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Cosmic Healing iPhone Meditation app

2009-06-28T21:26:00.000-07:00

Cosmic healing is a new iPhone app designed to help you enhance meditation and relaxation. Four videos, each with stunning imagery of the sun, earth, moon, and stars, help guide you into a meditative state. Each slide show is accompanied by beautiful relaxing music guaranteed to promote rest and tranquility. A great sleeping aide that not only helps you relax, but helps promote lucid dreaming, sleep, meditation, development of inner wisdom, inspires inner creativity and healing energy.

Available now on iTunes. Search for Cosmic Healing or Bluewater Publishing.

Here are three sample video clips.

Here is a second sample:

Awaken Your Soul To The Law of Attraction

2009-04-19T09:34:00.000-07:00

There are 11 Forgotten laws that work together to govern the law of attraction. Many people are not aware of them, but they are working to bring harmony or discord into people's lives. Those that understand the 11 Forgotten laws are in a positive vibration which draws good things and people into their lives.

You've heard of The Secret but you may not know the 11 Forgotten Laws. Two of these are the Law of Sacrifice and the Law of Resistance.

The Law of Sacrifice tells us that by giving up something now, we create space in our lives for something better in the future. This isn't about depriving yourself or living a life of poverty. It might be about dedicating extra time to a business so that you have wealth in the future. Or here's a better example. Suppose that you are involved in a relationship with someone that is negative. You might have a boyfriend or girlfriend with whom you always fight with.

By sacrificing that relationship, you create space in your life for a new relationship that will be better. In contrast by not applying the Law of Sacrifice you continue to devote energy to a negative situation.

That isn't to say that relationships can't be improved or worked on. This is just an example of how the Law of Sacrifice might be applied.

The Law of Resistance is an important law. People tend to fight negative events or situations. Its our natural inclination. But fighting something negative only gives energy to it. As Bob Proctor says, "that which you resist persists". To get rid of a negative situation, simply let it go.

I once had a friend who I had a conflict with, and she stopped contacting me. I kept thinking about it and trying to resolve the situation, but months went by and I didn't hear from her. Then I decided to simply let it go. I completely forgot about the situation and stopped devoting negative energy to it. Then one day out of the blue, so to speak, she called me to say hello.

These examples show why the law of attraction doesn't work for everyone. They are focused on the law of attraction and trying to visualize what they want in their life. But failing to apply the 11 Forgotten laws, they unconsciously devote negative energy to their situation. Then the law of attraction ends up not working the way they would like.

For more information about the 11 Forgotten laws, please visit http://guiding-inner-light.com/.

More Guidance For The Universal Law of Attraction

2009-04-10T16:59:00.001-07:00

A couple of years ago, everyone was jazzed about a movie that was making its way through the landscape called "The Secret". Based on the book by the same name authored by Rhonda Byrne, the movie proposed a concept that positive thinking attracts positive energy from out in the universe to produce good results in your life, while negative thinking did the reverse. This is called the "universal law of attraction".

The movie made it sound pretty simple. Visualize a sports car long enough, and pretty soon you'll have it. But as most of us know, that is a pretty simplistic view of wishful thinking-even if most of us admit that the universal law of attraction is real. This feeling has been confirmed by the results of a recent survey.

Some 7,190 people participated in a survey about the universal law of attraction and what they thought about it. First, is it working for people? The survey results broke down like this:

838 people reported that it never works
445 people said it worked once
3,681 people said it works some of the time
1,352 people said it works most of the time
874 people say it always works

These survey results are interesting-they point to the power of positive thinking. That's because for most people the law is working at least some of the time. So it would seem most of us can acknowledge that the law of universal attraction is real. And really, its always working. Its even working for the people who report it "never" works-its just working in the opposite way to what they want because they're plagued by negative thinking.

Respondents were then asked the following question: "Do you believe that the Law of Attraction is enough to reach your goals, or do you feel that there are other elements, concepts, and techniques that need to be complemented in tandem with the Law of Attraction before you can see real, accelerated results?"

56.05% of people said Yes, but 43.95% said that while the universal Law of Attraction is crucial, it is not enough on its own. As one person said, they would like more understanding and they feel that the details are missing.

That intuition is correct. Experts who've been studying the universal Law of Attraction for many years, including Bob Proctor who appeared in the movie "The Secret", say that there are other "laws" that should be applied to get the most out of the secret. To get consistent results, you have to apply the all of these laws in your daily life.

Manifest The Secret with Binaural Frequency Harmonics

2009-04-07T22:23:00.000-07:00

Why are Binaural Frequency Harmonics, using sound waves to tap into everything from "The Secret" to Christ Consciousness to Telepathy, The Best Selling Meditation tools In Internet History, With Thousands Of Satisfied Customers All Over the Globe, In Countries from Australia to Canada?

Simply put Binaural Frequency Harmonics are powerful tools that enhance your brain and thought processes. Let's start with the granddaddy of them all-Manifestation. "The Secret" sounds simple enough. Positive energy attracts positive returns, and negative energy attracts negative returns. Without even realizing it, many of us are drawing negative circumstances into our lives because we are trapped in negative thought patterns that produce negative energy. IF ONLY it would be so easy to just engage in positive thinking and get what we want. If only there was a tool to help manifest what we wanted. Well it turns out that there is. Binaural Frequency Harmonics-an auditory tool that helps with meditative states-may be just what you're looking for. Here's why.

It's because Binaural Frequency Harmonics are producing results for real people throughout the world. Using easy step-by-step training methods, simple enough for almost anyone to follow-people are getting results. Finely tuned sine waves transmitted to the ears combine to cause a shift in consciousness. In this new state, the brain weeds out the kind of interference that comes with negative thinking.

Here is what Evan had to say about the Binaural Frequency system:

" I ...just want to say, following your instructions it was easy to to get in the right state of mind and completely eliminate doubt and negative feelings. I don't have much experience with meditative states, but this was easy the very first time I used it, and far better than anything else I've tried."

Start the program and you're going to be surprised at what you find. You might expect some complicated system that you have to be a trained guru to follow-but you'd be wrong. Instead what you'll see is simple and almost immediately familiar. All you do is relax and listen to the recording. With in minutes, you will find yourself entering a highly relaxed state that's hard to really describe until you experience it for yourself. Relaxation increases as tension throughout the body lifts, enhancing positive feelings as your brain enters the high alpha state which allows you to focus on positive thoughts for manifestation without clutter or distraction.

This simple tool, which helps your brain operate at maximum capacity, is just one of the gems found at the Unexplainable Store, a treasure trove of auditory meditation tools. With instructions written in plain, easy to understand language-making it accessible to people of every level of experience and skill-you'll find just a tool for just about any meditative state or purpose you seek. Using fundamental principles honed on years of experience, the folks at the Unexplainable Store have developed a meditative system that can be applied to just about anything:

Help with sleep problems
Astral projection
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Hypnosis
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Each product uses different frequencies designed for specific purposes. The frequencies unlock your brains power and reveal capabilities you didn't even know you had and make it easy for anyone to enter altered states of consciousness.

One of the most powerful modules in the course is the Telepathy module. Telepathy is the ability to read and transmit thoughts without the use of words or direct physical contact. Everyone has the power to develop telepathic skills, but most of us haven't developed them or don't know how to tap into them.

It is said that Dolphins communicate Telepathically and exhibit supernatural abilities. Humans have the exact same powers, we just have to learn how to use it. Telepathic abilities are directly dependent on brain functions and frequencies. Studies have shown that an exact frequency within the Alpha state produced a high level of success in developing Telepathic skills. The Binaural Frequency Harmonic recordings from the Unexplainable Store are going to put you in that Alpha state so that you can enhance your telepathic abilities. This works because the recording puts you into a relaxation state that frees your mind from blinding preconceived notions preventing you from tapping into your telepathic abilities. Simply put, when a person forgets what they learned previously, can they develop Telepathic Abilities.

If there is any drawback with these tools, its that there is so much information that at times it can be a little overwhelming. For those that are looking for a "one size fits all" style tool on meditation or altered states, the course might seem a little intimidating at first. But the good news is that first off, the tools are broken down into 24 easy to use modules. You can get only the modules you need, perhaps starting with meditation. By focusing on each module at a time, users can build confidence and start to see results right away. Users will feel confident and assured that it will be worth the effort because this will literally be the last tool they will have to buy on meditation, altered brain states and manifestation.

Who will benefit most from the tools at the Unexplainable Store?

In the broadest sense, anyone who wants to achieve a shift in consciousness will benefit. These techniques can be applied to any person, no matter what their experience level, problems they have, or what their disposition. More fundamentally, anyone who is open and who wants to take advantage of these tools to enter relaxed, meditative states will benefit.

Visit the Unexplainable Store for more information.

Precognition

2009-02-28T06:36:00.000-08:00

Precognition often happens in subtle ways. By raising awareness, you'll start to notice clues that contained within them information about the future. This often happens in the dream state.

A few days ago, I had a dream about an old friend named Johnny. I haven't seen him in 15 years, but he played a prominent role in a dream that involved me helping him put a bicycle together. The bicycle was yellow.

I thought nothing of that dream, but that afternoon I got a phone call from a woman whose daughter has been looking for a job. I asked how the job search was going, and she reported that her daughter had probably landed a job at a gym called "Sports and Wellness". Then the woman, who had recently taken a job out of town, asked me to pick up her bicycle for her.

Well it turns out her bicycle was yellow. Not only that, but my friend Johnny-the one I had dreamed about the night before-was a manager at this gym "Sports and Wellness". The same gym where the woman's daughter was getting a job.

Precognition often works in this way, with subtle clues that were in the dream. My belief is that this is a result of information flowing backwards in time through some type of quantum physics effect.

But interpreting a dream ahead of time is difficult. Precognition in this way gave some clues, but it would have been hard if not impossible to make the leap from dreaming about a friend that worked at "Sports and Wellness"that someone I knew would get a job there. The color of his bicycle was a clue that indicated who the dream was about, but it wasn't enough information to draw conclusions.

Each morning when you wake up, write down your dreams in a notebook. You might be surprised what clues are in there. A question: do you think by practicing and raising your awareness of precognition in dreams, that your abilities might improve?

Synchronicity: An interview with the Paraexplorers

2009-02-27T09:53:00.000-08:00

Recently the ParaExplorers appeared on Coast to Coast AM for a fascinating discussion about synchronicity, 11:11 and other fascinating topics. I had the pleasure of discussing some of these things in an email "interview" which I am sharing below.

1) What are "synchronicities" and does everyone experience them?

According to Wikipedia, synchronicity can be defined as “the experience of two or more events which are causally unrelated occurring together in a supposedly meaningful manner. In order to count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely to occur together by chance.”

Carl Jung, the originator of the concept, believed there to be an acausal principle linking events with related meaning simply by their coincidence in time, rather than serially. Jung believed that there was a synchrony connecting the human mind and ones perceptions. While many people may consider synchronistic events to be random chance or coincidence, it is important to recognize that it reveals an underlying pattern – one that is all encompassing, and larger in scope than all of us. Synchronicities seem to transcend all barriers – age, belief system, sex, and race.

Throughout ones life, it is quite possible that one will experience this phenomenon at least once. Most of us have these happen very frequently, but we don’t always take notice, which is the biggest hindrance to really benefiting from what they might be pointing us towards, i.e. new opportunities, the right people we need to meet, etc.

2) Would you call a telepathic experience a type of synchronicity, oris this something else? Here is a specific example. I once had a dream that my uncle was very ill, and the next morning awoke to find that he had suffered a stroke. Is that an example of a synchronicity?

Since telepathy is traditionally believed to be an “apparent communication from one mind to another without using sensory perceptions” and synchronicity involves the concepts of both perception and time, it would certainly not be beyond the realm of possibility to suppose that your particular example could very well be an example of a synchronistic event.

As we are discovering, what we have traditionally believed to be our reality is actually far more complex than our simple senses are capable of fully interpreting.

Another possibility, however, is one in which quantum physics may suggest a more comprehensive explanation. Physicist David Bohm’s implicate order proposes that mind and matter are simply projections into our explicate order from the underlying reality of the implicate order. Accordingly, mind and matter are seen as projections into our explicate order from the underlying reality of the implicate order.

This is a new (and still fairly controversial) theory of the universe that proposes the possibility that there is a fundamental level where consciousness is not distinct from matter, and there exists a connective relationship between mind and matter. Basically, Bohm’s theory seeks to connect everything with everything else.

Several analogies abound between his theory and Alain Aspects holographic universe theorem. During controlled scientific experiments, Aspect and his team of researchers discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles were able to instantly communicate with each other regardless of the physical distance that might separate them. Whether 1inch or 100 light years away – somehow everything is connected.

In your fictional example, is it possible that perhaps the knowledge of the stroke was actually communicated by our seeming “connectedness” with one another? Is what we have traditionally referred to as “telepathy” simply a natural process of communication via the multidimensional reality of our universe?

3) What role does meaning play in the universe? In other words, a scientist would say "11:11" only has meaning to humans. But do concepts like this have a larger meaning?

What a philosophical conundrum! What role does meaning play in the universe? Certainly, meaning plays a particularly important function to humans. By our very nature, we tend to focus on our personal “purpose” and “meaning” in life. We have a propensity to concentrate all of our energy towards the end result of our lives – our professional accomplishments, social standing, monetary worth, etc.

But why do we seem so intent on wondering what impact these surface issues will impress upon mankind during our relatively short span of life? More importantly, are we alone in pondering these matters? Are rocks, plants, birds, and mice likewise capable of reflecting upon their station in the universe? Or, as many believe does consciousness perhaps play a crucial role? Is the need to assign meaning simply a construct of conscious thought?

