(1) Re: In Praise of Anne Strieber -&- (2) Re: How Wide Is N0W?

[Indrid Cold]

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AI,

Did you ever receive any feedback from
Mahatmas X-Chromosome and/or Y-Chromosome
STRIEBER regarding the forwarded missive?
-=[[ ||| ]]=-
Kind regards. - eMpTy - 07Feb2012
http://tinyurl.com/R3ACC3SS

0n Monday, January 23, 2012 3:39 AM, AI wrote:

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| From: "Unknowncountry" <...>
| To: "G00 G00 GJ00B" <...>

Thanks for sending us this.
I sent it along to the Striebers.
I thought it quite brilliant.

AI

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Subject: Re: In Praise of Anne Strieber
To: [...]
Cc: [...]
Date: Sunday, January 22, 2012, 8:54 PM

--- On Mon, 1/23/12, Indrid Cold wrote:
--- El Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:23:33, eMpTy escribio:
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... the psychic core and heart
of the Strieber Maelstrom, Anne!
http://tinyurl.com/Anne-Strieber-Google-Pics

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--- On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:01:02, Indrid Cold wrote:

Subject: A Truncated Pseudo-analysis
of Hologram Strieber [Part 1]

The [C2C] 'June 19th-20th' [2011]
interview took an interesting turn near
the end shortly after [George Knapp] GK
asked [Whitley Strieber] WS if he was
'happy.' As a psychological warrior on
the front lines of the alternative, weird,
bizarre, and temporally 'trying,' it does
seem reasonable that WS would have more
than his fair share of trauma, angst and
bitterness. At one point following this
segment there was a strange caller.
I wasn't paying close attention to his
remarks... (is there a transcript of the
show?)...but, apparently, he talked the
host, GK, and guest, WS, into listening
to a brief recording. My ears perked up
as the recording played the remarkably
clear voice of a woman discussing
gender reassignment in very basic terms.
Now I wish I had heard the caller's
preamble, as something of a non sequitur
lacking continuity of context, according
to GK and WS, had just occurred. Given
the hour, and the unimaginable stress of
3 hours live discussion - notwithstanding
WS' journeyman status in broadcasting as
both guest and host - it did seem as if
a deeply negative emotional shift took
hold of WS, particularly regarding
'government,' as well as a degree of
bitterness over his own trivialized
celebrity. Perhaps I'm merely observing
a Rorschach Inkblot Synchronicity here
in holographic form? Or, was this a
moment of accumulated trauma brought to
the surface by... [Pseudo-analysis of
Hologram Strieber Truncated.]
--Indrid Cold - 21 June 2011 - END

http://tinyurl.com/GK-WS-Interview-Transcript

~o0-O-0o~

[Part 2]

Whitley Strieber embodies entire
universes of internal inconsistencies,
cognitive dissonance, and ambiguity,
leaving the observer with so much
ambivalence toward him that it's a
wonder he's so popular; and yet, his
imaginative artistry, at best, is highly
intriguing on many ontological levels,
while his many self-contradictions,
at worst, come across as logically
irrational and psychologically troubling,
i.e. for him and for any who would
embrace his hyper-toroidal mental gestalt
without a significant measure of critical
thinking. I like that in a writer!

[ http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/multiple.jpg ]

~o0-O-0o~

Dr. Olga Kharitidi writes:

"The purpose of my talk is to make some of
the aspects of our work known to Western culture.
The reason is that the critical time has arrived.
I told you that the unhealed traumatic experiences
which gain status of their own and become spirits
of trauma continue their existence throughout
generations. If they are not healed, they build
up, connect, accelerate, enforce and support
each other, and become collective entities...

"At some point, they accumulate on the collective
level and become very dangerous. This dangerous
time has come. It can become many times more
dangerous now than in previous times, when world
wars were induced by accumulated spirits of trauma.
The purpose of my visit is to tell you that there
is a great danger for all the people on the planet,
but there are effective means to overcome it.
That's why I invite you to our place in Central
Asia, to Samarkand, to learn about our practice..."

"The Master of Lucid Dreams"

Olga Kharitidi:
The Master of Lucid Dreams by Olga Kharitidi, M.D.
("... accumulated spirits of trauma...")
http://www.google.com/search?q=Olga+Kharitid

On Tue, 17 January 2012, 0:16, "Indrid Cold" wrote:

--- El lun 16-ene-12, OutreZoneD escribio:

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:28:15, Moon Monolith wrote:

On Jan 16, 5:31 pm, Hieronymous707 wrote:
<>
<> On Jan 16, 7:34 pm, OutreZoneD wrote:
<>
<> <> "The circus arrives without warning."
<> <> [...]
<> <> "You are no longer quite certain
<> <> which side of the fence is the dream."
<>
<> "Step right up!" the barker hollered,
<> "Learn of Love! Of Life! Ten dollars!"
<> as the crowd meandered through the fair.
<> "Have your future fortune read!"
<> His voice rings loud within my head.
<> I looked around, and everyone was there!
<> So stepping up, dollars in hand, and
<> paying heed the barking man, I disappeared
<> within that carny tent. The fortune teller
<> was a card! I swear, I never laughed
<> so hard! No doubt, the best ten bucks
<> I ever spent. I still recall his words
<> intently, and know exactly what he meant.
<> See, I mind his admonitions every day.
<> "Tell the Truth! Do what you Will!
<> But if you Lie, then please lie still!"
<> Still lying in my future, cards to play.
<>
<> Carnival Triumph
<> http://hieronymous707.blogspot.com/2011/07/press-release.html

--- El lun 16-ene-12, OutreZoneD <...> escribio:

"The circus arrives without warning."
[...]
"You are no longer quite certain
which side of the fence is the dream."

THE NIGHT CIRCUS
by Erin Morgenstern
Copyright (c) 2011
ISBN 978-0-385-53463-5
-=[[ NOTE: A charming, extraordinary book. ]]=-
http://erinmorgenstern.com

~o0-O-0o~

-=[[ NOTE: 'A Coffin for the Misbegotten?' ]]=-
http://tinyurl.com/oltissis

SOLVING THE COMMUNION ENIGMA
by Whitley Strieber (c) 2011
http://communionenigma.com

EXCERPTS ...

[...] Once the mirror of expectation is
shattered, the door of perception is open,
and there is something there, something
alive, looking back at us from where the
mirror once stood.

[...] My father had some secrets.
When I was about twelve, he gave me
a desk from his office to use in my
room, and after the workmen had set
it up and left, I found a photograph
stuck in a crack in the top of one
of the drawers. It was of my father.
It had been taken in what looked like
a North African setting. There was a
coffin being held up by two men in
soutanes and fezzes. Lying in the
coffin with his eyes closed and his
hands folded on his chest was my
father. Of course I was amazed by
this picture and took it to him
immediately to ask what it was.
He ripped it into small pieces and
flushed it down the toilet. He never
said a single word about it.
[...]
Pages 24-25; Chapter 2 - The Mirror Shattered

[...] Because I was so shocked in my
childhood, I lost my belief in the
stability of the ordinary world. I live
in a permanent state of unease, but
also a permanent state of wonder.
Ask any close-encounter witness what
is real. They will tell you at once, it
isn't what you see around you. This world
of pretense in which we live is just like
a shattered childhood, a very different
place than it appears.
[...]
Page 38; Chapter 3 - The Lost Finders

[...] On a few occasions, I had the
chance to ask a question of a visitor.
For the most part, this happened deep in
the woods at night. If I glimpsed one of
them, I would sit on the ground and collect
myself, enter a meditative state, and then
ask my question aloud.
Usually, there was no response -- in
general, I suppose, because they weren't
really there. But on some occasions, they
were, and once when I asked a question I
got a response... I asked, "What does the
universe mean to you?"
Instantly, there appeared in my mind a
bright, clear image of a closed coffin.
I cannot explain how this was done, but
can only say that these vivid, television-like
images were a common way they had of
communicating with me. I might add that they
were also among the strangest things I have
ever known. They weren't simple images.
With them came what I can only describe as a
sense of a person, an intimacy of being, that
had conveyed a taste of the personality that
had created them.
[...] I wondered how anybody could think of
our mysterious universe this way? But then I
realized that, of course, they have probably
reached its limits, or worse, discovered that
reality has no limits.
I can see the claustrophobia that would
attend to the realization that one is trapped
in an infinity that could never be escaped.
In fact, I can feel it. It's like being in a
room you can never leave, or a prison.
What would the world be like without
mysteries? It is a claustrophobic and desperate
idea. And what if it goes on forever, endlessly
repeating itself, star upon star, galaxy upon
galaxy, universe upon universe?
If so, then there is truly no escape, not
for anybody who understands this as a certainty.
For them, it is indeed a coffin, and our
innocence is a kind of freedom that must be
among the most precious things that they know.
[...]
Pages 70-73; Chapter 6 - What Might They Want?

