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What is going on in the picture? Are the villagers trying to put out a fire? Adding fuel TO the fire? They look like mexican guerillas, priests, and kings. I realize I'm projecting my own education on it...but dang that's what they look like.

 

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What is going on in the picture? Are the villagers trying to put out a fire? Adding fuel TO the fire? They look like mexican guerillas, priests, and kings. I realize I'm projecting my own education on it...but dang that's what they look like.

Interesting picture isn’t it?

You’ve got me…they have transcended bodily death maybe?

 

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Interesting picture isn’t it?

You’ve got me…they have transcended bodily death maybe?

Yes it is....very interesting. You're probably correct in that they transcended the dogma and teachings on death.

 

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Thoughts?
Criticisms?

Still a bit more work to do…75% done.

 

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BAM!!!

Researchers Image Wave-Particle
Duality Light For The First Time Ever

It is well known that light is capable of acting like a particle as well as a wave.
However, these have always been viewed as completely separate forms, not embodying both at once.​

Quantum mechanics states that light should have both attributes simultaneously, but that phenomenon has never been imaged directly until now.
A team of researchers has finally been able to photograph the quantum wave-particle duality of light,and they have described the work in an open access paper published in Nature Communications.

This will help researchers better understand the fundamental nature of light, and could even help assist the development of quantum computing and a number of other technologies.

The researchers created a standing wave of light after blasting a metal wire with UV light.
They then shot electrons at the wave, trying to disturb individual photons.

When the two particles interacted, the change in energy made the photon slow down or speed up, depending on how the connection occurred.
The interaction was able to be seen with a high-powered microscope.

Because the wave is really a succession of distinct particles, the researchers were able to view the standing wave, and the photons that were disturbed were still seen as individuals..

Thus, witnessing light’s wave-particle duality became possible for the first time.
Once the photons were disturbed, the researchers were then able to image the quantum change in energy, as can be seen above.

“This experiment demonstrates that, for the first time ever, we can film quantum mechanics – and its paradoxical nature – directly,” senior author Fabrizio Carbone from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland said in a press release. “Being able to image and control quantum phenomena at the nanometer scale like this opens up a new route towards quantum computing.”

The photoelectric principles that allowed the researchers to finally image the wave-particle duality of light were first proposed by Albert Einstein at the turn of the 20th century, when light was only believed to be a wave.

Einstein suggested that the waves were actually composed of a stream of individual particles, which wasn’t very popular initially.
However, this work would eventually lead to Einstein receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.

 

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Thoughts?
Criticisms?

Still a bit more work to do…75% done.

I keep getting hung up on the word Goodbye.... though I know not why.

This is cool. A blue rose is interesting to see....and the eye of Horus too.... along with a skull. Very dark and mysterious!

Ouija board ?

 

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I keep getting hung up on the word Goodbye.... though I know not why.

This is cool. A blue rose is interesting to see....and the eye of Horus too.... along with a skull. Very dark and mysterious!

Ouija board ?

My first wood-burning project/keep me from going fucking insane at home project….lol.

A blue rose means something is “Unattainable” it is also associated with royal blood…so it can mean “splendor” or “majesty”
I free-handed the whole thing…I just did what my Qi told me to do…and this is what happened.
I refuse to use one myself though…not out of fear…the timing is wrong for that.
I think you understand.

 

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“The League” has been updated for those concerned…lots of new faces!

 

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My first wood-burning project/keep me from going fucking insane at home project….lol.

A blue rose means something is “Unattainable” it is also associated with royal blood…so it can mean “splendor” or “majesty”
I free-handed the whole thing…I just did what my Qi told me to do…and this is what happened.
I refuse to use one myself though…not out of fear…the timing is wrong for that.
I think you understand.

Sometimes it just boils down to doing what they ask...with as much integrity as possible. It's great to see you flowing along with it.

Majesty - eh? And the other side there was a skull suggesting death or endings.

Your Majesty suggests a great deal of power resides in one man. Power. Death. Power over Death? Royal Power of Life and Death. You must have been a King in some other life.