Regardless, it is important that we focus upon the journey itself, rather than solely the destination. And we must remember as well that sometimes events occur that have a collective meaning, rather than a personal one. Those events are what change paradigms and shift consciousness and move the entire human race in a different direction, as 9-11 did. At least for awhile!

4) Phenomena like telepathy and synchronicity kind of have a feel like information coming from the future or past. Do you believe that knowledge can flow from the future?

Yes, and quantum and theoretical physics certainly backs this up. Linear time is a construct of the human brain. We write about the Zero Point Field, which we refer to more as a Grid, a structure of different levels of reality that includes the entire landscape of past, present and future. This parallels the Akashic Fields of Edgar Cayce, and the morphic fields of Rupert Sheldrake, but the Zero Point Field is itself described as the source of all sources – a repository of all energy, matter and form. If all the information of the past and future lies within this field, we certainly could be finding ways to access it. Consider the Universe one big hard drive, and some of us are far more adept at computer skills than others!

People who read the future or remote view, therefore, are accessing information within this Field. Again, it is probably something we can all do, but few of us take the time to pay attention to these skills, and actively develop them.

5) Can a person develop higher awareness and their own skills in ESP and telepathy? How would you advise a person to become more aware of synchronicities?

Two words – pay attention. It is as simple as that. Quieting the brain and the monkey mind enough to take notice of what is going on in the present moment is the only way to really begin to see that we are constantly being exposed to information in the form of telepathy and synchronicity, but if we are completely focused on the information we think we need to survive, we will never notice the “other” stuff. Our brains take in very little of the actual information flowing to us, by the very nature of survival. We operate on a “need-to-know” basis, only seeing and perceiving that which helps us live the life in front of us – jobs, money, kids, family, etc.

Slowing down enough to pay attention is key. But so is stepping back from technology and shutting off the cell phone, the iPod, the MP3 player, the Blackberry and Facebook long enough to get in tune with what our intuition is trying to tell us, as well as with those more subtle events that constantly occur just under our radar.

Pay attention. And whether that be by meditation, walking, reading, taking ten minutes a day to shut out the world, or just reminding oneself to stay present, it all works to increase awareness to the other information out there that actually may be more important to us than what we should have for dinner that night.

6) How can a person apply synchronicity in their personal life?

It obviously is trying to alert us to something, so first taking notice of the two or more synchronistic events and seeing if they lead to some breakthrough or to an opportunity one has been waiting for. Sometimes, we don’t know why a synchronicity occurred until much later, when all is revealed and we realize we met our soul mate, got our dream job, or saved our own life because of it. But often the meaning is clear right then and there.

Taking notice, finding the meaning, or at the very least being patient enough to let the meaning unfold…but also, not ignoring these events. Not being lazy and sweeping them under the rug. It does no one any good to have a synchronistic event if they just blow it off and miss the message or opportunity in the event. Perhaps this is why so many people are unhappy. They don’t follow the signs that these events are, guideposts along the way to keep people on the path to their destiny. Ignore the signs, and you might never realize your full potential. That is tragic. These are SIGNS. Follow them and they will no doubt lead to the fulfillment of dreams, big and small.

Harry Dent on Coast to Coast AM

2009-02-25T23:03:00.000-08:00

Harry Dent was on Coast to Coast with George Noory tonight, lamenting the terrible state of the economy. Mr Dent just published a book: The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Crash Following the Greatest Boom in History. Mr. Dent gave a convincing argument-stating several times about how "we have been predicting" the real estate, banking, and economic crashes that have been happening. Not only that, but Mr. Dent's firm can predict boom and bust cycles all the way out to 2036. Its easy you see, Mr. Dent is a demographer and you just apply demographics to figure out what's going to happen. Don't listen to what any economists have to say. Dent says the economy will rebound a bit in the summer, and then there'll be another stock market crash.

We're all interested in the economy these days, so I followed the discussion with apt attention.

After it was over I was curious. I looked up Mr. Dent on Amazon, and found his previous book: The Next Great Bubble Boom: How to Profit from the Greatest Boom in History: 2006-2010.

Ooops. Looks like Dent's previous proclamations aren't as accurate as he claimed on Coast to Coast. I think this review says all you need to know about Mr. Dent's ability to give economic forecasts:

"Page 73 of this book reads "Our best projection for the Nasdaq is about 13,000 around the end of this decade (2010), but it is possible we could see as high as 20,000." Let's see, the Nasdaq made its way up to 2861 by Oct. 31, 2007 and now sits at 1316 as of Nov. 21, 2008. Now today, I see this guy on TV saying he predicted the current market meltdown and has written a new book due out in Jan. 2009 entitled "The Great Depression Ahead". What a joke."

Synchronicity: The Universe as a Unified Web of Information

2009-02-24T13:12:00.001-08:00

The other day I had a strange urge to get some root beer. So I headed to the grocery store and picked up a 6 pack of A & W diet root beer in 16.9 oz bottles. I hadn't had any in a long time so it sure tasted good.

The next morning at work, I noticed my office mate drinking a 16.9 oz bottle of you guessed it-A & W root beer. I said "thats funny, I just got some last night".

At first sight the skeptic might suggest, after yelling out the word "coincidence", that I had previously seen my office mate drinking A & W root beer. Then I filed it away in my subconscious, where it languished until surfacing in my strange desire to get root beer. But, after telling my office mate about my purchase, he said "yeah yesterday my wife went and got me some, I hadn't had it in years".

Funny little coincidences like this fill our lives-if only we would be aware enough to look for them. But while we might brush them off as having no meaning-as being nothing other than random events-it might pay to learn something about the phenomenon of synchronicity.

According to the Wikipedia entry on synchronicity, the definition is as follows:

"Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which are causally unrelated occurring together in a supposedly meaningful manner. In order to count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely to occur together by chance."

Scientists are generally skeptical of this notion. To them, causality is a rigorous A ---> B phenomenon where A and B have to be in physical contact. To them, the universe has no meaning, its just a machine-a cog in which we find ourselves experiencing our lives, and that experience is just an illusion.

Of course most of us know better and what's really interesting is that science itself-although its slow to recognize this-is actually coming in line with what people experience as synchronicity. The mechanism? Quantum physics.

Within the branch of science known as quantum mechanics there exists a curious phenomenon-perhaps the most important discovered in the 20th century-something called entanglement.

When two particles interact, they become connected. But this connection doesn't exist in the conventional sense of science. The particles are not connected by some kind of light or radio signal. There is no "force" between them. They can be separated across the universe and the connection will hold. What has happened is that two particles-once separate-have become one. Their separate identities have vanished and in their place, there exists a unified whole.

If subatomic particles can become entangled then there can be no doubt that its possible for anything that exists in the universe to become entangled-including minds. But what is it that flows between entangled particles? Its information. And that is what synchronicity is all about.

Synchronicity is the flow of information through the universe. Sometimes the information might be clear, sometimes it might be fuzzy, sometimes it may be symbolic or at other times it might have trivial meaning. That's how conscious decisions like two people, not in direct contact, come up with the same "coincidental" idea-buy root beer.

The universe exists not as a collection of separate entities, but as a continuous, unbroken whole. The most important part of the universe is not the materialistic world of subatomic particles and mindless forces, no-its information. When it boils down to it information is all there is. Indeed what is a person? As Lee Smolin pointed out in his book Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, a person isn't an object- a person is a story. And what is a story? Its nothing but information.

Big Bang Theory and the Fate of the Universe

2009-02-24T12:28:00.000-08:00

The big bang theory, something controversial only among American creationists, is seen by scientists as a fact about how the universe began. The only question that remains is perhaps why the big bang occurred and what the ultimate fate of the universe may be.

We live in a remarkable time when these questions may finally be answered. It was only 20 years ago when the famed Stephen Hawking wrote his book A Brief History of Time, a book in which he discussed the possible fates of the universe: Will it expand forever, or will it collapse back in on itself?

The latter possibility brought with it a great deal of mind-bending concepts, and it was the possibility that Hawking favored on theoretical grounds at the time. He saw a universe which had always existed for all time, and the big bang was just one point in an endless cycle of universal death and rebirth.

When the big bang theory is viewed in this way, the universe starts off with a big bang and begins expanding. If the laws of physics allow it, stars, galaxies and planets will form, many of them presumably graced with life. The universe will expand to a certain maximum point at which the combined gravity of everything in it takes over, causing it to begin to collapse back down. In a process that reverses everything that happened up to this point, the universe will shrink back down to a point. Scientists called this the "big crunch". From here, the universe will rebound in another big bang and expand once more in a new cycle.

One aspect of this theory is that the universe can exist independently of anything else. The mind bending question of where the universe came from has no meaning-it has always been here. As Hawking talks about in his book-if the universe is this way there really isn't anything for a God to do. Proving the universe followed this kind of cycle would in effect be proof for the position of atheism.

The theory also left room for some bizarre consequences. For example, would time run backwards during the collapse? Or how about this: is the universe doomed to endlessly recycle everything? In other words the universe is born in a big bang, expands to the maximum point, and then collapses only to replay the same story again. As the universe collapses it would play out a bizarre world that makes no sense to human consciousness as time flowed backward, your life ran backward and effects preceded causes. Each time through the cycle, at the same point you appeared before, you would live out your life once more in deterministic fashion completely unaware of the trillions of trillions of times this all happened before, and would happen endlessly in the future.

Or how about this. Maybe at the "cusp", the point between collapse and renewed expansion, the laws of physics are scrambled, and each time a completely new kind of universe is born.

Another possibility-the laws of physics are the same, but the universe just plays out a similar, but different history. This has happened an infinite number of times, so infinite numbers of intelligent beings and civilizations have arisen, only to be completely destroyed-all evidence of them and whatever they learned erased-at the next crunch-bang cycle.

All of this was put to moot when the big bang theory took a new twist in the late 1990s. It was then that astronomers discovered that not only was the universe expanding, but that expansion is accelerating. It now seems that as time goes on, the universe will expand faster and faster so that clusters of galaxies will simply get further and further away from each other as time goes on. There is no chance for gravity to pull back on the universe and cause it to collapse. The universe, it seems, is destined to simply cool off and fade away, to die and ice cold death in a dark world where life is no longer possible.

These discoveries lead to an intriguing possibility. Now that we know this is happening, its fair to say the universe is a one time, unique event. Does this harken to a creator? The physical universe may die, but what of spirit?

Save the Economy with a Trip to Mars

2009-02-23T02:38:00.000-08:00

Watching the government trying to help us with the economy in a tailspin doesn't always inspire confidence. Despite having already pumped out hundreds of billions of dollars-the financial system remains in disarray and the auto companies are back in line for more handouts. As unemployment keeps rising, its clear we've got to do something, and besides the government, nobody else is really in a position to act.

Looking to history for guidance, the Obama Administration and the Democrats have crafted a New Deal style package to save us with government public works projects. While this is a great start, its important to think about the Great Depression and what really ended it. Truth is, Roosevelt's big government social programs may have saved many people from starvation and homelessness, but they did not rescue the economy. Obama's stimulus package can be viewed at best as a stop-gap measure to keep us from crashing too hard.

Let's really take a look at the Great Depression. What got us out of it? Well the answer is obvious. World War 2.

So what was it about World War 2 that put a stop to the depression? It was massive government spending. But not the kind Obama and Congress are talking about-the kind of spending World War 2 generated was money for industrial output, scientific research, and let's not forget the "employment" of millions of young men that were sent off to fight the battles. To save the economy, if the government is going to do it there's going to have to be a MASSIVE infusion of cash-and its going to have to be quality cash. The meaning of quality cash will be explained in a moment.

In other words what's needed today is a situation that mimics what the government really did to end the Great Depression. And as much as I admire Roosevelt, it wasn't his social programs and road projects that did it. All those programs did was keep the skid from going to far down the abyss. Huge military spending is what ended the depression. But this spending not only differed from the "New Deal" in scale, it differed in character.

Hire a guy to build a road at $10/Hour, and he can put food on the table. Hire engineers and technicians to design new aircraft, and quality laborers to build them, and you're creating a workforce that can buy cars, buy houses, buy new televisions and take other actions that jump start the economy.

If the economy can't right itself on its own with a push from the stimulus package, what we're going to need is a situation that mimics World War 2. Hopefully things won't deteriorate so much that another large scale war is the result. Let's not wait for that but instead act now with government programs that jump start industrial production and scientific research. Let's take a trip to Mars.

At first sight such a program would seem incredibly frivolous. But really ramping NASA up for serious space exploration would have reverberating effects throughout the economy. Right now NASA is already putting some of this in place with their Apollo-like replacement of the shuttle that might someday go to the moon, but that kind of effort is tiny compared to what would really be needed to take a trip to Mars.

Such an effort would open up thousands of jobs. Spacecraft and supporting systems would have to be designed, giving thousands of engineers work. New facilities would have to be constructed, giving people the kind of jobs the stimulus package is already proposing. When you build huge new government facilities then you need janitors, restaurants to serve all the workers, and new housing. With good jobs all these new NASA employees would go out and buy cars. Its a win-win situation that would actually trigger economic growth.

Now of course pumping money into NASA isn't going to do it all on its own. But we have a lot of high tech needs. The white elephant in the room is of course energy.

So the second part of the governments attempt to mimic World War 2 should be massive infusions of cash into private companies and government research labs for energy research. Money should be provided for entrepreneurs who focus their efforts on innovative energy products and transportation.

