Merkabah

[Skarekrow]

New Full-Length Graham Hancock Video on the Upcoming
'Magician of the Gods'


[video=youtube;KcPgIphDWGY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KcPgIphDWGY[/video]

Graham Hancock is working on a new book, Magicians of the Gods, the sequel to Fingerprints of the Gods, to be published in late 2015 or early 2016.

This video of a presentation Graham gave at Saint James’s Church, Piccadilly in 2014 reviews some of the key findings in 'Fingerprints' and shares some of the new evidence of the lost civilisation that will go into 'Magicians'.

(Graham also gives a short introduction to the video lecture pointing out some of the extra research he's done since this talk was given)​

 

[Kgal]

New Full-Length Graham Hancock Video on the Upcoming
'Magician of the Gods'



Graham Hancock is working on a new book, Magicians of the Gods, the sequel to Fingerprints of the Gods, to be published in late 2015 or early 2016.

This video of a presentation Graham gave at Saint James’s Church, Piccadilly in 2014 reviews some of the key findings in 'Fingerprints' and shares some of the new evidence of the lost civilisation that will go into 'Magicians'.

(Graham also gives a short introduction to the video lecture pointing out some of the extra research he's done since this talk was given)
​

I started watching this the other day - smiling hugely the whole time - and then had to cut it short. Isn't this the most amazing thing to find out there were advanced civilizations on this planet as far back as 25000 years ago?!?!? I've been anticipating this ever since he wrote the first book back in 1995.
:bounce:

 

[Kgal]

I sure hope I'm not posting something you've already covered here.

This video by Terence McKenna is funny and thought provoking about the natural chemical found in our bodies: DMT. When I heard him describe the entities he encountered when he phased himself across the veil makes me think they were 4th frequency beings. I can well imagine what he encountered there.

He points out the experience lasts only about 10 minutes and has no lasting effects whatsoever on the mind after it's over. He also tells of how Shamans know all about the entities (their ancestors) over in the 4th frequency dimension.
It makes me wonder why it was made illegal....

[video=youtube;mQ8t9o9d2Zg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ8t9o9d2Zg[/video]

 

[Skarekrow]

I started watching this the other day - smiling hugely the whole time - and then had to cut it short. Isn't this the most amazing thing to find out there were advanced civilizations on this planet as far back as 25000 years ago?!?!? I've been anticipating this ever since he wrote the first book back in 1995.
:bounce:

I sure hope I'm not posting something you've already covered here.

This video by Terence McKenna is funny and thought provoking about the natural chemical found in our bodies: DMT. When I heard him describe the entities he encountered when he phased himself across the veil makes me think they were 4th frequency beings. I can well imagine what he encountered there.

He points out the experience lasts only about 10 minutes and has no lasting effects whatsoever on the mind after it's over. He also tells of how Shamans know all about the entities (their ancestors) over in the 4th frequency dimension.
It makes me wonder why it was made illegal....

[video=youtube;mQ8t9o9d2Zg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ8t9o9d2Zg[/video]

No doubt there was envy, greed, and fear (probably on both sides) at play.
Yes, when the average person is asked what would be the best outcome for the world…your average person doesn’t say - One where I rule and murder those who stand in my way…they want good things for all.
I think the story of Eden is actually the story of mankind being “banished” so to speak for abusing the power given to them.
That maybe this life was a decidedly necessary teaching point for us from the grand intelligence, not as a punishment, but a perspective gaining experience?

 

[Skarekrow]

Has Spirituality Become Another Ego Identity?

Spirituality in the West has been severely distorted; being a marketplace of trinkets, self-help gurus, healers, a huge variety of spiritual practices, substances and so on.
Somehow this culture has taken something very pure and simple and turned it in to something commercial, something competitive and into that which it is not.

Our western mind is moulded into wanting to attain something and some people on the spiritual path have spent their entire lives trying to attain, only to be as stuck and bound as they ever were.