 

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Sometimes it just boils down to doing what they ask...with as much integrity as possible. It's great to see you flowing along with it.

Majesty - eh? And the other side there was a skull suggesting death or endings.

Your Majesty suggests a great deal of power resides in one man. Power. Death. Power over Death? Royal Power of Life and Death. You must have been a King in some other life.

Oh, I don’t know about that…I had a pretty clear dream one time I was a fish-monger…hahahaha.
There is something to do with WWII and my Son…we have connections.
I remember the first time I met him in Russia…it was a beautiful summer day and the wind was blowing the smoke from the iron plant away from town haha.
Anyhow, we went and picked him up at the Kindergarten (I love how all this shit is totally free btw), anyhow, he walked up to me and I reached out my hand, he looked at me with his huge blue eyes and such a smile I will never forget! He grabbed onto my finger and we started to walk to his and his Mother’s home.
For years, I didn’t understand that smile…he smiled at me all the way home…and throughout the whole time I was there.
What was this smile?
Then recently it came to me - he knew me, it was a smile of recognition.
I don’t know what happened in WWII (I have a feeling I was on the wrong side), but it tied us together…to love each other…perhaps we killed one another and now we will learn the opposite.
So far it is working!

 

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This is a nice one...

 

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I can’t say it enough…if you have never read this, it is a must!
I re-read this thing ALL THE TIME.

The Prophet by

Read it here : http://www.katsandogz.com/gibran.html
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Who says consciousness doesn’t go all the way down?

When 8-year-old Gabi fed the crows in her neighborhood…


…they began to thank her with gifts!


These ‘gifts’ consist of buttons, LEGO pieces, scraps of metal, and even a heart-shaped bead. One time she got a tiny piece of metal with the word “best.”
They bring anything shiny that would fit in their beaks


Gabi has a collection of precious gifts and labels her favorites


Once, Gabi even got a piece of metal with the word “best” on it. “I don’t know if they still have the part that says ‘friend'”


They even returned a camera lens cap that Gabi’s mom Lisa had lost!​

 

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A Place for Consciousness Studies in Academia?
Professor Helps Pave the Way

Dr. Allan Leslie Combs is developing a Consciousness Studies PhD program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).
“Consciousness was traditionally treated by what [psychologist] William James called ‘tough-minded scientists’ or ‘hard-nosed empiricists’ as trivial, or non-existent, or at best what’s technically called an epiphenomenon–something that’s just produced by the brain somehow but doesn’t mean anything,” Dr. Combs said.

But the physical impact of observation–of consciousness–on objects seen in quantum physics experiments has drawn increased interest to the study of consciousness. “If consciousness is part of the basic fabric of the universe at the quantum level, then it’s important everywhere and in everything. Physicists are very serious about this, this is not just wacko stuff,” Dr. Combs said with a laugh.

Dr. Combs’ consciousness courses earn students nationally recognized academic credits.
Though CIIS grew out of a casual wine and conversation group in the 1950s–a setting more traditionally suited to discussion of spiritual or philosophical matters–the school has attained full accreditation and has operated as a robust academic institution, albeit a somewhat unconventional one, for more than two decades.

Standing at the CIIS home in San Francisco and pointing across the Bay at the University of California—Berkeley, Dr. Combs likes to say, “Well, we have the same accreditation they do.”
A new world view is emerging, said Dr. Combs. He cited the late cultural historian and ecotheologian Thomas Berry, who viewed the universe as a community of beings rather than a collection of objects.

Dr. Combs emphasized the word “community.” Part of the new world view, he said, is an increased sense not only of sentience, but also of interconnectedness.
Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon in which particles that have once been in contact continue to show a connection even when separated by vast distances.

When the state of one particle is changed, a corresponding change occurs in the distant partner particle without any apparent cause except for this connection. “At the time of the Big Bang everything was connected,” Dr. Combs said.

Does everything in the universe thus remain connected through quantum entanglement?
Not all particles in the universe display entanglement this way, otherwise when one particle changes, a corresponding change in every other particle would be seen.