Once again, this type of effort would create high-paying jobs for engineers, administrators, and technicians. New facilities would have to be built. Janitors would have to be hired, and again restaurants and laundromats would spring up around all these new shiny research facilities. The newly employed people would all go out and buy cars and televisions. If you really want to help out "Joe Six-Pack" don't give him a $10 an hour job building a road, give him a good job at a solar energy research facility that can inspire and save us from future disaster.

The only ingredient missing from this analogy is the large-scale "employment" that the war provided by shipping young men off to the military. Maybe we can think of something to mimic this too that doesn't involve killing people.

Unfortunately the politicians never disappoint when it comes to a lack of imagination. Can you imagine a group of congressmen calling a news conference to demand a new energy research lab and $100 billion for entrepreneurs who devote themselves to renewable energy? Instead what we see is the same old show-Democrats pumping money into health-care, "education" and other feel-good social programs. The Republicans, instead of responding with imaginative leadership just complain and act like they're not going to go along. My fear is the government won't really be able to save us and the economy will stagnate for years, maybe even a decade or more. Who knows how bad its really going to get. Maybe a large scale war will be needed to end it all.

The Spoonbender Uri Geller

2009-02-21T13:24:00.001-08:00

I have to admit I was a bit surprised a few months ago when I found out that the infamous Uri Geller is still around. For those of you who don't know, Uri Geller was a magician/paranormalist that became famous back in the 1960s and 70s.

Gellers claim to fame was supposed ability to do telekenesis. What could Geller do? Well he could bend spoons.

Spoon bending might not seem like much of a talent, but Geller supposedly did this with his mind (although he had hold the spoon in his hand to do it, go figure). And back then for some reason this seemed "spooky" and really entertaining to a lot of people. Why this amazing talent wasn't applied to anything more substantial than bending a spoon-that was never explained.

Geller came crashing down one day in the 1970s when he went on the Johnny Carson show. You see, Geller normally brought his own set of silverware and salt and pepper shakers to demonstrate his talents. But Johnny Carson kind of suspected that Geller was faking it. So when Geller came out on the stage, Carson had his own set of eating utensils already there for Geller to work with.

Geller had already been all over television and performing on stage bending spoons over and over again, so the crowd was amazed when on Johnny Carson, Geller wasn't up for it. Its been a long time (30 years?) but as I recall Geller announced he "wans't feeling it tonight" or something like that.

The episode may have been done in conjunction with skeptic-magician James Randi, who was pretty good at bending spoons on his own and revealed the method used to the public-and it didn't require any mysterious psychic energies. This basically discredited Geller and he more or less faded away, or so I thought.

Not too long ago there were some blurbs in the news that revealed that Uri Geller had become close friends with mega-looney Michael Jackson. As CBS News Reported:

CBS) There are two things you need to know about psychic Uri Geller. One is that he can still do the spoon trick that made him famous all over the world.

The other thing you need to know is that it was Geller’s signature spoon trick that made him and Michael Jackson fast friends.

“When Michael was a teenager, he read about me in American text books and school books, and I think he always wanted to meet me to see how I bend a spoon or read a mind,” says Geller.

This was in about 2005. So 25 years later, Geller is still sticking to his spoon bending stories. How lame is that? You have this talent for bending spoons, but after an entire lifetime you never get better at it?

The other day I was feeling curious about Geller and searched for him in google, and found his blog which you can visit below. I guess its too hard to get famous worldwide for doing something as stupid as bending a spoon, so it would be really hard to admit you were faking it.

Visit the blog and decide for yourself. Is Geller a fraud, a loser or misunderstood?

Uri Geller Blog

Area 51 Guru Bob Lazar on Alien Technology

2009-02-19T07:02:00.000-08:00

In this video, Bob Lazar of Area 51 fame supposedly explains how the UFO engine works. This sounds implausible. He starts with the claim that the device has "element 115" in it, an element with a half life of something like 87 microseconds. Eighty-seven microseconds? So you're going to have a fuel that completely decays into something else in just a few minutes and you're going to travel across the galaxy with it?

Then he claims that you bombard it with protons and create "element 116" and release anti-matter, something that sounds silly considering the known laws of physics. I'm sure we don't know all the laws of physics by any means, but given what we do know this sounds completely false.

Well here is Bob Lazar explaining the process in his own words, sounding very credible:

Is New Jersey The New Area 51? Secret UFO Base?

2009-02-19T07:00:00.000-08:00

Good point, aliens travel across the galaxy to visit New Jersey? lol

"Once again, mysterious red lights in the sky have residents in north-central New Jersey scratching their heads.

The callers say they saw as many as 10 red lights floating in the sky, moving in unison and in the same direction as the wind from about 8:45 p.m. to 9 p.m.

No one knows where the lights are coming from, but a Michigan-based maker of Sky Lanterns says it could be his product. The lanterns have balloons and wax-infused cloth and are set aloft during celebrations." The Associated Press

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Meet the Phoenix UFO hunters

2009-02-19T06:49:00.000-08:00

he best-kept secret of the UFO phenomenon has always been the unsung effort of local Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) state and section directors. Their effort is composed mostly of normal everyday tasks, such as keeping a section's bank account in the black, finding venues, arranging for speakers, organizing skywatches, maintaining a website, keeping track of the myriad details that make any volunteer organization run. And this does not include hours spent keeping up to date on current research.

What is remarkable is that every quarter generation or so, a new cadre of volunteers take on that responsibility and keep the process moving forward. Seemingly, human determination to resolve the unresolvable will not cease. Which is a good thing, because neither does reports of unusual and unidentified objects in the sky, which increase at a substantial rate worldwide each year.

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Can Extrasensory Perception (ESP) be Incorporated into Science?

2009-02-17T20:57:00.000-08:00

ESP-or extrasensory perception has long eluded science. Despite this people continue to believe in it, in large numbers. Many people claim to have experienced it or know someone who has. Yet scientists remain skeptical.

Information about the external world is conveyed to our brains through our senses-sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. These senses are activated in one of two ways-through direct physical contact (touch-smell-taste) or by energy transfer over distances. We see because electromagnetic waves (photons) travel from one place to another. Hearing works in a similar way-information travels from one point to another by sound waves which move through the air.

While you can see something far away, the information about that object has to travel from the object to your eye. This isn't much different than how a radio works. The radio station transmits a signal, which is also a kind of electromagnetic wave, which travels through the air and is picked up by your radio. There is nothing "magical" about this process, energy moves through space in a cause-and-effect fashion.

Many people, however, claim to be able to see into the future. Others may claim to read minds, or be able to see into buildings or rooms they've never physically entered. These types of claims fall into the realm of extra-sensory perception, since the five basic senses aren't used. Information becomes available to a person in some way that is unknown to science.

Scientists, at least in the United States, are not impressed by ESP. First of all the concept of ESP does not fit into the world view of most scientists. As a result they come to the table already skeptical, and many will just dismiss it out of hand.

But to their credit, some scientists have tested claims of ESP. Unfortunately they have not come up with any scientific confirmation that ESP exists. Believers say that the process of scientific testing, in and of itself, interferes with extra-sensory perception. With the possible exception of results obtained at the now defunct Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (which has since been replaced with the International Consciousness Research Laboratories), scientists have not been able to detect telepathy or ESP phenomena.

Scientists might be a little more open-minded in other countries. In Britain, for example, five major universities actually have parapsychology departments.

To sum up, extra-sensory perception simply does not fit into the classical scientific world view. If ESP is real, however, this shouldn't matter. Scientific testing should discover any effects, if they exist, by conducting appropriately designed experiments. A positive result would force scientists to revamp their theories, but so far there hasn't been any. Believers say this is because the testing itself is flawed. If the testing is flawed, is there some way that ESP could be understood in terms of modern science?

The Quantum Theory
It turns out there is. Quantum mechanics is a major branch of the science of physics. It describes the properties and behavior of small particles such as atoms, nuclear particles, electrons, and photons (light). What's amazing about quantum theory is that it predicts that particles can become "entangled". Once they do, they can interact over vast distances.

When two particles become entangled, they become connected or linked. This link does not depend on any energy traveling from one particle to the other. Think about what this means when talking about the senses. Earlier we mentioned that sight and sound kind of work like a radio station transmitting its signal to your car radio or radio at home. Information or energy has to travel from one place to another. To see something, a photon has to travel from the object you're looking at to your eye.

But with extra-sensory perception, there is no known signal. Someone suddenly "knows" something about the future. Maybe it comes in a dream. Or someone uses remote viewing to "see" into another room. There is nothing connecting the information from the other room or the future to the mind in the present.

Or is there? Quantum entanglement may not necessarily be the answer, but it opens the door to the possibility that ESP can fit within modern science. Quantum entanglement proves that particles can become connected over vast distances of space. Currently, scientists don't know how to use quantum entanglement to share information or whether that's even possible. But they do know, and it is actually an experimental fact-that particles to become linked together in this funny way. Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance". To a scientists mind, it sure seems spooky that two particles-on different sides of the universe-could be talking to each other without a signal passing between them.

What this means is that perhaps quantum entanglement or something like it yet to be discovered underlies the phenomenon of ESP. Interestingly, quantum entanglement also sheds light on the idea that scientific testing interferes with ESP. Quantum entanglement, while it happens, is fragile in a sense. If one of the two particles interacts with a third particle, the original connection between the two entangled particles can be broken. In other words, the entanglement is destroyed by outside interactions.

Could it be that telepathy and ESP work in the same way? Perhaps ESP works by a similar type of deep yet fragile connection. When a scientist attempts to test a subject, the scientist may break the "telepathic entanglement" between the subject and the object of interest.

Quantum entanglement may not prove the existence of ESP, but it points the way to a plausible scientific explanation. Most scientists will remain skeptical, but people continue to believe. Perhaps someday this question can be resolved scientifically.

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Can Computers Become Conscious?

2009-02-17T16:18:00.000-08:00

If computers are complex enough, will they attain consciousness someday? And what would that mean for humanity?

According to some experts, like Ray Kurzweil, the answer is not a question of if its a question of when. According to Kurzweil we are fast approaching a milestone he calls the "singularity", a point at which the complexity and intelligence of computers will suddenly shift to an era of "superintelligence". Presumably, this will even lead to fully conscious computers, with an intelligence that far outstrips our own.

So how can we determine whether Kurzweil and others who hold this view are really in touch with reality?

On some level I think they've been watching too many science fiction movies. Now lets state up front that as a matter of basic principle, there is nothing we know of that would prevent the development of an intelligent computer. If a computer were made complex enough with the right hardware, it would seem that at the very least, a computer could be constructed that would appear conscious. Whether it really would be conscious is something open to debate, and the truth is nobody has a clue as to what the answer is. But you could imagine that given enough power, resources, and complexity-a computer could be constructed that would behave as if conscious.

It seems obvious that such a machine would outperform humans at every turn. Computers can obviously process information a lot faster than the human brain. But is that all it takes?

Todays computers still do not much besides rote calculations. They are damn good at it, but does adding numbers quickly have anything to do with intelligence? I would say it does not. Sure a computer can do a calculation much faster than your brain can, but that's not the point.

What makes human intelligence special is not rote calculation but understanding meaning. For instance, a computer can easily solve Schrodinger's equation from quantum mechanics. A smart human can solve it too, but will have a much harder time than the computer. But only the human can attach any meaning to Schrodinger's equation. A computer can spit out numbers,and print out graphs and charts of solutions to Schrodinger's equation, but it can't learn anything about the role knowledge or conscious observers may play in the universe-something that is contained in quantum theory on a subtle level.

So it seems that something quite different is going on in a human brain that isn't going on in computers as they've been constructed so far. Some people have attacked the problem head on-this is the program of "Artificial Intelligence" or AI for example. But while a lot has been learned and progress has been made, AI has failed to deliver the way it was expected to. Here in 2009 AI is no closer to delivering any kind of "singularity" than it was 20 years ago.

An interesting question that is probably unanswerable is the following: does conscious experience depend on the medium used to express it? One fact we know in this debate is that brains (human or otherwise) give rise to conscious experience. Nobody really knows how, but we do know brains are involved and have mapped out what parts are doing what (such as the visual cortex for example). The question of the hour: Is there something unique to brains that does this? If we construct a really "complex" computer out of silicon or superconductors or whatever, will it attain conscious experience too?

Scientific materialists would no doubt say yes, proclaiming that the vague concept of "complexity" leads to consciousness. So make a silicon wafer with enough transistors arranged in the right way, that is "complex" enough, and you could construct a conscious computer.

The spiritual among us might be inclined to answer differently. "Complexity" is really science-speak for we have no fucking idea. Its a meaningless concept that doesn't explain anything, it is simply a restatement of an observed fact that complex brains appear to be conscious. But is complexity really necessary? How do you know a spider isn't conscious? You may be shaking your head in disbelief at this "silly" proposition, but what empirical evidence is there on the question?

If we simply observe the behavior of a spider, it seems to behave in ways that have given computer scientists fits. If the scientists could construct a computer that behaved exactly as a spider-a spider android that an expert (say a biologist specializing in spiders) could not differentiate from a real spider-an arachnid Turing test if you will-they would have made fantastic progress. Honestly, even this seems unlikely. Making the leap to a human or something far surpassing the human is quite a jump above this. So it would seem that the "singularity" is as far away as ever-a fantasy in the minds of geeks.

It may be that there is something about consciousness we simply don't understand. Perhaps it is not possible to make a computer conscious at all. After all there is something different about a spider, a mouse, a dog, a chimpanzee and a human as compared to any computer. We know this intuitively even if it can't be quantified scientifically.

