Merkabah

[Skarekrow]

Fair enough. I just dislike it when people take a complex situation and boil it down into a simple philosophy. Like your recent post. "You're not a robot...you have a choice" It comes across like inane bullshit from someone who likes to complain about people's apathy, but not offer any real solution. They might as well call us all sheeple.

I know you see it in a different light, but to me it feels all too similar to someone on Fox news complaining about the poor. They shout at the world that all people need is hard work and elbow grease and they can suddenly become successful.

I think that real solutions have been offered but there are still many people who are okay with the current system to pay attention to them.
Yes…it is just a motivational poster basically….could be the cat hanging from the branch saying “Hang in there!”
But I know that I need to constantly refocus myself to the big picture because it’s so easy to get caught up in the inane, pointless things going on in our lives.
Especially with the chronic pain, it’s so easy for me to be self-centered, to play the role of the victim to my pain.
It’s good to reassess our situation IMO.

And I do complain about the apathy in the world…but what’s more is I try to do something about it IRL.
I get what you are saying….personally, I need the reminder once in a while.

 

[Kgal]

I think that real solutions have been offered but there are still many people who are okay with the current system to pay attention to them.
Yes…it is just a motivational poster basically….could be the cat hanging from the branch saying “Hang in there!”
But I know that I need to constantly refocus myself to the big picture because it’s so easy to get caught up in the inane, pointless things going on in our lives.
Especially with the chronic pain, it’s so easy for me to be self-centered, to play the role of the victim to my pain.
It’s good to reassess our situation IMO.

And I do complain about the apathy in the world…but what’s more is I try to do something about it IRL.
I get what you are saying….personally, I need the reminder once in a while.

Big changes energetically are happening right now on the whole planet...for I can feel them coursing through me.

Hang in there my dears....let hope bloom inside your hearts.

 

[Skarekrow]

 

[Tin Man]

[MENTION=5045]Skarekrow[/MENTION] [MENTION=6917]sprinkles[/MENTION] [MENTION=2578]Kgal[/MENTION]

I know. To be honest my arguments with that article and poster were less philosophical and more psychological. I've been a pretty negative mood the last week and something about that piece just hit a nerve. Maybe because it seemed to be making light of something I've found difficult to accomplish. I sometimes can't help but buy into the idea that you're supposed to be in a certain place at a certain time, otherwise you're a failure.

I know that growth isn't something you can force into a logical structure, but sometimes I forget that. It's good to be reminded.

 

[Skarekrow]

@Skarekrow @sprinkles @Kgal

I know. To be honest my arguments with that article and poster were less philosophical and more psychological. I've been a pretty negative mood the last week and something about that piece just hit a nerve. Maybe because it seemed to be making light of something I've found difficult to accomplish. I sometimes can't help but buy into the idea that you're supposed to be in a certain place at a certain time, otherwise you're a failure.

I know that growth isn't something you can force into a logical structure, but sometimes I forget that. It's good to be reminded.

I feel you man.
I go through my moods for sure.
Maybe we aren’t supposed to be in a certain place and time, maybe we are, but the expectations we feel are our own in regards to where we feel we should be.
Easier said...
It’s like that damn concept of “choosing” to be happy now…okay…show me the switch on my head and I’ll flip it.

 

[Skarekrow]

When a Dead Loved One Visits You in a Dream, Is It Real?

As many as 20 to 40 percent of Americans believe they have communicated with the dead, according to multiple studies.
Are all of these people in a state of delusion or have they really made contact?

Dr. Camille Wortman, who received her Ph.D. from Duke University and who has worked for decades as an expert on grief and bereavement, wrote in her blog: “Despite the comfort that these communications may provide, mourners often worry that if they are having these kinds of experiences, they must be losing their minds. In many cases, they are reluctant to talk with others about these experiences, fearing that people will think they are going crazy. This could help explain the societal belief that such communications are rare, and that they may be indicative of psychological problems.”

After-death communication can help mourners, says Wortman; she and some other psychologists are exploring this phenomenon as a method of treating grief.

“Survivors would benefit from greater awareness of how frequently these communications occur. Armed with such knowledge, they may be more likely to be comforted, and less likely to doubt their own sanity if they experience after death communication,” Wortman wrote.

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Therapy Session Gives Intriguing Clue

In 1995, Dr. Allan Botkin developed a therapy method called “induced after-death communication” (IADC).
One of his patients learned something from the induced vision of her deceased friend that suggests the experience was real and not an illusion.

A reporter named Julia Mossbridge had lost her friend, Josh, in college.
She had convinced Josh to attend a dance he wasn’t planning to attend and he died in a car accident on the way, she explained in a report on her experience.

She felt guilty, though over the course of many years the grief had become relatively weak.
Botkin’s method involves getting the eyes to move in such a way that they imitate the rapid-eye-movement (REM) during sleep.

Dreaming occurs during REM sleep.
At the same time, he helps the patients get in touch with the core emotions related to their grief.

Mossbridge described the experience: “Simply, without pretense, I saw Josh walk out from behind a door. My friend jumped around with his youthful enthusiasm, beaming at me. I felt great joy at the connection but I couldn’t tell whether I was making the whole thing up. He told me I wasn’t to blame and I believed him. Then I saw Josh playing with his sister’s dog. I didn’t know she had one. We said good-bye and I opened my eyes, laughing.”

She continued: “Later I found out that Josh’s sister’s dog had died, and it was the same breed as the one I had seen in my vision. Yet I still don’t know what’s real. What I do know is that when I think of Josh, I no longer dwell on the images of me calling him or of his car getting hit. Instead, I see Josh walking toward me, laughing and playing with an angel dog. For now, this is the only kind of proof I need.”

Botkin has said it doesn’t matter if the patient believes in the experience or not, it can still have a positive effect.