It’s this very desire to attain something, this wanting to reach a ‘higher state of consciousness’, which is what keeps people bound and seeking.
By definition, to be a seeker, you have not yet sought, and therefore those who are always seeking do not find.

One of the great Tibetan Buddhists Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche who played a crucial role in bringing Buddhist teachings to the West during the Chinese occupation has this summary to say about awakening/meditation/enlightenment in Meditation in Action:\

“Meditation is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.”

​

So in context with the rest of the chapter this is in, he is referring to our ego, or our idea of who we are, the “me”, the “I”, has no solidity to it, and not to uphold the belief that it exists.

He denounces the striving to become better or higher – as pure consciousness cannot be increased or diminished.

Nothing about healing, nothing about crystals or chakras or ascension or needing to strive or to take certain substances… just to be.

Enlightenment​

It’s a funny word this one, and has so many connotations and ideas surrounding it.
In western culture it’s usually thought to be something that one attains after maybe 3 or 4 decades meditating in a cave, but the more I read and the more I journey, the less it seems this word is about reaching higher states or personal attainment.

“Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, only enlightened activity.”

​

This was said by the great Zen master Shunryu Suzuki and I can see how this fits in exactly with what Ram Dass’s Hindi guru Maharaji said to him when asked how to become enlightened. He replied “Love everyone, feed everyone, serve everyone.”

How very simple hey?
But in today’s mad world, do you know anyone who truly does this?
It seems that enlightenment refers to realising our true being – what it is that we really are.

This is why all the spiritual teachers I’ve come across – from Tibetan Buddhism to Zen to Advaita Vedanta to the Upanishads, usually refer to it as “Self Realisation” rather than enlightenment.

Finding out that we are not our thinking mind, we are not our body, we are not our emotions, feelings, desires or aversions; that we are aware of all these things, not intrinsically them.

They use words like awareness, consciousness, God, the Buddha nature, emptiness and so on.
It’s essentially awareness being aware of itself, and seeing as each and every one of us are already this awareness, we are all already “there”, but we have identified ourselves with the things we are aware of (body and mind) and have limited ourselves by doing so, making this the cause of all the suffering in the world.

We are used to focusing on external appearances; our body, our intellect, our differences, our beliefs, but the more we turn our attention inward to our own inner workings and that awareness that is always there, we find a depth to our being that is almost scarily profound.

So this is not something that we can attain – which is hard for the western mind to comprehend, because it is so conditioned to attain.
It always wants to one-up others, to be on a pedestal, to be seen, to be higher, but it is this very egocentric behavior that keeps people bound.

This is why anyone who refers to themselves as being enlightened, you can rest assured that they are not; and usually when the great spiritual teachers are asked whether they are, they will dodge the question.

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche once said in one of his talks “So you’re enlightened… what now?”
He was poking fun at the western worlds way of wanting to attain and become a higher or better person, but practically in everyday life what does that mean for us?

Do we shut ourselves away in a dark room meditating all day?
Do we walk around with our chest puffed out, our groupies and our inflated ego?

This is where for me, it comes back to what Maharaji said.
If we act from the place of that realisation that we are all the same essence just with our different masks on, then we will treat others as our self, making differences irrelevant and the notion of “other” as inevitably irrelevant too.

“Everywhere I go, I meet myself”
- Shunryu Suzuki​

Surrender​

The underlying current of most sages and mystics on spirituality is that of surrender; in giving yourself over completely to the whole, to help and heal those in need, and relinquish all desire in furthering our own career/bank account/self-image.

We can help so many people, if we just step out of the social norm of progress and work, and stop caring so much as to what others think of us.
There are most likely people living on our own street that struggle with bills, food, money, TLC and there are the seniors who could benefit from our youth, the poor who could benefit from our generosity, the lonely who could benefit from our warmth.

Do any of these struggling people truly care about how well one can meditate?
It’s very easy to get caught up with the spiritual tag, and use it as a concept, an identity, instead of as a way of being.

