16 Years For a Crime He Did Not Commit

This man was in prison for 16 years for a crime he did not commit. He converted to Islam and that got him through. Like the story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, Deskovic’s strength of perseverance is amazing to me. The video that appeared on NyTimes.com is very disturbing, but I am inspired by his stoic attitude. It makes me realize how much I take for granted.

Mostly his story makes me think of the 16 years he will never get back… he should get some compensation or at least some sort of financial assistance until he gets on his feet. My cousin is also locked up for a crime he didn’t commit. To all the wrongfully accused and those imprisoned for no reason, my prayers go out to them. I hope they can find peace of mind and I hope they know that the real prison is within. Only we can imprison our own mind’s and heart’s. And only we can break those psychological and emotional chains.

Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything

Garrett Lisi, 39, has a doctorate but no university affiliation and spends most of the year surfing in Hawaii, where he has also been a hiking guide and bridge builder (when he slept in a jungle yurt).

In winter, he heads to the mountains near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where he snowboards. “Being poor sucks,” Lisi says. “It’s hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you’re trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.”

Despite this unusual career path, his proposal is remarkable because, by the arcane standards of particle physics, it does not require highly complex mathematics.

Even better, it does not require more than one dimension of time and three of space, when some rival theories need ten or even more spatial dimensions and other bizarre concepts. And it may even be possible to test his theory, which predicts a host of new particles, perhaps even using the new Large Hadron Collider atom smasher that will go into action near Geneva next year.

More @ Telegraph.co.uk on surfer’s e8 universe

“For comparison, I think the chances are higher that LHC will see some of these particles than it is that the LHC will see superparticles, extra dimensions, or micro black holes as predicted by string theory. I hope to get more (and different) predictions, with more confidence, out of this E8 Theory over the next year, before the LHC comes online.” –lisi

E8, Sahasara and Quantum Theories of Dimensionality

DK Matai has made the correlation between the E8 and the thousand petaled lotus on Deepak’s Intentblog in March 07 DK in-tun thanks a guy named Mieke van der Poll from Holland for noticing the similarities. DK and others have started a Socratic Dialogue on Holistic Quantum Relativity (HQR).

*notes for me: Avtar Singh, author of The Hidden Factor: An Approach for Resolving Paradoxes of Science, Cosmology and Universal Reality

We only Detect 4% of the Universe

Evidence of a Parallel Universe?

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Last August, astronomers working on the analysis of data being acquired by NASA’s WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) satellite announced that they found a huge void in the universe. A void is a region of space that has much less material (stars, nebulae, dust and other material) than the average. Since our universe is relatively heterogeneous, empty spaces are not rare, but in this case the enormous magnitude of the hole is way outside the expected range. The hole found in the constellation of Eridanus is about a billion light years across, which is roughly 10,000 times as large as our galaxy or 400 times the distance to Andromeda, the closest “large” galaxy.

The dimension of the hole is so big that at first glance, it results impossible to explain under the current cosmological theories, although scientists put forward some explanations based on certain theoretical models that might predict the existence of “giant knots” in space known as topological defects.

However, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill physics Professor Laura Mersini-Houghton made a staggering claim. She says, “Standard cosmology cannot explain such a giant cosmic hole” and goes further with the ground-breaking hypothesis that the huge void is “… the unmistakable imprint of another universe beyond the edge of our own“.

http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg19626311.400-the-void-imprint-of-another-universe.html

IN AUGUST, radio astronomers announced that they had found an enormous hole in the universe. Nearly a billion light years across, the void lies in the constellation Eridanus and has far fewer stars, gas and galaxies than usual. It is bigger than anyone imagined possible and is beyond the present understanding of cosmology. What could cause such a gaping hole? One team of physicists has a breathtaking explanation: “It is the unmistakable imprint of another universe beyond the edge of our own,” says Laura Mersini-Houghton of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

It is a staggering claim. If Mersini-Houghton’s team is right, the giant void is the first experimental evidence for another universe. It would also vindicate string theory, our most promising understanding of how the universe works at its most fundamental level. And it would do away with the anthropic arguments that have plagued string theorists in …

America’s Psychic Challenge (a.k.a Psychic Survivor) PART 2

The most attractive thing about America’s Psychic Challenge on Lifetime is without a doubt the competitors. When their abilities are tuned in its like the power chords in a sick ass rock riff. They look like superheros. Its truly mind blowing.

