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Mindscape: Genetics, Personality & Wellness


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Robert Cloninger, MD, from Washington University, talks about his work in genetics, personality disorders and transcending diagnoses with Mindscape host and Menninger Chief of Staff John M. Oldham, MD, MS.​

 

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Some intriguing history...

The Adventures of Buckaroo Zöllner Across the Fourth Dimension

“An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension:
Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere”
— Albert Einstein


Dr. Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, Defender of the Third Dimension


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I’ve recently come to the important conclusion that Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, fictional physicist, neuroscientist, test pilot, and rock musician featured in the 1984 cult science-fiction classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension was modeled after the all-too-real astrophysicist, perception psychologist, and strange phenomena investigator, Dr. Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834-1882) of Leipzig University.

While Zöllner never faced off with the Red Lectroids from Planet 10, he did explore the theoretical possibility that ghosts were invaders from the Fourth Dimension.

Zöllner’s academic credentials were impressive long before he started delving into the twilight realm of disembodied spirits.
He was chair of astrophysics at Leipzig University, intensively researching photometry, spectrum analysis, Doppler effects, and optical illusions, discovering the eponymously named Zöllner illusion where lines that are parallel appear diagonal and making the first accurate measurement of the Sun’s magnitude.

His good pal, Sir William Crookes, the equally polymath British physicist, chemist, and meteorologist (you can thank him for his work on “vacuum tubes”, without which you ultimately might not have been able to rot your brain through television), as well as a dabbler in economics and psychiatry, introduced Zöllner to the burgeoning world of spiritualism.

In the 1860’s after the untimely death of his brother from yellow fever, Crookes made a few efforts to contact his beloved sibling at séances, and being scientifically-inclined, proceeded to turn his stunning intellect to the question of paranormal phenomena, rapidly becoming convinced that spirit mediumship was, at least in some instances, genuine.

His critics, despite his monumental achievements to date explained what they termed his gullibility on his poor eyesight, in what was perhaps the lamest attempt at debunking on record.

Crooke’s investigations so convinced him that there was something to this whole spiritualist movement that he briefly became president of the Society for Psychical Research, joined the Theosophical Society, took up the presidency of the oldest paranormal investigation organization called The Ghost Club, and signed up for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Now, Crookes was no epistemological slouch, so he tapped his friend Zöllner to suggest plausible scientific explanations for ghostly phenomena, and Zöllner obligingly took off on an intensive course of controlled experimental research, in particular with a famous slate-writing and table-rapping medium named Henry Slade, who would later confess that all his spiritualist manifestations were produced through magic tricks when he was investigated in 1885 by the Seybert Commission (a group of faculty at the University of Pennsylvania that were tasked with proving that Spiritualism was largely a con job, and unsurprisingly came to that very conclusion in the grand tradition of management consultancy).

While Crookes and Zöllner both concluded that in some cases fraud and hoaxing provided an adequate explanation for the weirdness they were encountering, neither was willing to declare the possibility of ghostly contact as complete hokum.

Zöllner turned his big brain towards seeking out a theory rooted in physics that might offer some insight.
Zöllner started to worry about the Fourth Dimension.

He hypothesized that if spirits of the dead inhabited a “real external world” of four spatial dimensions, in contrast to our mundane three-dimensional world, we would experience them as projected shadows onto our reality.

Later scholars such as the renowned and respected skeptic Cliff Pickover have puzzled over just such a question, and come to similar conclusions. Pickover, considering an analogy of what we would look like to a two dimensional being suggested, “Consider a two-dimensional world resembling a sheet of paper.

How would you appear to the inhabitants of such a world if you tried to interact with them?
The 2-D creatures would only see cross-sections of you as you intersected their universe.

Your finger would look like a flat disc that grew in size as you pushed it through their world.
Your five fingers might look like five separate circles.

They would just see irregular shapes with skin boundaries as you entered their world.
Similarly, a hyperbeing who lived in the fourth dimension would have a cross-section in our space that looked liked a bunch of skin blobs.

A 4-D being would be a god to us.
It would see everything in our world.

It could even look inside your stomach and remove your breakfast without cutting through your skin, just like you could remove a dot inside a circle by moving it up into the third dimension, perpendicular to the circle, without breaking the circle.

A hyperbeing can effortlessly remove things before your very eyes, giving you the impression that the objects simply disappeared.
The hyperbeing can also see inside any 3-D object or life form, and if necessary remove anything from inside.