It’s really easy to get attached to the idea of being spiritual and to identify as one of the many labels out there from “indigo child” to “lightworker”, which really only separates us in another form from our fellow humans, as it’s a way of raising our self to be of supposed higher moral ground and special.

Being spiritual doesn’t mean continuously working on our self in meditation and yoga.
That’s the whole point; service to others, ending the suffering and separateness in other beings.

Giving and sharing without the need for reciprocation or acknowledgement.
If a hand feeds a mouth, does it matter to whom they belong to?

The best way it seems to attenuate the ego, to surrender and release ourselves of attraction and aversion is to serve others.
Not to worry about gaining all these amazing experiences, communing with angels, seeing in different dimensions or raising ourselves on the meditation pedestal.

Surrender ourselves and serve others.

 

[Tin Man]

Has Spirituality Become Another Ego Identity?

Spirituality in the West has been severely distorted; being a marketplace of trinkets, self-help gurus, healers, a huge variety of spiritual practices, substances and so on.
Somehow this culture has taken something very pure and simple and turned it in to something commercial, something competitive and into that which it is not.

Our western mind is moulded into wanting to attain something and some people on the spiritual path have spent their entire lives trying to attain, only to be as stuck and bound as they ever were.

It’s this very desire to attain something, this wanting to reach a ‘higher state of consciousness’, which is what keeps people bound and seeking.
By definition, to be a seeker, you have not yet sought, and therefore those who are always seeking do not find.

One of the great Tibetan Buddhists Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche who played a crucial role in bringing Buddhist teachings to the West during the Chinese occupation has this summary to say about awakening/meditation/enlightenment in Meditation in Action:\

“Meditation is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.”

​

So in context with the rest of the chapter this is in, he is referring to our ego, or our idea of who we are, the “me”, the “I”, has no solidity to it, and not to uphold the belief that it exists.

He denounces the striving to become better or higher – as pure consciousness cannot be increased or diminished.

Nothing about healing, nothing about crystals or chakras or ascension or needing to strive or to take certain substances… just to be.

Enlightenment​

It’s a funny word this one, and has so many connotations and ideas surrounding it.
In western culture it’s usually thought to be something that one attains after maybe 3 or 4 decades meditating in a cave, but the more I read and the more I journey, the less it seems this word is about reaching higher states or personal attainment.

“Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, only enlightened activity.”

​

This was said by the great Zen master Shunryu Suzuki and I can see how this fits in exactly with what Ram Dass’s Hindi guru Maharaji said to him when asked how to become enlightened. He replied “Love everyone, feed everyone, serve everyone.”

How very simple hey?
But in today’s mad world, do you know anyone who truly does this?
It seems that enlightenment refers to realising our true being – what it is that we really are.

This is why all the spiritual teachers I’ve come across – from Tibetan Buddhism to Zen to Advaita Vedanta to the Upanishads, usually refer to it as “Self Realisation” rather than enlightenment.

Finding out that we are not our thinking mind, we are not our body, we are not our emotions, feelings, desires or aversions; that we are aware of all these things, not intrinsically them.

They use words like awareness, consciousness, God, the Buddha nature, emptiness and so on.
It’s essentially awareness being aware of itself, and seeing as each and every one of us are already this awareness, we are all already “there”, but we have identified ourselves with the things we are aware of (body and mind) and have limited ourselves by doing so, making this the cause of all the suffering in the world.

We are used to focusing on external appearances; our body, our intellect, our differences, our beliefs, but the more we turn our attention inward to our own inner workings and that awareness that is always there, we find a depth to our being that is almost scarily profound.

So this is not something that we can attain – which is hard for the western mind to comprehend, because it is so conditioned to attain.
It always wants to one-up others, to be on a pedestal, to be seen, to be higher, but it is this very egocentric behavior that keeps people bound.

This is why anyone who refers to themselves as being enlightened, you can rest assured that they are not; and usually when the great spiritual teachers are asked whether they are, they will dodge the question.

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche once said in one of his talks “So you’re enlightened… what now?”
He was poking fun at the western worlds way of wanting to attain and become a higher or better person, but practically in everyday life what does that mean for us?