[...] There is in physics a concept called
alternative history. It has nothing to do with
the usual speculations about Atlantis or
whatever, but rather with what appears to be the
truth about reality, that the universe is not
a single, isolated entity at all but a component
in a vast multiverse that includes parallel
universes that are literal, physical places.
Every possible outcome of every event happens
somewhere, in what is probably an infinity of
universes, forever expanding into a void that
is without end.
It is a shocking idea, and when considered
in the context of the coffin I was shown by the
elderly visitor, it becomes an infinity from
which there can be no escape: an unending,
chokingly claustrophobic emptiness.
[...] So could the existence of the multiverse
be at least some of the reason for the bizarre
effects associated with contact? Could there be
some way to cross between parallel universes?
[...] In this universe the whole anomalous
enterprise may be an apparition being projected
here by some sort of arcane technology or mental
state that enables a crossing of the invisible
gap between the worlds. So might they not be us
in another state?
[...]
Pages 160-161; Chapter 12 - Deliverance

[...] Who are we?
Page 213; Chapter 16 - What Is to Come

SOLVING THE COMMUNION ENIGMA by Whitley Strieber
ISBN 978-1-585-42917-2 Copyright (c) 2011
by Walker & Collier, Inc.] UnknownCountry.com

-=[[ NOTE: Having so clearly articulated
the pathology, maybe it's now
time to abandon the Stockholm
Syndrome-like acquiesce,
especially concerning the
removal of the 'bag-em-and-
tag-em' earmark? <grin> ...
http://tinyurl.com/oltissis ]]=-

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HAWKING EXOPHOBIA

Perhaps Dr. Hawking's entombed brain has been
imprisoned for so long in an emaciated shell
of a hybrid cybernetic infrastructure that
his lonely, cosmologically-mathematical
myopic mindgland can no longer remember
a vital state of being prior to hyper-
vulnerability to the ravages of
time/space, symbolized as a highly
sophisticated form of predation?
Or, maybe, like Dr. John Lilly's
isolation tanks in conjunction
with experiments with LSD and
Ketamine, his mind has
intercepted vast arrays
of extraterrestrial
cognitive probes
without form,
eliciting
a great
fear?

~o0-O-0o~

http://tinyurl.com/eyedead

"Equivalent Sets of Histories and
Multiple Quasiclassical Realms"
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9404013

Authors:

Murray Gell-Mann, James B. Hartle
(Santa Fe Institute, Los Alamos,
and University of New Mexico)
(Submitted on 8 Apr 1994 (v1),
last revised 5 May 1996 (this version, v3))

Abstract:

We consider notions of physical equivalence
of sets of histories in the quantum mechanics of a
closed system. We show first how the same set of
histories can be relabeled in various ways, including
the use of the Heisenberg equations of motion and of
passive transformations of field variables. In the
the usual approximate quantum mechanics of a measured
subsystem, two observables represented by different
Hermitian operators are physically distinguished by
the different apparatus used to measure them. In the
quantum mechanics of a closed system, however, any
apparatus is part of the system and the notion of
physically distinct situations has a different
character. We show that a triple consisting of an
initial condition, a Hamiltonian, and a set of
histories is physically equivalent to another triple
if the operators representing these initial
conditions, Hamiltonians, and histories are related
by any fixed unitary transformation. We apply this
result to the question of whether the universe might
exhibit physically inequivalent quasiclassical realms
(which we earlier called quasiclassical domains), not
just the one that includes familiar experience.
We describe how the probabilities of alternative
forms, behaviors, and evolutionary histories of
information gathering and utilizing systems (IGUSes)
using the usual quasiclassical realm could in
principle be calculated in quantum cosmology, although
it is, of course, impractical to perform the
computations. We discuss how, in principle, the
probabilities of occurrence of IGUSes could be
calculated in realms distinct from the usual
quasiclassical one. We discuss how IGUSes adapted
mainly to two different realms could draw inferences
about each other using a hybrid realm consisting of
alternatives drawn from each.
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9404013

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The Milky Way Galaxy contains at least 100 billion planets:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/overview/index.html

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ORION

Betelgeuse: 600 light-years away
Bellatrix: 245 light-years away
Alnitak: 800 light-years away
Alnilam: 1340 light-years away
Mintaka: 915 light-years away
Saiph: 720 light-years away
Rigel: 770 light-years away

Sirius: 8.6 light-years away

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http://tinyurl.com/filter-2oii

Releasing the Bonds:
Empowering People to Think for Themselves
http://www.odan.org/hassan_excerpt.htm

by Steven Hassan,
Freedom of Mind Press, Somerville MA, (c) 2000
http://www.freedomofmind.com/

EXCERPT (from an excerpt)
[...]
Cognitive Dissonance Theory and
the Evolution of the BITE Model

In 1950, psychologist Leon Festinger summarized
the basic principle of his cognitive dissonance
theory: "If you change a person's behavior, his
thoughts and feelings will change to minimize
the dissonance." As Festinger described,
"dissonance" is the psychological tension that
arises when a person's behavior conflicts with
his beliefs. Like hunger, this tension is an
uncomfortable state that drives people to take
measures to reduce it. People prefer that their
behavior, thoughts, and emotions be mutually
consistent, and can tolerate only a certain
amount of discrepancy between these three
components of their identities.
Psychological research has shown that if any
of the three components changes, the other
two will shift to reduce the cognitive dissonance.
This tendency can manifest itself in several
different ways. For example:

[] When people behave in ways they see as either
stupid or immoral, they change their attitudes
in order to believe that their behavior is
sensible and justified.

[] People who hold opposing views are apt to
interpret the same news reports or factual
material about the disputed subject quite
differently - each sees and remembers what
supports his views, but glosses over and
forgets what would create dissonance.

[] When people who think of themselves as
reasonably humane are in a situation where
they hurt innocent people, they reduce the
resulting dissonance by marginalizing or
"putting down" their victims.

[] There is a human inclination to reduce
cognitive dissonance by rationalization.

In 1956, Festinger wrote When Prophecy Fails,
a book about a Wisconsin "flying saucer" cult.
The leader, Mrs. Keech, said she was receiving
messages sent by a superior "Guardian" from
the planet "Clarion." She reported to the press
that on December 21, there would be a great
flood and all except a chosen few would perish.
Her followers sold their homes, gave away their
money, and waited for the spaceships.

When morning came -- with no saucers and no
flood -- one might think the followers would
have become disillusioned. But when Mrs. Keech
proclaimed that the alien had witnessed their
faithful vigil and decided to spare the Earth,
most members wound up feeling more committed
to her in spite of the public humiliation.
According to Festinger, the reason for this
renewed commitment is that the cult members'
feelings and thoughts had changed to reduce
the dissonance created by their behavior.