The being can look inside our intestines, or remove a tumor from our brain without ever cutting through the skin.
A pair of gloves can be easily transformed into two left or two right gloves.

And 3-D knots fall apart in the hands of a hyperbeing, much as a 2-D knot (a loop of string lying on a plane) can easily be undone by a 3-D being simply by lifting the end of the loop up into the third dimension”.

This is more or less the same thing suggested by Zöllner in his 19th Century work Transcendental Physics.

A two-dimensional being can represent to itself a straight line with only one perpendicular (Normale) in the respective two-dimensional regions of space (to which it belongs phenomenally).

We, on the contrary, as three-dimensional beings, know that there are infinitely many perpendiculars (Normale) to a straight line in space, which collectively form the two-dimensional geometrical place of the perpendicular plane of that straight line.

Analogously, we can conceive only one perpendicular to a plane; a being of four dimensions would, however, be able to conceive infinitely many perpendiculars to a plane, collectively forming the three-dimensional place which in the fourth dimension stands perpendicular to that plane.

By our nature as three-dimensional beings we could form for ourselves no representation of these space relations, although we are in the position to discover ideally, by analogy, the possibility of their real existence (Zöllner, 1881, p70).

While there is no clear record of Zöllner combatting insidious creatures from other dimensions, he was certainly considering what it might take and what defensive strategies could be used to fend off an incursion, and thus, as modern superstring theorists keep blithely talking about upwards of a dozen dimensions, we must rank Zöllner among those pilgrims of multi-dimensionality and sing his praises as a applied scientist who was not only concerned with elegant and wacky mathematical physics, but also wanted to know how we could identify the threat to the fraternity of third dimensionality.

He never got around to starting a rock band, nor even a string quartet (as would have been more appropriate to 19th Century Germany), but hey, do you have a lunar crater named after you?

References

Carington, Whatley, 1892-. A Theory of the Mechanism of Survival: the Fourth Dimension and Its Applications. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd., 1920.
Manning, Henry Parker, 1859-1956. The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained: a Collection of Essays Selected From Those Submitted In the Scientific American’s Prize Competition. London: Methuen & co. ltd, 1921.
Zöllner, Johann Karl Friedrich, 1834-1882. Transcendental Physics: An Account of Experimental Investigations From the Scientific Treatises of Johann Carl Zöllner … Boston: Colby & Rich, 1881.

 

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Multi-Dimensional Beings With Reflections in the Spirit World

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The spirit world, also known as the mirror world, is the authentic underlying truth of humanity’s collective evolution.
It contains humanity’s truest feelings, ideas, beliefs, and sacred consciousness.

The subconscious of humanity was placed inside of beings who are dreamers, people who are capable of holding space and making life sacred again.
These are the mamas and the papas, the sacred indigo children, the seers, the navigators, the creators, and the lovers of life.

These are the dancers of space and time that shake rattles in their eyes and bring you back to life when they crack a smile.
Each and every human being, every plant, animal, or element of creation has a mirror world/spirit world identity.

We exist as multidimensional beings with interior and exterior landscapes.
We are capable of manifesting the sacred dream, of transforming nightmares into journeys through bliss gardens, and of healing ourselves above and below, within and throughout our eternal beings.

Contained within the authentic mirror world are the spiritual imprints and collective light and dark of every individual human being.
These gather together to create actual dimensions that encapsulate emotions, feelings, thoughts, imagery, and events.

The dimensions within these spirit worlds can be journeyed to and through in meditation, and they can be studied and used as tools for an individual’s continued evolution and growth.

Within each dimension are contained the coordinates of heavens and hells, of gravity or zero gravity, of grace and forgiveness, of darkness and despair.
We are traveling to and through heavens and hells moment to moment.

Life and death are part of the same continuum.
We are not born and we do not die; instead, we exist as eternal beings participating in an ongoing epic evolution.

This evolution is sustained by the spiritual mirror worlds which are paramount to the renewal and resurrection of humanity and nature.
Heaven and hell are not realms that we approach at the moment of death or near death.

They are accessed with every imprint that your thoughts and feelings create on life as you journey about your day from place to place, from person to person.
We have the potential to create heaven on earth only because we breath gravity and life force into the dimensions and realms that we inhabit with our collective energy output or input.

As we change our interior landscape to match the vibrations and frequencies of celestial places, we change our external landscape.
We alter the field, we change the course or the wave of humanity’s collective evolution, and we find that we are contributing to something greater than ourselves.