This doesn’t occur.
But, the question remains as to how everything may be connected in ways that aren’t immediately obvious.

The importance of quantum entanglement wasn’t widely discussed until recently, and physicists are now conducting studies to learn more about it.

Though the most prominent and popular colleges may not establish Consciousness Studies programs next month or next year, Dr. Combs is confident this field of study will eventually take hold on a broad scale.
If this is so, perhaps CIIS gives us a glimpse at the college campuses of the future.

Walking around the CIIS building in San Francisco, one finds images of mandalas and spiritual leaders.
Tolerance seems to be the pervading theme. In the classrooms, the subjects discussed run the gamut from clinical psychology through social justice and the arts to Eastern spiritual practices.

“It’s a little dicey sometimes,” Dr. Combs said. “One of the problems we have, [along with] other alternative schools … is that in some areas, like clinical psychology, in order to be fully accredited, you have to follow the standards of the APA [American Psychological Association].

That means not talking about spirituality, for example. [It means] sticking to a really basic empirical approach.

“This is a problem for alternative schools, because we do have a more spiritual orientation and a more humanistic orientation.” But CIIS has managed to walk the line.
Dr. Combs emerged as a Consciousness Studies professor from the borderland where empiricism meets mysticism.

He majored in physics at Ohio State University.
He went on to graduate studies in psychology and became interested in the Human Potential Movement of the 1960s, which held that a largely untapped potential can be cultivated to bring greater fulfillment in life as well as positive social change.

This movement gradually went in the direction of spirituality. Dr. Combs identifies with Daoist philosophy and practices meditation.
He’s also long had an interest in cosmology, in understanding the big picture of what our place or role is in the universe.

The University of North Carolina hired Dr. Combs in 1982 as a physiological psychologist.
He retired from his post there in 2004 and began his work at CIIS. During his career at the university, he was fortunate to have the freedom and support to pursue his interest in consciousness.

Many in academia are not so lucky, he said. He knows of professors at other universities who have been dismissed for straying ever so slightly from their specifically assigned research.

At CIIS, students have great freedom in developing their own interests.
Dr. Combs is currently Director of Consciousness Studies in the Transformative Studies Department.

He explained that in his department, professors play the role of guiding students through research methods, but the topics of study are largely decided by the students.
There are some limits; if no experts are available to guide the students in a particular study, it may not be feasible for them to pursue it.

“If you wanted to study Kirlian auras, you’ve come to the wrong place,” he said. “Not because I or anyone I work with is adamantly against studying Kirlian auras, we just don’t know anything about them.”

Academic integrity and quality of work are key, and as long as these are upheld, staff members are open to the exploration of any idea.
The school hasn’t housed much research in the field of parapsychology, but one of Dr. Combs’ colleagues recently received a $50,000 grant to pursue parapsychology studies.

CIIS is an example of an academic environment in which “alternative” ideas are given a serious hearing.
Another step toward bringing an “alternative” idea to mainstream academia is the establishment of a professional society.

Dr. Combs is president and founder of the Society for Consciousness Studies, which now has 150 expert members including famed medical doctor and holistic health advocate Deepak Chopra.

Dr. Combs sees the emergence of Consciousness Studies as comparable to the crescendo achieved by a symphony. He is one among many “musicians” contributing to its rise.
The Society for Consciousness Studies will hold a conference open to the public June 3-5, 2015 on the Yale University campus in New Haven. Find more information here.

