New America: Solar Storms are Coming

Currently there is a controvery over ”Global Warming”.  Most scientist agree that the weather is changing and the temperature on Earth will increase over the next century by 3 degrees.  In America, this has become a huge political issue as politicians like Al Gore have stepped up to the plate with movies like “An Inconvenient Truth”.  The main debate is whether humanity is the primary contributing factor in Global Warming and if we as a people should take more actions to change it.  With the amount of pollution and waste we produce in and around our cities this should be a debate at all.

While there is no doubt in my mind that humanity has had a MAJOR impact on the Earth and her ecosystem, the coming changes may well be completely beyond our control. 

New America & New World Changes 

20 May 07, I was listening to a very interesting radio show on AM’s third most listend to conservative talk show, Glenn Beck.  Even though I tend to disagree with many of the oppinions of Rush, Hannity and Micheal Savage, I love talk radio because it is one of the last (dwindling) bastions of free speech.  And even these guys tend to be puppets of the Republican party.  

Glenn had a man whose name I don’t recall (Dr. Mike Lynn?) on his show who, in addition to insightful thoughts about the current Immigrations issue (amnesty of illegal imigrant), he mentioned something about the comming three nation highway meshing with the ”new map of America.” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He also talked about TRM technical remote viewing and was roasted by Glenn Beck but I was more interested in this New map idea.  Anyway, this stuff is really interesting to me because it seems to keep coming up.  Not so much the map, but visions of impending doom for millions of people and not just from ”psychics” and remote viewer (see Ed Dames Killshot) predicting cataclysmic disasters around 2012, but now even from NASA.  They predict massive solar flares by 2012.  

Solar Storms

“Who’s right? Time will tell. Either way, a storm is coming.” NASA

 According to scientists, the sun has a “conveyor belt” of electrically charged gases that cycle on the surface and deep within the sun.  http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar_stormwarning.htm 

When the belt is turning “fast,” it means that lots of magnetic fields are being swept up, and that a future sunspot cycle is going to be intense. This is a basis for forecasting: “The belt was turning fast in 1986-1996,” says Hathaway. “Old magnetic fields swept up then should re-appear as big sunspots in 2010-2011.” (NASA)

Like most experts in the field, Hathaway has confidence in the conveyor belt model and agrees with Dikpati that the next solar maximum should be a doozy. But he disagrees with one point. Dikpati’s forecast puts Solar Max at 2012. Hathaway believes it will arrive sooner, in 2010 or 2011. (NASA)

Will this solar max do anything to the Earth’s Magnetosphere severe enough to cause a cataclysm?  Perhaps this has something to do with the end of the Mayan calendar which just happends to end 2012. 

The Flesh Colored Crayon of Reality

 The first box of Binney & Smith crayons, produced in 1903, sold for a nickel and contained eight colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, and black (wiki). 

Over the decades, Crayola expanded into many other colors including colors like Indian Red and “flesh” colored.  These two colors were fine through the 1950’s.  The multi-cultural movements of the ’60s changed everything. 

In 1962, Binney & Smith chose to change the name Flesh to Peach in response to the Civil Rights Movement, since not all people are the same skin color. In 1999, the name Indian Red was changed to Chestnut because children wrongly perceived the color to be that of Native Americans, when in fact “Indian Red” had its roots in a dye from India (wiki).

When it comes to interpreting life, we tend to color our experiences with the tools we have.  It makes sense, really.  Afterall, we can’t use something we don’t have and we can’t use information we don’t know.

That is an over-simplified explaination of postmodernist view on science and philosophy.  Postmodernist ask: How can scientists, philosophers and saints know anything when their culture dilutes what they call reality?  These philosophers, and saints and scientists are essentially coloring reality with their flesh colored crayons.  Now, the extreme postmodernist jump straight off of a nilhist cliff and says there is no meaning at all.  I agree with some of what the post moderist have to say, but there is no need to be ridiculous.

It is important to at least realize the cultural bias we use to interpret our Gods, our facts and our reason.  Without that internal check  we will be blinded by the very things that are supposed to free us.

Further, it is important to realize that every word spoken and written and every concept thought or otherwise expressed are merely symbols.  In the case of “God” or “Jehovah” or “Allah” we should note that the words we used to describe the subject of our worship, love, devotion and adoration are only symbols. 

We tend to feel threatend by someone else’s interpretation of reality when in wisdom all interpretations should strengthen us as they tell us more about ourselves as individuals and as a species.  An atheist (for example) shouldn’t be disgusted by a Pentacostal speaking in tongues but be awakend to the spectrum of reality that the human condition can accept.  Reality does not have a cookie cutter approach.  What I see, is not completely what you see.  

Though we should not praise ALL perspectives (they are not all healthy and contructive) we should definitely respect them enough to deal with them properly.  Just like a criminal profiler, they must understand and get into the mind set of a killer in order to predict the predators next move and motive.  In the same way, should we understand our enemies and those who seek to despitefully use us.  It does no good to simply marginalize and use stereotyping beyond what is necessary.

Another example is George Bush saying of Al Quaeda, “they hate us because of our freedom” may be bit oversimplified.  The more we understand the terrorist, the child molester, serial killer, the rapist, the dirty politician, the better chance we have to overcome and subdue them.  A game of Chess is won by paying attention, thinking three steps a head of your opponents most probable movements.  

In the latter part of the 19th century after two world wars and an precedented population explosion, we found ourselves in the waiting arms of multiculturalism and globalism.  Its forced us to live in a world of dying closed homogenious cultures and vanishing nations. 