Mind your thoughts and feelings, as they form the path-less-traveled that carries you safely home to a warm embrace, a soft kiss, sunlight on tender skin, water running over sacred stones, and the breath of life that sustains you… moment to moment.

 

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100,000 views!!

Nice!!

Thank you!!​

 

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Been there!! Done that!!

 

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I Am!


BY John Clare


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I am–yet what I am none cares or knows;
My friends forsake me like a memory lost:
I am the self-consumer of my woes–
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled throes
And yet I am, and live–like vapours tossed


Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dreams,
Where there is neither sense of life or joys,
But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems;
Even the dearest that I loved the best
Are strange–nay, rather, stranger than the rest.


I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
There to abide with my Creator, God,
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below–above the vaulted sky.​

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I had a very strong moment this morning as Sensiko and I were watching the morning news and a story came on about an elderly woman and how beautiful she was when she was younger…anyhow, I was rubbing her back and I fucking burst into tears…I felt exactly what Sensiko was thinking…she didn’t notice that I got up to wipe my eyes…I wasn’t even awake yet.
*sigh*

HOW TO STOP ABSORBING OTHER PEOPLE’S EMOTIONS

If you have opened to read these words, I completely bow and honor you, who feel the world with their heart first and then the mind.
This is an integration and collaboration for the new world and fifth dimensional reality to arise.

I see you, I feel you and I am so excited you are here, thank you infinitely!
I will start this off by saying the word Empath gets swung around a lot in the psychic realm or alternative community, it is built almost seemingly from the mystics but there is a very fine tuned science and brain chemistry to define an Empath and the neurology associated with such people.

One day I will write more about that science but for now… Empaths are the people with the power to feel other people’s emotions.
The saying runs true, it is both a blessing and a curse to feel the world through the heart of someone who carries the world within it.

In my opinion, this is the attunement of the new age.
Being able to feel another person’s heart is a gift that is being given to so many to help change the planet!

Congratulations, if you can relate to this article, you have been selected as a bringer of transformation.
Can you feel it?

For thousands of years we have not had the ability to interconnect with so many beings at one time and for the first time the majority of the planet with a computer screen facillitator, can read and become educated about the strange world they would have mentally shut out.

We are entering a time on our planet where it is no longer needed to protect ourselves or separate ourselves for survival but the exact opposite is need for our survival, to join our hearts together as one to help heal the planet we have separated ourselves from.

We need to feel the person next to us to give them the few words that come with ease and grace so we can to help them on their healing journey.
We need to feel deeply within to be able to see the destruction of the planet and hear the voice that will tell us the solutions.

Feel to reconnect your cranial antenna (your pineal gland and pituitary) to the circuitry of your brain that will truly connect you to the entirety of the universe.
But wait wasn’t this article supposed to be about not feeling or not absorbing other’s feelings?

Yes, yes, just wanted to lay some groundwork of why what you are experiencing is truly incredible.

So to the part that isn’t so glamorous: I know that feeling oh so well of walking into a congested room and feeling the vibrational cyclone overwhelm your whole entire being. Looking into some beings eyes and feeling that moment in complete synchronicity with them.

Whether it be, being brought to tears of joy or agonizing pain; intertwining outside of bodily constructs to merge perfectly in the ethos with a stranger.
In a world that is filled with chaos, this entanglement often feels involuntary.

The entanglement feels like an energy donor situation or depletion and here is where you can take your innate and instinctual gifts to engage your energy field to give what is needed to yourself and the beings on the planet.

See, the way I see it Empaths are the catalyst for change, I MUST MENTION that this is NOT suppose to be at your sacrifice in this dimensional shift. Instead of a duality state of giving of yourself to be able to receive something, it is more like an alchemist pot.

We feel emotions coming through our bodies because our electromagnetic centers are so clear vibrationally, that we can pick up the signals of other to help recalibrate those around us.

Again, this is not suppose to be at the expense of you or the other person but more of a soul tuning and refinement.
Just as a guitarist listens to a certain cord to tune his guitar, this frequency exchange is what most Empaths are feeling.

We have received our attunement from the center of all the universe, specifically Gaia’s calibration of her electromagnetic centers or the polar shift (which has already begun). Though it is not our job to completely “tune” someone else.

We are here to feel their emotional state as a vibration and then the paradigm shift is not to sink to their vibrational state but to go within once again, to find the true resonance of the new planet Earth and then vibrate that into all of the space around us for calibration.