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Traveling the Continent Gathering Experiences

Bill and Judy Guggenheim coined the term “after-death communication.”
They spent several years, starting in 1988, interviewing about 2,000 people from all 50 states and all 10 Canadian provinces who have had such experiences.

Bill Guggenheim was a Wall Street broker, an agnostic, and he didn’t believe in the possibility of genuine communication with the dead.
Then he had his own experience.

He believes his late father spoke to him.
Guggenheim was in his house when he heard the voice tell him “Go outside and check the swimming pool,” Guggenheim recalled in an interview on Afterlife TV.

He went outside and saw the gate to the fence surrounding the pool ajar.
When he went out to close it, he saw his 2-year-old son’s body laying limp in the deep end.

Luckily, he was in time to resuscitate the boy.
Guggenheim said there was no way he could have heard the splash from where he was in the house, and there was no reason to suspect the boy might even be outside.

His son was in the bathroom downstairs and had somehow left the house despite rubber child-safety devices covering the doorknobs.
The same voice that helped save his son urged him later in life to conduct his own research on communicating with the dead.

Guggenheim didn’t think anyone would listen to him, since he was a stockbroker; he didn’t have related credentials, such as a Ph.D.
The voice told him: “Bill, do your own research, write your own book. It’s your spiritual work to do.”

‘One Hundred Cases for Survival After Death’

In 1944, Bernard Ackerman compiled accounts in his book “One Hundred Cases for Survival After Death.”
He noted that the cases he compiled had been investigated carefully by people who “spent much time, money, and patience in the process.”

“They were in deadly earnest in trying to solve this great human problem,” he wrote.
But, Ackerman did not claim the cases were definitely genuine experiences, he left it up to the reader’s judgment.

One of the stories he recounted was about a young man named Robert MacKenzie. MacKenzie was saved from starvation on the streets by the owner of a mechanical business in Glasgow who gave him a job.

The business owner’s name is not given, but he is the one narrating the account.
One night, this business owner had a dream in which he was sitting in his office and MacKenzie appeared.

They had the following conversation:

“’What is all this, Robert?’ I said somewhat angrily. ‘Did you not see I was engaged?’

“‘Yes, sir,’ he replied, ‘but I must speak with you at once.’

“‘What about?’ I said. ‘What is it that can be so important?’

“‘I wish to tell you, sir,’ he answered, ‘that I am accused of doing a thing I did not do, and that I want you to know it, and to tell you so, and that you are to forgive me for what I am blamed, because I am innocent.’

“I then naturally asked, ‘But how can I forgive you if you do not tell me what you are accused of?’

“I can never forget the emphatic manner of his answer in the Scottish dialect, ‘Ye’U sune ken’ (You’ll soon know).”

The business owner awoke and his wife burst into the bedroom, much distraught, announcing that MacKenzie had committed suicide. At once, he replied to his wife “No, he has not committed sicide.”

It turned out MacKenzie did not commit suicide as reported.
He had mistaken a bottle containing a poisonous substance used for staining wood to be a bottle of whiskey.

 

[Skarekrow]

The Neuroscience of Near-Death Experiences

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—When people report having profound out-of-body experiences during close brushes with death, skeptics often attribute it to physiological and psychological factors.

Robert Mays, who has studied near-death experiences (NDEs) for some 30 years, looked at some of these factors during a talk at the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) 2014 Conference in Newport Beach, Calif., on Aug. 29.

Hypoxia, or oxygen deprivation, is one often-cited cause. Another is rapid eye movement (REM) intrusion.
REM is characteristic of the sleep state in which people often dream. REM intrusion is when REM activates during wakefulness, and some say the scenes of the afterlife, interactions with dead loved ones, life-reviews, and more, are a result of REM.

The experiences reported by NDEers diverge greatly, however, from the experiences usually reported under the conditions of hypoxia and REM intrusion, Mays said: “NDEers almost always report that they have had a hyper-real experience that far outshines our ordinary, conscious experience—that they felt the NDE realm was their true home, permeated by unconditional love, and that they are no longer afraid to die.”

“These characteristic aspects are simply not present with hypoxia, REM intrusion, and so on,” Mays said.
Researchers at the University of Liège in Belgium looked at other physiological aspects.

They wondered if people who have NDE-like experiences during non-life-threatening situations—such as sleep, meditation, or after fainting—would describe the same feelings as people who have NDEs during life-threatening situations, including cardiac arrest.

These two sets of situations involve very different physiological states.
While skeptics may argue that the physiological conditions connected with cardiac arrest (such as hypoxia) may cause the NDE, if people who are physiologically normal have the same experiences, it suggests the cause of these experiences is not physiological.

The researchers found that people in both life-threatening and non-life-threatening situations described their experiences the same way in terms of content and intensity.
“There appears to be a consistency and commonality among NDEs independent of physiological factors,” Mays summarized.

Robert Mays speaks at the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) 2014 Conference in Newport Beach, Calif., on Aug. 29, 2014. ​

On a broader scale, Mays discussed the lack of evidence for a compulsory mind-brain connection.
If the mind is definitively proven to be dependent on the brain, then the argument for NDEs as brain-based events would also hold true.

Yet a “center of self” has not been found in the brain, Mays said.
He listed what he called “enigmas of consciousness,” many of which center on the fact that we have unified personalities that seem to coordinate the disparate regions of the brain.

For example, despite severe brain dysfunction, a unitary and coherent mind, or a “whole person” is able to exist, Mays said.
If consciousness were so dependent on the brain, one might expect a damaged brain to fragment the person’s central consciousness.

He spoke of a phenomenon called terminal lucidity, in which people with dysfunctional brains (including Alzheimer’s patients) suddenly seem to regain their memories and a calm, rational thought structure shortly before death.

This may show, he said, that a central personality is not damaged when the brain is damaged—it’s just somehow distant.
Neuroscience could greatly benefit from further study of NDEs, Mays said.