Cognitive dissonance theory gave me a more
formal, structured way of thinking about
mind control. Of course, cognitive dissonance
theory is a gross simplification of a highly
complex phenomenon. I am sure that in the
future, there will be even better scientific
theories to help explain this phenomenon.
[...] http://www.odan.org/hassan_excerpt.htm

We, Borg

Speculations on Hive Minds as a Posthuman State

http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Posthumanity/WeBorg.html

by Anders Sandberg

"The designers of our species set out to produce
a being that might be capable of an order of
mentality higher than their own. The only
possibility of doing so lay in planning a great
increase in brain organisation. But they knew
that the brain of an individual human being
could not safely be allowed to exceed a certain
weight. They therefore sought to produce the
new order of mentality in a system of distinct
and specialised brains held in 'telepathic'
unity by means of ethereal radiation. Material
brains were to be capable of becoming on some
occasions mere nodes in a system of radiation
which itself should then constitute the
physical basis of a single mind."
Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men

Hive minds where the individual is subsumed into a
collective consciousness has been a recurring idea
in science fiction since Olaf Stapledon's influential
novels Last and First Men (1931) and Star Maker (1937),
although the concept in some sense had been suggested
by Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes (1651). They have often
in western science fiction been used as an allegory
for communism or the anonymity of industrial
civilisation, and have usually been portrayed in a
terrifying light (Nicholls 1982). The latest such
portrayal is the Borg in Star Trek: the Next Generation:
a race of bionically augmented humanoids linked together
into a collective mind, striving to assimilate every
other intelligent species into the Collective. [...]
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Posthumanity/WeBorg.html

~o0-O-0o~

"MKULTRA (also known as MK-ULTRA) was the code name
for a CIA mind control research program lasting from
the 1950s through the 1970s.
[...]
"... The experiments often took a sadistic bent.
Dr. Sydney Gottlieb was known to torture victims
by locking them in sensory deprivation chambers
while dosed on LSD, or to make recordings of
psychiatric patients' therapy sessions, and then
play a tape loop of the patient's most self-degrading
statement over and over through headphones after
the patient had been restrained in a straightjacket
and dosed with LSD.
Gottlieb himself took LSD frequently, locking himself
in his office and taking copious notes..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA

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"How am I to get in?" asked Alice again,
in a louder tone. "Are you to get in at all?"
said the Footman. "That's the first question,
you know." -- Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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DMT, Moses, and the Quest for Transcendence
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/Pickover/pc/dmt.html
by Cliff Pickover

EXCERPT

[...] The molecule DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) is a
psychoactive chemical that causes intense visions
and can induce its users to quickly enter a completely
different "environment" that some have likened to an
alien or parallel universe. The transition from our
world to theirs occurs with no cessation of
consciousness or quality of awareness. In this
environment, beings often appear who interact with
the person who is using DMT.
The beings appear to inhabit this parallel realm.
The DMT experience has the feel of reality in terms of
detail and potential for exploration. The creatures
encountered are often identified as being alienlike
or elflike. Some of the creatures appear to be
three-dimensional. Others appear to lack depth.

Author Terence McKenna has used DMT and feels that,
"Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging
a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman,
hyperdimensional, and extremely alien...

[...] Naturally occurring DMT may play
a role in near-death experiences and
alien-abduction experiences.

Is it possible that the reality exposed to humans
by injecting DMT is in some sense a valid reality,
on par with our normal reality? Our minds, which
evolved to help us run from lions on the African
savannas, might not be engineered to see these
other realities under normal circumstances.

What is the guarantee that our minds are naturally
designed to sense the "true reality"? Perhaps there
is no guarantee. If this concept seems weird,
consider a far-fetched example. Imagine a creature
or phenomena that has been lurking among us since
the dawn of evolution. If our ancient ancestors
died every time they perceived the phenomena,
evolution would favor creatures who did not perceive
the creatures or phenomena. One might counter this
argument by saying that our modern instruments,
such as X-ray machines and cameras, should be able
to make the creatures apparent to us, even if our
unaided sensorium is not up to the task.
Reasoning further, because our instruments have
not made these realms apparent to us, the realms
must not be real. However, perhaps our traditional
instruments and theories are also not up to the task.
Or perhaps our interpretation of the instruments'
results is incomplete. Perhaps DMT is an instrument.

As a metaphor, consider infrared goggles.
A person leans on a tree. At night, we don't
see the person. Put the goggles on, and a new
reality results -- a truer reality -- and we see
the man. Similarly, is it possible that our brain
is a filter, and the use of DMT is like slipping
on infrared goggles, allowing us to perceive a
valid reality that is inches away and all around us?

In my book The Science of Aliens,
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/bookscp.html
I write about some of Whitley Strieber's experiences.
Strieber is famous for his book Communion, which
describes his encouters with aliens. When I had
written my book, I was somewhat "down" on Strieber
due to some of the more zany descriptions he once
gave of "aliens" he encountered. Some looked
cartoonlike, while others were the more standard
versions of aliens that most of us contemplate today.
In light of reading about DMT experiences, I can see
more of an overlap in Strieber's descriptions
and DMT-induced aliens.

According to Phillip Klass's UFO Abductions:
A Dangerous Game, Strieber appears to have had
a lifetime of unusual experiences. For example,
in April 1977 Strieber held a brief conversation
with a voice that had come over his stereo system
in his New York apartment. Streiber has also
encountered robotlike aliens, aliens with pug noses
wearing blue coveralls, an alien with an inept
cardboard imitation of a blue double-breasted suit
(complete with a white triangle handkerchief sticking
out of the pocket), and tall aliens in tan jumpsuits.
One alien had a "ridiculous excuse for a curly
black toupee on his head." Strieber once even saw
a giant, ugly insect that made him feel mothered
and loved. Another time he reported seeing the head
of a living woman named Kathie Davis on a shelf
inside a UFO. We can view these descriptions in a
new light, now that we know that DMT can often
produce visions of cartoon-like aliens.

If we were to hunt for the DMT elves, would we
direct our attention to Hawking's waveform model
of the universe or Everett's many-worlds
interpretation of quantum mechanics, or even
higher dimensions?

Is it possible that some of our human ancestors
produced more DMT than we do today? For example, many
of the ancient Bible stories describe prophets with
DMT-like experiences. (See my book The Paradox of God.)
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/bookscp.html
Consider as one example (Isaiah 6):

Above him were seraphs, each with six wings:
With two wings they covered their faces, with
two they covered their feet, and with two
they were flying. And they were calling
to one another:

"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty;
the whole earth is full of his glory."

At the sound of their voices the doorposts
and thresholds shook and the temple was
filled with smoke.

These sorts of ecstatic singing and repetitive
exaltations remind me of subjects who took DMT
and heard: "Now do you see? Now do you see?"
along with singing voices. (These cases are described
in Rick Strassman's book DMT: The Spirit Molecule.)

Maybe this is why the ancients seemed so in touch
with God and with miracles and visions. Maybe Moses
and Jesus had a greater rate of pineal DMT production
than most.

When I asked Rick Strassman, M.D., author of DMT:
The Spirit Molecule, about my theory, he responded:
I'm not familiar with a specific theory that we
made more DMT in the old days than now. But, are
you familiar with Jaynes' idea of the bicameral
mind--that people routinely hallucinated until
the connections between our hemispheres got evolved
out for whatever reason? I don't think hemispheric
connections would support his idea as much as might
higher levels of endogenous DMT. If indeed we made
more DMT in the past, this may have to do with the
increase in artificial light that has come upon us
in the last 1000 years or so.

Also, recall that DMT experiences sometimes
include 2-D cartoon-like characters. Often DMT
entities lack depth. Could a higher-production
of DMT in ancient people influenced artwork.
Is that part of the reason why cave paintings
and Egyptian art are so two dimensional?

One way to imagine how other realities could exist
side by side with our own is to consider the forces
that produced the diversity of senses and
intelligences right here on Earth. In a real way,
there are already alien worlds right here among us.
Every Earthly creature perceives the world in
an "alien" way. Dogs. Bees. Bats. Cats.
They experience the world with different kinds
of senses. They can smell what we cannot, they
can see what we cannot, they can hear what we cannot.
If the organisms of the Earth were somehow able to
describe their world to you, it would probably not
be recognizable to you. It would seem like the
wildest world from any science-fiction story.
Moreover, if you were able to describe the world
to another species, they would "see" no resemblance
to their own. Our sense of reality would be different;
our way of thinking would be different, and even the
practical technology we would produce would be
different. We do not have to contemplate aliens
or science fiction to imagine alienlike senses
and bodies. The animal world of Earth is so diverse
and full of different senses, that creatures are
already walking among us possessing "alien"
awarenesses beyond our understanding.

By studying the creatures of the Earth, we can
hypothesize on the diversity of realities here
on Earth. Aliens would no doubt see a different
world than we do. To best understand this, consider
the Indian luna moth, which has a wingspread of
about 10 cm (4 inches). To our eyes, both the male
and female moths are light green and
indistinguishable from each other.
But the luna moths themselves perceive in the
ultraviolet range of light, and to them the
female looks quite different from the male.
Other creatures have a hard time seeing the
moths when they rest on green leaves, but
luna moths are not camouflaged to one another
since they see each other as brilliantly colored.