If the singularity is a real phenomenon, this isn't necessarily a good thing. Kurzweil often says that people will trade real experience for "virtual" experience. People will be "enhanced". So instead of learning Spanish, a chip is connected to your brain that lets you speak it without having gone through the trouble to learn it. Instead of going rock climbing, you can do a computer simulation of rock climbing. Instead of meeting your friends for "real", you will meet in a virtual bar for virtual drinks. All of this being directed by superintelligent machines, who may of course have their own motives that might not include entertaining humans.

The kind of world envisioned by the technophiles of the Kurzweil variety isn't necessarily a good world. Part of being human isn't just being able to speak two languages, in fact the learning process is a large part of it. Allowing people to just pick up Spanish by putting a chip in their head takes away this aspect of humanity.

Part of being human is also having real experience. A rock climbing simulation in a computer might be safer, but the value of such a thing is dubious compared to really rock climbing. And I would rather meet friends in person than in a virtual night club.

Only time will tell whether or not computers become conscious. Let's hope that if they do, they don't decide to dispense with humanity. Biological life might just get in their way.

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Tonight on Coast to Coast AM Robert Hastings

2009-02-17T07:28:00.000-08:00

Tonights guest on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory is Robert Hastings, a UFO researcher who claims there is a link between nuclear weapons and the appearance of UFO's. He has interviewed numerous U.S. Air Force personnel who claim to have had "encounters" with UFO's.

You can read about this on his website:

Robert Hastings

Life after death: Is there a single unified consciousness?o the mind, when someone dies?

2009-02-16T12:58:00.000-08:00

What happens to the mind when we die?

And where did the mind come from?

To an atheist or scientific materialist this question sounds nonsensical. To them, the mind dies when the brain dies. The mind is the brain and the brain is the mind. The brain, being a temporary and purely material object, takes the mind with it when we die.

But what if the universe itself were conscious, and a brain merely taps into that conscious web during its existence? Today I am going to discuss some ideas inspired by David Darlings excellent book, Equations of Eternity.

This is an idea that has merit not only scientifically, but spiritually. A biologist who was a scientific materialist would tell us that the brain is just a product of evolution, providing its owner with a tool that enhances survival. Organisms that have better brains are better suited to their environments, leave more offspring and so on. Over time, brains have become more complex because its advantageous to do so. Consciousness is no more than a mere accident, something that happened to come along arising out of complexity that happened to be very good at enhancing survival and reproduction.

But to see that consciousness might have a role beyond simply enhancing the survival and reproductive value of its owner, lets turn to the eastern religions. In particular some concepts from Hinduism can shed light on the nature and role of consciousness.

The first concept from Hinduism that is interesting to contemplate is that of Maya. In a nutshell, Maya describes to what Hindus is an illusion: that is the world of objects and people around us are real. In other words, the material world you touch, see, and hear is an illusion. What is real if the objects and people of the world are illusions? According to this concept, our minds have made up and classified the objects we see in the material world. The universe does not really consist of individual, separate and unchanging objects. Instead the universe is one unbroken whole, and its is dynamic: the world is in constant flux.

In fact this idea is completely consistent with what modern science has taught us. As Lee Smolin wrote, the universe doesn't consist of objects, it consistes of processes. Everything around us is completely dynamic and in a constant state of change. Atoms and molecules assemble, dissolve, and reassemble in different ways. People are born, live, and die. Species evolve and change into something completely different as time passes. Even the sun evolved and will eventually die.

Not only that, but in reality there are no separate objects in the universe. Physics tells us that the universe can be seen as having a kind of dualism. This is not strictly the “Wave-particle” dualism of the quantum theory. Instead we call on quantum field theory, which tells us that the universe doesn't really consist of discrete, hard particles. What is really real, at a fundamental level are fields which fill all of spacetime. This is consistent with Maya.

That isn't to say particles, objects, or people aren't real. But we acknowledge that their particular form is transitory-and nothing ever really didn't exist or was born or ceases to exists or dies-instead “things” in the universe are part of an ever-changing process. The atoms and molecules in your body always existed-they have done so since the beginning of time. Could it be that the mind or and individual is part of a universal consciousness field, and that an arrangement of atoms can reveal it , rather than cause it to come forth through some vague concept like “emergence” from a materialist world?

So from the perspective of Hinduism, we face the fact that individuals are temporary and transient in nature, but at the same time we are part of an unbroken whole which has always been here-the universe. The Hindu calls this unbroken whole “Brahman”.

Something else to think about is how can it be that consciousness just arose in a dead universe? For consciousness to arise from the universe, consciousness must be part of the universe itself. Nothing can happen in the universe that does not violate the laws of physics. Here are a couple of quotes from Darling's book to help you think about the ideas here:

“Each of us is a microcosm of nature, and in more than one sense. First, the same processes—the same types of particles and the forces that act between them—occur in our bodies as in the universe at large. Second, through our minds we reconstruct and mirror in abstract form that which lies outside ourselves. And third, most intriguingly, our own personal evolution parallels the evolution of life on earth.”

I would like to add to that that our own brains mirror what the universe at large is doing. A universe that produces conscious minds has at its core consciousness and mind as one of its fundamental properies. This goes back to the Hindu ideas-God died and became the universe-which becomes God again.

Remember too the notion—no the fact--that the universe is an unbroken whole. Another intriguing quote from Darling:

“Whatever a newborn child does, the universe at large does also, because a human baby—like everything else—is an intrinsic part of the cosmos. That may seem like a strange claim to make, but it is logically and physically sound. A factory in which cars are made is a car-making factory. A planet on which there is life is a living planet because the life-forms are a part and a product of the world's substance. And, on the grandest of all scales, if there is sentience within the cosmos then the cosmos itself is sentient. So we may reasonably view an infant's dawning awareness on two levels: as a consciousness arising in the individual, and, simultaneously in the universe as a whole.”

This is deep stuff here. Also think about this. As the population has increased and as computers become more intelligent, the universe at large becomes more conscious. Or was that concsiousness already there, and merely being mapped into the form of individuals?

Its hard to say what these ideas mean for life after death-that is discrete survival of the individual-but its clear that there may be a universal web of consciousness that exists throughout space and for all time.

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Could Ghosts and Spirits be Interdimensional Beings?

2009-02-13T23:11:00.000-08:00

What if the world of direct physical experience were immersed in a higher dimensional universe? And what if those higher or extra-dimensions were inhabited by higher-dimensional beings? Would we view them as ghosts or spirits? Would they appear to be aliens with strange powers?

The world of direct sensory experience consists of three spatial dimensions: up-down, left-right, and backward-forward. In addition, there is one time dimension-a mysterious and as yet unexplained part of the physical universe to which our life history, memories and indeed our destiny is tied. But while that may seem like the whole story, scientists are telling us that the universe may contain as many as 9 or maybe even 10 additional spatial dimensions. If life can exist in our three dimensional part of the universe, is it possible that there are higher-dimensional beings? From our vantage point, this is really hard to imagine. Higher spatial dimensions-if they exist-could only be experienced by us in a shadowy sense and best, and probably only described mathematically.

To understand what kind of relationship higher-dimensional beings would have to our ordinary world of experience, we have to do a thought experiment and take a step down-a step down to a two-dimensional world where everything is flat. When we get there, we can build up a picture of how higher-dimensional beings would interact with their low-dimensional counterparts. Such a world was described in the breakthrough PBS series Cosmos created and hosted by astronomer Carl Sagan. There he related the interesting tale of flatland:

“Let us imagine we inhabit a strange country where everyone is perfectly flat. Following Edwin Abbott, a Sharkespearean scholar who lived in Victorian England, we callit Flatland. Some of us are square; some are triang;es, some have more complex shapes We scurry about, in and out of our flat buildings, occupied with our flat businesses and dallianes. Everyone in Flatland has width and length, but no height whatsoever”

With no height nor ability to travel throught the third dimension, flatlanders have no hint-not even a remote concept of what up and down is or what it would be like to travel though the third dimension (that is, except flatlander mathematicians and science-fiction writers). Imagine for a moment that this flat world existed on top of your dining room table. The flatlanders would be confined to the surface of the table. They could never leave it, not move up or down, or perceive the three-dimensional world that takes up the rest of the room.

As Sagan relates, the perceptions of flatlander creatures are limited by being constrained to move in 2 dimensions:

“Every square creature in Flatland sees another square as merely a short line segment, the side of the square nearest to him. He can see the other side of the square only by taking a short walk. But the inside of the square is forever mysterious, unless some terrible accident or autopsy breaches the sides and exposes the interior parts.”

Now imagine that you, a third dimenional observer, enter the room and look at the flatlander world on your dining room table. Imagine the powers you would have! You could hover over the flatlanders and observe them at will. You could see inside closed rooms in their flat houses, even viewing the insides of their bodies. This could be done all at once and you could have knowledge about their entire world and aspects of it that were completely closed off to their ordinary senses. Hovering over the top of their flat world-something you can do because you can move up and down and exist in the third, higher dimension, you could see not only inside closed rooms or inside their bodies, but all at once you could view widely separated events occuring in flatland. Doesn't all this sound a little like telepathy, remote viewing, and ESP?

To describe the interactions between a being in the third dimension and the flatlanders, Sagan envisions and imaginary three-dimensional creature that's an apple. The apple comes upon flatland and says hello to a square who has shut himself alone inside his house. The apple tells the square that he is a “visitor from the third dimension”. With the apple hovering over flatland as he talks, although the apple sees the square just a few inches away, the square, being a two-dimensional creature, can't directly perceive the apple. The square can only perceive aspects of the apple that interact with his two-dimensional world. The square can hear the voice, but has no idea where it is coming from. And remember the square has shut himself inside his house! In fact, Sagan claims that the voice will appear to have come from inside the square's own body. He is hearing voices in his head. Are people that hear voices in their heads sometimes getting messages from higher-dimensional beings?

The square thinks he's losing it, and the apple, eager to make contact, gets frustrated. So he decides to enter flatland directly. As Sagan describes it:

“...the apple descends into flatland. Now a three-dimensional creature can exist, in Flatland, only partially; only a cross section can be seen, only the points of contact with the plane surface of Flatland. An apple sliterhing through Flatland would appear first as a point and then as progressively larger, roughly circular slices. The square sees a point appearing in a clsoed room in his two-dimensional world and slwoing growing into a near circle. A creature of strange and changing shape has appeared form nowhere.”

Wow, deep stuff here. Let's say that again. The higher dimensional being, as seen by the lower dimensional being, just appears out of nowhere, changes form and shape in a bizarre fashion and then disappears as he exits flatland. From the square's point of view, the apple just appeared and disappered from nowhere.

This sounds quite a bit like many paranormal phenomena, like ghosts, spirits, and even some descriptions of aliens and UFO's. Can it be possible that there are higher dimensional beings inhabiting realms we are only dimly aware of? These beings, like a three-dimensional creature observing Flatland, would have total awareness and perceptions of our world we could only dream of-because we are trapped in it and they are not. They could see everything we are doing (even into our bodies), observe widely separated parts of our world simultaneously, and appear to enter and leave our world at will. When they did so, it would seem strange and mysterious because we couldn't observe or perceive their entire body, we would only see aspects of it that directly interacted with our three-dimensional world.

Scientists love to talk about “extra” or “higher” dimensions but they steer clear of the concept of higher dimensional entities. While this is pure speculation, it could be that beings do inhabit other dimensional realms and maybe consciousness itself does.

Tonight on Coast to Coast AM: Ed Grimsley

2009-02-12T21:36:00.000-08:00

In what's sure to be another night of great late-night radio on coast to coast AM, George Noory will be joined by UFO hunter Ed Grimsley.

Mr. Grimsley has long seen UFOs in the night sky and claims that UFOs in the night sky are engaged in some kind of battle. This has to be among the boldest of UFO claims, but Grimsley invites anyone to get a set of night vision goggles and head up to his place for a show. In fact if you're interested in joining his "night vision" skywatch drop him an email at: ed@edgrimsley.com.

With Jose Escamilla, Ed has produced a soon-to-be-released movie called UFO-The Greatest Story Ever Denied: Moon Rising. If you're at all interested in the phenomenon of UFOs, don't miss Ed on the second hour of tonights Coast to Coast AM.

Atheist Bus Tour: Richard Dawkins is an Arrogant Douchebag

2009-02-12T21:15:00.000-08:00

One of the dumbest things to make the news lately is the so-called Atheist bus tour. OK you don't believe in God. That's your business. But why do you care enough to put ads on the sides of buses?

The desire the proseletyze shows athiests for what they are: religious believers. A person is free to choose not to believe in God, or to think its ridiculous, but you can never prove that there is no God. So making an absolute statement that there is no God is a statement of religious belief.

This brings to mind a famous quote of Carl Sagan's which has been adopted by the SETI community. Sagan and his followers rightly point out that just because no objective scientific evidence of intelligent extra-terrestrials is known by the scientific community, that doesn't mean aliens don't exist. They capture this sentiment with a single phrase:

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”

Very interesting. There is a lot of truth to this phrase. Scientists have yet to detect any radio signals from aliens (unless the government is covering it up) but that really doesn't say anything as to whether intelligent aliens exist or not. We simply don't know.

OK what's amusing is that that same phrase could be applied to the God question. Let's pretend we're talking about the existence of God, and take the position that there is no objective scientific evidence fo the existence of God. But despite this, we could continue to believe in God and say “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”. The athiest zealots would find this absurd. Yet they find it perfectly reasonable when discussed within the context of benevolent extra-terrestrials who want to send us a radio message from across the universe.