For example, if it could be determined that the consciousness is able to operate outside the brain, it may be possible to use that consciousness to treat brain damage.

He would like to gain access to appropriate equipment and work collaboratively with neuroscientists to test hypotheses on how the mind may physically interface with neurons in the brain.

This could be accomplished, he said, by testing living neurons in-vitro.

 

[Kgal]

Did you guys see this? More evidence of what we already know...We're all a Torus field! Woot! I've been seeing this in my minds eye for a couple of years now. I've been dancing with odd arm movements for that length of time too and finally realized I am describing the arcs of the torus in motion. When I visualize the energy of the Sun flowing into my very cells I see little torus fields everywhere. Anyway...I could ramble on and on about this...but I won't. :w:

[h=1]Milky Way is 50% Larger than we thought… and it’s a Torus![/h]

http://thespiritscience.net/2015/03/16/milky-way-is-3x-larger-than-we-thought-and-its-a-torus/

 

[Shaqie]

Whoa ...

... this thread is still going strong.

 

[Skarekrow]

Did you guys see this? More evidence of what we already know...We're all a Torus field! Woot! I've been seeing this in my minds eye for a couple of years now. I've been dancing with odd arm movements for that length of time too and finally realized I am describing the arcs of the torus in motion. When I visualize the energy of the Sun flowing into my very cells I see little torus fields everywhere. Anyway...I could ramble on and on about this...but I won't. :w:

Milky Way is 50% Larger than we thought… and it’s a Torus!


http://thespiritscience.net/2015/03/16/milky-way-is-3x-larger-than-we-thought-and-its-a-torus/

That’s your Merkabah!

Whoa ...

... this thread is still going strong.

Trying…people seem to read it!
How’re you?

 

[Shaqie]

Trying…people seem to read it!
How’re you?

Kewl, making music production studio, going to study music production and so on.

 

[Skarekrow]

Kewl, making music production studio, going to study music production and so on.

Hey, that sound great man!!!
Right up your alley!
Glad to hear everything is going well for you.

 

[Skarekrow]

 

[Skarekrow]

“A year from now you will wish you had started today.”

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~Karen Lamb

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand. Most people listen with the intent to reply.”

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~Stephen R. Covey

“The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”

~Steven Furtick

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“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”

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~William G.T. Shedd

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — either way you’re right.”

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~Henry Ford

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“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

~William Jennings Bryan

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“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”

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~C.S. Lewis

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”

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~Elbert Hubbard

“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what
you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.”

~Steve Maraboli



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“You never know the truth. You know ‘a’ truth.”



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[Skarekrow]

This is fucking awesome!
@Serenity @bionic
(whomever else reads tarot too)

The purchase goes to the crowd funding project here :
[video=vimeo;126302208]https://vimeo.com/126302208[/video]


These cards would have great energy!​

 

[Skarekrow]

I have to admit, I laughed a bit to myself inside when the lady at pain support group excused herself even from the “deep breathing” exercises before we learned some yoga exercises to help with the pain.
This article helped me not laugh quite AS much inside (still chuckling though).

Fear the dark art of yoga!
Why conservative Christians are freaking out after yoga ‘miracle’

If yoga helps a Christian man to walk for the first time in thirty-three years, does his newfound strength come from God or the Devil?
That is the question tearing apart an Evangelical church in Las Vegas.

In the New Testament gospel of Mark, Jesus tells a paralytic man to take up his bed and walk, and he does.
In the Acts of the Apostles, Peter calls on the name of Jesus and does the same for a man who has been lame since birth:

Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have I give you; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, stand up and walk.” And he took him by the right hand and raised him up; and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong. Jumping up, he stood and began to walk, and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. (Acts 3:6-8NRSV)

So, when John Taylor prayed earnestly that a similar miracle might befall his fellow church member, Mike Persi, he prayed in faith, believing, and then waited.
Mike had been wheelchair bound for over three decades, ever since an accident at age 27 left him unable to walk or to speak without stuttering.

The odds were long against Mike getting back on his feet.
But one week later, an acquaintance who didn’t know about the prayer sent John’s wife a video in which a man with similar injuries regained his ability to walk through intensive yoga therapy.

John took it as a sign.
So did Mike.

So did born-again Christian yoga instructor, Mitch Menik, who even offered to take Mike into his own home during a course of intensive treatment.

Miracle or Dark Magic?

When Mike took his first wobbly but unassisted steps, all involved were thrilled and thanked God for a miracle that to their minds was modeled on the ministry of Jesus.

But not everyone in Mike and John’s Abundant Living Las Vegas congregation felt the same.
When friends set up a GoFundMe page to help Mitch cover income lost during the time he was working with Mike, most parishioners refused to contribute.

And when Abundant Living’s pastor blessed the therapy, members (and money) poured out of the church.
Many biblical literalists, and charismatic or Pentecostal Christians in particular, are deeply suspicious of yoga, which they see less as a healing or wellness practice and more as a seductive point of entry into the Hindu religion.

Open, inquiring forms of Christianity may teach that “all truth is God’s truth,” or even that there are many paths to God, and even Evangelicals who take a narrower view of Christianity may see yoga as beneficial.

But a more common posture among conservative biblical literalists is wariness and suspicion, or outright condemnation.
One Christian website, Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry, quotes from Yoga Journal and then adds their own commentary:

“’Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind [Yoga Journal].’ As one can see, Yoga is more than just a physical exercise. We as Christians do not want to make our mind more flexible. We do not want to leave our mind open to false teaching.”
(Skarekrow - WTF? To not want a flexible open mind?)

Why the Fear?

According to Pentecostal and related theologies, all around us invisible supernatural powers are waging a cosmic war between good and evil, with the literal forces of Satan aligned against the host of God.

As this battle plays out, each of us is on one side or the other, and only great vigilance can prevent Christians from being seduced by false prophets or demonic powers.