My favorites on this shows first season are Michelle Whitedove, Lynn Miller , Joseph Tittel, Jeff Baker, and Jackie Barrett.

I feel a strong connection with Lynn Miller… a physical connection because she freakin’ hot. She’s got this radiant glow about her that is very charming. Lynn was sensitive, open, caring, and powerful.. just a real woman. She comes across as a very sweet lady. She was passive aggressively nice toward her arch nemesis Jackie the Voodoo priest who was like a poison tipped, barbed dagger. Lynn did a great job the whole time she was on the show. She didn’t back down from Jackie and was very honorable in every situation. Her and Jeff Baker were eliminated in the second to last episode of season 1. Michelle & Jackie took over. (Lynn, where is your website? If you’re out there and single, comment here, please)

Michelle Whitedove was just really impressive. She was just raw talent. She got some stuff really wrong but when she was on, she was like the Chicago Bull’s 27 year old Mike Jordan going in for the slam dunk. Unstoppable and all business.

Jackie Barrett is a member of the Voodoo Spiritual Temple in New Orleans. When I first heard this I thought it was just a BS Hollywood spin. A joke. Jackie is no joke. On the show she is depicted as a sort of Sith Lord. Like Darth Jackie, or something. Although I suspect some of this is a show and great editing, she does manage to successfully psych out some of the others. I have to admit her attitude is intimidating and not at all what I’d expect from psychics. Her mind games works because the other psychics are visibly shaken by her. Is this because she is working with demons on the otherside? You’d think that was the case by the way the other psychics react to her and talk about her in the interviews. The fact of the matter is that during every challenge she is in your face like a fuckin’ rottweiler.

She has been the most consistent of all the others on the crime scenes. I think she’ll win mainly because of her MANY years of experience working cases. Each episode ends with a sort of grand finale that includes a real crime scene. This last challenge gives a lot of points to the competitor. She nails these every time and because of that I think the $100K is hers. Another guy was really good at crime scenes, Joseph Tittel, but he would misinterpret some of signals from the smaller challenges. He would consistently get stuff right but consistently change his answers which was a real shame. I really wanted him to get it.

Another psychic (Zenobia) predicted that Jackie would come out of America’s Psychic Challenge with her own show…we’ll see.

America’s Psychic Challenge (a.k.a Psychic Survivor) PART 1

I’ve been watching a show called America’s Psychic Challenge on Lifetime. It is a “reality” show where professional psychics compete on some very difficult challenges. Its a damn good show and I can’t stop watching it.

It give great insight into what the range of non-local consciousness (psychic ability) is. Some of these people are very gifted to the point where the whole show seem rigged. Although they fumble sometimes (like a train wreck) more often they focus in on a non-local signal: an emotion, an image, a sound, a smell or an event that is spatially/temporally separate from them. One consistent pattern is that they’ll get it dead on immediately, then start second guessing and mis-interpreting the signal.. the ego gets in the way.

For any serious look into non-local consciousness phenomenon, one should NOT look to America’s Psychic Challenge. It is entertainment. For serious scrutiny and fine tuning of our understanding of this amazing phenomenon, much more thought would have to be put into each “challenge” with hopes of isolating the finer points of each ability. Though the psychics are grouped together, they all have very different skill-sets and sensitivities. That detail is not explored on the show, but I think it is really important to understanding what is going on.

communicating with God

If you want to communicate with God, learn to listen.

God is NOWHERE if not within us.

You are a receptacle of the most miraculous phenomenon in the universe… awareness. The lord is closer than the air you breathe and can not be contained in words, ego, or reason. No matter how beautiful and eloquently they package God, religions, philosophies and art can only point to the Lord with symbols. The true living God is within you right here, right now, always.

Ego is what we use to interface with our worldly surroundings. It is necessary, but unnecessarily worshipped in human culture (particularly Western culture). It is put on a pedestal and inflated like a fool’s balloon animal. An inflated ego serves as a perfect wedge between you and the Lord within.