Agnosticism is a reasonable position. Its also reasonable to take the position that you doubt there is a God, but the question is really beyond answering. How could anyone possibly know the answer to this question? I mean KNOW-that is have absolute certain knowledge of fact or fiction? It is not possible to know whether the big-bang “just happened” or whether it was caused by an outside force or being. Its not possible to know whether the laws of physics (which certainly seem to be by design) are just “there”, just exist for no reason, or whether they have actually been designed by some outside super-intelligence. On both sides of the argument you have extreme zealots. Creationist Christian wackos who KNOW with absolute certainty that their personal God did all the work, and on the other side are the Atheist zealots, equally vehement about their beliefs. And as the silly atheist bus tour shows, equally committed to forcing everyone else to adopt their point of view. And it is a point of view-no atheist really knows anything whatsoever about whether a God created the universe or not.

Well it seems that wherever vehement atheism rears its ugly head one finds the arrogant ass Richard Dawkins-one of if not the leading atheist evangelist. Now lets not forget to give credit where credits due. Dawkins is certainly a smart guy and probably a great biologist. I've read a few of his books and they were decently written, not bad but not the best popular science books out there.

So the guy has some things going for him. That being said, Dawkins seems completely unable to engage people who disagree with his point-of-view with any kind of respect or intellectual honestly. Dawkins, who knows everything about the universe, doesn't hesitate to treat any believer like they're a 5 year old being told they shouldn't believe in Santa Claus. Maybe that's being generous. Dawkins seems completely unable to put a veil of any kind over his attitude that anybody who believes in God is a complete moron. In one lecture a college student asks Dawkins “what if you're wrong” and he responds by saying “what if you're wrong about the great ju-ju at the bottom of the sea”. Are you kidding? This is an intellectual, a smart man in debate? Dawkins routinely reacts to people who don't hold his point of view by attacking them as idiots. His response to the college student was not much different than what I would expect a 13 year old to say.

When it comes down to it the reality is atheism is a religion just as much as evangelism is. A reasonable position is to be an agnostic. How could Richard Dawkins or anyone else possibly know with certainty there is no God? The issue of God is one that requires deep thought and reflection. Yes there is overwhelming scientific evidence for the big-bang and evolution, but we have no idea and may never have any idea (scientifically speaking) why the universe or life exists at all, or whether or not there is a creative force behind it. So lets just admit that different people hold different beliefs, and agree to respect those beliefs.

SETI : Should we let Aliens find us?

2009-02-12T18:31:00.000-08:00

Scientists are busy searching the stars for alien signals. They have even beamed a signal from earth hoping aliens might notice us. But is this a good idea?

The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence orSETI is an ambitious attempt by scientists to make contact with aliens by studying the heavens using radio telescopes. So far SETI has not met with any success, but that doesn't mean there are no aliens out there.

What many people don't realize is that SETI can only detect a very powerful signal that has been sent on purpose to announce the presence of the civlization. That's because to detect the signals of everyday life, like an ordinary analog TV transmission, you would need a huge radio dish that would be impractical and too expensive to justify. If there were a budding technological civilization even at the nearest star, transmitting simple radio signals using early 1900's technology, we might not be able to detect their presence. Finding a civilization like ours that was 50, 100, or 1,000 light years distant would be next to impossible.

So what scientists do is look for signals beamed into space on a particular frequency band that would be designed for detection. In the early days of the program, scientists not only focused on signals purposefly sent our way, but searched for radio signals in a band of frequencies related to energy transitions in the hydrogen atom. The idea was that aliens, having personalities exactly like astronomers on earth, would transmit a signal in this frequency band hoping to be discovered. In other words they would long for contact as we do, and use this frequency band to get noticed. For scientific reasons we won't get into here, if you wanted to be discovered by other civilizations you might in fact consider this because it would get you noticed by an advanced civilization that was studying astronomy using radio telescopes. There are technical reasons why astronomers, just studying stars and gases in interstellar space, will be looking at this band of frequencies. An artificially produced signal placed there would be easy to notice.

SETI is an admirable program. Scientists have to do something and are constrained by limited budgets for this kind of research. That's a shame really, I can't think of anything more important than finding out if there are other advanced life forms in the galaxy, but Congress thinks otherwise. They would rather spend money on healthcare and bombing places like Iraq, instead of giving scientists the resources they would need to fully explore this question. Right now SETI is surviving on private donations by forward-looking individuals like Paul Allen (founder of Microsoft with Bill Gates).

Now let's get to the bottom line of what SETI is looking for. This kind of search makes some big assumptions about what kind of aliens are out there. You're assuming that they're scientifically oriented, peaceful and benign, and social in the way mammals on earth are. None of these assumptions has any real validity, except for the scientific one. To attain enough technical skill to send a radio signal, aliens or extra-terrestrials will have to know science. But we can stop there.

We have no idea what the social structure or personalities or motivations of intelligent aliens will be. Now we know from the Drake equation that there are likely quite a few civilizations out there somewhere in the universe. I think its reasonable to assume their dispositions fall on a Bell curve type distribution. Some are going to be nice, some middle-of-the-road, and some outright hostile. They may or may not have any wish for contact with other civilizations. That's impossible to know.

In fact, they may want to destroy any civilizations they come in contact with.

If you remember the old Twilight Zone series, then you'll recall the episode where the benign aliens come from space to save earth from atomic destruction. They convince large numbers of earthlings to jump on board a ship to journey to the home planet. When its too late, the earth people discover that the aliens actually enjoy eating different species they come across in the galaxy.

While the Twilight Zone is a fantasy, such a scenario may not be all that far off from the truth. Many naïve scientists like to believe that getting more advanced means getting more peaceful. But has that happened on earth? Not at all. We're as violent as ever. Consider the time period from the birth of Christ to the year 2000. World War 2, which resulted in the deaths of about 60 million people, including some by nuclear weapons, occurred more or less in 1940. So about 97% of the time-span from Christ to the modern day had already passed. Were humans any more peaceful? No, humans were violent is ever, if not the most violent they had ever been. Being advanced scientifically doesn't correlate with peacefulness by any means.

Scientists might respond by saying, well you invent nuclear weapons, then you MUST get peaceful or destory yourselves. That may be, but what if peace is attained via a brutal dictatorship like the Nazi's? Suppose they had won World War 2, conquered all of earth and then embarked on a space program. What would their attitude have been running across slightly less intelligent life on say, Mars?

This is all fantasy and hypothetical, but the point is we cannot assume in any way that aliens will be benign. Being scientifically advanced doesn't make you any more ethical or moral. Let's go back to the idea that temperament falls on some sort of Bell curve. Really aggressive species may be outliers, but they might be the ones who are really successful. Knowing that science and technology approach and that earth could be near a so-called “singularity” after which computers develop without limit, they might be inclined to destory us so we don't infringe on their galactic empire. Some civilizations may even be evil, and like the aliens in the Twighlight Zone episode, they might actually enjoy enslavement or eating other aliens or who knows what.

Given that aliens sending signals out and engaging in interstellar space travel are likely to be far in advance of us scientifically and technologically, it may be wise for us to keep quiet. Its OK to study the universe in a passive sense for these type of signals. But we might think twice before announcing our presence to the universe and potentially alerting aggressive species that could destory a solar system in a blink of an eye that we are here.

Do Animals Have Souls?

2009-02-12T07:49:00.000-08:00

You have no doubt that you're conscious. But what about your dog? Does your dog or cat experience life the way you do? Sure your dog can't read, but does he experience pain, love, hot, cold, joy and sorrow? Or is he a biological machine?

Most of us would probably say our dog or cat is conscious, at least on some level. But throughout history many so-called great thinkers (Descartes and more recently Daniel Dennett) would say no, animals are not conscious, they just appear to be so. To them, an animal is nothing more than an automaton. A complex molecular machine that gives the appearance of having a spirit. Descartes believed that humans had a non-material mind/soul. Dennett, on the other hand being an atheist believes humans are automatons too, but have consciousness that arises from "complexity". So to him we are akin to nothing more than complex biologically based computer programs. Animals may or may not be complex enough to have consciousness "arise" from "complexity", in one interview he boldly asserted dogs and cats were not conscious in any way.

Philosophers aside, its obvious that animals have consciousness. Anyone who owns a dog or cat or horse knows this. Perhaps people try to convince themselves animals don't have conscious minds because it makes it OK for us to abuse them. If dogs are biological machines, no different than the computer on your desk, then Michael Vick can fight and kill them, and Chinese fur traders can skin them alive without feeling an ounce of guilt. To recognize that animals have consciousness and by extension souls means humans have perpetuated great crimes on this planet by abusing the life that shares it with us.

Well let's look at the basic facts. What is consciousness? It can be described in a loose way as you're experiencing life, kind of sitting in a movie theater in which the external world is played for you on a screen. As this happens, you have feelings-love, hate, fear, joy. You have memories of the past, and hopes for the future. You feel as though there is an "I" that exists and flows through time, and you can form transcendant connections with others. Notice none of this has anything to do with "intelligence", at least once a certain threshold is reached. Does that threshold only happen when we reach humans?

It is hard to verify if another being shares these characteristics, indeed some philosophers have gone so far as suggesting we can't even know if other human "beings" are conscious. That's a bit silly, and I think although you can't verify it with 100% certainty, to most people its self-evident ("obvious") that animals share many aspects of consciousness with us.

For example, its obvious that dogs experience fear. Its obvious dogs experience happiness. Its obvious dogs form connections, with people and other dogs. Its obvious dogs remember the past, including people who were in it. Dogs see the world through their own two eyes. Who can doubt there isn't an "I" behind those eyes? Otherwise why would they have them?

I single out dogs only because many people have owned them and this is their direct experience with animal life. The same paragraph applies to cats, to horses, and also to rabbits, pigs, and cows. Maybe even snakes.

The existence of the "senses" is a clue that a conscious mind exists. The senses are a connection between the external world and the internal mind. This calls into question many of our abusive behaviors. If you hit a rabbit on the road, you've ended a life. If pigs are crowded into a factory farm, these are living minds enduring torture.

This isn't to say we should never eat meat or hold a funeral if you run over a snake on the highway. But why not treat animals better? Let animals on farms live free range lives, so that they can enjoy a life in the field before they are "slaughtered" so that we might eat and live. Drive more carefully on the highway so that if possible, you can avoid hitting that rabbit trying to cross the road.

Do animals have souls? As much as we can connect the mind to a soul, the answer is yes.

The painting shown in this article is available here.

Does the Mind Survive Death?

2009-02-11T16:32:00.000-08:00

Does the conscious mind survive death? If so does it ALL survive death, or just our "core" self?

Consider that the brain is closely tied to conscious experience. And we know that upon death, the brain disintegrates and dies. With it goes all of our memories and things we've learned, like how to ride a bike or do algebra.

But what about things of a more personal nature? When you think about what's really important, you're probably going to lean towards matters of the heart. Psychic phenomena and interpersonal connections cut to the core of who we are a lot more than algebra or calculus does. Is it possible that interpersonal, emotional part of our being survives death? Do the connections between a mother and child exist outside of time and space?

Thinking about the mind, it seems like my core "inner" self, what we call "I" exists unchanging throughout life. Yes, tastes may change and you may learn something new like how to speak French or ride a skateboard and form new memories. Learning French might make you more interesting at a party or useful on a trip to Europe, but does it fundamentally change who you are? The answer seems to be no. You are still you after learning French. These extra things, like learning French seem to be tied to higher parts of the brain. But maybe consciousness resides somewhere else.

If the higher parts of the brain are involved in learning complicated activities, maybe its the lower centers, the limbic system say-that's involved in the generation of conscious experience.

One interesting theory is that the brain doesn't actually cause consciousness. Instead its a receiver of some sort--just like a radio receiver. In this view, consciousness exists as part of the universe as a whole. Or maybe saying its a "part" of the universe isn't accurate, maybe its woven into the universe at a fundamental level. The brain, or at least some part of it, taps into consciousness by somehow receiving a signal from the universe at large. In this theory, your soul or conscious mind transcends time and space and is not separate or distinct from the universe at large. Its manifested in the physical here and now by the receiver, which is the brain structured to "tune in" to your consiousness the way a radio can be tuned in to a particular frequency, and then picking up a specific radio station.

The part of the brain that does this must be in the so-called lower centers. "Knowing" (learning French or calculus) isn't the same as being more conscious. A man who doesn't know calculus is equally as conscious as a man who does, although the latter has more knowledge. This applies whether comparing two individuals or the same individual through time. In other words, I am equally conscious before and after learning French, its the same "me" even if I'm able to chat with people who don't speak English that I couldn't converse with directly before. I feel as if I have the same "me" inside that I did at age 5, age 12, and age 20.

If the conscious reciever of the brain is in the so-called lower part of the brain, this would indicate most if not all animals are conscious. Yes a rabbit can't speak French, but that doesn't mean the rabbit doesn't experience its life, along with happiness, excitement, or fear, the way you and I do.

Something else that's interesting about viewing the brain as a receiver is that death becomes irrelevant. If you smash up the radio on your desk, that radio can't pick up 98.3 FM anymore, but the signal generated by 98.3 FM is still there-all around you and ready to be picked up by another radio that tunes into the station's signal. Is your consciousness always there, able to be picked up if only the right receiver is constructed? This makes the possibility of reincarnation make sense from a physical perspective. Or another idea: a synthetic reciever could be constructed somehow out of some currently uknown technology that could do the same thing. Then a persons mind could remanifest in the physical. Certain people such as Ray Kurzweil have proposed that a person's mind could be "downloaded" to an advanced computer system allowing for a type of immortality.

Right now our scientific knowledge on these topics is limited at best.