I will give an example of how I have been utilizing this internal technology: Say someone is in my space and I can feel that energetically they are directing anger towards me, someone or something around me ( which to me feels like energy daggers) or someone is sad, depressed, or needy (which to me feels like they are creating a vibrational vortex to try to restart their internal generator or in other words suck energy from you, someone or something in the room).

1. Acknowledge Their Energy, “I see you” – There is this space in the ethereal that most sensitive people or Empaths can feel and that is the place where all of the universe comes from.
2. The singularity, this is where all of the universe culminates and although this is the last thing you would want to hear at this moment when you feel the need to throw up a psychic protective wall, the truth is in the end and/or beginning all of infinity joins in one point (or at least that is what quantum physics is pointing to right?
   
   ) When you “call the energy out” there is a neutralization that happens within the laws of entanglement theory in physics. You are saying to their energy field and to their higher selves or to the electromagnetic space uniting the two of you, “You are being heard, you are not alone and we are one.” In a dualistic reality there are really only two spectrums of emotional resonance and then all of the thousands of variations that stem from that. The two spectrums being: love (the state that we are entangling and one) and fear (the state that we are separate and alone). Both are polar power states of being but in my experience when you call out something that is afraid of being separate (I.E. Someone like I mentioned above in neediness or anger) this subtle reminder calibrates the remembrance that they can not be separate, if someone seemingly outside of them can feel their pain.
3. Go With The Flow, “let it go” – This next step seems counter intuitive as well because our first response when we feel energetic daggers (as mentioned above) or black hole vortices coming at us is to shut down, run away or strike back (all lower , primitive brain functions). These are all energetic amplifications or replications and mirrors of what you are feeling. Therefore whether you need to walk away from the situation to do this next exercise or stay in the situation because you can’t leave, let the emotion pass through your body without letting it “stick” internally. For example: One of the adaptable substances on our planet is bamboo, like bamboo let the strong gusty breeze of negative emotion move through you, imagine their emotion as a cloud in the sky just passing by with the current. Finally bless this emotion as it passs through and by you. You have already felt the emotion, the electromagnetics of the energy exchange has already been done, no need to throw up a protection bubble just to seal things in. (Although I am just saying this to add emphasis, protection bubbles do work) My favorite is to recognize the feeling and bless that feeling through my heart chakra with compassion. By thinking, “I have been there before, please offer this person grace through this.” Use your greatest crucible for transformation: your heart! You will not only start to transform your heart to be more open and healing but the other person will feel your opening and will start to shift, even if only slightly.
4. Go With-In or Go With-Out, “we are one” – In my opinion, this is the most important part! Choose to go with-in and feel your heart center again (which is the center of all your being). Go to a quiet place, close your eyes and think of something that makes you happy or feel pure. You have officially rebooted your heart resonance generator! There is also a second option, I started using this with practice, which is to feel your heart vibrational center and then shift the other person’s energy by opening a compassionate conversation or even just compassionate actions like a hug (depending on their openness of course). Either way will bring you back to the singularity or you feeling “centered”. Sometimes don’t like feeling others emotions because they have forgotten their own internal heart resonance. When you become that singularity within, you create that same resonance in your external environment.

Some of the biggest “uploads” that I think we can receive at this time is to literally become the change we want to see in the world.
You have been given this magical gift of feeling the world around you for a reason!

Yes, it is an extra sense that some have not tuned to yet.
It is our amazing privilege to upgrade by integrating and internalizing this center and develop it’s magic to transform the hearts of humanity.

I know that anyone who is reading this is on the same mission and can feel where and what I am saying.
To me knowing there is a tribe of us on the planet right now makes me so ecstatically happy.

I am so grateful for you!
Thank you for all of your work here, WE ARE ONE <3

 

[Skarekrow]

I am very thankful for knowing all you wonderful people.
Thankful that I have the basic necessities such as shelter, food, clean water.
Thankful for all my family and Sensiko.
Thankful that I get the privilege to be a Father to a child I call my Son…whom I have raised since age 2 (almost 12 now).
Thankful for the beautiful world that we live in…the trees, the flowers, the clouds, the rain, snow, animals.
Thankful for the ability to experience this life and all it entails.​

 

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Yea! I’m a Thermos!
I hear we have a hard shell but are all warm inside...

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I'm also a mitten. Everything makes sense now. The reason my brother and I are so different is that he's a monocle, which is related with sight, whereas I'm a mitten and related to touch. Thank you skarekrow, for enlight- no that's sight, for en...touching me?

 

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Been there!! Done that!!