In this view, the Hindu gods are literally demons, which makes spiritual pluralism dangerous and bad.
In India, Hindu villagers have voiced outrage when children come home from missionary schools–sometimes the only schools around with books and paper–frightened because teachers have said that their parents and aunts and uncles worship evil demons.

As divisive and harmful as this might be to parent-child relationships, the missionaries genuinely believe they are doing the right thing.
In the words of Pat Robertson, “”Hinduism and many of the occult activities that come out of the Orient are inspired by demons and demon worship…There’s this concept that all religions are the same and all are good. That is not true. The worship of the Devil is not good.”

Yoga, like séances and Ouija boards, can create small cracks in your spiritual defenses through with a demon can take possession of your soul.
This is the kind of fear-based Christianity that boycotted Harry Potter movies and seeks to keep fantasy books out of children’s libraries.

That is because this worldview takes the idea of sorcery quite seriously.
Human development consultant Marlene Winell who coined the term Religious Trauma Syndrome to describe the experience of many who have been wounded by authoritarian, fear-based forms of faith.

Winell was raised by Pentecostal Assemblies of God missionaries, and lays out the Pentecostal worldview succinctly, along with psychological harms it can cause.

Dark Arts and Hard Work

This month, Mike Shreve ministries, an outspoken opponents of yoga will host a faith healing conference in Tennessee featuring “seasoned minister of the Gospel” Richard Madison who “was literally ‘raised from the dead,’ confirmed by a medical technician.”

In rural Africa, far from modern medical science, unaccountable American missionaries from Pentecostal denominations host faith healing rallies and frequently claim miraculous cures that include raising the dead.

In a world filled with magic and peopled with unseen powers, not unlike the Iron Age context of the Bible writers, it only makes sense to be wary of miracle cures from suspect sources (who may be viewed as competitors as well as practitioners of the dark arts).

From where Mitch Menik sits, there’s nothing demonic about the fact that Mike can now walk across a room unassisted, although he too gives thanks to God for the miracle.

The accomplishment has been attained through a rigorous course of exercise that taps inner strength to build outer strength.
The regime draws on not only Yoga but Tai Chi, Ki Gong, and a diet of nutrient rich home-cooked meals provided by Mitch’s partner, Than.

Mike has come this far not only by the grace of God but by setting small, incremental goals and then working to beat each milestone.
As of Monday, May 11, his record was 274 steps total, including 65 in a row without assistance.

Don’t Take No for an Answer

The pastor of Abundant Living Las Vegas, Bob Perry, holds a literalist view of the Bible.
But he believes that God works through many channels, and he sees the hand of God in Mitch and Than’s generosity.

When Mike first approached him with questions about yoga, Bob advised him “to pray, to hear from God, and to be led by peace.”
And as painful as the rifts within the church may be, he has stood by Mike.

He appears to hold no rancor toward those who have left the church over his support for Mike, saying simply that “They are well-meaning people who have listened to myths and wrong teachings of the Bible.”

As for himself, Perry says, “I’m not going to stand in the way or limit how God speaks to people.
In the Bible, God speaks through a donkey!”

“Some people wanted me to condemn Mike’s yoga. But I’m not the one to judge,” he adds. “My job is to teach people how to search for God, not to step in and be God for them. I think it would really help if people tried to have a relationship with God rather than trying to be God. If Mike is at peace, then I am with him.”

On Mother’s Day, Perry preached about Matthew’s story in which a gentile mother comes to Jesus seeking healing for her daughter.
At first, Jesus turns her away, saying that his ministry is to the house of Israel.

But she keeps asking, and he relents.
Perry interprets the story for his congregation: “The real message of this story is the tenacity of this mother’s faith. Don’t take no for an answer even if the no comes from Jesus. . . . Faith stays after it, even in the face of adversity.”

Is Perry’s sermon an affirmation of Mike and Mitch’s remarkable feat or an exhortation to himself and the remaining members of his congregation?
Perhaps both.

As Mike moves forward, one step, one day at a time, his legs are building muscle.
They now look like the legs of a man who walks, not one who has been in atrophy for three decades.

Whether one attributes that to the hand of God or the miracle of human kindness and generosity, it is a source of wonder, delight, and gratitude to all who have kept the faith.

“Mitch is an angel,” Mike says. “I can’t believe it’s happening.”
I asked him—did he cry when he took those first wobbly steps? “No,” he responded. “I didn’t cry. But there were tears running out of my eyes and down my cheeks.”

On May 24, Mike hopes to walk into church on his own two legs, with his friends at his side, for the first time in thirty years.
He is so proud and grateful that he’s hoping the whole Las Vegas news community turns out to record the event.

 

[Skarekrow]

 

[Skarekrow]

Dancing With The Hologram

You have to admit, even if a lot of it is a construct for some seemingly unknown purpose, this is an incredible world we’re inhabiting.
This spontaneous creative Force we’re engulfed in and intrinsically interwoven into is absolutely spectacular despite all the obstacles we encounter.

That there’s an invasive parasitic force at work trying to gum up the works and usurp this magnificent design and claim whatever weirdness it simulates as some sort of alternative reality is absolutely ludicrous, yet this is the contest humanity and our planetary existence finds itself in.

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What is wonderful and should be the center of our focus and attention is the magnificent power of true Creation and its stunning beauty, intricacy and unlimited potential.

We’re only just discovering its wonders, but as we do Creation itself becomes more manifest in new and amazing ways as we respond in conscious awareness and resultant responsive actions.

This so dwarfs the puny efforts of these measly low density control freaks that no one should ever fear or be awed by their furious temporal psychopathic designs no matter where they come from or how much they scream and try to intimidate humanity.

The jig is up.
We’ve awakened from slumber and the tide of iniquity is being shoved back into their wicked faces and readily busting up their phony façade, no matter how elaborate or real the false construct they’ve erected may appear to be.