Dr. Joye Pugh Interview : parts 3 & 4

2009-02-11T12:29:00.000-08:00

Parts 3 & 4 of interview with Joye Pugh.

UFO Filmed Off British Coastline

2009-02-11T07:26:00.001-08:00

Film of strange cylindrically shaped craft flying by British coastline.

Caravaners were left baffled when the mysterious cylinder hovered over a busy campsite in Brean, Somerset. They claimed the unidentified black metal object stands out clearly against the blue sky, where it can be seen darting up and down for more than 10 minutes.
Local police reported no unusual activity, but witnesses were left convinced they had seen an extra-terrestrial spectacle.

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John Hogue's Prophecies : War with Iran?

2009-02-10T22:35:00.000-08:00

Dreamland interview with John Hogue discussing war with Iran. A year and a half old, and maybe a bit dated since the Republicans are out. But could war with Iran still happen?

According to Hogue, Nostradamus often spoke of Iran and the importance of the re-emergence of Israel in the modern era. Nostradamus referred to the "True Serpent" in his writings, which Hogue says is a reference to the United States Navy. In 2002, George W. Bush asked the Navy to fly a revolutionary era flag with a rattlesnake on it that says "Don't Tread on Me". Nostradamus said the True Serpent would attack Persia when allied with Turkey. The U.S. is of course, allied with Turkey, and Persia is modern-day Iran. Fascinating stuff. Listen to the interviews below.

Nostradamus

2009-02-10T21:36:00.000-08:00

Born in 1503 in St. Remy, France, Nostradamus whose formal name was Michel de Nostradame, made his mark on history with a series of prophecies. His predictions were wide ranging covering everything from crop failures to wars and the fates of dictators. Many references are believed to be to the modern era. Indeed one of his most intriguing, if not vague references, is to a "Hister" that many take to be Hitler himself.

Nostradamus started his adult life as a physician who specialized in treating the plague, probably not the best line of work to be in during the 1500s. No effective medical remedies existed at the time, so its no wonder that Nostradamus resorted to astrology and divination, making predictions in writings called quatrains, which are short poetic verses. Nostradamus published his seminole work, a collection of quatrains called The Prophecies in 1555. The book has remained in print ever since, and has forever made Nostradamus famous. This monumental work followed a series of almanacs he had written from 1550 onwards that had made Europe's nobility take notice. Many often called on him to make predictions and cast horoscopes.

To be completely honest, the quatrains are very vague and open to a lot of interpretation. As mentioned above, one of the most controversial if not promising references is to "Hister", which believers have taken to represent Adolph Hitler. Here is a translation of the quatrain provided by author Erika Cheetham:

Beasts wild with hunger will cross the rivers, the greater part of the battle will be against Hister. He will cause great men to be dragged in a cage of iron, when the son of Germany obeys no law.

Cheetham substitutes "Hitler" for "Hister", but I've left the original word in there since its subject to interpretation. Hister referred to a region of Germany near the Danube river (which flows through Austria, Hitler's birthplace). Much is left to interpretation, so I'll let you be the judge.

Interestingly Nostradamus claimed, or shall we say admitted that he got his prophecies from "divination". According to Cheetham, he read "secret forbidden books" and used a bowl of water placed on a brass tripod. Who could have forbidden the books other than the Catholic church? Sounds like something out of the movie the Ninth Gate. Anyway, Nostradamus would stare into the water until he saw a vision of the future. As he wrote:

Sitting alone at night in a secret study; it is placed on the brass tripod. A slight flame comes out of the emptiness and makes successful that which should not be believed in vain.

Skeptics will say that if you dim the lights and stare at the reflection of a flame in a bowl of water, you're going to see what you want. Your mind is going to create a bunch of crap is what they're basically saying. Believers, on the other hand, might view this as a way of opening the door, so to speak. A method that enabled Nostradamus to extract information about the future. This method of prediction was known in the middle ages as divination or "Scrying", a term which means "reveal". Critics at the time would say this was a method used by witches.

Nostradamus was born into Judaism but his family converted to the Roman Catholic church in 1512 (gee I wonder why?). Later in life, he suffered from gout which eventually led to his death in 1566.

Top Secret UFO's with Bob Lazar -Parts 1 & 2 of 6

2009-02-10T17:53:00.000-08:00

In the early 90's the name Bob Lazar became synonymous with Area 51-the top secret location in the Nevada desert where tests on alien spacecraft supposedly took place. Lazar, who claims to have degrees in physics and electronics from MIT and Cal Tech, was a "propulsion expert" brought in to help reverse engineer UFO's.

Lazar sounds incredibly competent, but there has to be some suspicion he's a fraud. For one, skeptics haven't been able to dig up any information that Lazar actually attended Cal Tech. At one point there were rumors that the CIA "erased" his past there, in what sounds to me like a silly attempt to explain his fake story. Did Lazar make it up, that he went to Cal Tech, thinking nobody would check into it?

After attending these stellar schools, Lazar ended up getting a job at the highly secretive Los Alamos national laboratories. According to the interview, he got the job after meeting acclaimed hydrogen bomb inventor Edward Teller. Lazar had a hobby at the time, making jet powered cars (with 22,000 HP-pretty impressive) and Teller happened to read about it before meeting Lazar in person.

From there Lazar went to work at Area 51. He says he got his checks from the office of Naval Intelligence. Has anyone reading this ever worked for the government as a contractor? Individual employees don't typically get paid by the customer. The company E G & G was mentioned in the interview, presumably Lazar worked for them. The way it works is if Naval Intelligence was sponsoring some kind of research, they would pay the facility (Area 51 in this case) who would in turn pay E G & G, who would in turn pay Lazar. I could be wrong but this part of the story doesn't add up.

Lazar has recently moved to New Mexico and maintains his own website. At one point, Lazar actually ran into some minor problems with the law, but now details the layout and operations at Area 51, including the proposal that alien spacecraft use "Element 115" for propulsion. He talks about Gravity A and B waves, but nobody I know who's studied physics can say what those are. Element 115 is a synthetic element that goes by the strange name (on earth) of Ununpentium. The most stable isotope of element 115 known has a half-life of 87 milliseconds! That makes it a strange choice for the "triangles" Lazar describes. Element 115 would not last very long if you manufactured something out of it.

Well I'd like to find out Lazar's story is true to the last detail. But right now, I'm having a hard time swallowing his UFO story. Watch the interviews and judge for yourself.
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Coming up on Coast to Coast AM: John Hogue

2009-02-10T16:30:00.000-08:00

Prediction-meister and Nostradamus expert John Hogue is set to appear this Tuesday night on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. A prolific writer, Hogue has written 21 books on many topics; including yearly predictions, Nostradamus, The Last Pope, and Prophecy. He's released several very bold predictions for the upcoming year that make 2009 seem very unsettling indeed. Some of his predictions: the demise of North Korea and Cuba, climate "tipping points" (global warming), the beginning of the end of the oil age, and problems for China. Sure to be another interesting night on Coast to Coast. Listen to a John Hogue interview on this video from Above Top Secret:

Dr. Joye Pugh in Part 2 of Zen Garcia's Interview Series

2009-02-10T13:54:00.000-08:00

The second part of Zen Garcia's fascinating interview with Dr. Joye Pugh. Interesting mention of secret societies and their search for the "divine spark" and immortality.

UFO Files: Would we even know Aliens were here?

2009-02-10T13:30:00.001-08:00

The famed physicist Michio Kaku has described the four levels of civilization we expect to find in the galaxy. These were originally classified as Type I, II, and III civilizations denoting the level of control the civilization possessed.

Starting at the beginning, a type I civilization has control over its planet. But this is not the type of control we have. On earth we have the internet, airplanes, limited space travel and electric power. We've harnessed the energy in fossil fuels and are tentatively tapping direct energy of the sun. We can send radio signals across the galaxy and have landed men on the moon.

But despite these advancements, earth is nowhere near a Type I civilization. A Type I civilization is one that's in complete control over its planet-the weather, earthquakes you name it. Such a civilization would be capable of building cities at the bottom of the ocean or on the moon. Earth is nowhere near this level of sophistication yet. We are developing fast, but we're still totally at the whim of nature. We can mitigate a large earthquake, but we can't prevent one. We can explore the bottom of the ocean, but we couldn't build a city down there. The issue is the amount of energy that a civilization can control. A Type I civilization would be able to control quite a bit more energy than earth currently does-on a factor of billions. In fact a civilization like ours with moderate space exploration, airplanes and radio is classified as a Type 0 civilization.

Beyond Type I civilizations, there are Type II civilizations, which can control their entire solar system, and Type III civilizations, which control a galaxy. A Type III civilization would be as far above a Type II civilization as a Type I civilization is above us. The amount of energy at their disposal would be staggering.

To borrow a quote from Kaku's website, which originally came from Carl Sagan in his book Cosmos:

“What does it mean for a civilization to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilization is a few hundred years old… an advanced civilization millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bush baby or a macaque.”

This is a really powerful statement. So what does it mean, for spacefaring civilizations that may have crossed the galaxy, or even come from another galaxy, to visit and explore earth?

It may be that we would be completely unable to detect their presence. That doesn't mean we wouldn't experience them at all. Let's think about humans vs. ants. If you go exploring an ant hill, by and large the ants aren't going to be paying attention to you, or even aware you're there unless they happen to crawl on you or your in the way of their path. But maybe, being interested in studying ant behavior, you pick one up and start toying with the ant. The ant might have a vague awareness that its been taken from its normal location. It might even realize at some level its being "probed" or threatened. But the nature of that threat is totally out of the realm of its possible experience.

This may be what advanced alien civilizations are doing to us today. Now we are much more conscious than an ant, and have discovered and to a certain extent mastered science (that isn't to say there isn't a whole lot more to learn). Our conscious minds allow us to catch small glimpses of aliens and UFO's. Maybe a sighting here and there. A brief glimpse by an airplane pilot. Something that doesn't make sense to an astronaut. Or vague, dreamlike recollections of alien abductees that fill their nightmares.

If a civilization was truly a million years more advanced than we are, we honestly can't even begin to understand it. There is really no way for us to describe what it might be capable of. We can try and use the laws of physics to bound what they might do, but that's all guesswork. If scientific research were to continue for another million years, while certain "facts" like the second law of thermodynamics would hold true, we can't begin to guess what new discoveries would be made.

It's reasonable to assume aliens that could travel the galaxy would in fact be that much more advanced than we are. They would have a much older civilization, have technologies which to loosely quote Arthur C. Clarke would be indistinguishable from magic, and they would have so much power we could do nothing to resist them. Our survival would be at their whim. Aliens that advanced would be able to completely cloak their presence from other conscious beings not that advanced, would be able to abduct anyone they chose, and when we were aware of them, would appear strange, dreamlike and powerful. If they decided to do so, they could destroy the entire planet the way you could squash an ant.

So far they haven't done that. So lets be hopeful that any aliens that are aware of earth are of a more benign nature, even if we can't understand their scientific curiosities or behavior.

Interview with Dr. Joye Pugh on Fallen Angels

2009-02-09T21:38:00.000-08:00

In this video Zen Garcia (Fallen Angels TV) interviews Dr. Joye Pugh at a book signing. A very fascinating discussion:

"Zen Garcia interviews Dr. Joye Jeffries Pugh about her books Eden: the Knowledge of Good and Evil 666 and Anti-Christ: The Cloned Image of Christ. In the interview we cover topics such as the Nefilim, Annunaki, Archons, their giant children, and the great deception coming which will deceive even the most elect and how it ties into the UFO and alien agenda."

Be sure to catch Dr. Joye Pugh on Coast to Coast AM on Monday February 9, 2009.

Shadow People

2009-02-09T07:40:00.001-08:00

If you've seen a dark fleeting figure out of the corner of your eye-one that maybe disappeared through a wall or disintegrated-you might have experienced the supernatural phenomenon of shadow people. A favorite topic on Art Bell and Coast to Coast, shadow people have been known in many cultures especially among some Native Americans.

While stories of shadow people have ancient origins, sightings continue to the present day. Encounters are often unpleasant-some people even report being attacked. While the forms are basically featureless, many of those who've seen them report that they have eyes, which are red in color. The two forms depicted above are common, the figure on the left being known by the name of "hat man" by those who've seen him.

What are Shadow People?

The origin of shadow people remains a mystery. One conjecture is that they are spirit entities, probably demons because witnesses report being menaced and sensing a feeling of dread in their presence. While they could be ghosts, their lack of detailed features has led many experts to reject this explanation, also witnesses seem to encounter the same apparitions regardless of where they are or who sees them.

Something that should be noted is the way that shadow people are described as dancing around in sudden jerky movements (like from one wall of a room to the other), disintegrating or moving through walls. This brings to mind the possibility that shadow people are interdimensional beings of some sort, or maybe time travelers. They also could be aliens. But why interdimensional beings would be hostile is something that makes sense at first sight.

For a story about shadow people harassing people, click here.

The image in this article is courtesy of the Wikipedia entry.

Ghosts and Spirits : La llarona

2009-02-08T13:17:00.000-08:00

Throughout the Spanish-speaking areas of the new world and especially in the American Southwest, there is the legend of La llarona, sometimes called the weeping ghost of the southwest. As a child living near the Rio Grande, chills ran up my spine as I heard tales of the wailing woman who would snatch children away and drown them in the rivers.

The specific story of La llarona varies depending where you are, but one version or another of it can be found anywhere from Chile to New Mexico, and even in the Kansas City area. While the origin of the story is unclear, the stories all have a common thread and no doubt it arose during the early arrival of the Spanish in the Americas. To me the story sounds distinctly New Mexican and while I can't prove it, I would conjecture the story arose in Northern New Mexico in the late 1500's or the 1600s.