Do we shut ourselves away in a dark room meditating all day?
Do we walk around with our chest puffed out, our groupies and our inflated ego?

This is where for me, it comes back to what Maharaji said.
If we act from the place of that realisation that we are all the same essence just with our different masks on, then we will treat others as our self, making differences irrelevant and the notion of “other” as inevitably irrelevant too.

“Everywhere I go, I meet myself”
- Shunryu Suzuki​

Surrender​

The underlying current of most sages and mystics on spirituality is that of surrender; in giving yourself over completely to the whole, to help and heal those in need, and relinquish all desire in furthering our own career/bank account/self-image.

We can help so many people, if we just step out of the social norm of progress and work, and stop caring so much as to what others think of us.
There are most likely people living on our own street that struggle with bills, food, money, TLC and there are the seniors who could benefit from our youth, the poor who could benefit from our generosity, the lonely who could benefit from our warmth.

Do any of these struggling people truly care about how well one can meditate?
It’s very easy to get caught up with the spiritual tag, and use it as a concept, an identity, instead of as a way of being.

It’s really easy to get attached to the idea of being spiritual and to identify as one of the many labels out there from “indigo child” to “lightworker”, which really only separates us in another form from our fellow humans, as it’s a way of raising our self to be of supposed higher moral ground and special.

Being spiritual doesn’t mean continuously working on our self in meditation and yoga.
That’s the whole point; service to others, ending the suffering and separateness in other beings.

Giving and sharing without the need for reciprocation or acknowledgement.
If a hand feeds a mouth, does it matter to whom they belong to?

The best way it seems to attenuate the ego, to surrender and release ourselves of attraction and aversion is to serve others.
Not to worry about gaining all these amazing experiences, communing with angels, seeing in different dimensions or raising ourselves on the meditation pedestal.

Surrender ourselves and serve others.

Very true. There are quite a few individuals who have made millions from figures like Buddha or Jesus, ones who preached against excess and attachment. Meditation and prayer are considered a means to an end. You pray to get favors from god; you meditate to relieve stress. The focus is on reward, on what you can get from it.

 

[Skarekrow]

David Chalmers:
How do you explain consciousness?


[video=youtube;uhRhtFFhNzQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=uhRhtFFhNzQ[/video]

Our consciousness is a fundamental aspect of our existence, says philosopher David Chalmers:
"There's nothing we know about more directly.... but at the same time it's the most mysterious phenomenon in the universe."
He shares some ways to think about the movie playing in our heads.​

 

[Skarekrow]

Very true. There are quite a few individuals who have made millions from figures like Buddha or Jesus, ones who preached against excess and attachment. Meditation and prayer are considered a means to an end. You pray to get favors from god; you meditate to relieve stress. The focus is on reward, on what you can get from it.

Exactly…and I have been the same way about certain things too.
I thought it was a good article with a solid point.

 

[Skarekrow]

So I just want everyone to be aware that just because someone made a semi-nice looking powerpoint movie doesn’t mean that the science is 100% correct. I encourage everyone to do their own research and find out the truth for themselves.
I’m not saying that about this particular movie, but any movie posted on this thread or any other…anyone can make a lie sound convincing to the willing-minded.

Anyhow, that being said, I really enjoyed this one!

Consciousness Mechanics:
The Movie

If you would like to download the high quality version, go here:
http://iamniverse.com/movie.html

[video=youtube;HWSu_EewZZI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HWSu_EewZZI[/video]

Consciousness Mechanics: The Movie is a free video explaining the fundaments of reality.
It is an expository movie that explains basic axioms regarding consciousness.

It delves into the empirical evidence of consciousness, and how consciousness creates its experience of reality as a self-observation called “time.”
Reality, time experience, and most of all, the mechanics of consciousness is what this movie is all about.

It is a clinical examination as to what the human consciousness experiences as reality.​

 

[Kgal]

Has Spirituality Become Another Ego Identity?