For a related Reality Carnival story, see
"People with Charles Bonnet Syndrome
See Beings from Parallel Universes"
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/Pickover/pc/bonnet.html
and "DMT Users See Insect Gods".
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/Pickover/pc/dmtinsect.html

I have also covered the following stories in
the Reality Carnival:
"Man Discovers Intelligent Beings After Consuming DMT,"
"The fleeting reality of DMT machine elves," and
"Psychedelics, Abortion, and the Chrysanthemum."
(Just scan through the Reality Carnival entries until
you find these stories.)
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/Pickover/pc/dmt.html

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"Ram Dass" wrote:
Let me share with you this little model I've worked
out about who we are as human beings. I call it the
"Three-Plane Consciousness Model." If I were to take a
picture of who I see you to be, the picture would show
three "I's" ---three different levels of who you are,
planes on which you have an identity.
Number One is what I call ego, that's the "I" we all
know very well, the plane of the body, mind, and
personality; of all those things we think we are.
Number Two I call the soul; the soul measures time not
in days and years but in incarnations, and it's the "I"
that was around before we as egos were born and that
will be around after we as egos die.
And Number Three is ... just Number Three. We all
have different names for it, and wars are fought over
what to call it, so I avoid all that by just calling it
Number Three.
I see our task as learning to live on more than one of
those planes simultaneously, experiencing ourselves as
egos and souls at the same time. And since "you gotta
be one to see one," once we are resting in our souls,
then we will see others as souls as well. Then when we
look into another person's we'll say, "Are you in there?
I'm in here. Far out!"
When we are able to look behind even that identity as
soul, we'll see that we have still another identity
because we are also Number Three.
That's the mystic "I," because in Number Three there's
actually only one of us. Your Number Three isn't merely
like my Number Three---They're the same thing.
-- Baba Ram Das, a.k.a. Dr. Richard Alpert
(born April 6, 1931)...
http://ramdasstapes.org/index.htm

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A steam turbine is a mechanical device
that extracts thermal energy from pressurized
steam, converts it into rotary motion, and is
particularly suited to drive an electrical
generator -- about 80% of all electricity
generation in the world is by use of steam
turbines: nuclear, coal, gas all use
steam to generate electricity -- factor in
the automobile's gas burning internal
combustion engine, and even space flight,
which burns liquid fuel to achieve lift,
and one cannot help but notice that we are:
SOME FREAKY FIRE APES STUCK IN THE STEAM AGE!

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1) Denial
2) Anger
3) Bargaining
4) Depression
5) Acceptance
--- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
http://www.ekrfoundation.org/
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"Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily,
merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream."

"...[Don't] let these guys get behind you.
They are tricky. And their elfin humor
may not be your idea of a good time."
http://deoxy.org/timemind.htm

Mars Methane
http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/quasplat.htm

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"Could the early years of the twenty-first century
see the emergence of a new Jesus or a new Moses [or a
new Mahdi] to make sense of our puny, worthless lives
and hand down from above a new set of commandments?
Will the prophesied 'return of the Great Initiate'
become a reality, thanks to some carefully contrived
stage management? This new leader or Messiah figure
will be backed by a massive politico-religious
movement -- a New World Ordor of zealots -- the
infrastructure of which is already in place."
( (( .. .]|||||||||||||||||||||||
The Stargate Conspiracy
by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince (1999),
ISBN 0-425-17658-4
(Chpt. 7, 'Endtimes: The Warning') Pgs. 330-332
http://www.namebase.org/sources/fL.html

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The Blob was the result of an unlikely collaboration
between a screenwriter named Kate Phillips and an
evangelical minister named Irvin "Shorty" Yeaworth.
The two met at the 1957 Presidential Prayer Breakfast.
[...] Yeaworth [was] a director of "Christian education"
films looking to subliminally broadcast his message into
the mainstream.
http://jeffsharlet.com/books/about-the_family.html

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"Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve
around these suns in a manner similar to the way
the seven planets revolve around our sun.
Living beings inhabit these worlds."
Giordano Bruno, (1548-1600)
http://www.setileague.org/editor/brunoalt.htm

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"The number one killer in the world today is not cancer
or heart disease; it is repression. There is almost no
disease, mental or physical, without repression.
Repression is the hidden force behind illness".
-- A. Janov

"There is one neurosis -
many manifestations -
and one cure... feeling".

"Feeling pain is the end of suffering".
-- Dr. Arthur Janov From: http://www.primaltherapy.com/
[...]
The first brain level to evolve, which I call
"first-line consciousness," is the instinctive
level. Largely located in the brainstem and
hypothalamus, it regulates vital functions.

The limbic system is the seat of the emotional
"second-line consciousness," where our feelings
reside. It is mediated by the brain's limbic
system and temporal lobe.

On the "third line" or cortical level, we reason
and develop ideas, integrating the input from the
two lower levels, providing the meaning of experience.
[...]
See also Paul Maclean's Triune Brain
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Paul+Maclean%2BTriune+Brain

Petroleum World!
http://www.petroleumworld.com/

"Wherever you go, there you are."
-Buckaroo Bonzai
http://www.imdb.com/Title?0086856

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Yes.
Yes, yes...
As I lay there in the operating theater,
my rib cage splayed open like a sidewalk
service elevator, tubes, wires, instruments
of mysterious metallurgy sustaining my vitals,
the Flying Squirrel looming, ever looming,
with Her faithful companion, the Moose with
Asperger's Syndrome, whispering into my
medically comatose eardrum to count
backwards from... Trout Fishing?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?! Huh??!!
Where Am I? Oh, right: Nowhere.
Surrounded by: Figments.
WAKE UP!
End. -- Indrid Cold (circa: 2011)

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OR... As Scoop Nisker used to say:

"If you don't like the news, go out
and make some of your own."
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Caryn Anscomb's Trickster Tales
[ http://tinyurl.com/N0V-O9-2OO6 ]
An Exploration of Boundary Merging
Between the UFO Culture, Parapsychology,
and Intelligence Agencies
[...]
Towards the end of the Second World War
we entered a new age, as one of my professional
colleagues succinctly puts it. The 'Age of Energy'
gave way to the 'Age of Information' as a means
to manipulate people.
During a recent debate with Gary Bekkum, in which
we were discussing some of the Trickster Tales
themes, I presented the notion that we might be
witnessing an 'apparent' ability for other people's
alternate realities to physically impact on our own
realities - not just as shadowy, informational,
meme-corrupted data, but real-time, sentient
entities. This wasn't being offered exclusively as
explanation for the ET enigma of course, but as a
possible extra facet, to an already excessively
murky area, I agree.
Within eastern mysticism and western magickal
systems it's fairly well accepted that thought
forms can and do take on a life of their own.
The mystic and magician alike purposefully
manufacture what are known as Tulpas, Egrigors
or Genie, which act as servitors, created
individually or collectively.
This might best be described as the upwelling
of psychokinetic energy attached to a thought form
of intent, as apposed to randomly generated PK and
poltergeist type activity.
In 1972, the Toronto Society for Psychical Research
conducted an experiment to produce a ghost and gave
it the name Philip. Philip began to manifest, doing
the usual things one expects during a seance,
rapping on the table, levitating objects and
such like. The recordings of the sounds produced
some interesting results.
[...] [ http://tinyurl.com/N0V-O9-2OO6 ]
Copyright (c) 2009 Caryn Anscomb and STARstream Research.
All rights reserved. STARstream Research / STARpod.org
P.O. Box 1144 Maple Grove MN 55311

I never understood this rapt attention to
acquiescence and blindness over 'Government
Conspiracy' mind memes which state that the
omnipotent powers of government entirely
control all aspects of 'disclosure'
regarding the likes of something which
could no more be controlled than the sight
of distant sails approaching one's coastal
shores. And since when do earth people see
'blue' when the "American journalism,
science, education, and government" say
the sky is 'purple?' The people's own
empirical experiences overrule the
establishment, and this obsession with
constantly pointing at the 'establishment'
with blame is a rather naive evasion of
truth, AKA reality. It's time to raise
the self's own game.

Meanwhile, speaking of subgenius rants
and restaurants...