Enough guesswork, what is the story of La llarona? Here we will tell one tale, the one I heard as a child. La llarona, whose name in life was Maria, was a peasant girl of unprecedented beauty. She had many suitors, but already had two sons. Where they came from wasn't related in the stories I was told, but what's important is that despite her beauty, things never worked out with men because Maria already had children. Maria often spent her evenings out entertaining gentlemen and left her children home alone. One day, the two boys were found drowned in the river. They could have died by neglect, but most thought Maria had drowned the boys, seeing them as an obstacle to her entertainment and hopes for marriage to a suitable man. Interestingly, this is a common occurrence even in our own times, as the case of Susan Smith illustrates.

Fast forward and Maria dies and becomes the spirit La llarona. Plagued by grief, she searches the rivers, lakes and streams endlessly seeking her children. The spirit is described as a tall, thin woman with long, flowing black hair, wearing a white gown. Wailing in the night because of her grief, now she searches for children to snatch, drowning them too, in a watery grave.

La llarona can be heard at night by the river wailing and weeping, as she roams on her endless search for the children she killed long ago, hoping to snatch some new ones as well. Rumor has it that born of Hispanic culture, she has followed Hispanic people throughout the America's, even being seen in Montana and Wyoming.

More Bible Prophecy from Dr. Joye Pugh

2009-02-08T11:09:00.001-08:00

Here is some more information about Dr. Joye Pugh, who will appear shortly on Coast to Coast AM. I found this video inspired by Dr. Pugh on YouTube. After you get past the first couple of minutes where a guy who posted the video is rambling, there is an interview with Dr. Pugh.

Bible Prophecy with Dr. Joye Pugh

2009-02-08T10:48:00.000-08:00

Dr. Joye Pugh is the author of ANTICHRIST The Cloned Image of Jesus Christ and a renowned Biblical researcher. Her specialty is Bible prophecy and the end times. In this regard Dr. Pugh claims that blood was taken from the Shroud of Turin and used to clone a man. It doesn't end there-the man in question will have ties to the apocalypse and 2012, so she says.

Dr. Pugh will be discussing these theories and disclosing the evidence on an upcoming episode of Coast to Coast AM with George Noory set to air on Monday, February 9, 2009. Be sure to check it out. If nothing else, its sure to be entertaining.

Do Graveyard tapes reveal the existence of Ghosts?

2009-02-07T09:35:00.000-08:00

Years ago the famed paranormal show In Search of with Leonard Nemoy ran an episode about taping the "voices" of spirits. This was 30 years ago of course so I don't remember the details, but the idea was take a tape recorder to a graveyard and make some recordings. When you play it back, do so at slow speed and you'll hear the voices of the dead.

Being young, fresh out of high school at the time, when a friend saw the episode and suggested we do it ourselves several of us agreed with enthusiasm. So we grabbed some cassette tapes and a recorder, and headed off to a mysterious graveyard built at the turn of the century.

The cemetery had two parts: an older area adorned with large statues and gravestones, and a newer area that was flat and open grass, with plaques on the ground instead of traditional gravestones. We went to the new area, walked in some distance, put the recorder down, then went back to our car and waited for 45 minutes.

We picked up the tape and brought it back to the car. We placed it into the cars tape player and listened, but didn't hear much of anything-just a few clicks. It turned out that the batteries on the cassette player were low so the recording was slow. To remedy the problem, we went to a friends house and played the tape there on the original recorder.

What we heard was astonishing. A few minutes went by, and then we heard what can be described as two rocks being hit or smashed together. This occurred in a sequence of three: BANG! BANG! BANG! Remember-the recorder was placed in an open grassy area. Not to mention while waiting by the road we were watching the location, and nobody approached the recorder-in fact there wasn't a (live) soul to be seen anywhere we could see.

So a few more minutes went by of silence, and astonishingly we heard a voice! It was a man speaking. You may find it hard to believe but I assure you its what I heard with my own ears:

ST. PETER, LEAVE ME IN PEACE

Wow this was way more than we had bargained for! We listened to the tape several times, chills running up and down our spines. I went home scared to death. I couldn't sleep that night, and can still see the moonlight that came through the window at 2 AM as I kept replaying in my mind what I had heard on the tape.

The following night another friend was told of what happened and was astonished. He wanted to duplicate the event, so once again we suited up with a tape recorder and headed off to a cemetery-this time a different one. It was December and that night it was very windy. We left the tape recorder by a grave and waited for 30 minutes, then brought it back to play in the car.

This time, there was silence for a few minutes, but then....we heard the same sound of rocks smashing together. This time it started softly, as if two rocks were barely being touched...click, click, click. It went on for a good 10 minutes, gradually getting louder....click, bang, BANG! Finally it got very loud as if two stones had been smashed together as hard as could be. Then the sound got lighter again, gradually diminishing for a minute or so followed by silence.

There were no voices this time, but the similar sound of rocks being hit together was very intriguing. Later someone who had seen another episode of In Search Of reported that if you slowed the tape way down, the clicks or smashing sounds would turn out to be voices. But we were scared out of our wits, and threw the tapes away.

Do you believe? What are your ghost stories?

Spontaneous Human Combustion

2009-02-07T08:17:00.000-08:00

Coming up next week on Coast to Coast AM, don't miss guest Larry E. Arnold on Thursday February 12. Larry is an expert on the mysterious phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion, and is sure to make a great nighttime guest talking about the cases he illuminates in his book. On his website you can order the book or accompanying videos describing mysterious cases of spontaneous human combustion that Larry has culled from old medical journals, interviews and witnesses. From his website:

"There's one mystery I'm asked about more than any other-- spontaneous human combustion," says Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001, on his 1994 TV program Mysterious Universe. "Some cases seem to defy explanation, and leave me with a creepy and very unscientific feeling. If there's anything more to SHC, I simply don't want to know."

Thus has spontaneous human combustion (SHC) remained the hidden malady for more than 100 years, and a hotly debated one for centuries more.

No longer. In this amazing book are hundreds of unbelievable examples of The Fire Within, culled from long-forgotten obscure medical journals and never-before-published interviews with witnesses to the impossible.

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Thus more questions are raised. Can the human body cremate itself biochemically? Or by its own electrical energy within? Is there a new form of energy (energies) being revealed that may herald limitless non-polluting power? What is the role of geography, quantum physics, and--indeed--human consciousness in outbreaks of SHC?

Can animals and households also spontaneously burst into flames... while firemen stand by helpless to explain or quell the baffling blazes before them? And: Could you protect yourself against this most mysterious of all the forms of human transition?

Binaural Beats and Meditation

2009-02-06T17:48:00.000-08:00

Do you remember that Star Trek episode where the guy would strap people in a chair, they would stare at a light and there were some funny sounds and then they would emerge all complacent? That is unless you were left in the chair too long-your brain might end up completely fried.

I have to admit the video below kind of reminded me of that at first sight and sound-but don't let that phase you-its anything but evil. The video is a binaural beat deep mediation video that's really cool. The frequencies are chosen to help your brain enter a meditative state, something you may want to pursue for spiritual growth. A great place to learn about binaural beats is at the Unexplainable Store, where many tools for meditation and spiritual growth are available.

Click here for the UnExplainable Store.

The Secret : Movie Review

2009-02-06T15:45:00.000-08:00

I'd been hearing all the fuss but believe it or not just saw The Secret, which orignally came out in 2006-just the other day. Being familiar with Esther and Jerry Hicks, I was already knew about the general concept promoted by The Secret (intention-manifestation and the law of attraction) but had never actually seen the movie. In the event you haven't seen it, or if you just want to hear my opinion, here is a mini-review.

The secret is presented in a quasi-documentary format with interviews of experts interspersed with sometimes cheesy low-budget scenes depicting various events. Multiple experts present points of view, including some I'd heard of like Bob Proctor, John Gray, Fred Allen Wolf and John Hagelin. Others I wasn't so familiar with, such as the Rev. Michael Beckwith. Most of the speakers were impressive and the discussion was always interesting. Overall I really liked The Secret and the cheesy scenes I am complaining about were a minor sideshow.

The movie does present “the secret” in a definite, easy to understand way. The basic idea is that your thoughts and feelings act to create your future through the “law of attraction”. The law of attraction doesn't just bring good things, it can bring the bad into your life as well. You might think of “the universe” as being kind of neutral on what's good or bad for your life. So whatever you direct your energy towards, through the law of attraction the universe is going to give you more of it.

We've all seen examples of how this works. You might have an Uncle Joe who always seems to be down on his luck. No business he starts makes a profit, his relationships never seem to work, and maybe he's always in debt. Hate to say it but this is all up to Uncle Joe. He's focusing his energy on what already is-the negative aspects of his life like being in debt-and attracting more of the same. People like Joe often go through life complaining about their situation. Bad news is, while its good to get things off your chest, by talking about it and focusing more energy on bad things, you're manifesting more bad things into reality! So stop already! Lesson one is stop thinking about bad things in your life. Turn a negative into a positive. If you're in debt, do not focus energy by worrying about the debt. Instead start visualizing prosperity.

So Uncle Joe is not someone you want to emulate. But on the other side you've got Aunt Sally, who can't seem to do anything wrong. She has a business idea and it makes her a fortune. She lives in a fabulous house by the beach with her wonderful supporting husband. Everything Sally touches turns to gold.

This is because whether Sally realizes it or not, she's using the law of attraction in a way to manifest good outcomes in her life. Call it the power of positive thinking. The good news is that you can do this too. I've just started working on this in my own life, and while my results are preliminary, I guarantee it works. With my newfound knowledge I've also figured out how bad things in my life that kept happening over and over again were almost caused, no according to the movie were caused-by my negative thought patterns.

When it comes to the law of attraction, thought and feeling are both important. But feelings are more powerful and what really gets the law of attraction going. It starts with thoughts then gets manifested via feelings. Here's an example from my own personal life that was a negative outcome. I was dating a gal who always seemed to cancel dates at the last minute. When this happened, I would wake up that morning and have the thought she was going to cancel. Dwelling on the thought turned it into an overwhelming emotional sensation. The thought had become a feeling. Sure enough, an hour or two later this would manifest in reality with the dreaded phone call.

You might be tempted to say that I was just reading into what happened based on her past behavior. But I don't think so. When I didn't get the feeling – that overwhelming sensation from my gut that it was about to happen-it didn't happen. Being familiar with some of the writings on these concepts by the Hicks, I began to nip in the bud when I'd have thoughts of her cancelling dates. It took some practice, but as soon as I eliminated the though of this happening from my mind, reality followed suit. She stopped the behavior from then on.

OK without revealing too much of the movie here are a couple of tidbits. Here is a little blueprint for success-a three step plan to open the door to what you want:

Ask the universe for what you want
Believe it
Receive it

The second step is important. How many of us pray for what we want, then leave it at that? Then things don't quite work out. Prayer is important, because to manifest something in reality we have to start by letting the universe know our desires. But we can't stop there. Its so crucial to really believe its going to happen. This will take some mind training to get this going for you, but you can do it. Use visualization. In one example from the movie, a guy said look at your hands-hold them in front of you and study them in detail. Then close your eyes and visualize your hands-wrapped around the steering wheel of a new sports car. WOW I thought that was a great exercise. The idea is visualize the good outcome in your life and do it over and over and over.

Here is another great story from the movie. A guy who was an author thought, boy it would be nice to make $100,000 a year. He already had a book out, but it wasn't selling much. But he taped a “$100,000 bill” on the wall so he could look at it every day and focus his energy on making that much money.

One day he was in the supermarket check out line and glanced at the National Enquirer. He thought to himself, boy it would be nice to advertise the book in there, maybe I could make the money that way!

Seemed like a ridiculous thought, but then a few weeks later he was giving a talk and met a reporter there. She said she really liked his talk and wanted to interview him. Guess where she worked? National Enquirer! After she wrote the article, his sales soared and he made more money than he could possibly dream of!

Some important lessons there-pay attention to details! The universe is feeding you information and signs you might not be consciously aware of if you're not paying attention. More-be ready to act when the opportunity arises.

One minor point I don't like about the movie, is that it jumps from speaker to speaker in an attention-deficit disorder style presentation. A speaker will talk for maybe 9 seconds, then it jumps to a different speaker, then back again. In a sense, this was helpful because it provided a unified presentation as each expert talked about a given concept, but I thought it jumped around too much and found that mildly irritating.

In conclusion, I highly recommend The Secret. Why don't we all start practicing these principles-really practice them-so that we all become more prosperous and the world becomes a better place? I leave you with a quote from a man who was paralyzed and thought to be a vegetable due to an airplane accident. He ended up walking out of the hospital on his own, and was featured in the movie. He said “Man becomes what he thinks about”. The doctors were saying he would never speak, breath on his own or walk again. But in his mind, he kept visualizing himself walking out of the hospital. And that's exactly what happened.

Esther and Jerry Hicks: Ask and It is Given

2009-02-05T21:14:00.001-08:00

The book Ask and it is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks should be on your reading list, if it isn't already. I first learned about the Hicks and their channeling of non-physical beings they call Abraham from a friend, but got more in-depth information including a passionate endorsement for this book from the personal growth expert Steve Pavlina. If you haven't visited Steve's blog before, you need to start. He is a great motivational writer and personal growth expert.

The book Ask and it is Given fits in with "The Secret" and the "mind creates reality"mindset that gels with quantum physics. Quantum theories aside, have you noticed how some people just seem to attract bad, bad, luck time and again while others keep winning the lottery?