The Regenerative Power of Our Fractal Universe

Just as our very bodies miraculously heal and rebuild themselves, so Universe keeps unfolding and regenerating life ceaselessly and unstoppably.
Whatever transpires in this temporal existence we find ourselves in, we are born with an innate knowing that all is ultimately well and truth reigns eternal.

And is astoundingly wondrous.
Just look at your hands, look into someone’s eyes, study a tree or an animal, look at the sky, the mountains and the sea.

This is one amazing place we have the privilege to inhabit, even if only for a short while.
We cannot ever forget or minimize that.

Despite the storms of life and all of its obstacles and challenges, we are imbued with the same creative force we have the honor to witness at work around us, day in and day out, hour by hour, minute by minute.

Therein lies our very strength.
To sense the overwhelming love behind this magnificent Creation, including ourselves, is our everlasting fountain of peace and joy.

Nothing can take that away from any of us.
That is, unless we allow something to.

The decision lies with each of us individually.
Not collectively.

We each can, and must, make that simple commitment to not allow anything that robs us of our connection to Source and our standing fast in that knowledge.

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Fractal Magic Surrounds

Just look at the fractal nature of Creation, the amazing regenerative geometric patterns from the inconceivable macrocosm to the infinitesimal microcosm of the very smallest of particles.

They scream wonder and awe at every possible level.
That even settled science is awakening to the fact that consciousness and empirical discoveries are intrinsically interwoven is one manifestation of the awakening age we are blessed to be a part of.

That sages have known this for eons naturally comes to the fore, bringing worlds of understanding into a magnificent confluence of new found awareness for a surging number of awakening people worldwide.

Couple this with the growing discoveries of ancient archeological finds and the release of suppressed historical truths, and the fractal nature of the awakening comes into view in a very practical manner.

That the powers that shouldn’t be have openly announced their concerns about a massive global political awakening is another such outcropping.
The evidence is everywhere, and simply a natural progression in this time of revelation, the very apocalypse foretold by many, yet a word twisted to mean our destructive end when in fact it’s a massive awakening of humanity.

The crumbling of the matrix is just another symptom of the revealing, the revelation of Truth and the infinite, unstoppable power of the Universe to which we are all not just connected, but living crystals of resonance pulsing with this same enormous power of eternal Creation.

Cycles Within Cycles and Our Opportunity of the Ages

I find it fascinating how many things work in cycles, be they ages, also known as epochs or yugas, or even repeating themes and lessons throughout history. We’ve been given so many clues to help us find our conscious footing in this strange world we’ve landed in.

Sure we’re up against massive efforts to close our hearts and minds through generations of social engineering and cauterizing lies and violence, but that’s part of the challenge and apparently important to our growth cycle.

While I’m absolutely inspired about the worldwide awakening we’re witnessing, what concerns me is that so many still don’t understand the magnitude of the opportunity before us.

We’re so close to rolling the humongous boulder of a very real critical mass of revelation and thus liberation of humanity on to the heads of these entities and their construct, yet many still do not yet get the enormity of this opportunity of the ages to end their cycles of deceit and destruction.

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Many such opportunities for awakening have happened in the past.
Most civilizations, at least from recent recorded history, only used their new found understandings of the workings of the Universe to assert more and more human control over others and our planet, instead of returning to natural cycles based on love and cooperation.

Power mad usurpers seem to have eventually infiltrated and taken control of just about every so-called civilization.
From what we’re learning about Atlantis and Lemuria it appears that was the case there as well, as with ancient Vedic history, where their societies ended with horrific catastrophic destruction apparently wrought by their own hands in that same disturbed competitive power mad control paradigm.

Arise or Repeat — A Time to Choose

Some cycles are meant to be broken.
Just because they repeat doesn’t make them right.

It’s much like the law of karma and reincarnation.
Many have apparently come back to this plane to have another go at getting the point of being here.

It makes sense and from what I’ve learned has a lot of validity.
However personally, I don’t subscribe to the inevitability of anything.

While Universe is way too wondrous, powerful and creative to be caught up in any type of destructive loop, we apparently create such loops by our own reactive design, all based on individual decisions on whether we’re going to go along with the collective herd or wake up and become who we truly are.

The social constructs simply follow and repeat themselves, just as old patterns of control and subservience do in our current societies.
It appears to be a matter of fact at some base level, for reasons deconstructed by many an enlightened researcher.

The awareness of these cycles and their inherent nature are profound when taken to heart, not just to the head.
Can we break out?

Are we being told to be resigned to such a fate, when in fact we can escape this great mandala of control and repeated insanity?

Conclusion

We’re not just meant to be free, but already are.
Therein lies perhaps the most powerful Truth available to humanity.

We already are who we are seeking; we have everything we need, we have every answer supposedly sought by the outside projection of life and its search for meaning.

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We are it.
We already possess every skill and ability needed to manifest the true world of love and cooperation.

All that awaits is awakening these inherent gifts we each were born with.
Take this for what you will, but for me it is fact.

It is a truth so profound and powerful that it has been suppressed for countless centuries by those who seek to dominate humankind.
It’s time to arise.

It’s time to manifest who we each truly are.
It’s clearly an individual decision but one that must be made.

Consciously, and with heart and determination.
The time has come.

Arise.
It’s literally now or never.

And always has been.
And now more than ever.

Keep heart, keep love, keep true.

 

[Skarekrow]

ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD


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On Jan. 15th, 2011, "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward" was released theatrically to sold out crowds in 60 countries; 31 languages; 295 cities and 341 Venues. It has been noted as the largest non-profit independent film release in history.

This is a non-commercial work and is available online for free viewing and no restrictions apply to uploading/download/posting/linking - as long as no money is exchanged. ​

 

[Skarekrow]

Thoughts Through Space: a Pioneering Long-Distance Telepathy Experiment

“Those who reject even telepathy have reached the point where they are impugning either the honesty or the sanity of several thousand scientific researchers on all major continents over a period of decades. Such expedient ways of disposing of data are shared only by the most ardent anti-Evolutionists among the Fundamentalist sects.”