 

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So, there is a group shot there…the stone in the foreground I randomly found…I polished it, and low and behold I found two figures dancing…so I mounted it on a piece of driftwood.
Next is the glass head…this one was random too…inside the head (which was a hat mannequin in the 60’s) there are branches wrapped in copper wire which suspends the Amethyst “brain”…this has it’s own power…it’s strange.
Next in the back is the Spirit Board I am currently working on…almost done with color…rose with get silver highlights maybe the skull too? Then two-part epoxy over the top to seal it all in and make it appear more uniform in it’s coloring.
Last but not least is my favorite creation…I didn’t so much make this one, as I restored it and added a Scrying mirror.
The story behind this I must include…I walked into a random antique shop because they had a sign that said “Going out of business” So I checked it out…behind the counter on a shelf was this figure…no mirror…very dirty…it even had paint splatters on it in places. I asked “How much”…”Oh no, not for sale.” I look around some more…find nothing I like…I ask again…”Are you sure?” He says to me, “This was made in Poland by the owner of this shop just before the Nazis invaded, he had his own foundry there you see.” “This was the only thing he left Poland with, his one possession.” So I give up…it’s too precious. Just then, the phone rings, and who is it? The owner…the guy tells him someone is interested in the statue. He gets off the phone, says “He said you can have it for $xxx” I agree. I spent a considerable amount of time buffing off the old paint, dirt, grime, sweat, and who knows what else until you see the product.
Sorry that one was gifted to Sensiko, if you want to buy it talk to her…lol.

My Magickal Creations!!!





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Brilliant Scientists Are Open-Minded about Paranormal Stuff, So Why Not You?​

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In last week’s post on the Turing Test, I mentioned a fact I stumbled on in the Alan Turing exhibit at the Science Museum in London.
The pioneering computer theorist was a believer in telepathy, or mind-reading. (Turing was apparently impressed by the card-guessing experiments of J.B. Rhine.)

Then, last weekend, I learned that a prominent scientist whom I once interviewed had had a vivid vision of the violent death of his child shortly before it happened, an example of clairvoyance.

Serious scientists aren’t supposed to believe in paranormal phenomena, sometimes called “psi,” and yet some serious scientists do.
I thought it would be fun to list a few, starting with ones who, like Turing, have passed into the great beyond.

Psychologist William James served as the first president of the American Society for Psychical Research, which investigated paranormal phenomena, including ghosts.

In his essay “What Psychical Research Has Accomplished,” published in the late 1890s, James called a ghost-channeling medium, Leonora Piper, a “white crow” who had shaken his skeptical materialism.

“I cannot resist the conviction,” James wrote, “that knowledge appears which she has never gained by the ordinary waking use of her eyes and ears and wits. What the source of this knowledge may be I know not, and have not the glimmer of an explanatory suggestion to make; but from admitting the fact of such knowledge I can see no escape. So when I turn to the rest of the evidence, ghosts and all, I cannot carry with me the irreversibly negative bias of the ‘rigorously scientific’ mind, with its presumption as to what the true order of nature ought to be. I feel as if, though the evidence be flimsy in spots, it may nevertheless collectively carry heavy weight. The rigorously scientific mind may, in truth, easily overshoot the mark. Science means, first of all, a certain dispassionate method. To suppose that it means a certain set of results that one should pin one’s faith upon and hug forever is sadly to mistake its genius, and degrades the scientific body to the status of a sect.”

I love James, who throughout his career achieved a rare balance between skepticism and open-mindedness. (By the way, he eventually became disenchanted with Piper.)

The psychiatrist Carl Jung was a much more aggressive proponent of occult phenomena, notably “synchronicity,” which consists of coincidences that aren’t really coincidences, that hint at the existence of a hidden reality imbued with profound meaning, where the mental and physical realms interact in ways that conventional science cannot explain.

Or something along those lines.

Jung once described an example of synchronicity: “A young woman I was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab. While she was telling me this dream, I sat with my back to the closed window. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. I turned round and saw a flying insect knocking against the window-pane from the outside. I opened the window and caught the creature in the air as it flew in. It was the nearest analogy to a golden scarab one finds in our latitudes, a scarabaeid beetle, the common rose-chafer (Cetonia aurata), which, contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt the urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment. I must admit that nothing like it ever happened to me before or since.”

Although he ruled out God, Jung’s supposedly hard-headed mentor Freud did not rule out telepathy.
He “expressed greater conviction about telepathy privately than he did publicly,” according to “Occult, and Freud,” an essay by philosopher David Livingstone Smith in The Freud Encyclopedia (Routledge 2001, edited by Edward Erwin).