​

Spirituality in the West has been severely distorted; being a marketplace of trinkets, self-help gurus, healers, a huge variety of spiritual practices, substances and so on.
Somehow this culture has taken something very pure and simple and turned it in to something commercial, something competitive and into that which it is not.

Our western mind is moulded into wanting to attain something and some people on the spiritual path have spent their entire lives trying to attain, only to be as stuck and bound as they ever were.

It’s this very desire to attain something, this wanting to reach a ‘higher state of consciousness’, which is what keeps people bound and seeking.
By definition, to be a seeker, you have not yet sought, and therefore those who are always seeking do not find.

One of the great Tibetan Buddhists Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche who played a crucial role in bringing Buddhist teachings to the West during the Chinese occupation has this summary to say about awakening/meditation/enlightenment in Meditation in Action:\

“Meditation is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.”

​

So in context with the rest of the chapter this is in, he is referring to our ego, or our idea of who we are, the “me”, the “I”, has no solidity to it, and not to uphold the belief that it exists.

He denounces the striving to become better or higher – as pure consciousness cannot be increased or diminished.

Nothing about healing, nothing about crystals or chakras or ascension or needing to strive or to take certain substances… just to be.

......
The best way it seems to attenuate the ego, to surrender and release ourselves of attraction and aversion is to serve others.
Not to worry about gaining all these amazing experiences, communing with angels, seeing in different dimensions or raising ourselves on the meditation pedestal.

Surrender ourselves and serve others.

Yes. Spirituality. New Agers. Mystical Seekers. All of those modalities can be addicting and keep people locked in attachment just like any other religion or paradigm (atheists included). I am now seeing where they have blocked the emotions too right along with mainstream society.

Every person needs to feel their emotions and learn how to let them go. That can take many forms and there are many tools to use while accomplishing this. There is nothing wrong with asking for aid and assistance from the elementals such as crystals to help in the process. I say whatever works for ya - do it!

I am seeing a whole wide range of people who have been studying this spiritual stuff for 30 years and they are no better off than I - who has only really been at it for about 3 years now. In fact - it appears I have an advantage over most of them because I practiced Vipassana Buddhist Meditation for years before I opened up to Spirituality. Vipassana trains the mind to see it's attachments and aversions and how to to not hang on to them. Most of the Spiritual Community is still attached to this guru or that Channel and it's teachings. They seem to intellectualize everything.
My spiritual teachings have helped me to release the repressed gunk(shadow side) much more quickly than counseling therapy did.
Once one has gone through the releasing of the repressed emotions the belief systems they were built upon usually dissipate too leaving a neutral state of being - clear - and more accepting of what it is.
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones.... I didn't start this journey so I could be a better angel or some such. I started it because I was tired of seeking love outside of myself and it frittering away. I started on this journey because I decided I was going to find a way to love myself ....once and for all time....and I did.

 

[Skarekrow]

Yes. Spirituality. New Agers. Mystical Seekers. All of those modalities can be addicting and keep people locked in attachment just like any other religion or paradigm (atheists included). I am now seeing where they have blocked the emotions too right along with mainstream society.

Every person needs to feel their emotions and learn how to let them go. That can take many forms and there are many tools to use while accomplishing this. There is nothing wrong with asking for aid and assistance from the elementals such as crystals to help in the process. I say whatever works for ya - do it!

I am seeing a whole wide range of people who have been studying this spiritual stuff for 30 years and they are no better off than I - who has only really been at it for about 3 years now. In fact - it appears I have an advantage over most of them because I practiced Vipassana Buddhist Meditation for years before I opened up to Spirituality. Vipassana trains the mind to see it's attachments and aversions and how to to not hang on to them. Most of the Spiritual Community is still attached to this guru or that Channel and it's teachings. They seem to intellectualize everything.
My spiritual teachings have helped me to release the repressed gunk(shadow side) much more quickly than counseling therapy did.
Once one has gone through the releasing of the repressed emotions the belief systems they were built upon usually dissipate too leaving a neutral state of being - clear - and more accepting of what it is.
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones.... I didn't start this journey so I could be a better angel or some such. I started it because I was tired of seeking love outside of myself and it frittering away. I started on this journey because I decided I was going to find a way to love myself ....once and for all time....and I did.