This picture startled me. Yes, been there, done that, NO THANK YOU.

 

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This picture startled me. Yes, been there, done that, NO THANK YOU.

The only difference was…it was an old hag…and I mind-blasted her the fuck out of my house.
This was not before my mantle clock on the dresser flew at me in the dark though.

 

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I can relate. I've had the old hag, as well as the blanket of shadow depicted in that picture. I'm thankful I had the mental fortitude to mind blast them away as well. It's so unnerving at times, even thinking about it. Do you find that you have to keep up mental barriers against them? Sometimes I feel them lurking, and I have to bolster myself. It can get so exhausting though.

 

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I can relate. I've had the old hag, as well as the blanket of shadow depicted in that picture. I'm thankful I had the mental fortitude to mind blast them away as well. It's so unnerving at times, even thinking about it. Do you find that you have to keep up mental barriers against them? Sometimes I feel them lurking, and I have to bolster myself. It can get so exhausting though.

Every so often I will sense something, and I will usually announce out loud “You are free to stay if your intentions are good, if not then you must leave my house now.”
With things like that drawing…the old hag…I actually reacted to her in my sleep.
I can clearly remember it.
I went from having a normal run of the mill dream to an image of her moving toward me down the hallway and as she reached the doorway I actually sat straight up in bed with my eyes still closed, though I could see her with my mind’s eye.
I mind-blasted (best description I can give…though it was almost like a pulse or wave) her as I yelled “Get the fuck out!”.
I opened my eyes just in time to see something fly toward me in the dark as I could feel the hag leaving through the wall.
I turned on the bedside light and the mantle clock at the BACK of the dresser…not teetering on the edge, had flown off, hit the foot of my bed and was on the ground.

 

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Every so often I will sense something, and I will usually announce out loud “You are free to stay if your intentions are good, if not then you must leave my house now.”
With things like that drawing…the old hag…I actually reacted to her in my sleep.
I can clearly remember it.
I went from having a normal run of the mill dream to an image of her moving toward me down the hallway and as she reached the doorway I actually sat straight up in bed with my eyes still closed, though I could see her with my mind’s eye.
I mind-blasted (best description I can give…though it was almost like a pulse or wave) her as I yelled “Get the fuck out!”.
I opened my eyes just in time to see something dark fly toward me in the dark as I could feel the hag leaving through the wall.
I turned on the bedside light and the mantle clock at the BACK of the dresser…not teetering on the edge, had flown off, hit the foot of my bed and was on the ground.

Yes, I can actually sense right away if their intentions are good or not. The good ones, I welcome them. They seem more curious about me and are usually just observers. But the negative ones...goodness... It's like getting gutted when they're around. They induce horrible physical reactions in me.

When I encountered the old hag, it was in my sleep as well. Your description of "mind blasting" them is perfect. I can describe no other way for myself. Only once have I ever had to verbally shout "GTFO" as that argument usually occurs silently, heh.

 

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Yes, I can actually sense right away if their intentions are good or not. The good ones, I welcome them. They seem more curious about me and are usually just observers. But the negative ones...goodness... It's like getting gutted when they're around. They induce horrible physical reactions in me.

When I encountered the old hag, it was in my sleep as well. Your description of "mind blasting" them is perfect. I can describe no other way for myself. Only once have I ever had to verbally shout "GTFO" as that argument usually occurs silently, heh.

This happened just recently….http://www.infjs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27025&page=133&p=816994&viewfull=1#post816994
That was the last bit of paranormality I have experienced recently.
Yes…I can clearly feel how the waves or pulses emanate from my body and it seems to me that I should be able to induce this consciously, and yet I cannot…not yet anyhow…hehe.

 

[Skarekrow]

“You are already what you want to become.
Why search anymore?
You are a wonderful manifestation.
The whole Universe has come together to make your existence possible.
There is nothing that is not you.
The Kingdom of Heaven, The Pure Land, Nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you right now."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh​

 

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[Kgal]

“You are already what you want to become.
Why search anymore?
You are a wonderful manifestation.
The whole Universe has come together to make your existence possible.
There is nothing that is not you.
The Kingdom of Heaven, The Pure Land, Nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you right now."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh​

I can remember when I used to roll my eyes and think "yehh....righhhht" and totally ignore this truth.

It's hard to walk around thinking one is already what one needs - when we're so conditioned to think otherwise. Plus there's that artificial schism thing they put in the brain to effectively cut us off from source - the Light - and we walk around searching for that connection the heart remembers so well. We seek it in all kinds of relationships ranging from another person to food to material things to power.