As with the mythological phoenix, the new firebird will rise out of the ashes of old.  Now we are forced to draw reality not only in new colors but in different dimensions.  

 

 

Padre Pio: The True Story

I was talking to one of my Catholic co-workers about Padre Pio’s miracles and he ended up giving me a book called Padre Pio: the true story. 

It is so far pretty dry as it goes into Padre Pio’s parents life to start with.  I first read about Pio in a book called Holographic Universe, by Mike Talbot.  Talbot talked about Pio’s stigmata and ability to bi-locate.  Bi-location is something that his followers experience.  For example they claim that he actually appears before them and guides them through a tough time even when Pio himself has no knowlege of the event.  This is some that Faqir Chand and other Indian mystics and followers experience.  Although this is easily explained away by skeptics, I believe such a widespread phenomenon deserves some attention.

But so far I haven’t gotten to his miracles in the book.

Some Thoughts on Astral Dynamics

I’ve been slowly picking through Robert Bruce’s book, Astral Dynamics.  The perspective it is giving me on subtle energy work is very helpful.  Bruce uses simplified and easy language to talk about each of the Chakras and other subtle body structures.  

More than anything its been giving me a greater interest in qi gong, chi, Reiki, Tai Chi and other bodies of knowlege regarding the use and cultivation of energies.   

I used to lean toward a pure self-hypnosis explaination of people’s ”miracles” and feelings of interactions with subtle energies.  Healing for example, one could see as a person’s own belief that heals them not an objective subtle energy.  In other words, Mark 10:25 of the KJV Bible, after healing Bartimeaus, Jesus says:

Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.

Or Mathew 9:20-22 in which a woman KNOWS that if she can only touch the hem of Jesus’ garment she will be healed.  To which Jesus says: “Be of good cheer, daughter; your faith has made you whole.”

I still think that belief of the recipient is in play, however that does not mean that subtle energies do NOT exist. Perhaps one must be “open” enough to feel and interact with the subtle energies.  Bruce calls the subtle energies subjective so subtle energies depend on person perceiving them.

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (entrainment 2.0?)

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is the next step in the evolution of entrainment.  Instead of using sounds to influence brainwaves, it uses noninvasive electromagnetism. 

Sound entrainment has been used to coax brainwaves into a certain pattern. 

If a tuning fork designed to produce a frequency of 440 Hz is struck (causing it to oscillate) and then brought into the vicinity of another 440 Hz tuning fork, the second tuning fork will begin to oscillate. The first tuning fork is said to have entrained the second or caused it to resonate. The physics of entrainment apply to biosystems as well. Of interest here are the electromagnetic brain waves. — Science of Binaural Beats Brainwave Entrainment

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is the application of variable magnetic fields to the brain — Open-rTMS 

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is a VERY effective way to induce states of consciousness:

BBC article on Dr. Persinger’s TMS helmet 

How does Dr Persinger induce artificially religious experiences in his patients?

Dr Persinger has designed a helmet that produces a very weak rotating magnetic field of between ten nanotesla and one microtesla over the temporal lobes of the brain. This is placed on the subject’s head and they are placed in a quiet chamber while blindfolded. So that there is no risk of ’suggestion’, the only information that the subjects are given is that they are going in for a relaxation experiment. Neither the subject nor the experimenter carrying out the test has any idea of the true purpose of the experiment. In addition to this, the experiment is also run with the field switched both off and on. This procedure Dr Persinger claims will induce an experience in over 80% of test subjects.

What sort of experiences do subjects report?

This is very dependent on the belief system of the individual subjects [ADDED Wilber-Combs Lattice]. Dr Persinger talks about his subjects feeling a ’sensed presence’ - feeling that somebody was in the chamber with them. Subjects who are strongly religious are likely to interpret this presence as god. Whereas, atheists may also report a ’sensed presence’ but attribute the phenomena to a trick of brain chemistry, perhaps comparable to when they have taken drugs in the past.

TMS is so effective that “Among more sensitive individuals, tests show that their skin will turn red if they believe a hot nickel has been placed on their hand. That’s a powerful psychosomatic effect of the brain on the body. Suppose we could make it more precise?” — This is Your Brain on God, Wired.  

TMS is currently in the hands of reductionists who believe that ALL mystical experiences can be summed up by electromagnetic disturbances.  Mass sightings up UFOs and other strange phenomenon are simply chemicals in our brains being influenced by electromagnetism.  

Perhaps inducing certain electromagnetic frequencies allows our biominds to access a perspective of reality we would not have otherwise been privy too without years of meditation.  Like devices that allow us to see infrared (frequencies that are beyond our normal domain of visible light), perhaps getting to certain states of consciousness allow us to “see” things we are normally oblivious too.    

Science and religion used to fully subscribe to a flat earth the was the center of a static universe.  We have found the complete opposite to be true.  Modern mainstream scientists now agree that we are likely the only sentient life and there are no subtle spiritual type energies and all spiritual experiences are completely the product of the human brain.  All of that seems just as ridiculous as a ”flatworld” theory.  A neo-atheistic reductionism is fine as belief systems and religions go, but what I don’t like is how science marginalizes anyone outside of their mainstream belief structure. 

I love science but its champions seem to have fallen prey to a dogma that is similar in close minded stagnancy to that of some religious denominations.       

TMS links:

BioMag - TMS reasearch

This is your Brain on God, Wired. 7-11-1999

God Helmet, Shakti