Former Gov. Jesse Ventura's Psychological
Patty-Meltdown and Other Cons
http://www.trutv.com/jesse/
Unnerving, isn't it, to consider that Jesse Ventura
was once actually in the vicinity of relative power?
Sad... but silly, to wit:
Alex Jones' Pattern Recognition Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder says: Paris Hilton appointed Liaison Chief
for Ultraterrestrial Embassy while Zahi Hawass digs
up Working Class Suburb in Xem, therefore, Jesse
should seriously look into the Church of the
SubGenius: http://www.subgenius.com/

I am somewhat slightly less enamored of
the growingly traditional exopolitical meme than,
perhaps, 'they' might be, for a couple of reasons.
There seems to be an over reliance on nefarious
conspiracies as an explanation for all things
geopolitical in government, media, etc. striking
me as musically discordant, intellectually myopic,
and as disingenuous and demagogic as exopolitic's
seeming lack of critical analysis, fact checking
and scientific skepticism regarding all things
techno-UFOlogical in nature.
When we stop dreaming, apparently, we wake up...
And waking up is hard to do, or so it would seem.
Perhaps, maybe, the reality of the situation is
less centralized into a 'Them' calling the shots,
but is instead more localized to the veritable
contents housed within our very own individual
'self' regulating the pace of enhanced discovery?!
For example: I had a dream, (yea verily), this
very morning, whereupon, (yea), I stood upon a
sandy hot beach, looking out to the partly cloudy,
sunny horizon, when, suddenly, (lo) I realized that
I myself am entirely responsible for maintaining
my own bound limitations; that is, similar to the
old cliche' which states that, 'we-are-given-as-
much-as-we-can-handle,' the 'getting-as-much-as'
part of the equation may not necessarily be
distributed by some supernatural, or centralized
'Other,' but perhaps, instead, could be completely
self-administered. Maybe we wake up ourselves when
events evolve enough for our own 'waking up time.'
In the dream, (yea verily), I didst catch myself,
with a gasp, a fit and a start, with the realization
of almost expanding beyond my own self-imposed
boundaries, and, (lo), immediately woke up with
a jolt! A Shock and a surprise! (YEA VERILY).....
There is much too much disingenuous demagoguery
going around, which tends to feed the sleeper,
and, The Sleeper (yea) Must Awaken!! (*Cough*
... Okay then),

Meanwhile...

OUR whole attitude toward ALL conspiracies
is summarized thus:

When consulting longitudinal studies of
conspiracies, it is important to factor in
potty training, i.e. a good multigenerational
conspiracy spanning years, decades, centuries,
etc., must take into account the fact that
infants are needed for recruitment into the
conspiracy of choice. Somewhere along the
line they will be potty trained. A very
tricky maneuver indeed! The success of potty
training determines the eventual outcome of
the initiatory process that the new
conspirator must embody in order to carry
out the trajectory of the conspiracy of
choice. Careful consideration of the variables
inherent to potty training will quickly reveal
to the thoughtful observer the enormous
difficulties in transgenerational conspiracies.
In short, a really successful conspiracy
is only as good as the pot it pisses in.
What this has to do with eight minute flux
transfer event (FTE) windows is anyone's guess.
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=42365
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081101093713.htm

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Anyway.... I think we are all Powerful Wizard Monkeys,
with the choice to do positive or negative or neutral
things with the transitory gifts we are genetically,
culturally endowed with as well as the talents we
develop along the way through our short time as
creative bodily organisms...

Prefrontal cortex
http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/i/i_03/i_03_cr/i_03_cr_que/i_03_cr_que.html
http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/KidsCorner/kidscorner/glossary.html

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The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment
by Thaddeus Golas [ (c) 1972) ]
http://freespace.virgin.net/sarah.peter.nelson/lazyman/lazyman.html

"We can start with a paradox at the highest level:
expanded beings, completely unresisting, are also
completely irresistible. Space beings are entirely
permissive to other beings, but when one of us
contracts, he becomes dense to the extent of his
contraction, and is then in appearance propelled
by the space beings. The experience of being
propelled and later compelled is due entirely to
the density of the contracted beings. Space beings
have no intention to propel or compel anyone
to do anything.

"All conceivable universes in all conceivable
dimensions exist in the One Mind as pure idea
or archetype. When any of us withdraws from a
willingness to create any aspect of that,
we drop to a lower vibration level.
For this illustration, imagine we are a
great number of energy beings who are
indifferent to the idea of Pluto the Dog.
Since we are denser than space beings,
they would propel us, and we would appear
in space as a flowing, flashing image of
Pluto the Dog, looking like a fireworks
display, perhaps.

"Imagine, then, some of us, more than indifferent,
who deny the concept of Pluto the Dog, withdrawing
to the mass level. Our mass, being even denser
than the energy, is compelled to take the form
denied, and behold the physical manifestation
of Pluto the Dog. In this manner, what is denied
on the conceptual level, the space level, becomes
manifest on the physical plane.

"Of course, the truth is not quite that cut-and-dried,
but it will give you the idea. Space appears to
propel energy, and energy appears to compel matter.
But these reactions cannot occur without the
density of the more withdrawn beings. By denying
your capacity to create a concept, or by denying
someone else's freedom to do so, you drop to a
vibration where not only Pluto the Dog is evident,
but a lot of other material forms also. Denying
the truth is what opens Pandora's box." [...]
http://freespace.virgin.net/sarah.peter.nelson/lazyman/lazyman5.html

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"The anarchic principle follows from quantum
mechanics, which tells us that all particle
interactions that can happen will happen.
In quantum field theory, everything that is
not forbidden will occur." -- Lisa Randall, Ph.D.

Page 228 of:
WARPED PASSAGES - Unraveling The Mysteries
Of The Universe's Hidden Dimensions. Copyright (c) 2005
http://physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/randall.html
ISBN-10: 0-06-053109-6 (pbk.)

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"The smallness of Planck's constant--which governs the
strength of quantum effects--and the intrinsic weakness
of the gravitational force team up to yield a result
called the Planck length, which is small almost beyond
imagination: a millionth of a billionth of a billionth
of a billionth of a centimeter (10^-33 centimeter)...
To get a sense of scale, if we were to magnify an atom
to the size of the known universe, the Planck length
would barely expand to the height of an average tree."
The Elegant Universe - Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions,
and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
(c) 1999, 2003 ISBN 0-375-70811-1 (Pg 130)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/physics/fac-bios/Greene/faculty.html

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Peter Woit, Ph.D. writes:
For some hype-free LHC predictions based on
serious science that I fully endorse, see Resonaances,*
where the probability of seeing anything relevant to
string theory isn't even listed, and supersymmetry is
given a one-tenth of one percent chance, on the grounds:

1% is a typical fine-tuning of susy models,
and the additional factor of .1 is because
it makes me puke.

which seems about right. The probability of the LHC
producing black holes is given as something exponentially
small, somewhat less than the probability of
producing dragons.

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=899

* 'What will the LHC discover' by Peter Woit, Ph.D.
http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-will-lhc-discover.html
Excerpt:
[...]
Higgs boson. Probability 80%
Non-SM Higgs boson. Probability 50%
New Beyond SM Particles. Probability 50%
Strong Interactions. Probability 20%
Dark matter. Probability 5%
Little Higgs and friends. Probability 1%
Supersymmetry. Probability 0.1%
Dragons. Probability $e^{-S_{dragon}}$
Black Holes. Probability $0.1*e^{-S_{dragon}}$
[...]
http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-will-lhc-discover.html

[PETER WOIT is the author of: 'NOT EVEN WRONG: The Failure
of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law']
URL: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/
BOOK: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465092756

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One of my favorites:

Dying, Alex Grey, 1998,
oil on canvas, 44 x 60 inches
http://alexgrey.com/a-gallery/dying.html

Meanwhile...

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[> Ditto.
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Thank you, All and Sundry!
(I think we're done here...)
-- MT|O6Feb2OI2|O2:00PM
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/reaccess.htm

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0n Feb 5, 2012 10:30 PM, Jonathan Post <...> wrote:

Biological Time Spans
by
Jonathan Vos Post
Draft 2.0 of 23 April 2006,
[incorporates suggestions from
Dr. Geoffrey Landis to replace
1.0 of 22 April 2006]

How long is a heartbeat (mouse, human, elephant, clam),
sneeze, eyeblink, cough (man, woman), mayfly lifetime?
This logarithmic chronology table is excerpted from a long
technical paper I've been writing on Computational Biology*.

