium Group, began systematically scanning new comets, and concluded that Comet Lee might be a candidate for the King of Terror. The origin of the Comet Lee controversy seems to have occurred when researcher James B. Ervin apparently took Paulus’ book to heart, perhaps in total personal immersion, undertaking what he called a “personal journey” to find the King of Terror. Ervin tracked the skies for comets that would fulfill Paulus’ projections. Eventually, Ervin found Comet Lee, noting that the comet’s early trajectory in the period April-August, 1999 was exactly that which a hypothetical King of Terror might have to take: Millennium Group’s Ervin wrote, “The Nostradamus' prophecies seem to indicate that the comet in question must originate from the southern ecliptic plane, and then take a northwestern track around the Sun during its perihelion, where its orbit will be invisible due to occultation and Solar Glare until early August, 1999. C/1999 H1 Lee, it seems, does just exactly that.” The controversies surrounding Comet Lee’s trajectory, however, were many, and the truth remains murky. At the heart of the controversy is the precise nature of a comet itself. The traditional model of a comet still embraced by NASA, the US space agency, as dogma holds that a comet is in essence a dirty snowball, which sheds matter as it enters a solar system. Not so, said the Millennium Group, citing scholarly research on the plasma discharge theory of comets. Comets are actually asteroid bodies surrounded by electrically charged plasma. When they enter a solar system, they interact as capacitors with the Sun, and can trigger electromagnetic phenomena such as solar flares. For example, when Comet Lee passed through the ecliptic plane of the Sun on June 21, 1999, measurements of sunspots varied visibly on monitoring instruments, indicating an electromagnetic interactivity with the Sun. Thus, said the Millennium Group, the unexpected solar explosion on June 1 word of which was withheld from the public until June 7, 1999 may have been in fact triggered by Comet Lee. (NASA, when contacted about this seven-day lapse in reporting replied that the explosion took place on Memorial Day holiday, and their tracking software broke down; an explanation that has met with some skepticism among NASA critics). So how did all this affect Comet Lee and the Nostradamus predictions? The standard ephemeris or projected trajectory of Comet Lee shows that its near approach to Earth would be more than 77 million miles. According to NASA, the comet will not hit the Earth or come any place close to it. This also means that debris or an asteroid associated with the comet could not endanger the Earth. Such "debris" would be left in the comet's orbit and would basically follow the orbit. If the comet's orbit doesn't intersect the Earth's orbit (and it doesn't), it is not possible for debris to hit the Earth. The closest the comet will come to the Earth is about 77 million miles (the Sun is 93 million miles from Earth) at the end of September 1999.” But NASA also added, “Comet Lee (or any comet) will not cause coronal mass ejections [solar explosions]. And Comet Lee's orbit is not affected by them.” Thus we are back to the heart of the argument as to what comets really are. If Comet Lee is in fact primarily an electromagnetic body of plasma, and not a dirty snowball, then a change in trajectory is possible, says the Millennium Group. During the comet’s trajectory behind the Sun (June 21-August 11) and afterward, the comet could gather plasma mass, or could cause solar explosions which could slow it down, and alter its present course, coming closer to Earth. NASA’s flat denial of a comet’s solar interactivity is not comforting, however. And feisty Steven Lee, the comet’s discoverer, on July 1 wrote sarcastically, “Let me use my predictive powers.... ommmmmm...... the comet is going to carry on along it predicted path and no bits will fall and hit the Earth.” Contradicting the Millennium Group, he added: “Now let me get this right - a 2km diameter ball of "something" (but not ices and rocks) with no discernable magnetic field is able to "suck" out bits of the Sun (CMEs), but only when the comet crosses the ecliptic. So what causes CMEs at other times when there isn't a comet around to do so? And why when they cross the ecliptic - why not when they cross the Sun's (magnetic) equator (the ecliptic has to do with the Earth's orbit, not the Sun magnetic field)?” Lee continued: “One of the tests of a theory is how accurate its predictions are. The comet crossed the ecliptic on June 22 - rather a long way away from June 1. Do you remember a spoon-bending con-man by the name of Uri Geller? When