~ R.A. Wilson, from the book Cosmic Trigger.
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Thoughts Through Space

The term “telepathy” was coined in 1882 by Frederick W.H. Myers, a founding member of the London Society for Psychical Research (SPR).
The word means “feeling at a distance”Â, though this may be slightly misleading in that this is not usually how the term is deployed.

Telepathy is essentially mind-to-mind contact, or the exchange of information between two different consciousnesses separated by an arbitrarily large distance (it doesn’t matter how large).

Though many of the more narrow-visioned would claim any discussion involving telepathy is “unscientific” by default, we can see that many years ago there were eminent scientists who not only recognized its existence but sought to understand the phenomenon.



The first studies of telepathy were based on collections of spontaneous experiences, with 1886 seeing the publication of the seminal classic Phantasms of the Living, by the British scholars Edmund Gurney, Frederick Myers, and Frank Podmore – who actually took the time and effort to analyse all reports to identify the best and most reliable cases for publication and eliminate the fraudulent.[1]

Over a decade later, the eminent chemist and physicist Sir William Crookes – also an avid and meticulous researcher into “paranormal” phenomena – spoke on telepathy before the Royal Society at Bristol, England, in 1898.

This address was, in the words of occultist Swami Panchadasi (a.k.a. William Walker Atkinson), “made before an assemblage of distinguished scientists, many of them rank materialists and quite skeptical of all occult phenomena.”Â

Crookes, facing this gathering as its president, expressed the view that it is a “fundamental law… that thoughts and images may be transferred from one mind to another without the agency of the recognized organs of sense – that knowledge may enter the human mind without being communicated in any hitherto known or recognized ways.”Â[2]

If telepathy occurs, he continued, “we have two physical facts – the physical change in the brain of A, the suggestor, and the analogous physical change in the brain of B, the recipient of the suggestion.”Â

While Crookes would eventually be vindicated in these comments by the development of the EEG and other modern technology and experimental designs, he assumed that “between these two physical events there must exist a train of physical causes”Â,[3] which we can accept if we modify our definition of “physical” to include subtle energies (such as torsion/scalar fields), as well as the plasma-like particulate matter of the various aetheric densities (etheric, astral, mental, etc.).

In the modern world, the commonest kind of human telepathy occurs in connection with telephone calls, according to biologist and paranormal researcher Rupert Sheldrake.

Over 80% of people claim to have thought of someone for no apparent reason, who then phoned them; or that they have known, in a telepathic sort of way, who was on the phone before answering it.

Sheldrake reports that controlled experiments have provided highly statistically significant repeatable positive results.[4]
Many people (probably about 80%!) however, will need no convincing of the fact, as repeated personal experience has a way of making experimental proofs a little bit redundant sometimes.

A World-First Experiment in Telepathy

In 1942 the remarkable though little-known book Thoughts Through Space, by Australian-born aviator-explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins (1888—1958) and American author, playwright, and “sensitive” Harold Sherman (1898—1987), was published.

It detailed the first experiment (conducted from late 1937 through to early 1938) of its kind: a long-distance and long-termtelepathy experiment where Wilkins, who was aiding in the aerial search for a missing Russian craft and its crew in the Arctic, would attempt to telepathically send information regarding his activities to Sherman, who would attempt to receive the messages and record them.

This would take place over a period of some five months.However, as it turned out, Wilkins never got the opportunity to take time to deliberately send any impressions to Sherman, who faithfully conducted his “psychic vigil” each night at the same time, ever unaware of Wilkins’ situation or activities.

What Wilkins did instead was to record events and details in his log, this being the usual habit with an explorer.
When Wilkins returned from the Arctic, his dated log was compared with the dated impressions of Sherman so the latter’s psychic accuracy and reliability could be assessed.[5]

Early in the book, Wilkins made a point of noting that,
a) Sherman had already demonstrated his ability to receive impressions without the necessity of Wilkins’ consciously willing thoughts to him at the time of their scheduled “sittings,” and,
b) Sherman could respond directly to Wilkins’ thoughts on the occasions he was able to keep their “psi appointments.”Â[6]

The role of emotion was significant in these experiments (as it is in many psi experiments), as the two participants ultimately acknowledged.
Wilkins noted that despite his inability to regularly keep to the appointed “sending” time for the experiments, he did continue his habit of thinking the unusual incidents strongly to Sherman.

When Wilkins was anxious, Sherman seemed to be particularly effective at detecting his thoughts.[7]
Wilkins also agreed with the occultist’s axiom that the intensity of a sender’s emotional reaction to what is happening to him, or has happened, determines the degree of intensity of the “thought-waves” discharged.[8]

(In my book The Grand Illusion: A Synthesis of Science and Spirituality (Vol.1), I have portrayed these thought waves as torsion/scalar waves in the vacuum/aether/zero point field/time-space/implicate order.)

Also worth noting is that in some ways, this epic experiment – lasting as it did over five months – was something of a precursor to what would later become known as remote viewing. It also featured elements of prevision, evincing a predictable unpredictability so common to psi functioning, thus blurring the lines
[*] between telepathy in real time and other forms of clairvoyance – much as this tended to occasion Sherman’s uncertainty as to precisely what he was seeing at the precise moment of seeing.

Sometimes visions would turn into previsions, precipitating out of the aether days later without apparent warning.
This was a complicating factor at times, as was the initial lack of feedback for Sherman, which caused him a degree of anxiety (was he “hitting” more than missing?).

Nevertheless, the experiment overall can only be described as a stunning success, with some indisputably spectacular hits by Sherman to be found scattered throughout.