It is the truth of the Universe you were "created" for a reason and as such are perfect right here right now as part of the divine manifestation unfolding in motion.
Our suffering arises when we are in resistance to this idea.

 

[Skarekrow]

I thought this was worth posting.

Neil Gaiman: Credo

What I believe.

I believe that it is difficult to kill an idea, because ideas are invisible and contagious, and they move fast.​

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I believe that you can set your own ideas against ideas you dislike.

That you should be free to argue, explain, clarify, debate, offend, insult, rage, mock, sing, dramatise and deny.

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I do not believe that burning, murdering, exploding people, smashing their heads with rocks (to let the bad ideas out), drowning them or even defeating them will work to contain ideas you do not like.

Ideas spring up where you do not expect them, like weeds, and are as difficult to control.

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I believe that repressing ideas spreads ideas.

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I believe that people and books and newspapers are containers for ideas, but that burning the people will be as unsuccessful as firebombing the newspaper archives.

It is already too late.

It is always too late.

The ideas are out, hiding behind people’s eyes, waiting in their thoughts.

They can be whispered.

They can be written on walls in the dead of night.

They can be drawn.

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I believe that ideas do not have to be right to exist.

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I believe you have every right to be perfectly certain that images of god or prophet or man are sacred and undefilable, just as I have the right to be certain of the sacredness of speech, of the sanctity of the right to mock, comment, to argue and to utter.

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I believe I have the right to think and say the wrong things.

I believe your remedy for that should be to argue with me or to ignore me, and that I should have the same remedy for the wrong things that you think.

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I believe that you have the absolute right to think things that I find offensive, stupid, preposterous or dangerous, and that you have the right to speak, write, or distribute these things, and that I do not have the right to kill you, maim you, hurt you, or take away your liberty or property because I find your ideas threatening or insulting or downright disgusting.

You probably think my ideas are pretty vile, too.

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I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win.

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Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they are even true.

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Eppur si muove: and yet it moves.

 

[Skarekrow]

Student Confirms That There Are Enormous
Tubes Of Plasma Floating Above The Earth

A 60-year-old theory about the structure of the magnetic fields that surround Earth has been confirmed directly for the first time.
The lead author of the paper is an undergraduate student who invented a way to view the Earth's magnetosphere in three dimensions.

The sun emits a constant stream of charged particles that's supplemented by cosmic rays from sources such as supernovae.
As these particles approach Earth, their path is altered by the Earth's magnetic field, which deflects some and funnels others towards the poles, leading to displays such as aurora.

This region, known as the magnetosphere, includes the ionosphere and plasmasphere as its inner layers.
These distinctions aside, we don't know all that much about the structure of these regions.

A better understanding would be useful because the ionosphere interferes with satellite navigation systems and the images received by radio telescopes. During her honors project at the University of Sydney, Cleo Loi realized she could use the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope to probe these regions in a way that had never been done before, leading to a paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

The MWA is a forerunner of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), soon to transform radio astronomy.
It consists of 128 antennae spread over three kilometers (almost two miles). Loi suggested that by splitting the observations between those from the eastern and western ends of the array, she would achieve something equivalent to binocular vision, allowing us to see in three dimensions.

For the MWA's usual astronomical work, a three-kilometer baseline does not give the parallax required to see in-depth, but the situation is very different when we are looking close to the Earth.

Loi detected a series of high and low density plasma tubes connecting the ionosphere and plasmasphere running in parallel to the magnetic field.
"We measured their position to be about 600 kilometres [373 miles] above the ground, in the upper ionosphere, and they appear to be continuing upwards into the plasmasphere. This is around where the neutral atmosphere ends, and we are transitioning to the plasma of outer space," Loi said.

The tubes move slowly with time, so telescopes experience changing interference effects.

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Loi told IFLScience that while some limited probing has been done on the ionosphere with other radio telescopes such as the Very Large Array, no one to her knowledge has applied parallax to the problem previously.

“People theorized something like this from observations of a type of very low frequency electromagnetic wave. We can detect lightning from another hemisphere and people concluded there must be plasma tubes guiding the signal,” says Loi. “It's a very indirect conclusion, and no one had much idea what these tubes were like.”

Loi says she was amazed at how many tubes the MWA's enormous 30° field revealed.
“There are no plans to use the SKA for studying the ionosphere, but I am hoping with publicity about this work to change that,” she says.

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