he visited London, quite by coincidence Big Ben broke. Not passing up such an opportunity he claimed responsibility for the event. Great publicity! The situation here seems much the same. CMEs happen all the time - there are bound to be several while the comet is around. There will be much the same number of events when the comet isn't there, but why let an opportunity slip by?” In rebuttal, the Millennium Group’s Ervin and Earl L. Crockett on July 4, 1999 said, “Anyone who categorically asserts that Comet Lee will not strike the Earth, or that it will not pass anywhere near it, is stating opinion - not fact. No one, and this includes NASA/JPL, can accurately predict Comet Lee's post perihelion ephemeris because of the Sun's (early *) arrival into Solar Maximum. Remember, the ephemeris of C/1999 H1 (Lee) is not locked into stone, an alteration could occur if this comet is struck by a: CME [solar explosion], Solar Flare, Asteroid, Sungrazing Kreutz Fragment, or a host of other possibilities. This is the reality of the situation, and any person or any organization [that] tells you otherwise, is clearly shielding you from the truth. However, I do want to go on the record as stating one thing (loud and clear) right now. I am not predicting that Comet Lee's orbit will be altered during perihelion, I am simply stating that it is a possibility which must be given the full consideration it deserves, anything less would be grossly negligent.” In a word, do we have scientific, psychic, (and moral) certainty or uncertainty about Comet Lee and Nostradamus? No way: so much is in flux that it looks like the possible birth of a new paradigm to us. Let’s look again at the psychic end of the puzzle of Comet Lee. What can we say of Nostradamus prior accuracy as a predictor? Futurist Alfred Webre’s 1999 book Earth Changes (http://www.UniverseBooks.com) shows that on the rare occasion where Nostradamus used a proper name, it is possible to verify the accuracy of his predictions, objectively from the content of the quatrain itself. In quatrain I-25, Nostradamus predicts the discoveries of scientist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) by name, as well as modern medical developments that will challenge Pasteur’s assumptions as the twentieth century draws to a close. Quatrain I 25 Francais: Perdu trouve, cache de si long siecle, Sera Pasteur demi Dieu honore: Ains que la lune acheve son grand siecle, Par autre vents sera deshonore. English translation: The lost thing is discovered, hidden for many centuries. Pasteur will be celebrated almost as a god-like figure. This is when the moon completes her great cycle, but by other rumors he shall be dishonored. Earth Changes states: “Nostradamus reports a number of accurate precognitions in this quatrain. Foremost is the literal, accurate naming of scientist Louis Pasteur, several hundred years before Pasteur’s birth. Pasteur’s rediscovery of the germ theory of disease gave him demi-god status in the medical community for most of the twentieth century. Pasteur’s doctrine contended that microbes that invade the body cause disease. “A contemporary scientist to Pasteur, Andre Beauchamp, contended that disease was not caused by microbes, but by changes in the terrain of the blood and immune system within the body. Beauchamp’s theory, which Pasteur secretly embraced on his deathbed, has been vindicated by recent research. It is as though the entire Pasteur-inspired twentieth-century view of disease has been proved wrong.” Earth Changes concludes, “The Pasteur quatrain illustrates a unique aspect of Nostradamus precognitions. His quatrains can foresee quite complex events and developments in human history, and the development of human science. Nostradamus’ quatrains are multi-dimensional precognitions, not just single dimensional visions of future events.” Again, from the para-science evidence, the classic 1974 book, The Age of Cataclysm (http://www.UniverseBooks.com) notes that twentieth century psychics like the American Edgar Cayce, have channeled psychic visions of devastation very similar to that of Nostradamus coastal areas flooded; the British Isles and Japan half-submerged. These visions do not, however, provide a specific cause, whether by a comet or otherwise, for the devastation. So was Comet Lee C/1999H1 the Nostradamus comet? Or was it all a meme? Given the swirling, emotionally charged uncertainties scientific, sociological, and psychic - perhaps that is not the most productive question we can ask. As of early July, Comet Lee’s officially projected path would take it along a safe distance from Earth in August and September 1999. Yet, in a Comet Lee update, researcher Crockett said, “Using the