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Thieves of Time and Cherry Stone Pillows
There was a time and time to gather cherry stones over the season, which were then made into pillows for loved ones who could warm them by the stove before bed on cold winter nights to ward off aches…
We are living after Armageddon ~ We just didn’t notice…
This idea came up some time ago in a conversation with my brother. Thought I would share it. He is a few years younger than me, but we are both old enough to remember the eighties very well. Keep in…
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Uni Loonies
It’s a bit difficult to know where to start with this, as there are so many aspects and it has a bit of a historical lead in that is tricky to exactly pin down. I will start by saying there…
The Loss of Language
This is not a complex exploration of the subject, as I am not a linguist, or a scientist of any kind. This is a short account of recent observations and my initial reactions to them, as I find this subject…
Ancient China ~ Egyptian Connection?
An interesting possibility. Don’t know if it holds water, but will include it anyway. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/43.25.4/ An important archaeological artifact for understanding the early cultural and technological development of China is the splendid Yin-Shang bronze wares dating back to ca. 1400…
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Tesla and Twain
Nikola Tesla, writing about Mark Twain. “I had hardly completed my course at the Real Gymnasium when I was prostrated with a dangerous illness or rather, a score of them, and my condition became so desperate that I was given…
Out of the Void ~ Paramhamsa Tewari and Space Energy
“The universal matter is created out of prana since prana is aakaash in motion, and aakaash is the primordial superfluid substratum of the universe.” ~ Paramhamsa Tewari Trailer for a movie/docudrama released in March 2016 which includes Tewari’s work can…
How To Manifest Your Universe ~ Rob Brezsny
“The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.” ~ Terence Mc Kenna (Rob Brezsny says…)…
Don’t Search For Purpose – You will Fail
Article by Jonathan Malesic (Theology Professor at King’s College, Pennsylvania) ~ ”A Venn diagram about “purpose” made the rounds on Twitter recently, and it was filled with words that could have been pulled from a random TED Talk: The diagram failed…
Amaroli
URINE THERAPY ‘Drink the waters of thine own cistern…’ The Book Of Proverbs 5.15 ‘It is the spiritual dimension to Amaroli (Urine Therapy) that I believe to be the most important. By drinking your…
Singing Sun (and Dancing Earth)
“The Sun is playing a secret melody, hidden inside itself, that produces a widespread throbbing motion of its surface. The sounds are coursing through the Sun’s interior, causing the entire globe, or parts of it, to move in and out,…
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Cleo Loi ~ ‘Plasma Tubes’ in the sky..
Astronomy. But mathematical in a way. 23 year old Cleo Loi, a student, says she has mapped invisible plasma tubes around earth. http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/aussie-student-proves-existence-of-plasma-tubes-floating-above-earth/story-fnjwlcze-1227379756018 “For over 60 years, scientists believed these structures existed, but by imaging them for the first time,…
Expanding Earth Theory
Neal Adams is just one possible theorist in the area. There are others… like Konstantin Meyl. (Start at 2.20 minutes…as interviewer is boring….or at 5 minutes in, even better..) What Tesla called the ”primary substance”…are now known as neutrinos “Condensation…
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On Friendship ~ David Whyte
Friendship is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness. Friendship not only helps us see ourselves through another’s eyes, but can be sustained over the years only with someone who has repeatedly forgiven us for our trespasses as…
Leonardo Da Vinci ~ Aliens
Fazio Cardano (1444 – 1524) was a mathematician and philosopher from Italy, and a friend of Leonardo Da Vinci. In August 1491, in Milan, for three hours Cardano had an audience with seven majestic looking beings who materialised in his…
On Walking ~ Henry Thoreau
Extracts from a quirky piece by Thoreau on the ”Crusade” of walking………. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return; prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only, as relics to…
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Lucid Dreaming ~ Charlie Morley
http://www.charliemorley.com/what-is-lucid-dreaming/ What is Lucid Dreaming? Lucid dreaming is the art of becoming conscious within your dreams. A lucid dream is one in which you realize, ‘Aha! I’m dreaming!’ while you’re still asleep. Once you become conscious within a dream, you…
Deteriorata ~ A Parody by National Lampoon
You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here. Deteriorata. Deteriorata. Go placidly amid the noise and waste, And remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof. Avoid quiet and passive persons,…
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Genius
Etymology of Genius ~ From Latin Genius (“the guardian spirit of a person, spirit, inclination, wit, genius, literally ‘inborn nature’”), from gignere (“to beget, produce”) Genius ~ Noun ~ late 14c., “tutelary god (classical or pagan),” from Latin genius “guardian deity or spirit which…
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