Freud believed that he had communicated telepathically with his daughter Anna and a colleague, Sandor Ferenczi, but Freud “dissuaded Ferenczi from publicly reporting on” the experiences.

In a 1922 paper, however, “Dreams and Telepathy,” Freud proposed as “incontestable” that “sleep creates favorable conditions for telepathy.”
Freud once compared telepathy to telephony.

Unimpressed that two psychiatrists and a psychologist had occult sympathies?
How about the Nobel-winning quantum theorist Wolfgang Pauli?

After a nervous breakdown in 1932, Pauli sought treatment from Jung, who convinced the physicist that his dreams were packed with synchronistic significance.

As quoted by the religious scholar Charlene Burns in a 2011 essay, Pauli wrote to a colleague that “we must postulate a cosmic order of nature beyond our control to which both the outward material objects and the inward images are subject.”

He also postulated that synchronicity might stem from some quantum effect that “weaves meaning into the fabric of nature.” (On the other hand, Pauli talked trash about Jung behind his back, complaining to another physicist that Jung was “quite without scientific training.”)

Two accomplished living physicists who believe in extrasensory perception are Freeman Dyson and Brian Josephson.
As I mentioned in a post last year, Dyson has written that “paranormal phenomena are real but lie outside the limits of science.”

No one has produced empirical proof of psi, he suggested, because it tends to occur under conditions of “strong emotion and stress,” which are “inherently incompatible with controlled scientific procedures.”

Josephson won a Nobel Prize in 1973, when he was only 33, and since then he has become an aggressive proponent of research on psychic phenomena.
“Yes, I think telepathy exists,” he told The Observer, a British newspaper, in 2001, “and I think quantum physics will help us understand its basic properties.”

A 1991 poll of members of the National Academy of Sciences found that only four percent believed in ESP (although 10 percent thought it was worth investigating).
My guess is that many more scientists believe, at least tentatively, in paranormal phenomena, but they are loath to disclose their views for fear of harming their reputations–and even science as a whole.

As Turing noted, paranormal phenomena such as telepathy and telekinesis “seem to deny all our usual scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming. It is very difficult to rearrange one’s ideas so as to fit these new facts in. Once one has accepted them it does not seem a very big step to believe in ghosts and bogies. The idea that our bodies move simply according to the known laws of physics, together with some others not yet discovered but somewhat similar, would be one of the first to go.”

Should the fact that Turing et al. took psi seriously mean that the rest of us should, too?
Not necessarily.

Brilliant scientists believe in lots of things for which there is no evidence, like multiverses and superstrings and God.
But how I wish that someone would find such proof!

Unlike the boring,foregone conclusion of the Higgs boson, the discovery of telepathy or telekinesis would blow centuries of accumulated scientific dogma sky high.

What could be more thrilling!

 

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[MENTION=6917]sprinkles[/MENTION]

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

 

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This is one of the better videos…hopefully, it’s authentic and not a bunch of bull.
It’s so hard to tell now with special effects being what they are.


Ghost at Disneyland
[video=youtube_share;jnjibWcbV2o]http://youtu.be/jnjibWcbV2o[/video]

 

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[MENTION=5601]vandyke[/MENTION] (give it a chance) @Kgal ( I think you would especially like this one)

The Global Consciousness Project -
Ph.D. Roger Nelson


[video=youtube_share;HQXoMI130KY]http://youtu.be/HQXoMI130KY[/video]

Psychologist Roger Nelson has been conducting an amazing experiment at the University of Princeton for many years: The global consciousness project investigates the effect of consciousness on matter, which can be reproduced and is statistically significant.

Nelson and his team succeeded to prove that humans are able to affect random processes by simply focusing on it.
Thus motivated, Nelson has been investigating the effect of major events on mass consciousness by means of a worldwide network of random number generators.

When huge crowds come into resonance, the effect is even provable around the globe, as it was shortly after the attacks of 9/11 or the death of Lady Di.
Are we all to each other on a consciousness level?​