principles of Jim McCanney's Comet Plasma Discharge Theory, The Millennium Group has now successfully predicted the Sun's high activity following Comet Lee's passing of the ecliptic (see Update 3), and the CME's [solar explosions] of July 16/19, 1999 following perihelion on July 11, 1999. “Is it now time to consider that Comet C1999 H1 (Lee) might in fact fool all of the NASA establishment dirty snowball astronomers, and reappear from behind the Sun in blazing glory during the full eclipse of August 11, 1999? Now wouldn't that be great?” On August 3, 1999, after Comet Lee was sighted coming out on the other side of the sun, NASA stated, “News Flash: Comet Lee has been observed post-solar conjunction. It is at it's expected location in the sky and thus, it is in its predicted orbit. This orbit keeps it well away from Earth. At magnitude 7.2 (and fading), it is not unusually bright nor is it visible to the unaided eye. One wonders when those making the dire predictions will actually have to take into consideration observational and scientific fact in their thinking. Of course, if they did that, they couldn't make such outlandish predictions!” Then after three anomalous objects were photographed near the sun during the August 11 eclipse, one Millennium Group researcher wrote, “Now just a few questions to end with: “Is this the comet? It appears to be in the correct position and construct suggests a comet indeed. “Is there more film of these objects, that we could take a look at? I really doubt that we will ever see the rest of this film. So we are once again left to ourselves to come to our own conclusions. “What was the person told that edited this piece of film? Was he/she told anything? It must've needed to be up in a hurry as this was a NASA feed. But of course absolutely still possible to be done. I wonder if the editor was told nothing, as to keep the info in the inner circle. Again, just conjecture - you decide. “If this is a comet, then what are these objects in its apparent tail? To be honest, I personally am not a follower of Nostradamus, and have not followed his writings. But considering the previous piece by Colonel James Ervin, when I saw these images and identified what I believe to be a comet, and at least two accompanying objects in the tail, I got goose bumps real quick. I suppose the argument could be that I am seeing something that I want to see. But believe me, I do not want to see this or believe him. Take a good look yourself and let us know what your opinion is. I am interested.” A later comment from an observor says, “The mysterious objects are evidently the planet Venus, and a nearby star. The third object (Object C) definitely appears to be some type of light artifact - although I'm no video expert.” A Millennium Group researcher responded, “If you are right about Objects A and B, then we're two down and one to go. Oddly enough, Object C is the one that really has us wondering.” So Comet Lee & Nostradamus: Memes or augurs of change? Someone said that Comet Lee as the 1999 Nostradamus comet may have been an expression of the Wisdom within the Light whether as meme or otherwise. Having passed through Nostradamus’ “1999 window”, we can now more fully realize that it is not necessary for us to participate in any Apocalypse, predicted or otherwise. With all change comes the opportunity for the really important inner changes through the affirmation of life. War and destruction may be just one way in which the forces of death react to the ever-growing forces of life and love in our Universe. Let us re-examine the ancient wisdom that comets augur change both inner change and change in our outer environment. We know inner change is happening when we see life freshly with new eyes, a paradigm shift in our own personal worlds. A new personal dimension can emerge from the melee of our perceptions, emotions, and insights around Nostradamus’ visions, Comet Lee, and the various Kings of Terror and of the Mongols. This new dimension of personal freedom and love which is ours for the asking - may be this comet’s and this time’s ultimate true meaning. Useful links: Comet Lee Information Page http://www.ecologystore.com/econews13.htm Aztec Day of Destiny http://www.dayofdestiny.com Comet Lee and Nostradamus http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/ervin1.htm Steven Lee and Comet Lee http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/sl/mg.html Millennium Group: Comet Lee http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/lee.htm The New Meme http://kspace.com/KM/spot.sys/Brin/pages/piece2.html ===== DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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