God is infinity with no center, no beginning, no ending, no edges, no-thing, it is you, it is me, it is us and it is listening all the time to our words, to our hearts, and to our souls.

We are the vessel through which “God” is made manifest. It is manifest via our faith while our faith is manifest via our actions.

The lord not only listens from within you, it speaks from within too. If you will listen and allow it, you will know the answer to anything you ask. Knowing the answers is easy. The hard part is taking the right action because we often betray ourselves.

The trick is to tune in to the signal. After you learn to be quiet and listen, you will begin to separate the signal from the noise without even trying.

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulations God Helmet Meets a Psychic

At the 2006 International Remote Viewing Associations conference, in a rare speech by remote viewing phenomenon, Ingo Swann responded to an audience member’s blurt about Dr. Persinger’s research on the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation machine known as the “God Helmet”. Unfortunately, the IRVA took the video down. They are now selling it. In the video, Ingo mentions something that lingers on in my mind. He says the Persinger is locked out of his lab because of certain discoveries. As the father of “remote viewing” and a onery, straight shooter, Ingo is a bit of champion for me, but I couldn’t help but be skeptical. I started to research his statement.

A bit more about the God Helmet. This is a device that allows 80% of its participants to have “spiritual” experiences. They feel a presence, hear voices, have visions etc. Some have taken this to mean that all such phenomenon are artificial.

I have been very much interested in the God Helmet and Persinger’s research so when Ingo Swann talked about being apart of Dr. Persinger’s experienment, I had to search it. What I found was a very interesting set of comments from Marcos Ferreira and others regarding Dr. Persinger’s perspective on paranormal phenomenon on the blog of author Micheal Prescott.

Comments from Michael Prescott’s Blog:

I came across this 2001 paper by famed neuroscientist Michael Persinger (he of the notorious “God Helmet”, and cited approvingly by Dawkins, Blackmore, and the JREF crowd).

The paper is about neural correlates of paranormal experiences. Under the section “Special Cases”, he tests a psychic (Sean Harribance) and a remote viewer (Ingo Swann). Both tests give statistically significant results under double-blind conditions. Persinger casually ignores the implications of this (“The neural mechanism … remains to be identified”) in order to spend time discussing the EEG readings…

Did this generate a controversy which I’ve missed, or has this just been quietly ignored? I can find plenty of squabbling about the supposed experimental failings of Gary Schwartz and the SRI researchers, but no real mention anywhere of this replication by “one of their own”. Is anyone aware of any responses or discussion of these results?

Posted by: marcos ferreira | September 17, 2007 at 01:13 PM

No surprise on the Persinger data: once a science becomes attached to a particular theory, data which contradicts that theory tends to disappear without effect. Has anyone ever been able to reproduce Persinger’s reported results with magnetic stimulation of certain brain areas, especially the temporal lobe? His widely trumpeted claims that temporal lobe epilepsy was responsible for NDEs and OBEs hasn’t, to my knowledge, been corroberated. I know that changes in temporal lobe functioning have been found in NDExperiencers, but it isn’t known whether the changes produced the experiences or vice versa. I’m looking forward to Carter’s book. It promises to be a good follow-on after “Irreducible Mind”.

Posted by: Kevin | September 17, 2007 at 05:22 PM

I corresponded with Persinger a few years ago about Dr. Andrija Puharich’s book “Beyond Telepathy” — a must-read!! Puharich emphasizes the magnetic momentum of the proton-electron resonance being altered through increased potassium and decreased sodium intake. Puharich then ties this physiological transformation to his “psi-plasma vortex” model for bending spacetime.

Persinger knew Puharich fairly well and Persinger told me that he thought very highly of Puharich’s psi-plasma model. When I asked Persinger about Puharich’s CIA work I received no response. haha.

The Persinger’s paper only talks about the phenomenon in the Special Cases section of the paper. It sounds like he does not doubt that such abilities exist. The data indicated that these “remote viewers” and “psychics” are more sensitive to the TMS device.

Interesting cutting edge stuff.. to say the VERY least, but I am still not sure what Ingo was talking about.