Official Results

Sherman sat three times a week to act as receiver, depositing copies of his nightly impressions to third party witnesses to ensure there could be no question of his having failed to record his impressions before receiving Wilkins’ log.

Let’s look at some of the data.
Sherman’s report of Wilkins’ activities for February 14 reads:

“Impression you talked three times before different interested groups since arrival at Edmonton – first time before some luncheon club – like Rotary Club – you have found a motor – you plan to take off with it tomorrow or Wednesday, if weather permits.

You have dinner with three men and their wives…One of Edmonton’s wealthiest and most prominent men has entertained you and given you some assistance relative to the expedition – word McKenzie flashes to my mind – is there a company of that name supplying you with plane?

Seem to see you as guest of Church Brotherhood… Sunday occasion – you called on to speak–you have appointment with two men who will take you to some plant or place where you will see the packing of the equipment.”[9]

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Keep in mind that Sherman had been receiving little feedback on previous recordings prior to this session, and had not been forewarned of any of these activities, making it all the more remarkable that Wilkins was able to subsequently confirm every detail, including the fact that McKenzie Airways were furnishing the plane that would fly the new engine back to Aklavik.

All of these things took place between February 10 and 14.[10]
As noted, sometimes the information being received by Sherman was a blur of present (or recent past) information and information pertaining to some point in the future. Wilkins stated that in his March 1 record Sherman had recorded almost all of his most prominent thoughts as well as describing the conditions Wilkins experienced.[11]

The latter part of the entry from Sherman mentions liquor in connection with a commercial interest (possibly a company seeking his endorsement).
Sherman states that Wilkins is wondering whether they will offer him enough money for it, and then moves on to things flight-related.

He suggests checking the oil and gas lines leading to the engine as a possible source of trouble–“something appears to get clogged or choked” as a result of the low ambient temperature.

Wilkins’ analysis of Sherman’s psi report confirms that Hiram Walker had indeed sought Wilkins’ endorsement for a certain whiskey, but did not offer sufficient remuneration to garner Wilkins’ advocacy.

It was the one time that year that Wilkins had received such an offer.
As for Sherman’s concern over gas and oil lines, sure enough, the next day during flight, the feed on the automatic control did clog.

Towards evening, the oil temperature indicated some clogging of the line, according to one of Wilkins’ collaborators (Cheeseman) on the plane with him.[12]
Evidently, darkness proved to be an aid in Sherman’s sittings, eliminating visual stimuli so he could become more receptive to the nonlocal stimuli filtering through from his subconscious mind.[13]

Sitting in darkness to receive psi information is a good and standard way to increase the psi signal to noise ratio (not dissimilarly to Ganzfeld tests).
An interesting fact to note is that after some time of sitting three times a week for his sessions, Sherman had trained his subconscious to feed him psi information more consistently.

He commented that his mind had become so highly sensitized and habituated to the psi task that it continually brought him un-asked-for impressions and “unusual mental flashes.”Â

These flashes appeared sometimes to come from the mind of anyone he focused his attention on, regardless of the fact that there were unbidden insights he did not seek.

There are many pieces of evidence that demonstrate that the psi faculty, like our muscular system, is responsive to training.
This has been known to mystics and occultists for many centuries.

As well as this, Sherman suffered serious ill health effects because of his other commitments, which left him virtually no rest and recovery time.
We need not go into Sherman’s exact method in eliciting his results, but it is worth noting that during the sessions he could feel his mind “contact” Wilkins’ mind, he sensed a force, line, or stream of energy which seemed to connect the two subconscious minds of the men.

During the sittings when he felt this sensation the strongest, he got his best results.[14]
A conclusion reached by both men (and one in full accordance with occult thought) was that the degree of intensity of emotional reaction to external experience determines the intensity of the thought force projected.

In their view, human emotions were the power source behind the electrical currents of the brain.[15]
A recurring motif in “paranormal” and parapsychological research is the important role of emotion, creative force that it is.[16]

Sherman also noted that he sensed thought impressions at two places in his body: the brain (center of crown and third eye chakras) and solar plexus (where the manipura chakra is).[17]

He would get a nerve reaction in the pit of his stomach (not unlike that felt when one receives a sudden shock or becomes anxious), which he came to realize always accompanied a genuine telepathic communication.[18]

Elsewhere, in his psi research, Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama has connected the lower three chakras (one of which is the solar plexus chakra/manipura) with passive or receptive psi abilities, such as Sherman employed in this telepathy experiment.[19]

On top of Sherman’s amazingly accurate reports of Wilkins’ far removed activities either as they happened or soon after, he also sensed events yet to happen to Wilkins, as previously noted.

Wilkins only had two accidents occur involving his plane during his five months away, and Sherman sensed both ahead of time, witnessing previsions of these events days before they happened.

To give further insight into the remarkably successful nature of this experiment, several friends and/or collaborators of Sherman and Wilkins signed affidavits testifying to the validity of the experimental procedure as well as Sherman’s undeniable accuracy.

Dr. Henry S.W. Hardwicke, a research officer for the Psychic Research Society of New York, stated in his affidavit that the authenticity of the telepathic phenomena was unquestionable.[20]

Dr. A.E. Strath-Gordon was effusive in his own affidavit, stating that Sherman’s amazing telepathic consistency, clarity, and accuracy was something he had not seen in all his years of research around the world. Such was Sherman’s telepathic acuity that, to Strath-Gordon, it seemed almost as if he was taking dictation from some unseen intelligence.[21]

This is not to construe that Sherman only ever “hit” and never “missed.”Â
He did, as any intuitive will, miss occasionally, but more often than not he was accurate, far too often and with such exquisite detail that it cannot logically be asserted that he obtained his results by lucky guesses over this extended period, and no evidence at all exists to implicate anyone in any fraudulent activities.

But for the most part, even Sherman’s misses were intriguingly close to the mark, seemingly mixing fact with fiction.[22]
Little more need be said to convince the sane of the success of this epic psi experiment.