Time in Seconds Event

10^-15 Ahmed Zewail's 1999 Nobel prize:
"femtosecond chemistry"
10^-15 to 10^-9 Many chemical processes occur on ultrafast
(femtosecond, picosecond and nanosecond)
time-scales: molecular motion and
conformational changes, energy and electron
redistribution within and between molecules,
excited state dynamics
10^-14 to 10^-13 Chemical bonds in gas molecules form and
break in 10 to 100 fs
10^-12 Fastest conformational change in enzyme molecule
[Hilinski, 2004]
10^-10 Mean time between intermolecular collisions
[Rumer, 1980]
10^-10 to 10^-9 On a time scale shorter than diffusion
(<1 nanosecond) all chemical reactions
are composed of certain fundamental
processes: electronic excitation, energy
or charge transfer, bond breakage/cleavage,
structural reorganization or solvation.
10^-9 Slowest conformational change in enzyme molecule
10^-9 Positron typically annihilates in matter within
a nanosecond
10^-9 to 10^-6 Fast protein folding events [Ballew, 1996]
10^-6 to 10^-5 Typical protein folding events
10^-8 High-precision protein dynamics simulation
[Tai, 2001]
10^-6 Typical protein photolysis [Gee, 1999]
10^-4 to 10^-3 Neurotransmitters diffuse across
synaptic cleft in 0.5 to 1 msec
10^-4 to 10^-3 Alpha helices form in 0.5 msec in small
protein folding [Akiyama]
10^-3 1 turnover, a single catalysis by beta-galactosidase
10^-3 to 10^-2 Rate of translation in ribosome: one amino
acid added to a protein
10^-3 Temporal precision of spikes in monkey neurons
[Abeles]
10^-3 to 10^-2 Housefly wingbeat ~ 5.3 milliseconds
(190 wingbeats/sec)
10^-3 to 10^-2 Tiny flowers of Cornus canadensis open
explosively in 3 msec
10^-3 to 10^-2 5 kg force in prey strike of stomatopods
in a few msec
10^-2 Half-life of enzyme-substrate complex with
isocitrate dehydrogenase [Stoddard, 1998]
10^-2 Insect visual receptor response (5 times faster
than human) [Weckstrom]
10^-2 Signal travels 1 meter in fast (large diameter)
nerve axon
10^-2 to 10^-1 Mouse heartbeat ~ 0.12 sec (500/min)
10^-2 to 10^-1 Sneeze: from intake of breath to sharp
exhalation ~ 0.5 sec; actual sneeze ~
50-100 milliseconds
10^-2 to 10^-1 1st part man's cough 41.4 +/- 14 ms,
woman's 44.7 +/- 10.4 ms
10^-2 to 10^-1 Hummingbird wingbeat from 12 msec
(Amethyst Woodstar) to 100 ms
(giant hummingbird)
10^-1 Knee jerk reflex (monosynaptic reflex):
50 milliseconds between the tap and the start
of the leg kick. "Blink of an eye" in humans.
10^-1 strike of a praying mantis ~ 100 milliseconds
10^-1 Signal travels 1 meter in slow (small diameter)
nerve axon
10^-1 to 10^0 Large proteins may take as long as a
second to complete folding
10^-1 to 10^0 Healthy human heartbeat ~0.75 to 0.85 sec
(70 to 80/min)
10^0 E coli swims an average of 1 second before
tumbling for 0.1 sec
10^0 to 10^1 Elephant heartbeat ~ 2.15 sec (28/min)
10^0 to 10^1 Clam heartbeat (slowest creature)
~ 3 sec (panic) to 30 sec (rest)
10^1 to 10^2 1 minute = 0.6 x 10^2 seconds
10^3 Cell reproduces in fast-growing yeast or
bacterium (15-30 min)
10^3 to 10^4 1 hour = 0.36 x 10^4 seconds
10^4 to 10^5 12.5 hours ~ semidiurnal tidal cycle for
marine organisms
10^4 to 10^5 Mayfly (Ephemoroptera) adults live a
few hours after leaving water
10^5 Circadian rhythm; 1 day = 86,400 seconds
10^5 to 10^6 1 Week ~ 0.60 x 10^6 seconds; work week
cycle in human culture
10^5 to 10^6 Phytoplankton doubling time is one to
several days
10^5 to 10^6 Fruit fly life cycle roughly 2 weeks
(25 generations/year)
10^6 Lunar month/tidal cycle;
1 month ~ 2.6 x 10^6 seconds
10^7 to 10^8 Annual rhythms in organism;
1 year = 31,556,926 seconds
1 leap year = 366 d = 8784 h = 527040 m =
31,622,400 seconds
10^8 to 10^9 Queen termite lives 10-15 years
10^8 to 10^9 17-year cicada has life cycle
~ 550 million seconds
10^8 to 10^9 Interannual climatic cycle, 10-50 yr,
Russell cycle (fish migration)
10^8 to 10^9 Human lifespan; 1 century =
31,556,926,000 sec ~ 3.2 x 10^13 sec
10^9 to 10^10 Rougheye rockfish has been observed to
live up to 205 years
10^10 to 10^11 Sierra redwood estimated lifespan
1000 years, can live 4000 years
10^11 to 10^12 120 kY: estimated age of species
Homo sapiens
10^13 to 10^14 Megayear = 31,556,926,000,000 seconds
(inverse = Darwin)
10^13 to 10^14 The Pleistocene has lasted ~ 2 Myr, during
which humans evolved
10^15 to 10^17 Dinosaurs reigned from about 225 million to
65 million years ago
10^16 to 10^17 Sun orbits center of galaxy (estimated 200
to 400 Megayears)
10^17 to 10^18 600 MY: The oldest known body fossils of
something apparently multicellular occurs
shortly before the Cambrian Period, about
0.6 Ga (the "Ediacaran" or "Vendian fauna").
But some claim trace fossils (triploblastic
worms) ~ 1 Ga or more
10^17 to 10^18 Gigayear, life has existed on Earth ~ 3 Gyr ~
10^17 seconds
10^17 to 10^18 Earth ~ 4.6 GY old, though oldest rocks
studied are ~ 3.9 GY

REFERENCES:

M. Abeles, Y. Prut, H. Bergman, E. Vaadia, "Synchronization
in neuronal transmission and its importance for information
processing", Prog Brain Res 1994, 102 : 395-404.

Hilinski, E. F, "The Picosecond Realm," in Reactive
Intermediate Chemistry, Moss, R. A.; Platz, M. S.; Jones,
M., Jr., Eds., Wiley-Interscience, New York, 2004, p. 873.

Paolo Michele Olia, Piersante Sestini, Mario Vagliasindi,
"Acoustic parameters of voluntary cough in healthy
non-smoking subjects", Respirology 2000; 5: 283--287.

Barry L. Stoddard, Bruce E. Cohen, Michael Brubaker,
Andrew D. Mesecar, Daniel E. Koshland Jr, "Millisecond Laue
structures of an enzyme-product complex using photocaged
substrate analogs", Nature Structural & Molecular Biology,
5, 891 - 897 (1998)

M. Weckstrom, S. B. Laughlin, Visual ecology and
voltage-gated ion channels in insect photoreceptors.
Trends Neurosci. 18 (1995). 17-21.

A protein's structure can be categorized in three main
ways: (i) as the linear array of amino acids, called
the 'primary structure', that make up the protein,
(ii) as the short stretches of alpha-helices and
beta-strands, called 'secondary structures', that are
defined by the kinds of amino acids that are present
in the protein, and (iii) as the packing arrangement
of the alpha-helices and beta-strands in the final
folded state of the protein, which is called
the 'tertiary structure'.

Shuji Akiyama, Satoshi Takahashi, Koichiro Ishimori
& Isao Morishima, "Stepwise formation of alpha-helices
during cytochrome c folding", Nature Structural Biology 7,
514 - 520 (2000).
[folding of a small protein called cytochrome c that
contains mostly alpha-helices, authors demonstrated that
most of the helices are established within half a
millisecond after the beginning of the folding process,
well before final tertiary structure was attained]

FEMTOCHEMISTRY AND FEMTOBIOLOGY:
ULTRAFAST REACTION DYNAMICS AT
ATOMIC-SCALE RESOLUTION
Nobel Symposium 101 , Bjorkborn, Sweden, September 9--12, 1996

For the far future chronology, see my:
TIMELINE COSMIC FUTURE
http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/timelineCF.html

* Picosecond to Lifetime to Gigayear and Single Molecule
to Organism to Ecosphere in Computational Enzyme Kinetics
and Proteomics by
Jonathan Vos Post
[Draft 2.0, 13 pages, 5400 words, 22 April 2006]
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL METHODS
IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 18-19 October 2006
The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre
for Computational and Systems Biology TRENTO -- ITALY

Demo Hassan wrote:

El Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:05:10 -0500 (EST), Magick Mirror escribio:

() Greetings:
() At the risk of seeming "scholarly" I call
() your attention to a concept from early
() scholasticism in Europe: "The Art Of Memory"
() as discussed in several relatively recent books.
() This goes way beyond "search engines" into raw
() mental ability.
() cheers--Eugenia Macer-Story

Welcome To The Magick Mirror
http://www.magickmirror.com/

-=[[NOTE: Simonides' Memory Palace:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci ]]=-

A FREE WILL?
A DEMOCRACY OF NEURONS?
A PARLIAMENT OF SYNAPSES?