That is what mind creates reality is about. We may not be aware of it, but we're subconsciously wishing our own bad results upon ourselves by expecting it and giving negative results energy. In other words, expect you're never going to have financial success, and those debts will never get paid off.

I have to say its true, what you believe in your mind has a big influence on how things in the external world work. I'm not going to try to explain it, just accept it as IS. So how can we turn things around? Here is a nice suggestion from Steve:

"One of the ways to test whether or not your thoughts really do create your reality is to change your dominant thinking about something and then observe whether external reality follows suit to re-align itself with your new thoughts. It can take a while to change your beliefs about something, but the way I do it is to pick a new thought that’s incongruent with my current reality and then hold that thought in my head as much as possible. I keep thinking about it until I start to believe it. "

This one thought is such great advice-why not start there? That's our exercise for today. For homework, jump on Amazon.com and order the Hicks book Ask and It is Given.

The 2012 Enigma by David Wilcock

2009-02-05T11:47:00.001-08:00

2012-the year the world is going to end? The Mayan calendar apparently said so. Here is an interesting video on the topic by David Wilcock.

UFO Sightings Double in a Year

2009-02-05T06:53:00.001-08:00

The number of UFO sightings over Britain doubled last year, the Ministry of Defence says.

A new dossier reveals one was floating above the Houses of Parliament in London, it was reported.

The MoD says there were 285 reports of Unidentified Flying Objects in 2008, compared to just 135 for the preceding 12 months, The Sun reported.

The mystery craft hovering in the skies opposite Parliament was spotted on 12 February last year.

It was recorded by authorities as having "green, red and white lights. It was still and static in the sky. It was seen for about an hour and a half."

In June, an unexplained light show was witnessed above Heathrow airport.

Last month it was claimed that a UFO ripped a 60ft blade off a wind farm turbine in Conisholme, Lincolnshire.

Hundred of witnesses reported hearing an earsplitting bang at 4am.

And a "jumbo jet sized object" was reported above Leeds, West Yorkshire, in February.

That craft was described as "flat and round with a blue ripple underside".

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Convergence with David Wilcock

2009-02-04T22:33:00.001-08:00

Consciousness is one of the most fascinating topics and if you haven't heard of David Wilcock yet, you soon will. David is a gifted man who experiences and explores ESP, reincarnation, consciousness, and ascension.

Soon his movie Convergence will be released and you must see it. Filled with interviews with leading experts, including physicists, physicians, experts on the mind, astronomers and noetics to discuss our impact on the universe. What may surprise you is that our impact on the universe at large is real. These are scary times, but its chance for humanity to re-remerge with a new renaissance.

The Near Death Experience of Dannion Brinkley

2009-02-02T19:35:00.003-08:00

Recently author Dannion Brinkley was on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. Mr. Brinkley became famous for having a near-death experience way back in 1975. Since then he has been promoting the concept that there really isn't such a thing as death.

Dannion had his near-death experience after being struck by lightning-something I fear every time I'm outdoors in a thunderstorm. Left for dead, Dannion actually woke up in a morgue. He reports that during the time between being struck by lightning and waking up in the morgue, he had a near-death experience which he describes as spiritually transformative.

But it didn't end there. Since that dramatic experience in 1975, as if that weren't enough for a single lifetime, Dannion had not just one but two near-death experiences. During his visits to the other side he reports having learned many spiritual lessons, many of which are detailed in his new book Secrets of the Light, available now on Amazon.com for around $16.

Why Good Vibrations Create A Better World

2009-02-02T19:16:00.001-08:00

In his book 'Power vs Force', David Hawkins calibrates people's emotions from levels 20 up to 1000. 20 being Shame which is perilously proximate to death. It's destructive to emotional and psychological health, and makes us prone to physical illness.

At the other end of the scale at 700- 1000 is enlightenment. This is the level of the Great Ones such as Krishna, Buddha and Jesus. It is the peak of the evolutionary consciousness in the human realm.

All levels (which could be classed as vibration levels) below 200 are said to be energy draining, and below integrity. These vary from Guilt (30), Grief (75), Fear (100) up to Pride (175).

People feel positive as they reach Pride level. However Pride feels good only in contrast to the lower levels. Pride is defensive and vulnerable because it's dependent upon external conditions, without which is can suddenly revert to a lower level.

At the 200 level, power first appears. Courage (200) is the zone of exploration, accomplishment, fortitude, and determination. People at this level put back into the world as much energy as they take; at the lower levels, populations as well as individuals drain energy from society without reciprocating.

Further levels include willingness (310), Acceptance (350) and Love (500).

This level is characterized by the development of a Love that is unconditional, unchanging, and permanent. It doesn't fluctuate - its source isn't dependent on external factors. Loving is a state of being. This is the level of true happiness.

Interesting facts from the book -

* The concept and theories behind these experiments were conducted over a 20 year period using a variety of Kinesiology tests and examinations.

* Kinesiology has an almost certain 100% accuracy reading every time. It will always reveal Yes, No, True, and False answers.

* Collective Consciousness: These experiments reveal that there is a higher power that connects everything and everyone.

* Everything calibrates at certain levels from weak to high including books, food, water, clothes, people, animals, buildings, cars, movies, sports, music etc.

* 85% of the human race calibrates below the critical level of 200.

* The overall average level of human consciousness stands at 207.

* Human consciousness was dangling at below the 200 level (190) for many centuries before it suddenly rose up to its present level some time in the mid 1980s. Hence Nostradamus's end of the world predictions may have been avoided (he made his predictions at a time when human consciousness was at below the 200 level). For the world to stay at levels below 200 over a prolonged period of time would cause a great imbalance that would undoubtedly lead to the destruction of all humanity.

* The power of the few individuals at the top counterbalances the weakness of the masses.

* 1 individual at level 300 counterbalances 90,000 individuals below level 200

* 1 individual at level 500 counterbalances 750,000 individuals below level 200

* 1 individual at level 700 counterbalances 70 million individuals below level 200

In other words, as a co creator of the world, if you vibrate at 200 and above you will be helping to raise the consciousness of mankind, and be a big part in creating a better world for everyone.

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Bob Proctor on Larry King Live

2009-02-02T12:00:00.000-08:00

If you missed it Bob Proctor was on Larry King Live. Highlights of the interview can be seen below.

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Physics of Consciousness

2009-02-02T11:17:00.001-08:00

The Physics of Consciousness by the recently deceased Evan Harris Walker is one of the best books on the topic you'll ever read. Its pages are filled with an interwoven tapestry of multiple story lines that delve into the deepest questions of human existence. Plagued by the death of a girlfriend the author had in adolescence, he spends the rest of his life searching for meaning. What is the soul? How does the soul relate to the brain, and where does it go when we die?

Emotional and vivid descriptions of the authors life with his girlfriend, spent so long-ago, are seamlessly integrated with a history of the science of physics and how discoveries made during the past 100 years are beginning to shed light on the world of conscious experience. These are in turn woven together with discussions of the mind which are at times haunting and always riveting.

In the last part of the book, the author jumps into his own theories about how quantum mechanics explains or at least is involved with the brain to produce conscious thought. These theories are tentative and a bit of guesswork, but Harris has to be applauded for trying. Most scientists simply ignore the questions.

I was saddened to learn that last year Dr. Walker himself had passed away. Having spent his life tormented by the question of where the soul of his beautiful Marilyn had really gone after she died so long ago of leukemia, he may now have the answers. For those of us left behind, the Physics of Consciousness is an excellent, thought-provoking read that may someday help us find the answers.

Bob Proctor on The Secret

2009-02-02T08:29:00.001-08:00

"The Secret" is a book that's gotten a lot of attention regarding the Law of Attraction. But while the secret may be a recent cultural phenomenon in America, its been around a lot longer than the book. As Bob Proctor explains, our spirit is really non-physical. The mind is movement and the body is the manifestation of that movement. We affect our body and the entire universe by what we create with our mind. Learn more at the Forgotten Laws Website.

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Premonitions in the Dream State

2009-02-02T07:17:00.000-08:00

Premonitions-when future events are foretold-often elude us because they occur during the dream state while sleeping. When this happens they are referred to as precognitive dreams. Often people view someone who has a lot of precognitive dreams as being gifted.

Believe it or not everyone is gifted with some level of psychic ability, and its possible to hone in on those abilities and improve them. There is nothing magical about this, its just like strengthening your muscles through exercise. While you may not rise to the level of a psychic or professional medium, you will find that indeed the universe is making information available from the future.

Information flow throughout the universe-and even along the time dimension-is nothing crazy and nothing to be feared. In fact precognitive dreams appear several times in the Bible, specifically in the Old Testament. Instead of fearing precognitive dreams or premonitions, you should try to tap into it. In the beginning, information revealed in your dreams may be random. For example, I once kept having dreams about a man at work wearing a particular shirt. I started noticing the dreams kept occurring the night before he showed up with the shirt on.

Other times the dreams may be so specific that they can be definitely labeled as premonitions. One time, a cousin of mine was visiting. That night I had a very vivid dream. In my dream I woke up early in the morning so I could make coffee for her. But she was already awake and was packing her suitcase frantically. I said "what's wrong" and she said her father had become seriously ill. It was an emergency so she had to leave right away to tend to him.

The dream ended at that point, but when I woke up the next morning I was shocked to find my cousin actually getting ready to leave! It turned out that her father had a stroke the previous night!

I remember this episode because the event in the dream was so dramatic. But most of the time, precognitive dreams may be about ordinary or insignificant events and we don't make anything of it. But you can start to hone your own psychic abilities by working on precognitive dreaming. This is not something that can be forced, instead allow it to happen. Start by keeping a notebook and pen next to your bed to use as a dream journal. Each time you awaken and remember a dream, write the dream down in your journal. Leave some space below to make notes when things in the dreams actually appear in waking life. After allowing, awareness is the next step in developing your abilities. The dream notebook will help you do this.

Keeping a dream journal is also just a good idea overall. Dreams often communicate information not of a precognitive nature, but helpful information nonetheless. By keeping a record of your dreams you can interpret them or have a record for an expert to interpret them if so desired.

Remote Viewing Clip

2009-02-02T03:57:00.000-08:00

In this clip from Coast to Coast George Noory interviews Joseph McMoneagle (now that's an interesting name) who was involved in the U.S. governments remote viewing program until it was shut down in 1995.

The Power of Belief and the Law of Attraction

2009-02-02T03:39:00.000-08:00

The law of attraction is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. Ever wonder why some people are blessed with endless abundance? Or why for others, no matter how hard they work things just never work out for them? Although we may not realize it, our expectations connect with the universe and set the stage for events that happen to us. That isn't to say things that happen are always your own fault, but if you put out negative energy, you're going to attract more of it.

Although it starts with positive or negative thinking-what we're talking about here goes way beyond that. We're talking about our energy vibrations and how they line up with universal frequencies. If you expect things not to work out, you're sending out negative vibes that tune in with negative energies in the universe. The result? Self-fulfilling prophecy. We've always had friends who always seem to be getting into trouble-whether its financial, relationship problems or whatever-they expect it and it comes to them.

We're all plagued by this type of negative thinking. Part of being a success in life is replacing this with positive vibes. Ask the universe and it will come. Is it that easy? No but you can learn to rid yourself of limiting beliefs through meditation and visualization. Its going to take hard work. Let's say you want to improve your financial situation. Its way too easy to worry about bills. How am I going to pay the mortgage? Is there enough money for a down payment on that car I want? These are natural worries and you're mind is no doubt cluttered with concerns like these. But these worries have negative vibrations. By spending energy on them, you attract negativity to your life.

Instead, visualize the positive. Pick a quiet time where you can let your mind wander into a new world, like when drifting off to sleep at night. Start with a new car, and don't worry about where its going to come from or how you're going to pay for it. Instead see it in your mind-down to the last detail. See the color shimmering in the sunlight. Imagine how the car smells when you sit inside it. See yourself driving it. Do this repeatedly without worrying about getting a loan or how to pay for it. You will be surprised how over time, the energy transforms and you end up with what you want.

Limiting beliefs can hold us back, but we can learn techniques to rid ourselves of negative energy and instead attract the positive.

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Unleashing Brain Power Using Meditation

2009-02-02T03:30:00.000-08:00

You've probably heard that we only use 2% of our available brain power. Whether or not that's true, one things for sure--by tapping into altered states of consciousness you can unleash a lot more brain power than you've been doing up until now. Meditation and yoga can help you capitalize on different brain wave states leading to altered states of consciousness, extra-sensory perception, remote viewing, and even shaman levels of consciousness. In this video, talks about using meditation and yoga to control your brain frequencies to reach an altered state of consciousness in minutes. The technique uses sound and is called "Binaural Beats":

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Remote Viewing with Major Ed Dames

2009-02-02T03:13:00.000-08:00

If you've spent any time listening to Coast to Coast AM, then you're familiar with frequent guest Major Ed Dames. Major Dames is a remote viewing expert who actually teaches the technique. If you aren't familiar with it, remote viewing uses extra-sensory perception or ESP to gather information about distant or unseen objects. The target object is usually something hidden from ordinary view, in other words you can't access it by the ordinary senses light sight, sound, touch, or smell. You won't be surprised to learn that several intelligence agencies and the military have had an interest in remote viewing.

According to several sources, remote viewing was funded by the United States government for many years, both in the Defense Department and the CIA. A Colonel William Johnson of the U.S. Army was brought in to evaluate and the program in the 1990's and he came away a believer. However, as far as I have been able to ascertain the program has been terminated.

Remote viewing came to light when physicist Hal Puthoff investigated the phenomenon in the early 1970s, leading the CIA to become interested.