However, Sherman’s talents provide much food for thought.
For instance, it is notorious among psychics that sensing specific numbers, dates, names, and such particulars represents one of the most difficult tasks.

Sherman was exceptional at sensing names of people, companies, and more, as well as having some spectacular hits with numerical data (remembering that he was operating totally “blind” to Wilkins’ Arctic activities).

On November 30, one of his data points was simply this:
Latitude 68, Longitude 133.
Wilkins recorded: Latitude 68, Longitude 135.

These numbers bear no further comment.

In his next sitting (December 2), Sherman recorded several spectacular hits, including a note of the intended first flight of Wilkins which was to be a distance of 600 miles.

In his own notes, Wilkins had recorded that this flight was indeed slated to be 600 miles.[23]
Note again that Wilkins did not offer foreknowledge of his intended plans or movements in these letters.

To add yet another complicating factor to all of this, Sherman found that it was difficult to distinguish between a thought in the mind of an individual and the actual materialization of that thought in action.

He said he was certain that there had been occasions where he had unwittingly confused these two thought-forms.[24]
In his many experiments several decades later, former CIA polygraph expert Cleve Backster found, interestingly, that his plants – leaves wired to a polygraph machine – initially encountered something of a similar situation when it came to detecting silent human intent to harm them, though they rapidly learned to distinguish between real and imagined threats.[25]

The process for a human attempting telepathy seems to present more challenges – perhaps because plants do not have much in the way of an individuated conscious mind to block subconscious perceptions: they belong to a group consciousness or “morphic field,” and lack a personal subconscious.

The human, whether particularly intelligent or not, has this discriminatory disadvantage built in.
So, while it may not be much of a compliment to be told you have the intelligence of a house plant, it could, in a sense, be something of an accolade to be told you have the intuition of one!

In January 1938, Sherman made some interesting notes regarding some technicalities of the telepathic downloading process.
At 11.30 on the designated nights of the appointments, wherever he was he would begin to receive strong feelings from Wilkins.

He stated that unless he was somewhere he could clear his mind, he did not try to interpret those feelings, since this invited interference from his imagination before he was ready to complete the entire operation.

So long as he kept the impressions in his mental “dark room” until he was ready to bring them out and process them, he was able to retain them.[26]

Final Thoughts

With two peoples’ brain-minds acting as a nonlocally correlated system, the connection is maintained by nonlocal consciousness (in aether/time-space/implicate order) – facilitated, Amit Goswami believes, by the brains’ “quantum nature.”Â[27]

Such “paranormal” phenomena could be attributable to torsion waves passing between the participants’ minds.
The two parties have synchronized their operations in time; now spatial distance is irrelevant – they act as one system in time.

It is interesting to note that torsion fields cannot be shielded by conventional means (including Faraday cages), and evidence no attenuation when propagated arbitrary distances.

“As pointed out by A. Akimov, empirical exhibits of torsion fields have possibly been found previously in conventional scientific research, but not yet recognized as such.” One such example may be the phenomenon of quantum nonlocality, “which can be attributed to superluminal transmission of torsion potential.”Â[28]

I should note: any form of meaningful contact between people can establish a nonlocal correlation, as any clairvoyant or occultist worth their salt can tell you – this is how legitimate psychics (let us ignore the plethora of phonies) can carry out “readings” over the phone or internet without ever having so much as been in the same country as the sitter or client.

That telepathy exists is doubtless – countless experiments and spontaneous real-world events confirm its reality.
However, a larger scientific paradigm within which to view this and other “paranormal” phenomena has been missing for too long now.

Parapsychology has failed to provide one, and mainstream Western physics has been too handicapped by its own prejudices and conceptual roadblocks to really do this subject matter justice.

References:

• The term “general ESP”Â, or GESP, became popular to reflect the fact that it was (and still is) difficult to distinguish cleanly among the various forms of perceptual psi. Source: D. Radin, The Conscious Universe, HarperOne, 1997, p 67. How is one to know, for instance, if the image one perceives relates to past, present, or future? Sometimes it just isn’t immediately clear. In time-space/aether/implicate order, past, present and future are present and accessible.
• [1] See R. Schoch & L. Yonavjak, The Parapsychology Revolution, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2008.
• [2] Swami Panchadasi, Clairvoyance and Occult Powers, Lesson III, 1916, www.astroccult.net/clairvoyance_and_occult_powers_by_panchadasi.pdf.
• [3] Ibid.
• [4] R. Sheldrake, Morphic Resonance and Morphic Fields: An Introduction, www.sheldrake.org/Articles&Papers/papers/morphic/morphic_intro.html.
• [5] Wilkins & Sherman, Thoughts Through Space. Hampton Roads, 2004.
• [6] Ibid., 23.
• [7] Ibid.
• [8] Ibid., xxi.
• [9] Ibid., 64.
• [10] Ibid., 64—5.
• [11] Ibid., 72.
• [12] Ibid., 72—3.
• [13] Ibid., 109.
• [14] Ibid., 116.
• [15] Ibid., 128.
• [16] I discuss this in detail in The Grand Illusion Vol. 1.
• [17] Wilkins & Sherman, 128.
• [18] Ibid., 128—9.
• [19] See my book TGI 1 for these findings and the larger context in which I place them.
• [20] Wilkins & Sherman, 155.
• [21] Ibid., 156.
• [22] See ibid., 175 for one example.
• [23] Ibid., 184.
• [24] Ibid., 199.
• [25] See C. Backster, Primary Perception, White Rose Millennium Press, 2003. I discuss Backster’s results in terms of torsion/scalar physics in TGI 1.
• [26] Wilkins & Sherman, 219—20.
• [27] Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe.
• [28] D. Reed, Torsion Field Research, www.padrak.com/ine/NEN_6_1_6.html.