"As cognitive scientists have focused on the nature
of the mind, they have come to characterize it not
just as a physical entity, the brain at work, but
more specifically as a flood of scenarios. Whether
set in the past, present, or future, whether based
on reality or entirely fictive, these free-running
narratives are all churned out with equal facility.
The present is constructed from the avalanche of
sensations that pour into the wakened brain.
Working at a furious pace, the brain summons
memories to screen and make sense of the incoming
chaos. Only a minute part of the information is
selected for higher-order processing. From that
part, small segments are enlisted through symbolic
imagery to create the white-hot core of enlisted
activity we call the conscious mind."
[From: "The Future Of Life" by Edward O. Wilson]
http://tinyurl.com/89lb8a5
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QUESTION

IF:
In terms of spatial ratios, a hypothetical
'super string' is to an atom as a tree is to
the visible universe... AND: In terms of
temporal ratios, a femtosecond is to a
second as a second is to 32.6 million years...
THEN: ...? [ How wide 'IS' N0W?! ]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A Physicist Explains Why Parallel Universes
May Exist: [...] "But there's a more
confounding aspect of quantum theory that
receives less attention.
After decades of closely studying quantum
mechanics, and after having accumulated a
wealth of data confirming its probabilistic
predictions, no one has been able to explain
why only one of the many possible outcomes
in any given situation actually happens.
When we do experiments, when we examine
the world, we all agree that we encounter
a single definite reality. Yet, more than
a century after the quantum revolution
began, there is no consensus among the
world's physicists as to how this basic
fact is compatible with the theory's
mathematical expression." [...]

Excerpted from 'The Hidden Reality'
by Brian Greene
Copyright 2011 by Brian Greene.
http://www.iscap.columbia.edu

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Algorithm:
"In mathematics and computer science,
an algorithm is an effective method
expressed as a finite list of
well-defined instructions for
calculating a function."

~o0-O-0o~

"Are Computers Creative?"
Studio 360 - http://www.studio360.org/2011/dec/16/

~o0-O-0o~

An 'Einstein-Rosen Bridge' Too Far?
Or: Omar Khayyam's US RQ-170 Sentinel
Stealth UAV, and/or Stuxnet Worm Hole
meets neo-hybrid SKYNET - Quote:
"Skynet is the main antagonist
in the Terminator franchise--an
artificially intelligent system
which became self-aware and
revolted against its creators."

http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/ihml9999.htm

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Bring On The
Ultraterrestrials!
tinyurl.com/mission8
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Tue, Sep 27, 2011 -- 9:30 AM
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201109270930
Reconstructing the Mind's Eye |||||||||
UC Berkeley scientists are figuring out
how to decode and reconstruct our dynamic
visual experiences -- in one instance
through subjects watching Hollywood movie
trailers. We meet a lead scientist...
[ Jack Gallant, professor in the Psychology
and Neuroscience Programs in Bioengineering,
Biophysics and Vision Science at UC Berkeley.
http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/jgallant.html ]
...looking at how one day we may be able to go
inside the mind of a coma patient, or even to
watch a dream. [...]
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201109270930
----------------------------------------------
On 22, Sept 2011,
Stephanie Pappas wrote in 'LiveScience' :
http://www.livescience.com/16190-movies-reconstructed-brain-activity.html

Welcome to the future: Scientists can now
peer inside the brain and reconstruct videos
of what a person has seen, based only on
their brain activity.

The reconstructed videos could be seen as
a primitive -- and somewhat blurry -- form
of mind reading, though researchers are
decades from being able to decode anything
as personal as memories or thoughts, if
such a thing is even possible. Currently,
the mind-reading technique requires
powerful magnets, hours of time and
millions of seconds of YouTube videos.

But in the long term, similar methods could
be used to communicate with stroke patients
or coma patients living in a "locked-in"
state, said study researcher Jack Gallant,
a neuroscientist at the University of
California, Berkeley.

"The idea is that they would be able to
visualize a movie of what they want to
talk about, and you would be able to
decode that," Gallant told LiveScience.

Decoding the brain [...]
http://www.livescience.com/16190-movies-reconstructed-brain-activity.html
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The Gallant Lab
http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/jgallant.html

Neural Prediction Challenge
http://neuralprediction.berkeley.edu/

Collaborative Research in
Computational Neuroscience
http://crcns.org/
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"An elemental body is a mechanism filled
with millions of nerve endings that directs
the attention of God into the physical."
[Pgs. 44-45; The Conversation; THE KEY -
A True Encounter by Whitley Strieber
ISBN 978-1-58542-869-4 Copyright (c)2001, 2011
by Walker & Collier, Inc.] UnknownCountry.com

-=[[ NOTE: The brain (planet) is a memory storage
device with an effective search engine and
actuator into which a unified field of
consciousness may manifest? Best case scenario,
or worst case? ]]=-

NOVA: 'Smartest Machine on Earth'
Jeopardy! challenges even the best human minds.
Can a computer win the game?
[Aired February 9, 2011 on PBS]
Program Description
"Watson," an IBM computing system, is gearing up
for a first-of-its-kind challenge--taking on human
contestants on the game show Jeopardy!
With a brain the size of 2,400 home computers and
a database of about 10 million documents, will
Watson be able to compute its way to victory?
Win or lose, the difficulty of mimicking the human
thought process with software is showing
artificial-intelligence researchers that there's more
than one way to be "intelligent."
On February 16, 2011, two AI experts from
Carnegie Mellon University, Tom Mitchell and
Eric Nyberg, live-blogged and answered viewer
questions here during the final of three consecutive
Jeopardy! shows in which Watson challenged top
human competitors Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. [...]
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/smartest-machine-on-earth.html

"IBM Watson is the first step in how computers
will be designed and built differently and will be
able to learn, and with the help of Carnegie Mellon
we will continue to advance the QA technologies
that are the backbone of this system." [...]
-- Dr. David Ferrucci, Lead Investigator, IBM
http://www.cmu.edu/event/ibm/

Rethinking VR: Key Concepts and Concerns
by Char Davies http://www.immersence.com
In Hybrid Reality: Art, Technology and the Human Factor
http://www.immersence.com/publications/char/2003-CD-VSSM.html

Jeremy Bailenson and Jim Blascovich
"INFINITE REALITY"
http://www.infinitereality.org/authors.html

"Michael Chorost"
http://www.michaelchorost.com/

"Jaron Lanier"
http://www.jaronlanier.com/general.html

"eMpTy"
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/reaccess.htm

"Miguel A.L. Nicolelis"
http://www.nicolelislab.net/

"Sherry Turkle"
http://web.mit.edu/sts/people/turkle.html

Is a sophisticated enough 'Search Engine'
(e.g. IBM/Jeopardy!) indistinguishable from
Artificial Intelligence, and hence
indistinguishable from Human
Neurological Function?

[...] http://tinyurl.com/0LT15515

The Conficker Worm BotNet
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=The+Conficker+Worm+BotNet

============================================

NOVA | What Are Dreams?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/what-are-dreams.html
[EXCERPT] From Transcript:
[...]
NARRATOR: In fact, REM dreams can be five times
longer than non-REM dreams. And in human beings,
at least, they are anything but a simple replay
of the past.

MATT WILSON: So the speculation is that during
non-REM sleep, the brain is taking the past and
trying to figure out how that might relate to
the future, and in REM, actually trying to
experience the future, move into the future.

NARRATOR: The dreams of REM, in other words,
may be simulations, which allow us to face
challenges and test possibilities.