That's a more noble cause than most!
I think me personally…I really began to look into this stuff because of the “strange” occurrences that have always happened around me my whole life…most of those stories were told to me by my parents as I would be too young to remember some things. And then to not only witness something violently move, but to have a second witness in the room with me (both sober I might add), it set me off on a path to find out what allowed for that action to take place.
And for years I had put my own spirituality on the back-burner…or off the stove altogether…being raised Mormon really gave me an aversion to organized religion (even to this day).
There are things happening ALL THE TIME in our world that we either miss or weren’t meant to see, but I know personally for a fact, and more than that - in my heart that there is more to life than just what we see and we don’t just cease to be when our heart stops.
I think people created deities and heavens to explain the glimpses of the afterlife that some must have had (even without CPR in rare cases people spontaneously regain life). Even back to the stories in the Bible…for what those NDEers tell us now - Love one another.
Treat them as you would want to be treated. Everything else seems very secondary to those things.
It is hard to do something without allowing our ego to constantly butt it’s head in.
Sure, you are meditating to better yourself, and that is an action of the ego…but you can use those gifts and knowledge gained when bettering yourself to help others reach the same level because being “better” is subjective in the first place.

 

[Skarekrow]

The God Within

[video=youtube;thM3SHCXP0o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=thM3SHCXP0o[/video]

This mind-expanding documentary on "conscious cosmology," covering consciousness, particle physics, the nature of reality, the Big Bang, quantum physics, origins of life, free will, and more.​

 

[Skarekrow]

Becoming Conscious:
The Science of Mindfulness

[video=youtube;5TeWvf-nfpA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5TeWvf-nfpA[/video]

Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The New York Academy of Sciences

Many of us go through daily life on autopilot, without being fully aware of our conscious experience.

Neuroscientists Richard Davidson and Amishi Jha join clinical mindfulness expert Jon Kabat-Zinn to explore the role of consciousness in mental and physical health, how we can train the mind to become more flexible and adaptable, and what cutting-edge neuroscience is revealing about the transformation of consciousness through mindfulness and contemplative practice.

This event is part of The Emerging Science of Consciousness Series, which brings together leading experts from various fields to discuss how the latest research is challenging our understanding of the very nature and function of consciousness in our daily lives.​

 

[Skarekrow]

Cool stuff!

Quantum Levitation - Meissner effect

[video=youtube;lC-3li6ScUE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lC-3li6ScUE[/video]

The physics behind

We start with a single crystal sapphire wafer and coat it with a thin (~1µm thick) ceramic material called yttrium barium copper oxide (YBa2Cu3O7-x ).
The ceramic layer has no interesting magnetic or electrical properties at room temperature. However, when cooled below -185ºC (-301ºF) the material becomes a superconductor.

It conducts electricity without resistance, with no energy loss.
Zero.

Superconductivity and magnetic field do not like each other.
When possible, the superconductor will expel all the magnetic field from inside.
This is the Meissner effect. In our case, since the superconductor is extremely thin, the magnetic field DOES penetrates.
However, it does that in discrete quantities (this is quantum physics after all! ) called flux tubes.


Inside each magnetic flux tube superconductivity is locally destroyed.
The superconductor will try to keep the magnetic tubes pinned in weak areas (e.g. grain boundaries).
Any spatial movement of the superconductor will cause the flux tubes to move.
In order to prevent that the superconductor remains "trapped" in midair.​

 

[Kgal]

I'm popping in to share this here. Their research is published at Harvard's digital library. About 2 months ago I heard about this and something about our solar system is actually a binary. Something about a wobble in the Sun's orbit? Anyway....more exciting stuff unfolding!