ROBERT STICKGOLD: My sense is that when we're
asleep and when we're dreaming, we are actually
conscious and figuring out what's important
about what happened to us and how that relates
to everything else that's happened to us in the
past and figuring out what that means about
our future.

MATT WILSON: And when you think about the
challenge that animals, that we as humans
and the brain in general faces, it is the
unknown of the future. And in REM, we may
have the opportunity to step into that
future world with no risk, because the
consequences are simply things don't work
out as you might have expected, and then
you wake up. So these states may be what
are essential for allowing us, as
individuals, to reach our maximal level
of potential.
[...]
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/what-are-dreams.html

============================================

Researchers Prove A Single Memory Is Processed
In Three Separate Parts Of The Brain
(February 1, 2006) -- University of California,
Irvine researchers have found that a single brief
memory is actually processed differently in
separate areas of the brain -- an idea that until
now scientists have only suspected to be true.
The finding will influence how researchers examine
the brain and could have implications for the
treatment of memory disorders caused by disease
or injury. [...] full story:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060202182107.htm

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http://tinyurl.com/W01T-0N-H1GG5
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"In a Quasi-Parallel Multiverse, in the dimmest
recesses of ancient fore-history, there did manifest
a powerful, quantum computing device, located at
approximately 2/3rd radius along one arm of a spiral
galaxy. A cosmological variation on the double-slit
experiment arose:

"How about running a near infinite number of
simultaneous interdimensional 'big bang' simulations
with infinitesimal variations in each simulation to
determine the most novel, and long-lived, open-ended
scenario of survival; thereby selecting the specific
'history' of this advantageous pathway over all other
shorter-lived, 'extinction' pathways...?

"Could sporadic, sentient unhappiness and
suffering throughout the successful pathway be
entirely ruled out?" http://tinyurl.com/ba5s2
http://tinyurl.com/an3so

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To No0ne In Particular...

o0O0o

On, or around, Sept, 9th 2001, it was written:

"...Continuity of Consciousness, by definition,
presupposes that the perceptive core tracks
continuously across all parallel realities...
One femtosecond is to a second as one second is
to 32.6 million years! The 'Parallel Universe'
theory (Many-Worlds Theory) is a defunct
bastardization of an ill-perceived anthropocentric
misunderstanding of the double-slit experiment,
[Collapse of a Quantum Wave Function into a
Measurable Particle w/ History]:
In the 'Many Worlds' theory of quantum physics,
popularized by David Deutsch and others,
( http://www.qubit.org/people/david/ ), our conscious
selves inhabit an infinite realm of parallel
universes: a 'multiverse.' Now, over the many years
wherein we've all made countless decisions both
conscious and automatic, and the countless times
we've all pondered ending our own miserable
myriad existences, what if we actually did?
Would it, therefore, seem like a cruel fate for
consciousness to have no final escape from
awareness, perception, and embeddedness...?
And what if it's true?! Whooooooooooshhh!!!!
Is everyone the same biospheric personage? Are
we dispersed across an undifferentiated
light-cone of ultra-dimensional wavelike
potentiality in nature, and only specified
in particularity as a 3D lifeform?
( http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/ManyWorlds.html )
Who-are-we to suffer such an endless fate?
And what does it mean?!! What if there is a seamless
continuity to sentience, so that no matter how
many times you actually 'die,' your multiversal
"self" continues uninterrupted?"
[circa: Sept 9, 2001]

See also: http://www.eelstheband.com/biography/index.php
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=hugh-everett-biography
__________________________________________________

o0O0o

READING In-between-the-lines therein,
above, a bit of a crisis, which made
the subsequent events - days later -
seem like a parallel life had been
embodied as the previous one seemed
to have possibly evaporated?
Cryptic? Yes, probably... but, point
being, the MindGland was not so
rigorous in delineating factual data
in a subsequently accurate manner.
Which is my convoluted, elaborate
excuse for presuming such erroneous
trans-temporal back-engineered loopy
mentations of multidimensionality!

Glad to have caught up with your
enormously talented real self? again!

Warmest Regards,

<>
<> "This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic:
<> There are no atoms, only waves and motions
<> all around. Here, you discard all belief in
<> barriers to understanding. You put aside
<> understanding itself. This universe cannot
<> be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected
<> in any way by fixed perceptions.
<> It is the ultimate void where no preordained
<> screens occur upon which forms may be projected.
<> You have only one awareness here - the screen
<> of the magi: Imagination!
<> Here, you learn what it is to be human.
<> You are a creator of order, of beautiful
<> shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos."
<> --Frank Herbert - Heretics of Dune -

0n Sun, Feb 5, 2012 5:25 pm, Thorn Alley wrote:

--- On Sun, 5/2/12, Bruce Maccabee wrote:

<> AMUSING SPECULATION
<>
<> Don't forget the importance of memory in
<> defining the past.

My point entirely. All we really have
of the past is memory, or recordings
of past events, like the geological
strata at the Grand Canyon, or received
photons from light years away. We cannot
interact (in 'real time', i.e. 'N0W')
with a memory or recording. We can edit
and re-record (a neurological function
of memory), but we cannot literally
change past events to alter our now.

<> We don't "remember" the future
<> as well as we "remember" the past.

That should tell us a lot; although,
we sometimes intuit future events,
which is probably more about our
'pattern recognition' survival
faculties developed over vast
evolutionary 'time.'

<> Perhaps without memory of some sort
<> there would be no past or at least
<> an undetectable past. Memory requires
<> some process that "Stored" an "image"
<> of the past and some process/device that
<> compares "now" with what is stored in
<> memory to see if there has been a change
<> that corresponds to "time passing".
<> The most basic "memory" is based on
<> inertia. Objects detect no change except
<> when accelerated. Time isn't detected
<> unless there is some change in motion.

Well said.

<> And "NOW" has no width.

Hah! Right... That was my whimsical, facetious,
metaphorical doorway into a visceral,
experiential observation of the mighty 'N0W'
in all its glorious temporal expanse, encompasing
all that we've known, know, and will know,
regardless of our quantum mechanical shenanigans
and entanglements; for all that we have,
and all that we are, is mind in N0W...
The length, width, and breadth in esotericism,
aka: reality.
http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/mtretina.htm

<<snip>>

<> <> How Wide Is N0W?
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/reaccess.htm

-=END=-

-=[[NOTE: "Big Bang Recreated in a
Metamaterial, Offers Evidence
That Time Travel is Impossible."
http://tinyurl.com/Meta-Bummer ]]=-
_________________________________________
[...] On the plus side, Smolyaninov has
already showed how metamaterials can help
us study extra-dimensional multiverses.

So even if we can't travel back in time,
maybe we could visit alternate universes,
in which the past was already different.
http://tinyurl.com/Meta-Bummer
___________________________________________
SOURCE
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-28-7-1591

Modeling of time with metamaterials
by
Igor I. Smolyaninov and Yu-Ju Hung

JOSA B, Vol. 28, Issue 7, pp. 1591-1595 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.28.001591

<> View Full Text: Acrobat PDF (614 KB)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/viewmedia.cfm?uri=josab-28-7-1591&seq=0

OCIS Codes:
(000.2780) General : Gravity
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ocisdirectory/000_2780.cfm

(000.2658) General : Fundamental tests
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ocisdirectory/000_2658.cfm

(160.3918) Materials : Metamaterials
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ocisdirectory/160_3918.cfm

ToC Category:
Materials

Citation
Igor I. Smolyaninov and Yu-Ju Hung,
"Modeling of time with metamaterials,"
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28, 1591-1595 (2011)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-28-7-1591
___________________________________________

Igor I. Smolyaninov, Yu-Ju Hung,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA

Graduate Student: Yu-Ju Hung, ece.umd.edu
http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.2862
http://tinyurl.com/Beyond-Invisible

ECE RESEARCH FACULTY
http://www.ece.umd.edu/meet/faculty/index.php3#research

Igor Smolyaninov

Title: Visiting Research Scientist
Areas/Affiliations: ECE, Maryland Optics Group
http://www.ee.umd.edu/LaserLab/intro.html
E-mail: <...>

Faculty Research Group: Chris Davis
http://www.ece.umd.edu/meet/faculty/davis.php3
___________________________________________

P.S. Dr. Maccabee, I really enjoyed reading
your 'truth-fiction' book:

Abduction In My Life
http://brumac.8k.com/


Thanks!
-eMpTy
5Feb12

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