[h=1]Astronomers are Predicting at Least Two More Large Planets in the Solar System[/h] by Nancy Atkinson on January 15, 2015



http://www.universetoday.com/118252...t-two-more-large-planets-in-the-solar-system/

http://www.sciencespacerobots.com/astronomers-say-there-are-two-unknown-planets-in-our-11520151

 

[Skarekrow]

I'm popping in to share this here. Their research is published at Harvard's digital library. About 2 months ago I heard about this and something about our solar system is actually a binary. Something about a wobble in the Sun's orbit? Anyway....more exciting stuff unfolding!

Astronomers are Predicting at Least Two More Large Planets in the Solar System

by Nancy Atkinson on January 15, 2015



http://www.universetoday.com/118252...t-two-more-large-planets-in-the-solar-system/

http://www.sciencespacerobots.com/astronomers-say-there-are-two-unknown-planets-in-our-11520151

How very interesting!
Wouldn’t that be something to see one of them come into visible range!?

 

[sprinkles]

[MENTION=5045]Skarekrow[/MENTION]
[video=youtube;sWmvZ0IGrsU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWmvZ0IGrsU[/video]

 

[Skarekrow]

@Skarekrow
[video=youtube;sWmvZ0IGrsU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWmvZ0IGrsU[/video]

Nice video explanation…thanks!

 

[sprinkles]

Nice video explanation…thanks!

Just giving some props back to the neglected semiconductor.

Everyone takes the poor semiconductor for granted because its cousin the superconductor can levitate when it is really cold. Well a semiconductor can change conductivity at room temperature. And there's like a bajillion of them in every computer. People take the semiconductor for granted because it is ubiquitous and does its job unseen but it is just as amazing as the superconductor, not to mention a LOT more useful.

 

[Skarekrow]

The Missing:
Why Do Some People Vanish Into Thin Air?

On Thursday January 8, 2015, Johanna Frouw’s husband parked his car outside the liquor store on 32 Street in Vernon, British Columbia, leaving her behind while he went inside to purchase beer.

He left the keys in the ignition, and was only gone for a few minutes; when he returned, his car was where he left it, and inside were the keys–still in the ignition–along with Johanna’s phone.

Johanna, however, was nowhere to be found.

RCMP officials learned that Johanna had used drugs in the past, but that she was never prone to just leave like this.
Her husband, to whom her partnership is recognized by common law, said there had been nothing wrong, nor any indication as to why she would leave.

At present, police are still trying to understand how a woman could seemingly vanish off the face of the earth within a narrow window of only a few minutes.
Frouw’s story isn’t unique, of course.

Every year, an unprecedented number of people go missing, and under a variety of different circumstances that have often left police and investigators scratching their heads.
Late in 2014, the Boston Globe reported on the disappearance of Gerry Largay, who vanished while hiking alone on the Appalachian Trail on July 22, 2013.

Largay hadn’t been alone the entire time, however; as a reasonably experienced hiker, she had befriended many families and fellow hikers along the way, and had been assisted by her husband, who supplemented her solo-trek along the way by meeting her at various intervals, where he would meet her to assist with supplies, or occasionally to get them a hotel where Gerry could enjoy a warm shower.

Largay disappeared during a period of precipitation over a three day stint amidst some of the more rugged terrain in western Maine.
No conclusive leads as to Largay’s whereabouts have ever been uncovered, and while it is presumed that she met her fate while hiking the Appalachian Trail, her disappearance is one of the many mysteries in the realm of people’s strange disappearances.

Entire committees have been formed to address the issue of people who just vanish, such as the, International Commission on Missing Persons, formed specifically to address disappearances of individuals related to natural disasters, armed conflicts, and violations of human rights the likes of slavery and human trafficking.

Especially in North America, a number of the more curious disappearances have been opined as being the result of something far less well-orchestrated as human trafficking, though the possibility of kidnappings having taken place may indeed be related.

Another case which I’ve detailed previously here was brought to my attention by researcher David Paulides, author of the Missing 411 book series, which documents strange, and often seemingly inexplicable disappearances, as well as the strange circumstances that occasionally surround them.

The story of the disappearance of six-year-old Dennis Martin, a young boy who went missing in 1969 near Cades Cove, Tennessee, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, has remained a hallmark among odd missing person cases for decades.

Much like Johannah Frouw’s sudden disappearance earlier this month, Martin had also vanished within a very short period of time, while he and other children were playing near Spence Field while he and his family were camping there in the summer months.

Also, much like Gerry Largay’s case, the youngest member of the Martin family had vanished while on the Appalachian Trail; his whereabouts have never been determined.

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Dennis Martin shortly before his disappearance in 1969.​

There are countless reasons why an individual—particularly a minor—might become disoriented and disappear in a wilderness area; of Martin, it is important to note that his father had been quoted in a National Park Service document saying that Dennis had apparently suffered a mild learning disability.

Still, what is arguably the most disturbing aspect of the investigation has to do with the observations of a man named Harold Key, who along with his family, had been hiking a few miles away near Rhowan’s Creek on the afternoon Dennis went missing.

He and his family reported hearing an “enormous, sickening scream” as they hiked along, followed by the unsettling observation of a “rough-looking, dark figured man” who appeared to be trying to conceal himself from view on a ridge above them.

This individual was observed moving quickly up the ridge away from them, and Key suggested there may have been something the individual had been carrying at the time.
Strange details such as these have fueled the imaginations of researchers, as well as that of less official, but perhaps equally-curious minds who have studied the case, leading some to suggest that strange “beasts” the likes of Bigfoot might be held accountable for the disappearances.

It is obviously difficult to support such a conclusion, at least in the absence of hard data that supports the existence of these proposed “wild men” in the North Americas.
And yet, reports that seem to account for the likes of such animals have been produced by numerous individuals, for well over a century.

More likely, perhaps, in the majority of cases is the notion that people who go missing in the wilderness are the victims of disorientation, dehydration, or perhaps even the predation of various wild animals, large and dangerous enough to accost and overcome even a well-built man in his prime.

Which, in truth, points to the urban disappearances as being among the more perplexing; with hope, people the likes of Johanna Frouw will not remain among North America’s inexplicably missing.

A final example worthy of review here involves the disappearance of Zebb Quinn, an 18-year-old Walmart employee who vanished on January 2, 2000 near his home in Asheville, North Carolina (the home, incidentally, of this author).

Quinn had been looking to purchase a new vehicle, and had been accompanied by a friend at the time he received an alert (a page, to be exact, to further illustrate the passage of time since his disappearance), after which he told his company he had to leave.

Quinn was last seen at a gas station on Hendersonville Road, and his disappearance has never been solved.
Of particular interest in the disappearance of Quinn, Jason Owens, the friend who had been with him at the time Quinn received the page, later told police that Quinn had seemed “frantic,” and had purportedly damaged Owen’s vehicle by rear-ending him during his hasty exit.

Owens turned up later that evening at the local urgent care facility with a head injury, as well as broken ribs, claiming that a second accident had occurred that evening, for which no police report was ever filed.

Quinn’s vehicle turned up nearly two weeks later in the parking lot of the Little Pigs Barbecue across from Asheville High School, sporting its own bizarre variety of defacement: a large pair of lips had been drawn on the rear window of the car with what appeared to be lipstick, and a labrador puppy, as well as a hotel key, drink bottles, and a jacket, were found within.

Possible leads in the case had included the suspicion that Quinn’s friend Owen, as well as a young woman named Misty Taylor and her boyfriend, may have had information in the disappearance, but no evidence has ever surfaced to support this conclusively.

It is indeed strange—and unsetting—when circumstances allow for a person to go missing indefinitely in this way.
Whatever the underlying cause in any given circumstance, such cases can appear to defy logic, and of course, remind us of the frailties we maintain as individuals.

Amidst the more foreign and exotic mysteries of our universe, none strike home quite like those which can occur in the everyday, and still remain unsolved.